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Wal-Mart NOT recalling LittleBigPlanet, on shelves NOW

It seems that Wal-Mart and Target stores are either a little slow on the uptake or are not planning on complying with the LittleBigPlanet recall!

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360degrees5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

who are eager to pick up their copy now....although the appeal of this game still eludes me...Im sure those who are into map creation and such will enjoy this title...I suppose Im more of a pick up and play type of gamer, who does not have hours upon hours of time to commit to "Making a Map on LBP" ...to each their own I suppose

n4gzz5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

I pre-ordered and paid in full from best buy. Well, I am going to pick fable 2 and far cry 2 now. I can easily wait 1 week.
edit :: NOoooo I want LBP so bad. Its my most anticipated game ever. :(.

@360, That's what I thought too until I got into beta and my whole concept changed. It is a beautiful game that don't come very often. And guess what, I won't be making any map or level but still it beats other games easily.

Those people don't look like 10 yrs kids which is what some 360 so called gamer think, kiddie's game.

rhood0225664d ago

thats good that you're a "pick up and play type" because LBP boasts over 50 levels of single and multiplayer goodness right out of the box.

When you finish that THEN you can spend hours making levels.

rdgneoz35664d ago

The beta was fun. And as for "When you finish that THEN you can spend hours making levels", you can do that or play levels that other people spent hours making and enjoy that. It may take a while to perfect your creation, but it brings out the artistic side of people.

cyclindk5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

Seriously, the game is SOOOOO much more...just imagine someone handing you a magic wand...okay, maybe not a wand per say, that's sort of gayish, but a magic chainsaw gun thing from Gears of War and with this magic chainsaw gun you could build ANYTHING you could imagine and watch what would happen if you let it all go about its business...what would happen if I strapped rocket engines to a motorized elephant attached to an inflatable box full of enormous golf balls set it on fire and just let it rip! Do whatever... any idea you've ever had or wondered about you can attempt here, within reason.

It's not just level building, it's build ANYTHING!!!

BWS19825664d ago

and allows so much replayability. To put icing on the cake, PSN allows us to share. And if anyone read the whole fine print of the new terms of use from Sony recently, I am seeing a lot between the lines that hints on Sony using user content for something of their own, possibly a best of collection down the road. The new User agreement talks a good bit about any content put on PSN as no longer being the sole property of the user, and Sony can claim it its own. Makes you think about Sony taking like the top 10 levels by next summer and releases a compilation of sorts, maybe...

KillaManiac5664d ago

Its good for some people...

My WalMart (3 stores I went to tonight) ALL said LBP AND Fable 2 were recalled....

Of course I know Fable 2 was wrong...(error in their system)...
So I walked out of all with NOTHING!!

BOOO

popup5664d ago

So, this is not great news for you? You are not interested in playing it? You don't 'get it'? and you only think a few will be happy (you not being one of them).

No wonder you have no time to make maps(!), you are too busy posting messages about things that have no interest to you! Where next? A forum for ladies shoes?

For those that do 'get it' and did have the imagination to enjoy the huge Technical Lego playground in the Beta, this can only be good news!!

jamenees5664d ago

had the game in my hand, my heart was racing. Then I got the dreaded DO NOT SELL message. I can't blame wal mart, they are just doing their jobs but it sure was nice holding the game for a minute or two.

DaTruth5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

Holding mine now. Got it at Future Shop in Toronto. Now I'm going to play, won't be in N4G for a while. My advice is to try stores that aren't global chains. Can't post the photo so I made it my avatar. YA YA!!!!

lessthanmarcus5663d ago

I picked up my copy of LBP at Best Buy on Oct 16th

tatical5663d ago

I got my copy and went to GameStop. I showed them my copy of LBP and canceled my pre-order.

:-)

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morganfell5664d ago

Good for Walmart. Screw these bunch of radical dirtbags that want to kill someone over a video game.

I hope they lose a lot of sleep over this and come home to find their youngest son has run off to America to design video games, the daughter has run off with a guy that looks like Ritchie Cunningham so she can give birth to his infidel spawn and his wife is under the neighbor's goat getting something he can't give her,

elshimiablo5664d ago

Plus lBP is such a game that you dont feel like recalling

It killed Failable 2 --89% at n4g meta average (8 from most websites including IGN and even MS dicriders Lamespot)

LBP has an average of 96% at meta and 97% at n4g meta

caffman5664d ago

bubbles from elshimiablo for trying to start a flame war

robotnik5664d ago

Im sure Fable 2 is a great game and all, but cant be compared with the awesomeness that Little Big Planet® by Media Molecule is.

theKiller5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

ur comment maybe offensive to some people in the world but not in n4g, probably that why u got agrees!! the radicals wont kill someone for a game, they dont even know what is games that we now know of! i hope the american media didnt get into ur head about this so called war on terror or on muslim radicals, because its 90% not true!!

what u said is wrong, sony delayed the game because of fearing losing more money by law suits or by being forced to pull out the game after launch than by religious extreme acts!! sony cares for its image to the muslims and christian world because they make the most of their profits, they made a mistake with resistance with the chursh and they dont want to do it again with muslims now, i dont see wats the big fuzz is about!!

it got delayed only 1 week, ACTUALLY it better that it got delayed, because now its getting even more hype from this delayment and they have more time to advertise the game!! so its good for the game what happened, plus we waited 1 year and now we cant wait for 1 week?? thats just ridicules.

SpecialSauce5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

wtf morgan??? it deeply offended lots of Muslims. if you were tolled your whole life to honor an idea that tons of people died for you would be upset too. i dont see what the big deal is but if sony pulled the release date of a huge AAA game for them Sony must have realized something was wrong with this song. now i really am not sure how a song in a game like lbp can offend so many people BUT IT DID. there is absolutely no reason for you to make raciest hateful comments on Arabs just because your precious game got delayed. no one is killing anyone for this game tho it sounds like you are about to. holy shyt get a life. im only impressed that you didn't write a long paragraph kissin a video games console @ss for once. and how could everyone agree with him??? dont people realize that his comment is racist? OOOO but when an xbot makes a comment on PS3 people immediately report it. some people on this site are really fukin stupid or just extremely nerdy. i guess thats what i get for going on video game forums. damn morgan get some fuking friends.

BTW im not Muslim

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Imallvol75664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

LOL at the picture.

And 360 degrees, you should really play the game. I don't think anyone understands why its so great till you play it.

Mine gets here from BB.com tomorrow!!!

TheTimeDoctor5664d ago (Edited 5664d ago )

its not for everyone, just accept it. you people are like a damn cult. i played the beta and i'm in the same boat as 360. i don't want to make levels, especially with a cutesy build a bear looking character. i want trained brilliant developers to make games, not amateurs. 50 playable levels are a joke, there is no story and no real continuity.damn that muslim bastrd i want this game to come out so you people will get your fix and stop talking about it and trying to shove it down everyones throat. i can see why you people like this game, its completely unique, but why can't you people see why some people don't like it?

UnwanteDreamz5664d ago

They do what they do for the same reason you do what you do. They can't help it. While we are wondering about things that don't make sense maybe you could tell us all why you comment on a thread about a game you have no interest in. Boggles the mind huh?

drtysouf 215664d ago

from Game Tag formerly Game Crazy!!!!! But sadly I am at work till this evening................

Imallvol75663d ago

To each his own 4time2doctor0 . . .

All I said was PLAY first, cause you will not understand by simply watching.

You have a lot of pent up anger. You should check up on that.

And LOL at amateur game makers excuse . . . they just made your GOTY '08. Deal with it.

TheTimeDoctor5663d ago (Edited 5663d ago )

i comment because i can not escape this game. i also love my playstation just like i used to love nintendo and i don't want it to be corrupted by the casuals. there also wasn't an ounce of anger in my post. read it and don't respond emotionally.

calis5663d ago

You comment because you feel the need to pi$$ and moan.

You can simply not click on any LittleBigPlanet stories. It is not that hard to do.

TheTimeDoctor5663d ago (Edited 5663d ago )

i can click on whatever i want. i'm giving you a minority's opinion. i'm sorry it differs from yours, but deal with it and respond accurately with a speck of maturity. state your case of why its an incredible game, i have no problem with that, but remember my opinion isn't any more or less valid than yours. i feel this game has fostered too much one sided blind love and its not a road i want sony to go down, but that's just my opinion. its all about perspective.

Millah5663d ago (Edited 5663d ago )

Wow chill out the4timedoctor or whatever your name is...no reason for you to be all uptight and opinionated. All he said was that a lot of people will need to get their hands on it first, because a lot of them will be surprised by it and fall in love. Chill the hell out, people like the game and you don't, get over yourself.

BWS19825663d ago

but for every time a platformer was played and you liked this or that type of level, for all the classic gaming from mario to megaman to contra to donkey kong country, the 2D platforming was how many of us grew up, and back then, that WAS hardcore gaming for the mostpart. The fact that I can now make a level in the format I grew up on, and the fact that I have a BFA in media arts & animation from an Art Institute means I've got a ton of background in this, and a lot of potential fun to be had. There's my opinion. I don't think this will harm Sony's rep or pull in too many casual gamers, if they keep making action and FPS games, then you'll just hear people moan about those being overload.

TheTimeDoctor5663d ago (Edited 5663d ago )

dude, the art institutes are a joke, i graduated from their audio program, seriously the worst decision I've ever made. anyone out there thinking of going to one of their schools, don't, or at the very least please look into going to a real college. and if you have a BFA in media arts & animation shouldn't you have access to better tools than the constant of little big planet. that would be like if i was making music with garage band. on another note, i know how the 360 people feel, if you offer any differing opinion your torn apart and its pretty hilarious. i think its a good game its just not for me, but the worlds not for me its for everyone. there is no reason to jump down my throat. grow up; life's full of differing opinions.

BWS19825662d ago

problem with the Art Institutes method of handling an issue with a single professor, but I have a different degree than you, and I also probably went to a different school. I have great things to say about it, and a few horrible things to say. But I'll say this: I DO have access to better tools than LBP, I'm not getting that game to work on industry material or anything. I'm getting it to have fun with on the side, if I use 3DS Max or Maya, it'd be a good bit more difficult to make a platforming level within 12 hours that is totally interactive and playable. And I'd also like to point out, in the animation industry, as well as the digital entertainment industry, the Art Institutes are held in very high regard, I have a Thai friend who went straight to ILM (Industrial Light & Magic, Lucas' digital house)in Cali after graduating. His name was Paul (forget to spell his last name, started with an N, and I don't want to butcher it)....and another named Mike Henry who went straight to being a concept artist in Cali also, making nice money. Some early members from High Voltage also went to my school. In most cases, it's seen as a prestigious school, but I will always knock how they handle conflicts, because they treated me like sh*t about a big issue I had.

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riksweeney5664d ago

I guess the only thing Sony can do now is issue a mandatory patch and hope that the people buying it play online.

Bob Dole5663d ago

Bob Dole's walmart said it has been recalled and they don't have a solid release date for it now. What a let down :(

DailyAddict5664d ago

So my question is: can Sony somehow punish gamers that they see are playing the game early since it's not suppose to be out yet? Or, for example, couldn't they just not activate the LBP online servers for the time being so you could only play on your PS3 until the 28th?

BWS19825664d ago

that would be assuming every gamer is notified of the issue, and clearly that can't be the case. You saw the game at the store, never heard of it, read the back and bought it, in this scenario, how could Sony come after the consumer, it'd be any retailer if there was an order to recall issued, that would suffer if at all.

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.

The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.

In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.

MrBaskerville36d ago

Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.

0hMyGandhi35d ago

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.

It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.

And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.

Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.

And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.

thorstein35d ago

The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".

Profchaos35d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein35d ago

The Outlast Trials just came out.

But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.

It was all filmed by a psychopath.

As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.

Bodycam looks so real.

People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.

Number1TailzFan35d ago

The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.

Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.

MrDead35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.

Killer2020UK35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?

This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.

Huey_My_D_Long35d ago

Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.

So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.

banger8836d ago

Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."

"Feminist Whore" lmao

gold_drake36d ago

ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.

its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.

ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.

Barlos36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

They're not offensive.

And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!

Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Deeeeznuuuts36d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername36d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai35d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.

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Top 20 Best PlayStation 3 Games (20-11)

Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Is the PlayStation 3 retro? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer as the system definitely has the age to be considered retro, having launched in 2006, over 15 years ago now. But with it being home to so many massive games, many of which still hold up today and in fact were released for the PlayStation 4 when that console was released, make the PS3 a retro console that doesn’t feel retro."

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shinoff2183722d ago

No ps3 is not retro. I dont even consider ps2 era retro. All imo.

shinoff2183722d ago

Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).

Quick google search

badz149722d ago

No the PS3 is not yet a retro console. But if you're gonna put 1 game from a series in this list, then LBP2 should be there instead of the original, Motorstorm PR is also an overall better game than the 1st game and to put Tools of Destruction over A Crack in Time is a blasphemy when ACiT is the best game in the series.

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An update on the LittleBigPlanet server and online services

Classic LittleBigPlanet servers are to be shut down permanently following hacks.
Sony’s drastic move comes after months of downtime for the older games.

darthv72953d ago

It was fun while it lasted. And some of the user created stuff was a blast to play with.

Snookies12953d ago

Whaaa-? That's crazy. Didn't expect it to be permanently shut down...

Teflon02953d ago

It's still up on PS4, they just shut down the PS3 end because hackers on PS3 can't be stopped and go on the game making announcements that can't be avoided without having to go back to all the old game codes and updating to remove the feature etc. It's one of those sad and garbage things where hackers ruined a good thing. I'm mostly sad about the Vita, I'm not sure if I have my music stages saved to my Vita, meaning they're gone forever if I didn't save them back to it. They were good too :(

Profchaos953d ago (Edited 953d ago )

Have to say I expected them to be permanently shut down problem would be in the underlying server architecture and possibly something like a depricated authentication protocol which has to be replaced that the PS3, PSP and vita can't support which is why they can't be securely restored on those consoles but the PS4 does support it.so lbp3 was restored on that.

Given the attackers were able to breach the server there was obviously a fear of lateral movement once inside their servers so I can't blame them for this and it makes sense despite the huge blow to the community millions of hours spent building that community.

Despite this blow I believe the millions of creations are going to be available via lbp3 and it's capability of backwards compatibility with user generated content so that's something to be thankful for still not a huge consolation to the many players who only own a older console but unfortunately that's the world we live in these games are old the older they get the more insecure the servers get which the company that make them.host them on and the more likely they need to be shut down.

MadLad953d ago (Edited 953d ago )

Feel bad for the people who dedicated so much time into this game.

Battlestar23953d ago

Nice edit to your troll comment.

MadLad953d ago (Edited 953d ago )

I reread the article, and changed it, to be as honest on the topic as possible.
Let's be real, it was an easy reaction to have considering their actions of late.

CaptainHenry916953d ago (Edited 953d ago )

He's been on a roll and it's comical 😁

RedDevils953d ago

This guy love stealth troll on playstation article as I see the pattern, but he doesn't want to admit that he's a MS fanboy.

Christopher953d ago

I am also sorry people enjoyed the online aspects of the game?

mikey15953d ago

TheRealTedCruz10h ago(Edited 10h ago)
Feel bad for the people who dedicated so much time into this game.***

I'm sorry for the PC fans port begging for Dreams to come to PC... You do realise that

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Little Big Planet 3 PS4 - PS Now PC gameplay
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LBP is on PS Now and PC right?? So less of the crocodile tears/crap when you stated PS Now was crap... Clue

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The man who earned a job by playing LittleBigPlanet
By GamesRadar Staff March 03, 2015
***“We've hired four people from the LBP community" reveals Alex Evans, co-founder of UK studio Media Molecule and creator of LittleBigPlanet. Including one lucky soul who dodged death to get a job on LBP2. Enter John Beech, or 'johnee' to his PSN friends. Two years ago John was a builder with absolutely no qualifications to speak of. But now? He's a full time designer at Media Molecule working on LittleBigPlanet 2, one of the most anticipated titles on PlayStation 3. This is his story.***

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Dreams players are being employed by game studios
DEVELOPERS INCLUDING MEDIA MOLECULE HAVE HIRED FROM THE COMMUNITY

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3RD MAR 2020 / 11:49 AM
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The CREATIVE CONSOLE creates JOBS... What are they using to Sculpt??

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the failure that is the MOVE controller. lolol

John_McClane953d ago

Why would anyone disagree with your statement? I don't get get it.

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John_McClane952d ago

@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.

mikey15952d ago

John_McClane9h ago
@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.***

lol
of course there is.. He was stealth trolling stating all LBP contributors wasted their time making levels for LBP... I pointed out that some of the contributors for LBP + Dreams have actually got JOBs because of the CREATIVE console. Just like Gran Turismo fans

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***Team GT Academy Competing at the Nürburgring 24hr This Weekend with Kazunori Yamauchi
May 18, 2012 (updated Mar 13, 2016) · News Article
by Jordan Greer · 37 Comments***

If you are so clever, step up and show me where I was wrong, or keep schtum and we'll see what a hero "John Mclane" actually is. lol

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Battlestar23953d ago

Understandable they had to do this better to be safe then sorry. I just wish those right wing racists that hacked the servers and started posting homophobic slurs would get want they deserve a good few decades in prison.

Profchaos953d ago (Edited 953d ago )

That's the thing I guess if it wasn't them it would just be someone else and we would still be in this position regardless of their intent.

darthv72953d ago

What are you going on about?

Profchaos953d ago

The attackers breached and manipulated the servers to place abusive messages all over the game ccontent https://www.ruetir.com/2021...

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