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New LittleBigPlanet Trailer

Gamersyde has just released a new trailer for LittleBigPlanet

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TANOD6006d ago

This is innovation at its finest

rofldings6006d ago

Exactly, Where's that Wii guy who's always posting about the Wii + Innovation?

This is real Innovation. You don't need motion controls to have innovative gameplay.

Can't wait for this.

lynx1halo6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

Now ive seen all of the trailers, and interviews, and storys,........but this game just doesnt do it for me, honestly it looks quite boring, and crappy to be honest, I would say its more of a wanna be game developers type of game......nothing really edge of your seat fun

@below lol gnarly racoons....but yet my point remains...Gamers want to Game!!! if they wanted level creation they would go play Rollercoaster Tycoon ...or The Sims.....

Shadow Flare6006d ago

well...lynx, thats exactly what the game is, a game for wanna be developers. Got a creative mind? You're gonna love it! Obviously your head is full of dust and gnarly racoons, but there a lots of people among the gaming community that are fascinated with this game. Still, if you're not into creating stuff, then you can just play the levels people create. Casual gamers would love that. People enjoyed just playing loco roco didn't they? This game is ground-breaking, if you don't get it, its really your loss, but there are tons of people who are incredibly intrigued by this game

Kholinar6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

"This is real Innovation. You don't need motion controls to have innovative gameplay."

Nice dichotomy. Not everything is mutually exclusive, you know.

There's not a wii fan out there that would argue against this being innovative. I also doubt there are too many outside úber fanbois that would say that no one can innovate without motion controls. That's just silly. What I would say is that it's a shame that devs get so caught up in their 'by the numbers' shooters, sports games, rpgs, etc that they don't do more stuff like this. This is the most excitement I've felt over a game in years. Why isn't anyone trying something different?

I guess that I'm more interested in creating than playing along though, and in that I may be different than most gamers. So my tastes may be different and there's nothing wrong with that. But I know there's a lot of people who hardly even played a videogame before who are wowed by this concept.

People have said in other threads that this is great, but not a system seller. Well, mark it down, cause I will own a ps3 the moment this is released. This game, by itself, makes it worth the purchase.

Lynx, there are thrillers out there every year that will keep you on the edge of your seat at the movie theatres. Nothing wrong with those, though it can be like a sugar high, not as long lasting or fulfilling. On the other hand, there are a lot of creative art films that really engage your mind, make you think about spirituality or relationships, inspire you to do something new... If gaming is limited to adrenaline experiences, then it's missing out on commenting on the majority of human experience and thus is very limited as an artform. Nothing wrong with the one, but I think we should be open to other types.

TheSadTruth6006d ago

is it just me or does this remind anyone of Yoshi's story for the n64?

The graphics direction and the music seems to be JUST like it

looks like it's shaping up to be the best 2d platformer released in forever

HarryEtTubMan6006d ago

This game is gonna be revolutionary.... I think it can become the most addictive game of all time.

lawman11086006d ago

because the Wii IS FOR CHILDREN. The ONLY good thing about that trailer was the music, is anyone over 12 going to play this game? Not me I can tell you that much. People who spend over $300 bucks (adults) dont want games like these, in closing Little big planet = Big flop

Armyless6005d ago

i WILL quote you on that when you're proven wrong.

THX71686005d ago (Edited 6005d ago )

Welcome to the ignored list lawman1108. That was quite possibly the most retarded thing I have ever read. You sir (as the title of my comment so lovingly states) are the retarded offspring of six monkeys having butt sex with a squirrel.

@ Comment by Shadow Flare
Very well said. I gave you positive feedback and agreed with your comment.

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lawman11086006d ago

YOUR CHILD can't wait. This my Sony fan boy friends is not your answer

PS3PCFTW6005d ago

FUNNY, I SUMMONED YOU BEFORE AND HERE U ARE

lawman youre still a douche ...........a fat ugly chicks douche, at that.

Shadow Flare6006d ago

i really love this game and the more they show the better cos it gives people more ideas of what they know they could do with levels. Brilliant, and the character customisation seems just as advanced as level creation

Rama262856006d ago

I love the look and the innovation of this game, but I've always wondered what you're supposed to do? Like, what is the point of creating all that stuff? What is the objective of each level? Do you need to create things to get your little men from A to B? Or what?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

allforcalisto6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

The devs have stated that there will be tons of objective based levels that'll come with the game. There might even be a story.

the "objectives" are going to have a very old skool feel to them by the looks of it ^_^
apparently you'll be able to create your own objectives. an example they gave was time attack levels.

in addition in the various levels there will be special item placed. You might be given a time limit, and you'll have to procure X number of items before the time runs out. The item you've obtained will then be able to be used as a part of your level or part of your clothing. i think there will be a slow trickle of more items and special levels media molecule has online, and people will compete for that rare thing.

lastly they promised "enemies" and even "bosses" in the levels.

the good thing about these trailers is that they showcase the level of creativity in the game. the bad thing is that they don't really articulate visually enough about the final product. When it gets closer to realease we'll see more i reckon.

DolphGB6006d ago

There are three modes to LBP - Create, Play, Share.

From what we've seen some of the objects you place down on the level when you are in 'create' mode are collectables.

So you can create levels (and adjust them or customise them on the fly when playng) for a unique platform game experience and then share these levels with the world so others can download your level, play it and rate it. The best rated or downloaded levels will appear on leaderboards.

We're sure there are other objectives too and other types of game object that will see you doing all sorts of things, and through downloadable content the develoeprs could come up with new game items all the time.

Hope that helps.

Shadow Flare6006d ago

Well the best answer you can get is watching the original GDC video where the developers talk you through it. However, LittleBigPlanet is to gaming what YouTube is to videos. You create a level, and share it with the world. And the creativity is endless, so you create levels to any look, size, anyway you want. Its also physics based so when objects fall down, they fall down realistically and interact with other objects. And you can create mechanical objects too. You can also create levels with friends online, at home whatever. Taylor you level to how want it, and then share it! The way i like to think of it best is, im creating my own megadrive game (like sonic), but with awesome graphics and real life physics, and i can share my hardwork with everyone to enjoy. And the fact i can do something that i wanted to do when i was a kid, to make my own game like sonic the hedgehog, is just fascinating

Devr6006d ago

Imo, the goal of the game is to have fun with your friends and be creative. That's it. And it's absolutely brilliant.

You can of course just play objective based levels made by other players. There will be hundreds of them.

Primetimebt6006d ago

So will I be able to play this game online?

Siesser6006d ago

Yes, you can play this game online, or even just mess around and build levels online, with at least 3 friends (4-players), maybe more.

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name6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

Lol who gave you a disagree? Try going to the main site. Littlebigplanet.com I think it is.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel11d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow10d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1829d ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie9d ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere9d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin9d ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere9d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow8d ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere9d ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow8d ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX9d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Cockney8d ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno9d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno9d ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii9d ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno9d ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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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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thorstein63d ago (Edited 63d 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.

MrBaskerville62d 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.

0hMyGandhi61d 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.

thorstein61d 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".

Profchaos61d 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.

thorstein61d 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.

Number1TailzFan62d 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.

MrDead62d ago (Edited 62d 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.

Killer2020UK62d ago (Edited 62d 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_Long61d 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.

banger8862d 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_drake62d 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.

Barlos62d ago (Edited 62d 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.

Deeeeznuuuts62d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername62d ago

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

isarai62d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long61d ago (Edited 61d 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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shinoff2183748d ago

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

shinoff2183748d 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

badz149748d 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.