video game: LittleBigPlanet (PS3)

[Kul69]

Anyone else have LittleBigPlanet?

I put off getting this game for awhile because I just couldn't imagine how it would be that fun. It's fucking awesome though.

You really have to think of this game as multiple games in one. The "story" made is great coop fun with friends or online and the "key unlock" side games you can find in the story maps are pretty fun for competitive gaming.

The best part is easily the custom maps though that others have made. There are SOOO many different types of maps. I've even played Lightsaber Duels where you each get a jetpack and pick up a saber trying to hit the other person with it and Tetris. Literally the complete Tetris game where you fly around with your sackboy pushing and pulling the pieces to make rows.

I've made 2 custom maps that I would actually consider complete. One is a race map focused on destructible terrain that kills anyone who is more than a second or two behind you. For example there is a part with multiple tunnels going into the ground and the terrain is all sliced apart like broken rock but it's attached to a "destructible" backboard with a proximity switch at the end so whoever gets out first makes the whole thing fall apart on anyone else in the tunnels. There is also an "ice bridge" that is several broken pieces barely holding onto each other with chains attached to a couple pieces. Whoever makes it across first triggers the chains to rip the pieces out which makes the whole bridge fall down. It even has a "pinball" machine using springs/pistons/elastic with flippers at the bottom that knock you back into it.

The other map is a series of the usual platformer type challenges you'd face like swinging ropes and elevators and such. However, the main focus is a gigantic beam hanging from two chains way up in the sky that are controlled by pistons. You can control forward/back and up/down and have to position the beam between two skyscrapers to get across. I even had to use the "camera" control for a up/side view to get the entire thing in view at once.

I'm tempted to get a PS3 Eye webcam thing just for making custom stickers so I can have huge nugs in my levels and such.

Anyone else make any levels for LittleBigPlanet?

 

[L2R]

the ads are interesting to say the least.

 

[lostNfound]

i cant work out if id actually be interested in this game or not so skimmed past it a few times when buying stuff.

busy playing mirrors edge and shaun white snowboarding at the moment, once im done with them i might get it.

my association with NBA2K9 is taking up most of my PS# time anyway.

i dont play games that quickly.

 

[Kul69]

^^ I was the same way. Seemed kind of lame but I assure you it's awesome.

I probably wouldn't like it as much if I didn't have friends to play with though. It's very much a co-op/competition game which is a lot more fun playing with other people in person.

 

[oohcow]

It's not a good single player game. its fun while stoned with a bunch of other people... and more for the creative types as you can basically create any level.... if i was tech savvy and had more time on my hands i'd totally create a drug dealing maze. LOL but i give it a good rating...my friends don't like it as much as me tho...mayb i just like easy/fun/tricky games. they satisfy me

 

[Portillo]

I dont really play online much so i dont know how good this game would be for me.

 

[m1ntz]

Looks good in the commercials

 

[Portillo]

I hate how games nowadays are made for online gaming. Whatever happened to the good ol fashioned single player campaign.

 

[Pander Bear]

it looks so win... not win enough to shell out for a ps3, though. I wish I knew someone with a copy.

 

[ChemicalSmiles]

I hate how games nowadays are made for online gaming. Whatever happened to the good ol fashioned single player campaign.

Because some gamers practically LIVE for the online. I usually play 1 out of every 5 games purchased..... single player...

 

[Portillo]

^ Yeah but playing online pisses me off sometimes because its too hard. I played splinter cell online and struggled to get points because of how good the other players were, or should i say, how good the other nerds were.

 

[Kul69]

^^ I think you mean because of how much you suck

I recognize you though.. you're that guy who's limping along behind me in GTA4 with his car all beat to shit and I'm throwing grenades at him driving backwards in GTA Race and then dies and quits the game or the guy in TF2 who looks like he's being played by AI because he's so predictable. Nice to meet you. Honestly all you have to do is stick with losing for awhile. Yeah it sucks but if you just lose for awhile you'll eventually learn and start winning. Lots of people play online and quit cause it's "too hard" but if you'd just lose for 30 mins or an hour you'll learn a lot and stop sucking.

Anyway, LittleBigPlanet stills owns. Played last night with my girlfriend on some cool player made maps. One was a tank racing map with this big tracked vehicle that you controlled by running forward or backward while standing inside it but if you went too fast and hit the terrain wrong your track would break apart. Another was a zombie invasion type map where you had to get to the helicopter at the end. Too many maps are focusing on vehicle races though while doing nothing original. Guess it's the current fad.

Noticed the maps I made were both rated 4/5 which is pretty cool since I never finished making them.

 

[Portillo]

^ Yeah i guess. The only game i was good at online was Burnout.

 

[L2R]

i got a ps3 and this came with it. only one controller so playing on me own. equal parts fun and annoying so far. the three lanes (foreground, middle and background) are fiddly.

but i have only just started to look at the self made moon place thingy.

 

[L2R]

any feedback from those who voted 1 star?

 

[L2R]

okay, now i'm getting addicted.

 

[Kul69]

any feedback from those who voted 1 star?

Probably the resident Xbox 360 fans we have here. Upset about a PS3 game thread.

 

[L2R]

anyway, i don't like the whole stickers thing. I generally don't have the one i need. What am i missing?

 

[Kul69]

anyway, i don't like the whole stickers thing. I generally don't have the one i need. What am i missing?

You just have to find them in the level. Any level that has a sticker activated thing also has the sticker somewhere in the level to find.

 

[L2R]

i really have not the patience to make stages in this. i really like what others have done and am amazed by its capabilities, but it is too much work to be fun.

i'm gonna trade it

2/5