LittleBigPlanet to Have Enemies

Media Molecule Producer Pete Wilson has revealed to EGM (as reported by 1up) that LittleBigPlanet's level can have bad guys. "It's funny -- I don't think we actually mentioned this previously, but yes, we will certainly have enemies in the game; I think that's a fundamental part of good gameplay," said Wilson. "They will range from little robots that simply roam from left to right to spectacularly complex beasts that pose quite a challenge." An awesome concept just got cooler.

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Enemies fundamental to gameplay?

[delire]

I don't think enemies are fundamental to good gameplay at all; a vast mumber of games don't have opponents.

Challenges are fundamental to good gameplay however. An 'enemy' is just one of the many ways of representing a challenge.

Re:Enemies fundamental to gameplay?

[jollyreaper]

I don't think enemies are fundamental to good gameplay at all; a vast mumber of games don't have opponents. You've never seen me play solitaire.

I feel like I'm missing something

[metroid composite]

I mean yeah, I like info about Little Big Planet because I'm a platformer nerd, but I'm scratching my head about why it's still headline news. Sure, it deserves an initial news posting about being a platformer with user-generated content--I don't think that's been done on a large scale officially before (though obviously there's a thriving underground ROM hack community). But is the cool concept of "a platformer...with enemies!" really newsworthy?

Re:LBP Is Going to OWN

[king-manic]

5: Single most important reason why user-generated content is a loser -- because if they could do a better job than a random program, they'd be doing it for money.

Right the user maps for warcraft 3 and all the mods for FPS's all crap. Counter strike.. crap. Doom TC's Crap. Team Fortress crap. Capture the flag in quake. Crap. DOTA, who plays that. Defence maps crap. Yeah user generated content is terrible.

User contend is what drives youtube, what drives most FPS's and even blizzard RTS's or never winter nights. There is a wealth of creative people who may not want to do it full time and thus they make things like Planescape clone from neverwinter nights. The success of failure of the PS3 will not determine the size of your penis so you stop with the numbered sentences that say "I have an illogical emotional investment in or against a piece of hardware and the company behind it."