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LittleBigPlanet Goes Gold, Trophies Leaked

Posted by Soulskill on from the big-little-project dept.

Upcoming world creation game LittleBigPlanet has gone gold, and will be officially released on Oct. 21st in the US. The game will come out exclusively for the PS3, in part due to the fact that it fills up a Blu-ray disc. The list of trophies was leaked alongside the announcement. Groups of students at Parsons will be using a 24-hour period this weekend to create levels for the game. Gamespy has a collection of videos and previews for LittleBigPlanet. To protect users' creations, it will feature an in-game copyright system.

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  1. Totally wrong for the PS3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This game sounds absolutely perfect for the Wii. You've got an editor, which the Wii excels at with Wiimote pointing, and a platformer, which the Wii excels at with the Wiimote held sideways. This game is obviously catering to the Wii crowd.

    And yet they're releasing it on the PS3?! WTF?!!

    Yeah, sure, "it uses all the space on the Blu-ray" but if you check the story you'll discover that it's all HD video and not, like, game assets. Reduce it to SD and it'd easily fit on a DVD and therefore be perfect for the Wii. In fact, Alex Evans even says that "the game itself and the levels you produce are relatively compact."

    But the main purpose of the game is content creation, right? So obviously you'd want a console with great online community support, which the Wii doesn't quite have. So that aspect is perfect for the Xbox 360 then!

    But no, they went with the PS3. It has the wrong controls. It has the wrong online support. And I'm not about to burn $560 for one game.

    Too bad, this would have made a great Wii game. They could have used Miis for the characters rather than the creepy looking things they have now.

    1. Re:Totally wrong for the PS3 by Simon+(S2) · · Score: 3, Interesting

      This game sounds absolutely perfect for the Wii. You've got an editor, which the Wii excels at with Wiimote pointing, and a platformer, which the Wii excels at with the Wiimote held sideways. This game is obviously catering to the Wii crowd.

      That's true, but I bet they will use the Sixaxis capabilities for the level creation part. I agree with you, the Wiimote would be better, but I didn't see the game yet, maybe it's just as slick witth the DualShock as it would be with the Wiimote.

      But the main purpose of the game is content creation, right? So obviously you'd want a console with great online community support, which the Wii doesn't quite have. So that aspect is perfect for the Xbox 360 then!

      What is wrong with the PS3 online support? I am playing resistance online quite a lot, and there is absolutely no lag or other annoyances. The only thing that works better on Xbox live is the voice chat, but I can live without that, and I am sure sony will fix it soner or later.

      It really looks like you are angry because you would enjoy this game but can't/won't afford a PS3.

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  2. Finally by FSWKU · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been a pretty hardline PS3 basher since before the system was even released, but I still found myself looking forward to this game. Great gameplay concept, being able to design your own levels is good for replay value, and the game itself looks absolutely beautiful. The only downside is that it's on PS3, which I swore up and down I would never buy just for one game.

    Fast forward to this past March, and I'm in need of a TV and some entertainment equipment for my new place. I snag an HDTV and reluctantly get a PS3 since the format war was finally done with. I still have maybe 3 games for the thing, but it excels as a BR player and a network media center, so I'm quite happy (albiet, surprisingly so) with my purchase. The main point of all this? Now that LBP is FINALLY about to be released, I can eagerly await the release date even more since I'll actually be able to have my own copy to play. This seems to be one of the titles that, if they had released it at launch, would have sold systems like crazy. Hopefully it lives up to my lofty expectations.

    Now if only the people working on White Knight Chronicles would finish the damned game already, I would be even happier.

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