Little Big Planet Versus Fable 2

[vlad321]

Lafiel said:
@ vlad )

How come you know Spore's editor "blows LBP out of the water" ? Did you play both games?

Btw you seem to totally dismiss, that LBPs editor has a very intuitive interface and combined with the abilities to use it with 4 people, to play the stages while you create them and to just have fun with each other (with the emotion system, with physics, with slapping, ...) while creating a stage makes it much less "work" and much more of a "game", which in my opinion is the great innovation LBP has.

The innovation is not that it has an editor, but that this editor is integrated in the game in a way that it's actually a game by itself to use this editor.

And this is exactly the point why hardcores and casuals alike will love this game.

Not a single one of those appealing bits can be called hardcore, in fact what has been done is that LBP is a casual creator too, intuitive, does not require much knowledge outside of point and click, it even has easy access of just about everythign with radial menus. All those are creat additions and it makes it probably the most expansive editor on a console so far. My main argument is that the game does not have the depth of a hardcore game. Honestly, how long do you think the whole slapping and emotions thing will last? It's a gimmick and if you want to be doing things like that go join Second Life, you can even make csutom animations and stuff with it for your character. The meat and potatoes of the game is the editor and the sharing of stages.

As for the fact that LBP's editor is quite primitive. Yes I have played SPORE and I have seen enough of LBP to know that both games are surprisingly similar. Both have you play the game and create stuff and then a massive database for sharing. The thing is that in SPORE you directly make your own creature and through some badass AI programming they will do everything a normal creature which was build like that will do like eating, walking/crawling, waving, etc. Meanwhile LBP is a level editor, yes it's pretty accessible and simple to use, but it is not all that flexible in comparison to any other level editors out there for some of the games. But I will admit SPORE and LBP seem very similar as they stand.