@frybread
Amazing post guy, I was considering bringing that up in refference to LBP.
At first I didn't understand why people thought Little Big Planet would be huge, so I restudied to game, got into the beta and saw for myself. I can say safely that I wasn't impressed with anything except the graphics. (It looks pretty) I also like the narrator's voice and the music.
But the game it self granted a beta was not something special in any way. That's when it dawned on me, myself being a PC gamer for years now had been introduced to user generated content since 1997 and a game I played back then allowed you to even develop your own game of sorts, people created shooters, rpgs, action games all within this game. A Microsoft game I believe it was dungeon siege allowed for created maps that could be added to the over all. Warcraft 3 was by far the most impressive I rushed to be the first to make a over the shoulder 3rd person shooter on that, after playing the over head version, it took several weeks to perfect it but I had a playable version up in the mean while. In the end this kind of content didn't seem so amazing as I didn't notice it missing from console games at all.
Little Big Planet however is quite simple to break down.
It is a weak platformer (Traits not quality)
Strong level editor (Traits not quality)
Very mediocore additional complexity. (Traits not quality)
It's nothing amazing but it has a lot of elements that can keep you busy but only if your interested in designing. The only thing that set me back in truely enjoying the beta was the limited world you had to play with, I wanted to create a rush up mountain race game that involved vertigo and cliff point free falls with rushed incline rises. However the levels were just too small. =.= (I'd suck at being a level designer.)
I'm Unamerica and you can too.
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