ModNation Racers Beta

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MDMAniac said:

Dgc1808 said:

Because this isn't LittleBigRacers and SONY's not going the route of taking one of it's platforms and simply making a racer spin-off hoping that fans of the platformer will enjoy the racer.

Sadly it isn't, for the reason I ranted at. But you're very wrong thinking these games are SOOOO different. In fact, they are rather close, both serve the same audience, the people who are interested in stuff like PLAY. CREATE. SHARE.

And the idea wasn't just put a sackboy into a car, they would have put incentive of buying LittleBigRacing by sharing content between the latter and original LBP, and bringing new users to original first by introducing them to the LBP via racing (which could be of more interesting genre to some)

The thing is that Sony simply doesn't even care about growing up their IPs. They are borned to be niche, and Sony is happy to keep them in niche, that's it.

 

I'm not sure I agree they don't leverage their IP.  LBP has plenty of Kratos, Helghast skins encouraging recognition and visiblity of their titles.  Mod Nation Racers is Race, Create, Share so is totally aligned with LBP in concept.

I think it made sense for mod nation to have its own art style though, as it needs to be distinctive and have its own identify.

On the other hand I'm sure that when it launches they'll release skins for Mod Nation that match other IP, and adding a Sackboy would be easy as pie so far as I can see.  Already in the Beta I've seen Helghast so there must even be enough 'raw ingredients' in the character editor to come close yourself even without official skins.

I guess they could take it further, but they seem to me to make sure you are well aware of other IP and franchises in these X, Create, Share titles.