Why didn't sackboy become bigger?

[STRYKIE]

d21lewis said:

STRYKIE said:

You guys are using the word mascot way too euphemistically. I guess Blinx the Cat is Microsoft's mascot?

Mascots have been dead since the 90's.

 

Edit: Oh and I love how LBP's floaty mechanics are being slandered by the same frauds who probably defend and welcome the broken, buggy, piece of trash known as Super Mario 64 with open arms.

I jizzed over Super Mario 64 back in '96 and I loved it on DS back in '04 but I watched a Twitch 120 star speedrun last night.  The mechanics are still solid and it broke new ground back in the day.  It's not so great now.  I can respect its achievements though.  It ushered in a lot of stuff we still have today.

LBP is a good game and it's gorgeous to look at.  I think it would have done better if Sackboy were defined, though.  It was a design choice but I think it hurt the game more than it helped.  And the game IS a bit glitchy and the mechanics floaty but I can forgive it.  It's trying to do a lot of things at once.  Any game that has realistic physics is going to have unexpected results sometimes.

Believe me when I say, I wanted to like the game, for years, as an avid SNES enthusiast no less. I suppose what separated the opinions were those who went straight from the SNES to the N64 to those who had already played Tomb Raider, Jumping Flash (hugely neglected I might add), Crash, Nights etc. on the PS1/Sega Saturn.

Interesting you bring up the DS version though, because IMO that's more along the lines of what the game should've been...