About my thoughts, though you could say it much easier by saying it's a casual simple game built for the hardcore console.

And don't get me wrong, I'm sure the game is going to be wonderful but it's just for the wrong audience. I know I'll get named a raving fanboy because of those but I guarantee you the game would work better for the Wii. In fact, when Blocks comes out we'll get to see how the two games compare.

Also, a game that survives on user created content scares me. You will have those people who genuinely love the game and are decent to good at making levels but then you have those people that are terrible at making levels. They will make levels that don't make sense, no obvious solutions, being hard for hards sake, and just in general bad. Sadly there will be a lot more levels in the second group than the first and it will turn people off to the game.

I know people keep telling me that there will be a rating system and all that jazz, but go look at any UT2k4 or HL2 mod or whatever site. You will notice the bad ones still make it to the top and people still hate them. At least with something like UT2k4 it's targeted at the right audience.

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Also, I don't think the game will actually bomb like say Zack and Wiki did.  It will probably sell something in the area of 600k copies and eventually develop into a small ittle niche community.  Sadly with the advertising and time spent on this game, 600k copies won't make them any money.

I see no reason to call you a raving fan boy for your post Twes, your right it "possibly" could have been better on the Wii, this game seems more focused on textures, physics, and things going on screen though, so perhaps the PS3 was a great choice for this particular game. I think it could have sold better if it was originally on the Wii, but I doubt it would have been the same game. Also note, if their leader boards have any way to lower scores or something it could also help balance the levels via quality.

looks very fun to play with friends....

on your own..not so much tho

 This level actually takes 5 minutes to get through... Regarding you calling this game "repetitive", I have a question: aren't all games repetitive? All games focus on some core game mechanics and then create levels where you use those game mechanics to advance.

Just look at Uncharted, CoD4, Halo3, GeoW, etc. They all "shooters", basically you do the same over and over again. You move around a 3D environment and shoot the bad guys. In the case of Uncharted/GeoW you have one more major mechanic that adds to gameplay, it's the cover system. So now you move around in a 3D environment, shoot and take cover... now repeat for 20+ levels.

Nothing different with this game. You have some core mechanics (that are looking amazing right now) but in this case you have unlimited content (user created levels).  LBP's core mechanics are unbelievable, they basically created all the typical platformer mechanics and then added real world physics to all of them.

This is the first time they show us some of level gameplay elements, like timer, item counter, death, checkpoints, etc. I have to say I was a little scared but again they beat my most optimistic expectations, the new elements are perfectly fit into what they showed us before.

Now we have to wait for what they what to do with the "enemies". I hope they fully use current game mechanics to kill/pass by enemies. Dropping a big blouder on their head, crushing them using some kind of mechanical device, etc.

But the real killer would be if they add some kind of "enemy boss"... how awesome would it be to have some 4 player vs 1 boss fights?

Great, since that is the main reason the Wii sell so well, so hopefully it will also help PS3

 You're right in that most good games have a base set of core mechanics you do over and over again but those games are generally good because they keep making that core mechanic fresh and don't make it feel overused.

A good example is Gears of War.  You are constantly set in a big arena and it is the same situation over and over again.  They did a great job at not making this repetitive by strategic placement and varied evenvironments (kind of) and it kept the mechanic feeling fresh. 

i'm going to have to agree with twesterm.

as a game i think this looks awesome. i personally would love to play this game, however, i can't. why? because, as my taste include very cute and simple games like this and therefore i bought a wii. this game has casual audience written all over it and i don't think the ps3 can support it (to a financial success).

games that are selling best on the ps3: Assassins creed, CoD4, PES 2008, Resistance, and other "hardcore" games - and audience that for the most part won't care about LBP.

Ratchet and clank is probably the more comparable game currently out on the ps3 (in terms of audience appeal) and it didn't do great, 635k after 11 weeks of which included huge holiday sales. AND, Ratchet and clank benefited from being a proven IP which LBP doesn't have.

in the end, i think LBP is going to be a great game to play but that sales are going to be disappointing. it's a casual game on a system that doesn't have many casuals.

an excellent post krik, and point well made.

reasons an excellent post...

-no name calling

-response based on logic and reasoning

-point well made and elaborted on

I stand corrected.

Yea, the game isn't exactly targeted at PS3's core market so while I don't think it will FLOP, I do think it will end up as a somewhat successful cult title instead of a huge blockbuster. It probably WOULD sell better on the Wii, but that's Nintendo's mistake, not Sony's.

As far as worrying too much about the game focusing too much on user-generated content, I don't think there's THAT much to worry about. Sure there will be a lot of BAD levels, but if Media Molecule and Sony are smart, they'll allow users to tag levels with such descriptors as 'super difficult' or 'no goal'. While certain individuals will use trickery to get their poorly crafted levels to the top of the list, it's possible that the user-base will be large enough to prevent it from happening too often.

um, why do people think that Sony can only get the base it already has for this game? This looks like a fun game, and I think it DOES take good advantage of what the PS3 can do. This has the potential for Sony to show that it hasn't turned it's back on its casual crowd.

Oh, and as for methods of stopping people from posting impossible levels, there's a very simple way to prevent this. You just require that any submission actually be completed by the user before it can be posted up for rankings.