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klaudkil on 31 October 2008

whahhaa... wel ms can do what they want. it will never be as good as lbp



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SmokedHostage on 31 October 2008
arsenicazure said:
it seems a lil boring.. I think a 7-9 yr old would find LBP a lot more interesting to look at..

pass...

It's still in early development.  I'm sure the final product will look nicer.

 



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oliminator1994 on 31 October 2008

wow microsoft has got a original idea! How will they get a game as suphisticated as LBP when they cant use Blueray?



PostModGuru on 31 October 2008

"it's not a LBP rip off, it's a tool that allows you to make games not a game that allows you to make levels."

Couldn't have said it better myself.



 

 

 

MrBubbles on 31 October 2008
NeoRatt said:
I was at the demo during the Microsoft Research Keynote speech at Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference). And I got to talk to the Microsoft Research guy working on it afterwards.

This is not a game in the pipe to compete with LittleBigPlanet. What you don't see hear is that before this montage, they explain that this is a product of a person at Microsoft Research and his wife teaching their 9 year old kid how to program in C#. What they want to do is train programming as a life skill in the future just like finance, interpersonal, time management skills, etc. Boku is simply a tool that helps engrain the concepts of programming into a young person's head. It is not a game to compete with LBP.

The full presentation can be found here:

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/KYN04.wmv

It is near the end. In the last 30-45 minutes if I remember right.

 

that would be really cool if they could get it into schools. 

i really hope more people read your post and stop making stupid comments as well.



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BMaker11 on 31 October 2008
SmokedHostage said:
If this reinforces the notion that "Microsoft copies Sony", then I want to reinforce the equally ludicrous notion that "Sony copies Nintendo" for LittleBigPlanet being a SMW knock-off.

Since when did any Mario game have nearly infinite possibilities in terms of level creation and creativity as a whole?

 



BMaker11 on 31 October 2008
selnor said:
BMaker11 said:
MrBubbles said:
Xen said:
DirtyP2002 said:
chaospluto said:

Wow, wtf, MS think of your own stuff for once please.

*sigh*

I really hate it when MS does this, bums me out. Then again, it was deemed to happen sometime soon.

 

Edit: I'm glad it's not a straight rip-off though, that would really upset me.  Atleast this is different in it's own sorta way.

 

enjoying your "trophies"?

The idea of trophies is universal - a veriation of trophies exists in the PS2 R&C games, there you have skill points. It's true Sony added it after MS, but they didn't copy anything - it's too universal to be copied.

 

 

the concept itself... but not how its used.  Sony didnt add it out of nowhere without anything causing them to.  They could see it caused more games to sell, so they decided to implement their own version.

Yeah, you're right. They didn't add it out of nowhere, but they surely didn't add it because "it sells games". They implemented it because they listen to their community. Go to the official Playstaion forums or the Playstaion Blog, and you will see tons of posts from users complaining that they wanted in game XMB and "entitlements/accomplishments/trophies". It wasn't until then that they started working on the firmware to put it into PS3. In the meantime, they even toyed around, letting people know that they were listening (think back to E3 07 "IN SHIRT XMB")

 

 

 

And I wondered why they wanted achievements. By the way, it does sell games. I know people who buy really crap games just because it's easy to get achievements. Funny that. I personally think Achievements aprt from the motion controls is this gens best new addition. I get much more out of games because of it.

PROBABLY because 360 owners have it......but Achievements had been out for a year already, so if Sony wanted to blatantly copy it, they would have done it from the start. It was DEFINITELY the fanbase that called for Trophies, not Sony, and what I was replying to implied that Sony copied M$

 



MrBubbles on 31 October 2008
BMaker11 said:
selnor said:
BMaker11 said:
MrBubbles said:
Xen said:
DirtyP2002 said:
chaospluto said:

Wow, wtf, MS think of your own stuff for once please.

*sigh*

I really hate it when MS does this, bums me out. Then again, it was deemed to happen sometime soon.

 

Edit: I'm glad it's not a straight rip-off though, that would really upset me.  Atleast this is different in it's own sorta way.

 

enjoying your "trophies"?

The idea of trophies is universal - a veriation of trophies exists in the PS2 R&C games, there you have skill points. It's true Sony added it after MS, but they didn't copy anything - it's too universal to be copied.

 

 

the concept itself... but not how its used.  Sony didnt add it out of nowhere without anything causing them to.  They could see it caused more games to sell, so they decided to implement their own version.

Yeah, you're right. They didn't add it out of nowhere, but they surely didn't add it because "it sells games". They implemented it because they listen to their community. Go to the official Playstaion forums or the Playstaion Blog, and you will see tons of posts from users complaining that they wanted in game XMB and "entitlements/accomplishments/trophies". It wasn't until then that they started working on the firmware to put it into PS3. In the meantime, they even toyed around, letting people know that they were listening (think back to E3 07 "IN SHIRT XMB")

 

 

 

And I wondered why they wanted achievements. By the way, it does sell games. I know people who buy really crap games just because it's easy to get achievements. Funny that. I personally think Achievements aprt from the motion controls is this gens best new addition. I get much more out of games because of it.

PROBABLY because 360 owners have it......but Achievements had been out for a year already, so if Sony wanted to blatantly copy it, they would have done it from the start. It was DEFINITELY the fanbase that called for Trophies, not Sony, and what I was replying to implied that Sony copied M$

 

 

oh...so because they were asked to copy someone means they didnt copy anyone....



"I like my steaks how i like my women.  Bloody and all over my face"

"Its like sex, but with a winner!"

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Dgc1808 on 31 October 2008

looks cool but it doesn't have a face.... [Sackboy, Mario, Sonic, etc...]



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SmokedHostage on 31 October 2008
BMaker11 said:
SmokedHostage said:
If this reinforces the notion that "Microsoft copies Sony", then I want to reinforce the equally ludicrous notion that "Sony copies Nintendo" for LittleBigPlanet being a SMW knock-off.

Since when did any Mario game have nearly infinite possibilities in terms of level creation and creativity as a whole?

 

You're taking my comment too seriously.  "They're 2D platformers so they must be clones."  Point is that this isn't a LBP copy, it's actually something very unique, much like LBP. 

 



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