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S.T.A.G.E. on 22 December 2008
Jo21 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
DMeisterJ said:

No matter how good the game does commercially (1.3 million sold in 8 weeks), or Critically (metacritic if 95) the game will never be seen as a success.  It's a shame too, since the game is so freaking awesome.  

This community would rather downplay the game's success, and call the game a failure because of the hype (not the game's fault), rather than look at it on it's own merits, a new IP, which sold really well on the PS3 and has that high of a metacritic average.  We'd rather look at this game as not a success, and continue playing Generic Shooter A, Madden 2020, and Traditional turned based JRPG 1,922,498, instead of praising a new IP for doing something different and what some would call innovative. 

So I am never going to defend the game again, and neither should you 

It's a success commercially, and critically, and that's all that matters.

 

I hope they give LBP a story. Because it still has nothing on Mario or any Nintendo platform. I found Donkey Kong Country to still to this day be more enjoyable.

 

the history of mario for the last 20years+ was to rescue the princess that it's a another castle.

and i hope you played lbp to know what the story is about who the collector is.

 

They have it at the gamestop where I live. I tried it but didn't like it. The jumping around was fun and creating, but it got old quickly. Mario reinvents the path of rescue so I'll continue to play it.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 22 December 2008
perpride said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
DMeisterJ said:

No matter how good the game does commercially (1.3 million sold in 8 weeks), or Critically (metacritic if 95) the game will never be seen as a success.  It's a shame too, since the game is so freaking awesome.  

This community would rather downplay the game's success, and call the game a failure because of the hype (not the game's fault), rather than look at it on it's own merits, a new IP, which sold really well on the PS3 and has that high of a metacritic average.  We'd rather look at this game as not a success, and continue playing Generic Shooter A, Madden 2020, and Traditional turned based JRPG 1,922,498, instead of praising a new IP for doing something different and what some would call innovative. 

So I am never going to defend the game again, and neither should you 

It's a success commercially, and critically, and that's all that matters.

 

I hope they give LBP a story. Because it still has nothing on Mario or any Nintendo platform. I found Donkey Kong Country to still to this day be more enjoyable.

LBP is the best platformer since Super Mario World, if not the best ever.

 

 

Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2 were better.



leo-j on 22 December 2008
S.T.A.G.E. said: 

Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2 were better.

 

 Not better than little big planet if your tying to say that..

 



 

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Omega_Phazon_Pirate. on 22 December 2008
Jo21 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
DMeisterJ said:

No matter how good the game does commercially (1.3 million sold in 8 weeks), or Critically (metacritic if 95) the game will never be seen as a success.  It's a shame too, since the game is so freaking awesome.  

This community would rather downplay the game's success, and call the game a failure because of the hype (not the game's fault), rather than look at it on it's own merits, a new IP, which sold really well on the PS3 and has that high of a metacritic average.  We'd rather look at this game as not a success, and continue playing Generic Shooter A, Madden 2020, and Traditional turned based JRPG 1,922,498, instead of praising a new IP for doing something different and what some would call innovative. 

So I am never going to defend the game again, and neither should you 

It's a success commercially, and critically, and that's all that matters.

 

I hope they give LBP a story. Because it still has nothing on Mario or any Nintendo platform. I found Donkey Kong Country to still to this day be more enjoyable.

 

the history of mario for the last 20years+ was to rescue the princess that it's a another castle.

and i hope you played lbp to know what the story is about who the collector is.

I feel the need to correct you slightly here, there were some Mario games which strayed away from that rescueing Peach XD.

Anyways also to add on, seeing the "LBP will be huge" threads really did start getting annoying, another reason why people won't see it as a success because it wasn't, in their eyes, "huge."



                           

Parokki on 22 December 2008
perpride said:

LBP is the best platformer since Super Mario World, if not the best ever.

I love how PS3 fans lots of people in this thread are getting away with stating their opinions as facts and being an ass about it, while a zim's objective and logical (even if somewhat blunt) post immediately gets attacked by virtually everyone else. 

Seriously, shitty forum behavior like this is precisely the reason a lot of old time members like me have been spending less and less time here lately, and why the amount of fanboys who "know" they're right and really want everyone to know is increasing. Try not to make this place any worse than it already is. Please.



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Max King of the Wild on 22 December 2008
Parokki said:
perpride said:

LBP is the best platformer since Super Mario World, if not the best ever.

I love how PS3 fans lots of people in this thread are getting away with stating their opinions as facts and being an ass about it, while a zim's objective and logical (even if somewhat blunt) post immediately gets attacked by virtually everyone else. 

Seriously, shitty forum behavior like this is precisely the reason a lot of old time members like me have been spending less and less time here lately, and why the amount of fanboys who "know" they're right and really want everyone to know is increasing. Try not to make this place any worse than it already is. Please.

 

 go make a thread about it and leave the lbp debates to this thread. Zims response was the worse (besides yours) in here so far.



S.T.A.G.E. on 22 December 2008
leo-j said:
S.T.A.G.E. said: 

Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2 were better.

 

 Not better than little big planet if your tying to say that..

 

 

 

Yes..One of Sonys better platformers.



Max King of the Wild on 22 December 2008
Omega_Phazon_Pirate. said:

I feel the need to correct you slightly here, there were some Mario games which strayed away from that rescueing Peach XD.

Anyways also to add on, seeing the "LBP will be huge" threads really did start getting annoying, another reason why people won't see it as a success because it wasn't, in their eyes, "huge."

 

 and the LBP doom and gloom threads before the "LBP will be huge" and after the games release was by far more annoying. Seriously day after day a negative thread about LBP poped up numerous times in a day before "LBP will be huge" started happening.

"LBP has no appeal it will fail"

"LBP will get a metacritic score of 60"

"LBP will sell 300k copies"

"LBP is too kiddy"

Just to name a few



S.T.A.G.E. on 22 December 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
CGI-Quality said:
@ Zim

You say the game can be purchased for half price eh...is that a holiday sale, a temporary deal or what....do explain.....

 

 funny how LBP sold 100-200k copies in under 3 weeks in UK alone (I don't believe this includes bundles) yet people are saying its going to the bargain bins because of difficulty of selling.... i dont think they grasp the concept of sales on popular items for the holidays... I mean looking at it from their view point the 360 must be dead and Ps3 must be selling extreamly well in NA because there are more sales and deals for the 360 than ps3...

 

The thing is that Sony sold it as the savior game. It saved nothing. I also resent the fact that LBP got GOTY for PS3 when it didn't deserve it. MGS4 was so the PS3 GOTY.



alfredofroylan on 22 December 2008

Maybe if the fans wouldn't have said things like "LBP Will Be HUGE".

I'm sorry but in my opinion LBP is not the problem, the unrealistic expectations that many people (included Sony representatives) had on this game were the problem