I was actually hoping for a nice friendly argument, but obviuosly you don't care. I don't know where you got
"you're going to rant and rave about the validity of my points, there will be fire and brimstone, you will judge every angle of my post and correct my spelling and criticize my outdated internet references, for what? To support a game that is already obselete in the eyes of many gamers?" as you were the one yelling about LBP being stupid and possibly for free on the internet (which I also invalidated previously)
Oh well, I just going to go ahead and invalidadte your points and such. FIGHT YOUR LOSING BATTEL@!!!# Maybe Spore will throw you a bone? HMMEMEM!!??! Okay, 'ere we go, this should be fun;
The point of LBP being 2D is to give it the simplicity feel. I do not think it would be good for LBP to be full 3D not because I don't have faith in Sony (where the hell did you get that from?) but because it would be way to comlpicated and then be like every other Level Editor that every other game has. It's supposed to be a simple game that's fun to play, like Mario, he was 2D and he was fun to play so what's wrong with it being 2 1/2D?
LBP does have a "campaign" of about 50 or so levels that the creators of the game made but the point of the whole "campaign" is to show you what you can do with the tools that they give you. As I said to a previous poster, do you begrudge BoomBlox for not having a story if any? No, because the game is about playing with friends and making some puzzles and crashing them down. Of course, Spore could be your Story UGC game and LBP could be your creating and sharing UGC, but if you won't buy LBP just because it doesn't have a story (which you didn't say personally, some other people did) then that's just plain sad.
Now, you could say this:
Complete over 9000 levels of ranging difficulty and make your own levels of ranging repetitiveness! Weeeee! I'm having fun already, waiiiiit... ok there is a gasmask on my sack! Time to make another lever puzzle, oooo better race against my friends... wee... OK... um why did I buy this game?
about almost any game.
Spore: Explore over 9000 planets in the universe ranging in different penis monsters! Make your own monsters that will all look pretty much the same anywa! WOOHOOO, this is fun! Waaiitt....I better make a bear-like monster! Time to explore this planet! Oooo, better share my Titacular creature with my friends! Errr...why did I buy this game?"
Don't get me wrong, I'm probably going to get Spore to, but after playing with the Creature-Creater for a couple of minutes I was bored with it as I pretty much just made the same monsters again and again or if not the same just looked or acted the same. I'm personally afraid that I'll just make a bunch of creatures but each of the games I make with the creatures will just be the same just like what happend with The Sims for me. Maybe Maxis can prove me wrong, but for now I'm a little skeptical.
And if Maxis could possibly prove you wrong, why not Media Molecule? That sounds a bit unfair to me, letting one big name studio possibly pursuade you while leaving the lesser-known developer gets shunned just because you could "possibly" find something similar on the internet (which I still havn't found to be honest)
How do you know it won't have long lasting appeal? How do you know that it's just going to be dressing up sackboys/girls? How do you know that it's just going to be making level after repetitive level after repetitive level? I say wait for both of the games to release and then condem LBP for being nothing but "dressing up sackpeople" because that is completely unfair to give Maxis the possible pass while you completely shun Media Molecule for something that
looks like it will be stupid.
Sony has some pretty good Casual titles, but they arn't focusing on the casual market (unlike Microsoft with their "YOU'RE IN TEH MOVAYS!" crap
; oy vey). Infact, Microsoft is the one trying to appeal to the casual gamer audience and they clearely showed that at E3 this year with the cuddly avatars, LIPS, that Game Show game who's name escapes me, You're In the Movies, it's painfully obvious. Sony wants the Wii owners to buy the PS3 to give them the hardcore taste, and I think it's working because even my Die-hard-Nintendo-fan-friend is going to get a PS3 as soon as LBP comes out as well as some other titles like MGS4.
That was fun, and I certainly hope that this turns into a friendly argument of civilized people without any unnecisary swearing or claiming of fanboyisms. I can understand TheKbob and ThrGree's reacton to this game, it's simply not for them. I understand that, I'm not going to get all crazy at them, infact this argument would never have existed if you just plainly said "LBP doesn't look like my type of game, I'll be getting Spore instead" or something similar.
