LittleBigPlanet

[fluffy]

Get this game, and a PS3 to play it on if you don't already have one.

IT IS WORTH A $400 VIDEO GAME SYSTEM.

[JonPorobil]

Ah, but is it worth a $400 video game system made by Sony?

[fluffy]

Yes. What the hell is wrong with Sony? (I am biased.)

[jb]

Well, I am somewhat displeased with my brand-new Sony Vaio that freezes after ten minutes of use 85% of the time. First time in years I've bought the protection plan, and I'm actually going to have to use it. I suspect the thing, for whatever reason, cannot spin up the hard drive for some reason. And I'm not prepared to do 40 hours of tech support on it. VERY GRUMPY.

(But I do want a PS3, although I want to play Ratchet and Clank more than Little Big Planet.)

[fluffy]

Hm, after only one night of playing I'm already almost at the end of the single-player story mode. Oh well, that's only a little tiny part of the game of course.

The other slightly annoying thing is that in the fifth chapter, the music which plays most of the time is composed entirely out of stock GarageBand loops, which is something most people won't notice but it bugs the hell out of me.

[fluffy]

Well, I am somewhat displeased with my brand-new Sony Vaio that freezes after ten minutes of use 85% of the time. First time in years I've bought the protection plan, and I'm actually going to have to use it. I suspect the thing, for whatever reason, cannot spin up the hard drive for some reason. And I'm not prepared to do 40 hours of tech support on it. VERY GRUMPY.

(But I do want a PS3, although I want to play Ratchet and Clank more than Little Big Planet.)

Yeah, I have a Vaio at work and it kind of, well, sucks. The Vaio group has basically nothing to do with the PS3 group though. Sony's really a whole bunch of completely separate companies which kind of operate under a single brand name.

Ratchet and Clank is awesome. It's the only game I've ever felt compelled to play three times through back-to-back.

[JonPorobil]

I'm sorry if it offends your bias, Fluffy, but I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive Sony for that root-kit nonsense of a couple years back. Those were the actions of a company so desperate for profits that, to save money, they werewilling to step on the very customers who buy their products. And then they tried to fix it by stealing code from the LAME MP3 library, which is especially frustrating when you recall that the entire mess started because they wanted to stop people from violating their copyrights.

I've tried not to buy Sony products since then. How are you supposed to trust a company that lets an idea like that get all the way to the market?

[fluffy]

Hi, that was all BMG's doing. Slashdot blamed it on Sony, and so everyone else did too.

And even if it were Sony Music, again, Sony Music is an entirely different division with a separate funding/corporate/etc. structure, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Playstation people.

To put it in terms you'd probably understand better: "America" invaded Iraq, and "America" voted for George W. Bush, and "America" supports John McCain.

[JonPorobil]

Sony BMG music is owned (at least, 50% owned) by Sony.

Anyways. Didn't mean to drag the thread off-topic. Yes, LittleBigPlanet looks very good. It's one of the few products to come out in the last three years that actually makes me consider breaking my boycott. I can't afford a PS3 anyway, though, so I guess it doesn't matter.

[fluffy]

Right now Sony BMG is actually owned entirely by Sony, BUT at the time of the rootkit, it was a 50% stake, and ownership in a stake is not the same thing as making a declaration (or even endorsement) of policy, especially something enacted by ONE OR TWO clueless people at BMG.

50% of the US voted for George W. Bush but that doesn't mean that everyone here agrees with or endorses the decision that HE made to invade Iraq.

Most engineers at Sony are actually extremely anti-DRM and in favor of fair use and the like, and what little DRM is there on the PS3 (for example) is just to keep the game developers (for downloadable games) and movie studios (for the new movie store) happy. The problem is just that there are also some old-guard media companies which also operate under the Sony name, and this can make it difficult for people who aren't part of it to understand. It's not even a left-hand right-hand thing so much as you have a bunch of siblings where most of them are kind and gentle but a couple are batshit insane and they bring down the family name.



And yes, none of this has anything to do with LittleBigPlanet.

[himynameisntmark]

IT IS WORTH A $400 VIDEO GAME SYSTEM.

Agreed. I just tried the Arkham/Batman level at a friend's house and now I want a PS3.

[fluffy]

:3

[Caravan Ray]

Right now Sony BMG is actually owned entirely by Sony, BUT at the time of the rootkit, it was a 50% stake, and ownership in a stake is not the same thing as making a declaration (or even endorsement) of policy, especially something enacted by ONE OR TWO clueless people at BMG.

50% of the US voted for George W. Bush but that doesn't mean that everyone here agrees with or endorses the decision that HE made to invade Iraq.

Most engineers at Sony are actually extremely anti-DRM and in favor of fair use and the like, and what little DRM is there on the PS3 (for example) is just to keep the game developers (for downloadable games) and movie studios (for the new movie store) happy. The problem is just that there are also some old-guard media companies which also operate under the Sony name, and this can make it difficult for people who aren't part of it to understand. It's not even a left-hand right-hand thing so much as you have a bunch of siblings where most of them are kind and gentle but a couple are batshit insane and they bring down the family name.



And yes, none of this has anything to do with LittleBigPlanet.

Heh!

......G'day. My name's Brian. Brian Hitler

I like ordering pizzas under the name "Hitler". Cos I get pissed off that people always ask me to spell my surname. I figure everyone can spell "Hitler".

[HeuristicsInc]

Hmm, I just give them my wife's last name instead of mine. It's not Hitler. You know what's interesting, there are some people somewhere way up in my family tree (not my ancestors tho) named Hittler with two t's. Dunno if there is any relation at all, I haven't looked.
-bill

[Spud]

Gee, I guess Ray was wrong. Not everyone can spell Hitler.

[Caravan Ray]

I've heard that Adolf and his rellos tended to avoid that branch of the family. They say the "2T" mob was a pretty rough lot. Quite unpleasant people. The black sheeps, as it were

[fluffy]

Christ, doesn't anyone follow Godwin's Law around here? When someone brings up Hitler in a conversation, the conversation is supposed to end, not turn into a conversation about Hitler.

I was rather hoping we could, you know, talk about LittleBigPlanet.

[HeuristicsInc]

Is Hitler in it?


-bill

[fluffy]

All the parts are there to create a little Hitler Sackboy if you really want. Surprisingly I haven't seen anyone do that yet, which is odd considering how as soon as I got a Wii I was practically flooded with Hitler Miis.

[Caravan Ray]

Christ, doesn't anyone follow Godwin's Law around here? When someone brings up Hitler in a conversation, the conversation is supposed to end, not turn into a conversation about Hitler.

I was rather hoping we could, you know, talk about LittleBigPlanet.

Uh oh...the thread Nazi's here

[fluffy]

So there have been several Tetris Clones, but this one looks like the best so far. Also, this person has created a hell of a lot of other really neat levels, including a version of Gradius.

[JonPorobil]

That's all user-generated? Good god.