LittleBigPlanet [PS3] - Out Now!

[Synthesthesia]

shops are idiots all seemed a bit quite in town zavvi dident even realize it was out had to search on computer then when the release date came up she had to go ask other members of staff to make sure i said forget it and wandered off to game.

Same story in there but at least it was out on shelves, but on taking it to the desk the dosey assistant looked at me puzzled walked over to the shelf to check it wasn't a pre-order box i had picked up and that the game was out today,

then she couldn't find it and when she did she stuffed up my reward card and deducted everything off it then told me i would have to ring head office to get my points back asked for manger who was very helpful and sorted it out in a jiffy what a stress.

all round though pretty poor show on the shops not actually realizing its out what a load of rubbish cant of been many people in my town buying first it first thing this morning

Mate the amount of idiots that work in game shops is unreal. Half of them would be much better suited in shoe shops or something. I think I've talked to ONE Gamestation employee who actually knew what he was talking about in all my time of going there, haven't talked to a single one from game who did though No offense to the frequenters here who work there, just speaking of personal experience.

[teddymeow]

Mate the amount of idiots that work in game shops is unreal. Half of them would be much better suited in shoe shops or something. I think I've talked to ONE Gamestation employee who actually knew what he was talking about in all my time of going there, haven't talked to a single one from game who did though

Then why keep going in there?

It's a shame that you've had a bad experience in whatever stores you've been in but there are certain store managers who pride themselves on recruiting and training staff who know what they are talking about (and who know what they are talking about themselves) and make sure that everything is done right so people can come in and buy what they want with the minimum of fuss - like LBP and it's random Wednesday release date, for example.

Back to LBP. Got my copy yesterday and had some nice games with Mr Parry.

Does the game support Voice Chat? The text message thing was a bit laggy last night

[Ouenben]

Does the game support Voice Chat? The text message thing was a bit laggy last night

Yep your sackboy even moves his mouth when you speak

[teddymeow]

Yep your sackboy even moves his mouth when you speak

Has got to try me some of that tonight!!!

[elaniel]

Has got to try me some of that tonight!!!

It is brilliant

[Number45]

Does the game support Voice Chat? The text message thing was a bit laggy last night

I think that's one of the reasons behind the new firmware update.

[Kubrick]

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/22409

[JP]

You might recall we announced the news that LittleBigPlanet will see the ability to import images from the PS3?s hard-drive ?before Christmas?. You may also have seen the denials appearing here, here and well, everywhere.

Considering details of the much anticipated new feature came straight from Media Molecule?s Alex Evans? mouth into our very own ears, we were pretty sure we didn?t imagine the whole thing but, as is our nature here at Attitude Towers, we decided to hold back from further commenting until more information came to light.

That information is now available, and it comes straight from the source?
An official release date of the import tool is someway off but the below image (found over at tawkn.com and sent in by countless readers this morning - thank you all) should add some credence to our original claim that the tool does, in fact, exist.

We spoke to Alex Evans himself and this is precisely what he told us: ?the work is done on the tool, and it just needs to go through QA and then certification.?

With all this evidence stacking up you may be thinking ?Why the conspiracy??. With images now floating around the ?net of the new tool, why would Sony deny it is coming?

Let?s not forget the facts: Alex Evans might be a genius in terms of game design but he doesn?t work in public relations.

It?s quite possible that Sony did not want this information released so close to a holiday season when some people might be buying the PS Eye purely for the ability to enhance their LittleBigPlanet level creating experience. And, for the record, we don?t blame them. They have a business to run and such new information may impact sales of the (fantastic, and we?re not just saying this for the sake of it) PS Eye.

The tool has to go through QA and certification. What if it fails QA? What if Sony can?t certify it for release?

Until an official release date is announced we would like to close this with a simple note: just because something is denied, it doesn?t mean it?s not happening. And just because something exists, it doesn?t mean it will ever be released.

PS3 Attitude.com (5/11/08)

[SuperBeatBoy]

Have Sony released any decent Sackboy plushies yet? I can't see why not, i can see them being one of the highest selling things this christmas. I want one bad.

[Lebowski]

Have Sony released any decent Sackboy plushies yet? I can't see why not, i can see them being one of the highest selling things this christmas. I want one bad.

yeah totally missed opportunity I'm a sucker for extras and i would of picked up any merchandise they were doing pretty much as a day one purchase as the game gets older and my interest wains maybe not so much.

I mean come on how difficult is it to get some Chinese factory to knock out some sack boy toys for a few pence a piece

[Junko]

They have to make sackboy plushies

[Family Fry]

Quite an interesting read about the new PSN Terms of Service with regard to user-generated content and how this could affect LBP and the people creating the content.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/03/lgj-user-content-creation-crisis/

Apparently Mario 1-1 world has been removed by Sony/MM due to copyright, seems like you can pay homage but when you start putting marios face and name in a PS3 game, the lawyers come out.
Then again suppose imitation is the highest form of flattery.

[JP]

Yeah, they'd said quite a while back that anything carrying a name along the lines of Sonic or Mario would be tagged and would also be removed once they'd checked it out if they thought it could cause problems.

Got to be a good thing really as levels influenced by other games are fine but direct copies of them using this game with completely different physics just doesn't work very well. If I wanted to play Mario 1-1 then I'd play Mario 1-1 rather than a poor imitation of it which just doesn't work using this physics model.

[Darwock]

That's a potential minefield isn't it? 95% of all the community levels I've seen have been 'inspired' by another game - makes me wonder about gamers imaginations! I'm reserving my hearts for all the truly original stuff I see (unless something just blows my socks off like the Gradius tribute)

[Neon Ignition]

It's that time again, I've been sent another Kratos code which I think is unused to it's up for grabs

Usual rule, PM if ya'd like it. I'll reply to the first message and that person gets the code.