7th March 2007, 5:26 PM
http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/gdc07-cli...242341.php
http://kotaku.com/gaming/littlebigplanet...242305.php
First of all, remember the rumor that made the internet implode? Turns out that yes, Sony WAS making the "Home" network, and yes, it's basically a fusion of Live achievements and Wii Miis. Only, it takes it way beyond what Nintendo is doing with Mii. Check that first link for a video. Now, I'll tell you right now I prefer the art style Nintendo went with. I just don't like the realistic "Second Life" look. I prefer cute little animal robots that nearly resemble old timey sprites in their width/height ratios. Other than that, the idea of a massive set of environments to chat with others and a home you can invite people back to full of decorations? Yeah, I'm all over that. Still, that's really just a secondary perk (and a chat room like the V-Chat of old).
So check the second video. THAT is a platformer I WANT to play! It's a nicely done physics system that lends itself well to all sorts of awesome little tricks worked into the game. I mean I really want to play that!
So in other words, Sony's starting to get my attention. Keep it up and maybe I might just get a PS3. Of course, announcements of dropping features like native support for PS2 games (in favor of poor emulation and paying for a team of programmers to slowly expand it's emulated games list, which seems a very poor choice to me) don't help things. BC needs to get improved, not set back a few years.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/littlebigplanet...242305.php
First of all, remember the rumor that made the internet implode? Turns out that yes, Sony WAS making the "Home" network, and yes, it's basically a fusion of Live achievements and Wii Miis. Only, it takes it way beyond what Nintendo is doing with Mii. Check that first link for a video. Now, I'll tell you right now I prefer the art style Nintendo went with. I just don't like the realistic "Second Life" look. I prefer cute little animal robots that nearly resemble old timey sprites in their width/height ratios. Other than that, the idea of a massive set of environments to chat with others and a home you can invite people back to full of decorations? Yeah, I'm all over that. Still, that's really just a secondary perk (and a chat room like the V-Chat of old).
So check the second video. THAT is a platformer I WANT to play! It's a nicely done physics system that lends itself well to all sorts of awesome little tricks worked into the game. I mean I really want to play that!
So in other words, Sony's starting to get my attention. Keep it up and maybe I might just get a PS3. Of course, announcements of dropping features like native support for PS2 games (in favor of poor emulation and paying for a team of programmers to slowly expand it's emulated games list, which seems a very poor choice to me) don't help things. BC needs to get improved, not set back a few years.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)