Comments on: LBP Euro beta starts tomorrow, EG giving away keys right now (update)

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:17:04 +0000

God damn it! There goes another golden eBay opportunity.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:03:15 +0000

I’ve posted the video. It’s at the top of the site.

By: Truk

Truk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:17:59 +0000

Ahh. Cheers morriss. On its way.

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:12:27 +0000

Site is 100% working for me.

Anyway, Account Management – Transaction Management – Redeem Code

By: Truk

Truk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:10:13 +0000

Cheers chap. Got there in the end. Any idea where I go about activating stuff? The instruction page is down to a single text line, unsurprisingly.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:09:13 +0000

The video’s of the tutorial and the first level. It’ll be in flash in 20 mins then got to upload it. Goddamn you, video.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:06:51 +0000

/shakes fist at ecu

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:02:02 +0000

Just keep refreshing the site, Truk. It does work.

By: Truk

Truk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:01:42 +0000

And suddenly it’s back! Complaining *does* work!

By: Truk

Truk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:01:12 +0000

Goddamn it. Finally get back from work/wife-helping and my code is stuck in the pits of a broken Eurogamer

I was one of the first to get it too.

/kicks things

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:59:51 +0000

I find it strange you find it so responsive. People I’ve spoken to have complained of the lack of responsiveness and how clunky and jerky it feels. Also, the whole moving to the foreground and background is again, unresponsive and doesn’t seem to work. And I agree with them. In fact, that’s my main complaint.

Sackboy’s cute. The pre-made levels are nice, but I’m gonna need a lot more.

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:56:24 +0000

Well, you asked for this. /essay mode

I’ve only played the tutorial and the first level. Seems very good, the platforming is nice and responsive, I got straight in to it and found it all very intuitive. I’ll try and play a bit more tonight, and I wouldn’t mind giving the multiplayer a go, but I don’t have a headset or keyboard so I reckon it’d be a bit shit.

A particular highlight for me is the various levels of mood that you can set for your sackboy, and nice touches such as holding X when you restart, the sackboy sort of strains and then zips off. It’s very polished, I like it. Nice subtle use of the motion controls too.

It’s still way too early to say if it’s lived up to the hype. It’s not like a big action game, where you can tell from the explosive, action packed first level whether the game is up to scratch or not. This is evidently going to be a grower, and you’ll get more out of it, the more you put in. I can’t see it being the type of game I’ll play for hours on end every night until it’s done, but it’ll be more of the ‘stick in and play for an hour’ every now and again. There WILL be some truly brilliant levels in this game, I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.

Sales? I don’t normally like to be drawn on sales, I’m not Psychotext. Sales of new IP’s are extremely hard to predict, but given the money Sony are ploughing in to promoting this, it could be huge. It won’t get your average Wii owner interested in PS3, the machine is still to expensive for this, but it might push a few regular gamers over the edge. Alright I’m done. Sorry.

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:45:57 +0000

heh.

So what do you reckon so far ecu? Will this the system-seller mega-game that it’s billed to be? Has your excitement been justified?

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:41:19 +0000

Same here. They’ll probably appear though, so don’t submit them 20 times.

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:39:03 +0000

Ah ha!!!!

Top man Dr Damn!!

/is an idiot

Well, that one minor annoyance out the way.

EGs back, although it’s not registering my posts.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:36:56 +0000

can’t you just hold down the ps button on the remote and turn it off like a normal controller?

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:36:20 +0000

Well before I out pen to paper I’ll have to finish it, although I’m already feeling like I’ll have to push myself. Shame I couldn’t create a level.

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:35:23 +0000

The beta is huge, according to someone on GameFAQs.

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:31:46 +0000

i didn’t get one

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:25:53 +0000

One thing that’s really annoying is if you have Blu Ray remote, the game keeps on asking you to sign it in.

So I have to sackboys but I only want one.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:25:13 +0000

Made a friend to come over to my place to test the offline multiplayer. Was really great fun, much better than playing it on your own or online.
Seems pretty good so far, don’t know how long it will last and how much more there is in the full game. I think I will pick it up on launch.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Movie’s going to be up in about an hour, I reckon. It’s pretty big.

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:17:32 +0000

Played extensively now. It’s “alright”. Can’t see myself playing for hours upon hours, but then it’s only a small portion of the game.

By: scuz

scuz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:16:11 +0000

ps3 fans kill eurogamer shocker

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:13:53 +0000

Probably just trying to get the message through that the codes have all gone. As long as the site is failing to load, people will keep coming.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:09:47 +0000

lol… EG completely offline now.

By: scuz

scuz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:03:24 +0000

maioran. how do i contact you?

By: Xephon1970

Xephon1970 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:58:24 +0000

Oh, ffs. I’m at work all day and come home to this. What’s the f@*£ing point of that – posting beta keys at 5 in the afternoon? Wtf?

Little big annoyed.

By: Maioran

Maioran — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:51:20 +0000

my PSN is Maioran add me if interested

By: Maioran

Maioran — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:50:13 +0000

i have an extra home beta code im willing 2 trade 4 extra LBP code