Comments on: First LittleBigPlanet reviews to go live tomorrow night

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:25:56 +0000

I love how gaming news has sunk so low as to report on review scores. No wonder a 9/10 is seen as a disappointment by some.

We now have a three point scale.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:59:11 +0000

So I’m lying?

Well, it’d be nice to see you practice what you preach.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:12:18 +0000

Sadly the idiocy has spread to the EG forums as well. It’s not so much fun there.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:51:19 +0000

What do you expect though?

The fanboy wars is practiclly WWIII.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:20:34 +0000

9/10 What a flop!

…

Fools!

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:16:23 +0000

Comments section over there really is excellent right now.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:03:34 +0000

HOLY MOTHERFUCKING JESUS CHRIST SOPASTAR SUPERSTAR ON ICE WHO HAS GOT THE X-FACTOR LIKE BREAKING KIDS IN TORTURE IN 60 SECONDS FLAT LIKE JACK BAUER!!!!

9/10!

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:02:02 +0000

9/10 :O

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:33:50 +0000

He’ll still give it a 8/10.

We’ll find out anyways in half an hour.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:01:41 +0000

I was a little worried given some past form from Oli – he did write a very positive preview for LBP on EG previously though.

By: Esha

Esha — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:55:08 +0000

Blerk: I’ve never actually seen Sony do that, otherwise I would’ve thought they’d have done it with MGS 4? ;p

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:02:43 +0000

Probably? Have you seen the ‘INTER’LittleBigPla’NET’ recently?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:40:07 +0000

It’ll be a 10s all round. No, really. It will.

Sony’s probably booked a load of advertising with everyone for a start.

By: Esha

Esha — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:49:06 +0000

You might want to change that “that is the console life out” to “that draws the console life out”. I think that’s what the reviewer meant, it’s the way it seems to read.

I definitely agree with that list of boons and caveats though, and I knew that control of how characters jump between the three layers would come back to bite Mm on the bum. It can be mastered–I mastered it and I’m no supreme gamer, roomie mastered it too and he is–but when I think about it honestly, I think it’s more difficult to master than it should be, and not for the right reasons. That’s a point that needs to be raised.

LBP is still my game of the year though, despite all that.

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:36:24 +0000

Swedish site gives 9/10

“+ PLUS
Charming, beautiful and a durability that is the console life out.
“- MINUS – MINUS
BELL-RINGING not fully control all times, the dimensions confuse sometimes.”

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:29:31 +0000

Good points, well made.

By: Esha

Esha — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:18:51 +0000

I love Metal Gear Solid 4 as much as the next fan, I really do. But I honestly never understood how it was more than an 8/10 game anyway, so I thought EuroGamer had that right.

MGS 4 was a masterpiece, but it was hardly different to anything that had come before, in gameplay or in plot. It was refinement more than innovation, and refinement based upon a lineage of how many games?

LittleBigPlanet on the other hand is pure innovation, but it might take a patch or two to refine that innovation into something legendary (I think Mm can do it more quickly than Hideo did, they’re almost there even). The Mm guy has detailed the controls, and there are things people are being such grumpy socks about.

I’m hoping LBP gets a 9, I think it deserves it. But I would understand if it got an 8. The thing is, for something to get a 9 or a 10, I honestly think it has to be a really legendary game, an instant classic and something that’s damned special compared to what’s come before.

If all games start getting the 9 and 10 mark, they become so much less special, and then we get the “5 equals shit, 10 is about as good as any good game this year” mindset borne of that.

So I could live with an 8 on LBP, hoping for a 9 because it really does deserve it, but expecting an 8.

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:28:53 +0000

So I’m lying?

By: Shatner

Shatner — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:27:17 +0000

Hmmm.

I very much doubt that, morriss.

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:39:23 +0000

As long is the opinion is adequately backed up, then it’s ok in my book.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:27:07 +0000

It’s still an opinion. One with potentially a lot of influence but still nothing more than the opinion of one.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:24:08 +0000

Well technically a professional review is abit more then just an ‘opinion’, its viewed by millions and sometimes has the power to make people buy, or not, a product…

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:13:17 +0000

Let’s play nice kids, eh? It’s just an opinion and it’s just a videogame.

By: XDamage

XDamage — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:49:47 +0000

Ooo, that explains it rather well yeah. It’ll be fun to see what it gets.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:46:54 +0000

I shoud really point out why (Post above wont let me edit)

Oli Welsh is only a specialist on MMO games and I dont think I’ve seen him give a game which isn’t a MMO more then a 9/10.

Do remember, he was the one who review Metal Gear Solid 4 and the infamous 8/10.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=143797

“We love you, Snake. Don’t come back.”

And yet, Welsh knows nout, why? Because MGS4 is one of the best games of all time, probably the masterpiece of gaming this decade.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:49:24 +0000

Oli Welsh?

8/10 confirmed.

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:28:51 +0000

Oh! Very interesting.

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:22:33 +0000

Tom’s not doing it, it’s Oli Welsh, so it’ll be interesting to see what his take on it is.

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:15:20 +0000

Sorry morriss I meant that the things you did’nt like will most likely be the things that will put Tom off, not that you’ll be writing it :p

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:10:32 +0000

Yeah it’ll have to IGN, really. They get ‘everything’, always.