Little Big Planet

**K3V** · 23 Dec 2008, 07:13 PM

Lbp Mgs tonight confirmed

**Brand X** · 23 Dec 2008, 07:35 PM

I won't be able to play until way later tonight. But damn right I'm going to be downloading it immediately when I get home tonight.

**Geen** · 24 Dec 2008, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Brand X

Holy shit. You guys need to play the "Little Dead Space" level.

I played that last night with some friends. Damn impressive.

**Bacon McShig** · 24 Dec 2008, 11:19 AM

Yeah, great level. I also played an undersea level where you fight a shark, that was really awesome too. should be on one of the 'cool levels' pages, it has a ton of hearts now. There was a really neat Megaman one, too.

They really need a website where you can add levels to a 'want to play' queue or something.

The MGS pack was really cool but a bit short. 6 bucks seems right, though. And there were lots of multilayered things that made the levels replayable at least a couple times; the secret race on the VR level that changed how the whole level behaved, the intro level being a target range, the trophy goals like beating rex under 2:30 and finding all the hidden VR gems in level 4, etc.

As far as the paint gun, it's great here but overall I'm not sure I like the way its been implemented. You appear to just keep it until you die, it's not restricted to a zone or anything and you can't drop it. This limits level creation options quite a bit, as you can't grab surfaces when you have it and the paintballs can trigger some switches that you might want the player to have to press themselves. As it is, you really have to either design a level entirely with these caveats in mind or just portion off the end of a level as a paintball segment, it'd be really hard to bookend it in the middle segment of a level.

I'm excited about enemies being able to shoot energy balls now instead of having to come in direct contact with the player, though, and the searchlight trigger and laser sight items could have some great applications. The idea that you could make an enemy as complex as Rex entirely out of editor tools is pretty crazy.

**Brand X** · 24 Dec 2008, 12:22 PM

So I downloaded the content, and I can find the costumes....but where the hell are the levels?

**Geen** · 24 Dec 2008, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

As far as the paint gun, it's great here but overall I'm not sure I like the way its been implemented. You appear to just keep it until you die, it's not restricted to a zone or anything and you can't drop it.

You can drop the paint gun by pushing O. The biggest challenge I see is preventing people from shooting button instead of traveling to them, but that is a hurdle that I'm sure some creative people will over come. I wish there was a way to make a paint gun destroyer gas or something for those situations.

Edit: Maybe they'll just add something that you have to climb on before getting to the area where the switch would be... That should work pretty well....

Originally Posted by Brand X

So I downloaded the content, and I can find the costumes....but where the hell are the levels?

It's on the store planet. When you click on the Metal Gear Solid Pack circle it'll give you the tree to play the levels like a story chapter in the main game (Yeah, It took me a few minutes to find it too. Would've been nice for a heads up from the normal PSN Store).

**K3V** · 24 Dec 2008, 12:44 PM

It took me forever to figure out where to play the MGS levels too. The UI in this game sucks huge ass.

**Geen** · 24 Dec 2008, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by K3V

It took me forever to figure out where to play the MGS levels too. The UI in this game sucks huge ass.

Yeah. I'm hoping they'll, at least, give an option to have a YouTube style list for browsing levels instead of these stupid globes. I always feel like I'm over looking something or that everything just looks the same when I'm spinning them.