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LittleBigPlanet 3 PS4 release date and box art potentially revealed

An online retailer may have revealed the release date and box art for LittleBigPlanet 3 on the PS4.

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Bennibop4238d ago

Cant wait I love LBP, looking forward to how my old levels from 1&2 look on PS4

waltyftm4238d ago

Well said, i would love to see that too.

Abash4238d ago

LittleBigPlanet 3 = My most anticipated game this year!

GribbleGrunger4238d ago

My hype has completely disappeared for this game now that I know it's cross-gen. What a pity the PS3 will be holding all that PS4 potential back.

ShAkKa4238d ago

And where did you hear that?

GribbleGrunger4238d ago

This is were a little digging helps:

http://i.gyazo.com/a2e484a5...

All that PS4 potential instantly thrown down the drain.

Majin-vegeta4238d ago

Calm yo tits down Gribble.The PS3 port is most likely being done by another team.

GribbleGrunger4238d ago (Edited 4238d ago )

You really don't understand do you. it has complete BC with the other games, therefore it's using exactly the same engine as LBP3 which means the PS4 cannot do anything the PS3 can't do with this game.

SamPao4238d ago

Its not like they used all ps3 power for lbp2... :P

What is the ps4 exclusivity gonna bring in your opinion?

GameDev14238d ago

PS4 potential of little big planet??? okkkayyyyy

Dont tell me you are talking about graphics cause that would be so ridiculous

LBP is tons of fun

GribbleGrunger4238d ago (Edited 4238d ago )

Better physics all round would be my first thought. Imagine real water physics. Water that pours and teams as you tilt the screen or dribbles down walls and then pools in holes. Rain that creates real time puddles and wets all the materials in realistically physics driven ways. Snow that lays on the ground and creates drifts because of a real time whether system such as gusts of winds, squalls and blizzard conditions that sackboy has to push through, meaning his animation changes, such as raising his hand to his eyes to protect them from lashing rain and icy snow storms. That's just for starters.

You could have preset creatures that have incredible AI and can assess your design and work out where to run, hop or fly. It would bring levels to life.

All of these things are NOT going to happen because the PS4 engine is built on the PS3 engine. The only benefit you're going to get is sharper graphics and perhaps a better framerate. Even larger levels seem out of the question.

raymantalk14237d ago

@GribbleGrunger

"You really don't understand do you. it has complete BC with the other games, therefore it's using exactly the same engine as LBP3 which means the PS4 cannot do anything the PS3 can't do with this game."

you are wrong just because it has BC with the ps3 does not mean they have not made the engine better it means they have kept all the routines that were in the ps3 engine and enhanced the ps4 engine, as stated by the devs on the gamespot stage and stated that you cannot plau ps4 levels on a ps3 therefore it is not crossgen it only works one way and that means it is emulation.

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ps3vita4life4238d ago (Edited 4238d ago )

This game looks amazing!! I can already tell that I'm going to like playing as Swoop, the bird:)

elazz4238d ago

I hope somebody is going to make the game Swoop Hunter within LBP3 where you are Sackboy with a gun and you need to try and shoot as many Swoops out of the air. If you fail then OdSock will laugh at you.

elazz4238d ago

I hope somebody is going to make the game Swoop Hunter within LBP3 where you are Sackboy with a gun and you need to try and shoot as many Swoops out of the air. If you fail then OdSock will mock you.

Neixus4238d ago

Toggle will be my favourite i think, he's so cute lol.

fantasygamer4238d ago

I was giddy with excitement when they said LittleBigPlanet 3 was a really nice surprise and to me is the delicious frosting finish on the cake of my desire to own a PS4 this year.

blind-reaper4238d ago

looks really cool, but I want to see what is the next Media Molecule game for PS4.

DarkLord10034238d ago

I love the new characters. I can't wait to play this with my friends

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Top 7 Best PS3 Platformers

A little-known game Puppeteer is on this list for the best PS3 platformers.

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gamerz327d ago

Little Big Planet, lol. No.

paddy95327d ago

LBP3 and rayman legends are the best here.

jznrpg326d ago

Puppeteer is really good. Nobody played it because it came out right before PS4 came out. When I went to pick up Puppeteer from GameStop some people were trading in their old consoles for PS4 preorder.

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms

Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.

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rlow1637d ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

blackblades636d ago

Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.

rlow1636d ago (Edited 636d ago )

First, you don’t know who has or hasn’t played it. So that’s your assumption. Secondly, even if people haven’t played it in awhile, it’s still nostalgia. Those memories of sharing your creation and having fun playing other peoples creations. Third, no game out there is really like this or as iconic. Today if they made this they would nickel and dime the whole way through and it would launch broken.

Cacabunga636d ago

Reason why i really dislike online games.. they become unplayable over time.. LBP story mode is actually only a tutorial

_Decadent_Descent636d ago

How would you know who's played it or not? What about those who get into games years after their release? They can't now. Besides, and more importantly, this sets a bad precedent across the industry when it comes to game preservation and people's ability to enjoy what they've paid for.

blackblades636d ago (Edited 636d ago )

People still play it but not a lot probably a fee people and I know you 2 guys haven't played it in a long time. If the server was doing so good it wouldnt be shut down. As I said the same people that whine and cry saying bad things on Sony etc are the same ones that havent or stopped playing a certain game in years. Let me ask you guys straight up and y'all tell the truth have you guys played it recently and when you did for how long did you play it.

SonyStyled636d ago

@blackblades “ Let me ask you guys straight up and y'all tell the truth have you guys played it recently and when you did for how long did you play it.”

Whatever “straight up” and “y’all” is, I can tell you the “truth” to answer your question.

I’ve been playing LBP2 for the past 5 years, I have 10 levels to Ace in a row and a coupe more hours in create mode for platinum. I played LBP2 earlier today in crate mode.

It sucked when LBP 1 and 2 servers were closed on PS3, but all those creations were still playable on PS4 LBP3.

Every level creation since LBP1 can’t be played now

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CDbiggen636d ago (Edited 636d ago )

Just disappointing. I have such nostalgia for this game and the user levels from LBP 1&2 and I already was gutted when they were shut down but at least they were on LBP3, and now this means I can't ever revisit those creative worlds again. All because some trolls or whatever decided to exploit these games, of all games, for some reason.

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just_looken637d ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno636d ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

just_looken636d ago

This right here

Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal

Imagine if sony kept up ps home development

The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss

Demetrius636d ago

When they refused a days gone sequel and no acknowledgement of a infamous series remaster of those gems, I knew Sony slick abandons stuff, sure they still release good games but to an extent smh

u-bEttA-rUn636d ago

Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.

DOMination-636d ago

Honestly, I think a well-designed LBP-style game would do better than ever in the current state of the industry.

People have short attention spans. Having something that is pick up, play a few levels and put down again is the experience the "masses" are after.

Keep it as a 2D platformer only with well-designed base levels, make it easy to build new levels and more importantly easy to access new content - personally I always found the way Forze Horizon 4&5 provide daily, weekly and monthly challenges via new content that they've built or handpicked from the community is a system that works great - and then stick it on mobile and PC with Steam Deck support.

Make it F2P with a one-off fee for the level editor (to stop people spamming crap onto the store) and have MTX for more characters, outfits etc. and there you have a live service game that Sony should be all over.

Do the same with a new Karting game and a 2D fighting/Smash Bros style engine and you have three bangers right there.

(I appreciate the N4G community will hate the idea of LBP being a live service game with MTX and I get that but I think if there's one game this model could work well for, it's this.. just imo)

anast636d ago (Edited 636d ago )

Astro's is similar.

Not enough people cared to play it, so they cut it.

Sony has never been a kid friendly console. This should be obvious. People go to Nintendo for this stuff.

DarkZane636d ago

All signs actually point to a new Astrobot game coming to PS5, so you'd be wrong.

anast636d ago

It's the game that came with the PS5

StoneTitan636d ago

Its on media molecule though. They did not want to continue LBP. Sony accepted that.
Sumo continued it. With a solala lbp3 and a great sackboy though.
Its not sonys fault. They dont want to force a studio to create a new LBP game.
But I would love a revival.

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Tacoboto637d ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

DOMination-636d ago

Sony in the Andrew House era did support them massively though. They let them do their thing with LBP and spent millions marketing it. I remember one E3 they even used LBP to cover the boring parts of the presentation where they talk about sales figures etc.

And then they allowed MM to announce their game on the PS4 console announcement/showcase event and waited the entire generation for them to release it.

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Dead Space Isaac Clarke: Every Cameo in Other Games

Isaac Clarke of Dead Space fame has appeared in many games, both as a playable character and an Easter Egg. Have you played them all?