I actually hate LBP. Both 1and 2. I just don’t enjoy the game, the art style, or even the custom level design. I found the levels rather simple and boring, with the difficulty only being in the ***** controls. Oh look, multiplayer and I can slap someone. Wow. Revolutionary. The second one I hated even more than the first, oh look, we added a ***** shitty grappling hook. Wow. Revolutionary.

Seriously though, I understand that this is supposed to appeal to the general masses but I just think its a ***** game with no actual content aside from the custom content you create. Sandboxing may be fine with some gamers, but I play a game to enjoy it. I don’t want to make any levels and I really dont give a ***** about levels other gamers may have made.

And as platformers go, LBP1 was incredibly boring an repetitive. It felt more to me like a b-class nes platformer made by some japanese breakfast cereal company as a promotion.

Also, I have an unjustifiable hate for sackboy. I really really really want to methodically torture and kill it. It just looks too ***** stupid to live. But then, Im a hater. I hated oblivion. And ill probably hate skyrim too. /flame on

i think one of LBP’s main flaws is the lack of the option to create seperate files. do people suppose that everyone lives alone, or that one person in every househould plays videogames? wat a bad move there.

As for accurate jumping, the physics make that far harder than it should be. It’s all well and good people saying the physics add a real touch to the game but you’re controlling a Sackboy/girl around a world with cardboard cut out talking characters so the sense of realism goes completely out of the window for me. Physics or no physics.

The controls put me off from persisting with the game and I’m sure they will put other people off. Clearly I’m in the minority here which is fine. The devs have even admitted that they are far from happy with the controls too so it’s not as if I’m the only person in the entire world who has played LBP, that doesn’t like the controls.

I’m pretty sure that if the devs read my post they wouldn’t spew forth crybaby crap simply because I’ve dared to criticise a big name PS3 exclusive.

Isn’t that exactly what platform games are about?

The only things really ‘funky’ about LBP is the 3 depth levels – which can be a problem on user levels – and the physics, which can produce seemingly random results sometimes. But the physics adds a lot, and without it, user-generated levels would be barely possible.

Apart from say, ratchet and clank, and the early jack and daxter, I never got ‘into’ platform games (and these 3d ones barely count), because that mechanic is exactly the thing that put me off them. It’s just a grind, it’s too hard and frustrating, and it isn’t ever very fun. But the same could be said about almost any game if you stand back and look at it in the ‘wrong’ way … they all have some repetitive mechanic that gives you some inconsequential ‘reward’ or merely progress.

It’s just part of the genre, complaining that a platform game is too much like a platform game … is a little odd. And complaining that it sucks because it isn’t the same as ‘X’ is even odder in these days of yet-another-knock-off or sequel.

And FWIW after writing a big ‘well this game just sucks, and I expect flames’ flame-post, you should surely expect plenty of flames back. Just enjoy the flamage for what it is … Anyway, how do you think the developers would think if they read your post? Then juxtapose that with how you feel about some replies to your post?