Firstly, the long-anticipated PS3 title LittleBigPlanet. Ever since I saw the trailer for this game, the kids and I have been stoked about getting it. We worked out how to play that cute little recorder song on the piano, we debated where to pre-order it and whether we'd thus get a Nariko costume or a Kratos costume for our future Sackpeople. Ultimately, the reason I got a PS3 was twofold: Blu-Ray playback and LittleBigPlanet.
And now it's here. And it's just as cute as it looked, and is just as wildly creative as promised.
And it is also hard as hell.
I'm currently stuck on the Frida level in South America. I have no idea how I will ever get past this level, let alone how my kids will ever get past this level. Luckily, it's not just that I'm a lame-ass gamer (which I will admit that I am), I've seen other posts with people having similar problems with the looseness of the Sackboy controls and the difficulty of some of the story mode levels.
Hey, but that's OK, right? There's always the user-created levels! This would be a valid option--IF the servers were running consistently. It was impossible to get online last night. The one night I was able to get online, performance was spotty. I know it's a massive title, but it's not like there's 50 million PS3s out there. It's running third to the Wii and the 360 in current-generation installed base. Get the servers online! (Apparently another PS3 game, SOCOM, is having even worse server issues.)
People can (and do) complain about having to pay Microsoft for Xbox Live Gold membership, but when Halo 3 shipped, you could get online and play the friggin' game. When Gears 2 ships in a couple of weeks, you'll be able to get online and play the friggin' game. You get what you pay for.
Oh, and by the way, in that previous paragraph, when I say "you'll be able to get online," I literally mean you and not me. Because as previously posted, my stupid 360 is in its stupid free UPS shipping box on its way to stupid Texas to get stupidly repaired/replaced for the second stupid time. So you'll be playing Gears 2 in a couple weeks, but I'll still be waiting for my third 360. Grrr. Like I said, love-hate.
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