It definitely is. The main reason being, this one borderline doesn't have a story mode. The hub worlds are cool and all, but don't add nearly enough to compensate for the lack of length. I have this game platinumed and I'm really not huge into creating levels. I went to play some community levels, but I just can't find any compelling ones. When LBP 2 came out you had a nice lengthy single player mode, that took advantage of a ton of the new features, and the community was ridiculously active. I've had my copy shelved for a while now already. It's definitely the best in the series in terms of the new characters, the new features, the level design, etc. but it really feels so incomplete.
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It definitely is. The main reason being, this one borderline doesn't have a story mode. The hub worlds are cool and all, but don't add nearly enough to compensate for the lack of length. I have this game platinumed and I'm really not huge into creating levels. I went to play some community levels, but I just can't find any compelling ones. When LBP 2 came out you had a nice lengthy single player mode, that took advantage of a ton of the new features, and the community was ridiculously active. I've had my copy shelved for a while now already. It's definitely the best in the series in terms of the new characters, the new features, the level design, etc. but it really feels so incomplete.
Tele_Viper
Member
I've been gaming for decades, and this is the first time i've ever returned a game for refund (and digitally, no less!). What a completely broken, unfinished mess this is on PS4. I guess the only reason it isn't in the press as much is that it was lucky enough to come out the same time as AC: Unity.
Upon replaying the story levels, it hit me how short this game really is. I bought every LBP game released so far and since i don't create levels myself, i always bought them for the story levels, with the added bonus of user created levels down the line. So far i have never regretted my purchases since i always felt that the story levels offered just enough content to justify the price (i always replayed the campaign a few times). With this game, for the first time, i don't feel there is nearly enough content to justify the price, unless you create levels.
In my case, there isn't much else to do in LBP3 other than shelving the game and hoping that good user created content will appear in a few months time. Who knows, someone at Sony might have the bright idea to offer the LBP1&2 story levels aswell but i'm not counting on it... seems to make far too much sense. At this point, i'm not even sure if the LBP creator community will embrace this game as much as the previous ones. By visiting their moons, i have the impression that most of my favourite creators have moved on. In that sense, i feel that a revolutionary new LBP targetted at the new consoles would have been a far better idea than this very safe, short and buggy PS3 successor.
It's a shame that LBP3 is so short and plagued by numerous bugs because i feel it could have turned out to be by far the best LBP yet with more content and less bugs because the content available is actually very good! I don't know what happened during development (small team, small budget, short development cycle, little Q&A,...?) but it seems like waisted opportunity/potential to me. Who knows if sales will be big enough to greenlight another sequel in the future...
In my case, there isn't much else to do in LBP3 other than shelving the game and hoping that good user created content will appear in a few months time. Who knows, someone at Sony might have the bright idea to offer the LBP1&2 story levels aswell but i'm not counting on it... seems to make far too much sense. At this point, i'm not even sure if the LBP creator community will embrace this game as much as the previous ones. By visiting their moons, i have the impression that most of my favourite creators have moved on. In that sense, i feel that a revolutionary new LBP targetted at the new consoles would have been a far better idea than this very safe, short and buggy PS3 successor.
It's a shame that LBP3 is so short and plagued by numerous bugs because i feel it could have turned out to be by far the best LBP yet with more content and less bugs because the content available is actually very good! I don't know what happened during development (small team, small budget, short development cycle, little Q&A,...?) but it seems like waisted opportunity/potential to me. Who knows if sales will be big enough to greenlight another sequel in the future...
Ballistics
Member
Is that an official workaround?
I can only speak for myself but it's far from completely broken. Can people seriously say my copy is a fluke? Everything so far seems like there is an online component interfering with the game.
I would be interested to know if the game saves any kind of progress online? And if the game uses this?
Also regarding DLC. Why do some say "free" and some say "owned", even though I haven't downloaded anything?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Patch up folks!
Does it fix most of the major issues?
Fix The Scientist
Member
Popit freeze is gone after the 1.03 patch
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Please sir, may I have some save file stability?
Good to know I'll have something to play after Kingdom Hearts.
Now just fix the DLC issues.Fix The Scientist
Member
Changelog says "bug fixes" and "support for additional DLC". Also the load times seem a bit better for me now.
Puppeteer at 1080p/60fps would have been unbelievably gorgeous.
Ballistics
Member
Full patch notes
http://community.us.playstation.com...Planet-3-Game-Update-1-03-Notes/td-p/44783071
Thank you, you are indeed ladies and gentlemen
http://community.us.playstation.com...Planet-3-Game-Update-1-03-Notes/td-p/44783071
Thank you, you are indeed ladies and gentlemen
El_Fenomeno
Member
Thank goodness, I couldn't play the game in its prior state. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend.
bananafactory
Banned
I skimmed the notes and don't see anything about the issue where the game was crashing during 2/4 player co-op, specifically in Manglewood.
Did I just miss it?
Did I just miss it?
Pop it fix, yay!Full patch notes
http://community.us.playstation.com...Planet-3-Game-Update-1-03-Notes/td-p/44783071
Thank you, you are indeed ladies and gentlemen
I spent a little bit of time playing after patching the game. Stability does seem improved a bit as I experienced no crashes on user levels that would previously always crash. Unfortunately other issues are still persisting.
- Sackboy continues to warp ahead when moving quickly, especially when using the rails in Go Loco.
- No apparent compatibility updates for legacy levels. Sackboy can still move into layers that should not exist and bounce pads don't always work properly.
- Pressing the more button when browsing the community levels often brings up the same levels over and over again.
- Sackboy continues to warp ahead when moving quickly, especially when using the rails in Go Loco.
- No apparent compatibility updates for legacy levels. Sackboy can still move into layers that should not exist and bounce pads don't always work properly.
- Pressing the more button when browsing the community levels often brings up the same levels over and over again.
CouldBeWorse
Member
That worked and my wife played it for a few hours today. Is the save now corrupted per the patch notes or are we good to go back online with it?
If anyone wants to try attempting co-OP stuff post-patch I'm here
I'll get on in a moment.
bananafactory
Banned
If anyone wants to try attempting co-OP stuff post-patch I'm here
Me too please!
zeroskater18 is my PSN
I'm in a game with banana right now, come join!
Also if anyone else wants to help do the 4x stuff, add me: enzogtr
I've got two controllers, but the update is still downloading. ETA 10 minutes. Have you been able to load into levels okay?
Yeah, banana's game crashed as I was trying to enter Manglewood hub, but we just did a level fine with minimal lag.
purpletentacle
Member
I was able to properly import all my LBP2 content - so that's a pleasant upgrade.
Finally sent a request.
Can you play now? We need a 4th for x4 level.
I wanted to but my friends have been bugging me about GTA non-stop lol.
Is this game good? I liked LBP1 and 2 but I haven't really heard much about the game itself outside of little specific things in here that don't really give me an impression. This is from the perspective of a person who has never been interested and still not interested in the creation aspect.
bananafactory
Banned
Wow that was painful lol but we did it.
Thanks Enzo and Creaking
Thanks Enzo and Creaking
It's all right, we managed to pull it off (three times with acing because the "who gets rewarded at the end" thing is still glitched), but I had to use two controllers. It wasn't exactly fun...
Although, if anyone is wondering, it's the level they used to reveal the game at E3.
It's got some bugs (a lot of which have just been patched), and many would consider the story mode to be shorter than it's predecessors. If you like community levels, then it might be for you.
edit: whoops, forgot to use the edit button.
Tele_Viper
Member
I'd say wait a bit for a sale. it's already been as low as $40. Once the game is completely fixed I think it would be worth that.
donkey show
Member
You should be okay.
Sorry t to be so negative and continuously drive this home, but there is no considering... objectively this is the shortest lbp and by a good amount at that.
temesgen77
Member
is the PS4 camera able to be used to import art or anything or is this a DS4 only title?
donkey show
Member
You use the Playststion Camera the same way you use the Playstation Eye for snapshots, at a higher quality of course.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Yes the camera is used in this game.
temesgen77
Member
Thanks for the replies, I am thinking about getting this for my kid. She is young but very creative. How intuitive is the level creation, are the tutorials something a kid could watch and figure out?
donkey show
Member
So on PS3 profile-wise, you need the same region game to transfer your profile over with everything you've earned from the previous games. If you're jumping from PS3 to PS4, technically the game will just read your pins and let you import LBP1/2 content over (minus DLC) regardless of region. DLC is still tied to the region to bought it from and can only be read from the same game region.
So we made more intuitive "tutorials" called the Popit Academy that introduces Create Mode in Play Mode versus showing you a tutorial video and telling you what to do in LBP1/2. It teaches you the create fundamentals in a puzzle platforming fashion that should help newcomers understand how the tools work more easily. We've also made tutorials for every tool that can be found on LBP.me and can also be accessed on the PS4 version as well that's more instructional.
In all honesty, I think you kid should easily pick it up as the visual language is relatively easy to get into, but can be a huge rabbit hole if you want to get way more complex. Some schools in New York use LBP to teach game design to middle schoolers, so it should be alright.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Just out of interest donkey, is there any reasoning behind the big save file size? I assume you pad out a file to make sure there is room there later as the players profile grows? But surely over half a gig is a little high? It plays havoc with PS+ cloud save space.
donkey show
Member
Yeah, that's something we're looking into as well so hopefully that gets addressed very soon.
Dead Prince
Banned
woot. just saw the new patch. forgot to leave my ps4 on so it downloads. i haven't been playing with COD and Smash. gotta make time for this again.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Great news, thanks for the quick answer.
We're all loving the game so far in my house.
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