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 | Assunto: Most Overrated Pile Of Shite 2008: Little Big Planet  Sáb Jul 11, 2009 3:21 am | |
|  This was a closely fought contest between the emperor’s new platformer and MGS4, but the former won out in the end.
Genre
aside, LBP isn’t a million miles away from Halo. Neither are especially
bad games, but they both seem to have attracted the same plaudits from
poorly informed games journos and gamers alike solely on the basis that
they do something for the first time on a console that’s been done
before, better, many years ago on other formats. Seriously, there’s a
thousand fucking platformers that are longer, better designed and don’t
control like a spastic’s second-hand wheelchair on a potholed council
estate, and they started appearing over twenty years ago. Similarly,
level editors have been given away since the dawn of time. So what is
it that’s so great about a game that does what public domain stuff on
floppies could do on the Amiga in the nineties? That’s right: fuck all.
Lending
further credibility to this award is the fact that we have it on good
authority that Edge is naming LBP as the best game of 2008 in their
next issue. [Edit: Apparently the subs issues have already been sent
out, which kinda devalues that little nugget – sorry]
Fuck Edge, though – here are some of the views that count:
“It’s
gotta be LittleBigPlanet. It’s a 2D platformer that expects ME to
create the levels? Fuck right off. And it controls like shit.”
Anonymous Knight, via email
“Can
someone tell me what the fuss is all about, because I’ve played longer
than I would’ve done whilst searching for the point I must be missing.”
BeePee, via email
“An alright platform game with a fiddly level editor is the best thing ever. All the shills said so, so it must be true.”
Anonymous Knight, via Facebook
It’s
worth mentioning that it sold nowhere near the amount Sony and several
editors thought it would, and it barely dented the charts. That’s what
the gaming public telling Sony and their paid for mouthpieces to fuck
off looks like.  MGS4 is in second place, our Anonymous Knights apparently agreeing with our review:
“Most
overrated game of the year (and possibly in human history): Metal Gear
Solid 4. I’ve already written a zillion words on why elsewhere, but
let’s just say it took all the worst parts of the previous games and
multiplied them by several thousand, while adding only enough tiny good
things to make the overwhelming shittiness of everything else even more
infuriating. Even now, months later, I am brimming with hatred and
contempt and finding it hard not to choke just thinking about it.”
Sinister Agent, via comments[justify]  Other notable nominations include No More Heroes:
“Fuck every single game on the Wii, but especially this.”
Anonymous Knight, via email
[justify]  And our own personal tip for the top, the less-than-revolutionary Spore:
“Go on then, I’ll nominate Spore.”
Anonymous Platypus, via comments
http://ramraider.blogspot.com/2008/12/rr-most-overrated-pile-of-shite-2008.html
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