LittleBigPlanet (PS3™) General Discussion

[SpikeStarkey]

We all love LBP and LBP2. Why else would we spend out time on a forum about them? But, lets face it, there are soooo many things wrong with LBP2, that it isn't funny.

Lets make a list of all the things that are bad about lbp2, shall we?

Dive In! - Diving in is something that I don't do very often, not even in LBP1. But in LBP2, there is no reason to do it. Unless of corse you want to land in somebody's POD or Remote Moon Level. I'm not even exactly sure of how that happens, but it does. Now I can understand joining as they finished the level, and are about to leave. But joining when they are working on top secret mind blowing levels (or utter garbage)? Really?

The Looping Trailers- If you sit in your pod for too long, a looping set of trailers for LBP2 start to play. Now when you find the same trailors online, they have SleepyHead playing over them, with some in game sfx here and there. But for some reason,  the ones on disk, have no audio what so ever... why?

Sound cutting out- Ever been in the middle of a really great scenic level or music gallery level and really start to enjoy the ambiance... when suddenly the music goes POP and then dead silent? Well, nobody else was on the net, and you made sure to turn your Join settings to Do not allow... so What happened?

The celing must be very entertaining- Since about two or three patches ago, both Sackboy's and Sackbot's necks break when cut scene cameras are on, create mode is paused, you pause the game, open your popit..... too many instances to list actually. Well, all they do is look up. Sure it isn't perminant, but really? What is so interesting up there?

Music sequencer Notes- I'm not sure how many of us on this forum make music in LBP2, but I know that when I do, there are times, that nothing works right. EX: I have 5 volume channels with different instruments in each channel. I go to turn a channel's volume down, to hear another, and low and behold, it did not turn down. But if I turn all the channels down, then everything is muted. Also, why is it that when I try to add one note to a sequencer instrument after I save the level, it deletes other notes, or stretches to fit the entire line of notes?

I wish I could paint you a pretty picture- The paint tool, was an ingenious idea. Too bad the paintings are only one time use. The minute you turn your game off, kiss your ability to use your saved paintings good bye.

WHERE ARE MY LEVELS?- I have 11 (downsized from 15) LBP2 levels published and 20 LBP1 levels. Says so when I go to my earth. So why is it that when I go to playtest one of my LBP2 levels, none are there? Backing out of my earth to the pod, and back to the Earth brings in some Dotted Circles showing where I placed my published levels... and if I have aced,completed,100% them, but I can't select them or anythnig... this has been happening to me off and on since the game came out.

I'd like to play bu..[██████████████████████████_]...t, sorry loading screen- Why do I have to apologize to my friends/random people that I dived into their pod, that I had a loading screen, in an empty level, with everyone in the default costume... and nobody else on the internet in our respective households? What happened between LBP1 and LBP2 that made the connections such an issue? I don't have that problem on LBP1. Oh wait, I know the answer. Could it possibly be that they have two games and a website running off of the same server? No? well then I guess I don't know what it is...

DUDE TURN YOUR MIC OFF!- I like using my mic to chat instead of tediously using the on console controller-to-keyboard thing, but It get's really annoying when all you hear is BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

And other's don't like it either.

So, I put this decoration on the back of my head...- Ever design a great costume in lbp1, and wish that you had more decoration allowance on sackboy? Well LBP2 allows more decorations on Sackboy, but at a price. Every decoration you place will be visable from all angles infront of sackboy! YAY PHYSICAL IMPOSABILITIES!

Now these are just the things that I have experienced. if anyone else has anything else to add, please do so below. Who knows, maybe Mm will address some of these?

[Tyler_stewart]

The looping trailer is intended to have no audio. I think it would get annoying to hear audio over and over?

[SpikeStarkey]

The lack of audio annoys me. It allows the high pitched hum of the electronics of my tv to be heard.... I have an lcd flat panel... my ears are too sensitive i guess.

[Elmatto753]

Certain things you've listed are true, but I've never encountered some of them - and yes, I have updated recently.

For example, I have never dived into somebody's level on their moon. I have landed in their pod, but only if they've just left the level.

The looping trailers aren't annoying in their lack of sound, but rather in their quickness to come up. Often I've been playing while browsing the web, found an interesting article and then looked up to see the trailer. Very annoying.

I've never had that sound issue, except on a different TV that I briefly had (complicated story). On the one I have now, it's been fine. Are you sure it's not your TV?

Not done much with cameras recently (at least, not ones with sack-people in them), I'll have to check that.

I don't music much, for good reason.

Yes, I do have that painting problem.

Not sure exactly what you mean by the level thing.

*Goes to dentist*

*Returns*

The connection with other players is much better now, in my experience. Just the other day I played some versus levels with Ian111199, and besides one very minor one when he first joined, there were no loading screens beyond level loading at all. This surprised me, as my internet is absolutely rubbish, but there wasn't even any lag. It may be the number of players connected, or maybe your internet was being a bit derp when you were playing, but I personally have no issues with connecting to others.

I don't use mics, so I'm not sure there.

I don't make costumes, so again, not much help there.

That's my tuppence.

[SpikeStarkey]

No, it's happened on all the tv's I've played LBP2 on. And others have told me while playing levels with me that their sound suddenly popped and disappeared (it is usually the sequencers/stock music items as the sfx still are audible.)

I agree that the connections are much better than they used to be, but with the first game having little to no lag, If I go to the second, nearly every time I am online with people, it takes them about 3-4 tries to connect (and vice-versa)
I know that my net is not the best, but it is good enough to play some more graphically stressful titles with far greater amounts of players with little lag.(yes, they are fps')

[Elmatto753]

I'm not sure what is causing the audio problem then. And perhaps my internet is better than I thought.

[SpikeStarkey]

.:/. it is possible.

[Nuclearfish]

The game has some bugs, yes. All games do.

But broken? Really? Broken is when a game is... well, broke. As in, it doesn't work. LBP2 works just fine.

[chubet1]

I also experience this "no audio" glitch, only on one of my tv's. the other one is exactly the same and its never a problem. but when the audio stops on lbp2, it stops on some the other games also. example: playing lbp, audio stops, stop and play castle crashers, no audio. fat princess, audio. back to lbp2 when I hear the audio on fat princess. and guess what? it still isnt working. but the audio comes back for all games after like an hour, so it isnt a huge problem.

[frogmanlego]

Yes if media molecule does not fix the bang for buck level i might as well sue for a game that cannot be finished.. striping me of the last half of the game..