Edge #285 - LBP vs SMM

[Keyboard Koala]

Cover:




Features:

Quantum Break
Food for Thought, how MOBAs deal with fans
Interview with Joel Hopkins
Inside the writer's room at Telltale Games
The Making of Thirty Flights of Loving
Studio Profile: Capybara Games
Time Extend: Tomb Raider Legend

Previewed:

Crackdown 3
Tacoma
Stellaris
Fallout 4
Mafia III
Planet Coaster

Reviewed:

Super Mario Maker [9]
Mad Max [6]
Volume [7]
Tearaway Unfolded [7]
Forza Motorsport 6 [8]
Disney Infinity 3.0 [7]
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer [7]
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime [6]

[SeanR]

is that Chris Pratt?

[DC Lemon]

We all know where this is going.

No matter what Edge says, we all know

Tearaway Unfolded

is better than LBP.

[Keyboard Koala]

You mean

Super Mario Maker, right?

[Chooch]

Both are shit (LBP and Tearaway)

[Rev]

LBP is more ambitious, but since it's a shite platform game (sort of, Fido Dido level, not even Cool Spot) it's almost impossible to care that it can achieve more things.

[Paulando]

A 9 FOR SUPER MARIO MAKER HAHAHAHAHAHA.

So it's worse than Little Big Planet? HAHAHAHHA FUCK OFF EDGE.

Should have invented a new score. Fucking Nintendo-out-of-ten.

[Revival]

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime [6]

Wrong.

[Stanley]

A 9 FOR SUPER MARIO MAKER HAHAHAHAHAHA.

So it's worse than Little Big Planet? HAHAHAHHA FUCK OFF EDGE.

Should have invented a new score. Fucking Nintendo-out-of-ten.

9 is a great score.

[Wiper]

That's a really shit cover, and the games this month aren't great. I declare the month a bust.

[macosx]

That cover is shit. That shatter effect is piss poor.

[Eighthours]

You mean

Super Mario Maker, right?

THAT'S THE JOKE, etc.

[Voodoo-child]

That cover is shockingly bad. Generic and definitely one of the worst I've seen over the years.

[Keyboard Koala]

Yeah, it really is a poor cover this month.

THAT'S THE JOKE, etc.

Oh ok. But Tearaway ís better than LBP as well.

[Nespresso]

A 9 FOR SUPER MARIO MAKER HAHAHAHAHAHA.

So it's worse than Little Big Planet? HAHAHAHHA FUCK OFF EDGE.

Should have invented a new score. Fucking Nintendo-out-of-ten.

Did they give LBP a 10?

WHAT?!

[Stanley]

Tearaway isn't better than LBP. The gameplay is dull and incongruous. It's flat out boring. By comparison LBP is more focused by being a 2D platformer. It's not a 10 by any stretch but it's slightly more engaging than jack of all trades origami simulator Tearaway.

[DC Lemon]

One way to help us understand is for Edge to share the levels they've made in SMM and LBP.

[LeighCb]

That's the most embarrassing cover for a magazine I've ever seen.

If it was to fall out of my bag in the street or on the bus I would get beaten up by kids and rightly so.

[Stanley]

That's the most embarrassing cover for a magazine I've ever seen.

You've lead a very, very sheltered life.

[Parappa]

Mad Max [6]

WRONG

[Jolly]

Jesus wept guys. The person who gave LittleBigPlanet a 10 probably doesn't even work there any more. Super Mario Maker is obviously better but you can't expect them to score games based on what's going to be released seven years down the line.

That cover is awful, mind.

[Wiper]

On top of that, the bit where LBP's design (and success, both critical and commercial) was a clear influence on Nintendo's decision to make their own platformer-that's-also-an-online-sharing-enabled-platform-game-builder means that you might expect fans of Mario Maker to be a little more appreciative of its influence, or at least understand why a magazine might opt to give an innovative title a higher score than a later, more polished but less original title.

I mean, obviously I think both are rubs and should be languishing much closer to the mid-range of scoring, but I'm used to other people being wrong about these sorts of things.

[womblingfree]

That's a really shit cover, and the games this month aren't great. I declare the month a bust.

It's the worst cover I can remember. Some random bloke going for a kebab. With a gun.

Quantum Break featuring 4D - Danny Dyer in Double Denim.

[Yoshimax]

On top of that, the bit where LBP's design (and success, both critical and commercial) was a clear influence on Nintendo's decision to make their own platformer-that's-also-an-online-sharing-enabled-platform-game-builder means that you might expect fans of Mario Maker to be a little more appreciative of its influence, or at least understand why a magazine might opt to give an innovative title a higher score than a later, more polished but less original title.

I mean, obviously I think both are rubs and should be languishing much closer to the mid-range of scoring, but I'm used to other people being wrong about these sorts of things.

Yes I can imagine the chat at Nintendo labs around what a great game LBP turned out to be and how they should have some of that pie

[Rev]

Jesus wept guys. The person who gave LittleBigPlanet a 10 probably doesn't even work there any more. Super Mario Maker is obviously better but you can't expect them to score games based on what's going to be released seven years down the line.

That cover is awful, mind.

You could expect them to score a platform game on whether it is a shit platform game or not. 8 or 9 is fine for Mario Maker, LBP was an emphatic 6.

[Nespresso]

Jesus wept guys. The person who gave LittleBigPlanet a 10 probably doesn't even work there any more. Super Mario Maker is obviously better but you can't expect them to score games based on what's going to be released seven years down the line.

That cover is awful, mind.

How can anyone give LBP a perfect score when the actual platforming in that game is utter shite?

[Dimahoo]

Fucking 6 for mad max. Despite the fact its the best game/movie franchise (and almost best Comic one) ever made.

Love the cover though.

[Sledge]

Well as long as the bar for photorealism has been raised, that's the main thing. I mean it's why we all love vidgames after all. Photorealism. Hello? Anybody?

[womblingfree]

Well as long as the bar for photorealism has been raised, that's the main thing. I mean it's why we all love vidgames after all. Photorealism. Hello? Anybody?

It looks like CGI from Code Veronica, starring the manager of the Queen Vic.

[Curtis]

Is it this guy:

Honest question. I have no idea who they're mo-capping?