Well according to IGN LittleBigPlanet and Fable II are basically coming out on the same day/week. So if you had to buy one and get the other one in 2009 which one would you buy first?

Note: This is meant for dual console owners but since its inevitable that ps3/360 fanboys will vote it doesn't really matter.

Also, Discuss.

Apologies for only having one console but I voted Fable 2

Most people will only be getting one or the other since they are both exclusives.

The Iron Ninja:
Apologies for only having one console but I voted Fable 2

I realize that a good sized chunk of the vote will be single-console owners so its alright.

Assuming I have both consoles (hypothetically, in reality I do not ;<), I'd probably buy LittleBigPlanet first. I've already played through Fable to death, as such, a change of pace would be nice.

I've only got a 360, but I'd still prefer LittleBigPlanet over Fable 2 if I had to pick one.

Geo Da Sponge:
Most people will only be getting one or the other since they are both exclusives.

The main reason I created this was to see the results (of course) but also to see what dual console owners would do in this situation.

Gotta be Fable 2. To my knowledge, LBP lacks even the basic scraps of a story, which is a big no-no for me.

Some games don't need stories, LBP is one of them.

It's got to be LittleBigPlanet. I've always loved games which offer a high level of creativity. I've been looking forward to this game for over a year now and I can't wait to mess about with the level creator.

No offence intended,but I don't get it, what is Little Big Planet about? It's a puzzle game isn't it? And it has someone called sackboy (which already warrants it as a fairly promising game)

If I had a PS3, I'd do both. But for right now, Fable 2.

Little Big Planet, definitely Little Big Planet

LPB is a side scroller that's mainly about creating stuff and sharing stuff online. It's primarily a platformer but there are also puzzles. It sounds a bit rubbish if you're just trying to explain it. You have to see it to understand why this game is such a big deal.

some random guy:
LPB is a side scroller that's mainly about creating stuff and sharing stuff online. It's primarily a platformer but there are also puzzles. It sounds a bit rubbish if you're just trying to explain it. You have to see it to understand why this game is such a big deal.

Yeah, fortunately LBP looks ten times better than it sounds. I loved the demos and trailors and shizzle.

Fable 2 - I don't play on my PS3 - its a cheap Blu - ray player ; nothing more.

The Iron Ninja:
No offence intended,but I don't get it, what is Little Big Planet about? It's a puzzle game isn't it? And it has someone called sackboy (which already warrants it as a fairly promising game)

Its more a basic platformer, but the major attraction is in the cusomisation of your own level. Effectively, I see it as a game that gives me no limits beyond my own intelligence.

And the figures are called Sackboys, although the proper term is Sackpeople as there are male and female ones.

And this is really a game that defies all forms of labelling - its is effectively unique and unprecedented.

D_987:
Fable 2 - I don't play on my PS3 - its a cheap Blu - ray player ; nothing more.

And the 360 isn't even that - its an overpriced, bug-riddled room heater - nothing more.

TheNecroswanson:

some random guy:
LPB is a side scroller that's mainly about creating stuff and sharing stuff online. It's primarily a platformer but there are also puzzles. It sounds a bit rubbish if you're just trying to explain it. You have to see it to understand why this game is such a big deal.

Yeah, fortunately LBP looks ten times better than it sounds. I loved the demos and trailors and shizzle.

Fuck, there are demos out?!!?

If i did hypothetically own both consoles, I would still choose LBP. For one, I'm sick of "western" RPGs and secondly I don't think it looks that great anyway. This may just be my inner-fanboy speaking, but I just don't "get" most of these 360 exclusives. One reason could be that they're all sequals instead of new IPs, maybe it's because they're all sequals, maybe it's because I hate MS anyway.

But then again, some people don't "get" LBP so it evens out.

Jumplion:
I'm sick of "western" RPGs

Thats not I line I hear (or read, you know what I mean) often.

I have no choice, I don't have a PS3. If I could choose littlebigplanet, I would, it looks like a very interesting game

...not many people think so it seems

SomeBritishDude:
I have no choice, I don't have a PS3. If I could choose littlebigplanet, I would, it looks like a very interesting game

...not many people think so it seems

Its a new concept - some embrace change, innovation and uniqueness, and some cling to sequels. I'm not saying whose wrong and who's right, but thats how you should maybe look at it.

I personally can't wait for the first time someone tries to use LittleBigPlanet in their own reports.

The Iron Ninja:

Jumplion:
I'm sick of "western" RPGs

Thats not I line I hear (or read, you know what I mean) often.

...Why? I got sick of them a couple years ago. I'm actual;ly going to go back to JRPGs this generation.

The Iron Ninja:

Jumplion:
I'm sick of "western" RPGs

Thats not I line I hear (or read, you know what I mean) often.

I know, I'm a freak arn't I ;O

I know "western" RPGs were always about choosing your own adventure, but sometimes I just want to play a nice epic tale of some other guy and be attatched to him/her instead of being myself who never talks and goes on stupid sidequests and who can easily find this sort of armor in a random dungeon instead of working his way up to the top to afford that awesome piece of armor.

These new "western" RPGs are all about the "choices you make" and crap like that (Oblivion, Mass Effect, Fable 2, inFamous, GTA4 had some in there) and everything is about choices, choices, choices, CHOICES! I don't want to quicksave quickload to see what "could have been" I want to see what will happen next because I don't want to screw up my own story by taking one to many "dark sides". Look at Fallout3! It's said to have over 500 fucking endings! What the hell is that?!?! 500 different endings one of them presumably dieing? I don't want to play the game over and over and over again just to see the 327th ending!

Sorry to get all ranty, but yeah I'm sick of "western" RPGs.

Indigo_Dingo:
I personally can't wait for the first time someone tries to use LittleBigPlanet in their own reports.

I know, I'm totaly going to use it in some of my school reports! "The Civil War: the War of Blood, by jumplion" I could see it now, floating guns flashing around everywhere, sillohuetts falling down everywhere, I'm positive i'd get an A :D

Indigo_Dingo:

TheNecroswanson:

some random guy:
LPB is a side scroller that's mainly about creating stuff and sharing stuff online. It's primarily a platformer but there are also puzzles. It sounds a bit rubbish if you're just trying to explain it. You have to see it to understand why this game is such a big deal.

Yeah, fortunately LBP looks ten times better than it sounds. I loved the demos and trailors and shizzle.

Fuck, there are demos out?!!?

Not that I know of. They have a bunch of gameplay videos and stuff out there so I'm sure there was one.....somewhere.

Fable II.

I love Fable to death.

I really like a story that the player can control, so I have to go with Fable II, but I would definately get LBP the second I get the chance, and have played Fable for 7^3 hours.

i'd choose little big planet because fable seriously doesn't look like anything particularly amazing... i'm saving my money for gears or mirror's edge.

iono about little big planet though. i mean, it's cool that these guys are designing this open-ended template for gamers to experiment with, but it just seems like video games like these are destroying the future artists and musicians of tomorrow...

why learn to play your favorite songs on guitar if you can mash a plastic one to genuine sounds from the original artist? and why think come up with your own artistic impetus when game developers do it for you? it's like spoon feeding.

but hell, it might just inspire people, hell if i know

Jumplion:

These new "western" RPGs are all about the "choices you make" and crap like that (Oblivion, Mass Effect, Fable 2, inFamous, GTA4 had some in there) and everything is about choices, choices, choices, CHOICES! I don't want to quicksave quickload to see what "could have been" I want to see what will happen next because I don't want to screw up my own story by taking one to many "dark sides". Look at Fallout3! It's said to have over 500 fucking endings! What the hell is that?!?! 500 different endings one of them presumably dieing? I don't want to play the game over and over and over again just to see the 327th ending!

To be fair, you don't really radically change the story in Oblivion, Mass Effect or GTA4 with your choices. Oblivion doesn't give you options for the main story, Mass Effect's options are a whopping two variants of the same "good" ending and GTA4 only really gives you a big choice in the end, the rest of the little choices don't really affect the flow of the story. You do get to choose when you want to advance the main story forward, but rarely do you actually get to choose what happens.

Fallout 3's 500 endings are going to be a bit of a cheat. You get your actual ending, then brief explanations on what happened to all those people you helped or harassed in the end. You're probably going to get a maximum of 3-4 actual endings with those explanations tacked on.

As for Fable 2...it doesn't really interest me since the first one really put me off with its complete lack of challenge. I mean, seriously, I never died in the game. Ever. That means I never any of my dozens of resurrection bottles that the game shoved me. It was a nice tech showcase, but as a game it just fell flat. Like just about all Molyneux games since...Black & White actually.

In any case, I don't own a PS3 and there are plenty of other games to pick during the LBP release. Like Dead Space and Fallout 3. Going to pick one of those.

Fable 2 will get the majority because hardly anyone here owns a PS3, but man, I just think LBP looks so much more fun than Fable 2 that I'll pick it over F2 in a heartbeat, especially since I hated the first one (ad no, I didn't "follow the hype" - I thought the game was crap, period).

badassteaparty:
i'd choose little big planet because fable seriously doesn't look like anything particularly amazing... i'm saving my money for gears or mirror's edge.

iono about little big planet though. i mean, it's cool that these guys are designing this open-ended template for gamers to experiment with, but it just seems like video games like these are destroying the future artists and musicians of tomorrow...

why learn to play your favorite songs on guitar if you can mash a plastic one to genuine sounds from the original artist? and why think come up with your own artistic impetus when game developers do it for you? it's like spoon feeding.

but hell, it might just inspire people, hell if i know

I'm not quite understanding you. So you're saying that giving budding young game developers the chance create a game easily and cheaply, and maybe even get some cash flow going from it (Sony are mulling over allowing some people to charge for playing their better levels - Sony take no cut in this, and the prices are easily set), is going to stop them from moving on to bigger and better games?

And thats horseshit - there is no simulation known to man that can match the pure euphoria of the roar of the crowd. Take it from my experience - even five starring Hangar 18 didn't match up to the applause I get from a small crowd in an old warehouse.

Indigo_Dingo:
I'm not quite understanding you. So you're saying that giving budding young game developers the chance create a game easily and cheaply...

So I can turn LBP into an Oblivion style first person RPG using the level editor? Awesome. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we? It's a game with a level editor and a distribution infrastructure for those levels. That's new on the console, that much is sure, and a huge step in the right direction for console gaming in general (Still waiting for the Youtube of games Microsoft has been supposedly working on). I still wouldn't call making those levels making actual games, unless you can radically turn the game from a platformer into something else entirely, like you can turn Quake into a point & click adventure or NWN into a game of chess.

I am still really looking forward to Fable II...but not as much as I was maybe 6 months ago. Maybe Im just a bit tired of RPGs. Im more interested in Spore, and, if I get a PS3, LittleBigPlanet. A new breed of game about creativity and sharing. I think they'll be many more to come.

Woe Is You:

Indigo_Dingo:
I'm not quite understanding you. So you're saying that giving budding young game developers the chance create a game easily and cheaply...

So I can turn LBP into an Oblivion style first person RPG using the level editor? Awesome. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, though. It's a game with a level editor and a distribution infrastructure for those levels. That's new on the console, that much is sure. I still wouldn't call making those levels making actual games, unless you can radically turn the game from a platformer into something else entirely, like you can turn Quake into a point & click adventure.

You can make it a melee centric thirds person platformer, a racer, an adventure game, a stealth game, a maze game...basically any genre outside of shooters and RPGs. And precisely how many game developers make something like Resistance while they're still working day jobs? Apart from people who modded Valve games, I mean.

But I'm not really the expert on this, Jumplion is. I thus pass all future questions to him.

Indigo_Dingo:
And precisely how many game developers make something like Resistance while they're still working day jobs? Apart from people who modded Valve games, I mean.

I fail to see the relevance of this question unless LBP lets people to easily make games like Resistance.

Woe Is You:

Indigo_Dingo:
And precisely how many game developers make something like Resistance while they're still working day jobs? Apart from people who modded Valve games, I mean.

I fail to see the relevance of this question unless LBP lets people to easily make games like Resistance.

He's saying how many developers make the same generic game over and over again. Why would you want to make another generic FPS/RPG like every other game? you could, however, make an "FPS" theme if you want to, and maybe an RPG theme so it all pans out.