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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Little-Big-Planet-PS3/dp/B0019CGTXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228068929&sr=8-1


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EDIT: so now it's £30, oh well!

EDIT #2; so now it's £50! jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/good_idea_man_submits_drawing.php


Maybe i'll put an actual gaming blog up soon.

So i'm thinking of trading in Soul Calibur 4 when i buy Dead Space, just cos £40 is a little too much to be spending at the moment (student-ness, and replacing my lost Creative Zen).

Does anyone know where the best place in the UK is to trade it in, and how much i'd get for it? I get the feeling it's a popular game to be traded in so i'm thinking £15 would be a good price maybe.

Gamestation, Game, and Blockbuster seem to be the main options, but i'd feel a bit sick giving them MORE money, but eBay's pretty dead for soul calibur 4 and i'm hoping they'd give me more in store credit to buy dead space with.

So recently i bid on an N64 on eBay, well about 5, and i lost all of them. It was that annoying thing where i was out for when the bidding ended so someone always beat me by about 50p. So instead of buying it i just downloaded Project 64, the emulator. I never had an N64 so i'm using it to catch up on all the games i never properly played as a kid, and those that i did.

I've played through Goldeneye and I'm halfway through Perfect Dark, Ocarina of time, Donkey Kong and Super Mario 64 (also pokemon snap for the lols). I've gotta say Ocarina's not doing as much for me as i was hoping. I can't seem to get into zelda games and i do'nt know why. I find them repetitive and a little dull, also the controls don't seem to be amazing (i know i'm playing it on a keyboard etc but it's more of an issue of what the controls do in the game rather than how they're mapped). It can't seem to decide if it wants to go the action route or take more of a fantasy rpg-y route.

And i've decided to buy Dead Space on release day rather than Little Big Planet. Whilst this may sound CRAZY i have valid reasoning. Uni work's gonna get hella important at the time these games are released, so i think Dead Space is gonna take up less time than LBP and therefore detract from my work. I'll get LBP at the start of the Christmas holdiay so i don't have any distractions or anything.

So after the rush of realising that i'd actually managed to get and download the Beta of the game, i thought i'd get stuck into it. There are 4 levels of the story mode to play through, well, 3 and a level that's nothing more than jumping over a skipping rope basically. They were all really fun! Nothing too taxing as it's so early on, and i'd seen most of the levels before, but it was still so enjoyable to finally play.

Next, the creator thingy:

So i think i've sat through about 2 hours of tutorials tonight and there's still tonnes more. There's so much to do it's unreal, the only problem with it seems to be my imagination not being up to scratch. I managed to make some Pacman like ghosts that chased me and jumped, after tweaking their brains. I was fairly pleased with that! Also managed to make a see-saw after seeing it on the trailer for it from a while back.
It seems like if you're gonna get anything worthwhile from the creation side of things, you need to put in a massive, massive amount of time into learning all the tricks. I mean, i've been spending all evening trying to figure out how to put wheels on something so that they actually rotate rather than stay glued on. (So any tips would really help!)

There are problems however, and i'm pretty sure it's just cos this is the beta (or demo) version of the game. There have been 3 or 4 instances tonight where the game's frozen during a loading screen, or it just refuses to load a level. That's kinda annoying, especcialy when you've spent ages creating a wooden pacman. Also, the "undo" option on the creation section takes AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGES, even if it's the tiniest of things that you're undo-ing. For example, i made a big smiley face tonight, and put a little sticker of a hat on its forhead, in hindsight i didn't think it looked that good so i clicked undo, it took about 20-30 seconds just to undo this, so imagine what it's like for massive things.


But all in all, i'm not dissapointed at all with this game. It's just annoying that we gotta wait another couple of weeks to get it!