Quick Look: LittleBigPlanet Karting Beta

A kart game huh?

Karting? Is this part of Mortal Kombat? 

Every franchise needs a kart racer.

Always Be Karting

That's clearly a plane, not a kart.

That's Stephen Fry, not "British Guy" :(

If one more person says cute-sy..

Well!

I had enough of little big planets cute the moment it arrived. Never liked it's look.

Kinda reminds me of Banjo Nuts and Bolts.

I agree with Jeff. I love Stephen Fry, but the LBP stuff has always been a little too twee.

It doesn't look bad; I'd play it.

@RitzkriegRap said:

That's Stephen Fry, not "British Guy" :(

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If they tweak the controls so that you're turning when you actually push the joystick and not half a second later I'll be happy.

If you want you can change the "popit" theme which changes the colors of the menus, so it is not white on yellow. Its always crazy to see what people make with these games with some of the basic tools the games give you, i remember seeing FPS levels that looked like Doom in LittleBigPlanet 2.

@Rolento said:

@RitzkriegRap said:

That's Stephen Fry, not "British Guy" :(

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Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Pocoyo he should totally be credited as "British Guy."

Looks better than i expected, knowing how much i hated Mod Nation, and its ridiculous load time, seems like United Front Games has done a good job on this one.

I hope that they thought about fixing loading issues BEFORE the game is released.

That song on the Sack Francisco level is some Anamanaguchi song, right?

This looks interesting.

The controls still look floaty as hell.

@adamfedoruk: its remix of one of their songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijv6SSmT66U

The original is better i think but both still good!

@adamfedoruk: That's a remix of Airbrushed, yep. http://soundcloud.com/rac/anamanaguchi-airbrushed-rac-mix

I am loving that these videos are only around 20 minutes recently. Malicious, the 3DS XL, Arcade Weekend, now this. Much easier to chew through them without getting bored. Keep it up!

@BeachThunder said:

Every franchise needs a kart racer.

Gears of War Karting would sell a shit tonne

I hope they find out a good way to feature good community stuff that is in game, not on a separate website or blog.  

@rebgav said:

@Rolento said:

@RitzkriegRap said:

That's Stephen Fry, not "British Guy" :(

This

Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Pocoyo he should totally be credited as "British Guy."

Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Twinings adverts he can be credited as "whore".

Jeff's rockets were unable to take down that 747.

Meh... doesn't seem to add anything worth having if you already have Modnation Racers (from everything I've seen so far anyway).

Not to mention I personally prefer the artistic style of Modnation. Think I'll pass.

Yay Anamanaguchi. Wasnt that original song also in Scott Pilgrim vs The world, the game?

@Emperor_Jimmu: Looks like somebodies life didn't turn out the way they wanted.

My kart racing interest has been in arrested development for years. Crash Team Racing or bust!

@ComradeCrash said:

Kinda reminds me of Banjo Nuts and Bolts.

In what way?

I never got LBP2 so I'm certainly not overwhelmed by this game's aesthetics. Never got ModNation because of the load time issues and could use a modern kart racer. The music was awesome too.

@JDillinger: Haha I'm a scientist not a VO artist. Fry isn't taking any work from me.

This is an example of what Fry once was:

@Emperor_Jimmu said:

@rebgav said:

@Rolento said:

@RitzkriegRap said:

That's Stephen Fry, not "British Guy" :(

This

Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Pocoyo he should totally be credited as "British Guy."

Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Twinings adverts he can be credited as "whore".

Eh, he's a popular voice actor, of course he's going to do (billions of) commercials. He might be a whore but that's his job. Kind of like complaining that a prostitute has sex for money, isn't it?

Just like LittleBigPlanet, great concept, poor execution. When it comes to actually playing it everything feels a little off. I'm disappointed. :(

@adamfedoruk said:

That song on the Sack Francisco level is some Anamanaguchi song, right?

Yeah! It's a slower version of Airbrushed. My favorite Anamanaguchi song. ^^

@Emperor_Jimmu: lol. Okay.

MMM Sometimes I like to put these on in the background and if it sounds like something funny is going down then ill go back and rewind. But then Anamanaguchi kicked in. I loves me some Anamanaguchi.

@adamfedoruk: It's the RAC remix of Airbrushed

@The_Laughing_Man said:

Karting? Is this part of Mortal Kombat?

But. .. go-kart is spelled with a k..

@rebgav said:

@Emperor_Jimmu said:

@rebgav said:

@Rolento said:

@RitzkriegRap said:

That's Stephen Fry, not "British Guy" :(

This

Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Pocoyo he should totally be credited as "British Guy."

Naw, when Stephen Fry does stuff like this and Twinings adverts he can be credited as "whore".

Eh, he's a popular voice actor, of course he's going to do (billions of) commercials. He might be a whore but that's his job. Kind of like complaining that a prostitute has sex for money, isn't it?

Complaining about prostitutes having sex for money isn't particularly controversial. To your point, he hasn't always been so over exposed. The pre-QI Stephen Fry of ten years ago had a lot of integrity.

"Yeah yeah yeah *skip*

Way ahead of you British guy"

............. That's Stephen Fucking Fry to you.

The only annoying thing about Stephen Fry is his Apple obsession.

Loading looked way better then the modnation racers

Played one round of it. The karts controlled like LBP which is ok for a platformer but terrible for a racer.

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So this is basically modnation racers?

@BaconBuTTy: They should have hired Hugh Laurie for this one or Malcom McDowell.