Comments on: Microsoft is getting serious about ‘Boku’ http://www.zacharyreese.com/2008/11/microsoft-boku/ Dot Com Dot Murder Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Iroquois Pliskin http://www.zacharyreese.com/2008/11/microsoft-boku/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Iroquois Pliskin Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:31:59 +0000 http://www.zacharyreese.com/?p=132#comment-73 The thing is I am fundamentally a very uncreative person. I mean, I can understand why putting $60 bucks into a robust set of creative tools is totally worth it for many people. But myself, my attitude towards games producers is, "here's 60 bucks, why don't *you* figure out something interesting for me to do?"<br><br>all this will be a moot point w/r/t LBP if the user-created levels turn out to be great, and there's some system in place for finding them. But so far I've been disappointed with the game, just since my own thirst for creation runs dry after a bit. Every time I've tried to hit up the user-created levels so far the servers have been down, and I end up playing Fallout 3 instead. <br><br>Also, that boku commercial is awesome. The thing is I am fundamentally a very uncreative person. I mean, I can understand why putting $60 bucks into a robust set of creative tools is totally worth it for many people. But myself, my attitude towards games producers is, “here's 60 bucks, why don't *you* figure out something interesting for me to do?”

all this will be a moot point w/r/t LBP if the user-created levels turn out to be great, and there's some system in place for finding them. But so far I've been disappointed with the game, just since my own thirst for creation runs dry after a bit. Every time I've tried to hit up the user-created levels so far the servers have been down, and I end up playing Fallout 3 instead.

Also, that boku commercial is awesome.

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