On metacritic the average is 95 but user is about 6.5 so it really a love or hate game. 
 
And only 7,000 people were on last night. Thats not many for one of the ps3's biggest exclusive games.

I'm indifferent about LittleBigPlanet. I played it for a couple of hours and then just thought....meh, whatever. It's cool and interesting but not really the sort of game I want to sink a lot of time into.

It's cool when you play with a lot of people and play good levels, sadly that's why LBP for the PSP will suck. No multiplayer.

I'll find out soon enough, when I get it in the post lol will let you know what I think

Neither, I find it an average game that has a real nice charm, but boring and sometimes frustrating gameplay.

" It's cute and endearing for the first few hours, but it loses it's charm fairly quick. After two weeks of it's purchase, i didn't touch it since.  "

" It's cute and endearing for the first few hours, but it loses it's charm fairly quick. After two weeks of it's purchase, i didn't touch it since.  "

Love it.  The best part is how I can pick it up after months of not playing it and immediately find new and awesome stuff.

I love it in concept, I hate the actual execution though.

Those user ratings are just fanboy trash.  It's meaningless.
 
LBP is good, but it could have been amazing.  There's 2 main ways they 'failed' : 
 
#1 the single player mode is a little short, and not always amazing.  
 
#2 (the much bigger fault), the system for trying other people's maps was really really bad.  Tying trophies to have many hearts you have was a massive mistake.  The rating system is poor.  The way the game displays 'cool levels' is EXTREMELY poor.  The sorting system is bad, the ratings system is bad.  The game would have been much better off if people had been able to find the well designed user maps.  Think of the way maps & mods are sorted on websites for PC game modding.
 
edit - Oh yea, and censoring the game meant the game's launch was a travesty, a mess, and a shame.
 
Finally, removing all those user maps they did at first, and flip flopping on the issue over and over was just idiotic.  They shouldn't have given into to IP holders demands (because they were baseless no matter what), they shouldn't have removed user maps that had NOTHING AT ALL wrong with them.  They should have let users save any map to their HDD, keep it forever, transfer through the web or through memory cards.  At the very least that would have kept the maps for disappearing altogether.
 
Why would someone want to make a map if Sony was just going to remove it for no reason at all.  They should have let us use our PCs to transfer the maps, would have kept the community strong.

Metaritic is a joke. Including it's read ratings. 
 
@Diamond said:

" Those user ratings are just fanboy trash.  It's meaningless.    Agreed

 LBP is good, but it could have been amazing.  There's 2 main ways they 'failed' :   #1 the single player mode is a little short, and not always amazing. Completely Disagree

   #2 (the much bigger fault), the system for trying other people's maps was really really bad.  Tying trophies to have many hearts you have was a massive mistake.  The rating system is poor.  The way the game displays 'cool levels' is EXTREMELY poor.  The sorting system is bad, the ratings system is bad.  The game would have been much better off if people had been able to find the well designed user maps.  Think of the way maps & mods are sorted on websites for PC game modding. Agreed... sortof.                      "

" It's cute and endearing for the first few hours, but it loses it's charm fairly quick. After two weeks of it's purchase, i didn't touch it since.  "

I love it.

I've got nothing but love for LitttleBigPlanet. In fact, it's my favourite game ever.

The platforming is just not up to scratch it feels loose especially the moving between planes bits.

It comes down to what type of person you are I reckon. As a straight up platformer it's pretty weak. If you want carefully timed jumps, a nice learning curve and a good challenge, it's pretty broken on all of those accounts. The platforming is floaty and imprecise, the checkpoint system is hopelessly flawed leading to nothing but frustration and difficulty spikes when it does get a little bit trickier, and ultimately because of its checkpoint system it never dares to challenge you to any particular degree.
 
So as a normal typical game it's useless pretty much, save for the inherent charm in the Sackboys and the world and the sometimes ingenious visual solutions like the car level or the big wheel in the later part of the game. However, where it does take off is in the creativity, in the sheer delight of working out how to get around its deliberate confinements and restrictions to create some really awe inspiring contraptions and levels. That, and checking out what kind of brilliant things others have come up with.
 
Sadly the level creation drowned in a bajillion tribute levels, and due to the nature of "brand recognition" and its system for searching for levels those were the only ones people played, creating a vicious cycle of those being the most Hearted levels and subsequently FURTHER the most played.
 
So basically it comes down to what you want from it. It's still a brilliant toolbox with just the right amount of restrictions to.. er.. mother invention, and the ability to share your own - aswell as experience other people's - creations. As such, it is amazing, awe-inspiring, inarguably incredible.. until you put it in front of someone who really wants it to just be a normal platformer.
 
As for the metacritic thing, that's just fanboy legions trying theit best to change the fact that LBP is amazing, the same way similar legions will with Halo or Gears or Zelda or any other widely acclaimed title.

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I love it.

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I love it.  I've probably played that game more then MGS4.

I neither love or hate it. I see the potential in it and i understand why people play it, but the game is not something that i personally enjoy.

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who can hate Sackboy, honestly?

the game is great because its, new, original and different.....

I've grown to love it, that and burnout paradise are the two games that I have returned to most.

I love Sackboy, I like the game. It gets boring quick but when it shines, it shines brightly.

The one time I tried it, the floaty jumping physics drove me up the wall.  I can't really say that I'm a fan.

Like a lot, but I would have liked more single player content or a snippier online service that lets you save levels you like, loads levels faster, and has a better search system.

" Like a lot, but I would have liked more single player content or a snippier online service that lets you save levels you like, loads levels faster, and has a better search system. "

I like it. :)

I would say I love it.

" I'm indifferent about LittleBigPlanet. I played it for a couple of hours and then just thought....meh, whatever. It's cool and interesting but not really the sort of game I want to sink a lot of time into. "

As someone that was really excited for LBP, I was very let down by the actual game. 
The controls were, i dunno, off maybe? Don't know the right word but it didn't feel very tight. Maybe sloppy is the word.  
I think that was due to the weird physics of the sackboy. Felt like rolling a ball 3/4ths full of water around. Just odd. 
 
I was really excited about the community made levels as well but if you try to delve any deeper than the most loved ones you end up playing plenty of broken incomplete messes, rip offs of other games, or levels specifically made to earn trophies.