The LEGO Thread

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Toolbox said:
At it's base it's at best a good gta-lite for children, kids who have literally never touched another open world car stealing simulator and who really shouldn't until they are older. Beyond that it's a failure to expand the regular linear lego game into a grander scale, on wii u it also ran like absolute shit, I think that's been fixed in later versions but I have not touched them.
Click to expand...
It's a damn waste of potential.

I compare it to My Little Pony because one of the claims about it is iT hAs ReFeReNcEs FoR aDuLtS, and that alone isn't much of a justification to exist, but I got several chapters in and it just sucked. References were happening, it wasn't fucking funny. The whole opening sequence was brilliant and everything after that was dreck. But the gameplay? You just parkour, mash button, drive at the slowest speed imaginable.

Everything makes sense if, like you said, it's designed specifically for kids, but not just kids but actual toddlers. Very young children who have shitty reaction times and can't handle complexity, couldn't handle a large world as they might get lost (and not understand how to use their map), that kind of thing. And good on them for doing that, not their fault, but why the hell were all these adults shilling it as the best thing since sliced bread?

The two things (besides speeding driving up) that could have made the thing decent would have been some "rebuilding the city" theme where the thing starts completely fucked (like LEGO Island 2) and you get to put it back together, and cartoon combat that isn't just throwing a guy on the ground, it could have been dang Toontown combat where you throw a pie in their face and that would have been infinitely better.

I miss LEGO Island 2 and I miss being young enough to appreciate it.
 
AnsemSoD1 said:
It's like ever since Dimensions, Lego is too pussy to do long levels anymore and as such we get literal one room shitholes for "levels". I personally loved how long and thought out that the levels in Dimensions were, especially the Ghostbusters and Ninjago levels.
Click to expand...
Depends on title, I remember a lot of games going on way too long with boring themes. Dimensions had the benefit of having each level be a different IP. It had to squeeze as much as it could out of the license.

Games like LEGO Batman 2-3 or Star Wars around that time went on way too long from my recollection, taking boring themes and stretching them out. Personally, I think LEGO DC Supervillains did the best in a long while. Short levels on a variety of locals, never felt like it dragged.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Depends on title, I remember a lot of games going on way too long with boring themes. Dimensions had the benefit of having each level be a different IP. It had to squeeze as much as it could out of the license.

Games like LEGO Batman 2-3 or Star Wars around that time went on way too long from my recollection, taking boring themes and stretching them out. Personally, I think LEGO DC Supervillains did the best in a long while. Short levels on a variety of locals, never felt like it dragged.
Click to expand...
I guess that makes sense, I definitely agree with you that DC Supervillains was surprisingly good, given the state of most other modern post Dimensions Lego games.
 
Don't know how to feel on this. On one hand, looks like a new Arkham, on the other, I hate that we moved back from DC to just Batman again:
 
starborn427614 said:
LEGO Batman seems really good, I hope it opens the door for other IP's to get that treatment. I mean "the whole story in one game" sort of treatment.
Click to expand...
Honestly it looks mid, they should've done a new Harry Potter game. It would've been the best selling game of the year and made trannies seethe so it's automatically better than black washed Batman garbage.
 
Hermiöne Granger said:
At least it looks like they are using a new game engine.
Click to expand...
they switched to unreal because the engine they used for skywalker was a disaster. i like matt berry as bane, but i wish they went back to the formula that worked pre-skywalker saga of two character, drop in drop out gameplay with characters having different sets of abilities that can unlock new areas in the story levels. i dont even need open world
 
GlupShitto said:
Honestly it looks mid, they should've done a new Harry Potter game. It would've been the best selling game of the year and made trannies seethe so it's automatically better than black washed Batman garbage.
Click to expand...
I want another DC, especially after how good Supervillains was.

This game just feels like a giant step backwards for this IP. Basing the LEGO series off BTAS originally with vague allusions to the films allowed for way more potential in the characters and levels. I don't want to hate on the Batman films, but most of them are not exactly game friendly. The overreliance on realism past Burton is really going to hurt how creative this can get.

From a personal standpoint, they really should have continued down the general DC route. It is going to feel like an even bigger downgrade knowing we lose the Justice League in this title. Don't care if DC is uncool now, that is years worth of characters and locals flushed away all so we can play a retelling of the most generic Batman products. Would have made more sense to have DC in the year of Superman and the start of the Gunnverse, which is operating independently of Batman.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom