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Lego City Undercover (Wii U) NA Commercial. Anyone looking forward to this?

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Kai Dracon

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Ridley327 said:
LEGO Batman 2 already does that, though.

Honestly, that's what's really throwing me off here since I remember back when it was LEGO City Stories that the big hook was the open world layout, but then I found out about LEGO Batman 2 doing the same (as well as introducing full VA, just like this game is doing), so I went back to being puzzled as to what this game was doing that was warranting so much hype. I mean, right now, it just seems like one of Nintendo's ways of making a third party feel extra special on the Wii U, in this case Warner Bros. Interactive.
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I guess some see Lego Batman 2 as a prototype for this game. The open world is bigger, there seems to be more to explore with platforming (since your guy can't just fly like Superman) in the open world to find things. Plus it's not a license IP (well, aside from being Lego, ha ha). It is its own universe and seems to be taking a lot of riffs on action movies and stereotypical Bro stuff.

Not supposed to be the most revolutionary game, but it just looks like it could be a good open world game, perhaps the biggest scale Lego game so far.
 
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outunderthestars

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Ridley327 said:
LEGO Batman 2 already does that, though.

Honestly, that's what's really throwing me off here since I remember back when it was LEGO City Stories that the big hook was the open world layout, but then I found out about LEGO Batman 2 doing the same (as well as introducing full VA, just like this game is doing), so I went back to being puzzled as to what this game was doing that was warranting so much hype. I mean, right now, it just seems like one of Nintendo's ways of making a third party feel extra special on the Wii U, in this case Warner Bros. Interactive.
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There is a major stylistic difference between:



and

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LegoCityUndercover.jpg


I'd much rather play in a bright, vibrant sandbox than a dark, gritty gotham one.
 
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Ridley327

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outunderthestars said:
There is a major stylistic difference between:



and

LEGO_City_Undercover_promo_art_2.jpg


LegoCityUndercover.jpg


I'd much rather play in a bright, vibrant sandbox than a dark, gritty gotham one.
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You know, as much as I hate the fact that TT's LEGO games all have that "real world/LEGO world" fusion to the environments, that's some pretty nice texture work in the LCU screenshots.

So it's the lack of a popular IP that's the big tipping factor?
 
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outunderthestars

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Ridley327 said:
You know, as much as I hate the fact that TT's LEGO games all have that "real world/LEGO world" fusion to the environments, that's some pretty nice texture work in the LCU screenshots.

So it's the lack of a popular IP that's the big tipping factor?
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For me it is a major part of it. I don't want to play in Gotham. I also think that the lack of that the generic brown unreal engine effect helps the game as well. It is just kind of nice to have a clean looking, colorful world to play within. :D
 
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freddy

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Ridley327 said:
LEGO Batman 2 already does that, though.

Honestly, that's what's really throwing me off here since I remember back when it was LEGO City Stories that the big hook was the open world layout, but then I found out about LEGO Batman 2 doing the same (as well as introducing full VA, just like this game is doing), so I went back to being puzzled as to what this game was doing that was warranting so much hype. I mean, right now, it just seems like one of Nintendo's ways of making a third party feel extra special on the Wii U, in this case Warner Bros. Interactive.
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I think Nintendo have known for quite a while they wouldn't be getting GTA V. (I think Rockstar wanted compensation) This was elevated as such, initially, in maybe a misguided attempt to make up for that.
 
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EDarkness

Member
I'm looking forward to this game and have it pre-ordered. I'm not a fan of LEGO games in general, but there's something about this one that appeals to me for some reason. Looks like a fun game.
 
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H3rTz DoNuT

Member
Just pre-ordered from Walmart, since they have it listed for $49.96, very excited about the game :)

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I'm gonna be a bad ass cop with the bad ass car :)
 
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Undead Bokun

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Looks like it could be pretty fun. I'm guessing inverted camera controls will yet again be left out. Made traversing the open world a chore in Lego Batman 2 and I was quite annoyed to see Lego LotR was also missing the option.
 
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AzaK

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Kaijima said:
Really looking forward to this. I'm curious to see if there's any additional influence of it being Nintendo published and maybe produced.

As for the commercial, these US Wii U ads are bad, but frankly nothing is as bad as the Gamecube campaign. The spinning cube was even worse.

Generally, I don't think NoA has any idea how to market themselves to what is perceived as a traditional gaming audience. Wii's marketing was good because it was going after a fresh demographic, and brought a fresh perspective.
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It seems that due to the Wii U's various features they have decided to take a more bullet point approach where they simply state what you can do with the system. With Wii it was pretty damned obvious.

Maybe their mistake is worrying too much on what the controller features are in the games as opposed to just selling the game itself.
 
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HeySeuss

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If they somehow manage to include NFC and have exclusive unlockable vehicles/ characters (ex: Lego Mario), they can just back up the dump trucks to put the money in.
 
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Always-honest

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IdeaMan said:
Well, i don't think i ever said every games will have anti-aliasing, i can't obviously speak for every studios in the world lol. But for the projects of my sources, who had jaggies and lacked AA in their E3 2012 demos, it was indeed implemented late in the development cycle.
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Yeah, you're right. Although you were never specific about any game, you never said "every game" and "in any case". So that was worded poorly by me.
I do think it's a bit disappointing thus far what i'm seeing in terms of AA.
 
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Eusis

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Cosmozone said:
Well, there is a Dirty Harry reference and a Terminator reference in one of the latest trailers, nothing today's kids would know about.
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I think how some of this stuff remains prevalent is being underestimated. Failing that, well, it's probably how they'll be exposed to this stuff initially anyway; I didn't know about Citizen Kane when I saw Tiny Toons make a parody episode about it, and the original Star Trek series has been done for decades yet references will pop up.

Though, yeah, they're definitely throwing bones to grown ups tere that kids will appreciate later on at the least. Assuming they aren't neophiliacs when grown up anyway.
 
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Ryoku

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Ken Masters said:
Jesus these commercials suck, if anything it sapped the hype for me
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I honestly don't get the extreme hate some members on Gaf have for the Wii U commercials. What about them is so fucking terrible that it ruins your hype (if there ever was any hype in the first place)?
 
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Rootbeer

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It definitely gives off some GTA vibes, hopefully it's not just giving that impression without trying to live up to it. Assuming the reviews are as good or better than most recent LEGO games (LEGO lotR and Batman 2 were definitely improved, especially the former), it's a day 1 buy for me.
 
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IdeaMan

My source is my ass!
Always-honest said:
Yeah, you're right. Although you were never specific about any game, you never said "every game" and "in any case". So that was worded poorly by me.
I do think it's a bit disappointing thus far what i'm seeing in terms of AA.
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For ports/multi, as i already said on other topics, i totally agree with you.

Anyway, this Lego games looks awesome !
 
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Meelow

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Zulithe said:
It definitely gives off some GTA vibes, hopefully it's not just giving that impression without trying to live up to it. Assuming the reviews are as good or better than most recent LEGO games (LEGO lotR and Batman 2 were definitely improved, especially the former), it's a day 1 buy for me.
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I just hope we get GTAV and not Reggie saying "This can be the Wii U's replacement for GTAV"
 
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Ken Masters

Banned
Ryoku said:
I honestly don't get the extreme hate some members on Gaf have for the Wii U commercials. What about them is so fucking terrible that it ruins your hype (if there ever was any hype in the first place)?
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It tries so damn hard to follow whatever trend Nintendo's PR team thinks is hot in the United States
 
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