To put it on the same level as Alien CM...they clearly didn't like it.
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LEGO City Undercover |OT| This city has no ports
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To put it on the same level as Alien CM...they clearly didn't like it.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Have it pre-ordered and paid off, hopefully its reeaaallll good.
That map looks tiny going by the building sizes/scale, and by comparing it to some ingame shots where you can see across what appears to be the ocean between the islands.
A very rough estimate would put it at about 2-5 square miles in total of usable land, and far less if the middle of the large island isn't traversable? Is this even larger than the previous Lego games?
Of course, they don't provide a scale, but the buildings and districts provide a sense of scale atleast.
Didn't they say that this Lego game was going to be the biggest of all the Lego games by far?
They also claimed that Lego Batman 2 was 500 square miles, which is most certainly not true or even remotely close to an accurate number.
A very rough estimate would put it at about 2-5 square miles in total of usable land, and far less if the middle of the large island isn't traversable? Is this even larger than the previous Lego games?
Lego Batman 2 maps
Lego City Undercover map from the mainpage.
Of course, they don't provide a scale, but the buildings and districts provide a sense of scale atleast.
Didn't they say that this Lego game was going to be the biggest of all the Lego games by far?
They also claimed that Lego Batman 2 was 500 square miles, which is most certainly not true or even remotely close to an accurate number.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Nicely done OP!
Katana_Strikes
Member
Pleasure! I'm eagerly awaiting that free copy of the game you promised me in return
But seriously this is definitely a game I'll pick up once I get a WiiU.
Spieler Eins
Member
Always seemed like an Arkham City-esque pseudo ,,open world'' to me (which really was just a big hub world), no surprises.
well they dislike them for their faults, of which all the lego games so far suffer from, rather than TT fixing them, they reskin and crap out a new license
i'm really worried about that 5
Katana_Strikes
Member
haaaaaaaaa
If something is in all games and hasn't changed are they really faults or purposeful design choices?
If they've given nearly all (or just all?) Lego games low scores that does make it easier to push their review off to the side for the time being.
Still looking forward to this. This and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.
I think Lego LOTR scored a 6.. and others may have been higher than 5.
OP said:
oooh I didn't know about this, awesome!
I believe Sammy admitted that quote wasn't from the EDGE review, just speculation on his part based on something he read elsewhere
LazerRanger
Member
Really nice OT. I was starting to get bummed by the EDGE review, but then I listened to a podcast last night where they spent about 15-20 minutes talking about how great it was (based on a demo), and my enthusiasm was renewed.
This is good news as I'm still craving a new Wii U exclusive and Monster Hunter isn't to my tastes. Which podcast?
That's a little unfair. The LEGO games can differ greatly from one to another and nobody does license fan service better than TT.
horrendous platforming, awful path finding, lack of any depth what so ever, crazy basicness of the games which makes it dull even for children, broken wonky mechanics, etc etc
also lego star wars got a 7
i had hoped TT might have finally made changes, but so far it seems not
It was the second segment of the most recent episode of NWR Connectivity
From what I heard, Batman 2 is actually a really cool game, and is even the best Superman game of this generation.
Love the header image!
Early reviews be damned, nothing will stop me from buying this game. My Wii U has sat unused for TOO LONG. Been anticipating this for months.
It's only $49.99, too. Though like most LEGO games it should drop in price fast and be on discount frequently
I've enjoyed the LEGO games up till now... and I'm sure this will be no different... but I gotta say, as an aside, LEGO has really lost their way when it comes to these games. They really need to create a building game, after Minecraft they have no excuse not to go all-in and leverage their brand towards that market which has shown itself to be there and in large numbers.
Early reviews be damned, nothing will stop me from buying this game. My Wii U has sat unused for TOO LONG. Been anticipating this for months.
It's only $49.99, too. Though like most LEGO games it should drop in price fast and be on discount frequently
I've enjoyed the LEGO games up till now... and I'm sure this will be no different... but I gotta say, as an aside, LEGO has really lost their way when it comes to these games. They really need to create a building game, after Minecraft they have no excuse not to go all-in and leverage their brand towards that market which has shown itself to be there and in large numbers.
Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
Well that is quite the downer. I had high hopes for this game.
Hype killed...
I'll wait and see what gaffers say about this game
The title of this thread should be something like 'We built this city on block and roll.'
Or something
Or something like "Where we're going, there are no roads. Just blocks". Or something similar. XD
Only the Edge review was bad, but the rest so far have been fairly good. Long loads is a bit of a bummer, but I'm okay with that as long as roaming around the city is fun and there are things to do. I'm generally into the game for the humor and it lacks multiplayer (one thing I've hated about the other LEGO games) so that's a reason for me to jump in.
If all reviews from the game had been bad, then I'd be worried, but opinions are all over the place these days so just gotta sort these things out for ourselves.
If all reviews from the game had been bad, then I'd be worried, but opinions are all over the place these days so just gotta sort these things out for ourselves.
The title of this thread should be something like 'We built this city on block and roll.'
Or something
LEGO City Undercover |OT| Guaranteed to brick your Wii U
I wonder if the load times are so long is because the game isn't streaming off the disc but everything is being loaded. Taking advantage of that ram but resulting in a negative? Makes me wonder what things will be like going forward.
As far as Wii U games go this is perhaps the first true full, quality Wii U game right? In that it wasn't originally started for anything else but the Wii U? Same can't be said for ZombiU (being Killer Freaks and before that something aimed at the 360/PS3), Pikmin 3 (Wii game originally), MH3U being a up-port, and NSMBU (2D Mario similar to the Wii and DS games). Nintendo Land doesn't count as it's a mini-game collection (a fun one) but not a full featured game.
As far as Wii U games go this is perhaps the first true full, quality Wii U game right? In that it wasn't originally started for anything else but the Wii U? Same can't be said for ZombiU (being Killer Freaks and before that something aimed at the 360/PS3), Pikmin 3 (Wii game originally), MH3U being a up-port, and NSMBU (2D Mario similar to the Wii and DS games). Nintendo Land doesn't count as it's a mini-game collection (a fun one) but not a full featured game.
Just because you can ride a Lego T-Rex doesn't mean you have to buy the game, people!
LorDjidane
Member
That would be pretty harsh.
I'm serious.