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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes |OT| Cosmic Brick Your Console
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I just got my platinum for the PS4 version. It was pretty fun but those flight controls are awful. The only thing worse was trying to race using Hawkguy's skycycle. I hit a tiny bump near the tracks and suddenly it shoots off in a completely different direction from my approach.
My most used character had to be Super-Skrull. That guy does so much it's obscene: Flight, heat beam, invisibility, super strength, stretchiness (for grates and webslinger handles), smarts for operating panels, and even mind control (didn't expect this one).
My most used character had to be Super-Skrull. That guy does so much it's obscene: Flight, heat beam, invisibility, super strength, stretchiness (for grates and webslinger handles), smarts for operating panels, and even mind control (didn't expect this one).
CreateNowSleepLater
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Xbox One or PS4 version?
If you like Marvel and fun and aren't too burned out on Lego games then yeah, this is a good game. There's a lot to do which is either great or becomes a bit of a slog if you get tired of it, but the license is solid, the levels are fun and there's a massive amount of fanservice to the comics. It's the best Lego game they've released so far.
CartridgeBlower
Member
So is the Wii U version the version to get if the choice is between X360, PS3, and Wii U?
get the ps4 version, it installs faster
I love Lego games but this one just sucks.
The Hub is just annoying. It serves no purpose except to make it more tedious to get from one mission to the next. Lego City Undercover shows how to do it right by filling the world with tons of little puzzles and rewarding exploration with lots of studs. Here you get nothing, just pure New York in all its boredom.
Then we have the levels. The level design with one or two exceptions is just bad. Like they didn't even care to make interesting or realistic or inspired levels. You enter the Empire State Building - and end up in a sewer/industrial level. You enter a prison and once you're inside there is no prison inside.
Controls are awful. Switching with Y used to be a good idea. When you only have two characters. Here you have up to four and getting the right one is pure randomness. You basically have to move towards the one you want to play and press Y. Meanwhile LB and RB don't have any function. It would be so easy to implement fastswitching between characters (in fact it used to be standard for free modes in previous Lego games) but again, they didn't care.
Characters. There are too many. Or the levels are just stupid. Every so often you have to use five different abilities within twenty seconds of gameplay to progress further. Levitate this, burn this, levitate the remains, magnetize them, burn again. Playing this game is a chore, I'm literally annoyed every ten minutes or so.
And then there's what is a trademark of Lego games. Humor. Or in this case the lack of it. It seems like it should be funny when Nick Fury eats a burger. I don't get it. It has the least amount of humor of any Lego game. Iron Mans suit doesn't go crazy on him, Hawkeye doesn't blind himself in the mirror, the torch isn't scared of water, they are all so very annoyingly true to their character I start to wonder why they are represented in Lego at all. The game would actually make more sense and be better if all the Lego stuff was gone.
Lego City Undercover is my alltime high of Lego games, this is a new low (played them all except Lego Batman 2, the Harry Potter ones and the Star Wars Clone Wars one). I have high hopes that Lego - The Movie - The Game will return to Lego City levels of entertainment, this is a total and devestating failure on all accounts.
The Hub is just annoying. It serves no purpose except to make it more tedious to get from one mission to the next. Lego City Undercover shows how to do it right by filling the world with tons of little puzzles and rewarding exploration with lots of studs. Here you get nothing, just pure New York in all its boredom.
Then we have the levels. The level design with one or two exceptions is just bad. Like they didn't even care to make interesting or realistic or inspired levels. You enter the Empire State Building - and end up in a sewer/industrial level. You enter a prison and once you're inside there is no prison inside.
Controls are awful. Switching with Y used to be a good idea. When you only have two characters. Here you have up to four and getting the right one is pure randomness. You basically have to move towards the one you want to play and press Y. Meanwhile LB and RB don't have any function. It would be so easy to implement fastswitching between characters (in fact it used to be standard for free modes in previous Lego games) but again, they didn't care.
Characters. There are too many. Or the levels are just stupid. Every so often you have to use five different abilities within twenty seconds of gameplay to progress further. Levitate this, burn this, levitate the remains, magnetize them, burn again. Playing this game is a chore, I'm literally annoyed every ten minutes or so.
And then there's what is a trademark of Lego games. Humor. Or in this case the lack of it. It seems like it should be funny when Nick Fury eats a burger. I don't get it. It has the least amount of humor of any Lego game. Iron Mans suit doesn't go crazy on him, Hawkeye doesn't blind himself in the mirror, the torch isn't scared of water, they are all so very annoyingly true to their character I start to wonder why they are represented in Lego at all. The game would actually make more sense and be better if all the Lego stuff was gone.
Lego City Undercover is my alltime high of Lego games, this is a new low (played them all except Lego Batman 2, the Harry Potter ones and the Star Wars Clone Wars one). I have high hopes that Lego - The Movie - The Game will return to Lego City levels of entertainment, this is a total and devestating failure on all accounts.
I'm going to have to disagree. this game is like a love letter to my comic book nerd self.
-Deadpool-
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I'm with this guy.
Me and the missus are loving it. Both biiiig Marvel fans. It's our favourite LEGO game yet.
addyb
Member
Downloaded this yesterday on the xbox one. I was a big fan of Lego undercover and I'm really enjoying this. The hub is poor compared to undercover but the theme is far better with it being marvel. Some of the tasks can get annoying. Reading through some of this thread it seems I'm not the only one who thinks this. Just at times it isn't obvious what you have to do.
Overall though I'm enjoying it. Great to bang on when I'm not in the mood for forza or BF4.
Overall though I'm enjoying it. Great to bang on when I'm not in the mood for forza or BF4.
rocksteady1983
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Same here. We both love the Harry Potter ones as well. At times playing Marvel it does everything so well I think, what can they do to make this better? It's so damn good. Minus flight controls lol. I would love a ninja turtles one but honestly I'd want them to jump straight to Marvel number 2 instead of doing the Hobbit. The LotR was boring as hell. Marvel makes me feel like I'm a super hero playing, Harry Potter made me feel like a wizard. That's what I want.
raviolico
Member
this whole post echoes my feelings about the game pretty well.
And -in my case- it has little to do with the sameness of the Lego game mechanics.
The open world stuff was integrated/handled by Lego City Undercover more interesting/better.
Both, DC & Marvel Superheroes, don`t resonate as well as the rest of the Lego pack with me. I guess you can squeeze the more enjoyment of those titles the more your are into the source material.
well, i`m not a huge comic nerd but i love the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars movies so i love the Legolisation of both.
And i think when TT has to translate movie set pieces into levels the often come up with some creatively nice and more unique level designs (in Lego terms speaking...) instead of those endless streams of halls, fabrics, prisons, buildings etc. A random example may be the opening level of Lego Clone Wars on Geonosis. i don`t think the would have pulled such a design from scratch off without the filmic blueprint.
csquared587
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Is the PC version any different than the next gen console versions? Ill probably pick this up.
I haven't played the next gen versions, but after playing a bit of the PC last night, I think it's the same. Looks gorgeous
JStein0222
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Polioliolio
Member
Aahhaaa...
Hi peons.
Master race here. This game is 12 dollars right now on Green Man Gaming.
Enjoy your work 3 times as long to afford the same game.
K THX BAI
The Grim Heaper
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I don't see why this post is necessary. Do you have to act like a tool, or what?
Polioliolio
Member
Sorry, I'm not trying to be serious about the master race thing.
Just flabbergasted at that 12 dollar price (w/ publicly available coupon), and constantly amazed at the deals one can get on PC games.
Also wanted to let people in the thread know, in case they wanted to pick it up.
Here, for 12 bucks!
And use the following coupon at checkout -> GMG20-ZB5D1-93X49
Opus Angelorum
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UK GAF Argos/Amazon have the Xbox One version for £30.
Random Painted HIghway
Member
PC version. Is there anyway to jump directly to the menu, it is annoying having to watch Silver surfer at the beginning and then turn off the sound. why does it save my graphics settings but not my sound. very weird.
petethepanda
Member
Why in god's name do they put the subtitles in the middle of the screen :lol
That Amazon PC price. Can't believe I paid $50 for this on PS4 a few weeks ago.
That Amazon PC price. Can't believe I paid $50 for this on PS4 a few weeks ago.
whassupbun
Member
Anyone played both the PS3 and PS4 version of this game?
I'm a huge Marvel fan and absolutely love the game, close to getting the platinum trophy on PS3 now so I'm thinking about trading in the PS3 version after I'm done, then buy a PS4 copy for keeping (and platinuming again). But not sure if it's worth it, can't seem to find much on Google about Current Gen/Next Gen comparsion (found this video but honestly can't see much difference.), so hoping to hear some first hand impression from you guys.
I'm a huge Marvel fan and absolutely love the game, close to getting the platinum trophy on PS3 now so I'm thinking about trading in the PS3 version after I'm done, then buy a PS4 copy for keeping (and platinuming again). But not sure if it's worth it, can't seem to find much on Google about Current Gen/Next Gen comparsion (found this video but honestly can't see much difference.), so hoping to hear some first hand impression from you guys.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
I only played the PS4 but im pretty sure it doesnt have any extra content. It would just be a performance upgrade over the PS3 version. Looks and plays great though.
whassupbun
Member
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I know both versions are identical content-wise, just curious about the graphics and performance side of things, the PS3 version does lag from time to time, and the draw distance is pretty bad.
I think I'll end up buying the PS4 version anyway, just want to hear more opinions so I can convince myself and validate my purchase lol.
Agreed, this game sucks compared to City IMO.
petethepanda
Member
I was planning on 100%ing this but I'm finding it hard to play through these levels again. I've kind of enjoyed the game but not as much as I hoped I would. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean is still easily my favorite out of the few Lego games I've played.
They need to get less realistic-ish with their environments. The city and most individual levels feel so damn boring.
They need to get less realistic-ish with their environments. The city and most individual levels feel so damn boring.
SomedayTheFire
Member
I haven't been a fan of the lego games since Star Wars, find them a bit boring after a few hours, but I really really love this. Flying is weird, but I really enjoy flying around the city as Iron Man. Really fun game, really enjoying it!
Have to disagree considerably. The fact that you marginalized the hub world and implied it has nothing to do in it when it's a vehicle for unlocking characters and full of over 100+ puzzles of varying difficulty sets a tone the rest of your post follows with considerable hyperbole.
I will concede on the humour and controls though, but the fanservice is so damn good in that regard. I can imagine someone who doesn't like Marvel characters not enjoying this though, it seems like you set up expectations for yourself too that tainted the rest of the experience. They literally made the best Marvel game in terms of fanservice and you are complaining there are too many characters when that's the most important part of a game like this, especially using an IP of this magnitude.
Vampirolol
Member
I'm enjoying it so far but the frame rate (WiiU version) in the city is the worst I've ever experienced in a console game.
mcfishstick
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I've been playing this with my gf since launch on my pc. The attention to detail in animations and characters is excellent, and I'll list some of my favourite in spoilers below.
And my personal favourite animation:
I also just love zooming around as flying characters like Iron Man. The combat animations for a number of characters are also unique and it's great to see really obscure characters like
.
All the large character transformations, especially Hulk and Lizard. Curt Connors is actually missing a hand, and when he transforms he sprouts a tail and an arm and becomes the lizard. Ant-Man and Wasp can actually shrink, which is hilarious when you jump off shield-heli-carrier as tiny Ant-Man. Also, Spiderman can undress into Peter Parker and Wolverine and Colossus actually have a special fastball attack!
And my personal favourite animation:
When idle for a while the Beast sits down and reads a book while sipping tea!
I also just love zooming around as flying characters like Iron Man. The combat animations for a number of characters are also unique and it's great to see really obscure characters like
Squirrel Girl!
Random Painted HIghway
Member
How is the dlc?
Diablo Rosso
Member
Got this on PS4, being my first Lego game I've been quite impressed but having a trophy which requires a second controller is quite bemusing. Apparently the Vita works so I might try that. Going to get the Platinum regardless.
Yeah the flying is rubbish. Wonder why flying in games is so hard to create.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Glad to see I'm not the only one having issues with the flying.
In fact, the flying mechanics being as bad as they are is baffling considering they nailed them so perfectly in Lego Batman 2.
In fact, the flying mechanics being as bad as they are is baffling considering they nailed them so perfectly in Lego Batman 2.
bunbun777
Member
The flying was really frustrating for me to get used to but eventually I mastered it and was able to finish all of the races. My best advice is only attempt a race a few times than walk away, try again later. No inverting of the camera controls was very tough for me too but even that I got used to. Writing and depth of characters for me was the game's strongest suites and it was very enjoyable getting the platinum. Word of advice the one rc mini car race on top of the building is rage inducing. Then I figured out the controls were actually mapped to the direction you want to go, not to the direction your car is facing.
rocksteady1983
Member
This was probably my #2 favorite game behind last of us for 2013. Loved it so much. Really hope for a sequel. Or a TMNT game.
D
Diggeh
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Really enjoying this one, but the constant Wii U freezes are getting bothersome Seems like every level has 2-3 console lockups with that blaring BRRRRRRRR sound from the console, and we have to unplug/replug the console itself.
Combine that with the difficult puzzles and it really dissuades us from playing. At least there's checkpoints everywhere, but that's not the best solution.
I wouldn't be surprised if the game itself was Cosmic Bricked before they started burning the discs.
EDIT: I also just got an update for the game, but it still locks up all the time. :\
Combine that with the difficult puzzles and it really dissuades us from playing. At least there's checkpoints everywhere, but that's not the best solution.
I wouldn't be surprised if the game itself was Cosmic Bricked before they started burning the discs.
But it's SO MUCH FUN!
EDIT: I also just got an update for the game, but it still locks up all the time. :\
does the Wii U version support the local multiplayer second screen? I mean: if I play on the GamePad and another person is playing with another controller, does the game still split the tv screen in half, or me, on the GamePad, I get my own indipendent view on the action?
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