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Sooo...the Lego games
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Lego Batman 3 somewhat feels like a step back after the brilliant openworlds of Lego Marvel, Lego Batman 2, Lego Lord of the Rings, Lego The Hobbit and Lego Undercover.
Normally I 100% the Lego games, but I have no compulsion with Lego Batman 3...so may be best to avoid that one (though opinions are all different)
Normally I 100% the Lego games, but I have no compulsion with Lego Batman 3...so may be best to avoid that one (though opinions are all different)
ClivePwned
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Lego City Undercover
If you have a Wii U and are interested, this is by far the best Lego game featuring Lego.
yeah, Load times suck but it's funny, fun to play, isn't a license (ie Marvel or DC) and it's also one of about 3 Wii U games that actually needs the gamepad.
If you have a Wii U and are interested, this is by far the best Lego game featuring Lego.
yeah, Load times suck but it's funny, fun to play, isn't a license (ie Marvel or DC) and it's also one of about 3 Wii U games that actually needs the gamepad.
i´ve played all Lego games for PS3
They are all great especially when playing in co-op but it relly comes down to the franchise you love.
Have playing them all , i can safelty say that Hobbit and Lotr are the best ones with marvel as a 3rd one (and i love marvel)
Lego Hobbit and Lotr are just beyond perfection , the soundtrack , being able to walk around middle earth doing side quest and other stuff is just awesome.
when you enter the shire and the shire theme kicks in its just perfection , it really makes you not see the character as lego character but as the real characters.
Marvel you have New York but with all the flying and stuff i think the co-op experience goes down a bit because of camera issues so marvel and batman better play alone.
Lego Pirates Of Carabbean and Harry Potter Sereies are also great underrated games , had a blast playing those
Hogwarts in huge
They are all great especially when playing in co-op but it relly comes down to the franchise you love.
Have playing them all , i can safelty say that Hobbit and Lotr are the best ones with marvel as a 3rd one (and i love marvel)
Lego Hobbit and Lotr are just beyond perfection , the soundtrack , being able to walk around middle earth doing side quest and other stuff is just awesome.
when you enter the shire and the shire theme kicks in its just perfection , it really makes you not see the character as lego character but as the real characters.
Marvel you have New York but with all the flying and stuff i think the co-op experience goes down a bit because of camera issues so marvel and batman better play alone.
Lego Pirates Of Carabbean and Harry Potter Sereies are also great underrated games , had a blast playing those
Hogwarts in huge Are there plans/a left-open possibility to at least have a sequel?
Seems super-weird to leave that shit undone in LEGO videogame land.
PhoenixSFT
Member
They're also glitchy as hell, I can't tell you how many times my fiance and I had to restart Lego Hobbit. Not sure if it's just the Wii U, but we'd usually have a total freeze up once a session, and other times objects in the game just would not appear or wouldn't work the way they should.
We had encountered glitches in other Lego games (Harry Potter 1 & 2, Indiana Jones, Star Wars) but never as many as Hobbit.
We had encountered glitches in other Lego games (Harry Potter 1 & 2, Indiana Jones, Star Wars) but never as many as Hobbit.
Bondo
Member
Exactly. I think Lego games are the only ones i get "stuck" on these days.
There are points in the game with zero direction on what to do. Zero.
I think you get the idea OP...
... direct to you.
TimFL
Member
No plans AFAIK. But knowing WB they might release a complete edition in a few years.
spyroflame0487
Member
As Im sure a few have pointed out, Lego City: Undercover is one of the most amazing games you can play on the Wii U. It's absolutely fantastic. The ending of the game is probably one of the most fun times I've had in a game in recent memory.
I bought Lego Batman 3 on sale, and I've never played one before, but there's some open world Green Lantern planets you can travel to and play around on later in the game.
Seems to me that Lego needs to make more open world games where you can just do whatever rather than linear game paths.
I bought Lego Batman 3 on sale, and I've never played one before, but there's some open world Green Lantern planets you can travel to and play around on later in the game.
Seems to me that Lego needs to make more open world games where you can just do whatever rather than linear game paths.
CosmicQueso
Member
Best new video game character of the generation.
Frank Honey, son.
(Get Undercover... what a great game)
Broken Hope
Member
Recommending Lego City as a first game seems like a bad idea, with it's 2+ minute loading times that might put the guy off.
I just completed Lego City Undercover. It's really great, especially when you remember to ignore the optional missions, but those are sometimes fun to mess around with.
The loading times are garbage, of course, and there's no co-op.
I'm wondering whether my girlfriend will enjoy Lego Lord of the Rings. How does that work if players sometimes want to play on their own, and sometimes want to play together? Does the game design tolerate playing for a while then coming back to play together?
The loading times are garbage, of course, and there's no co-op.
I'm wondering whether my girlfriend will enjoy Lego Lord of the Rings. How does that work if players sometimes want to play on their own, and sometimes want to play together? Does the game design tolerate playing for a while then coming back to play together?
Lego Hobbit and LotR are probably the most involved games with subquests, massive overworld, and plenty of the usual charm.
Lego City is hilarious and goofy, but suffers from loading issues and its overworld activities run a bit thin.
Lego Marvel is quite good, but also suffers from too many overworld minigames, though it handles the license well enough with nifty levels and cute easter eggs for comic fans.
Haven't played the Lego Batman games.
Lego City is hilarious and goofy, but suffers from loading issues and its overworld activities run a bit thin.
Lego Marvel is quite good, but also suffers from too many overworld minigames, though it handles the license well enough with nifty levels and cute easter eggs for comic fans.
Haven't played the Lego Batman games.
I've been playing through them all in sequence and I'm seeing clear evolutions over time, although every so often you'll get a title that's a fairly straight reiteration of the core formula (For instance, the last two I played were Lego Harry Potter - with a very well-realised hub world with a lot of content buried in it and new mechanics based around magic - followed by Lego Pirates of the Carribean, which could pretty much just be a reskin of Lego Star Wars 1)
The LEGO games are designed around drop-in/drop-out co-op.
Story progression is saved to the "main" profile, but the second player can come in or out at any time.
This is why you'll never see a LEGO game with a sole character going through a level. For example, in LEGO Hobbit, when Bilbo falls into the cave where he ends up meeting Gollum, he does so with a "dazed goblin" by his side in the game.
The Lamonster
Member
Echoing the others here - they are all the same. Choose your IP.
I own every Lego game apart from Undercover because it has no co-op which is a huge part of the series for me.
My favourite three would be:
1. Lego Lord of the Rings - due to the awesome and huge hub world full of quests. The Hobbit is very almost as good for the same reasons but I prefer the LotR films and locations.
2. Lego Indiana Jones - mainly because I'm a huge fan of the IP. I particularly like the earlier Lego games because there was no nauseating splitscreen in them.
3. Lego Marvel - huge free-roaming city full of quests and challenges.
My least favourite would be:
1. Lego Indiana Jones 2 - tiny levels, lots of recycled levels, too many vehicle sections (very annoying in dynamic co-op), poor custom levels that you have to play to fully complete the game.
2. Lego Batman 3 - the dynamic splitscreen was particularly nauseating in this game, had to turn it to fixed splitscreen which isn't as fun. Not much variety, no proper hub world and irritating spherical planets with boring and obscure quests.
3. Lego Harry Potter 2 - far too much loading screens, lots of backtracking, many parts of Hogwarts look too similar to each other and recycled from the first game which also suffered from the other problems.
My favourite three would be:
1. Lego Lord of the Rings - due to the awesome and huge hub world full of quests. The Hobbit is very almost as good for the same reasons but I prefer the LotR films and locations.
2. Lego Indiana Jones - mainly because I'm a huge fan of the IP. I particularly like the earlier Lego games because there was no nauseating splitscreen in them.
3. Lego Marvel - huge free-roaming city full of quests and challenges.
My least favourite would be:
1. Lego Indiana Jones 2 - tiny levels, lots of recycled levels, too many vehicle sections (very annoying in dynamic co-op), poor custom levels that you have to play to fully complete the game.
2. Lego Batman 3 - the dynamic splitscreen was particularly nauseating in this game, had to turn it to fixed splitscreen which isn't as fun. Not much variety, no proper hub world and irritating spherical planets with boring and obscure quests.
3. Lego Harry Potter 2 - far too much loading screens, lots of backtracking, many parts of Hogwarts look too similar to each other and recycled from the first game which also suffered from the other problems.
Dr Zhivago
Member
Lego Harry Potter 2 is one of my favourites, I liked the way the hub gradually opened up and then changed as the story progressed. Lego Marvel is probably the best overall, and I preferred Batman 2 to 3.
petethepanda
Member
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean is definitely my favorite, the vibe of the movies mixes perfectly with the series. I'm also in the "the open world ones are kind of boring" boat so I prefer the stages-with-hub-world setup.
The problem with the Wii U and the LEGO games is that they lack the DLC you get on the other platforms. And I wouldn't recommend getting Wii versions of the LEGO games to play on the Wii U for the older games because the Wii mode is lower res, and the games generally lack the polish they received on the other platforms (XX360, PS3, PC).
Marvel, Batman 2 and LotR LEGO games are great. But for Wii U, there is but one choice:
LEGO City Undercover
Fanastic, original story loaded with references to '80s buddy cop movies. Great city, fun missions. It's not only the best LEGO game on the Wii, but one of the best LEGO games ever.
Marvel, Batman 2 and LotR LEGO games are great. But for Wii U, there is but one choice:
LEGO City Undercover
Fanastic, original story loaded with references to '80s buddy cop movies. Great city, fun missions. It's not only the best LEGO game on the Wii, but one of the best LEGO games ever.
Second only to PotC, of course.
Linkstrikesback
Member
Lego city undercover is the best lego game by a country mile. Since you already have a wii u, I wholeheartedly recommend it. It's one of the best Wii U games, period, and probably the best third party exclusive (not that you've got much choice there, but still).
(Just to cover my ass, I know that Nintendo actually helped out in the games development and so calling it third party is a bit of stretch, no-one needs to point it out).
Rather than using an IP, it's mostly a spoof of cop movies, and it's hilarious.
The only downside are the poor load times entering/leaving the police station, and the lack of co-op.
(Just to cover my ass, I know that Nintendo actually helped out in the games development and so calling it third party is a bit of stretch, no-one needs to point it out).
Rather than using an IP, it's mostly a spoof of cop movies, and it's hilarious.
The only downside are the poor load times entering/leaving the police station, and the lack of co-op.
liliththepale
Banned
DLC for these games is ridiculously overpriced IMO.
eXistor
Member
Lego City Undercover is the best by far, but even that suffers from some terrible levels like most Lego games do. It's just a load of busywork, you don't really use actual player-skills to get through levels, you just select the right character and it uses the ability for you. They're far from bad games, but the formula has really worn thin by now and I haven't played a new Lego game since Undercover. I did try Marvel Superheroes, but it was just more of the same only worse. Undercover at least has a very fun and decent overworld. I really want a sequel to that.
liliththepale
Banned
The Wii U's disc read speed is 22.5MB, which is just barely slower than its hard drive read speed.
If you plan to play alot of lego games dont play Lego City Undercover first. It set the bar too high for me and now I have to trudge through the other lego games with my kids, always thinking about how awesome Frank and the gang was. I did somewhat enjoy the lego movie game thou. Good characters and Batman the music genious.
Lego City is my GTA V.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
When is Lego Jurassic Park coming out?
JSoup
Banned
June 30th.
TimFL
Member
LEGO Batman 2 has some of the worst gameplay elements to ever grace a LEGO game. The flying in the overworld is horrible.
LEGO Marvel > LEGO Batman 2 in terms of content and gameplay.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
I'm a Pirates of the Caribbean fan, so guess which my favourite is?
Yeah, it's really just about what IP's you like.
But the Undercover game isn't based on any IP in particular. I have a Wii U but I never bought it because I hear the loading times are absolutely insanely long. What are GAF's thoughts?
Yeah, it's really just about what IP's you like.
But the Undercover game isn't based on any IP in particular. I have a Wii U but I never bought it because I hear the loading times are absolutely insanely long. What are GAF's thoughts?