Best LEGO game for you?
Thanks, I really enjoyed the original indiana jones, but i actually haven't played any of the newer games with voice acting.
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My favorite (and first) Lego game was Harry Potter Years 1-4. After that I played a bunch of the other ones.
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I've only played the LEGO The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit games so far. I voted for LOTR since The Hobbit was incomplete and it had an annoying mini game. It took me 3 days to get that mithril brick where you had to race around Rivendell.
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The best one i played was probably The Hobbit, on the basis that it has more added content than the older ones. The Star Wars complete saga was also great, but I prefer the Tolkien setting. Sadly I haven't played LotR LEGO yet.
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I measure the quality of these games by ability to play co-op with my 4 years old son. The best games so far: Batman 3 and Jurassic World. Newer lego games are to complicated for him, he just doesn't understand the mechanics. The older games are to challenging sometimes, and a bit boring as there are no voice acting.
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For sure, such amazing games as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will become playable for us sooner or later. I agree with you that 2012 was a turning point for Lego video games. I would also mention some new mechanics like costume switcher in Batman 3, that was a great finding.
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I have yet to play any LEGO games. I played with LEGOs all the time when I was a kid, though! Does that count?;)
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I've only played the Star Wars original trilogy game and the first Indiana Jones game, so I can't comment about the voices, but I found the no talking/unintelligible mumbling to be part and parcel of the LEGO charm, like you know how in the little comics/illustrations in the back of LEGO instruction manuals, I think, the characters do a lot of gesticulating and have symbols representing their feelings in the speech bubbles, but no words, so that it's universally understandable? I always liked that. It's in keeping with the theme of simplicity that LEGO sort of has, in my opinion.
I personally feel like if the characters were voiced, it would be weird... It's the actors from the movies voicing the characters?
Once they got into the superheroes (and made so many of those Marvel and Batman games), as well as making games adapted from a single movie (The Hobbit, Jurassic World, The Force Awakens), specifically a recently-released one, the whole thing sort of took on a more commercial appearance to me, like they were being used to promote the recently-released film as well as to capitalize on the big hype generated by it, as part of a general cohesive marketing strategy with the studios, that kind of thing. I dunno, but I view these later ones a bit more cynically. Especially with something like a $60-$70 initial price tag for LEGO The Force Awakens... And a special gold/deluxe edition, which is kind of like Day 1 DLC... :/
And since they're releasing a game per movie now, rather than per trilogy or Harry Potter Years 1-4 and 5-7, you can charge those $70 a second time when you make a game for The Last Jedi, and once more for Episode IX...
It doesn't help that I view those 3 movies in much the same way (I didn't like TFA or Jurassic World, and I haven't seen The Hobbit movies but I don't love the look of what they did with them, stretching a 100-something page book into three movies).
Another thing is that when I played with LEGO (and I'm not even that old, at all!) the only franchises that were officially licensed to be recreated in LEGO form were Star Wars and Harry Potter (plus there was "Johnny Thunder", who was an unlicensed, charmingly generic but also transparent copy of Indiana Jones), and since then it seems like they've expanded a lot to take in more fandoms and, you know, take in a lot more cash consequently. But, well, those are my feelings observing from the outside.
Anyway, love the games! Look forward to playing more of them. They, as LEGO itself, really bring out the child in you. They're rather simple games, but so charming and humorous and enjoyable -- again, with a simple, but inspired humour to them... the stormtrooper flicking the light on and off in the carrier in a parody of the Force Awakens trailer... Delightful.
Thanks!
By the way, what is that line from, "excuse me sir, I lost my head"? I googled it but couldn't find anything, yet it sounds familiar.
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Wow, that's a nice text 5n, didn't expect that. I understand your POV on the voiceacting, maybe you should try one with voiceacting in it. I just think it adds a lot to the vibe. And mostly it is perfect for you if you don't know the film by heart. Yea, the voices are taken from the movies.
I also agree with you on the "movie" splitting thing, that's just moneymaking at it's best.
Don't know, I just popped the line in cause of the gif. You may think about "Oh sir the insult simulator" or "Sir, you are beeing hunted"
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Hey community,
damn thats a lot to be considered before voting. I ordered it chronologically with help from the Wikipedia page. Hope I didn't miss out on some game. Hehe.
Edit says: Nooooo. The chronology is dead. Thanks poll system! :O
I finished a lot of the Lego games during my gaming times on the Xbox 360 in co-op with my gf, but since I'm missing most on my steam lib, I might aswell play through them again, if I can get them cheap somewhere.
I own The Lego Star Wars Complete Saga, but the game hasn't got a splitscreen co-op mode. It's shared screen, which all of the LEGO games released before Harry Potter Years 1-4 have. Personally I find it awful if you can't move cause your co-op mate wants to go somewhere else on the screen. Grrrr.
Also I loved when they introduced the voiceovers with LEGO Batman 2 and following. Sadly this also means Star Wars - The Complete Saga, both Indiana Jones titles, Batman 1, the whole Harry Potter franchise and Pirates of the Caribbean are left without voice overs, just with those goofy sounds. For me, the voice acting adds a lot of vibe to the games, even when it's just the real movie voicelines.
I saw two lego games on sale in the Humble Store, so I grabbed em to reward your votes! They are lvl 3+ gibs though.
LEGO® The Lord Of The Rings™
LEGO® The Hobbit™
Those 2 gibs are closing my giveaway 2017 year (62 gibs given away, yay!) - so early happy new year to everyone!
Hope your wishes come true and you are kicking your 2018 goals right in the face! ;)
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