Bro i remember grinding the game day in and day out just to find all of the minikits and red/gold bricks so i could 100% complete the game. It felt so rewarding finally finishing the game and i just loves exploring the open world
I love to see LEGO City Undercover getting some well-deserved respect. I bought almost exclusively LEGO City sets as a kid growing up in the early 2000s and 2010s, and I have this distinct memory of picking up a lego set in like 2008, I believe it was the LEGO City Police Mobile Command Center and on the very back page of the instruction manual it said “LEGO City Video Game: COMING SOON.” I was a little excited, but I had barely played video games at that point in my life so I was more excited about the toys themselves. But I remember every time in the coming years that I was going through my old instruction manuals, whenever I saw that page I always got a little bummed that it never actually became real…until 2013, when I was on TH-cam and I saw a trailer for LEGO City Undercover, only on Wii U. It looked like the coolest thing I had ever seen in my life and I could not believe it was real. I waited and waited and I saved up my money and bought myself a Wii U (my parents covered half of it as a Christmas gift) and I bought LEGO City Undercover as soon as I could. That game changed my life, it was my first open-world game, and it quickly became the greatest LEGO game I had ever played, as well as the first one I beat 100% (as I had only ever been able to rent them from Blockbuster or GameFly, if you remember what those days). That game holds a very special place in my heart, and will forever be the greatest LEGO game I have ever played (and one of my favorite games of all time). Please LEGO and Tt Games, please make a sequel😩
It's sad it first released on the WII U as nobody bought them therefore nobody played LCU, meaning the remaster was well deserved but everybody craves for a sequel. I am begging 😫🙏
The Hobbit at number 1, where it belongs. It is so impressive how genuinely lived-in they managed to make Middle-Earth in that game. I absolutely adore how you can travel all the way from the Elven Port in the east, to Erebor in the west, in one uninterrupted journey. It honestly feels like an epic quest if you ever decide to do it, especially with the music and everything. The world is legitimately expansive but no part of it feels empty - and yet at the same time it doesn't ever become repetitive or mindless, every area is memorable and distinct from the last. It's a masterclass in designing an engaging world for a video game, and the fact that it's in a LEGO game of all things is just mindblowing to me. That game is something special.
Lego Marvel superheros is so nostalgic. I remember me and my cousin would play a game where somebody played as the abomination and the other played as Howard the duck and you would try to stay alive the longest. Good times
Me and my brother would just have our own little boss fights cus we had already did every quest 😂 i would be Spider-Man then he would be doc ock and I’d kill him then he’d switch to Electeo
My brother and I would play a game where one was either the Thor civilian glitch or mystique and the other would fly around and hunt down the civilian".
The genius of lego LOTR and Hobbit is massive. They combined the works of Tolkien and Peter Jackson, with places from both the book and the movies, like the barrow downs and the grey havens. It is just sad that they didn’t finish the Hobbit. I hope they make a remaster where they combine LOTR and the Hobbit, with a full map, improved graphics and a full story and book references.
For better or worse, lego Batman 2 innovated so much about the lego game formula. I remember downloading and playing the demo and being blown away at hearing full dialogue
One of my favourite things about Lego Marvel 1’s Hub was how you could actually fight the inmates of the Raft as they attacked you as soon as they spotted you
Lego City is one of my favorite lego game open worlds. I like how there’s a bunch of things you can interact with and there’s just so many things to do
I got Lego Lord of the Rings for free on Steam a few years ago, and I was shocked to discover that this game is one of the best LOTR games out there. The open world is stunning, even if it gets rushed near the end of the game, unfortunately. Still a blast to explore and walk through, especially when accompanied by the whole Fellowship. A true LOTR experience if there ever was one put in video game format.
I didn’t play LEGO Harry Potter 5-7, but I did play 1-4 and exploring Hogwarts was, at times, more fun than the actual missions. Each hall, each room, each dungeon had a surprise in it. Unlocking Voldemort meant you truly knew it all.
Yeah, its Hogwarts isn't 100% perfect, but it's pretty great all things considered. I especially enjoyed seeing the common rooms and dormitories of all four houses. Maybe Hogwarts Legacy's Hogwarts will be even more accurate, but for a 12 year old Lego game, Harry Potter Years 1-4's take on it is pretty impressive. I also think it's one of the game's highlights, which holds up much better as a Harry Potter game than a Lego game IMHO.
@@warriordobby457 I did that too. I also discovered that if you Crucio a Lego person three times, they die by being ripped apart. Not all NPCs can be Crucioed so you'll just have to settle for Avada Kedavraing. Leaving the space and returning doesn't make them come back, even if you go to the Three Broomsticks and return from there. The only way to bring back all dead NPCs is to quit the game and come back. What a wonderful game for kids.
Really appreciate that you put undercover so high because it’s quite underrated, the hub world in the 3ds version is quite impressive, it’s basically the same but with way worse graphics obviously
I’m gonna go with LEGO Dimensions. I love the concept of letting anything cross-over with anything. You could get Chell from Portal 2 to help Marty McFly get the Goonies (who have Gizmo from Gremlins for some reason) out of Aperture Science Laboratories and away from GLaDOS- who is insanely confused as to what the hell is going on.
The game worlds of Lego LOTR and Lego Hobbit were my definite favorites because there were lots of interesting enemy spawns on the map that I could go to test out all my cool gear. I remember fighting waves of Goblins at the cliffside pass near the Misty Mountains with all the unique weapons I had found throughout the world. Not even mentioning the various dance party features in both games, like the Mithril Rythm Stick, Middle Earth Carnival Red Brick, Disco Phial, Mithril Music Boots etc. I feel like they managed to add so many goofy and hilarious tools that somehow fit in perfectly with the rest of the game, this is something I haven't seen many other Lego games do.
I'm quite surprised Indiana Jones 2 got ranked so low. It was pretty huge for its time, the level design was great and the variety of environments fitting together seamlessly was quite impressive.
Idk why lego indiana jones 2 gets so hated on. I personally enjoyed it. Idk why, i just remember really liking it. Especially the bosses at the end. Instead of the villains dying due to being too power hungry, they actually become demi gods. Balahk (i think is his name) gets inbued with the ark's lightning. Mola ram has kali help him fight you with that AWESOME soundtrack. The villain from crusade gets tornado powers i believe. And the villains from crystal skull get to fight you as a giant ant humanoid figure, and.. I forgot the final fight. But honestly, i liked those. Sure they were inaccurate but its a lego game. And it was just a cool scenario.
@@Caspff The issue I had with the roster, was that they were exclusive to each hub world (you couldn’t use a Raiders character in Last Crusade, for example), meaning that you HAD to purchase each individual character from each world to reach their bonus levels. And the bonus levels required completely different characters to complete. It felt a precursor to Disney Infinity: multiple worlds to explore, limited characters to use in each world, and NO overlapping characters.
I love how you can see the evolution of lego games throughout the years. If they add a mechanic to one game you can see it in the next (like how the had big figs like hulk, and then giant characters like giganta, and then the huge characters like Triton)
The nostalgia in this video made me so happy. I forgot how much of an influence these Lego games had on my childhood. From the Star Wars saga to Batman,I loved them all and will always cherish those memory’s,thank you for this video very well done and put together.
In all Lego video games from 2009-2016 on PC, you can enter the code "N 0 (zero) CUT 5", and skip all cutscenes with a button press for every cutscene. You will have to enter this code every time you reboot/exit the game though, but it's so worth it.
Lol I had the same thing , I remember watching TH-cam videos where they could fly from each part of the map to another while I had to wait for it to load
Wow, was surprised when I saw the upload date of the video because that musical motif at 15:00 is almost spot on for the Loki season 2 intro theme. It must have been a thing already and I just didn’t know that!
I'm kind of surprised Indiana Jones 2 was so low on the list. Personally, I loved that game's hub worlds. I had wished that the levels were longer, like the other LEGO games, but I thought they nailed the hubs. It was a lot of fun for me, the way they so seamlessly blended the different environments from the same films into one big world, like how you could walk from Nepal to the deserts of Egypt to the jungle and loading bay, and then fly over to the island where they opened the ark in Raiders, or you could go to different parts of India, and then into Shanghai in Temple, or the whole city to military base to rural town in Kingdom I. The worlds had so many fun, hidden things in them, and I thought it was a lot of fun to have to complete various challenges to unlock the various characters and red bricks (like the races and puzzles plastered around the map). Sure, the worlds could have been bigger (though I think they were still pretty impressive compared to the other LEGO games before them), and it would have been cool if all six parts were on one gigantic map, but I still thought that it was really well done. I don't know, I personally would have been really happy to see a similar 'travel through the map to get to the next stage' type thing in some of the other games, especially Star Wars and Pirates.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes (1) is possibly my favorite, and the best story and open-world game in the history of lego games (This is coming from a person growing up and playing almost every lego game there was).
I've always adored Indiana Jones 2's hubworld. I really like how all of the different locations are mixed together so each corner of the hub feels unique. I especially like Raiders' hub as it has everything from a desert to snowy mountains.
I have Harry Potter Years 1-4 & 5-7. I also have both LEGO MARVEL Superheroes 2 and MARVEL Avengers, LEGO Worlds and LEGO NINJAGO. Out of all 6, I think LEGO MARVEL 2 is best because it has lots of worlds to explore and there are always side quests to do. So nostalgic 😢
I truly miss the times when the lego games was based in just one small memorable hub like Star wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter. While I love some of the open worlds (like Lego City Undercover, my favorite game, has the best world to explore) I just feel like the hub worlds have become so huge now that it overshadows the multiple stages.
When LEGO LOTR was coming out, I was 11 years old and a massive LOTR fan. I made my mum buy a calendar so I could count down the days for its release and I would show my parents every day; "56 days until release!" etc... and count it down on the fridge with them every morning. We went to GAME to buy it and I cried that day when it came out. Good times
The Lego Ninjago Movie Videogame is such an underrated game. The combat system alone made the game feel so fresh and unique compared to other games. I also loved how the open world was part of the levels, and what you did during the levels changed them. A few areas were slightly undercooked, but I think as a game overall it's worthy of being given way more love and attention by the Lego community!
Honestly I was expecting all three Lego Batman games to be top 10…..given that is allowing nostalgia. Lego Batman 1 was one of the best parts of my childhood. The sound design to the variety of playing as the villain or the hero. I honestly can’t describe the intensity of the nostalgia that game gives me
I really love LEGO Indy 2's hub world. It being a smaller version of the entire movie was so unique and very different from what other LEGO games were doing.
The Middle earth hub world's just took it way to far then it needed to be. Like I would Be fine with just teleporting to each world. Tho they made the huge open world map and you actually felt like you were in middle earth, that's just amazing! And it's just a dream for a huge lotr/hobbit fan like myself.
@@naungyoe3215 yea always wanted a game like this. They're making hogwarts legacy which is set in the Harry Potter world. Shame they won't make one in middle earth
For me, I'd flip #1 and #2. For its time, Undercover had the best Open World experience for me. Just so much to do and how it used each of the characters. I think each disguise had nearly 2 things to collect. Firemen putting out fires and rescuing cats. The Farmer water plants and brings pigs to the canons, and the Spacesuit guy captures aliens and plants a flag in each region. Construction workers finding coffee breaks etc. LOTR and Hobbit felt good too. Loved how the quests were scattered around and you had to forge or find specific items for them. Actually playing both. I completed 100% of Undercover but playing it again is downright fun. Still need to 100% complete most of my Lego Games. Pirates, Indiana Jones, Incredibles, Jurassic World, SW Complete Saga, SW Clone Wars, Harry Potter 1-7, Batman, and Batman 2 are the only ones I completed 100%. Need to do so for Skywalker Saga, Hobbit and LOTR, Marvel 1/2 and Avengers.
@@ivanbanuelos1387 Probably not. The original game came out on Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, and probably the Xbox and Playstation 2. (I'm too lazy to check) In addition, only The Complete Saga and The Force Awakens (Not counting non-star wars games) were ported to mobile. It's most likely the same game I played as a kid.
Since I was a kid I've always thought that LEGO Star wars TCS had the most dissapointing Open world in my opinion, I played the prequels and their open worlds were better
@@VTuberRuby No. One issue I had with LS2 and TCS is that in LS2 it'll cycle through every character you have when spawning characters in the cantina, so if you screw around for a while you'll see a lot of variety. TCS has a set of characters that'll spawn in, and that only ever changes if you reload the cantina, so if you hang around for a while you'll keep seeing the same characters.
Lego Hobbit is the most underrated Lego game. Exploring Middle Earth with gorgeous graphics was a joy, just an all around outstanding Lego game. And I'm not even a fan of the LOTR/Hobbit movies at all lol.
@@ruggedeagle Ikr! I recently bought the game for my xbox 1 for nostalgia (had it on my 360 but I don't have my 360 anymore) and everyone seems to overlook how gigantic the open world is. I consider the game a masterpiece, and I 100 percented the game in a week or less. Lego games are amazing, they've helped me through hard times! For that reason it's my all time favorite lego game.
Man, I love how you can do side quests and explore the huge open world of Lego The Hobbit. I had this habit where after I unlocked the Spider Egg treasure from the spider mission that spawns a bunch of spiders that attack enemies. I would just use that and carpet bomb all my enemies. I just go around finding forging blueprints and stuff it was glorious. Don't forget that one glitch in a small island that gives you infinite purple studs.
Personally my favorite hub world was lego marvel superheroes. I remember exploring it as a kid and when I revisited the game it was just so much fun to explore and collect gold bricks.
I would put Super heroes 1 above avengers purely because Manhattan felt more filled, and because of that annoying orange sunset that avengers literally always had.
@@DracoMalfoy-ys2mo I was really hoping Avengers would be at night time, to contrast with Marvel 1 being at daytime. That sunset was massively disappointing imo
Lego avengers will always be number one for me. I remember playing in Manhattan with my sister and loving it we played only Manhattan forever until we tried to figure out how to replay levels and boy when I found out there was about 7 other locations to visit I lost it. I’ll never forget the first time walking down the rainbow bridge on Asgard or just sitting and watching the waves in Malibu
Lego Marvel is my favorite and will probably never be topped. My friend and I used to put a little divider up to the TV while playing split-screen and we’d play hide and seek and similar games around the city and we could do that for literally hours. It’s so expansive, there’s so many NPCs and to me, it feels more lived in than any other LEGO hubworld.
I have never ever felt so much nostalgia and missing my childhood. I played so many of these games, and the feeling they brought when I was younger will never be achieved again.
Great video! Lord of the Rings and Hobbit were by far my favorites of them all. It's a shame Hobbit was under contract to be released in 2014 before they decided to split it in 3 films. We could've gotten a more complete game, and I think it would've surpassed Lord of the Rings as a game personally. But nice list, just subscribed and can't wait to see the other videos you have.
Yes, I totally agree. Would also be cool for those two games to have a remake and have them in one game, since both play in the same universe. Would surely be cool to play the LOTR-Story with Hobbit-Characters or playing the Hobbit-Saga with LOTR-characters.
My favourite hub was Pirates of the Caribbean. Simplistic design + not time consuming & easy to get around, find characters and proceed onto the missions. I don’t really favour the vast open world hubs. Sometimes feels a bit sparse and more time consuming to get around & locate stuff.
I got LEGO Lord of the Rings when I was young and probably my favorite part of that game is exploring the open world, I have probably spent 100s of hours exploring that world.
I Think I only disagree with 1 major thing and that's Indy 2's placement. Sure it's a bit clustered but at the Very least it gave you stuff to explore and do. For that it ranks above LSW 2 at the least.
I always thought the batcave in lego batman 3 was pretty much perfect but I was really disappointed with the watchtower and the lantern planets, really just wasn't much to them.
As a New Yorker, I love being able to explore the city in the game. I particularly enjoy the version from Lego Avengers. Great memories, and I never get bored of just running around in that hub
I haven't played it in years but my personal favourite is marvel 1 even though I acknowledge that it might not be the best but it was still damn awesome despite the fact. I'm grateful for this video actually perfect timing as I was just thinking of buying a lego game dependent on the open world so thank you for this!
My favourite open world in any lego game is the Back to the Future portal in LEGO Dimensions. It’s literally hill valley, and i always loved going in the different time periods.
@Caleb Mayfield not really, they have an entire original show with the most iconic monsters and then there’s all the other shows, animated movies and live action movies. Lego Dimensions proved a lego Scooby Doo game can work. Also Scooby-Doo First Frights and the Spooky Swamp are two perfect Scooby Doo games.
Lego Dimensions is probably my favourite imo, the variety is huge, what with you being able to time travel and visit different worlds in both the Back to the Future and Doctor Who worlds. The Sonic and Portal worlds are also insanely well made.
I remember when I was younger and played lego LOTR, whenever I wanted to travel to a specific location I just wandered around the map looking for it. It took forever to find anything, but the journey was so fun and I explored quite a bit.
I really love Lego Indiana Jones 2 so much, he introduced me to Indiana Jones, he introduced me to how good Lego games are and it was one of the few 2 player coop games I played that let me trow the second player on the lava
I didn’t even know that I remember chilling in Hobbiton with the shire music playing and it feeling so cool I don’t remember much about the game other than that but it was cool
Lego city undercover imo is the best because you can do so much in the city like finding character tokens, finding vehicles, exploring Lego city was such a blast for me when I first played.
I have a video idea, you could go through every Lego game and pick out the best character. Then in another video you could rank all of the best characters from every Lego game:)
imo the open worlds peaked with DCSV. It's not only my favorite Lego hub, but also my favorite DC open world (narrowly beating Arkham Knight). The inclusion of Metropolis and Smallville as well as a full Batcave and Wayne Manor definitely make it stand out when compared to the Arkham games where it's only accessible in minigames and Origins.
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I really like the lego dimensions and the lego incredibles worlds because they’re more cartoon-y
@@Chill_Guy247 The open world design of Incredibles and the Family builds were good, but the Incredibricks and Gold Bricks were WAY too easy to get.
I loved star wars 3 the clone wars and Lego avengers with marvel superheroes 1 and 2
for me chronopolis is the best open world
Dc Villains
Sex is great, but have you ever flown around Gotham City as Superman in Lego Batman 2? That's the pinnacle of the human experience.
Love it lol
Ah a man of culture I see
Would be, if the flight controls weren’t so hampered
Bro i remember grinding the game day in and day out just to find all of the minikits and red/gold bricks so i could 100% complete the game. It felt so rewarding finally finishing the game and i just loves exploring the open world
I used to do it as hawk an and hawk girl. For some reason it gave the illusion of easier flying.
For me it's Lego Marvel New York. This gave me so many memories, and the fact you could fly, drive and many secret spots made it so easy to explore
Me too, I finally got 100% completion in the big city and I am so proud 🤩 I had the game forever and is still a fave to this day.
I remember a glitch with the Hydra tank thingy. If you go into a corner of a building and shoot the cannon it'll make you drop thru the map
@@jacobkowalski4774 yeah I remember using that to get past the world border to the low resolution city in the background.
I know!!! I remember riding the hellcylce all over New York leaving the burn marks all over the place!!!
@@jacobkowalski4774 pure nostalgia
I’ll never forget the pain I felt when I realized that LEGO: Batman 3 didn’t have a bigger city than Gotham
When I realized you couldn't enter minas tirith in Lego lotr
Me and my brother were pissed finished the whole game just to travel shitty little planets and no Gotham 😐😐😐😐
Lego batman 3 was so disappointing cuz the open world wasn't anywhere near as good as LB2
Yeah it’s stupid that you didn’t have a big open world area and only had small mini areas that weren’t really that interesting
@@Orteguh The thing that pissed me off the most was that the speedsters ran SLOWER in the open world than on the in game levels.
I love to see LEGO City Undercover getting some well-deserved respect. I bought almost exclusively LEGO City sets as a kid growing up in the early 2000s and 2010s, and I have this distinct memory of picking up a lego set in like 2008, I believe it was the LEGO City Police Mobile Command Center and on the very back page of the instruction manual it said “LEGO City Video Game: COMING SOON.” I was a little excited, but I had barely played video games at that point in my life so I was more excited about the toys themselves. But I remember every time in the coming years that I was going through my old instruction manuals, whenever I saw that page I always got a little bummed that it never actually became real…until 2013, when I was on TH-cam and I saw a trailer for LEGO City Undercover, only on Wii U. It looked like the coolest thing I had ever seen in my life and I could not believe it was real. I waited and waited and I saved up my money and bought myself a Wii U (my parents covered half of it as a Christmas gift) and I bought LEGO City Undercover as soon as I could. That game changed my life, it was my first open-world game, and it quickly became the greatest LEGO game I had ever played, as well as the first one I beat 100% (as I had only ever been able to rent them from Blockbuster or GameFly, if you remember what those days). That game holds a very special place in my heart, and will forever be the greatest LEGO game I have ever played (and one of my favorite games of all time). Please LEGO and Tt Games, please make a sequel😩
A fellow lego city enjoyer 😅
Always craved for a sequel, suprised they havent as of now, would be so big especially with modern graphics, and also the size it can become
I really hope that Lego will make an undercover sequel
It's sad it first released on the WII U as nobody bought them therefore nobody played LCU, meaning the remaster was well deserved but everybody craves for a sequel. I am begging 😫🙏
That’s a great story
The Hobbit at number 1, where it belongs. It is so impressive how genuinely lived-in they managed to make Middle-Earth in that game. I absolutely adore how you can travel all the way from the Elven Port in the east, to Erebor in the west, in one uninterrupted journey. It honestly feels like an epic quest if you ever decide to do it, especially with the music and everything. The world is legitimately expansive but no part of it feels empty - and yet at the same time it doesn't ever become repetitive or mindless, every area is memorable and distinct from the last. It's a masterclass in designing an engaging world for a video game, and the fact that it's in a LEGO game of all things is just mindblowing to me. That game is something special.
Lego Marvel superheros is so nostalgic. I remember me and my cousin would play a game where somebody played as the abomination and the other played as Howard the duck and you would try to stay alive the longest. Good times
How did your characters end up being destroyed?
lmoy
@@stinhuffine4422 you could hurt eachother in the game
Me and my brother would just have our own little boss fights cus we had already did every quest 😂 i would be Spider-Man then he would be doc ock and I’d kill him then he’d switch to Electeo
My brother and I would play a game where one was either the Thor civilian glitch or mystique and the other would fly around and hunt down the civilian".
The genius of lego LOTR and Hobbit is massive. They combined the works of Tolkien and Peter Jackson, with places from both the book and the movies, like the barrow downs and the grey havens. It is just sad that they didn’t finish the Hobbit. I hope they make a remaster where they combine LOTR and the Hobbit, with a full map, improved graphics and a full story and book references.
Ya a combined map for both trilogies would be epic.
Jesus I would give my left arm for that.
I like it how The Hobbit has grey havens while the LotR don't lol (or I might miss it)
@@quintessence2183 You wouldn't be able to play it vary well.
Yeah I remember being so pissed that the Hobbit was incomplete, I was playing it more than LOTR at that point
I remember spending dozens of hours just playing around in the hub of lego batman 2
I still remember that time i do a race around Gotham using flash
@@DanishAlKahfi I remember always climbing to the top of Wayne Tower and just gliding down with batman. Or, riding animals in the zoo!
@@AnonymouslyForgotten oh the Zoo is really fun one! I rarely go to the Wayne tower tho
@@DanishAlKahfi lol. It was unique interest for sure, but I just loved seeing how far I can go with it, and strangely, liked it better than flying.
Yessss
For better or worse, lego Batman 2 innovated so much about the lego game formula. I remember downloading and playing the demo and being blown away at hearing full dialogue
I wish they would bring back roaming characters like in the cantina. Getting into those bar fights used to be so fun
One of my favourite things about Lego Marvel 1’s Hub was how you could actually fight the inmates of the Raft as they attacked you as soon as they spotted you
Yeah! me and my sister used to always do challenges there
I loved those random giant robots that appeared and gave u a bunch of coins when u killed it
I loved those random giant robots that appeared and gave u a bunch of coins when u killed it
Gotta admit I love the LoTR open world more than the nostalgia TCS brings
I agree ;)
I agree
Well tcs is a hub world and lotr is a open world so
@@ruggedeagle I agree with some mate right but there all amazing except India Jones 2
@@chscelebrity8325 what’s Tcs stand for? I’m kinda slow
Lego City is one of my favorite lego game open worlds. I like how there’s a bunch of things you can interact with and there’s just so many things to do
Oh yeah totally agree
of course i still play the game cuz of how good it is
Fax
i remember waking up one day and my dad was playing lego batman 2 by himself just flying around he looked so happy too
I got Lego Lord of the Rings for free on Steam a few years ago, and I was shocked to discover that this game is one of the best LOTR games out there. The open world is stunning, even if it gets rushed near the end of the game, unfortunately. Still a blast to explore and walk through, especially when accompanied by the whole Fellowship. A true LOTR experience if there ever was one put in video game format.
I got a ps5 and Im pist that I cant play it unless I get a 3
@@iamgalatiaAre ps3 discs not backwards compatible with ps5?
@@NCR_BOS No
I didn’t play LEGO Harry Potter 5-7, but I did play 1-4 and exploring Hogwarts was, at times, more fun than the actual missions. Each hall, each room, each dungeon had a surprise in it. Unlocking Voldemort meant you truly knew it all.
Lego Harry Potter games will always be my favourites
Yeah, its Hogwarts isn't 100% perfect, but it's pretty great all things considered. I especially enjoyed seeing the common rooms and dormitories of all four houses. Maybe Hogwarts Legacy's Hogwarts will be even more accurate, but for a 12 year old Lego game, Harry Potter Years 1-4's take on it is pretty impressive. I also think it's one of the game's highlights, which holds up much better as a Harry Potter game than a Lego game IMHO.
@@Joker-lg3do I remember not being able to get past the 3 level 😭 I quit stuck at level 3
I dropped students into the void with winguardium leviosa
@@warriordobby457 I did that too. I also discovered that if you Crucio a Lego person three times, they die by being ripped apart. Not all NPCs can be Crucioed so you'll just have to settle for Avada Kedavraing. Leaving the space and returning doesn't make them come back, even if you go to the Three Broomsticks and return from there. The only way to bring back all dead NPCs is to quit the game and come back. What a wonderful game for kids.
Really appreciate that you put undercover so high because it’s quite underrated, the hub world in the 3ds version is quite impressive, it’s basically the same but with way worse graphics obviously
Yeah it deserves number 2
Lego City Undercover is my favorite Lego game.
@@noahwillis9627 I agree
I remember finding a glitch in LEGO Jurassic World that would let me walk around the park as a T-Rex 😂
I found that too!
That was the best experience ever
I used that a ton as a kid.
It’s on Jurassic world and you have to play as the custom t-Rex because a certain gate doesn’t close. I don’t even know how I remember that
@@theamazingg3773 Oh the one I found you could use a normal T-Rex and just attack a gate until you clipped through it
I’m gonna go with LEGO Dimensions. I love the concept of letting anything cross-over with anything. You could get Chell from Portal 2 to help Marty McFly get the Goonies (who have Gizmo from Gremlins for some reason) out of Aperture Science Laboratories and away from GLaDOS- who is insanely confused as to what the hell is going on.
Still play it till this day
The sonic open world is one of my favourite gaming experiences to date
The game worlds of Lego LOTR and Lego Hobbit were my definite favorites because there were lots of interesting enemy spawns on the map that I could go to test out all my cool gear. I remember fighting waves of Goblins at the cliffside pass near the Misty Mountains with all the unique weapons I had found throughout the world. Not even mentioning the various dance party features in both games, like the Mithril Rythm Stick, Middle Earth Carnival Red Brick, Disco Phial, Mithril Music Boots etc. I feel like they managed to add so many goofy and hilarious tools that somehow fit in perfectly with the rest of the game, this is something I haven't seen many other Lego games do.
I'm quite surprised Indiana Jones 2 got ranked so low. It was pretty huge for its time, the level design was great and the variety of environments fitting together seamlessly was quite impressive.
Idk why lego indiana jones 2 gets so hated on. I personally enjoyed it. Idk why, i just remember really liking it. Especially the bosses at the end. Instead of the villains dying due to being too power hungry, they actually become demi gods.
Balahk (i think is his name) gets inbued with the ark's lightning.
Mola ram has kali help him fight you with that AWESOME soundtrack.
The villain from crusade gets tornado powers i believe.
And the villains from crystal skull get to fight you as a giant ant humanoid figure, and.. I forgot the final fight.
But honestly, i liked those. Sure they were inaccurate but its a lego game. And it was just a cool scenario.
@@nota444tm2 because it's boring. Also the character roster is easily the worst of all lego games
@@luckydiamond77 Character roster was great, idk wdym. We had many major, iconic characters. The amount of character many, as in LIJ1.
@@Caspff The issue I had with the roster, was that they were exclusive to each hub world (you couldn’t use a Raiders character in Last Crusade, for example), meaning that you HAD to purchase each individual character from each world to reach their bonus levels. And the bonus levels required completely different characters to complete.
It felt a precursor to Disney Infinity: multiple worlds to explore, limited characters to use in each world, and NO overlapping characters.
This video is about the freeroam
Lego City undercover needed hub world music and it would've been the perfect open world
And a radio in the cars ;)
I think a day/night cycle also would've made it even better, especially in the area literally called Bright Lights Plaza
@@noahwillis9627 How???
@@noahwillis9627 Says the person talking about a Lego game
@@noahwillis9627 real city’s have day and night so I don’t get what your talking about
I think Lego Batman 2 nailed the atmosphere in each area of Gotham
Same with DC supervillains
lego batman 2 was elite
It really did the rain and the darkness. Love both those games.
I love how you can see the evolution of lego games throughout the years. If they add a mechanic to one game you can see it in the next (like how the had big figs like hulk, and then giant characters like giganta, and then the huge characters like Triton)
I remember getting a WiiU just to play Lego City Undercover. Worth it.
It has almost been a decade, and I have so many memories from that game.
Me too and also finally a Guy who prefer lcu thé greattest lego game of all time
The nostalgia in this video made me so happy. I forgot how much of an influence these Lego games had on my childhood. From the Star Wars saga to Batman,I loved them all and will always cherish those memory’s,thank you for this video very well done and put together.
In all Lego video games from 2009-2016 on PC, you can enter the code "N 0 (zero) CUT 5", and skip all cutscenes with a button press for every cutscene. You will have to enter this code every time you reboot/exit the game though, but it's so worth it.
I loved Gotham City in Lego Batman 2 even if I was stuck with the way inferior Wii version.
Lol I had the same thing , I remember watching TH-cam videos where they could fly from each part of the map to another while I had to wait for it to load
@@SamoFades fr💀
I was lucky enough to play it on my dad's ps3 lol
My favorite is the OG Lego Batman 1 bat cave due to ambience alone.
I remember playing it on my PSP when my parents were asleep lol
too bad that you have to pay for PS+ Premium to get it on Playstation now.
love the way this was put together, especially since i’m starting up all of the lego games again.
Wow, was surprised when I saw the upload date of the video because that musical motif at 15:00 is almost spot on for the Loki season 2 intro theme. It must have been a thing already and I just didn’t know that!
I'm kind of surprised Indiana Jones 2 was so low on the list. Personally, I loved that game's hub worlds. I had wished that the levels were longer, like the other LEGO games, but I thought they nailed the hubs. It was a lot of fun for me, the way they so seamlessly blended the different environments from the same films into one big world, like how you could walk from Nepal to the deserts of Egypt to the jungle and loading bay, and then fly over to the island where they opened the ark in Raiders, or you could go to different parts of India, and then into Shanghai in Temple, or the whole city to military base to rural town in Kingdom I. The worlds had so many fun, hidden things in them, and I thought it was a lot of fun to have to complete various challenges to unlock the various characters and red bricks (like the races and puzzles plastered around the map). Sure, the worlds could have been bigger (though I think they were still pretty impressive compared to the other LEGO games before them), and it would have been cool if all six parts were on one gigantic map, but I still thought that it was really well done. I don't know, I personally would have been really happy to see a similar 'travel through the map to get to the next stage' type thing in some of the other games, especially Star Wars and Pirates.
Yeah it's a crime putting them that far down on the list. The hub worlds were masterfully made.
So true
Lego Marvel Super Heroes (1) is possibly my favorite, and the best story and open-world game in the history of lego games (This is coming from a person growing up and playing almost every lego game there was).
i’m way more of a dc guy, but i completely agree that this game is the best lego game
I've always adored Indiana Jones 2's hubworld. I really like how all of the different locations are mixed together so each corner of the hub feels unique. I especially like Raiders' hub as it has everything from a desert to snowy mountains.
same bro
I have Harry Potter Years 1-4 & 5-7. I also have both LEGO MARVEL Superheroes 2 and MARVEL Avengers, LEGO Worlds and LEGO NINJAGO. Out of all 6, I think LEGO MARVEL 2 is best because it has lots of worlds to explore and there are always side quests to do. So nostalgic 😢
Lego Batman 1 was probably my favourite game I have ever played. It was my first game on my PS2 and it was just so much fun.
I truly miss the times when the lego games was based in just one small memorable hub like Star wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter.
While I love some of the open worlds (like Lego City Undercover, my favorite game, has the best world to explore)
I just feel like the hub worlds have become so huge now that it overshadows the multiple stages.
If you miss them so much just play the games with said hubs
@@donaldtrumpling2016 he already has that’s why he wants more use your head a little more before you comment something this stupid
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When LEGO LOTR was coming out, I was 11 years old and a massive LOTR fan. I made my mum buy a calendar so I could count down the days for its release and I would show my parents every day; "56 days until release!" etc... and count it down on the fridge with them every morning. We went to GAME to buy it and I cried that day when it came out. Good times
The Lego Ninjago Movie Videogame is such an underrated game. The combat system alone made the game feel so fresh and unique compared to other games. I also loved how the open world was part of the levels, and what you did during the levels changed them. A few areas were slightly undercooked, but I think as a game overall it's worthy of being given way more love and attention by the Lego community!
Thank you that was my first Lego game and I 100% it
This Game i could come back to again and again, i really like how much connection there is to the shows which are also extremely underrated
Honestly I was expecting all three Lego Batman games to be top 10…..given that is allowing nostalgia. Lego Batman 1 was one of the best parts of my childhood. The sound design to the variety of playing as the villain or the hero. I honestly can’t describe the intensity of the nostalgia that game gives me
I really love LEGO Indy 2's hub world. It being a smaller version of the entire movie was so unique and very different from what other LEGO games were doing.
The Middle earth hub world's just took it way to far then it needed to be. Like I would Be fine with just teleporting to each world. Tho they made the huge open world map and you actually felt like you were in middle earth, that's just amazing! And it's just a dream for a huge lotr/hobbit fan like myself.
Yes. Imagine they make a game like skyrim with middle earth.
@@naungyoe3215 I would pre order it right away!
I love how you could literally walk from the Shire to Mordor after completing the entire story. Definitely the best open world by far.
@@ethanrapp6998 I agreed! Especially when you love lotr/hobbit!
@@naungyoe3215 yea always wanted a game like this. They're making hogwarts legacy which is set in the Harry Potter world. Shame they won't make one in middle earth
In lego Batman three they should have just remade the bat cave, keep Gotham and add a few planets
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Ahh, and such a Rickroll I can like.
Clever one at that.
You got yourself an instant sub
Thanks man ;)
I thought I was going crazy
For me, I'd flip #1 and #2. For its time, Undercover had the best Open World experience for me. Just so much to do and how it used each of the characters. I think each disguise had nearly 2 things to collect. Firemen putting out fires and rescuing cats. The Farmer water plants and brings pigs to the canons, and the Spacesuit guy captures aliens and plants a flag in each region. Construction workers finding coffee breaks etc.
LOTR and Hobbit felt good too. Loved how the quests were scattered around and you had to forge or find specific items for them.
Actually playing both. I completed 100% of Undercover but playing it again is downright fun. Still need to 100% complete most of my Lego Games.
Pirates, Indiana Jones, Incredibles, Jurassic World, SW Complete Saga, SW Clone Wars, Harry Potter 1-7, Batman, and Batman 2 are the only ones I completed 100%. Need to do so for Skywalker Saga, Hobbit and LOTR, Marvel 1/2 and Avengers.
I have not played a Lego game in 10 years but here I am at midnight watching a Lego video life is good
0:13 "havvy pottah"
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Holy crap Dex's Diner looks much older than I remember.
It would be cool if that was the hub for skywalker saga in coruscant
Same, I could've sworn it looked better than that.
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Maybe it's the ds or mobile version or something.
@@marquis8867 is not hub based it’s full open world
@@ivanbanuelos1387 Probably not. The original game came out on Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, and probably the Xbox and Playstation 2. (I'm too lazy to check) In addition, only The Complete Saga and The Force Awakens (Not counting non-star wars games) were ported to mobile. It's most likely the same game I played as a kid.
Since I was a kid I've always thought that LEGO Star wars TCS had the most dissapointing Open world in my opinion, I played the prequels and their open worlds were better
Wasn’t complete saga and legos Star Wars 2 the same hub world?
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I think there are small differences but i’m not sure
@@VTuberRuby No. One issue I had with LS2 and TCS is that in LS2 it'll cycle through every character you have when spawning characters in the cantina, so if you screw around for a while you'll see a lot of variety. TCS has a set of characters that'll spawn in, and that only ever changes if you reload the cantina, so if you hang around for a while you'll keep seeing the same characters.
dumbest opinion ever
In the Hobbit I spent time just setting a waypoint from one side of the map to another and it was actually quite fun just walking around
You a real one for that. I remember walking from hobbiton to erebor all the time
I'm glad you put number 1 as my childhood game!😊
Lego Hobbit is the most underrated Lego game. Exploring Middle Earth with gorgeous graphics was a joy, just an all around outstanding Lego game. And I'm not even a fan of the LOTR/Hobbit movies at all lol.
Glad someone thinks the same . It is absolutely stunning
@@ruggedeagle Ikr! I recently bought the game for my xbox 1 for nostalgia (had it on my 360 but I don't have my 360 anymore) and everyone seems to overlook how gigantic the open world is. I consider the game a masterpiece, and I 100 percented the game in a week or less. Lego games are amazing, they've helped me through hard times! For that reason it's my all time favorite lego game.
They still need to finish the story. That is the one thing I don't like about it. They have the book to work off of, just close out the story.
@@seanrea550 they can't. Licensing issues. Noticed how there hasn't been any new LoTR games recently?
@@fogofwaroneverest240 now it is, when they had the license they could have.
Man, I love how you can do side quests and explore the huge open world of Lego The Hobbit. I had this habit where after I unlocked the Spider Egg treasure from the spider mission that spawns a bunch of spiders that attack enemies. I would just use that and carpet bomb all my enemies. I just go around finding forging blueprints and stuff it was glorious. Don't forget that one glitch in a small island that gives you infinite purple studs.
Basically a Lego Star Wars the skywalker saga but with less stuff
I think dimensions have the best open world couse there is so many different places
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I miss lego dimensions, such a good concept.
@@keegantomlinson3406 Yeah, the initial idea sounds good on paper, but it unfortunately got bugged down by its Toys-To-Life mechanic...
@@keegantomlinson3406 true
@@liamwhittaker8691 honestly buying Lego sets was part of the magic for me
I have so many great memories with Lego Star Wars 3. Man this took me back. It was the last Lego game I played it was so fun as a kid.
"I just be playing Lego GTA" -ShaneTheGoat1
Personally my favorite hub world was lego marvel superheroes. I remember exploring it as a kid and when I revisited the game it was just so much fun to explore and collect gold bricks.
I would put Super heroes 1 above avengers purely because Manhattan felt more filled, and because of that annoying orange sunset that avengers literally always had.
Ikr, that sunset messed it up. I prefer bright and sunny
@@DracoMalfoy-ys2mo I was really hoping Avengers would be at night time, to contrast with Marvel 1 being at daytime. That sunset was massively disappointing imo
Lego avengers will always be number one for me. I remember playing in Manhattan with my sister and loving it we played only Manhattan forever until we tried to figure out how to replay levels and boy when I found out there was about 7 other locations to visit I lost it. I’ll never forget the first time walking down the rainbow bridge on Asgard or just sitting and watching the waves in Malibu
I liked malibu it was sick
The lego games literally brought back the child within me. I think now I can enjoy games like I used to enjoy as a kid. Nostalgic.
Oh Lego Star Wars 2 (The original Trilogy) I remember having that game. This video brings back memories of the old Lego games I remember.
I love that he put LEGO marvel avengers so high because I frickin love that open world!!!!
It is good though
@@ruggedeagle IKR it’s so under appreciated though
When the skysalker saga drops, are you gonna rank all the planets? That would be sick
*if it drops
@@SavageJarJar lmao
@@SavageJarJar 💀
Well…
@@marcosvazquez5912 dqar is here for some reason
I would love a remake of the Lego Pirates game! And a Lego Scooby Doo game would be BOSS!
Lego Marvel is my favorite and will probably never be topped. My friend and I used to put a little divider up to the TV while playing split-screen and we’d play hide and seek and similar games around the city and we could do that for literally hours. It’s so expansive, there’s so many NPCs and to me, it feels more lived in than any other LEGO hubworld.
I have never ever felt so much nostalgia and missing my childhood. I played so many of these games, and the feeling they brought when I was younger will never be achieved again.
Loved that you played Loki’s theme for Marvel 2!
I personally loved the Indiana Jones 2 hubs, they were pretty different from what came before / after
i agree !
somehow i just knew, deep in my bones, that LOTR would make the top of this list before i clicked
I really liked LEGO Indiana Jones' open world. I loved how it had it's hub worlds that were full of things to do.
Great video! Lord of the Rings and Hobbit were by far my favorites of them all. It's a shame Hobbit was under contract to be released in 2014 before they decided to split it in 3 films. We could've gotten a more complete game, and I think it would've surpassed Lord of the Rings as a game personally. But nice list, just subscribed and can't wait to see the other videos you have.
Yes, I totally agree. Would also be cool for those two games to have a remake and have them in one game, since both play in the same universe. Would surely be cool to play the LOTR-Story with Hobbit-Characters or playing the Hobbit-Saga with LOTR-characters.
My favourite hub was Pirates of the Caribbean. Simplistic design + not time consuming & easy to get around, find characters and proceed onto the missions.
I don’t really favour the vast open world hubs. Sometimes feels a bit sparse and more time consuming to get around & locate stuff.
Lol I caught the Never Gonna Give You Up references at the beginning...
Man, this was awesome. This definitely brought back a ton of memories and I love the amount of effort that was put into the video as well!
thanks man !
1:21 bro really Rick rolled us in the first two minutes of the video 🐧
I got LEGO Lord of the Rings when I was young and probably my favorite part of that game is exploring the open world, I have probably spent 100s of hours exploring that world.
The cool thing about Lego Pirates was that you had to fight the characters to buy them. I don't think any other Lego game has done that.
I Think I only disagree with 1 major thing and that's Indy 2's placement. Sure it's a bit clustered but at the Very least it gave you stuff to explore and do. For that it ranks above LSW 2 at the least.
I always thought the batcave in lego batman 3 was pretty much perfect but I was really disappointed with the watchtower and the lantern planets, really just wasn't much to them.
Subscribed as soon as you said you make lots of Lego content, and I also loved the subtle Rick roll in the beginning!!
As a New Yorker, I love being able to explore the city in the game. I particularly enjoy the version from Lego Avengers. Great memories, and I never get bored of just running around in that hub
I haven't played it in years but my personal favourite is marvel 1 even though I acknowledge that it might not be the best but it was still damn awesome despite the fact. I'm grateful for this video actually perfect timing as I was just thinking of buying a lego game dependent on the open world so thank you for this!
Lego Hobbit and LOTR being at number 1 as it should be.
I remember playing lego city undercover on my 3ds it was so good
When he said lego Batman 2 I thought of how frustrating it was to get the gold bricks out of the trumpets and the heads around Gotham
My favourite open world in any lego game is the Back to the Future portal in LEGO Dimensions. It’s literally hill valley, and i always loved going in the different time periods.
5-7 definitely deserved its own spot. The open world is SO different from 1-4
I really want them to make a LEGO Scooby-Doo game and have an open world Coolsville
@Caleb Mayfield so many shows and movies to pull from!
@Caleb Mayfield not really, they have an entire original show with the most iconic monsters and then there’s all the other shows, animated movies and live action movies. Lego Dimensions proved a lego Scooby Doo game can work. Also Scooby-Doo First Frights and the Spooky Swamp are two perfect Scooby Doo games.
Lego Dimensions is probably my favourite imo, the variety is huge, what with you being able to time travel and visit different worlds in both the Back to the Future and Doctor Who worlds.
The Sonic and Portal worlds are also insanely well made.
I remember when I was younger and played lego LOTR, whenever I wanted to travel to a specific location I just wandered around the map looking for it. It took forever to find anything, but the journey was so fun and I explored quite a bit.
I really love Lego Indiana Jones 2 so much, he introduced me to Indiana Jones, he introduced me to how good Lego games are and it was one of the few 2 player coop games I played that let me trow the second player on the lava
So many memories to LEGO Star Wars: The Clone wars...
Dude your editing and music is just legendary my man! Bravo!
Thanks caleb ;)
It’s so sad how they discontinued Lego LOTR and Hobbit do to Legal reasons😢
I didn’t even know that I remember chilling in Hobbiton with the shire music playing and it feeling so cool
I don’t remember much about the game other than that but it was cool
Lego The Hobbit is still avaliable in Xbox store
@@emilianodelgado6573 oh really didn’t know that
@@emilianodelgado6573 also on pirate bay
It's due* but yeah it's sad kinda.
I was a massive fan of lego video games, i played lego jurassic world, batman 1, batman 2, movie, undercover and i cant even name. It was so fun
Lego city undercover imo is the best because you can do so much in the city like finding character tokens, finding vehicles, exploring Lego city was such a blast for me when I first played.
I love the Samuel Kim music :)
It fits perfectly!!
I’ve been waiting for this one
Hope you enjoy it ;)
I have a video idea, you could go through every Lego game and pick out the best character. Then in another video you could rank all of the best characters from every Lego game:)
I mean probably he would get the special characters that can do anything, like mr dna or stan lee (i only have LJW and LMSH 1n2 so idk more)
imo the open worlds peaked with DCSV. It's not only my favorite Lego hub, but also my favorite DC open world (narrowly beating Arkham Knight). The inclusion of Metropolis and Smallville as well as a full Batcave and Wayne Manor definitely make it stand out when compared to the Arkham games where it's only accessible in minigames and Origins.