The thing with Lego games is they are just perfect games to introduce little kids to video games. Often cheap, easy to play, bright and silly. The nostalgia mostly exists as a way to keep parents a little bit entertained. The open worlds in recent games provide opportunities for imaginative play outside the puzzle platforming. For instance my 5 year old has put nearly 100 hours into Lego city undercover mostly playing pretend and exploring the city.
@@JackoIsAboriginal They are on sale all the time. I've never paid more than $12 bucks for one. Even the most recent Skywalker saga can be had for under $30 right now
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.
Lego City Undercover is the best by far. They created their own original IP and parodied all sorts of movies, tv shows and GTA V. If you have not tried it, do it right now. There is a wider variety of doing things than any other Lego game I can think of. I burned out on Skywalker Saga halfway through. It was the most repetitive game I've ever played.
Lego Star Wars the Skywalker Saga does NOT suffer from the problems inherent to Lego games. It suffers from being devoid of the key features of Lego games. No puzzles. Combat's a tedious slog. No character customiser, and all the characters blend into their respective classes with minimal diversity among any individual class. It is a walking simulator with microscopic levels with no thought behind level design. Being barely a shadow of a Lego game, its problems are completely new to the Lego series
The most fun I’ve had in a Lego game is playing the original podracer level and the dual on Mustafar level. What do these two have in common? You can fail. They don’t hold your hand
The Lego game formula is great, the gameplay loop of collecting, building, and mashing is fun, and that's all these games need to be. Fun. Not everything needs to be dark souls or have a deep robust system of mechanics, sometimes it's just nice to sit down and collect some studs in whatever franchise i want to play in at the time
I think Lego's big downfall was Dimensions. Up until then, they released one, maybe two games a year. Then they decided to get onto the games-to-live craze, Getting licences to many IPs was great, and having a story where they travel to different worlds with different franchises was great too. But it cost a lot to acquire the franchise licenses so they charged a lot for the models to go with it, which made it pricey and stopped people bejng able to afford all the pieces needed to play through the game (I only got all the pieces I needed because I bought a collection of tags (without figures) on Ebay for $200). Also, LEGO got into the games-to-life craze when Disney and others got out. So the fad had passed. I heard that Lego's plan was not to make full on games, but just keep adding IPs to Dimensions indefinitely. That stopped when Season 3 was cancelled. Since then, there has been one Lego game (Skywalker Saga) instead of the regular yearly release. It seemed Dimensions broke them.
I love the LEGO games, they're light and breezy and can range from limited investment to huge completion task depending on the player. I thought Skywalker saga was a great step forward and hope to see that treatment applied to other titles like Harry Potter, Batman/DC, and Marvel.
I think they need to stop doing DC, Star Wars, Marvel and Harry Potter and do new IPs such as full on games of Dr Who, Ghostbusters, James Bond, Star Trek, Back To The Future etc.
The problem is that WB started ruining the games by getting rid of the HUB system. They massacred Skywalker Saga. All they had to do was remaster the old levels. Not completely rebuild the old levels.
I can't really fault them for doing something new. Travelers Tales wanted to make the ultimate free roam Star Wars experience, and for that, they did an excellent job. The game mainly needed a character creator and some aggressive NPCs in free roam to fight against. It's not supposed to be the same as the complete saga, nor 1, 2, and 3. It's supposed to be its own new thing.
@@acbr10536 Actually its called garrys mod. You can literally make anything in gmod, including jets, tanks and vehicles with realistic suspension and traction. Gmod is lego for people with a physics degree
I recently replayed Lego Harry Potter, Lego Batman (the original) and am working through Lego Star Wars 3 (clone wars). And Enjoyed all of them. For me it feels like the more dialogue they put in, the worse the games are. This is possibly correlation not causation, but it feels like they decided to push more into spoken comedy over the more universal physical comedy of the early games and that is a detriment too.
Lego games used to be good purely cos of the IP theyre based on. I think Lego games are only good when theyre based on Spielberg/Lucas movies like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. IPs like Harry Potter, DC and Marvel were never meant for Lego and thats why those games are shit.
I'm a huge fan of these LEGO Games, but I would be lying if I said I never noticed a sense of Repetition over the years. Skywalker saga is a step in the right direction for these collect-a-thon platformers, but I'd like to see these games experiment with other genres. I would love a LEGO RPG for example.
Yeah. Even after playing through Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and several other Lego games, I think they aren't really for me anymore. Like, I won't deny that they're good games, but I dunno. I guess I get bored with Lego games nowadays. I think I've just grown out of them. The combat in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is pretty fun, but I'm not that big on that game either, unfortunately. On top of what I said earlier, it also has some glaring issues, like the levels lacking in substance, the lack of online multiplayer and character creation. (I may not care for it personally, but a lot of other people do.) And I honestly would not touch it's 100% completion experience with a ten-foot pole. Still a good game in my eyes despite it's problems, though. If others can still enjoy Lego games, then I'm really happy for them. And I used to LOVE them. But now, they're not really games I would rush out to play.
Lego Batman 2 was the best Lego game, and all Lego games before that were good. Most of the stuff after that went downhill especially with the release of Lego Batman 3 which was a huge bust for me
Tt games, and nintendo need to make more lego games called lego transformers, lego fast and furious, lego 007, lego mission impossible, lego the hunger games, lego men in black, lego jumanji, lego the mummy, lego gi joe, lego beast wars, lego thundercats, lego he man and the masters of the universe, lego she ra the princess of power, lego voltron, lego m.a.s.k, lego defenders of the earth, lego inspector gadget, lego silverhawks, lego tigersharks, lego jaws, lego power rangers, lego Ghostbusters, lego tmnt, lego pokemon, lego sonic the hedgehog, lego super mario bros, lego donkey kong country, lego the legend of zelda, lego dc games, lego arrowverse, lego batman 4, lego dc super villains 2, lego marvel super heroes 3, lego avengers 2, lego x men, lego fantastic four, lego spiderman, lego nickelodeon, lego cartoon network, lego disney, lego dreamworks animation, lego the muppets, lego sesame street, lego looney tunes, lego tom and jerry, lego scooby doo, lego the three stooges, lego the pink panther, lego monsterverse, lego planet of the apes, lego the chronicles of narnia, lego night at the museum, lego percy jackson, lego bill and ted, lego digimon, lego dragon ball z, lego Battlestar galactica, lego star trek, lego jurassic world 2, lego pirates of the caribbean 2, lego indiana jones 3, lego Wizarding world saga, lego middle earth saga, lego castle kingdom, lego game of thrones, lego the last kingdom, lego the witcher, lego vikings, lego roman empire, lego the last of us, lego buffy the vampire slayer, lego the walking dead, lego halo, and lego stranger things, and lego blue sky studios.
Lego games started falling off for me after they decided to put voice acting in instead of the silly little animations in place of actual voice work and the occasional inclusion of a sound clip from the IP they were based on. Something about that just took some of the magic away from the experience for me. They were fun for a while but I just haven't brought myself to touch a Lego game since they did LOTR so spectacularly. Never been able to measure up since.
Plus they needed to be more creative to deliver the jokes and tell the story without real language, there was more soul and love this way, now the jokes are more mundane + the character use lines from movies that are not fun at their core but quite serious actually, combined with goofy movement jokes that looks just... strange... out of place. Now it is just a movie, or just parts of it, but with lego style and goofy behavior - it became less of a parody and more of a just weird mix.
I'm sort of just getting into Lego games. Just bought a bunch on sale. I hope they keep evolving and getting better. I love the aesthetics, I think there are a bunch of good ips or stories to tell in lego. I wouldn't mind some more traditional first person/third person camera options during missions
But you forgot lego marvel its just beautifully vivid colours and open world and characters made me spend a ton a time on it …..i dont play much games now but back then i always loved lego games
I also think the reason there are many lego games is because of the many reusable/modular assets at their disposal that are either premade, simple to make, or there's a lego set from a popular IP they could copy from. no need to model a chair from scratch when you can get one from their data base.
I didnt enjoy the skywalker saga. I felt as though platforming and puzzles were the bread and butter of lego games with some beat em up elements. But in Skywalker saga it felt more combat focused. Especially with the whole perk system. The levels not being levels i did not enjoy. I wasnt there for open world i am there for level conpletion. I think lego batman 3 i enjoyed well but did not do post game stuff only main game. And after that i mostly didnt play much. I enjoy the classics as thats what i owned growing up and i enjoy the puzzle aspects. Also, combat can be fun with a gimmick but when its all button mashing its annoying.i do also remember that eventually lego games got more and more prevalent bugs and straight up crashing issues that I'd stop playing. Lego skywalker was the last game i bought for ps4 and all i did was play the first areas of each movie and not enjoy myself. Mostly be annoyed.
I don't know about any of what this video is trying to say, all I know is I love clearing the levels of as much as possible for me. It's like popping bubble wrap. It's weirdly meditative. Which is why I hated the Skywalker saga, the blocks and things you destroy come back when you move a short distance away or even turn around. I didn't know it at the time, but this is why I love the Lego games and hope they don't do it in any future games cause that's a deal breaker for me.
I really love LEGO Games. They’re charming, they’re loaded with unnecessarily high amounts of characters, and they constantly hit your brain with the serotonin of collecting stuff. I also enjoy how simple this game is for kids. Even if I’m at 100%, I’ll have a reason to go back if my little cousin wants to blow stuff up with me in City: Undercover or DC Supervillains. Nevertheless, the mindless simplicity of the average puzzle irks me a lot. The Incredibles, in particular, highlighted to me how many of these puzzles can be equated to “Insert round peg into round hole. You got it! Great job!”. You wanna hear something baffling about the LEGO collectathons’ difficulties? Okay, so how many times do these games actually punish you for failure? A couple random moments in OG Star Wars, anything involving a time limit, various chases in City, and…a lot of enemy encounters in Worlds, surprisingly. Well, when I was young, I played the handheld versions of LEGO Marvel and The LEGO Movie. Those games have an alternate perspective where the camera is…diagonal. I don’t know, think of Raid: Shadow Legends, but it’s not an RPG, you get to walk around. Shockingly, these games keep the four-heart system, but one death means you have to start the level over. No checkpoints, either! Was it good design? I don’t remember, but it fascinates me to this day. Last thing I wanted to get out, I am a diehard LEGO Dimensions fan, always have been. I love crossovers, and this one’s my ultimate guilty pleasure game.
Ever since TT has taken over the devolepment of all LEGO games, they have been remaking the same game over and over again. Just in different settings. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, every LEGO game was different. Often being developed by different teams, making games set in different genres. Sure a few of these games were not good at all but I would argue the roughly 80 % of them ranged from good to great. I am not saying that the TT games are bad, there is just no diversity anymore. Overall they just can't compete with titles such LEGO Island 2, Drome Racers, LEGOland, Racers 2 and Rock Raiders. Even the first Bionicle game and Football Mania were not bad.
I have greatly enjoyed most of the lego games I have played, but the Skywalker saga was not one of those games. there was just too much stuff to collect, it somehow felt bloated and very empty at the same time in some parts, and it very quickly became very tedious to collect all 1000+ kyber bricks. i also completely agree with that description of the first lego movie game, once the story was complete I had no desire to play any more of it.
i am really not into collecting in games. i just finish the main story, cruise around the open-world and move on to the next game, that way they are actually really interesting
I've played every DC/Marvel LEGO video game and what I appreciate about them is the knowledge I get about the characters that are in those games. That's why I'm only interested in those.
It may have been due to going through all LEGO games from 2020 to Skywalker Saga's release but that game just felt so bloated and tedious to complete. Most LEGO games take around 25-30 hours to 100% complete if you know what you're doing. (The two LEGO Movie titles along with Ninjago take around 15 cos there's less that needs doing, the latter of which is rather underrated) But SWS took me NINETY HOURS TO COMPLETE over the course of a whole week. It was such a damn slog with thousands of busywork making you travel all over the galaxy for no reason. I love replaying these games, heck i wanna do the two Middle Earth titles right now, but Skywalker Saga is one i will never play from 0-100% ever again.
The Lego games are certainly charming. It's just that they are too easy. Yes, I know they are meant to be accessible to small kids which is their main demographic but they are alsl meant to interest fans of the many pop culture franchises they represent and those have far older fans. If you look closely, pretty much every complaint levied at those games riffs not only in the repetition aspect of Lego games, but rather just how mindless combat and puzzles are in said games. A bit of challenge here and there would boost sales and grades.
I got the Skywalker Saga this year and it's still fun as hell to play. Sure, the combat is simple & easy but the over the shoulder perspective really helps sell the immersion. The planets great sandbox areas and there's space battles that are better than those modern Battlefront games. I really think the next LEGO game could benefit from a difficulty setting. I was but 10 years old when I played my very first LEGO game (LEGO Star Wars) also the first major LEGO game, back in 2005. Was fun as hell to play with my younger brothers, then the Original Trilogy, then many games more after. Such memories. TSS is a combination of all of that. Thanks TT Games.
I'm not the biggest HP fan but Lego HP year 1-4 was my first time playing an entire game start to finish 100% co op. I had done bits of co op before but never an entire game.
Coca Cola doesn't need to taste good, Coca Cola just needs to taste like Coca Cola. Lego games don't need to be good, they just need to be a Lego game. If I want to pay GTA, I play the original release of San Andreas or Vice City (Stories). Don't change what isn't broken. And if you DARE touching it, better do it under a new name or most people will hate you! Yes, I'm looking at you, Saints Row 2022!
Lego games are consistently great with the exception of the movie games (agreed) and Lego Star Wars 3 with its crappy RTS mechanic. Oh the changes in Skywalker Saga first happened in The Force Awakens game which was awesome 🫶 Oh and I’m still pissed they cancelled the dlc for The Hobbit 3rd movie 😠😤😡
The only thing I dislike about Lego games is that they don't have any game overs or overal punishments for dying. They tend to use the "if you die, you lose your studs" route, which isn't really a punishment because you can still pick up your studs while you respawn, and even if you lose all your studs you can still get way more (5 blue studs or 2 purple studs can help you a lot)
Criticising a sequel because it feels like the original is the most entitled egocentric dopey luxury of comfort critique imaginable. If the developers humour these people and change everything, the game would no longer feel like a sequel, which will turn off the original's fans, who were drawn to the game for what it was and expect the sequel to be more of the same. It is best practise for any franchise to shed itself of the idiots who believe that development time should be wasted reinventing the wheel for each sequel.
@@CrocodileRayYou voluntarily offered your opinion of your own volition, and I politely requested you elaborate in response, which you have rudely neglected to do. You've no right to be getting hostile, buddy.
Even when they were prised, I found them really really boring. And i wanted to like it, couch coop, great fan of star wars/LORTR /HP but nope.... games were pretty bland since forever for me
Thank you for being truthful; I am going to refund all these now; I am not fan of any super hero either, I don't have kids to play too. I was only bought these for a co-op experience and because it was on sale and bundled together. I've been searching web for answers like co-op, puzzle mechanics, fight mechanics, clunkyness, repititiveness etc. I think numbers of high positive votes are lying; people are overly hyped. I felt something was off, that's why I've searched for hours. These were only like couple bucks but it's still waste of money if you are not gonna play and have fun with your friend who is also over his 30's and not fan of super hero titles. Thanks again.
The thing with Lego games is they are just perfect games to introduce little kids to video games. Often cheap, easy to play, bright and silly. The nostalgia mostly exists as a way to keep parents a little bit entertained. The open worlds in recent games provide opportunities for imaginative play outside the puzzle platforming. For instance my 5 year old has put nearly 100 hours into Lego city undercover mostly playing pretend and exploring the city.
Cheap? Bro they are like 60-100$ these days
@@JackoIsAboriginal They are on sale all the time. I've never paid more than $12 bucks for one. Even the most recent Skywalker saga can be had for under $30 right now
@@JackoIsAboriginal Besides lego dimensions, what lego game is even close to 100 dollars, you're gonna hurt your arm if you reach any more bro
Your 5 year old will have the best Childhood
LEGO Games are Love, LEGO Games are Life
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.
When will we realize that all Lego games are masterpieces.
I mean, my ONLY issue with Skywalker saga, was that there was so much story you can't replay because it's in the open world rather than a level
The camera in parts is appalling as well.
@@dhenderson1810 name 3 third person games with a camera that's never appalling
“Oh, they talk now!”
“They talk now?”
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Hear me out... Lego Dark Souls
Someone recreated a big part of the DS1 map in that one lego sandbox game. You can find it in TH-cam
yes please
Lego City Undercover is the best by far. They created their own original IP and parodied all sorts of movies, tv shows and GTA V. If you have not tried it, do it right now. There is a wider variety of doing things than any other Lego game I can think of. I burned out on Skywalker Saga halfway through. It was the most repetitive game I've ever played.
There isn't a Lego game I haven't enjoyed, some just less than others. The open world ones tend to be my favorites.
Lego Star Wars the Skywalker Saga does NOT suffer from the problems inherent to Lego games. It suffers from being devoid of the key features of Lego games. No puzzles. Combat's a tedious slog. No character customiser, and all the characters blend into their respective classes with minimal diversity among any individual class. It is a walking simulator with microscopic levels with no thought behind level design. Being barely a shadow of a Lego game, its problems are completely new to the Lego series
The most fun I’ve had in a Lego game is playing the original podracer level and the dual on Mustafar level. What do these two have in common? You can fail. They don’t hold your hand
The Lego game formula is great, the gameplay loop of collecting, building, and mashing is fun, and that's all these games need to be. Fun. Not everything needs to be dark souls or have a deep robust system of mechanics, sometimes it's just nice to sit down and collect some studs in whatever franchise i want to play in at the time
I think Lego's big downfall was Dimensions.
Up until then, they released one, maybe two games a year.
Then they decided to get onto the games-to-live craze,
Getting licences to many IPs was great, and having a story where they travel to different worlds with different franchises was great too.
But it cost a lot to acquire the franchise licenses so they charged a lot for the models to go with it, which made it pricey and stopped people bejng able to afford all the pieces needed to play through the game (I only got all the pieces I needed because I bought a collection of tags (without figures) on Ebay for $200).
Also, LEGO got into the games-to-life craze when Disney and others got out. So the fad had passed.
I heard that Lego's plan was not to make full on games, but just keep adding IPs to Dimensions indefinitely. That stopped when Season 3 was cancelled.
Since then, there has been one Lego game (Skywalker Saga) instead of the regular yearly release.
It seemed Dimensions broke them.
I love the LEGO games, they're light and breezy and can range from limited investment to huge completion task depending on the player. I thought Skywalker saga was a great step forward and hope to see that treatment applied to other titles like Harry Potter, Batman/DC, and Marvel.
I think they need to stop doing DC, Star Wars, Marvel and Harry Potter and do new IPs such as full on games of Dr Who, Ghostbusters, James Bond, Star Trek, Back To The Future etc.
And transformers, fast and furious, mission impossible, and the hunger games.
The problem is that WB started ruining the games by getting rid of the HUB system. They massacred Skywalker Saga. All they had to do was remaster the old levels. Not completely rebuild the old levels.
I can't really fault them for doing something new. Travelers Tales wanted to make the ultimate free roam Star Wars experience, and for that, they did an excellent job. The game mainly needed a character creator and some aggressive NPCs in free roam to fight against.
It's not supposed to be the same as the complete saga, nor 1, 2, and 3. It's supposed to be its own new thing.
@Wol1427 anyone looking forward to funko fusion next month
I've always wanted a LEGO game that let you freely build stuff with friends.
LEGO Worlds
It's called Minecraft
@@acbr10536 I’m diagnosing you with ligma
@@acbr10536 Actually its called garrys mod. You can literally make anything in gmod, including jets, tanks and vehicles with realistic suspension and traction. Gmod is lego for people with a physics degree
@@acbr10536 Minecraft fell off
I recently replayed Lego Harry Potter, Lego Batman (the original) and am working through Lego Star Wars 3 (clone wars). And Enjoyed all of them. For me it feels like the more dialogue they put in, the worse the games are. This is possibly correlation not causation, but it feels like they decided to push more into spoken comedy over the more universal physical comedy of the early games and that is a detriment too.
I hated the new camera in "LEGO The Skywalker Saga".
Lego games used to be good purely cos of the IP theyre based on. I think Lego games are only good when theyre based on Spielberg/Lucas movies like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. IPs like Harry Potter, DC and Marvel were never meant for Lego and thats why those games are shit.
I'm a huge fan of these LEGO Games, but I would be lying if I said I never noticed a sense of Repetition over the years. Skywalker saga is a step in the right direction for these collect-a-thon platformers, but I'd like to see these games experiment with other genres. I would love a LEGO RPG for example.
I tried them but I guess I'm too old. But I really appreciate that they exist for the little ones. Pretty wholesome
Yeah. Even after playing through Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and several other Lego games, I think they aren't really for me anymore. Like, I won't deny that they're good games, but I dunno. I guess I get bored with Lego games nowadays. I think I've just grown out of them.
The combat in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is pretty fun, but I'm not that big on that game either, unfortunately. On top of what I said earlier, it also has some glaring issues, like the levels lacking in substance, the lack of online multiplayer and character creation. (I may not care for it personally, but a lot of other people do.) And I honestly would not touch it's 100% completion experience with a ten-foot pole. Still a good game in my eyes despite it's problems, though.
If others can still enjoy Lego games, then I'm really happy for them. And I used to LOVE them. But now, they're not really games I would rush out to play.
Lego Batman 2 was the best Lego game, and all Lego games before that were good. Most of the stuff after that went downhill especially with the release of Lego Batman 3 which was a huge bust for me
I like LEGO games. Very chill. Great
For time killing or listen to a podcast.
Tt games, and nintendo need to make more lego games called lego transformers, lego fast and furious, lego 007, lego mission impossible, lego the hunger games, lego men in black, lego jumanji, lego the mummy, lego gi joe, lego beast wars, lego thundercats, lego he man and the masters of the universe, lego she ra the princess of power, lego voltron, lego m.a.s.k, lego defenders of the earth, lego inspector gadget, lego silverhawks, lego tigersharks, lego jaws, lego power rangers, lego Ghostbusters, lego tmnt, lego pokemon, lego sonic the hedgehog, lego super mario bros, lego donkey kong country, lego the legend of zelda, lego dc games, lego arrowverse, lego batman 4, lego dc super villains 2, lego marvel super heroes 3, lego avengers 2, lego x men, lego fantastic four, lego spiderman, lego nickelodeon, lego cartoon network, lego disney, lego dreamworks animation, lego the muppets, lego sesame street, lego looney tunes, lego tom and jerry, lego scooby doo, lego the three stooges, lego the pink panther, lego monsterverse, lego planet of the apes, lego the chronicles of narnia, lego night at the museum, lego percy jackson, lego bill and ted, lego digimon, lego dragon ball z, lego Battlestar galactica, lego star trek, lego jurassic world 2, lego pirates of the caribbean 2, lego indiana jones 3, lego Wizarding world saga, lego middle earth saga, lego castle kingdom, lego game of thrones, lego the last kingdom, lego the witcher, lego vikings, lego roman empire, lego the last of us, lego buffy the vampire slayer, lego the walking dead, lego halo, and lego stranger things, and lego blue sky studios.
Lego games started falling off for me after they decided to put voice acting in instead of the silly little animations in place of actual voice work and the occasional inclusion of a sound clip from the IP they were based on. Something about that just took some of the magic away from the experience for me. They were fun for a while but I just haven't brought myself to touch a Lego game since they did LOTR so spectacularly. Never been able to measure up since.
Plus they needed to be more creative to deliver the jokes and tell the story without real language, there was more soul and love this way, now the jokes are more mundane + the character use lines from movies that are not fun at their core but quite serious actually, combined with goofy movement jokes that looks just... strange... out of place. Now it is just a movie, or just parts of it, but with lego style and goofy behavior - it became less of a parody and more of a just weird mix.
I'm sort of just getting into Lego games. Just bought a bunch on sale. I hope they keep evolving and getting better. I love the aesthetics, I think there are a bunch of good ips or stories to tell in lego. I wouldn't mind some more traditional first person/third person camera options during missions
But you forgot lego marvel its just beautifully vivid colours and open world and characters made me spend a ton a time on it …..i dont play much games now but back then i always loved lego games
I also think the reason there are many lego games is because of the many reusable/modular assets at their disposal that are either premade, simple to make, or there's a lego set from a popular IP they could copy from. no need to model a chair from scratch when you can get one from their data base.
It always bothered me that they named it the lego movie game instead of the lego game
They are the best games for all ages. Not kids games. Just games. Good games.
I didn't even know what a Star Wars was when I played Lego Star Wars. Hell of a way to get introduced to the franchise.
I want LEGO Marvel vs Capcom, a LEGO based fighting game
I didnt enjoy the skywalker saga. I felt as though platforming and puzzles were the bread and butter of lego games with some beat em up elements. But in Skywalker saga it felt more combat focused. Especially with the whole perk system. The levels not being levels i did not enjoy. I wasnt there for open world i am there for level conpletion. I think lego batman 3 i enjoyed well but did not do post game stuff only main game. And after that i mostly didnt play much. I enjoy the classics as thats what i owned growing up and i enjoy the puzzle aspects. Also, combat can be fun with a gimmick but when its all button mashing its annoying.i do also remember that eventually lego games got more and more prevalent bugs and straight up crashing issues that I'd stop playing. Lego skywalker was the last game i bought for ps4 and all i did was play the first areas of each movie and not enjoy myself. Mostly be annoyed.
I don't know about any of what this video is trying to say, all I know is I love clearing the levels of as much as possible for me. It's like popping bubble wrap. It's weirdly meditative. Which is why I hated the Skywalker saga, the blocks and things you destroy come back when you move a short distance away or even turn around. I didn't know it at the time, but this is why I love the Lego games and hope they don't do it in any future games cause that's a deal breaker for me.
still love the Lego games but yeah as a completionist those collectibles become so tedious
I really love LEGO Games. They’re charming, they’re loaded with unnecessarily high amounts of characters, and they constantly hit your brain with the serotonin of collecting stuff. I also enjoy how simple this game is for kids. Even if I’m at 100%, I’ll have a reason to go back if my little cousin wants to blow stuff up with me in City: Undercover or DC Supervillains.
Nevertheless, the mindless simplicity of the average puzzle irks me a lot. The Incredibles, in particular, highlighted to me how many of these puzzles can be equated to “Insert round peg into round hole. You got it! Great job!”.
You wanna hear something baffling about the LEGO collectathons’ difficulties? Okay, so how many times do these games actually punish you for failure? A couple random moments in OG Star Wars, anything involving a time limit, various chases in City, and…a lot of enemy encounters in Worlds, surprisingly. Well, when I was young, I played the handheld versions of LEGO Marvel and The LEGO Movie. Those games have an alternate perspective where the camera is…diagonal. I don’t know, think of Raid: Shadow Legends, but it’s not an RPG, you get to walk around. Shockingly, these games keep the four-heart system, but one death means you have to start the level over. No checkpoints, either! Was it good design? I don’t remember, but it fascinates me to this day.
Last thing I wanted to get out, I am a diehard LEGO Dimensions fan, always have been. I love crossovers, and this one’s my ultimate guilty pleasure game.
The only problem with Skywalker saga is that there is too much to do in the open world
Ever since TT has taken over the devolepment of all LEGO games, they have been remaking the same game over and over again. Just in different settings. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, every LEGO game was different. Often being developed by different teams, making games set in different genres.
Sure a few of these games were not good at all but I would argue the roughly 80 % of them ranged from good to great.
I am not saying that the TT games are bad, there is just no diversity anymore. Overall they just can't compete with titles such LEGO Island 2, Drome Racers, LEGOland, Racers 2 and Rock Raiders. Even the first Bionicle game and Football Mania were not bad.
I have greatly enjoyed most of the lego games I have played, but the Skywalker saga was not one of those games. there was just too much stuff to collect, it somehow felt bloated and very empty at the same time in some parts, and it very quickly became very tedious to collect all 1000+ kyber bricks. i also completely agree with that description of the first lego movie game, once the story was complete I had no desire to play any more of it.
i am really not into collecting in games. i just finish the main story, cruise around the open-world and move on to the next game, that way they are actually really interesting
I've played every DC/Marvel LEGO video game and what I appreciate about them is the knowledge I get about the characters that are in those games. That's why I'm only interested in those.
It may have been due to going through all LEGO games from 2020 to Skywalker Saga's release but that game just felt so bloated and tedious to complete.
Most LEGO games take around 25-30 hours to 100% complete if you know what you're doing. (The two LEGO Movie titles along with Ninjago take around 15 cos there's less that needs doing, the latter of which is rather underrated) But SWS took me NINETY HOURS TO COMPLETE over the course of a whole week. It was such a damn slog with thousands of busywork making you travel all over the galaxy for no reason.
I love replaying these games, heck i wanna do the two Middle Earth titles right now, but Skywalker Saga is one i will never play from 0-100% ever again.
The Lego games are certainly charming. It's just that they are too easy. Yes, I know they are meant to be accessible to small kids which is their main demographic but they are alsl meant to interest fans of the many pop culture franchises they represent and those have far older fans.
If you look closely, pretty much every complaint levied at those games riffs not only in the repetition aspect of Lego games, but rather just how mindless combat and puzzles are in said games. A bit of challenge here and there would boost sales and grades.
I got the Skywalker Saga this year and it's still fun as hell to play. Sure, the combat is simple & easy but the over the shoulder perspective really helps sell the immersion. The planets great sandbox areas and there's space battles that are better than those modern Battlefront games. I really think the next LEGO game could benefit from a difficulty setting. I was but 10 years old when I played my very first LEGO game (LEGO Star Wars) also the first major LEGO game, back in 2005. Was fun as hell to play with my younger brothers, then the Original Trilogy, then many games more after. Such memories. TSS is a combination of all of that. Thanks TT Games.
I'm not the biggest HP fan but Lego HP year 1-4 was my first time playing an entire game start to finish 100% co op.
I had done bits of co op before but never an entire game.
Lego Drive 2K has an amazing car creator system. This creating system should be apply to other Lego open world themes.
Great video
I always enjoyed the Lego games and never got bored of the gameplay
Coca Cola doesn't need to taste good, Coca Cola just needs to taste like Coca Cola.
Lego games don't need to be good, they just need to be a Lego game.
If I want to pay GTA, I play the original release of San Andreas or Vice City (Stories). Don't change what isn't broken. And if you DARE touching it, better do it under a new name or most people will hate you!
Yes, I'm looking at you, Saints Row 2022!
Lego games are consistently great with the exception of the movie games (agreed) and Lego Star Wars 3 with its crappy RTS mechanic. Oh the changes in Skywalker Saga first happened in The Force Awakens game which was awesome 🫶
Oh and I’m still pissed they cancelled the dlc for The Hobbit 3rd movie 😠😤😡
Lego Indiana Jones was my favorite.
Thanks for the insightful video! I agree that Lego games need to evolve to stay fresh.
But also keeping the formula
Brah, games are genuinely good because all of those qualities. Screw game journalists, if those games weren't good people wouldn't buy and play them.
Lego worlds was incredible idk why people be sleeping on it so much
I personally don't like Lego games or movies except original Lego shows
The only thing I dislike about Lego games is that they don't have any game overs or overal punishments for dying. They tend to use the "if you die, you lose your studs" route, which isn't really a punishment because you can still pick up your studs while you respawn, and even if you lose all your studs you can still get way more (5 blue studs or 2 purple studs can help you a lot)
Yes their GOOD
I want Lego monster inc and lego monster university
To bad the new lego game is boring to the point I gave up on it after 5 "levels"
Truth, preach.
They are games for kids, kids don't care about being different from the original Lego games because they never played them
Lego Island would like a word and the Lego brick tales game
Nah, they're fine.
But I wonder...how does LEGO Fortnite compare
You should do one on the new Lego Fortnite game
Criticising a sequel because it feels like the original is the most entitled egocentric dopey luxury of comfort critique imaginable. If the developers humour these people and change everything, the game would no longer feel like a sequel, which will turn off the original's fans, who were drawn to the game for what it was and expect the sequel to be more of the same.
It is best practise for any franchise to shed itself of the idiots who believe that development time should be wasted reinventing the wheel for each sequel.
Semi-agree with your take, but you’re giving off a lot of ligma energy
@@CrocodileRay Could you expand on your view, so I can see where my opinion has diverged from your own.
@@RidireOiche You’re doing it again man, stop it.
@@CrocodileRayYou voluntarily offered your opinion of your own volition, and I politely requested you elaborate in response, which you have rudely neglected to do. You've no right to be getting hostile, buddy.
@@RidireOiche Stop trying to be “the intellectual” archetype on TH-cam. Your ligma nuts energy is peaking in capacity.
Even when they were prised, I found them really really boring. And i wanted to like it, couch coop, great fan of star wars/LORTR /HP but nope.... games were pretty bland since forever for me
Thank you for being truthful; I am going to refund all these now; I am not fan of any super hero either, I don't have kids to play too. I was only bought these for a co-op experience and because it was on sale and bundled together. I've been searching web for answers like co-op, puzzle mechanics, fight mechanics, clunkyness, repititiveness etc. I think numbers of high positive votes are lying; people are overly hyped. I felt something was off, that's why I've searched for hours. These were only like couple bucks but it's still waste of money if you are not gonna play and have fun with your friend who is also over his 30's and not fan of super hero titles. Thanks again.
Boooooo
This channel didn't just die, it was murdered.