Things are sillier when they're done with LEGOs (sorry, no dino DNA)
October 21, 2015 7:35 PM Subscribe
TT Games has made a number of LEGO-based games, often LEGO versions of other franchises. These include cutscenes that recreate some version of movie scenes, which initially didn't include dialog, as seen in these collections of cutscenes from Lego Star Wars : The Complete Saga and Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. That changed with LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, but things really got fun with LEGO Jurassic World (with all Jurassic Park movies). "So, you two, um, dig up dinosaurs?"
The Lego Marvel game is a lot of fun, too. Lego Magneto is pretty much Best Magneto, much like how Lego Movie Batman is the Best Of All Batmans.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 7:47 PM on October 21, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by scaryblackdeath at 7:47 PM on October 21, 2015 [9 favorites]
I can't tell you how pleased I was to hear the original jubilation song from the end of Return of the Jedi in these cutscenes.
Also Darth Vader pulling out the family Polaroid was great.
posted by infinitewindow at 8:11 PM on October 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Also Darth Vader pulling out the family Polaroid was great.
posted by infinitewindow at 8:11 PM on October 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Ditto on Lego Marvel Superheroes. It had all original dialog – great lines in there too. Unfortunately the upcoming Lego Avengers is going to reuse film dialog. Such a wasted opportunity.
posted by m@f at 8:13 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by m@f at 8:13 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
Interesting - I'm totally out of the loop on current games (I was hoping the new Jurassic World game would play on my now relatively old Wii [classic]), but I really enjoyed the pairing of movie dialog with LEGO animations. Maybe because Jurassic Park has so many inherently silly moments? Then again, it's related to a movie franchise, not whole universe of characters with their own vast stories that predate the new movies.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:19 PM on October 21, 2015
posted by filthy light thief at 8:19 PM on October 21, 2015
Yeah, after the open-world Lego Marvel Superheroes the new Lego avengers is a real step backwards. Fewer characters, just less interesting. I didn't realize They were using actual dialogue from the movies, though. I think it works really well given the visual gags they can insert to play off the dialogue.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 8:36 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 8:36 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
The LEGO games are incredibly fun and often hilarious. My twins started to play them "seriously" (meaning: working out how to cooperate, solving puzzles) at age 5, and at 6 they still play them constantly. Even if you don't have twins, the co-op play is fun for kids and grown-ups alike.
I really can't recommend them highly enough.
posted by ArmandoAkimbo at 10:31 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I really can't recommend them highly enough.
posted by ArmandoAkimbo at 10:31 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
The games are great for co-op play with smaller kids, and we played and replayed them up until the recent Marvel and LOTR ones.
However all of them have bugs, some that lock a console hard, and I've never seen a company as bad as TT for not engaging with customers and not issuing fixes.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 10:53 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
However all of them have bugs, some that lock a console hard, and I've never seen a company as bad as TT for not engaging with customers and not issuing fixes.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 10:53 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
The new lego avengers is DEFINITELY confirmed to have open world new york again, but with better random activities spread around, and I'm pretty sure Lego Avengers is confirmed to have more characters than the last Lego Marvel game. Less x-men, which sucks, but instead of Blackagar Boltagon (yeah I'm serious, that's Black Bolt's name) being the only inhuman, there's going to be Quake, Kamala Khan, and loads of other new characters like Agent Carter, Winter Soldier, Devil Dinosaur, Jessica Jones, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Lady Sif, The Collector, Ultron, and Vision.
Lateral move at worst.
posted by sandswipe at 11:42 PM on October 21, 2015
Lateral move at worst.
posted by sandswipe at 11:42 PM on October 21, 2015
Lego Marvel Superheroes is tremendous. No blood, no gore, nobody actually dies, cool music. If games were all pure fun like this, I'd play a lot more games.
posted by 1head2arms2legs at 1:07 AM on October 22, 2015
posted by 1head2arms2legs at 1:07 AM on October 22, 2015
I'm actually in the middle (completed story, 50ish percent done total) of Lego Marvel right now. The silliness of being able to select a totally dumb character to solve some poor dude's problem (Venom will happily find your wife, sir) is consistently entertaining.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 3:51 AM on October 22, 2015
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 3:51 AM on October 22, 2015
Although it's not a movie-based game, Lego City Undercover is perhaps the best sanitized GTA simulator I've ever seen. The fact that all of the Lego games that I've seen are enjoyable may be the only reason I plunk down the cash for Lego Dimensions for my kid.
posted by mollweide at 4:37 AM on October 22, 2015
posted by mollweide at 4:37 AM on October 22, 2015
My wife and I have played and 100% completed every Lego game except the Star Wars game of episodes 1-3. We just started Jurassic world this week and our 6 year old son is doing it with us for the first time from the start. He loves playing marvel superheroes and batman 3 the best.
It is interesting to see how the games have improved over the years, with split screen and open world mechanisms. I thought they used movie dialog in Lord of the Rings, but re-recorded instead of taken straight from the film?
posted by mbd1mbd1 at 4:47 AM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
It is interesting to see how the games have improved over the years, with split screen and open world mechanisms. I thought they used movie dialog in Lord of the Rings, but re-recorded instead of taken straight from the film?
posted by mbd1mbd1 at 4:47 AM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
My wife and I have played and 100% completed every Lego game except the Star Wars game of episodes 1-3.
Ha! My wife and I do the same thing (though we've hit every game -- seriously, the Lego treatment of Star Wars Ep 1-3 is vastly more entertaining than the movies, and actually kinda redeems them at least partially).
I really do love these games, and a lot of it has to do with how they convey plot points through Lego. I'm still a little unsure about the use of real voice acting, though; they have certainly done well with it, but I kinda love the more pure form of just pantomime. They manage to evoke some really dark, not really child-appropriate stuff in pantomime in ways that actually re-interpret it as child-appropriate (but still get the plot points across), and I really love that.
(I am kinda bummed by Lego Dimensions, though, as it feels like a total Amiibo-like cash grab and I can't justify going into it)
posted by tocts at 5:24 AM on October 22, 2015
Ha! My wife and I do the same thing (though we've hit every game -- seriously, the Lego treatment of Star Wars Ep 1-3 is vastly more entertaining than the movies, and actually kinda redeems them at least partially).
I really do love these games, and a lot of it has to do with how they convey plot points through Lego. I'm still a little unsure about the use of real voice acting, though; they have certainly done well with it, but I kinda love the more pure form of just pantomime. They manage to evoke some really dark, not really child-appropriate stuff in pantomime in ways that actually re-interpret it as child-appropriate (but still get the plot points across), and I really love that.
(I am kinda bummed by Lego Dimensions, though, as it feels like a total Amiibo-like cash grab and I can't justify going into it)
posted by tocts at 5:24 AM on October 22, 2015
Lego Dimensions is actually... can't believe I'm saying this... well, just about worth it. Great diversity of content, it's absolutely gorgeous, and the juxtaposition of all the different characters/genres/worlds/etc. is just fun. A few minor glitches, it's darned expensive, and the content is a bit on the thin side, but all in all well worth it, and some very impressive design.
posted by emmet at 9:18 AM on October 22, 2015
posted by emmet at 9:18 AM on October 22, 2015
Lego Dimensions is actually... can't believe I'm saying this... well, just about worth it.
Yeah? That's interesting to -
posted by emmet
Wait a minute ...
(In all seriousness, if Lego Dimensions were $50 I'd probably already have both bought it and played through it obsessively, but the price and the physical tie-in just feels like signing up for day 1 DLC)
posted by tocts at 9:29 AM on October 22, 2015
Yeah? That's interesting to -
posted by emmet
Wait a minute ...
(In all seriousness, if Lego Dimensions were $50 I'd probably already have both bought it and played through it obsessively, but the price and the physical tie-in just feels like signing up for day 1 DLC)
posted by tocts at 9:29 AM on October 22, 2015
Yeah the cost per brick is what's preventing me from pulling the trigger on Lego Dimensions. I've also never played the Lego games, so I'm not sure if I'll like them. (I am kicking myself a little that I should have picked it up during Lego Store's double VIP points last week, but oh well)
I WILL say LD selection of characters makes it seem like Wreck-it Ralph mashed with Who Framed Roger Rabbit in it's diversity: Homer Simpson, Marty McFly, Dr. Who, Chell, and *drumroll* the GIANT Sandwich from Scooby Doo!
posted by FJT at 9:55 AM on October 22, 2015
I WILL say LD selection of characters makes it seem like Wreck-it Ralph mashed with Who Framed Roger Rabbit in it's diversity: Homer Simpson, Marty McFly, Dr. Who, Chell, and *drumroll* the GIANT Sandwich from Scooby Doo!
posted by FJT at 9:55 AM on October 22, 2015
Although it's not a movie-based game, Lego City Undercover is perhaps the best sanitized GTA simulator I've ever seen.
I got it basically on a whim knowing nothing about the other Lego games and really enjoyed it. The tone is light, it's not that difficult, and it really scratched my itch to collect things. I was also pretty impressed with the density of stuff to do. One of my complaints about GTA-style games is how empty the world can feel, but here there was something to do on pretty much every block.
I've since played the Hobbit one, which I felt a little disappointed by, partly because it seemed unfinished (it only covers the first two movies and the DLC for the third was cancelled) and partly because the silly tone the game was trying for was completely dismantled by all of the Extremely Serious movie clips. It was fun getting to run around Middle Earth as Sauron and Sam, campfire buddies, though.
posted by Copronymus at 10:46 AM on October 22, 2015
I got it basically on a whim knowing nothing about the other Lego games and really enjoyed it. The tone is light, it's not that difficult, and it really scratched my itch to collect things. I was also pretty impressed with the density of stuff to do. One of my complaints about GTA-style games is how empty the world can feel, but here there was something to do on pretty much every block.
I've since played the Hobbit one, which I felt a little disappointed by, partly because it seemed unfinished (it only covers the first two movies and the DLC for the third was cancelled) and partly because the silly tone the game was trying for was completely dismantled by all of the Extremely Serious movie clips. It was fun getting to run around Middle Earth as Sauron and Sam, campfire buddies, though.
posted by Copronymus at 10:46 AM on October 22, 2015
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