LEGO Games 2010

[W&G156]

Who wonders what the next LEGO game after Harry Potter will be? Here are my ideas:

1. LEGO Batman 2 The Brave and the Bold

2. LEGO Doctor Who

3. LEGO Toy Story

4. LEGO Spongebob

5. LEGO Guitar Hero

[Friar]

The next Lego game is entitled Lego universe, and is an MMO. (Trailer )

But as for the normal TTgames (not to be confused with TTG), i would think they would stick to a film trilogy again. Maybe Lord of the rings?

[WinterSnowblind]

Guitar Hero won't happen, it'd be too similar to Rock Band and I'm sure they likely still have some kind of deal going on there, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Lego Rock Band 2 down the road. And as much as I'd love to see them do the Hobbit/LoTR for the upcoming movies, the Lego liscene is owned by Warner Brothers where as LoTR movies are done by New Line, so that's out too.

Batman wouldn't see too likely either, they dropped the Batman liscence hard when the Dark Knight came out and proved too violent for their tastes. They discontinued the toy line right as the game and movie came out. There was a massive increase in demand for the sets, but they refused to make more of them.

Toy Story, Spongebob or any of their other existing toy lines seem the most likely. I'd actually quite like to see them do some of their own properties, like the pirates or castle themes. But rumours suggest it'll be the Clone Wars, which makes sense as their CW line is almost completely seperate from their "Original Trilogy/Prequel" line and the Star Wars games were easily the most popular.

[nikasaur]

Speaking of which, are the other Lego games any good? I picked up Lego Batman for DS recently and I find it wildly entertaining. What are the best ones to play? (I feel like the Harry Potter ones would be right up my alley.)

[Rather Dashing]

Lord of the Rings doesn't have the kids' demographic appeal that is necessary to do a LEGO game. I don't think we're the core audience of LEGO games.

I'm sure we'll see them finish the Harry Potter "book" series, and then move onto another very large and profitable franchise which nets a wide age range. Twilight is probably out due to its almost exclusively female audience, with video games and LEGOs having a primarily male audience. Are there any recent franchise revivals(like the Prequel Trilogy or the 4th Indiana Jones movie) coming up? What LEGO sets are big now?

They could do Avatar(Airbender Avatar, not James Cameron's Avatar), or a few of their other licensed cartoons. They have Spongebob and Toy Story, but Toy Story seems like a stretch because toy representations of toys probably doesn't work in terms of charm.

I could see them gaining a license for Star Trek, especially given the new movie coming out. Plenty of characters that you could throw in there from the different series, having Original Series Spock team up with Abram's Spock and Spock Prime to save the universe could be fun.

Originally Posted by nikasaur

Speaking of which, are the other Lego games any good? I picked up Lego Batman for DS recently and I find it wildly entertaining. What are the best ones to play? (I feel like the Harry Potter ones would be right up my alley.)

I was unhappy with Indiana Jones and the way they handled "gross" scenes. Star Wars: The Complete series is excellent, and is still the only way I can enjoy the whole Star Wars prequel trilogy.

[Pantagruel's Friend]

how about LEGO Sam&Max?
joking aside, I close my eyes and just see a lego Sam running down the street - although it probably wouldn't be a kids' game...

[Friar]

Originally Posted by nikasaur

Speaking of which, are the other Lego games any good? I picked up Lego Batman for DS recently and I find it wildly entertaining. What are the best ones to play? (I feel like the Harry Potter ones would be right up my alley.)

They are all pretty much the same as eachother. The DS versions are supposedly the worst versions though. I Picked up Lego Indianna Jones (The original adventures) a few weeks back, and love every bit of it, but it's best played in Co-op, so go with whatever system you think makes that most accessible to you.

@wintersnowblind: But don't Lucas Arts own the star wars license? TTg managed to acquire that. And i don't see how LotR has much of a different demographic than Star wars.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Friar

@wintersnowblind: But don't Lucas Arts own the star wars license? TTg managed to acquire that. And i don't see how LotR has much of a different demographic than Star wars.

LucasArts only "has" the Star Wars license because they are so closely related to(I think they're a subsidiary of) LucasFilm, which owns the movies. But Georgie has proven to be quite happy to outsource Star Wars game development at any random moment. Bioware, Obsidian, Sony Online Entertainment and Traveler's Tales have developed for the franchise, as well as others. It's a franchise that is developed in-house or outsourced on a game-by-game and a time-by-time basis, especially since LucasArts is kind of known for going on hiring and firing sprees and going through phases of in-house and outsourced development.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

LucasArts only "has" the Star Wars license because they are so closely related to(I think they're a subsidiary of) LucasFilm, which owns the movies. But Georgie has proven to be quite happy to outsource Star Wars game development at any random moment. Bioware, Obsidian, Sony Online Entertainment and Traveler's Tales have developed for the franchise, as well as others. It's a franchise that is developed in-house or outsourced on a game-by-game and a time-by-time basis, especially since LucasArts is kind of known for going on hiring and firing sprees and going through phases of in-house and outsourced development.

I Suppose. But i know plenty of LotR games have been made by EA. Was that outsourcing or did the license just change hands?

[WinterSnowblind]

Originally Posted by nikasaur

Speaking of which, are the other Lego games any good? I picked up Lego Batman for DS recently and I find it wildly entertaining. What are the best ones to play? (I feel like the Harry Potter ones would be right up my alley.)

I've never played the DS versions, but Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga has easily been my favourite. Unlike Batman and Indy there's a massive amount of characters (124-ish, I believe) and pretty much all of them are pretty awesome, there's even some pretty obscure guys in there like Dengar and Kit Fisto.

In Batman or Indy one player is always stuck as Robin or one of the bit characters.. it was much more entertain in SW when you have such a huge selection to choose between. Even if somebody was Luke, the second player would usually get Han, or Chewie so it all felt much more balanced. (though there are one or two instances where one player will be stuck as R2 for the whole level) Harry Potter should be good for that too, although I'm not overly familiar with the series.

The new Lego Indy is pretty impressive too. It does things a little differently by focusing on multiple bigger hub worlds with puzzles and secrets to explore, but smaller actual levels. Bits of it work and bits don't, but it's interesting to see them change it up a bit, plus the splitscreen system works really well.

[Ribs]

I can't imagine the PR people for telltale's emails being all like

'I would like a review copy of LEGO Indiana Jones.'

response:
'Can you read?'

[JedExodus]

Lego: K'nex

[Sonic9jct]

Three words:

LEGO Die Hard.

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by Friar

They are all pretty much the same as eachother. The DS versions are supposedly the worst versions though. I Picked up Lego Indianna Jones (The original adventures) a few weeks back, and love every bit of it, but it's best played in Co-op, so go with whatever system you think makes that most accessible to you.

The DS versions aren't too bad, except for the vehicle sections, which are little more then an exercise in frustration and tedium.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

The DS versions aren't too bad, except for the vehicle sections, which are little more then an exercise in frustration and tedium.

They're supposedly more buggy. But the actual gameplay is the same (i think). Thats not to say the console versions are glitch free. I had to restart 3 levels on lego indy.Once i was less than a minute from the end.

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by Friar

They're supposedly more buggy. But the actual gameplay is the same (i think). Thats not to say the console versions are glitch free. I had to restart 3 levels on lego indy.Once i was less than a minute from the end.

Really? The only problem I've had with Lego Indy DS was with the mic - it worked fine the first few times, then the mic on my DS broke. Luckilly it was still under warranty so I was able to just swap it for another one that actually worked, but it was annoying all the same!

[JedExodus]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

Really?then the mic on my DS broke.

The DS mic is great and shit all at the same time. I hate how Brain Training can never understand my accent, I thought my mic was busted for ages.

Which reminds me, was anyone else out of breath by the time they finished Spirit Tracks?

The pan pipes were pretty awesome though

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Originally Posted by nikasaur

Speaking of which, are the other Lego games any good? I picked up Lego Batman for DS recently and I find it wildly entertaining. What are the best ones to play? (I feel like the Harry Potter ones would be right up my alley.)

If you like one, you'll like them all. That's how I found it anyway.

[nikasaur]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

The DS versions aren't too bad, except for the vehicle sections, which are little more then an exercise in frustration and tedium.

I was actually wondering about this, it scrolls too fast for me to see anything going on, it's all intuition and guesses. ...Should it not be that way? I feel like I'll never get full completion on those levels.

[LuigiHann]

I highly recommend Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (even the DS version of this one is pretty decent). They really nailed the formula in that one, and everything since then has just been a series of competent rehashes. Also, I still think that something about Lego and Star Wars really fit together, whereas all the other mashups seem like much more of a stretch.