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Eurogamer: Lego City could blow the franchise wide open/save the WiiU [Dont port beg]
- Thread starter axisofweevils
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driver san francisco?
fredrancour
Member
"The best way to brick your console"
i wonder if it would make people think that the thing actually breaks wiiUs....
krypt0nian
Banned
LEGO games keep making strides, especially since LEGO Batman 2 (which this looks like it took every queue from).
But without co-op, they have lost the point of the series IMO. That's why they sell once they hit the $20 they always drop to. But maybe with no competition on the WiiU they will reap the benefits of being out there for a game starved audience.
But without co-op, they have lost the point of the series IMO. That's why they sell once they hit the $20 they always drop to. But maybe with no competition on the WiiU they will reap the benefits of being out there for a game starved audience.
Gamespot posted like 10 minutes of gameplay including some driving and gamepad usage - http://youtu.be/uYTA1T7nUM8
The damage on the vehicles sounds awesome.
The damage on the vehicles sounds awesome.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Lego City |OT| I clowned you with confetti, your argument is invalid
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Another banned low-brow troll. When will they learn?
TheGreyHulk
Member
Might be my next game for the Wii U.
I hope it does end up being a solid game.
I hope it does end up being a solid game.
Quickly scanned through this thread and didn't see this, but there is a new YouTube video up that shows actually off screen HD footage of the games opening stages and some of the open world features.
Game looks crazy good and fun. I can image my kids driving around for hours causing mayhem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uYTA1T7nUM8#!
Video confirms two things.
#1. You can run over PEOPLE! (however they don't die! they pop back up)
#2. As you wreck your vehicle parts of the Lego's will fall off until it's to damaged. You can drive with half the car missing.
Game looks crazy good and fun. I can image my kids driving around for hours causing mayhem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uYTA1T7nUM8#!
Video confirms two things.
#1. You can run over PEOPLE! (however they don't die! they pop back up)
#2. As you wreck your vehicle parts of the Lego's will fall off until it's to damaged. You can drive with half the car missing.
It does seem to be coming up really nicely from this video.
Of All Trades
Member
Weren't those in Batman 2? Maybe not the Bat-vehicles but if you got in a regular car I could swear that bits would break off.
Also, were previous Lego games on consoles not 60fps?
They stopped being 60 fps with Clone Wars; they've been 30 fps ever since, barring the massive drops that occur in co-op.
SaintMadeOfPlaster
Member
If Nintendo is successful in marketing this to the younger audience, I can see this game being very successful.
I just don't see that happening given their recent track record, however.
All I know is that I'm stoked for it.
I just don't see that happening given their recent track record, however.
All I know is that I'm stoked for it.
Of All Trades
Member
Huh, I always assumed they'd stayed at 60 since the last one I played on consoles was a SW game and PC Batman 2 is 60 and doesn't seem too demanding.
Lego City Undercover |OT| You are a loose cannon, but you are a damn good block.
Looks great, the vehicle destruction is fitting and the pop-in has been reduced to some degree.
Looks great, the vehicle destruction is fitting and the pop-in has been reduced to some degree.
DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
And that's the sad truth. I feel like Nintendo has no idea how to market its products to anyone at all at this point. They are just taking shorts in the dark.
Their most successful recent commercial (Luigi's Mansion) feels like it came straight out of the 90s.
They decided to make them prettier than the pre-Clone Wars games, as well as implement motion blur.
6/10 nice try
xxbrothawizxx63
Member
I plan to pick it up because it'll be the first 3DS game that isn't a DS port, but so far it doesn't exactly look amazing. I'm hoping that's because the game just hasn't been the priority with the Wii U version coming out. Hoping that the footage shown was a little old and that most of the optimization and polishing is happening right now. We'll see I guess.
Wish the Wii U version had AA.
This one is really clever, 10/10.
Yeah, that N64 fog isn't looking too hot lol.
timetokill
Banned
Based on this thread I almost think it should be
Lego City Undercover |OT| This City Has No Ports
Lego City Undercover |OT| Blocks. U's Game.
Lego City Undercover |OT| This City Has No Ports
Lego City Undercover |OT| Blocks. U's Game.
RobotMafia
Banned
This and ZombieU are really making me want a WiiU but I also need to get a 3ds Xl before Animal Crossing comes out. I don't see myself getting both. Hmm.
xxbrothawizxx63
Member
It's made worse by the fact that the frame rate still isn't a locked 30 with it.
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
It looks more polished every time I see it so I'm pretty confident it's going to be at least good, if not great. Not long until it comes out now!
DO IT DO IT DO IT
(Serious answer: wait til there are a few must have games, then jump in all at once. Zombi U, MH Tri, Lego, Pikmin, W101, ...)
I'd think the tone of the game was easy to gauge from the preview trailers so far. I can understand it won't be to everyone's liking, but the shacknews people shouldn't consider they are writing for all adults here. I, along with a number of other people in this thread have expressed more interest in the tone of this than more gritty, crime based games of the genre.
I'm more of a Crackdown fan than GTA fan myself, and whilst I understand the appeal of GTA, it doesn't appeal as much as a more absurd sense of humour does these days. To each their own.
megabytecr
Member
It will save me because I got my Wii U early for this game.
I didn't see much fun to be honest
I vote for this.
toddhunter
Member
I'm pretty burnt out on lego games but my daughter is just starting to play them and this looks ideal. Don't have a wiiu but it is certainly looking like I might get one for her soon.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
I agree with this.
I really enjoyed Saints Row 3 much more than GTA4, because Saints Row 3 still had a sense of fun and whimsy that the GTA series seems to have lost.
A dry humour version of it - More Police Squad than American Pie - which this is looking to be is something I think I will enjoy playing.
Also;
hell yea.
Thank you, its a weird fucking look and everything said can be applied to some level at the other sandbox games, you cant go into Saint's Rows 3 expecting a deep look at gang culture and drug enforcemennt policies co-written by David Simmons. It so weird to use this as a soap box and singling it out when some games like San Andreas and Just Cause 2 share arguably less realistic despictions of the law enforment and morality.
U say that like it's something bad.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
... hopefully a lot of this.
This is what will attract the hardcore mature gamers back, fo' sho'
StoppedInTracks
Member
No thank you. I'll wait for the master of open world games:
Well that's one way to not port beg.