Lego Pirates trailer is all violent mermaids, slapstick

@Slayer15

Or Lego Ghostbusters, i looking forward.

@Nolan North
I see what you did there

@Nolan North you beat me to the Dethklok reference ):

@Obelix the Gaul

LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 is the best of the newest bunch (& my personal favorite after the original Star Wars trilogy).

The Star Wars Complete Saga is the "baseline" for these games. Solid, enjoyable games that are a pretty good representations of the films.

Avoid the LEGO Indiana Jones series adaptations like the plague.

Batman is pretty good.

Star Wars III Clone Wars is okay (in addition to the norm gameplay, it includes a lot of their new psuedo-RTS gameplay. Vehicles are fun, but the game RTS mechanic is thin).

My question is, if you didn't think much of the games initially (I'm guessing you either played them or watched someone play them), besides guilt, why now? Your interest in the IP being presented in the game can help your enjoyment (though not for the Indy games, in my case).

I do think the quality has risen in the games, and there have many new small game mechanics added (and some removed after addition), but the same basic core gameplay from the first games is still in effect in the latest (smash stuff - build - use specific characters to complete certain tasks & repeat).

@yo Naturale

It's mostly because I had played the Nintendo DS Version of Lego Star Wars II, and I had (stupidly) assumed that all of the other games in the series we're all equally broken & anti-fun.

A silly excuse, I know, but that was my brief history with the franchise. However, I will take your advice and go and try out the Complete Saga & the LEGO Harry Potter games. But not Indiana Jones, what with the fourth film ruining my appreciation of that franchise.

@Obelix the Gaul

Sorry for the mega-long delay on the reply...

The fact that you were exposed to the games through the DS very much explains it to me (nothing against the DS. I own one. I just don't do the majority of my gaming on it). I should've clarified that I played all those games on a console (360).

I test drove a friend's copy of LEGO Harry Potter (I had already played and completed the 360 game to a 100% at this point and loved it) on his DS and I only lasted about 20 minutes before I set it down with little interest in ever playing the LEGO DS games again.

@(Unverified)

Yeah. That was just last week. You know they haven't stopped selling them, right?

@TheOtherJames I know that, I just feel bad that there are some kids who have lost their imaginations because instead of ever playing with actual toys, they moved right up to video games.

I love video games, and if you still exercise you imagination regularly and want to play LEGO PotC, that's fine!

But my younger brother, for example, just plays DS all day and never plays with toys. Makes me feel bad for him.