cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/14749768
There’s been tons of fun games about Lego, no doubt about it. But every game has always been the theme of Lego overlaid on another. Such as Lego Racing; you build a car to race with. Also, the actual environment/background is not made of Lego. The purpose is to race a car, and the building of the car is a facet of the game. The same is true for… any of them,really. Lego Marvel Superheroes, Star Wars, Batman, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Marvel Superheroes, DC Supervillians, Lord of the Rings… etc. It’s a world with a ‘skin’ on Lego thrown on top. (Not that it’s not lovely)
LEGO Bricktales is absurdly fun and very intuitive controls (I actually play one-handed!), but horribly controlled with a controller.
On “the actual environment/background is not made of Lego” complaint: while Bricktales looks neat, its “environment/background” is tiny.
For anyone interested in a more Minecraft+LEGO experience, with an actual world made entirely of LEGO that you can interact with, check out LEGO Worlds. (currently 80% off on steam)I’ll attest that Lego Worlds is probably what someone wants when they want an entire interactable Lego world to play with, but I wish they had spent more time cooking with the game.
The parts list is tiny compared to what actually exists, you can only rotate on the x axis, and you can’t make your own vehicles or decorations; you have to rely on what’s already in the game, which is a lot, but still.
Absolutely. This game had so much more potential than was realized.
How do Bricktales and LEGO Worlds compare to something like Stud.io?
The two are actual games, and Stud.io is more general software
Ah, so you can “win” or “progress” through these games, whereas you can’t “win” at Studio?
Yes? Did you ever me around with the LEGO Digital Designer back in the day? It’s basically that but much better
Yeah, I’ve used both LDD and Studio, but not either of the games.
The plural of LEGO is LEGO.
LEGO is a trademarked name
Correct way to talk about Lego bricks is to say Lego bricks
“Pass me all your Lego!” Is not a correct sentence. “Pass me all your Lego bricks!”
If there were 15 Lamborghini cars in a parking lot. You’d say “That’s a lot of Lamborghinis”
Lamborghini doesn’t have to worry about Lamborghini becoming synonymous with “cars”. So Lamborghini doesn’t care.
If everyone keep saying “Legos” for “Plastic Bricks”. Lego could have a trademark situation on their hands, so they try their hardest to stop people calling the individual plastic blocks Legos.
It being plural is like a myth.
I have many Lego. I enjoy playing with my Lego. My Lego makes me happy.
No it isn’t, everyone says legos. Language evolves and what is being used becomes the norm, not “how it supposed to be” when someone decided what the plural is for their company blocks.
I think it is mostly Americans that say that. I’ve never heard anyone say it outside of reading it on American centric forums.
I love playing with my Lego plastic bricks!
I love playing with my Lego!
I love playing with my Legos!
So everyone you know in person says the second one?
“I play with my Lego often”
Mostly the second one, yes. Lego. Lego bricks. Lego pieces. Boys of Lego. Never Legos.
Lego bricks. Lego pieces. Boys of Lego
Is not Lego plural
Like a kid would say “Do you want to go to my house and play with my Lego?”
Use it in a sentence where it’s plural and makes sense
Yes, that’s what they would say. I’m not sure if you are disagreeing with me? No one I’ve ever heard says Legos here in Australia. I’m playing with my Lego. Check out my Lego. I’m missing some of my Lego pieces. Pick up your Lego.
Nope, plenty of people say legos over here too.
It’s also available in VR for anyone that wants to play it that way. But heads up, it’s not the version that is currently heavily discounted. It’s pretty good in VR though.
If you want a VR lego full on sandbox style game though, there aren’t any with the official lego brand, but there are plenty of “plastic building brick simulator” type games. Basically just like playing with real legos, except no one else can see them. But you can also have whatever bricks you want and your wife won’t stop you. Hehe.
I got it when it came out and had fun with it. It’s kind of short, at least for an adult, but that makes it accessible for kids. And they added some (free) content later. Controls were pretty good. A little hard to get used to at first but I played it on Steam Deck while traveling — so with a controller on a small screen — and I imagine there’d be no learning curve with a mouse and monitor.
Anyway, at the price it is there, it’s well worth it. You solve puzzles by building stuff but there’s usually plenty of extra pieces so you can make something fun/creative within the parameters of solving the puzzle.
Building on LEGO Builder’s journey
This looks great!
