The theme of The Lego Movie is supposed to be to encourage originality and thinking outside of the box. Sadly, that's the opposite of what Legos are about these days, which are sets with unique parts and detailed instruction booklets for building things mostly licensed from other IPs. Not terribly original or creative, and the games take this even further. You build by finding a pile of bouncing, glowing legos and holding the A button.
Why can't we have a Lego game that lets us build free form with virtual lego parts bins? Or that challenges us to build certain machines without giving us the instructions or just having us hold down a button? Why can't we have a game that truly embraces the spirit of creativity Legos once embodied but have lately abandoned?
Everything Lego does is slick and adorable. Their production values are top notch and they've hit on a successful formula, but I want more from them.
Nintendo can sell me a Wii U any time they want. They just need to announce two things this year and I will run out and buy one immediately: 1. Price drop to $200 or less, 2. Reggie Fils-Aime's departure (fired or resigned, doesn't matter which). Heck, I'll even grab a 2DS and a bunch of games too.
Any chance we'll get the option to skip ads, or at least mix them up a little? If the first four meaningless live action Killzone promos haven't convinced me to buy a PS4, the fifth probably isn't going to do the trick.
The only thing I really want to know about the Xbox One right now is: are there going to be extension cables for the Kinect module? A lot of people need more than 10'.
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