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LEGO City Undercover |OT| This city has no ports
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You can't install the game to the hard drive?
You can't install any Wii U retail game to the hard drive.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I thought this game already had Zelda and Mario references shown in some old vids?
Rich
‏@RichIGN
Just ran into a cool Nintendo-related hidden... thing in LEGO City Undercover.
https://twitter.com/RichIGN/status/310261852355575811
Rich
‏@RichIGN
Just ran into a cool Nintendo-related hidden... thing in LEGO City Undercover.
https://twitter.com/RichIGN/status/310261852355575811
InsaneZero
Member
Playable Lego Iwata (complete with hair swish).
Seems like there are even more then what has been shown in trailers. I just hope this really does mean the game was funded by Nintendo. I would love to know if they're in the credits.
Smiles and Cries
Member
Yeah I want LEGO Iwata
Diablohead
Member
This game looks so fun. Map seems small looking at the map but as long as there is plenty to do, better then a bigger empty map.
Davey Cakes
Member
90% is too good of a score. Official Nintendo Magazine has an agenda and is biased.
I will trust the Edge score. They speak the actual truth.
Probably like a Mario Character or a DK tower or something.
Terbinator
Member
Wow, it really is last gen.
MemoryHumanity
Member
Neal Ronaghan
‏@nron10
Are you looking forward to LEGO City Undercover? You should be. It is pretty damn good.
https://twitter.com/nron10/status/310871734083530752
‏@nron10
Are you looking forward to LEGO City Undercover? You should be. It is pretty damn good.
https://twitter.com/nron10/status/310871734083530752
Most things, sadly.
is this the part where i pray the april wii u firmware fixes this stuff?
Oh....
The disc drive speed is higher/faster then the PS3 so the Wii U doesn't need to install games. I thought the reason for the installs on the PS3 was because of how slow the blu-ray drive was. Thought the same was true for the 360. If the drive is fast enough installing shouldn't be needed.
Yeah, I wouldn't put much trust into ONM's review. Unfortunately, I'm gonna lower my expectations for this game.It might to be one of those games that looks fun but may no be that much fun to play. After playing Lego Batman, I'm concerned Undercover is going to suffer from the same general issues as most of the other Lego games in terms of disconnected and weightless combat, floaty platforming, and loose driving controls as some of the bigger issues.
Smiles and Cries
Member
does the load time drop for digital version?
This probably won't mean anything to 90% of people reading, but the voice cast includes Peter Serafinowicz (who recently described the game as "BRILLIANT" and "super funny"), Adam Buxton, and Josh Robert Thompson (who appears in the More Than Freeman TV ads).
This is one of the reasons I'm hoping the game will be funny in the same way as the surreal Shawshank / Dirty Harry / Arnie spoofs shown earlier. The recent "webisodes" feel like badly done edits of older trailers, with seriously clunky jokes.
This is one of the reasons I'm hoping the game will be funny in the same way as the surreal Shawshank / Dirty Harry / Arnie spoofs shown earlier. The recent "webisodes" feel like badly done edits of older trailers, with seriously clunky jokes.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
For people who never played Lego Batman 2 this is what they could be talking about with "loading" missions: LB2 uses the same environment as the open world for missions taking place outdoors. When one triggers, the game pauses and starts an instance of the area you're in. It has borders to keep you from wandering away, sometimes a special locked camera to facilitate platforming without having to adjust the camera. And special props or enemies relating to whatever the mission is.
If you go indoors, then you get a typical loading break to load a separate map or environment representing the inside of larger facilities.
Otherwise, it keeps sounding like the quality of the game is on par with the latest Lego games, which is to say pretty good, and reasonably polished. The joke here to me is that stuff like platforming can't be worse than the character handling in many open world games, like GTA4 or Saints Row 3. The standards for certain things in the open world genre aren't that high. Such games usually trade resolution of quality for scale.
As for the size of the map, the big grey area in the center of the central island looks like a wilderness region. The later day Lego games do tend to pack a lot into a small space. There's a lot of stuff to collect, items to find, and small puzzles to solve using character/costume abilities.
To be frank, I'm expecting the game to play/feel like Lego Batman 2, so your suspicions are probably correct. Personally, I can't see this as worse than most other big sandbox games. They don't play as well as focused 3rd person action/platforming games in general. I wasn't bothered by Batman 2, but it's something where your mileage will absolutely vary.
In the end, I think the game is probably just this: TT's best Lego game, due to scope and their freedom to write their own story and construct their own universe. But it's still a Lego game. Nothing more or less.
If you go indoors, then you get a typical loading break to load a separate map or environment representing the inside of larger facilities.
Otherwise, it keeps sounding like the quality of the game is on par with the latest Lego games, which is to say pretty good, and reasonably polished. The joke here to me is that stuff like platforming can't be worse than the character handling in many open world games, like GTA4 or Saints Row 3. The standards for certain things in the open world genre aren't that high. Such games usually trade resolution of quality for scale.
As for the size of the map, the big grey area in the center of the central island looks like a wilderness region. The later day Lego games do tend to pack a lot into a small space. There's a lot of stuff to collect, items to find, and small puzzles to solve using character/costume abilities.
To be frank, I'm expecting the game to play/feel like Lego Batman 2, so your suspicions are probably correct. Personally, I can't see this as worse than most other big sandbox games. They don't play as well as focused 3rd person action/platforming games in general. I wasn't bothered by Batman 2, but it's something where your mileage will absolutely vary.
In the end, I think the game is probably just this: TT's best Lego game, due to scope and their freedom to write their own story and construct their own universe. But it's still a Lego game. Nothing more or less.
Shadow2222
Member
Considering cancelling my preorder 
I was really hoping for a big city. I might wait for a price drop.
I was really hoping for a big city. I might wait for a price drop.Considering cancelling my preorder
who said it's small. it takes 15 minutes to simply go around the city without doing nothing.
This is a pretty good sign, considering Neal was very upfront about the previous demos needing a lot of work due to screen tearing and other graphical issues.
Of All Trades
Member
Most other open-world games like GTA4 know better than to try to cram in platforming to the extent that TT seems to. I'm in the middle of Lego Batman 2 and it really suffers from too much platforming and too little of everything else. It's a very mediocre platformer with a very basic open-world aspect tacked on that overall gets by through it's good use of license.
The gameplay design faults/shallowness would be a lot more obvious if there was any penalty for failing, and those faults are barely present to the same extent in other similar games. It's why I've never spent more than $10 for a Lego game.
I haven't seen much to indicate that the apparently minimal gameplay improvements can overcome the loss of established assets. The Superman elements of LB2 are pretty bleh/buggy in gameplay but I'm not going to pretend that the John Williams music kicking in doesn't make the experience a lot more fun that it would be otherwise.
The Ps3 is a 1X bluray, the Wii U is 2x or 4 x?
Well size depend on the vehicule and walk speed. Walking around GTA 4 islands must be around 30 min? In car its maybe 7-8 min?
For information sake, the maximum size for a Minecraft world is 9 258 235 times the size of the planet Earth.
tiny raptor
Member
"However, Cork felt that the game could have done a better job with its world so that players could be more motivated to participate in additional missions. Other than citizens involved with Undercovers critical path, you wont come across strangers on the streets in need of help."
From the Game Informer review link in the OT
Outtrigger888
Member
My thought to why they've avoided making a lego game like minecrat is that it would hinder sales of physical legos.
The Ps3 is a 1X bluray, the Wii U is 2x or 4 x?
Well size depend on the vehicule and walk speed. Walking around GTA 4 islands must be around 30 min? In car its maybe 7-8 min?
For information sake, the maximum size for a Minecraft world is 9 258 235 times the size of the planet Earth.
People need to stop posting that image -- it's blatantly false information, regarding Guild Wars and Lord of the Rings Online.
I think the various areas in Guild Wars are instanced, or separated, and you can't go all over the world. Whatever the case, it's nowhere near 15,000 square miles.
Lord of The Rings Online is most certainly not even remotely close to 30,000 square miles either. It's more like 40-80 square miles. Fuel, Daggerfall, Just Cause 2 are definitely procedurally generated with tons of repeating content. I'm pretty sure Asherons Call and Test Drive Unlimited are probably generated to some degree as well.
I'm not sure they've commented on the official size of TDU, but the back of the cover says "Explore and race over 1,000 miles of open road on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu". There is no point in driving off the road in any case, and the off-roading itself is very unpolished. They probably got a satellite map and just generated a map based on that, and placed the roads.
Size also depends on the size of the character model, and the relative size of the models around the map such as trees, benches, other people, buildings, highways, etc.
A 5 inch character, on a map with 10 inch trees, 12 inch buildings, etc. would look normal, and would make the map a certain size. If you scaled the character up to 50 meters, with 100 meter trees, 120 meter buildings, it would still look normal, and the map would suddenly be a lot smaller.
Something in 3D space isn't any size until there's something there to provide a sense of relativity and scale. 3D programs might make this a lot easier to work with since they provide a virtual scale though.
My point is that the models in the game make the scale -- speed could make it seem bigger or smaller, but if scaled correctly, you'd know whether or not you were going really fast or really slow.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Got the new issue of Official Nintendo Magazine today - they give it 90%.
"TT Games has managed to capture the very essence of what a LEGO Videogame should be."
"TT Games has managed to capture the very essence of what a LEGO Videogame should be."
The_Intruder
Member
I have a question for you:
The latest trailers have shown no screen tearing at all, but the eurogamer's review said they're still there. Have you noticed it when you have played it? And if so, is there plenty of them?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
In the City or levels?
LEGO Batman 2 looked realllly rough in Gotham but okay in the levels. I don't think their engine is the best for open areas.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
According to the latest ONM, the game features lego versions of the following Nintendo characters -
Bob-ombs, Bullet Bills and Wigglers. The magazine has pictures. They all look suitably lego-y.
tiny raptor
Member
Aww! I bet they look adorable.
lego nintendo (as actual toys and as video games) would rake in millions right?
but then again it would be on wiiu so probably not.
dreamer3kx
Member
I need to see more reviews for sure.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
Why was there a need for this?
tiny raptor
Member
Lol, you've got a real agenda against Nintendo. I've been reading your posts in that Kimaya thread, they're hilarious. =P
Dragoshi1
Member
Can you post pics? I really want to see!