Uncle0wnage
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That's just the main story, not including collecting everything and side missions. There's probably a good 50+ hours of content after the story.
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That's just the main story, not including collecting everything and side missions. There's probably a good 50+ hours of content after the story.
Always-honest
Banned
Jaded Alyx
Member
I don't really notice it if there are any (jaggies I mean), but then I'm playing on a 720p set so maybe that's why?
I actually think this is a very impressive looking game.
That's about twice as long as Saints Row's SP campaign. SR3 was about 9 hours long for me.
I'm usually content with any SP game lasting longer than 12 hours.
It seems that graphically TT has not done a particularly good job on this.
It looks good but it has jaggies.
Always-honest
Banned
I agree. I think the game looks great. I really like how clean everything looks.
Need to grind for Lego Armor...
CrAzYLeGzLU
Member
The Elite
BOSS
18 hours seems great to me. A lot longer than I expected from a Lego game. That makes me a lot more tempted to grab it.
Bog
Junior Ace
18 hours in a week? I assume you don't work.
It'll also be my first Lego game, I love that it looks like Simpsons Hit & Run and the constant humour.
Reading the impressions here make the wait much more painful, march 28 can't come soon enough >.<
Thankfully, MH3U will be released this Friday.
But Luigi's Mansion 2, HarmoKnight and this game the same day (with Amazon express delivery)... I guess I can say goodbye to my social life.
Reading the impressions here make the wait much more painful, march 28 can't come soon enough >.<
Thankfully, MH3U will be released this Friday.
But Luigi's Mansion 2, HarmoKnight and this game the same day (with Amazon express delivery)... I guess I can say goodbye to my social life.
BarrenMind
Member
This is without a doubt the last digital purchase I will ever make on the Wii U.
A few months ago I had issues for several days trying to download Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed until I found out I had to plug my external hard drive into TWO usb ports just to give it enough power to stay on while it was downloading.
With that issue resolved I figured I was safe to try downloading another game. Nope. This is my 5th attempt to download this game I've purchased and I keep getting error 108-0068 "Unable to connect to the server." anywhere from a couple minutes to a few hours into the download. This is an utterly miserable experience.
Anyone else having this issue?
A few months ago I had issues for several days trying to download Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed until I found out I had to plug my external hard drive into TWO usb ports just to give it enough power to stay on while it was downloading.
With that issue resolved I figured I was safe to try downloading another game. Nope. This is my 5th attempt to download this game I've purchased and I keep getting error 108-0068 "Unable to connect to the server." anywhere from a couple minutes to a few hours into the download. This is an utterly miserable experience.
Anyone else having this issue?
To be fair, Nintendo specifically told people that hard drives without a sepereate power cable would need this.
Sucks about this game though :/
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
This feels like a Nintendo game.
Have you tried the solution posted few posts above ? Setting up the ip address and DNS manually?
Spiderduff
Member
I downloaded this early in the AM on Monday with hopes that it would be decent since I really wanted something new on my Wii U. Did not expect to be smiling the whole time while playing the 1st couple of hours. Loving it so far. Especially having my little brother watching, laughing along the way.
forgot to mention that I too got an email from nintendo refunding me $12. Whats nice also is the fact that I was credited a 59.99 purchase for the digital promotion.
Smiles and Cries
Member
fail the truck mission twice why do you have to go all the way back and fight goons all over again
I love the mine jump did not expect it to go on forever though
I love the mine jump did not expect it to go on forever though
fail the truck mission twice why do you have to go all the way back and fight goons all over again
I love the mine jump did not expect it to go on forever though
Yeah I barely made it on my first try. That one will be tough for younger kids.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I played for 4 hours before going to bed last night. And a few more this morning. Thoughts:
(Disclaimer: I am a fan of the Lego series, and enjoy their gameplay, so its slow pace is not a turnoff.)
+ Definitely TT's magnum opus - it shows now that they're given a short dev period to make other Lego games. This one is really polished by their standards, and rich in detail.
+ Story is actually well written and more amusing than the trailers made it seem. There's a great understanding of 80s movie cliches here beyond one-liners.
+ Voice acting is really good, brings the characters alive.
+ Gameplay feels a bit more solid than previous Lego games, possibly Nintendo testing at work.
+ The car handling is fine IMO; they are heavier than Lego Batman vehicles, but still handle like toy cars. The way vehicles get damaged in real time is great.
+ The open world is bigger than the map posted online makes it seem. The scale of each region is large for your character and packed with detail.
+ There are a LOT of side activity points that are immediately visible and require future disguises to unlock.
+ 70s soundtrack is not over-used, doesn't play constantly.
+ Gamepad use so far is pretty neat. When characters pop a video window up, their chatter comes out of the pad speakers but Chase's voice and replies stay on the TV, nice interplay.
+ There are jaggies, it's unfortunate. Otherwise, the graphics are better in action than shots may appear, as there is some nice lighting, shadows, and effects like water and shaders on stonework and stuff. In my opinion, it's a bit higher quality than an open world game on PS360 - the landscape retains detail further into the distance, the median texture quality on everything is higher, with a large variety of textures in play.
+ Framerate so far is solid and smooth 90% of the time. It judders just a little in expected places, such as standing at a crossroads where there is heavy traffic, pedestrians, and probably near invisible pre-caching boundaries.
- The primary loading world breaks are where TT's engine falls down. It doesn't perform the big load during every transition. But when the main game environment has to reload, such as after a mission, it's pretty nasty. 35-60 seconds of progress bar.
- There are actually mission checkpoints now, so it appears sections can be failed, but it's still designed so kids can play as well as adults. It will fail to engage some folks, no way around it.
- Lack of an automatic save on game exit is annoying and an oversight. It's designed to save every time you get a significant item, like a special brick, or even just a large valuable resource item. But you could still do a lot of regular stud collecting and such between saves. I'm really surprised Nintendo didn't tell TT to update their saving convention from previous Lego games.
- The jaggies and image quality are not as bad as some games, like Sonic Racing Transformed (which, to be honest, I thought was quite terrible in that area). But they still harm what is an otherwise surprisingly pretty visual presentation.
Overall, nothing besides the loading issue is disappointing my expectations, and the game exceeds them in a few areas like story, humor, and how packed the game world is with details. I was hoping Nintendo could bring out TT's best, it seems they have.
I think if you can get into the relaxed pace, it is a very meaty game with a ton of stuff to do. Also the kind of game the console needs right now, it'll last a long time if you like it.
If there's enough complaints about the loading, I hope that there's something TT can do with a patch to improve their loading scheme even a little bit. Btw, it seems the reason the game loads before a cut scene is that it's preparing data for the mission following the cut scene - lots of special placement for NPCs, required vehicles, and modifications to the area the mission takes place in.
(Disclaimer: I am a fan of the Lego series, and enjoy their gameplay, so its slow pace is not a turnoff.)
+ Definitely TT's magnum opus - it shows now that they're given a short dev period to make other Lego games. This one is really polished by their standards, and rich in detail.
+ Story is actually well written and more amusing than the trailers made it seem. There's a great understanding of 80s movie cliches here beyond one-liners.
+ Voice acting is really good, brings the characters alive.
+ Gameplay feels a bit more solid than previous Lego games, possibly Nintendo testing at work.
+ The car handling is fine IMO; they are heavier than Lego Batman vehicles, but still handle like toy cars. The way vehicles get damaged in real time is great.
+ The open world is bigger than the map posted online makes it seem. The scale of each region is large for your character and packed with detail.
+ There are a LOT of side activity points that are immediately visible and require future disguises to unlock.
+ 70s soundtrack is not over-used, doesn't play constantly.
+ Gamepad use so far is pretty neat. When characters pop a video window up, their chatter comes out of the pad speakers but Chase's voice and replies stay on the TV, nice interplay.
+ There are jaggies, it's unfortunate. Otherwise, the graphics are better in action than shots may appear, as there is some nice lighting, shadows, and effects like water and shaders on stonework and stuff. In my opinion, it's a bit higher quality than an open world game on PS360 - the landscape retains detail further into the distance, the median texture quality on everything is higher, with a large variety of textures in play.
+ Framerate so far is solid and smooth 90% of the time. It judders just a little in expected places, such as standing at a crossroads where there is heavy traffic, pedestrians, and probably near invisible pre-caching boundaries.
- The primary loading world breaks are where TT's engine falls down. It doesn't perform the big load during every transition. But when the main game environment has to reload, such as after a mission, it's pretty nasty. 35-60 seconds of progress bar.
- There are actually mission checkpoints now, so it appears sections can be failed, but it's still designed so kids can play as well as adults. It will fail to engage some folks, no way around it.
- Lack of an automatic save on game exit is annoying and an oversight. It's designed to save every time you get a significant item, like a special brick, or even just a large valuable resource item. But you could still do a lot of regular stud collecting and such between saves. I'm really surprised Nintendo didn't tell TT to update their saving convention from previous Lego games.
- The jaggies and image quality are not as bad as some games, like Sonic Racing Transformed (which, to be honest, I thought was quite terrible in that area). But they still harm what is an otherwise surprisingly pretty visual presentation.
Overall, nothing besides the loading issue is disappointing my expectations, and the game exceeds them in a few areas like story, humor, and how packed the game world is with details. I was hoping Nintendo could bring out TT's best, it seems they have.
I think if you can get into the relaxed pace, it is a very meaty game with a ton of stuff to do. Also the kind of game the console needs right now, it'll last a long time if you like it.
If there's enough complaints about the loading, I hope that there's something TT can do with a patch to improve their loading scheme even a little bit. Btw, it seems the reason the game loads before a cut scene is that it's preparing data for the mission following the cut scene - lots of special placement for NPCs, required vehicles, and modifications to the area the mission takes place in.
ShellyDeKiller
Member
Why is this game full price in Europe??
Too bad there's still no real confirmation about multilingual.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
I have 2 complaints about the game, and neither of them are the loading. The loading is fine, it's whatever. I wish there was a radio when driving. The other is that there is no hard saving or saving when quiting.
Stormwatch
Member
So, I called GameStop and they said they got the game in. I drove down to the store, walked in, and asked for the game. The cashier said "Oh, that's not coming in until maybe Thursday". WTF, I just called and they said they had the game, now they don't? Turns out the cashier made a mistake and just went off of the release date and didn't actually check to see if they had the game.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
Judging by Kaijima's summary, I'm guessing the answer to this is no. What a bummer.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I haven't worked out everything that will trigger a save yet, but it's a critical oversight. This is how TT's Lego games have always worked, can't believe Nintendo's input didn't fix this issue of all things.
Smiles and Cries
Member
having a little Lego talking to you on the game pad really works well
shinobi602
Member
So, impressions so far? 
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
First Wii U game I've played where the gamepad is utilized so well. Does not feel gimmicky at all.
If the US version has American Spanish and American French it's very likely the EU version
will have all the mayor EU languages (although this is not always true).
However, this time i'm pretty sure the EU version will be fully dubbed as i recall having seen a commercial with Spanish voiceovers on youtube.
SaggyMonkey
Member
Amazon's the wrong place to get Nintendo published games because of their feud.
Yeah I love using the Gamepad to scan for superbricks. It works really well.
So far I am loving this game. It feels very Nintendo to me.