/vr/ - Retro Games

>licensed game
Into the trash it goes.
>inb4 b-but
no.

>>9908901
it was soulful but my memory is that the driving was fucking terrible with absolutely zero physics

Jet ski racing was fucking awesome
The race car wasn’t iirc

>>9908908
great post

>>9908908
licensed games can be good because all the work of creating characters and a world is done, so there can be a focus on gameplay. Goldeneye 64 is a good use of a license.
>yeah, a license to kill
>you’re now thinking of Bond’s extra wide mouth on the box art

>>9909919
There's actually loads of good licensed games. "Licenced games bad", is such a babbie's first taste in video games opinion.

Last Action Hero for DOS is actually proto-GTA. I think some of the same people even worked on it, or at least it was cited as an inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXzNw40pYoc

>>9909241
That's because driving was just sped up walking.
Shit was great as a kid, but the game is really just an activity center with a really fancy skin.

>>9908908
FBPB, and I HAD played the shit out of this piece of shit

>>9909926
https://youtu.be/OlrSTgkLQh0?t=381

>>9908908
>alright team let's get to work and make a good game!
>but sir, we don't own the intellectual property
>dammit! how will we have decent controls and fun levels now?

I've never let The Brickster out. I refuse to do it. I don't care that I'm missing out on a big segment of the game. I don't care I don't have 100% red bricks. I'm not doing it.

>>9910041
More like
>alright team let's get to work and make a fun game
>we got the IP!
>ah well fuck it, who cares we can sell on shitty gameplay alone
That said, this happens NOW, but not as much in the 8-32bit era.

>>9910045
You can get all red bricks without letting the Brickster out. He doesn't escape if you deliver a pizza without building the helicopter first.

>>9908901
Is this the game where you could throw pizzas?

>>9910149
theyre called pizaz and no u cant throw them...thats lego island 2

>>9910182
I'm pretty sure you throw pizzas and donuts from the helicopter during the brickster chase,

>>9910182
Pepper get off 4chan

Island 2 is way better than the first one

All i have to say to you OP is,
>YOU WILL NEVER BE A MASTER BUILDER
https://voca.ro/10549m4619zT

>>9910379
Holy shit

>>9910192
You do.

What was that Lego browser game where you sneak into a movie studio?

>>9910007
>Shit was great as a kid, but the game is really just an activity center with a really fancy skin.
Really, given that they probably had a relatively small budget and development team, it was a good approach to the task of making a Lego video game. It was an extremely simplified "babby's first open world game", but it made up for it with tons of charm. I haven't touched the game in over 25 years at this point, but so many voices and quotes are seared into my brain.

I never realized how much heavy lifting the script and performances did until I watched a gameplay video of the sequel. Holy hell, what a soulless shit-heap.

>>9910045
I never even tried. My computer was such trash that the game barely ran well enough to do any of the events. I didn't mind losing a race or screwing up delivering pizzas, but I had serious anxiety about letting the Brickster out, knowing my jank framerate and laggy inputs would probably let him destroy the whole island. Is there even a game over sequence if you fail? I have no idea.

>BRICK BY BRICK
>SUCK MY DICK
what did they mean by this?

>>9909924
Most are bad.

>>9910503
no matter how thick

>>9910568
Most games in general are bad. 10% of games are good, 5% are great, 1 percent are masterpieces, the rest are shit. Same goes for every art form.

What's your point?

>>9908901
Lego Island 2 was better.

>>9908908
stfu brickster

>We will never get the comfy pirate/underwater themed Lego Island 2 that was teased

>>9910830
Hang on, I never heard of that and now I'm interested. Got any pictures or links?

>>9910467
Need

>>9910182
I REMEMBER THIS GAME
IT WAS CTRL TO THROW PIZAS

>>9910378
>>9910716
The minigames were worse, voice acting was dogshit, and the art style made all the islanders look fucking hideous. First game had a lot of love poured into it, second one was just a cashgrab made by a worse studio.

>>9908901
GTA came out in 1997.

>>9912550
I mean 3D GTAs obviously, which are completely different games and honestly cant be compared to GTA 1 and 2

>>9912576
>which are completely different games
Not really, GTA 3 even had an overview camera.

>>9910109
>but not as much in the 8-32bit era.
Don't know why you say that. I played tons of shitty licensed games in NES/NES/Genesis days and beyond.

>>9910689
This

>>9912625
As a novelty, the game's obviously not designed around it. I wonder if there's an overhead speedrun category

>>9910467
Lego Studios Backlot.

>>9913476
I guess my point is that GTA 3 was a natural translation from 2 into a third person perspective and they probably weren't inspired by lego land. The mission structure is pretty much the same there.

>>9910117
That sounds like something the Brickster would say

>>9910475
>Is there even a game over sequence if you fail?
Yes and it probably made a few young kids cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSDo__LPQU

>>9910475
>>9914745
Oh and there's also the extended version which didn't make it in the final game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukQ5iWFhVY

>>9914745
Saw that shit too many times because I fucked up the helo segment.

CAN'T GO WITHOUT THE SHARK

>>9910689
Yeah. It bugs the hell out of me when I hear people say "X console is good but like, 90% of its games are bad".
No shit lol

you scratch my brick, i'll scratch yours.

>>9908901
>try to go in front of train tracks
>game wouldn’t let me
0/10

i would sit in here sometimes and wish i could open that door. kinda spooky but also comfy.

Alright, which e-celeb made a video about Lego Island, you fucking faggots

>>9918132
hahahaha! we're having a common nostalgia without a specific instigator!

>>9910045
the cutscene of him winning was the most terryfing shit I saw that time as a kid

~ /videoretro/'s official Lego Island missions tierlist ~

God Tier:
Hospital

High Tier:
Jetski racing

Mid Tier:
Pizza Delivery

Low Tier:
Auto racing

Shit Tier:
Mechanic

>>9919235
t. got knocked off the overpass by the skeleton

>>9908908
Brickster is that you

based

>>9910568
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

>>9909919
licensed games only got bad around the 3D era. Most licensed 2D games are good since you could make a good game quicker and cheaper back then

THE DUDE WITH THE FOOD

for me, it's nick brick

>>9922886
why do they bully him for not having a nose when most lego people lack noses