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Me and my missus' Hallowe'en costumes, LEGO-fied.

While reading an Internet news blog earlier tonight, I began to wonder if the concept of yet another Lego game was enticing, or simply just filled with empty expectations. Lego Rock Band? Are you serious, Travellers Tales? For one, it’s just Rock Band with different background visuals, and maybe coloured Lego bricks instead of the little horizontal bars scrolling down the screen. Which actually made me giggle internally, I’m ashamed to admit.

I loved Lego Indiana Jones, I got a big kick out of Lego Star Wars, but what trilogies can realistically be done now? Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are among the possibles, and I’ve enjoyed both, but do I really want to play the same game again with different scenery? It’s still going to be collecting enough lego bits to be a “True Wizard/Hobbit”, it’ll want you to unlock every character, even Gollum, and don’t even get me started on the utter hilarity of Lego LOTR revolving round a small round object a Lego figure has no fingers to put it on.

Someone at That Videogame Blog said they were waiting for Lego Lego Star Wars. I can’t agree more, to be honest. It’s a matter of time before they eat through all franchises. And yet, where the hell is the LEGO MMORPG? If anything could prove a serious contender to World of Warcraft (by serious I mean the 0.000001% of the market share that’s left after 11 million WoW subs), it’s a Lego MMO. Imagine raiding Molten Core with Lego people, Lego PvP, Lego grinding, the sheer scale of character customisation, not to mention how easy creating new game worlds would be, hell, all the “building blocks” are there, pun intended.

I just wish Traveller’s Tales would re-evaluate their formula. Stop making the same game. It sells very well to four year olds, and me and my missus, because Lego Batman was, let’s be honest, faithful to DC and a work of genius. But it was the same as the last game, and the game before it. Unless the next release is Lego Online: Rise of the Sticklebricks, I’m not interested.