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[Interview] General: LEGO Minifigures Online: An Action Adventure RPG
SBFord
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Funcom recently started the process of unveiling their latest venture, LEGO Minifigures Online. We had the opportunity to speak with Lead Designer Oscar Lopez Lacalle and Executive Producer Lawrence Poe about LMO. It's a great interview to introduce the game. Read on and then leave your thoughts in the comments.
MMORPG: What is the backstory/lore behind LEGO Minifigures Online?
Oscar Lopez Lacalle: The game takes place in a number of different heavily thematic worlds. Some of them are based on existing LEGO themes that are well known to all LEGO fans, like the Pirate World or the Space World. Some others like the Mythology World are our own creation, built from scratch to feel like any other existing LEGO theme. One of the strong points of the minifigure line is that they are so varied, eclectic and full of personality. We are creating Worlds that provide a variety of different environments where anything from a Skater to a Gingerbread Man to a Roman Commander can go on crazy adventures together. More details about the specifics of the backstory will be revealed later.
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funcom making lego games... what a waste
They always had big dreams about their mmos and were one of the few who really tried new things when everyone else were churning out the same shit year after year
LMO? lmao...
Don't get me wrong, I loved the tongue-in-cheek humour of Lego Star Wars Original trilogy, and Lego of the Rings was even hilarious occasionally. Not to mention I'm a Funcom fan.
But I think this will be the first FC game I'll skip... for obvious reasons
The whole point of LEGOS is that youbuild whatever you want and encourage a child's imagination. So they do not even put in the core aspect of the product and instead make it an action MMO?
Yea....this should turn out great. Might as well make a Star Wars MMO without any space combat....oops.
Their first one had a lot of potential... but it was the execution that was really poor.
Very limited play, limited areas, severe control lag at times, sync issues...
And the locked chat(aimed at little kids)...
If funcom is making a more mature version, with a better engine and an actual decent game world and good skill mechanics, I will try that.
My bet is that this will be F2P from the start which should help it a lot. Minifigures fits into cash shops very well.
LEGO online should have been a great game but between the monthly sub and some bad design decisions it just sort of fell flat. A F2P game much more focused towards the Lego video games kind of play and humor I think could do very well. Could being the key word of that sentence.
Funcom is obviously capable of mechanically creating MMORPGs. They don't seem to be so great at creating content that grabs people. Hopefully with this one they'll get the content right. Though, with Legos, they can go in pretty much any direction they want.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
This have been a good conversation
Lego Universe was a very good game for kids and my kids loved it. Sadly it had a high sub cost and lacked content and suffered a few other really bad design decisions such as a lack of inventory space for your minifigure costumes. Had it been F2P and a cash shop with outfits and substructures you could add on to your house, it would have lasted longer.
Those of us with kids are looking forward to a game we can play with our kids.
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I must say this makes a lot of sense compared to the prior Lego game. Minifigures and Lego City have a world of their own. A lot of people seem to collect the minifigures now as opposed to when I was a kid. The figures were just figures. Now they seem to have a following of their own.
This methodically makes sense to tailor to that, as frankly Minecraft does Lego online what Lego online should of done.
dude, what did they expect they created games for people with high end computers the vast majority of people don't have monster computers and no one likes to play with lag. MMO's have to run smoothly on as many pc's as possible not just new high end pc's, to bad no one ever gave them the memo.
"Building is a core part of the LEGO experience and it will play a key role for the game in the form of buildables in the world that help you take down enemies, and gain access to different areas. They will also be a central component of all boss fights, and play a prominent role in PvP where you will for instance build turrets and other structures."
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