Possible Future LEGO Games Discussion Thread

[Ordinareo]

With LEGO Dimensions showing light to some properties and introducing franchises to people that never knew about them and the possibilities for the future, what do you think will become a full lego game sometime in 2017 to beyond?

This thread is to discuss possible future lego games that might happen due to it's popularity.

Edited July 3, 2016 by Ordinareo

[Lyichir]

It's a little hard to say what will get its own full game and what will not with the news that Lego Dimensions will be getting multi-level "story packs" for movies like the new Ghostbusters, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Lego Batman Movie. It's hard to tell how much this will affect games based on licensed themes—will it prevent full games we might otherwise have gotten, or will it mostly allow a longer play experience than we might otherwise have gotten for less prominent licenses? If Lego Dimensions didn't exist, would we be getting a Lego Ghostbusters game that covered all three films in the series, or would it be yet another license that never got any representation in a full video game, like Toy Story, TMNT, The Lone Ranger, or Spongebob Squarepants? And are shorter play experiences for games based on individual movies (like past games based on The Force Awakens or The Lego Movie that have largely had to pad the story with supplementary material in order to justify a full-priced console game) a good thing or a bad thing?

As someone who generally prefers Lego's original themes to their licensed themes, I'm even less sure of what the future holds. I was super-excited to get representation of Lego City Undercover in Dimensions, considering that game was one of my favorites among recent Lego games. But we still don't know what that representation will constitute (other than a fig and vehicle for lead character Chase McCain), and it's still up in the air whether the series will ever get a full sequel (the Lego City theme has branched out significantly in recent years and is presumably not going away any time soon, but it's unclear how successful the Wii U-exclusive original was). Similarly, I have to wonder what the future holds for some of my favorite themes like Ninjago, Nexo Knights, Bionicle, and Elves. All four of those themes have generally favored mobile apps (and in Ninjago's case, games for handheld systems) over full-priced console/PC games. It's hard to tell if that will ever change, and if so, how. Will next fall's Lego Ninjago movie finally what pushes the now-evergreen Ninjago theme to get a full console game, or will it, like The Lego Batman Movie, only get a story pack in Dimensions? What are the chances of Lego Elves (a mini-doll theme) or Bionicle (a Constraction theme) getting anything more involved than a time-wasting mobile app after the mediocre reception to the handheld Lego Friends game or the even older Bionicle Heroes (the only Lego video game by TT Games to take the form of a shooter)? Frankly for any of those themes I'd be more than happy with them at least getting representation in Lego Dimensions, particularly Bionicle since it would presumably necessitate minifigure versions of the characters.

We can probably be sure that at the very least, major movies from Lego's major licenses will get full games of their own. Star Wars Episode VIII will almost certainly get its own dedicated game, though anthology movies like Rogue One or TV shows like Rebels are still less certain. With TT Games being a subsidiary of Warner Bros. and the Super Heroes games being consistently successful, it's likely that the upcoming Justice League movie will get its own game (probably including content from Man of Steel and Batman V. Superman as well), and other DC Super Heroes games not based on movies aren't out of the question, either. Marvel Super Heroes will also likely continue to get its own games, though it's not totally clear how often—we'll probably get more games based on the cinematic universe for Infinity War Part One and/or Part Two, at the very least. Similarly, even if The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie don't get their own video games, The Lego Movie Sequel in 2019 most likely will. Even then, there's still a lot of uncertainty. When future Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones movies are made, and get tie-in Lego themes, will they still get their own games, or with Disney Infinity out of the way would they be worked into Dimensions? What about Jurassic World 2? And of course beyond that, we have no idea what sort of brand-new licenses and original themes Lego might have in store in the future.