Gaming LEGO City Undercover is actually releasing next week

[DiscostewSM]

Years down the road, when Nintendo shuts down the Switch eShop, anyone who bought LCU for Switch will be out of a game if they ever delete the downloaded contents.......

 

[Jiehfeng]

Years down the road, when Nintendo shuts down the Switch eShop, anyone who bought LCU for Switch will be out of a game if they ever delete the downloaded contents.......

Hah, well that could be said for other digital games...

 

[Bladexdsl]

what the deuce are they smoking?

well since it's Wb i'd say they been hitting that joker gas HARD

 

[grossaffe]

Hah, well that could be said for other digital games...

Difference being that this is supposedly a physical release.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Wb as bad as bethesda with FO4. 4gb on disc and 20gb download!

 

[DarthDub]

I hope they fix the freezing issues whenever you deviate from something during Story Mode..

 

[Jiehfeng]

Anywho, I'll be downloading on launch day, I'll report anything that comes to mind.

 

[Cyan]

I liked that game a lot. Probably the best lego game I played. it suffered from long load time, but there weren't a lot (only first launch, and mission loading) all the city is open word loaded.

Lego games all have a freezing issue (on all games and all consoles).
I could bet the Switch will have that bug too.

Aren't lego games good for console exploit? The wii hacks used these games multiple times.
let's see how the switch is reacting with game crashes.

 

[zoogie]

I liked that game a lot. Probably the best lego game I played. it suffered from long load time, but there weren't a lot (only first launch, and mission loading) all the city is open word loaded.

Lego games all have a freezing issue (on all games and all consoles).
I could bet the Switch will have that bug too.

Aren't lego games good for console exploit? The wii hacks used these games multiple times.
let's see how the switch is reacting with game crashes.

Maybe they once were, but there were about a dozen lego games for the 3ds and nothing came of that. Maybe ubisoft has figured out how to secure its games.

And here's something else interesting about lego undercover for switch:
http://nintendoeverything.com/lego-...to-13gb-of-space-for-game-download-on-switch/

tl;dr mandatory game update for the game to run. most of the game data isn't even on the cart it seems. lame.

 

[Jiehfeng]

I liked that game a lot. Probably the best lego game I played. it suffered from long load time, but there weren't a lot (only first launch, and mission loading) all the city is open word loaded.

Lego games all have a freezing issue (on all games and all consoles).
I could bet the Switch will have that bug too.

Aren't lego games good for console exploit? The wii hacks used these games multiple times.
let's see how the switch is reacting with game crashes.

Yep, pretty much. Even if those freezing issues can be fixed easily, TT Games is too lazy to do so.

Maybe they once were, but there were about a dozen lego games for the 3ds and nothing came of that.

And here's something else interesting about lego undercover for switch:
http://nintendoeverything.com/lego-...to-13gb-of-space-for-game-download-on-switch/

tl;dr mandatory game update for the game to run. most of the game data isn't even on the cart it seems. lame.

That's what we were talking about in the previous posts.

 

[Jiehfeng]

UPDATE: The Physical game does come with the game and no download is required, unless there's a small day one update or future update, the game will be playable from the box.

UPDATE 2.30pm: Lego City Undercover publisher Warner Bros. has provided us with this short statement on the game's cartridge version, which suggests you will be able to play without downloading anything.

"Players who purchase Lego City Undercover on Nintendo Switch at retail do not need to download the game to play," a company spokesperson told us.

We're still no clearer why the game's box states it requires an internet connection, or 13GB of storage, but the suggestion here perhaps is that at least some of the game is playable without downloading.

We've contacted Warner Bros. again for further clarification.

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[Bladexdsl]

fuck it still not getting lego games are just too unstable.

 

[Jiehfeng]

fuck it still not getting lego games are just too unstable.

I wouldn't use the word "too" unless you're really unlucky or you tend to do very weird things in games. I played Undercover and many other LEGO games a lot and I've only experienced a crash rarely in those games, some play just fine throughout the game. The Undercover crashes on the Wii U is most likely due to the hardware, and besides, if you do get crashes or any other weird bugs on the Switch, you can easily boot up the game quickly as the Switch OS is pretty smooth.

 

[Bladexdsl]

The Undercover crashes on the Wii U is most likely due to the hardware

no it's not I've played lego games on my PC which has more than enough power and they still crash.

 

[Cyan]

It's just strange to release an empty cartridge with 13GB required download, unless it's for collection purpose but that would be money loss for the publisher to produce empty cartridge. they could just release the game only on eshop.

So, based on that updated comment, that's fine if the game data is on the cartridge.
Thought, it's stated on the box "internet required", who made the box design? :s

Maybe the game could still require 13GB of data to be installed, but direct cartridge access should be faster than copying the game to the console, right? and it wouldn't require internet, unless it's used for something else.

 

[Zhongtiao1]

It's just strange to release an empty cartridge with 13GB required download, unless it's for collection purpose but that would be money loss for the publisher to produce empty cartridge. they could just release the game only on eshop.

So, based on that updated comment, that's fine if the game data is on the cartridge.
Thought, it's stated on the box "internet required", who made the box design? :s

Maybe the game could still require 13GB of data to be installed, but direct cartridge access should be faster than copying the game to the console, right? and it wouldn't require internet, unless it's used for something else.

Maybe there's a form of online play?

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[Cyan]

usually, games with online play are only optional.
maybe it's really a mistake, or maybe they thought twice after deciding to make game download mandatory but the box project was already done.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

this just in whether you get the physical copy or not the game STILL requires a 13gb download data on to run and if you don't download it you can't even play it! what's the fucking point of a physical release than?!

fuck that not buying it than.

add option to poll: not buying a physical game if it still needs a download to run!

Seriously? Not remotely interested at all then.

The only reason I'd have to check it out on the Switch would be if the loading times had been shorten but to know that, I don't need to buy it, Digital Foundry and others will probably cover it. PC is going to be the definitive edition of the game, anyhow.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Seriously? Not remotely interested at all then.

Wb responded reckons it's not true...why is it on the box than?

 

[KingVamp]

Between this, poorly optimized games on what is considered the easiest platform to develop for, and other companies charging $10 more for games on Nintendo platforms vs non-Nintendo platforms, it's almost like these companies are trying to sabotage Nintendo.

Things like this, is why I say it isn't only or always Nintendo fault. I don't buy that the cart costs raise the price that much and more people would buy the game, if it was the same or cheaper price as the other consoles. At least $5 would have been more reasonable, if they truly needed to raised the price.

I can see partially writable carts in the future. You shouldn't have to download just to play a physical game, but to be able to store data on the actually cart would help.

They really should have just put it all on a bigger cart. I never understood, "let's go through the trouble of physical media and have them download anyway!" Just defeats the purpose and you are still paying for the physical media anyway. Not to mention, lose people who truly want physical games.

Years down the road, when Nintendo shuts down the Switch eShop, anyone who bought LCU for Switch will be out of a game if they ever delete the downloaded contents.......

Would just be more recommendations to hack the console.

So, now they say you can play without a download? Still, I wonder what you are missing, if that's the case. Unless it something about online play, it should still have been on the cart.