5 More Franchises That Need A Lego Game

<p>Two years ago&comma; I wrote an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;deserve-the-lego-video-game-treatment&sol;">article<&sol;a> that was mostly a pipe dream for future Lego Games&period; Oddly enough some of those games and honorable mentions became a reality&period; I was surprised to hear of the <em>Lego Avengers<&sol;em> announcement&comma; and saw that <em>Lego Batman 3 <&sol;em>was <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;beyond-gotham-within-expectations-lego-batman-3-review&sol;">pretty much a Justice League game<&sol;a>&comma; all of which I was hoping for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here are some more franchises that I&&num;8217&semi;d love to see Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales take on&period; Here&&num;8217&semi;s hoping they&&num;8217&semi;ll take a peek at this article themselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>5&rpar; <em>Shrek<&sol;em><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;87833" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-87833" style&equals;"width&colon; 750px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04201119&sol;1743891-o&lowbar;19b8jspg31bml1huj1d0i1dv91huu10-full&period;png"><img class&equals;"wp-image-87833" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04201119&sol;1743891-o&lowbar;19b8jspg31bml1huj1d0i1dv91huu10-full&period;png" alt&equals;"Lego" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"352" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-87833" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Photo Credit&colon; Lego Ideas&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Shrek&&num;8221&semi; by PetarRamljak&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>While most of <em>Shrek<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s humor is very dated&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s still a hoot and-a-half&comma; and Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales would have four movies and two spin offs to pull from&period; This would appeal to children&comma; and to adults who started watching these movies over a decade ago&period; I remember laughing my butt off in the theater the first time I saw this&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;d love to see a Lego version of this on consoles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Add the fact that Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales now uses actual dialog from the movies&comma; which would make this funnier than some of the previous Lego games&period; Nothing made me giggle more than hearing Ian McKellen&&num;8217&semi;s voice come out of a little Lego character&period; Make the hub world Shrek&&num;8217&semi;s swamp&comma; and let players run around in the four movies&comma; then unlock the <em>Puss &&num;8216&semi;N Boots<&sol;em> movies and you have another killer Lego game on your hands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>4&rpar; <em>Attack on Titan<&sol;em><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;87941" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-87941" style&equals;"width&colon; 800px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04200459&sol;Lego-Attack-on-Titan-BagoGames&period;png"><img class&equals;"wp-image-87941 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04200459&sol;Lego-Attack-on-Titan-BagoGames&period;png" alt&equals;"Lego Attack on Titan BagoGames" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-87941" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Photo Credit&colon; Lego Day Star Blogspot&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Should Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales take on<em> Attack on Titan<&sol;em>&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;d be very difficult to make it humorous&period; The entire series is dark and depressing for a reason&comma; but it kept me hooked for the first season&comma; and I can&&num;8217&semi;t wait &&num;8217&semi;till the second hits the states&period; Maybe this would be the game that shows us that Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales does dark and brooding very well too&period; Seeing that I can&&num;8217&semi;t get enough of<em> Attack on Titan<&sol;em>&comma; having it in Lego form&comma; taking out Titans as a Lego Eren would be a blast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Maybe TT could work their humor magic on this game&comma; but I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if it&&num;8217&semi;d carry the same weight if there was anything funny about this world&period; A mature Lego game could work in the US market&comma; though&period; Just look at how well <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fear-itself-batman-arkham-knight-review&sol;">Batman&colon; Arkham Knight<&sol;a> <&sol;em>is doing&comma; even with the &&num;8220&semi;M&&num;8221&semi; plastered on the cover&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>3&rpar; <em>Evil Dead&sol; Army of Darkness<&sol;em><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;87846" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-87846" style&equals;"width&colon; 750px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04201049&sol;4709017691&lowbar;f8b8c01df9&lowbar;b&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-87846" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04201049&sol;4709017691&lowbar;f8b8c01df9&lowbar;b-1024x652&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Lego" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"478" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-87846" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Photo Credit&colon; Lego Ash&comma; Army of Darkness&comma; by Mark Holden&comma; Flickr&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately for newer gamers&comma; the <em>Evil Dead<&sol;em> series hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been seen on consoles in two generations&period; I remember hunting down the first <em>Evil Dead<&sol;em> game for the Dreamcast &&num;8212&semi; for some reason it was insanely difficult to find &&num;8212&semi; and playing it from start to finish as fast as I could&period; When newer games were released for the Xbox &comma;I also snatched those up&semi; not only were they solid action games&comma; they were made hilarious due to Bruce Campbell nailing every line&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales could work wonders with the humor&comma; and even grab Campbell to do some new lines for the game&period; I can picture the hub world being the cabin and getting to play through the trilogy&comma; and even the new Evil Dead movie that came out a year ago or so&period; Plus&comma; they could make the new Starz series episodes DLC so that you get the whole picture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>2&rpar; <em>Dirty Harry<&sol;em><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;87848" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-87848" style&equals;"width&colon; 750px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;maxresdefault2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-87848" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;maxresdefault2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Lego" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"422" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-87848" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Photo Credit&colon; shotgun22sd&comma; YouTube&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Poor Harry Callahan&period; The cop with a &&num;8216&semi;tude <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;contender-cancelled-games-awesome&sol;">almost had his own game<&sol;a> about eight years ago&comma; but something went awry at Warner Bros&period; and the game never saw the light of day&period; Clint Eastwood was in full support of the game as well&comma; even lending his likeness and voice to the game&period; Flash forward quite a few years and I&&num;8217&semi;m sitting on my couch playing <em>Lego City Undercover<&sol;em>&comma; and who do I see in the Police Meeting Room&quest; None other than a Lego version of <em>Dirty Harry<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are five movies for them to turn into Legos&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s unimaginable that something so mature could be so funny with the Lego animations&comma; and how they may have to temper down the violence of some scenes&period; The San Fransisco Hall of Justice would have to be the hub world where Lego Dirty Harry runs around and serves justice to the dirt-bags of Fisherman&&num;8217&semi;s Wharf&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>1&rpar; <em>Sherlock Holmes<&sol;em><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;87856" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-87856" style&equals;"width&colon; 620px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04201035&sol;SherlockLEGO1&lowbar;1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-87856 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04201035&sol;SherlockLEGO1&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Lego" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"348" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-87856" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Photo Credit&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Sherlock&&num;8221&semi; by flails&comma; Lego Ideas&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The Sherlock Holmes brand is in something of a Renaissance now&period; Robert Downey Jr&period; has his movies&comma; the BBC has<em> Sherlock<&sol;em>&comma; CBS has <em>Elementary&comma;<&sol;em> and Sir Ian Mckellan&&num;8217&semi;s finally playing an aging Mr&period; Holmes in this summer&&num;8217&semi;s film of the same name&period; The sleuth&&num;8217&semi;s also been in quite a few <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;slick-sleuthing-sherlock-holmes-crimes-punishments-review&sol;">video games<&sol;a> recently&comma; and desperately needs Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales to take the mantel for a game or two&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TT would have plenty work with three movies&comma; two TV shows&comma; and even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&&num;8217&semi;s actual stories&period; Naturally&comma; 221B Baker Street would have to be the hub world&comma; where any incarnation of Holmes could jump into any visions of the Holmes world we have now&period; It&&num;8217&semi;d be pretty neat for old school Sherlock Holmes fans to be able to unlock some of the Basil Rathbone stories and make his Lego character black and white&period; It&&num;8217&semi;d also be neat to see two different Sherlocks voiced by their respective actors bickering about a crime scene or what Watson&&num;8217&semi;s been up to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are five more franchises that Traveller&&num;8217&semi;s Tales should try to sink their teeth into&quest; Are there any we missed&quest; Let us know in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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