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LEGO Launches a Minecraft Competitor On Steam

Posted by samzenpus on from the original-builders dept.

An anonymous reader writes: There's been plenty of rumors that LEGO was developing a competitor to Minecraft, and today they released it on Steam. "Lego Worlds enables you to populate your worlds with many weird and wonderful characters, creatures, models, and driveable vehicles, and then play out your own unique adventures," the game's Steam page explains. Unlike "Minecraft," LEGO's new game won't have multiplayer gameplay yet.

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  1. It's a lot less painful by cyberchondriac · · Score: 5, Funny

    to step on a virtual lego.

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  2. Blockland! by wikthemighty · · Score: 5, Informative

    Surprised it took them this long - Blockland was effectively this some time ago...

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    1. Re:Blockland! by Sarten-X · · Score: 4, Informative

      As was Lego Creator before that.

      This is not Lego's first round in the "creative game" genre.

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  3. Eh... by EmeraldBot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water. Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game. The fact it runs on pretty much any computer really helped its popularity too, as did the fact that the company (used to be) fairly responsive to its user community.

    A new game with no multiplayer, pretty much non-existent modding, launched on a restrictive platform (compared to Minecraft of course) for only one OS, and with fairly high system requirements to top it all off. I'm pretty skeptical.

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  4. Re:No multiplayer? No competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Too many dongs

  5. Links please? by saberworks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Neither story nor the original article text include a link to the game on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/...

    (if you scroll past a bunch of ad blocks you can find it next to "source" on the original article)

  6. Re:Good GUI mods? by VanessaE · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since you asked, here are some mods/modpacks for you to try out:

    More Blocks
    Homedecor
    Pipeworks
    Gloopblocks
    Streets
    Infrastructure (cheapie's version)
    Carbone MOBs (separated out from the Carbone subgame)

    A few that do change the gameplay somewhat radically:

    Plantlife modpack
    More Trees
    Technic modpack

    There are a ton more on the forums. All of the above can be used together (as is usually the case with this engine).

    Disclaimer: I maintain and or contribute to several of these.

  7. Meh -- Summary of pros/cons by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pros:
    + Players and creatures (such as horses) don't look like blocky
    + Have sloped roofs -- 45 degree #3039, 25 degree #3298 and 73 degree #98560
    + Have "smooth" flat tiles #3068
    + Initial support for airplanes, and mining vehicles
    * Misc. decorations

    Cons:
    - Single player only
    - Windows only (MineCraft runs on OSX, Linux, Android, consoles)
    - Cost $15 while MineTest, Terasology, etc. are free.

    Anyone have an idea of what the world height and size is limited to?