Is it wrong to say that I find Lego lame as a playable toy? (Ramble)

[Saelune]

And PC gaming is the most powerful, but yet consoles are popular...cause one of them doesnt require a ton of money and skill.

Legos are customizable literally out of the box to any child. Warhammer figures not so much. Sure, I can GLUE any part to anything, but not well. I mean, really, I coud just make my own molds and do whatever I want, but tell that to a 4 year old.

Warhammer figures are messy, hurt to step on (and generally way pointier than legos) and chances of building something worth getting excited about is pretty low.

Ok, getting sick of seeing this myth still around, but PC gaming requires neither a ton of money or skill. A decent gaming rig costs roughly $800 and gives you at least two years of play at med-max graphics on the majority of titles, depending on what you like to play of course. At worst, you're working minimum wage for roughly eight months to afford it. And if you can fit together LEGO playsets, you can fit together components since they're sorta labelled and have unique pin configurations depending on where it's supposed to go.

The closest you get to "tons of skill" is the labeling cards and components and ordering things simply because they seem to make them as alien as they can and how some things don't interact very well. All of which you can overcome by asking around at the various PC build outlets around the internet and the AMD/Nvidia sites largely being well-kept in terms of what's compatible with what. Source: My technologically illiterate ass.

And you're talking to one of the kids grew up getting Warhammer figures that were pretty customizable out of the box. I mean, after putting together a box, you normally had more than a few bits left over and then it was up to your imagination and painting for further customizing...Not to mention you're taking what I said as far as you can to make your justification make more sense. I never said anything about molds, I never said anything about 4-year olds playing with them, I never said a damn thing about Warhammer competing with LEGO or one being better than the other.

All I did was say that the minis are customizable out of the box and that you can put an equivalent Spider-Man head on an equivalent Gandalf body with an equivalent Batman cowl using equivalent lightsaber in equivalent hogwarts if you want to. That's literally it. So cool it.

Simplicity is a value in and of itself. Give some legos to a kid, then give them a warhammer set, see what happens. Hope they dont choke on the glue or huff the paint.

I dont have to do shit when I get a console (atleast until this iteration BS which I hate). All the games for teh system work. Dont need to worry about drivers, dont need to worry about graphic cards, dont need to worry about OS. Its alot of work not needed to just play a game.

I've done very little to my system in two years. I don't get how this is even a reason. You spend a few days researching and assembling and then are convenienced for years. Personally, I find consoles a hassle in comparison.

Consoles now are throwing away all their convenience, but how they were, were easy and simple. A few days spent researching is a few days of gaming lost.

I dont have to do shit when I get a console (at least until this iteration BS which I hate).

While I'd gladly leave the good ol' pc vs console memes alone, last generation saw PC become the better platform in almost all ways. The only advantage consoles still have (that's not artificial like exclusives and shit ports) is the social aspect of playing in the living room which is easier to set up with a console.

OT: If one considers all the assembling and taking apart of legos (sue me) as lame, then I can see where you're coming from. The loony bin, that is.

To quote my last post again:

Just so you know I know that is the point of Lego, I am just pointing out the idea that there are kids that plays with said Lego constructions as no different than a doll/action figure even though that is not what Legos are made for.

The playing of Lego is the building not the using of the construction as a doll.

A toy's purpose is to have fun. If you're having fun, it doesnt really matter how.

 

[Redryhno]

Ok, getting sick of seeing this myth still around, but PC gaming requires neither a ton of money or skill. A decent gaming rig costs roughly $800 and gives you at least two years of play at med-max graphics on the majority of titles.

Tbh, 800$ for two years before upgrading would be a shit deal compared to the console option. That's unlikely to be the case, however. Reddit is full of these bargain builds anyway. We can all check for ourselves if we want.

Depends, yeah, but it's all two years of pretty good graphics that scale down to console graphics effectively for at least another two years. And since we seem to be entering some kind of constant console cycle with the PS4 and Xbone Plus's(don't remember their actual names), I'd say that a minimum of two years is a pretty good deal when you also factor in the hundreds of other things you use your computer for daily that you may not be able to do with a Walmart box-n-pack.

Mostly I just get tired of hearing the same crap, it kept me from getting into PC gaming beyond internet flash games for way too fucking long and I have no desire to go back to consoles outside of a handful of exclusives that don't have a port in the somewhat near future anymore.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I love Lego. Seriously, I had many Transformers but Lego was what let me build bases for the Decepticons to plot their villainy from.

So I personally feel that Lego is one of the greatest toys because you are limited only by imagination, or more commonly, the pieces you have. Wanna have a castle? Go bananas. Airport? Go right ahead etc ad infiniteum.

 

[Sværke]

The playing of Lego is the building not the using of the construction as a doll.

That is just not true. If you prefer your Lego as static that's just fine but to alot of kids, playing with the construction is just as big a part of it. Stating that lego is not to be played with is, if not wrong, then a higly subjective thought.
Even LEGO (the company) seems to disagree:

https://youtu.be/58TcTGTWlHk

Notice the hands? The commercials tries to show what goes on in the mind of the child playing

It's not even a new idea:
https://youtu.be/U5u0Hmkh1JM?list=PLVrotqT19hev8ES75NR7zpJadtoCYdZ2Z

Playing has been a big part of lego for a looong time now.

But again; You want to build and watch? Then do

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Has Lego monopolized toys for everyone?

 

[Saelune]

Has Lego monopolized toys for everyone?

Well, its the only toy Id still go out and buy, and often consider it too.

I look at alot of other toys, and be like...Why? Many toys Ive gotten as a kid that I barely, or sometimes never played with, but Legos were always opened as soon as I got home and immediately worked on. Then...Id actually play with them. The only currently together set is a Rohan Castle set, which is only because my brother and I got it on a whim. Everything else is disseminated into scores of buckets, that we still have.

I also consider using them for DnD at times, especially all the LOTR sets.