Just so you all know

[GirlinContempt]

Lego Star Wars II is really awesome.
I can't believe it took me so long to get to it.


Oh, and also beware of clerks in video stores who ask you what game you're renting.
You may be roped into a minimum 15 minute even-too-nerdy-for-me conversation about Playstation VS XBOX VS blueray VS HD VS who knows wtf else.
Re-god-damn-diculous. When a total stranger starts telling you about their level 99 black knight, RUN.

[bridgit]

1. that game is very-very popular...

LucasArts is one of our clients, and we see the numbers float by; they are impressive

[GirlinContempt]

2. The games are just sah-weeeeeet

they remind me of the old old mario style games. Fun, playable, engaging.

[bridgit]

4. there was a big push a couple months back down here, and kids were...

stuffed in these EB Games places (electronic boutique) on the various routes, it is a hoot dealing with them was well = fun stuff :)

[GirlinContempt]

7. Yeah we have EB

Good times :D

[bridgit]

10. coolness...

an EB soul sistah :smoke:

[GirlinContempt]

3. I edited my OP.

Which doesn't mean much. Just a heads up. Like to keep you on in the ins.

[bridgit]

5. hahahahaha, you got it!!!

:spray: :rofl: :thumbsup:

[GirlinContempt]

13. Seriously that happens to me weekly

I'll be going about my business like a normal human being and then suddenly
BAM
"I have a level 53 warlock, and I took him into this castle, and like, my guild was like, somewhere else, and there was an ogre and some trolls, but somehow I fought through them, and then I was a level 54, and I got the armor of healing enchantment, and I went into the forest"

and then I kill myself.

[bridgit]

18. i am fully & completely serious too, we have info from corporate as to...

the way they would have products positioned and what-all, and that's fine; but if you are not ever vigilant, as you have so rightly alluded to; you WILL BE SUCKED into 'the gamer vortex' where woe befalls the individual without an accessible escape or exit

:scared:

[GirlinContempt]

20. Do you work in an EB?

[bridgit]

22. nope, we have a client base that takes us almost all over northern california...

[GirlinContempt]

23. Yeah I didn't THINK so

but I was confused for a second

[slj0101]

6. I thought about checking it out.

Thank you. I may get it for the PC since my PS2 lay in pieces on my living room floor.

[GirlinContempt]

9. Did you play the first?

[slj0101]

12. No, I haven't.

But I may have to look into that as well.

[GirlinContempt]

15. It was really fun too

I'm not sure which is better.
2 is harder so far.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. My 8 year old loves it!

:)

[GirlinContempt]

11. Awesome!

Good clean fun.
Except for Chewy ripping dudes arms off.
And all the shooting and killing.
But, enemies turn into hearts and coins not blood and gore!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. Not too different from action figures losing limbs...

My kids always insisted that decapitated action figures were still good, because they could be dead guys. :rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

16. My kinda kids!

:D

[JVS]

17. Oh, you think that's too nerdy for you! Listen to these three phrases that I mentioned in one...

conversation tonight.

"Pre-lateran mass"

"Divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom"

"Liturgy of Justin martyr"

[GirlinContempt]

19. Completely different

COMPLETELY

[JVS]

21. how?

[GirlinContempt]

24. You don't make me want to throw myself into traffic to escape you

[atommom]

25. Yes, it totally rocks. My 6 and 8 y.o. love it!

I rationalize that the violence won't turn them into serial killers, because they're just turning their enemies into little piles of Legos, not bloody corpses. :) Lego Star Wars II is the cool game to have in my son's second grade class. I haven't played it as much as they have, but it's a lot of fun.

Have to say that it's marketing genius, too. They now play with their Legos more, beg for Star Wars Legos, Star Wars movies (yeah, I know we should already have those, but they're on TV all the time anyway), new lightsabers, and Star Wars action figures. All that capitalistic greed from one little video game! :crazy: (I, of course, told them to start saving their allowance.)

[GirlinContempt]

28. See, lego is one of my most approved of toys

It's fun, reusable, interactive, creative. I still have a giant pile of old lego from when I was a kid, and it NEVER fails to amuse appropriately aged kids (and myself at times)

[atommom]

40. It has to be good for fine motor and brain development.

I'm actually quite jealous of my kids' Legos. They have come a long way since I was a kid!

[Lyric]

26. On our Monty Python and the Holy Grail DVD, there was a Lego version

of the "Camelot" sequence and song. Hilarious!

[GirlinContempt]

29. Yeah I've seen that

Pretty rad

[asthmaticeog]

27. "When a total stranger starts telling you about their level 99 black knight, RUN."

Soundest advice I've heard in a good long while. I will live by those words. :thumbsup:

[GirlinContempt]

32. Always glad to be of service

[asthmaticeog]

33. Would that I had any wisdom to share in kind.

*tips hat*

[LaraMN]

30. Oh! I was contemplating picking that up for NoelMN.

So it's a game I could tolerate playing with him, then, huh?
Cool!

[GirlinContempt]

31. ooooo do do do

If you at all enjoyed star wars, or at all enjoyed lego, hopefully both, and enjoy fun silly games, get it.
As long as he isn't bothered by shooting storm troopers :D

[LaraMN]

34. What is it rated?

I usually only let him play E games.

[GirlinContempt]

35. It's E

Cartoon violence and crude humour
Though there is no speaking

[LaraMN]

36. Gotcha!

I'll pick it up. The poor kid's stuck in the house constantly, since it's so damn cold out. I bet he'd love a new game.

[GirlinContempt]

37. Awww

Let me know how you all like it :D
I will say, for a kid, the first one is easier. (Episodes 123 as opposed to the orig trilogy) but they're both great.

[LaraMN]

38. There's more than one?

I don't know my gaming stuff.

[GirlinContempt]

39. Yeah, the first Lego Star Wars

follows the 'new' movies, Episodes 1-3
Lego Star Wars 2 follows the 'old' movies, 3-6 (Darth, Luke, Obi Wan, Leia, Han, Chewy)