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Honestly, i actually felt bad for Shadow Z when i beat him. When the player wins the Sky Cup race, Shadow Z is shown applauding the player for some reason, when the (in my opinion) overused animation of an enraged defeated racer is used with opponents, who don't show the antagonistic behaviour towards the player that Shadow Z does. Quick example: Dr. Jette Fastro personally enlists the player to help her with the robot attack tower defense minigame, as the player is known in Bricklandia for their skills, yet she is furious for being beaten by the player. This does not make sense, now does it? At least the developers inserted the storyteller-terminals as post release content, explaining Shadow Z's backstory (and why Racington uses THAT car in the opening race), at least partially explaining why Shadow Z is the pushover he is.

I remember when I was young I was disappointed when I found out that instead of being able to race Rocket racer outside the Xalax dome, where the intro cutscene showed much cooler tracks, you just raced him on the boring circle indoor track.

I want a single player racing game :(((((((((((((

The ship who sang, fuck it’s been forever since we have read that.

Yeah, I think this video has officially swayed me: I'm not going to be getting 2K Drive. Sounds like it won't feel anywhere near as rewarding as beating Rocket Racer and I preffer a good plot. As I kid the only time I was ever able to beat RR was the one time I decided to see what it'd be like to play the game in German and I could never beat him since until yesterday when I played as an adult and still had to look at strategy guides for that race and still had to make 5 attempts before I won. If I felt it was because he was cheating I would've had only bad memories of the game due to feeling like it was unfair, but with RR not being a cheater I felt I had to improve myself and that I had a chance.

Something that is quite nice though is it seems the era of Lego just, making games that aren't licensed is coming back a bit. Builder's Journey, Lego Brawls (though it has some licensed levels its not following any IP's story) and Lego Brick Tales are all unique. While a racing game is tough to tackle from scratch, i do wonder if maybe it might be on the horizon sometime and going back to the roots of Lego racers.

Buffy and the doomsalyer teaming up . .. Ho my i'm getting hard

Is it really THAT HARD to make a Lego Racer game that has a Story progression like 1 and gives us a huge creativity when it comes to making a car? heck ask the community to make cars implement them in the game as enemys credit them and what not work with the comnunity ask them what they would like not play against them. I miss the old sets of Lego and im super bored by the movie tied sets overpriced and bearly a buck worth for what you get

About why something like LEGO Racers cannot be made anymore: You said that it's not possible because of current gaming trends on the market. Suuure.... but I don't believe that these gaming trends are natural. I feel like every game being something that has to be online multiplayer is something that is forced upon me. It's forced upon everyone. Yes, there will be a demand for games that you can play with friends online. It has always been that way. But now everything is saturated with it. The fun is literally balanced out of every major game due to the multiplayer element taking priority, and I strongly doubt this high demand is from the market side. It's from the publisher/executive side. Why? Because a bunch of years ago the idea of a game being a "live service", and thus an infinite money printing machine, set into the gaming industry, and now games just can't be a thing that a publisher releases and people have fun with for a while, it must be a continuous revenue stream where the cost of buying the game is simply the initial piece of income. Games are literally considered failures by the investors if players don't spend money on all the game's microtransactions, even when launch day is so successful the game makes returns several orders of magnitude higher than the development cost. Just look at 2K Drive and how it's saturated with "micro"-transactions. LEGO Racers, with its style of track design and intuitive powerup system can absolutely be created and designed today, and it might even sell really well. But then that would require investors and executives to be convinced that milking the cow dry isn't a good idea.

Right off the bat all I heard about LEGO Universe was bad, so it was no surprise to me, that it shut down basically immediately. What a shame, I hope the devs weren't crushed by the lay-offs or the shutdown, as these clips really make it seem quite enjoyable.

It looked amazing and very similar to Lego Racers 2, but as soon as I learnt about not being able to build my own vehicle, I lost interest.

I haven't played 2K drive yet, Shadow Z to me seems like a season 1 antagonist set up for the player to overcome, and easily moved on from to more interesting rivals, the most depth that you can pull from Z's story is that "Cheaters Never prosper against legitimate skill" which is a fine lesson to teach to kids.

Yes, yes it did. 🤷

Lego Racers 2 was SOOOOO much worse than the first game... I'm sorry you had to grow up with the wrong Lego Racers game. 🤷

While I totally agree with the points made in Tim’s video that you referenced regarding the why the power-up system couldn’t be implemented in a multiplayer setup, I think there is still a way they could make it work. They could keep the 4 coloured bricks and their respective powers, however with the white bricks they could spawn more towards the back of the pack of racers, rather than in pre-determined places like in LR1. Keeps all the fun of the powers, while implementing rubber banding system allowing those in lower places to catch up. Think you said it best though that it’s not a formula developers want to mess with when Mario Kart have had so much success with the “lucky dip” way of approaching power-ups for decades.

Damn your video made me relive the disappointment with Rocket Racer's track again D: I sure was an easily impressable child and even I felt let down when I was 7 :/

I used to play the shit out of this game. I was “Murphy” in the game

2K Drive is basically "sonic & all-stars racing transformed" but in lego coating.

Rocket Racer has aura, Racer Z thinks he's got aura

This video should be saved for all time and preserved in the way back machine because it’s an important piece of CCG history, I’m a huge CCG player/collector myself as well and CCG historian and I’m curious in your video there was someone who was wanting to write a book about 90’s CCG’s, would you know anything about that book as I’d like to acquire a copy.

pls fix your mic, in the video we only hear you on the right side with headphones

I didn't understand anything from the video

I have a handful of old Lego Racers renders from around the same time of Drome Racers provided by a former ATD dev, it's a shame they never saw the light of day.

So are we not going to talk about the fact he built the Killdozer?

Hopefully we will see single player games make a comeback. I enjoy them more they typically feel much more satisfying mechanically. Jesus loves you!

Since I loved Lego Racers 2 as a kid I was kinda interested in the game but seeing how it has those idiotic "games as a service" season/battle passes in them (they're just another form of pre-ordering and that's something one should never do) I decided against getting it. I have nothing against good quality DLC/ extension packs that are always available once released and you can make an informed decision on if you want to purchase them or not, but I absolutely HATE the stupid time limited FOMO bait that are season passes these days and refuse to buy any game that includes them, too bad this game could have been fun to play.

Now playing Another Crab's Treasure

this should have more than 1k views, great video!

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I loved Lego Racers 2, probably more than 1, even though I liked that too. Something about the open world and the customization captured me. Though, I haven't played it in probably 15+ years, and I'm not sure I'd enjoy playing through it today. I still, however, love all the car designs from every region, wish i had a couple of those models irl

Lego battles on the ds was great. But your hear nothing about it

If you like warbits, youll love polytopia

What is the currency needed to upgrade tho

Great game

I've noticed in some racing games that some power ups are added or removed depending on the game mode. The Lego Racers 1 formula could be changed for multiplayer simply by removing the warp and flying boosts from the roster.

LR2 just looks so much more washed out and aged way worse than the first one

The racers game we got was full of microtransactions and battle pass 🙄

I think the satisfaction of beating Lego 2K Drive isn’t beating Shadow Z, but rather winning the Sky Cup Grand Prix. I can say from my experience playing from start to finish, I didn’t really care much for Shadow Z and was mostly fixated on getting the Sky Trophy more than anything else.

You know what would have been awesome? A DLC where you go on a travel through time and space in a journey to face the greatest racer of all time and after facing against Captain Redbeard, King Kahuna, Basil the Batlord, Johnny Thunder, Baron Von Barron and Gypsy Moth respectively you finally meet him in a more modernized version of the same scene, even with Veronica Voltage being your guide throughout this endeavour and at the very end he walks out. Rocket Racer. And then he says something like this. "Wow, you came all the way from time and space and managed to take on everyone else huh? Hah! You kind of remind me of an old friend I had! But that doesn't matter. What does matter is that you are definitely a worthy opponent, and just like with my old friend you'll have to beat me on my own track to prove your worth. See you later... at the finish line!"

Fascinating. I guess I'll stick to LR2 then!

My childhood was LEGO Racers 2 and LEGO Soccer Mania

Making your game have Multiplayer, Guarantees it will live forever. A sole Single Player game has a shelf life, and once its done, its done. Adding Multiplayer to that, means players will come back time and time again to play.

3:57 Wasn't there a LEGO Racing/Racers Challenge game which was a browser bsaed game? I remember playing it as a teen. I think it was supposed to be a spiritual sucessor to the amazing LEGO Drome Racing Challenge browser game, but I don't think it ended being too popular so it didn't last as long as the original one, I remember one of the main complaints of the game was that you couldn't skip watching a race unlike Drome Racing Challenge. I can't find anything online about it so it's probably lost media and I'm not even sure if that was the one that was made by NetDevil, but I remember it was made around 2007-2010

I remember playing this game with 5 fps on my old pc 😂

i remember first time i beat rocket, i immediately phoned my friend and exclaimed what i had just done, but i also had to admit to him thaaaaat i had actually done it in single race instead of the actual tournament, so i had to do it a second time. didn't take away the feeling the second time <3

This is so niche but I love it

my god dude your videos are INCREDIBLE. Your scripts are beautifully constructed and detailed yet your personality shines through your words clearly, which is a hard balance to hit. thank you for creating awesome pieces like this for us to suck through our eyeballs!! <3

Lego stunt rally was awesome

Can't believe Mindscape just fired all their developers to avoid paying out the promised bonus. That's like dangling a carrot in front of your horse and eating it yourself at the end while your horse literally dies of exhaustion. I assume that's wholly illegal now, as it should be.