Well, that’s quite a thing.
I was scrolling through r/LegoGaming the other day on Reddit when I noticed that several people were finishing PS3 Lego games. And it got me thinking.
I know I’ve beaten and 100%’ed every PS4 Lego game, and last year I did the same for all the releases on Xbox One. (Not including Lego Worlds, because I just can’t with that game.) But I honestly couldn’t remember when it came to my PS3.
For a bit of history, my PS3 was a gift that I didn’t really do much with, unless it was playing Kingdom Hearts. It would be over a year from when I got it to me getting my first Platinum game, and that was Lego Marvel Super Heroes. At the time I was just playing every once in a while. I didn’t have that drive yet to collect trophies. I just played when I wanted to.
It really wasn’t until the end of 2016 that I even realized that people seemed to love trophies, and it was in 2017 that the drive to get trophies kicked in.
Around that time, I’d started to finally get into Lego games… and then I got a job, saved up, and went out and bought a PS4. So, my PS3 games were completely neglected.
I’ve come back to my PS3 from time to time, finishing up a couple games here and there, but nothing crazy. Honestly, I didn’t even realize just how many Lego games from the PS3 era I’d completely missed playing (or in the case of one, completing).
So when I was scrolling Reddit today, and I cam across two different people who had finished two PS3-era games, it got me thinking. I hopped over to PSNPro and doublechecked, and then kicked myself. It’s not one game I’m missing.
It’s six.
Okay, like five and a half. But it’s still a lot.
The “half” is Lego Dimensions, the game that takes like 60+ hours to complete, because it’s the size of like three regular Lego games combined. I’ve talked about it on my blog before that it’s one of my favorite games, so I was surprised to see that I left it uncompleted. I did get the Platinum trophy, but I did the bare minimum to get it. I’ll come back to this in a bit.
Two of the games I wasn’t exactly surprised to see that I haven’t touched were Lego Lord of the Rings and Lego The Hobbit. I may have mentioned it before, but I’m not a Tolkien fan. No disrespect to any fans, but none of his books ever caught me. I’ve tried both Fellowship of the Ring and The Hobbit, multiple times, and I just couldn’t get interested. These two going unplayed isn’t surprising. I have played Hobbit on PS4 and Xbox One, so I know what I’m getting into. I just need to sit down and do it.
The other non-shocker was Lego Star Wars III. I will not lie and say I haven’t avoided this one. Over on the Lego Gaming subreddit, the early Star Wars games are treated like they are king, but I just have never been able to get into them. I’ll give this one a go, but I know it’ll be like 30 hours I won’t be able to get back when I’m finished.
Then there’s Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues. It’s one of the first games to have trophy support. I never picked it up originally because I just didn’t want to deal with the late 2000’s gameplay. I much prefer the more modern style, especially when voice acting is a thing. Oh, and I really didn’t want to live through Indy 4 again. I did that in theaters and almost screamed.
Finally, there’s the game that I’ve actually started about four times. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. So the problem with this one is that it was made before hub worlds, but it desperately needed one. The game play is somewhat annoying, and I remember seeing some trophies that made me want to scream. But since I’m already 17% into it… I should finally suck it up and just play the thing. It’s only been taunting me since 2015.
So. Six games. Two I’ve played before, one that I’ve started and stopped multiple times, and three that I honestly haven’t really touched. I already own them all (five on disc, PotC is digitally downloaded), I just have to take care of them.
And that’s the plan. There’s five months left in the year. With Lego fans still waiting for news or a release announcement of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, this would be the best time to knock these out of the park.
I’ve already started work on Dimensions… but I’ve also discovered two problems. One: the PS3 version just isn’t as stable. I’ve already crashed about five times during the transition between level and adventure world. (For those who have not played Lego Dimensions, when you complete a Level Pack level, you automatically go to that franchise’s adventure world. From there you can return to the main hub world.) Because of this (and the major stuttering I’m having), I’m purposely going to just finish the level packs and story packs and calling it complete when I get all the trophies, instead of going for 100%. It’s not required to get every gold brick, and while I’d like to, I just can’t take going through two plus hours of babying the game just to complete one of the thirty adventure worlds. I’ll save that for my PS4 replay.
The other issue is that my PS3 isn’t in the best condition. I was gifted it used from Gamestop, which I’m totally fine with! Seriously. The problem is that it has seen better days. I can hear the fan from a mile away when it’s on, and it is getting slower with updates and loading. I’ve cleared what I can off of it (basically any game or game data that I’m not coming back to), but it’s just not what it used to be. I’m starting to get worried.
So that’s my main reason that I’m spending the next few months blasting through these games. I’m worried that I might one day wake up and my PS3 will have moved onto console heaven.
I’m about 20 levels away from being done with Dimensions, which amounts up to about ten hours. Two level packs (Sonic the Hedgehog and Mission: Impossible) and all the Story packs, which are six levels each (Ghostbusters 2016, Fantastic Beasts, and The Lego Batman Movie). Once I’m done with that, I’m going to coin toss for either The Hobbit (which I’ve played before and know basically what needs to be done) or Pirates (because I’ve started it before and I have an idea of how to play). By the time this post goes live, I’m hoping to have at least finished the level packs, then I can make my way through the (in my opinion) three weakest packs in the series.
I’m just hoping my PS3 can make it that far. Fingers crossed!
Until next time!
