Should I buy? I am afraid of bugs

[River's]

I have windows 10 and I remember years ago everybody was saying how this game is full of bugs. Has it improved by now? I really do not want to spend even one hour trying to solve lame game breaking bugs.

EDIT: bought game and finished.
In order to even get beyond the first story video OR to avoid sever "lags" once I get into the action I had to manually reinstall video drivers from months and months ago. Even doing this, the game crashed five times during cutscenes in my playthrough.
CONCLUSION: if you buy this game, be aware that you may spend some time to get it to work reasonably well and you could still have crashes at every cutscene.

[BushwalkerSP]

My game works fine with Windows 10. There have been no patches for a long time, so I wouldn't know what bugs are you referring to. You can always buy it when it's on sale.

[Nate the Great]

Buy Lego Marvel Superheroes! It is way better than Lego Lord of the Rings.

[River's]

Originally posted by Nate the Great:

Buy Lego Marvel Superheroes! It is way better than Lego Lord of the Rings.

Thanks for the advice I will give it a look althogh I am specifically a fan of LotR.

Originally posted by BushwalkerSP:

My game works fine with Windows 10. There have been no patches for a long time, so I wouldn't know what bugs are you referring to. You can always but it when it's on sale.

Good to know. Concerning the bugs, there are many negative reviews by people who could not do this and that because of game breaking bugs, which seem to be common in Lego videogames.

[TheDavtax]

I'm playing in windows 10 and it work's fine.

[fuzzysisneros]

I wouldn't say "game-breaking" bugs. There is the occasional getting stuck in a wall or floor but switching character alwasy fixes that. The only time I had to exit a level from a bug was when the partner got stuck somewhere and I didn't notice until I had to complete a puzzle with a partner and he wasn't there. There are no "game-breaking" bugs that I have encountered. I am on Windows 10 aswell.

[Zuko]

I wouldn't recommend this game. If you want to buy it, just be aware that the game will not recognise a computer mouse.

[River's]

Originally posted by Zuko:

I wouldn't recommend this game. If you want to buy it, just be aware that the game will not recognise a computer mouse.

You do not recommend it just for that reason? Just curious.

[fokehS]

Tt's line of LEGO games are...hit and miss.

In terms of bugs, LEGO LotR and LEGO Hobbit are both pretty stable. I think I encountered some minor physics issues and crashes here and there, but I still got 100% nice and easy. If you're really concerned, don't be afraid to save-scum (copy the save files and back them up in a separate folder frequently so you can restore them should something in your save-game not work).

The worst bug I had was in Hobbit; a tutorial stone didn't appear and as such Ori couldn't aim at some slingshot targets, which made it impossible to get one of the collectibles. I found out that by setting the resolution lower (IIRC, 1024x768) the stone actually appeared and I was able to get the collectible.

One thing to remember: LotR/Hobbit have side-quests in the hub-world, but the game will only load a limited amount at one time. If it seems like a character is not showing up or you can't find a quest marker, complete some of the other quests on your map.

For the record, the LEGO Harry Potter games remain the worst and least stable games.

[River's]

Originally posted by Hugh Wotmeigh:

Tt's line of LEGO games are...hit and miss.

In terms of bugs, LEGO LotR and LEGO Hobbit are both pretty stable. I think I encountered some minor physics issues and crashes here and there, but I still got 100% nice and easy. If you're really concerned, don't be afraid to save-scum (copy the save files and back them up in a separate folder frequently so you can restore them should something in your save-game not work).

The worst bug I had was in Hobbit; a tutorial stone didn't appear and as such Ori couldn't aim at some slingshot targets, which made it impossible to get one of the collectibles. I found out that by setting the resolution lower (IIRC, 1024x768) the stone actually appeared and I was able to get the collectible.

One thing to remember: LotR/Hobbit have side-quests in the hub-world, but the game will only load a limited amount at one time. If it seems like a character is not showing up or you can't find a quest marker, complete some of the other quests on your map.

For the record, the LEGO Harry Potter games remain the worst and least stable games.

Great answer thanks. One last question, by playing this game with another person, can we use keyboard + joystick for P1 and P2?

[fokehS]

Originally posted by River's:

Great answer thanks. One last question, by playing this game with another person, can we use keyboard + joystick for P1 and P2?

Yes; there's no online multiplayer so you must play the game in local co-op. I highly recommend one player with the keyboard and one with the controller/joystick; the default settings has both players on the keyboard and gets a bit crammed.

[River's]

Great thanks!

[Connobar]

There are some bugs. Nothing major unless you are going for 100% completion. I had to get my game to 98.9% and there were 2 glitched items stopped me from winning. TT provided codes online that help people unlock the glitched parts of the game provided they are somewhere around 98% completion or higher before using. If used at say 95% it will not work towards 100%.
As you can see from my profile I've managed to enjoy the game and complete it all the way through with little to no problem. It was a long and fun 40 hours and my best advice is, if you can figure a puzzle out or sense it might be glitched, leave it until you complete every Hobbitly possible.

[Noxi]

works fine for me

[Zoron]

lego games have had bugs since the first game in 1998 ya either get over it and play through it or move on. Lego Island had tons of em but its still one of my favorites.

[fokehS]

Originally posted by Zoron246:

lego games have had bugs since the first game in 1998 ya either get over it and play through it or move on. Lego Island had tons of em but its still one of my favorites.

Different contexts, though.

Mindscape was a small studio who were tasked to pull off something monuental; they managed to release one of the earlier open-world sandbox games in full 3D (only a couple days before the first GTA, a 2D top-down as well).

The same goes for a lot of the studios that LEGO hired during the years of LEGO Media; smaller studios looking for contract work who took on an unexpected workload and had to deliver according to TLG's extremely strict rules (the LEGO Rock Raiders developers have described a lot of the frustration involved with even getting specific colours and shapes correct).

Traveller's Tales has been in operation for just as long as Mindscape, but they've released bigger games and have a very large team by comparison. The only reason that they have many bugs in their games is because, whether by fault of LEGO or TT management, the games are being pushed out too fast for their own good. TT should, theoretically however, be capable of delivering a experience at least at the level of LEGO Star Wars or better.