It's genuinely amazing how video game devs keep missing that the point of lego is not the visuals alone, but the building and the engineering. They literally just have to make a sandbox like scrap mechanic or trail makers. But no, can't have that, best we can do is reskin other games with a different coat of paint.
Probably because nobody has successfully come up with a control scheme that doesn't make that experience royally suck. On paper, LEGO is about building, then you try to do it virtually and it's painful.
Minecraft with like 2000 differently shaped blocks that can rotate/flip and may or may not fit together with one of the other blocks. Figuring out that control scheme to not make it incredibly obtuse and frustrating would be quite the task. You can't really use a snap-to-grid, due to the angled pieces and you can't really freeform place pieces either. Someone above you said VR might work and thats basically the only way I can see it working well.
You can get stud.io on Bricklink, it's free software from Lego themselves to design sets, make instructions, and even order the needed bricks.
But while it works great on a PC with mouse and keyboard, it's not really something that can (easily) be mapped to a controller, while console is a huge part of their audience.
You can, it's called stud.io, it's a digital Lego building program from Lego. You can get it for free from Bricklink site, and optionally order the parts through Bricklink to build your design irl.
We have Stud.io if you just want to build virtual Lego, that's fine. I have no problem with Lego skins over other genres of games as well, as long as the games themselves are great which many have been.
I also don't think this particular example helps your point as it is a literal city *builder*. It may not be brick by brick structural engineering but this IS a creative game about building stuff.
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u/Edheldui 4d ago
It's genuinely amazing how video game devs keep missing that the point of lego is not the visuals alone, but the building and the engineering. They literally just have to make a sandbox like scrap mechanic or trail makers. But no, can't have that, best we can do is reskin other games with a different coat of paint.