Lego Dimensions Review "Buy, Wait for Sale, Rent, Never Touch? 

"Disney I hope your bank account goes to infinity" XD

Your reviews are pretty much the only reviews I listen to. Without you I wouldn't know what to do with my money. I'd be broke af. so thank you.

I was so outraged by the cost that I booted up a calculator, added up all of the packs, and found out that too buy everything, it would cost £700. ( Around $1,500)

Remember the Lego games where you have over 80 characters and didn't have to pay for any of them? Those were the days...

Hears about this game, gets interested and excited. Sees the local $169 price tag..... Nope, not a chance. Great review, but these toys to life games are way overpriced albeit significantly less so in America and other places. The new skylanders seemed tailor made to tickle my childhood memories yet is something I will likely not play or wait however long it takes to drop in price substantially because of its $120 asking price for just the starter pack is to me just absurd. For that price I could buy around 3 to 4 other AAA games at launch, and the $120 isn't even 'complete', or I could have netflix for a a whole year. It just doesn't compute as even a moderately sensible purchase which saddens me as they really do look like something I would enjoy.

As soon as I saw Lego portal I was like "Holy shit so many possibilities"

Oh shit, Robin has his Teen Titans voice, the best voice.

I've never really been tempted by either Disney infinity or skylanders, but this looks so cool. The fact that they have so many cool licences is so darn awesome..Back to the future, just sayin'. Now, the price is a huge turn off for me, isnt it abit too much, or can the price be justified? Thanks for a awesome review !

Awesome review. Very informative. Will probably pick it up soon and wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday for the packs.

Awesome video as always fella. This looks so good and having a four year old lad who loves Lego this might not even be a choice but I really appreciate the problems you highlight. I'm planning on being pretty tough on the new packs as I'm not rolling in money. Btw I would love to see you using the actual physical portal if possible in any updates you do. Cheers

Please do no buy into this the figure buying is bull crap if u keep buying this it will keep happening

Looks like a great game if I look at it as a story based platform puzzle game.If I look at it as a free roaming adventure hub world to roam around in and beat up bad guys, I get disappointed. This is the only reason I will wait to buy this used. I was willing to dump 200-300$ on this game but it's lacking in something that is important to me. I know Lego aren't known for having tons of enemies at all such as Lego Marvel and Lego Hobbit in the free roam world. I like those 2 games a lot because I paid 15$ for them and I get tons of different characters, tons of different weapons I can equip the guys with and I can replay the missions in free play.My ultimate game which only exists in my dreams is Lego Dimensions with the free roam gameplay Metal Gear Solid V offers, in terms of the enemies being generate in the game world.Your review was great. IGN or Gamespot should hire you.

Nice review as always! You are one of the very few I can sit through and not want to yell because you're not obnoxious like most others. Anyway, I just wanted to point out a small benefit of buying the extra content for this game. Since the extra levels (like Portal 2) require extra content to be purchased, you not only get the level content, but you also get Lego figures you get to build. That may be an added benefit, as other games like Skylanders, while collectible, are not changeable like Lego. That said, I'm still not going to drop any money on this game, but I did receive the Portal 2 set for Christmas and they are cool figures to just have.

One thing that is really decent is that when you get a character that's exclusive to an IP (i.e. Wicked Witch is the only character for wizard of oz in the game) then you also unlock the adventure world for them, which gives a lot of great value for characters such as wicked witch, chase McCain, E.T., B.A. Baracus, Michael Knight, etc. especially now that those packs are popping up in 99-cent stores like crazy.

love your reviews. love your opinions on the technical side you dont hear about with other reviews.

Thanks once again for your review! Once again a great and helpful review.

Hey man great review! Just wanna say you're reviews are some of the best on RU-vid. You cynical Brit and ggmanlives. So keep making vids!

Great video man. Will you be doing a comparison of all 3 toys to life games for Christmas?

The way the screen tears and comes back together like that is blowing my mind.

One thing I like about Dimensions is that it takes the Skylanders approach, in the sense that it is has this huge story and lets you play with anyone you want, whatever you want, and you get to experience the story this way. The hodge podge of stuff is what I've been begging Infinity to do for some time. I mean, I'd love seeing Elsa and Leia take down a boss. Or Donald and Tonto rough up some baddies, but Infinity just doesn't do this. Sure there is the Toy Box, but asking the community to do it is kind of lazy to me. Even the little Expansion Game, ToyBox Takeover, didn't quite do it.

gaaaaaah... I got it as a gift and its still in the box. I love the idea of it all. But I hate being told I have to buy more crap that use to be unlocked through playing the game back in the day. I dont mind some of it, we love infinity because you can play all of the game and you are only buying into your favorite characters. Its great, my daughters have theirs, I have mine, my wife has hers, its brilliant. we dont "have" to buy them but we each have our own few. But seeing this review and how often those reminders will trigger really makes me want to take it up to the store with the gift receipt before January is up! : ((

exactly the review people really need to hear. I sat through 3 reviews from mainstream channels like IGN and didnt learn as much as I got from yours. Thank you solid buying decision

The only reason to get it is for doctor who/portal and back to the future and maybe scooby doo. I was going to by doctor who first, but comes out in november so i will buy portal 2.

Does this feature any type of sandbox mode for just creation?

So what you think of buying it now?

good review thanks Karak. You specifically bring in the matter of cost which another I've seen, from Game Trailers I think, did not. It looks like all the other Lego games with thee added elements of toys to life so that Lego can first of all get in on the cash grab and milk parents. And its not even on PC and includes Portal, which is a bit ironic. As you point out then more mature Infinity and Sky L. look like better options.

is there any unlockable characters in game?

The one reviewer to rule them all!, You are the best type of PR any game could have, because even games I have no interest in suddenly seems worth considering.

So, it's been a while and there are sales. We got Homer, Sonic the Hedgehog, Doctor Who, Superman, Scooby-Doo, The Wicked Witch, Ghostbusters and Gremlins in 1 game. Most of these people made up my childhood. To me, the figures have double value coz i do have lego toys as well. Would you recommend it for me?

Thanks Ill save my money

Once again a great review Karak!

I was going to get the game just for the back to the future and Doctor Who stuff, but now that you mention the pay wall BS fuck it, i'm not getting it until i can possibly afford all the characters, that is BS, the added characters should be a bonus, not necessary, i shouldn't have to pay 200 plus dollars to get a bunch of character i don't want, just so i can enjoy the characters i do.

I think my biggest disappointment with this, is there's no toy box creation. They should go all out and not just takes on Disney Infinite creation but take on Minecraft. I know there's a pc game that supposed to that. But I like to see it added here

Thank you for this review. It answered questions I had as well as ones I didn't know I should be asking. After watching this review, I think I will be waiting for it to be old school for most folks and pick it up in the bargain bin.

So will the dedicated lego games like Jurassic be completely ? Dropped?

Does the Wyldstyle Lego character have anything to do with the classic graff movie "Wildstyle" from the 80's?

Just got the starter edition for 39.99 with super girl. I think the score would be higher for this, if it wasn't for the fact that you have to fork over a lot of money for the figures.

Screw this game, Screw this business model... ...And a big shout out to all the consumers that chose to finance the continual ruination of gaming as we knew it...I'm sure you can figure out what I think about you... :-p

Yeah the price here in the UK to get everything is insane

why it isn't on pc

The constant interactions with the portal did look bothersome in all the videos I had seen leading up to release. I was really hoping to at least have content lasting more than just 10 hours, even with an additional character outside of the base purchase, at the current asking price. Of course 10 great hours is preferable to 20 meh ones, but for basically another Lego game with tacked-on portal puzzles, this seems overpriced.

played this at Eurogamer yesturday. I did a doctor who mission and it was really fun but the price is just to high for what I would ever spend on a game! (even though it has several figures and the portal)

is this game worth getting now. and are all the bugs out of the game.

I know of the "Who's here from [date of posting]?" cliché, but now that _LEGO Dimensions, Disney Infinity,_ and _Skylanders_ are dead, what do you guys think of the toys-to-life genre?

"Not really sure why she's there." Wyldstyle was a popular character in the Lego Movie which made a ton of money and has been lauded as one of the best kids films in a while.

Woa Sirius black's the main villain?!

I love lego video games

Okay. I’ll give it this. This game actually TRIED to implement the figures to the gameplay in a meaningful way. Skylanders and Infinity didn’t do this.

So, what is it "Buy?Wait for Sale?Rent? Or Never Touch?"

relax it's Lego's first game that is like infinity or skylanders I mean look I think skylanders was 100$ when The first one came out

It looks and sounds like a lot of fun, but it's far too expensive and the sound of the paywall sounds really intrusive. I'll wait for the game and it's packs to drop in price to something much more reasonable

I would get it if it wasn't damn $150 AUD at jb-hifi

This is definitely not for me. Waaaaaaaay too expensive. I like deals and this seems to be a HUGE rip off. How many GREAT used games that are out there could you get for the same amount of money? Many more hours of terrific gameplay for the same amount of money is the way to go. Don't get wrapped up in all the hype and spend your money wisely my friends.

want it but I cannot afford it lol

Paywall... lol. What were you expecting from another Lego game?

I hope this toys to life thing with Lego stops. Seems like they're trying to make extra money by taking content out of the game. This would've been a great game if it wasn't toys to life. They want you to pay extra money for content that should be in the game.