Lego Video Games (Batman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, etc.)

I figured I'd just start a thread of all things Lego-related.  My wife and I just finished, ie, 100%'ed, Lego Pirates of the Carribean yesterday.  Fun game overall, even though I haven't seen On Stranger Tides.  Much better IMO than the last Indiana Jones game.

Also got Star Wars II: Clone Wars when it came out, and...eh.  My son likes it, but my wife hates it, and I'm kind of ambivalent to it.  Haven't finished it just because we quit playing for the most part, although my OCD calls me to the game whenever I see it on my shelf.

With the new Harry Potter film coming out in mere days, I expect the 2nd Harry Potter game to be out by Christmas hopefully.

And I fully anticipate some kind of Lego Toy Story game sooner than later as well.

There, did I cover enough different Lego games to necessitate this thread?

Picked up Harry Potter 5-7 last week, and we're about 25% of the way through it.  The story is set up a different way--it doesn't seem to be a "hard stop" on each story and the levels seem longer.  Honestly, we'd be playing, and after a while we'd be like, "Is this level not over yet?"  Plus there is a ghost that gives you much better direction as to where you're supposed to go next.  We got lost in Hogwarts all the time with the last game, but don't seem to have that issue now.  But, as with the first one, finding a dark wizard is a pain in the ass.  We're through OOTP, and about 1/2 way into HBP and still haven't found a dark wizard yet.  I'm hoping by the end of HBP we'll have one.

Lots of new/borrowed stuff--there is a walking on walls thing similar to Batman, and there are apparation points where you have to be a Dumbledore, Slughorn, etc., where you can apparate to another point on the screen.  And you can use the glasses that Luna wears (Spectragoggles?) to find hidden things.

Finished it--I took the week of Thanksgiving off and we went out of town, but took the PS3 with us, along with the game.  Played it every day and finished it about 2 days before vacation was over.  Almost took me back to my college days.

I would buy that in a heartbeat.  They could fully make 3 games (at least) out of that.  But that's probably too "adult" content for Lego.  Although I recall one of the developers being asked about translating the darker aspects of the latter HP movies into the game, and he said something like, "Lego--we make death fun!"

Well, there ya go.  More $$ out the window for us in 2012.

For those interested--Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is coming in June.  Hopefully a good gap-filler until LegOTR.

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Batman-2-DC-Super-Heroes-sony-playstation3/dp/B006ZPAYD2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335367081&sr=8-2

Lego Batman 2 will be out on 6/19, for those with interest (like me and my son).

My son, who will be 11 this year, seems to be losing a little steam for his Legos.  He still loves to put together sets, but lately is more occupied with video games when he's at home (and not doing some kind of sporting activity).  We'll sometimes force him to go do something non-"electronic" for an hour, and he'll end up spending 2-3 hours playing with Legos.  But whenever we say let's get rid of Legos, he freaks out.