Lego Star Wars is like a Rockstar game for kids [The Resties]

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga reminds us of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, in that it feels unsustainably grand. Its creators have crammed nine films worth of characters, planets, and stories, plus winks at corners of the expanded universe, into one game. A report on crunch at the studio, however, raises serious questions about its leadership's decisions to make the game bigger and bigger and bigger. What does it mean for good games to be made in bad ways? Individual creators have filled Lego Star Wars with charming references, clever stages, and some genuinely funny writing. People clearly cared about their contributions to this project. So, this week, we try to parse our feelings of this complicated game and its creation.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the show. My name is Christopher Thomas Plant.
0:12.7	My name is Russ Froschczyk.
0:14.2	And this is the resties where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.
0:19.6	And also massages you having sex.
0:21.7	I shouldn't know.
0:24.1	You didn't put this in our in our planning document.
0:26.3	I didn't, but it just happened.
0:29.1	We just happened.
0:30.8	And we need to talk about it.
0:32.6	Because how many video game characters do you know have conodically had sex?
0:37.0	And I feel like it's not as many as you think it is.
0:39.3	I know mass effects franchise almost all of them had sex fine.
0:44.3	But like we don't know if Gordon Freeman ever had sex.
0:47.2	Um, excuse me, this is a different Halo canon.
0:52.0	The TB canon is a different canon entirely.
0:56.4	Do you think it's aspirational for Master Chief?
0:58.9	Oh, I'm questionably now that I have no doubt about.
1:01.7	He would love to, but actually he doesn't need love.
1:06.2	Well, I mean, actually, well, I'm going to walk that back.
1:09.6	He, he receives all of the manufactured love he needs from his suit that takes care of
1:17.8	him.
1:18.8	Yes.
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