A bit of an alternate perspective to that sort of thing. I am the older of two brothers, and we both loved Legos as boys. We got sets infrequently, eventually picking up a hodgepodge of sets from random themes of random eras, which made for some pretty goofy-looking MOCs. Unfortunately, the interest hit a peak and then plummeted dramatically, because we had those sorts of parents who applaud what their children are creating initially, but then just throw them back into the box when you aren't looking.ex-pastor wrote:Bonn-o-Tron wrote:]my older brothers rip on me all the time for still enjoying Lego,
simple solution, do what I did and get him into brikwars. Unless he's not really into board games, then I'm sorry but it's a lost cause.
So they all got mixed together, and by this time we had so many of them that finding whatever we needed was all-but impossible. If there's anything that can make building with Legos not be fun, it's having to search for a single required piece hours on end; the only alternative being to build something butt-ugly. So our interest dimmed. By this time, my brother decided to get involved in stupid things like outdoor play and befriending the demons that inhabited our shithole of a town, but I just started playing video games.
So eventually, I got both Lego Racers games, both because they were video games and because gave you the chance to build with Legos without having to search for them; they also were cool as nostalgia trips. I always thought to myself, though, "Wouldn't it be cool if there was a Lego game that allowed you to do something more than racing with your creations? I didn't really count Lego Island since most of that was racing anyway, and all the models were preset designs.
I was heavily into Command & Conquer and Battlefield 1942 at the time, and so I thought up a game I'd like to see, entitled, Lego: Brick Warfare, an idea which I submitted to various forum threads asking for video game ideas. Everyone lauded it, but I knew Lego's pacifistic nature would have prevented the game from happening, even though it was proposed to make use of only weapons that there were official Lego pieces for. (Or would it?)
So eventually I just abandoned the dream and was browsing google one day, when I decided to run a random Google search for the name of my proposed game. That led me here, and seemed to sound the death knell for the "Dark Ages." My interest rekindled, I went and bought some new Lego sets, and began a massive, arduous campaign to sort through my gigantic existing collection, washing them in my bathtub. Finally, I told my brother to check out Brikwars, and it seemed like we would be getting a game underway. All was not well, however. We still had our parents to contend with, and they weren't happy with the prospect of our battles occupying floor space. Also, though my brother had an interest in it, he just wouldn't hurry up and get his army built. Our planned game never happened.
So there I was believing that once I went to college, I'd finally be out of Shit Creek once and for all, whatwith IVHorseman wanting to play games, too. Things haven't worked out here, either, however. IVHorseman seems to have had parent troubles, too, and the assholes who run UCSD won't let me advertise to gain other people who might be interested. I tried joining the roleplaying games club and hoping to find kindred spirits there, but they haven't been interested either. Damnit, life sucks.
