Lego games are in essence cooperative games you can play with your kids. I play sw ones with my 3,5yo son. He might not understand all of it but he's having much fun playing with me.
Also LEGO is awesome. I'm working much with mindstorms EV3 robots and science experiments lately and I'm impressed. Incredibly fun way to teach kids and get them interested in science.

Why don't you like these games?

Loved Lego as a kid. Once in a while I will still go through the Lego aisles at Toys'R'Us, but as soon as I see the price tags I just go: "Nope!" Makes me wonder how much money my parents and grandparents really spent on the stuff when I was growing up... because we had an awful lot. Eventually, after a particular move, all the Legos got thrown together in one (or two) big ole boxes. At that point I didn't care anymore about what the original building instructions were and I really got going building whatever I wanted to. Probably my proudest achievement was that of an amusement park that I cobbled together with some rides that worked quite well. Ah, those were the days.

Now I just feel too old for that kind of stuff... *says the guy playing video games as his favorite pastime* Heh.

i'd be quite interested to help you get rid of it :D

I love LEGO games. The kind of humour they represent puts me on my back instantly :-) They're polished, the level design is marvelous and they all have amazing replay value. So far I've played Star Wars (1, 2 and Complete Saga), Batman 1 and Lord of the Rings and they all have been wonderful! I can't wait to see more LEGO games on GOG :-)

EDIT: Apart from the parts I played myself, I've seen my brother playing LEGO Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and Marvel Super Heroes - they're all fantastic :-)

Interesting that you are asking back. Why?
But to answer your question, I never said I didn't like them. I couldn't wrap my head around the LEGO games.

The closest relative of LEGO is Minecraft in my opinion. But I got some enlightening answers here anyhow.

Hmm, quite interested now in the co-op aspect of these titles.

Odds are pretty good that we will see LEGO Star Wars at some point on GOG, yes? It's the LEGO game license that would currently appeal most to my kids.

You could ask why license Lego for a series of humour-centric games based on other licenses? Maybe because ties already existed between Lego and these other IPs so it kind of just made sense to run with it? Whatever the reason, whatever makes the games appealing has nothing to do with what makes Lego appealing. But that doesn't mean that the Lego games don't work. They just don't work the way you'd expect.

First: I don't buy any of the Lego Games offered on GOG.
I own them for my X360 ;-)

They are FUN. Pure FUN to play.
There are so many things you could do/find in them its like playing an open world RPG....

Because you said "I would never ever want to play one of those LEGO videogames" and left it at that. I would expect someone who starts a conversation to explain himself before going to demand explanations from others.

Hmm... Not long ago i watched 10 minutes or so into someone playing Lego Harry Potter year 5 (the start), and i'd have to say i loved how the cutscenes looked, using body language (rather than english) to convey the story... Then it went to the gameplay, and there was so much 'collect the silver & gold pieces'...

And seeing the collection aspect of it and super simplistic puzzle elements made me rethink if i'd want the lego games... Of course i'll get them when they are heavily discounted, but I'm not sure otherwise.

I'll have to ask, does the game get creative and open up a bit? Or is it like my previous experiences where it's pretty much a linear fixed scenes, much like uncharted except with legos?

If you were saying something like 'this game is not compatible with my computer', I can see people saying 'You mean the OS, right?' especially if they were trying to troubleshoot. Modern computing has got to the point that most software is compatible with most hardware with the right OS, and they might have been interpreting your use of 'computer' as the hardware.

Technical pedantry incoming!

OS = Operating System, the software that makes your computer work and provides a standard way for programs to interact with the computer hardware. Games are typically compatible with an OS, not specific hardware.

System or Computer = often used to refer to the hardware side. It can refer to the entire OS/hardware system, but some technical people may cringe or misunderstand when you do that. 'Box' is a more specific way to refer to hardware only.

/terminology nazi

You could call it a hard drive... :P (See the bottom one)

LOL

I'm so glad that my workplace has people who admit they don't follow technology. It makes my job so much easier.