Hogwarts Legacy - Harry Potter open world RPG (no trannies allowed)

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Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
Came here to ask how many Kiwi's here would recommend the game or not, and if the modding scene is any good. Is there some Hogwarts Legacy related drama regarding Lambda Fortress or something?
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I enjoyed it as a fun, basic open world game that was tied into the Harry Potter franchise, but I have many issues with it. One being that it's so streamlined that it becomes generic. You can tell that there was a plan for more variations between the houses and the story, but that stops pretty quickly. The only reason to replay the game as a different house is one trophy/achievement.

Having said that, flying on the broom was fun, once you get more spells and start exploring the world, the game really opens up, and a lot of the SJW shit is pretty easy to ignore. I'd say go for it.
 
30+GameOvers said:
Imagine if we did indeed get an open world RPG version of the first three movie games. That would be amazing, instead we got a glorified Ubisoft open world game with a new paintjob.
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What they could do instead would be to have you as a member of the OG Order of the Phoenix, waging a guerilla war against the Death Eaters. Can't trust anyone on account of the Imperius curse and other forms of mind control. Think something like a cross between LA Noire and Human Revolution.
 
Finally got to playing this. Since I grew up with Harry Potter, it's quite a cozy game. Disappointed I can't terrorize students randomly like I could in the PS1 Chamber of Secrets game.

Hope HL2 lets me do that. Not asking for anything crazy. Just want to throw some magic sparks at people and watch them react.
 
Snekposter said:
What they could do instead would be to have you as a member of the OG Order of the Phoenix, waging a guerilla war against the Death Eaters. Can't trust anyone on account of the Imperius curse and other forms of mind control. Think something like a cross between LA Noire and Human Revolution.
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I dunno, didn't they turn the last few movie based game into third person COD clones where you basically just kill Death Eaters by the hundreds?
Not that the idea couldn't be done, but I just don't trust the modern day devs with it. I would rather have a comfy school sim instead, or at least games that try to copy the style of the first three movie titles(the PC ones anyways).
 
30+GameOvers said:
I dunno, didn't they turn the last few movie based game into third person COD clones where you basically just kill Death Eaters by the hundreds?
Not that the idea couldn't be done, but I just don't trust the modern day devs with it. I would rather have a comfy school sim instead, or at least games that try to copy the style of the first three movie titles(the PC ones anyways).
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I legitimately don't know anything about the later games, so I'll take your word for it, but I was explicitly asking for something deeper and more investigative than murderous.
 
Snekposter said:
I legitimately don't know anything about the later games, so I'll take your word for it, but I was explicitly asking for something deeper and more investigative than murderous.
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Something like LA Noire could be fun. Maybe it's set just after the Battle of Hogwarts and you're hunting down the last few Death Eaters who got away, or helping Arthur Weasley find cursed items that they left behind to try and cause problems. You could even have it be about Harry joining the Aurors and him learning how to be one.

But considering how streamlined the previous game was, I don't think the producers have faith in Harry Potter fans being able to handle anything but generic slop. Yeah, I liked Hogwarts Legacy, but it could have been so much more.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
But considering how streamlined the previous game was, I don't think the producers have faith in Harry Potter fans being able to handle anything but generic slop. Yeah, I liked Hogwarts Legacy, but it could have been so much more.
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Honestly, I think on this one they nailed their target audience. Younger gamers and adult women who don't normally game but love Harry Potter. The game play was simple enough and the difficulty gradient modest - enough to make it a real game but not so much that it would cause disengagement. And for most the enjoyment would be being able to immerse oneself in the world of Harry Potter, explore Hogwarts, solve puzzles and befriend other pupils. It had mild darkness (want to cast a forbidden curse? You can do that but you're still fighting evil), magical creatures to collect and look after, things to collect and secrets to uncover.

Moving it out of Hogwarts would have made it less appealing to much of its audience who pretty much just want to live out their fantasy of being a student at Hogwarts. Something it did delivered on successfully.
 
Overly Serious said:
Moving it out of Hogwarts would have made it less appealing to much of its audience who pretty much just want to live out their fantasy of being a student at Hogwarts. Something it did delivered on successfully.
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All the browns in 1800s Europe really bring the immersion down, and that's before you get to the tranny I don't think anyone liked. No, I think that Hogwarts Legacy is just low effort slop that only cashed in on the brand name and the tranny controversy, nothing more. It got lucky.
An actual student simulator in Hogwarts could have been neat, and I feel like the timetable for that is slowly going away as the fans of the books/movies are slowly growing old and every year you lose potential audience. I have no clue how popular Harry Potter is with kids nowdays but they are nothing compared to the nostalgia chasing adults who grew up with the initial Harry Potter mania. How a game like that would look, I have no clue, but between all the existing HP games out there, I think the tools and pieces are there, you just need to mix and match them in the right combination.

In somewhat related news, there is a bizzare new game related to Harry Potter being developed
This isn't an official Harry Potter game, but if you played the old console/PC titles for the original movie trilogy, you will feel right at home. The game is an immersive sim and the entire premise is about breaking the game. That's right, the dev expects you to get out of bounds and break the economy of the game, and the developer? The same guy behind DUSK, altho he brought his brothers along for the ride. They develop games too, so this isn't surprising. If you liked Cruelty Squad and the old Harry Potter games, I think you will like it. The game is in early access right now, but there is still plenty of content, and it also has multiplayer. Definitely a purchase if this looks even remotely interesting to you.

If I am looking for a Harry Potter game, this is more like it, not Hogwarts Slopacy. It's a good start, a good base, but it definitely needs a sequel to flesh things out, it is very mediocre as is and would never stand a suspect test if not for the big IP it represents. I know everybody looks for something different from a potential Harry Potter game, but as a video game itself it just isn't very good, that's a fact.
 
Quijibo69 said:
Just got the Deluxe Hogwarts Legacy game for 20 bucks. So far I like it better than the movies and books. It's not boring like those are.
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Unironically it's kinda based how the game just has you straight up murdering dudes with your magic as a 15 year old, and your character is totally cool with it. Fuck Ranrok, fuck dark wizards, get bodyslammed into the dirt until your bones are jelly.
 
New milestone was just passed. Not sure this is accounting for the free copies either.

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Decided to pick this game up again, got it on sale last year for somewhere around $8-$12 and decided to look into some of the past salt leading up to and after release to get my hyped again lmfao.

Best selling game in all of Warner bros. Game history, surpassed 40 million copies sold, and over $1 billion in sales.

This is from Reddit and I’m always slightly surprised and more than a little happy to realize how much the tide is turning against woke culture in general and trannies specifically.
 
30+GameOvers said:
That's an insult to Skyrim, this is just a bland, generic Ubisoft game with a wizard wallpaper thrown up on it.
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Little harsh on it. It set out to do what it did pretty well.

I also don't get why the elder scrolls gets glazed as much as it does. It's a good game but when people talk about it they rarely seem to talk about the game beyond a few specific quest lines. For something with simpler combat then might and magic dark messiah it gets a lot of praise.
 
Whiskey said:
Little harsh on it. It set out to do what it did pretty well.

I also don't get why the elder scrolls gets glazed as much as it does. It's a good game but when people talk about it they rarely seem to talk about the game beyond a few specific quest lines. For something with simpler combat then might and magic dark messiah it gets a lot of praise.
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The OST is remarkable, mainly the night songs and the flight ones.
 
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