I'm surprised it's so bad this is basically about the same level of shit as AC Valhalla
I'm surprised it's so bad this is basically about the same level of shit as AC Valhalla
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dont you wanna pwn the libs?
>libs status
>already owned
I don’t care about your gayy identity politics, frogmoron
Solid arguments
Meh, I'm fully aware that most of my enjoyment of this game comes from deep and profound HP nostalgia. The open-world shit is all pretty tedious. But I will say combat is satisfying af once you learn how to properly chain spells together—I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as all the webms we saw at release led us to believe (spell, roll, spell, roll, etc.)
I was pleasantly surprised by the combat, although it gets really grindy with sponge enemies if you don't use unforgivables. Chain cursing enemies and getting a 10-man Avada Kedavra board wipe is really satisfying
I liked the game, but I just wish hogwarts was more than just a setpeice for bland OpenWorld ubishit. Imagine if they got rid of half the open world and just focused on slice-of-life school sim. Would have been 10 times better.
What could you even have in a school that isn't either window dressing or annoying as fuck?
I never played it.
Combat was very fun, exploring the world is cool because I'm familiar with the HP world and always wanted to delve deeper into it.
The story, however, is absolute shit, and at the end of the day your character is more of a villain than any of the villains.
Don't know if they were afraid of doing a good villain so as to not overshadow Voldy being the "ultimate bad guy" of the franchise.
Give me a villain as developed as Sebastian's character was and this would easily be like an 9/10 game.
As it stands it's a 6/10 for me, not suuuper average, but not super good. it'd be a 5 if it weren't for the setting.
Broom controls bring it down from a 7 to me, just absolute fucking disgusting on a keyboard or a joystick
Bully was open world tho, don't forget that
I do agree Hogwarts legacy should've used it as a blueprint, the school didn't really feel like a school at all
>most of my enjoyment of this game comes from deep and profound HP nostalgia
Same for me.
>chemistry and music classes
>not annoying as fuck
Both were easy as fuck even if music class went on for too long. Biology and shop were the only difficult classes because if you were using a controller, cutting the lines was a rush in the former, and the later was bugged so you had to press the input before it showed up on screen or you'd fail after one second.
Isn’t Bully the same thing with Bullworths being a tiny part of the map and there’s a bland GTA city outside the school.
yeah but I'm not convinced that Bully x Hogwarts would've been any good either, surely it would've been more immersive but I don't see how they could make it interesting given what we got (aside from potions I don't see how they could teach you anything more interesting and make it worth the longer cutscene)
The world is really well made and jumping up your broom and zooming off never gets old
it's okay, 7/10, add a point or maybe two if you really like Harry Potter
the chud meltdown was great though
The game has a chud in it
You're the only one who got owned
Which is why we enjoyed their meltdown, they were literally boycotting their own representation.
Too bad you supported every other letter besides T by buying it.
Why are people "surprised"?
Not only is it literal Potter shit, but also looks and plays like any other AAA goyslop from the past decade. Brown and bloom to boot.
Valhalla is a good game. Sorry you have such bad taste.
Why are you surprised. It's licensed shovelware made by a licensed shovelware developer
IS THERE ANYTHING COZIER THAN HOGSMEADE?
WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO NOW? ANOTHER ADVENTURE?
YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE HOW SLOW TRAVELLING WAS BEFORE I INVENTED FLU POWDER
DEEK THINKS YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF ALL THE POITIONS YOU'VE BREWED.
I'VE ALWAYS SAID TRAVEL BROADENS THE MIND!
Big name game hyped entirely by the stagnant brand recognition and isn't what it was implied to be by hype machine, big surprise.
>AAA game
>I'm surprised it's so bad
you played yourself
It's a solid 20 dollar game
even if it was, it would still be way more worth playing because there haven't been several other games exactly like it in the years prior. AC was already down the drain before they swapped to full on RPG (minus the role playing). then they made two bullet sponge grind games and THEN they made Valhalla.
also I haven't played Hogwarts Legacy (I don't play early access aka "release" versions of games) but the combat looks well made and the world has visually interesting places. Valhalla is a soulless asset flip.
It's a game for kids and people who have strong feelings for the books/movies/early games.
It's dogshit without those qualifiers.
nah its good
this game would have been amazing without ancient magic garbage and ROR completely defeating the purpose of choosing a house.
Ancient magic's always been in the setting though, it's just never been explained to the extent they did in this game. Dumbledore called the sacrificial protection spell Lily did as ancient magic.
>ROR
What
room of requirement
He's saying the Room of Requirement, the thing in the books that changes based on the user's desires, defeats the purpose of choosing a house, the thing that nowhere in the books is stated to offer that customization choice for the students.
Name more wizard job than
>retail
>teacher
>government
>flipping signs with your wand
>Name 2 more wizard jobs than*
Sorry I'm druk
cop
adventurer
writer
journalist
aristocrat
>cop
Government employees
>adventurer
Doesn't get paid, only people able to do this are already richfags
>writer
Ok
>journalist
Pretty sure it's under the influence of the government
>aristocrat
Not a job, but a lifestyle
>adventurer
>Doesn't get paid, only people able to do this are already richfags
I think he's referring to curse-breakers, to which they definitely do get paid and get to travel the globe exploring all sorts of shit to recover things for their gobbo overlords.
>train conductor (train driver)
>researcher (merlin trial woman)
>police/fbi (auror)
>groundskeeper
Conspiracy theorist on YouTube
Could've used a lot more unique mysteries like those clock tower doors, and a lot less copy pasted Ubisoft tier time waster collectible shit like balloons and demiguise statues. RNG loot was a mistake too. Also the metric ton of SJW shit is fucking astounding.
Other than those it's okay if you take the time and immerse yourself. It does capture the movie wizarding atmosphere quite well.
it's not really rng when you can change the appearance and trait on any item to whatever you want, you're not at the mercy of the game to find good items.
it is by definition rng
the tier is random
the appearance is random
the stats are random
You can (and most likely will) finish the game without having unlocked a good chunk of the appearances, and it wastes your time with shitty inventory management because it fills up in 15 minutes of play.
It's just dogshit design.
>don't be a dumbfuck hoarder is now called inventory management
kek what a retard.
>he actually pretends he didn't pick up at least 20 items in his playthrough and didn't have to engage with the inventory, just to defend a corporation
imagine being this ungodly fucking stupid even for a second
It's not pretending.
Outside of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade there isn't a single hamlet, cave, or story quest that caps your inventory, and in the case of Hogsmeade you straight up have numerous shops to sell what you've picked up. You'd have to purposely be ignoring shops to offload your shit for you to fill up your inventory.
The only "memorable" hamlet is the one where sebastian lives, and it's just a one room straw roofed mudhut (with 2 fucking beds) sebastian slept with Anne? The uncle with Anne? Sebastian with the uncle??
Dunno why you quoted me since that has fuck all to do with "if you don't want to cap your inventory don't be a hoarder".
I'm sorry I'm drunk I just saw "hamlet" and replied without thinking
The problem with that is that people who aren't dumb fucks don't particularly enjoy making otherwise completely unnecessary shop trips to offload items in order keep the inventory from filling up, and/or ignoring chests while playing.
>has hoarding problems
>calls the people smart enough to empty their pockets before heading out "dumb fucks"
The irony.
>I enjoy a game filling my inventory with completely worthless shit, and then having to waste time dismantling or selling them one by one
You do know people still won't believe you're a woman even if you pretend to like shops to such an irrational degree, right?
>calls people playing the anti chud game as chuds
The irony
>calling it anti chud when it has unskippable, in-your-face chud propaganda
Glowing.
At first I thought you were just straight up retarded but now it's clear you're astrotufing.
>unskippable
>literally an optional sidequest that you can ignore
Damn dude. If you've never played the game and are a hoarder just reading off of chud cope and seethe pastas just say so.
>pretending you can skip meeting the chud when he's a mandatory part of the first Hogsmeade visit
>pretending you have to be a "hoarder" to pick up 20 items in 40 hours
Pathetic. Last (You).
>pretending it goes "wooo I'm a chud did you know I'm trans" when you meet it in the three broomsticks alongside your best bro sebastian
Damn. If I knew that's all it'd be for something to be propaganda then this nonsense with you has been drowning me in gay propaganda.
Bro I'm another poster and don't have a dog in this fight, I'm just pointing out that the chud isn't skippable.
I finished the game 100% and loved it, so I'm no Hogwarts hater.
The chud isn't skippable, the chud propaganda is. Saying the bit where you hide out in the three broomsticks is chud propaganda when it being a chud had no bearing on the scene is fucking dumb. That's like saying Ominis bombards you with cripple propaganda throughout Sebastian's quest line even though he never makes a big deal about being blind.
Except Sirona directly states that she is used to be a wizard and then you get her side quest where you pick up her fan Mail for being brave and valid and beautiful that a dead straight white man left in a cave, presumably so they would never see the light of day again.
yeah that whole quest is basically just learning about how stunning and brave the chud was, and how Garlick was so inspired to come out as lesbian when she felt like such an outcast before
>people still act like Garlick or the Merlin researcher chick being gay is shocking for the time of the game
>9 years later, Dumbledore is going to pound town on Grindelwalds ass in stuff JK herself wrote
I doubt Garlick had to come out, seeing as homosexuality doesn't seem to be taboo in the wizard world.
Is Dumbledore really over a hundred years old? I stopped reading the books after the third one.
Yes. Wizards normally can live up to 300+ years like Armando Dippet, who other than the Professor of History of Magic are the only two canonical characters that are known to have died of old age. You also have characters like Nicholas Flamel who lived for over 600 years via a life extending elixir that required the Philosopher's stone to create.
>You also have characters like Nicholas Flamel who lived for over 600 years via a life extending elixir that required the Philosopher's stone to create.
Why would Voldy make horcruxes when shit like this exists. Rowling is such a hack
As a back up for if he got killed, which he did?
Dumbledore died at 115. He is actually alive during this game. He just isn't in it because he isn't enrolled into Hogwarts yet.
>Except Sirona directly states that she is used to be a wizard
In an optional conversation long after the scene where you lot hide in the three broomsticks.
>Except Sirona directly states that she is used to be a wizard
When? I 100% the game. Don't recall this
He's misremembering shit. The line Sirona does say is that all of her friends thought she was a wizard when in fact she's a witch.
It's set in the 1800s and yet everyone treats him like every other person even though he's a freak. The main character isn't even allowed to act surprised or curious in any way. They're trying to pass it off as normal even though it's not.
It's set in 1800s wizarding world. These fuckers fuck goblins, giants, and house elves. Sirona's probably no freakier to them than Hagrid or Flitwick or Irma Dugard.
Just join the 42%, my man.
Why would I? I'm happy being what I was born as. You on the other hand seem to be too chudy to exist.
The chud is in the game for like 5 seconds, but it isn't skippable
>You can (and most likely will) finish the game without having unlocked a good chunk of the appearances
clothes are easy as hell to find, the shop man changes his selection all the time.
the conjuration stuff for ror, that's the shit you can easily not see any of since that's in the open world garbage chests with the wand styles.
>main quest boring 'chosen one' plot with uninteresting characters
>hogwarts just a big prop for the open world, which is where you spend 85% of gametime in
>sebastian has the only interesting major sidequest
>no student hijinks, no exams, no class management, no half blood prince potions minigame
>no morality system
>small enemy variety
they have a great foundations though, the assets are great, atmosphere and music on point, all the shit with the room of requirement, pokemon catching, hell the combat is way better than expected and with the loadouts you can do discount dmc style switching
gotta wait for a sequel to patch up all of the shit that's missing
I just hope that in 10 years this game will be just what it should have been
>no student hijinks
a couple sidequests are exactly that, but I agree they don't really go anywhere and the aftermath is underwhelming
>no half blood prince potions minigame
See this is the shit that gets me, you have a potions class where they have you make a potion with rotating your mouse, adding ingredients with a click, stirring again, and you think "Okay, this is a nice intro to the potion crafting mini game" and then that's literally the only time you do it, afterwords it's just
>select potion you want to make
>wait up to 15 minutes for it
>select potion you want to make
>wait up to 15 minutes for it
Gotta appeal to that mobile / facebook gaming audience!
AC Valhalla is way better bro. Not even comparable.
i was really into it for about 17 hours, now i realise it was just the novelty of every gameplay mechanic from the combat to the flying to the room of requirement
I haven't played a Ubisoft game besides Far Cry 5 since 2013. They must be pretty good nowadays if they're being compared to Soul Legacy.
So it's just barely palatable enough for normie goyslop enjoyers to consoom without complaining?
The difference is Harry Potter has charm, atmosphere, music. And a combat system that isn't mobile phone tier.
I thought it was an okay game
It was actually one of the worst games I’ve played in like the last 10 years. Everything about it is so massively shallow, the combat can be impactful every once in a while but the rest is dogshit, 3/10
you're surprised? why?
If / when Hogwarts Legacy 2 comes out, I hope they fix the loot and inventory system
Randomly generated loot is never satisfactory.
The dress-up aspect is cool, I guess, but having 90% of the game's unique shit being cosmetics is just trash.
Hogwarts proper is SOVL, and that's the peak of the game.
The game is okay Could be worse, tbh. I like the combat. There should be more duels in the next one.
>There should be more duels in the next one.
There should have been a proper duelling club, like the one established in Chamber of Secrets as well as your fight with Sebastian where you fight on a narrow elevated platform. The underground fight club the students made just doesn't have the same atmosphere to it.
>Randomly generated loot is never satisfactory.
This, it felt TOO random, like I had some items last me over 10 levels because they rolled super high stats on them (i had a hat that rolled 99 defense when everything i was getting only had around 40-50), then i've had others where it seems I put on a different scarf every 5 feet because they have a +2 offense over the one i just picked up.
>Randomly generated loot is never satisfactory.
and its pointless in this game when you can upgrade everything and add whatever trait you want, it came down to just collecting appearances. would have rather just gotten those from visiting all the various merchants instead.
collecting appearances was fun for character customization but it really only highlighted how little you had to do with hogwarts itself. walking around the castle in plain clothes you may as well be anything other than a student. i wish the game had on and off school ground appearances for both the mc and the side characters.
i really like the castle until it just turned into collect stuff, get a new spell, collect more stuff, it needed to be proper school stuff where you feel like a student.
It should have been Bully in Hogwarts.
Nah. 2/3 of the class stuff in Bully was shit. Aping that would have been a detriment.
Simply make the class stuff not shit then? Problem solved, smooth brain!
Wouldn't be "Bully in Hogwarts" now, will it?
Love how Ganker 180'd to hating this once the "OWN DA LIBZ" shilling died.
If you buy Hogwarts Legacy, you literally want trans people to be genocided. Please stop supporting this game.
I hate how much of a pussy my character is in cutscenes. One minute I'm throwing unforgivables out like candy, straight up torturing and killing bitches, the next I'm acting like a pussy.
Thoughts on Sebastian?
Anakin Skywalker.
He's very fuckable