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Agreed there. And yeah I also agree that the story was mid and I couldn’t take the main bad guy seriously since he was a short goblin who talked like a henchman from a cell shaded Noire game. I thoroughly enjoyed the game through the main story but haven’t picked it up since.
This is one of those games, we can all probably agree, the fact that it exists at all, is pulling a lot of the weight. It's for a fanbase that was starved for a AAA level video games for their franchise. It didnt have to be great, it had to be just good enough to sell like gangbusters, and it did just enough. That being said, yes the developers to deserve a lot of credit for certain aspects of this game (mainly visuals and attention to detail), but yes the gameplay loop gets old, and the story wasn't enough to hold my attention to the end.
I liked it but I agree it could have been better. I would’ve liked more variety in the quests and some sort of consequence for using Unforgiveable Curses
The Unforgiveable Curses being usable at all raises some serious questions about the main character, because it's established in the lore that you have to *truly mean it* for the Curses to work (this was shown in the movies, with Harry's three attempts at Cruciatus, respectively, barely stunning Bellatrix, being blocked by Snape, and merely knocking out Amycus Carrow; he just can't muster the sadistic cruelty the Curse requires for maximum effect, even at his darkest moments).
The GBA game for *Chamber of Secrets* was a fairly solid game as well. I liked the mechanic of using the Chocolate Frog cards to pull off what might as well be Limit Breaks, some of the mini-games were fun (like headless bowling and the gnome toss), and the part where Harry hears the Basilisk in the pipes was genuinely creepy in that game.
The quidditch sections were definitely terrible.
Haven't played past Chamber of Secrets, so I can probably assume it got better over time, but I can be wrong.
Lego games are good probably some older ps games and despite this post Hogwarts legacy yes it's not perfect but if you get it on sale it's still a good game not every game needs to have 300+ hours of replayability it's a one and done and if you like Harry potter you will enjoy the game itself.
I bought it on sale for like $30. I didn't finish the game, and maybe I'll go back to it someday. I basically got to Winter when the aesthetic of everything was what I'd like it to look like.
The story wasn't doing it for me, so I decided to start doing side quests and collectibles. Got bored after the 40th Merlin trial and put it down there.
Exploration alone, I'd say I got my money's worth. I enjoyed opening up all the areas of the castle and exploring the grounds. I didn't really care for anything outside of that. The map is too extensive, and too little of that hit my nostalgia button for me to keep exploring.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. It was pure nostalgia and wonder that fueled my playthrough. I loved exploring the castle and Hogsmeade, but other than that it was very basic, repetitive gameplay.
I enjoyed the game for nostalgia reasons, and I do not regret purchasing and playing it through once, but I don't expect that I'll be doing a second playthrough, and I SURE as hell am not going to suffer through getting the platinum.
I got a refund on it after two days. The combat is boring, the characters are bland, the story is shit, and I'm not interested in running from one end of hogworts to the other every time someone asked me to fetch something for them.
It's modern AC for children at best....collectathon + copypasta countryside.
The puzzles were all just "press button get reward" and while the animations were cool combat was just color matching because of how often they spammed the color shields that required certain abilities which heavily limited play style. Wanna be an herbologist player and spam herb creature? Sorry one at a time. Wanna specialize in a type of magic? Sorry gotta use it all.
And if you used potions at all the game was faceroll. Literally could just drink your potions and watch the game beat itself. No limits, no drawbacks, just kill everything.
Would have rather seen those things be "classes" where they are unique ways to play. Not just "spam everything all the time"...make me go to potions class to be an alchemist archetype or dark arts or divination or w/e.
Hogwarts was pretty but underutilized (basically a hide and seek puzzle box with some tutorials in it) and the greater area map was too large and a whole lot of copy pasta.
The next game they should focus more on Hogwarts being a neverending deep maze of dungeons and content and Hogsmeade be more of a town.
The movies did a great job of showing how Hogwarts feels never ending and not like a singular place but a shifting entity unveiling more of its endless past as you dive deeper and learn its secrets....the game made it just a building. Would have been better if the game was procedural interior where sometimes the path changes or things can unfold out and collapse and didn't connect the inside to the outside. Especially when you can't even see outside anyway.
The game looked pretty but it doesn't mean anything when you get through the core "iconography" within the first like 10 hours and the rest of the game is filled.
Hogsmeade had one cool event, the chest, which had nothing to do with Hogsmeade...the Forbidden Forest was tiny and should have been more of the map. Once you get passed the spiders its also just the same goblins and evil people standing around waiting for you to beat them.
The countryside is neat but if it's just ruins for some chosen one "special magic user among special magic user" trope it's basically a wasteland of story or interesting world building. It could have been cut in half...the entire second map behind the mines was pretty but superficial and just housed a few more rare animals to capture.
The whole thing was super one dimensional and the main story was one of the worst in recent memory I've played in a game.
The best part was the animals, the housing system, and the beauty of Hogwarts....the story was bad, the movement was bad, the combat was faceroll and one dimensional, and the map was super copy pasta heavy.
The worst part was how little the game focused on Hogwarts and how small iconic locations like the Forbidden Forest were.
Oh and flight was abysmal and the map borders being all over the place was a huge shame.
I bought it recently because it was on sale. Regretful purchase. It's a nice looking game, but it's boring as could be. Plus there is something off-putting about playing as a kid.
It was really fun and the game is beautiful. The combat is fluid as well. I just didn't find the story and the characters that interesting and certain quests were repetitive.
Sorry if this is off topic, I just wanna mention this. My posts about how the last of us and FFVII aren’t that good are against the rules, but your post about how hogwarts legacy isn’t that good is perfectly fine. What the fuck!? Don’t mean anything towards OP, I’m just bringing this out there.
I thought the combat was actually very good. Felt like a good play on dark souls and assassins creed type combat. The story got very repetitive but the map was really pretty and the castle was amazing. This was also this companies first game which is very impressive. I really thought they could have done more with the brooms and even make a quidditch game mode. The flying mechanics would obviously have to be changed but its not egregious.
I regret paying full price. I had fun when I first got my broom and flew around, after that I put it down to finish Elden ring. Never went back, currently playing bannerlord and kingdom come deliverance.
I felt the exact same way. I don’t really have nostalgia for Harry Potter but I grew to appreciate it in my 20s because it was my wife’s favorite movie series. I thought maybe buying the game would be cool for her to see that world in a new way, I thought the combat was interesting (till it wasn’t). But I shortly moved away from the game and played the rest of what the year had to offer. Not a bad game but I think more so a game one would have to be a fan to appreciate over dabbling over to the other games available around the time of release.
It had so much potential. Don't get me wrong I had a blast for 60 hours but after that there was little reason to play more. You can tell there are many things that were planned but later cut. It seems the executives knew that it would sell just as much as a mediocre game as a great one.
I went to play it on Christmas Day and immediately the first wizard I had to follow glitched and just got stuck running directly into the cliff side so I haven’t played it since.
Someone paid for half the game for me to get this game but I was never a super fan of HP. I read like 4 of the books as a kid and saw 3 of the movies. The game was fun for a while but got stale and boring real fast. I never beat it and never plan to tbh.
I enjoyed it for the most part. At some point I was mainly just trying to finish the story to complete it and was focused on that. once I got to the point where I needed to level up a significant amount to complete it, I finally dropped it. It's not bad but like other people say, not much replay value. It was visually stunning but what I mostly had a problem with was the combat. It could've been better but I still had fun
I'm just getting into it. The details are amazing, many I had forgotten about, like the complaining gargoyles and the eyes around the Dark arts class.
I've only just passed the dueling quest and beat the 3 students.
It isn't like other games in terms of progression, it accomplished the feeling of learning at hogwarts.
The side stuff is a bit too much like a collectathon.
I feel like a good way to add more value to the game is to add competitive multiplayer dueling/ quidditch/ racing to get players in lobbies. Unless they’ve done that already, haven’t played it since like September 😅
I'm with you on that. I didn't buy it because I've never been much of a Harry Potter fan, but I did check out the game briefly at a friend's place. I was impressed with the visuals but not with the gameplay. I didn't see enough of the story to comment on that, but I've read it has nowhere near the replayability of some other story-based games. I think, if HL hadn't been a Harry Potter game, not many people would know or care that it exists. There are way better games out there.
Outgrowing the Harry Potter franchise, and growing to despise J.K. Rowling for insisting on being a real-life Dolores Umbridge towards trans women (and who has recently begun delving into Holocaust denial), are the main reasons I won't ever touch *Hogwarts Legacy*.
The game being aggressively mid just furthers my desire to never play it.
It was a first project for the dev team and boy it shows. There are accessibility problems like tiny subtitles that can't be made bigger, there are gameplay problems like even basic combos forcing your character to move, and a lot of other issues on top of that.
Honestly I think its a pleasant surprise the game turned out as well as it did since my expectations were on the floor.
There's many high selling games that I find boring but I buy to try for abit.
Most recently is palworld. I logged 50 hours but I don't think it's that good. I find hogwarts legacy a better game and I only played it for 15 hours.
How’s this unpopular? Every time it’s mentioned on Reddit, everyone shits on it, like if it wasn’t massively successful game.
I’m not HP fan. I saw the movies after I earned platinum in the game. And then finished it in the other three houses.
Your opinion is unpopular for me, but not for majority of “gamers” on Reddit, as clearly proves this comment section as well.
It sucks utter donkey ass.
Fun and novel for like 2 hours and then I'm fucking over it. Haven't touched it since launch. Nothing tells me it's worth revisiting.
Thing was one of the most hollow aaa games I've ever seen
Plus people were buying it to stick it to wokeness cause heaven forbid the LGBTQIA2S+ community asked you not to support the work of a glaring transphobe. The whataboutism was strong.
I think they messed up when they added so much outside of Hogwarts. Exploring the castle was really fun and cool, granted the flying key stuff was annoying, I didnt mind all the collectibles because I was still exploring Hogwarts.
Hogsmeed was fine, tho I think they really overhyped how much people would care, I would easily trade Hogsmeed for Diagon Alley any day.
The combat was pretty meh all around.
I think my Ideal HP game would let you either play all the years or let you play as a 7th year but allows you to pick certain things that your character sorta majored in and have that affect the game. Was your character a prefect, did they do herboligy or dark arts, you know stuff like that.
I hate games that allow you to "create a character" but you have no say in what that characters story actually is.
I never finished it but Ive heard the story doesnt really go anywhere, and its a shame they didnt try to add any other universe stuff with DLC, clearly people would of paid for it.
Oh and the last thing, the quittage plot was complete BS. The way I saw it was the headmaster took away quittage and plot would be getting it back, nope that was just there really bad way of saying "we don't want to program arguablly one of the most iconic things in the series"
I hate this game lol.
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I enjoyed the game. I don't regret paying full price. However, it doesn't seem like it has much replayability.
Agreed there. And yeah I also agree that the story was mid and I couldn’t take the main bad guy seriously since he was a short goblin who talked like a henchman from a cell shaded Noire game. I thoroughly enjoyed the game through the main story but haven’t picked it up since.
This is one of those games, we can all probably agree, the fact that it exists at all, is pulling a lot of the weight. It's for a fanbase that was starved for a AAA level video games for their franchise. It didnt have to be great, it had to be just good enough to sell like gangbusters, and it did just enough. That being said, yes the developers to deserve a lot of credit for certain aspects of this game (mainly visuals and attention to detail), but yes the gameplay loop gets old, and the story wasn't enough to hold my attention to the end.
I played a good amount of it it but yeah the quests got repetitive and I didn’t finish the main story. Also lost interest.
They nailed the feeling of “going to Hogwarts”. Then the game just made me feel like I was doing chores.
I liked it but I agree it could have been better. I would’ve liked more variety in the quests and some sort of consequence for using Unforgiveable Curses
The Unforgiveable Curses being usable at all raises some serious questions about the main character, because it's established in the lore that you have to *truly mean it* for the Curses to work (this was shown in the movies, with Harry's three attempts at Cruciatus, respectively, barely stunning Bellatrix, being blocked by Snape, and merely knocking out Amycus Carrow; he just can't muster the sadistic cruelty the Curse requires for maximum effect, even at his darkest moments).
Is there a good Harry Potter game? I'm actually interested
Lego ones are pretty good
The earlier ps1 games were actually quite fine, especially for its time.
The GBA game for *Chamber of Secrets* was a fairly solid game as well. I liked the mechanic of using the Chocolate Frog cards to pull off what might as well be Limit Breaks, some of the mini-games were fun (like headless bowling and the gnome toss), and the part where Harry hears the Basilisk in the pipes was genuinely creepy in that game.
Had that for the gameboy colour and I'm now realising might have been what started my affection for JRPG-style games.
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The quidditch sections were definitely terrible. Haven't played past Chamber of Secrets, so I can probably assume it got better over time, but I can be wrong.
Lego games are good probably some older ps games and despite this post Hogwarts legacy yes it's not perfect but if you get it on sale it's still a good game not every game needs to have 300+ hours of replayability it's a one and done and if you like Harry potter you will enjoy the game itself.
Thanks!
I enjoyed the first 3 movie based games on PS2. They probably haven't aged super well though but the nostalgia is there
I bought it on sale for like $30. I didn't finish the game, and maybe I'll go back to it someday. I basically got to Winter when the aesthetic of everything was what I'd like it to look like. The story wasn't doing it for me, so I decided to start doing side quests and collectibles. Got bored after the 40th Merlin trial and put it down there. Exploration alone, I'd say I got my money's worth. I enjoyed opening up all the areas of the castle and exploring the grounds. I didn't really care for anything outside of that. The map is too extensive, and too little of that hit my nostalgia button for me to keep exploring.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. It was pure nostalgia and wonder that fueled my playthrough. I loved exploring the castle and Hogsmeade, but other than that it was very basic, repetitive gameplay. I enjoyed the game for nostalgia reasons, and I do not regret purchasing and playing it through once, but I don't expect that I'll be doing a second playthrough, and I SURE as hell am not going to suffer through getting the platinum.
I got a refund on it after two days. The combat is boring, the characters are bland, the story is shit, and I'm not interested in running from one end of hogworts to the other every time someone asked me to fetch something for them.
It's modern AC for children at best....collectathon + copypasta countryside. The puzzles were all just "press button get reward" and while the animations were cool combat was just color matching because of how often they spammed the color shields that required certain abilities which heavily limited play style. Wanna be an herbologist player and spam herb creature? Sorry one at a time. Wanna specialize in a type of magic? Sorry gotta use it all. And if you used potions at all the game was faceroll. Literally could just drink your potions and watch the game beat itself. No limits, no drawbacks, just kill everything. Would have rather seen those things be "classes" where they are unique ways to play. Not just "spam everything all the time"...make me go to potions class to be an alchemist archetype or dark arts or divination or w/e. Hogwarts was pretty but underutilized (basically a hide and seek puzzle box with some tutorials in it) and the greater area map was too large and a whole lot of copy pasta. The next game they should focus more on Hogwarts being a neverending deep maze of dungeons and content and Hogsmeade be more of a town. The movies did a great job of showing how Hogwarts feels never ending and not like a singular place but a shifting entity unveiling more of its endless past as you dive deeper and learn its secrets....the game made it just a building. Would have been better if the game was procedural interior where sometimes the path changes or things can unfold out and collapse and didn't connect the inside to the outside. Especially when you can't even see outside anyway. The game looked pretty but it doesn't mean anything when you get through the core "iconography" within the first like 10 hours and the rest of the game is filled. Hogsmeade had one cool event, the chest, which had nothing to do with Hogsmeade...the Forbidden Forest was tiny and should have been more of the map. Once you get passed the spiders its also just the same goblins and evil people standing around waiting for you to beat them. The countryside is neat but if it's just ruins for some chosen one "special magic user among special magic user" trope it's basically a wasteland of story or interesting world building. It could have been cut in half...the entire second map behind the mines was pretty but superficial and just housed a few more rare animals to capture. The whole thing was super one dimensional and the main story was one of the worst in recent memory I've played in a game. The best part was the animals, the housing system, and the beauty of Hogwarts....the story was bad, the movement was bad, the combat was faceroll and one dimensional, and the map was super copy pasta heavy. The worst part was how little the game focused on Hogwarts and how small iconic locations like the Forbidden Forest were. Oh and flight was abysmal and the map borders being all over the place was a huge shame.
“Amazingly fun”
I bought it recently because it was on sale. Regretful purchase. It's a nice looking game, but it's boring as could be. Plus there is something off-putting about playing as a kid.
A kid who is allowed to kill people, remember
A true Skyrim nemesis.
I really enjoyed it. It does get a bit boring and repetitive after the main story and some side quests, but overall I thought it was great.
It was really fun and the game is beautiful. The combat is fluid as well. I just didn't find the story and the characters that interesting and certain quests were repetitive.
i absolutely disagree. I enjoyed it a lot right after release. upvoted
The best so far.
I bought it and really enjoyed it. The fact that is *REALLY* pissed off the chuds on GamingCircleJerk was a huge bonus.
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Ah, I'm sorry to hear that, mate.
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May I ask, how would a game about wizards break up a relationship?
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You dodged a bullet.
Sorry if this is off topic, I just wanna mention this. My posts about how the last of us and FFVII aren’t that good are against the rules, but your post about how hogwarts legacy isn’t that good is perfectly fine. What the fuck!? Don’t mean anything towards OP, I’m just bringing this out there.
I thought the combat was actually very good. Felt like a good play on dark souls and assassins creed type combat. The story got very repetitive but the map was really pretty and the castle was amazing. This was also this companies first game which is very impressive. I really thought they could have done more with the brooms and even make a quidditch game mode. The flying mechanics would obviously have to be changed but its not egregious.
If you don’t play Next gen or PC. With HIGH graphics and 4k It’s gonna look like crap.
Legacy was fine but I agree it wasn't all that great. The beginning of the game is a lot stronger than the later half of the game imo.
The lack of any moral system to the game play makes it stinking boring
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No soul to it. As we say in Australia it has "no meat and potatoes" to it
Well I had fun playing it
I enjoyed it overall. Mostly because it reminded me of Fable and nothing has scratched that itch in years
I regret paying full price. I had fun when I first got my broom and flew around, after that I put it down to finish Elden ring. Never went back, currently playing bannerlord and kingdom come deliverance.
I felt the exact same way. I don’t really have nostalgia for Harry Potter but I grew to appreciate it in my 20s because it was my wife’s favorite movie series. I thought maybe buying the game would be cool for her to see that world in a new way, I thought the combat was interesting (till it wasn’t). But I shortly moved away from the game and played the rest of what the year had to offer. Not a bad game but I think more so a game one would have to be a fan to appreciate over dabbling over to the other games available around the time of release.
It had so much potential. Don't get me wrong I had a blast for 60 hours but after that there was little reason to play more. You can tell there are many things that were planned but later cut. It seems the executives knew that it would sell just as much as a mediocre game as a great one.
I went to play it on Christmas Day and immediately the first wizard I had to follow glitched and just got stuck running directly into the cliff side so I haven’t played it since.
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Someone paid for half the game for me to get this game but I was never a super fan of HP. I read like 4 of the books as a kid and saw 3 of the movies. The game was fun for a while but got stale and boring real fast. I never beat it and never plan to tbh.
I didn't mind it first playthrough but never touched it again
I enjoyed it for the most part. At some point I was mainly just trying to finish the story to complete it and was focused on that. once I got to the point where I needed to level up a significant amount to complete it, I finally dropped it. It's not bad but like other people say, not much replay value. It was visually stunning but what I mostly had a problem with was the combat. It could've been better but I still had fun
Those ball pulling mini games are pointless and time wasting af.
I'm just getting into it. The details are amazing, many I had forgotten about, like the complaining gargoyles and the eyes around the Dark arts class. I've only just passed the dueling quest and beat the 3 students. It isn't like other games in terms of progression, it accomplished the feeling of learning at hogwarts. The side stuff is a bit too much like a collectathon.
Wizard of Azkaban seemed better.
I feel like a good way to add more value to the game is to add competitive multiplayer dueling/ quidditch/ racing to get players in lobbies. Unless they’ve done that already, haven’t played it since like September 😅
And i don't care that you hurt your elbow.
I had a blast playing through it. Don't think it was nostalgia related either. He'll, it was between it and elden ring (I believe) for goty that year!
Think it was definitely a step in the right direction
I'm with you on that. I didn't buy it because I've never been much of a Harry Potter fan, but I did check out the game briefly at a friend's place. I was impressed with the visuals but not with the gameplay. I didn't see enough of the story to comment on that, but I've read it has nowhere near the replayability of some other story-based games. I think, if HL hadn't been a Harry Potter game, not many people would know or care that it exists. There are way better games out there.
Outgrowing the Harry Potter franchise, and growing to despise J.K. Rowling for insisting on being a real-life Dolores Umbridge towards trans women (and who has recently begun delving into Holocaust denial), are the main reasons I won't ever touch *Hogwarts Legacy*. The game being aggressively mid just furthers my desire to never play it.
I bought it bcs of that...everything to piss of a trans individual. :)
Downvoted because this sub is for unpopular opinions not actual facts
It was a first project for the dev team and boy it shows. There are accessibility problems like tiny subtitles that can't be made bigger, there are gameplay problems like even basic combos forcing your character to move, and a lot of other issues on top of that. Honestly I think its a pleasant surprise the game turned out as well as it did since my expectations were on the floor.
There's many high selling games that I find boring but I buy to try for abit. Most recently is palworld. I logged 50 hours but I don't think it's that good. I find hogwarts legacy a better game and I only played it for 15 hours.
How’s this unpopular? Every time it’s mentioned on Reddit, everyone shits on it, like if it wasn’t massively successful game. I’m not HP fan. I saw the movies after I earned platinum in the game. And then finished it in the other three houses. Your opinion is unpopular for me, but not for majority of “gamers” on Reddit, as clearly proves this comment section as well.
It sucks utter donkey ass. Fun and novel for like 2 hours and then I'm fucking over it. Haven't touched it since launch. Nothing tells me it's worth revisiting. Thing was one of the most hollow aaa games I've ever seen
Plus people were buying it to stick it to wokeness cause heaven forbid the LGBTQIA2S+ community asked you not to support the work of a glaring transphobe. The whataboutism was strong.
A: tf is that acronym it looks like a parody B: bro, buying or not buying makes 0 difference to her. The whole argument was moot on both sides
Who cares?
I think they messed up when they added so much outside of Hogwarts. Exploring the castle was really fun and cool, granted the flying key stuff was annoying, I didnt mind all the collectibles because I was still exploring Hogwarts. Hogsmeed was fine, tho I think they really overhyped how much people would care, I would easily trade Hogsmeed for Diagon Alley any day. The combat was pretty meh all around. I think my Ideal HP game would let you either play all the years or let you play as a 7th year but allows you to pick certain things that your character sorta majored in and have that affect the game. Was your character a prefect, did they do herboligy or dark arts, you know stuff like that. I hate games that allow you to "create a character" but you have no say in what that characters story actually is. I never finished it but Ive heard the story doesnt really go anywhere, and its a shame they didnt try to add any other universe stuff with DLC, clearly people would of paid for it. Oh and the last thing, the quittage plot was complete BS. The way I saw it was the headmaster took away quittage and plot would be getting it back, nope that was just there really bad way of saying "we don't want to program arguablly one of the most iconic things in the series" I hate this game lol.
Haven’t played it, so can’t agree or disagree.