Every review was along the lines of ‘good first hour, the rest was bland and boring’. Not really GOTY material.
Every review was along the lines of ‘good first hour, the rest was bland and boring’. Not really GOTY material.
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The game didn't look worth my time and still doesn't but why do so many people in this thread have such a strong opinion on the gameplay of a game they've never played? Like it makes sense to boycott Rowling-adjacent stuff, but that really doesn't look like what's being said here. We've got a big discussion on how a game is not fun and has terrible mechanics by people who haven't really touched it. Why is this such a common theme for any sort of video game discussion anywhere online?
I read through the entire thread (skimmed a little) after your comment and saw almost none of what you describe. Two high-order comments about the overdone genre, maybe three generic "game sucked" and two "I played it or know someone who did and it sucked". People are talking way more about Starfield's mechanics than HL's ITT.
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Are you that sure that no one here played it?
Yeah, I could be wrong, I just didn't think it was likely that the people in this thread would invest that much time into a bad game.
Are reviews from critics and users alike also invalid?
Obviously not?
It sounds an awful lot like the old "you can't judge Dr. Professor Jordan Bernt Peterson Esquire PhD MD until you've watched several dozen hours of him crying on Youtube" gambit to me.
It's almost definitely a bad game, it just seems weird that it's getting such a strong reaction. Like there's no reason to care a lot about poor game mechanics unless it's a game you've invested a lot of time in. There is obviously a reason to care about someone preaching a harmful ideology, so I don't see how the two are comparable at all.
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Yeah, alright. I'll leave this up to feel embarrassed for a while and then delete my posts later.
Yahtzee's review basically confirmed the game was what I was expecting it to be. It's pretty obvious what is is from gameplay footage.
but the gameplay in hogwarts legacy really is amazing. actual magic wielding finally done right in a harry potter game and damn it feels good killing bad guys and flipping them around and shit. game should have been nominated it was super fun
dunno why you sent that, i have actually played the game and actually had real fun with it. what is your problem with the game?
Got any deals on bananas right now?
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How big are these bananas exactly? I need a banana for scale.
The depiction of goblins seems kinda sketchy 2 me, idk
imagine having a problem with Harry Potter and the Protocols of the Elder Goblins
unfathomable
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Possibly one of the most milquetoast dark souls roll steamrolls of the year, with zero replayability and worse build depth than starfield. The story has two interesting beats total. I'm sorry you think this was good gameplay, lichdom:battlemage from a decade ago outshines it completely and the only interesting thing the spells might bring is stockholm syndrome style nostalgia from a wholly overrated children's novel series. If your idea of good gameplay is flinging things around, maybe see if you can find hit flash game interactive buddy in an archive.
and damn it feels good killing bad guys and flipping them around and shit.
Just find a used copy of Dark Messiah if you want that