Hogwarts Legacy - Harry Potter open world action RPG prequel set in the late 1800s

[Cryomancer]

one of my favorite parts of clownworld is how we've reduced people to things like "body type B" or "voice one"
dystopia shit

Frankfurt school not only transformed IRL into a bizarre admixture of horror movies and comedy movies but also ruined fantasy worlds...

 

[luj1]

Why would you even play a Harry Potter game? The books are rubbish.

 

[Sarathiour]

The universe of HP is pretty cool for a teenager novel, 20th century aesthetic combined with magic folklore certainly as an appeal. Like the dorms in the previous screenshot look extremely confy ( if you prefer, they are bussin FR FR). Of course filling them with commiefornian zoomer utterly ruin the immersion, but it's just clownworld as usual.

 

[Dadd]

It's a shōnen with Bri'ish boarding school kids

 

[baud]

It's a shōnen with Bri'ish boarding school kids

complete with a protagonist who never shuts up

 

[c u in da ballpit ashren]

I admittedly was interested when I heard about this game, but now I'm only interested in the torrent for it if I have a day where I hate myself enough to give it a chance. Way down the bottom of my backlog.

 

[Salvo]

one of my favorite parts of clownworld is how we've reduced people to things like "body type B" or "voice one"
dystopia shit

Ignore it and it will go away, they said
Why does it bother you, they said

 

[NecroLord]

Based Slytherin.

 

[BlizzardStockholmSyndrome]

I was expecting the worst and somehow still got disappointed. No way in hell I'm giving my sheckels to WB, I'll probably find the cracked version somewhere.
It was a given that there would be race customization because Potterites are SJW harpies and you just need their purchase so it was a compromise (the most exotic I would make my character would have been a ginger) but it just feels like this will be rife with modern californian sensibilities and anachronisms. If they were so hell bent on making Howards current year then just make the fucking game in 1998!

I didn't even look at the gameplay: is there a good combination of distinct gameplay styles? (pure magic vs consumables; going glass cannon at the cost of sacrificing offense; choosing schools of magic A vs school of magic B; stealth and crit bonuses vs spamming magic missile and turtling up) or at least anything that would make you want to replay the game more than once?

The impression I'm getting is that there will be a Fireball spell, an ice spell and maybe a magic missile. You will then stack bonuses on your gear towards them and just spam to win. Jesus, just thinking about it is pissing me off....I think I will boot my copy of Bully for the PS2 and get some comfy hours in this Sunday.

 

[S.torch]

I didn't even look at the gameplay: is there a good combination of distinct gameplay styles?

Honestly the combat and the mechanics don't look bad at all. They feel like they are actually trying to convey how it works in the books and the movies. You had different spells and combos when you're fighting, can send characters flying, use a shield or a more offensive spell, you can also pick secrets around Hogwarts while you're exploring.

That's why I said it had potential, but they decided to show their wokeness.

 

[Nano]

The worst of the wokes won't even play this game because JKR doesn't worship trannies, so why do they still insist on doing this shit?

Well, I know why, because publishers are getting paid to be woke, but it's still exhausting.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

The Castle seems very aesthetically pleasing and comfy
So good job for that at least...

 

[HereticGuy]

The nigger doing the gameplay is pretty annoying.

Edit:

Full SJW. In the 1890s.

 

[Dadd]

The nigger doing the gameplay is pretty annoying.

Edit:

Full SJW. In the 1890s.

 

[NecroLord]

Sheeeeeit.

 

[Lovecraft's Ghost]

Skimmed the Wikipedia page for this game and...

Following the release of the first gameplay trailer in March 2022, the game received criticism for basing it in the Goblin Rebellion era of the Wizarding World history with the game's story-line focusing on the player suppressing a goblin rebellion. The Wizarding World lore surrounding goblins has often been accused of being based on known antisemitic tropes.[25][26] The criticism spurred from the beliefs that the game's core message was that the minority goblin group should be considered the enemy for rebelling against their oppressor and fighting for freedom and equal rights.

Talk about special snowflakes being easily triggered by absolute nonsense.

Good comrade, would circumstance allow it I'd like to be to you what Virgil was unto Dante and shew you both the inferno and purgatory that is the West in its full character. This being unfeasible I will instead tell you to know this, your stance, that this is nonsense, is the conservative knee-jerk reaction here. You're 30 or 40 years out of date and power itself, that is in part those bankers, in part their goons, do not agree with it. Nor do their genuine opposition. This is not just retrograde but presuming past conditions which are now changed, hence crowning it in the pathetic dunce cap of conservatives who desperately cling to steps of progress so far gone in their antiquity that they have forgotten their insincerity. Goblin bankers are antisemtic, unless you work for a centre-right thinktank or foundation, then they aren't. Now I know you do not, but due to being of the hinterlands those conditions they appeal to remain there and so this is the position you find yourself taking. But it is not nonsense, I assure you, it is the death of those narratives foundational to liberal-capitalism. The new æon is coming, in one way or another, with it these things will be shed. So kindly consider these words before you indulge in reactionary thinking.

I write with words that are not laced with poyson, but in the spirit of comradery. Reading posts of yours involving 'triggering' and 'snowflakes' give me the same sad vibes I get when reading 'Russophobia'. It's not that the sentiment is a bad one, but that it reminds me of those conservatives fruitlessly borrowing terminology and ideas from the marching progressives, misunderstanding power. American would-be culture has dehumanised people with genetics close to the Russian's for over a century. People not accepting of American imperial state ideology, that is state homosexuality, have been branded with a medicalised language but it was never the language which gave power to those wielding it. You'll never get around that by aping it, especially not its past iterations. And so the Marxist, if he wants a place in the future, must reinvent himself, coin new words, think new thoughts, forge new ideas, commit heresies and above all be ahead of the thundering storm to come.

It is sad that the Codex is such barren ground, this very thread is fertile for a case against the consequences of capitalism. Its impact on regional culture, the materialist causes for the inevitable fate of metropolis, &c. Before the greatest points could be made some internal contradictions would have to be sorted out as it relates to ethnos and capital.

 

[Cryomancer]

After watching the gameplay, lost all hype. Cooldowns, low lethality and high fantasy wakanda instead of hogwarts....

 

[NecroLord]

 

[Butter]

We know Hermione isn't black because she's intelligent and her parents are dentists. I'm 99% sure Rowling wasn't using that opportunity to exposit Hermione's ethnicity.

 

[NecroLord]

J.K.Rowling is secretly black.

 

[vota DC]

Why would you even play a Harry Potter game? The books are rubbish.

But they happened more than a century of decline after this game. In 1800 they had Maga mages.

 

[Sarathiour]

The cope-out was that she was "white from fear".

Pretty old news anyway, Rowling is now literally Hitler, and has been for the last two years.

 

[vota DC]

The nigger doing the gameplay is pretty annoying.

Edit:

Full SJW. In the 1890s.

Seems bugged choosing your dormitory shouldn't mean if you are a witch or a wizard but just if you prefer sleep with a witch or a wizard. Too bad It isn't an university of magic but a schol.for youngers otherwise you could roleplay Hugh Hefner. Still you can roleplay Biden.

 

[NecroLord]

Still you can roleplay Biden.

Why would you roleplay as Biden?

 

[BlizzardStockholmSyndrome]

Still you can roleplay Biden.

Why would you roleplay as Biden?

Have you never done a low int character in Fallout 2 or Arcanum?