• Nima@leminal.space
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    20 days ago

    I’m all for another game in the franchise, but quidditch isn’t a very compelling part of the world for me.

    as a sports game, quidditch feels shaky. its fine for narrative purposes, but it’s not a real sport. so I’m not sure how they will build it into one.

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      20 days ago

      Seems like a lot of folks are not really interested in the quirky sport, so saying fans are rejoicing because of this announcement sounds like they don’t really understand why people played HL.

      Its like saying Dark Souls fans rejoice because From Software announced a fitness spinoff called Yoga with Solaire. Okay actually, they might. Bad example.

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        20 days ago

        I went to ddg looking for yoga with solaire and then found nothing and was heartbroken.

        but yeah I’m a huge HL and HP fan in general and I’m planning to skip this one because I don’t really care about quidditch. its only real interest to me was as a cool plot tool. nothing more.

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          19 days ago

          Honestly they could’ve had a quidditch minigame in HL. The two that are in it are fun, but they either need to be replayable without having to start a whole new story, or add more minigames based around causing mischief and having fun with your wizard friends.

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      20 days ago

      Afaik there are people actually playing quidditch, brooms and all. So there must be something playable there

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        20 days ago

        I always thought the whole point of quidditch was to put the protag as the most important position in the game.

        but yeah I’ve seen “quidditch” being played. I’m just not certain how compelling it is without a protagonist player.

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          19 days ago

          I could see a quidditch game kinda work if it was like a hero shooter or whatever. Each team has a roster of certain characters with different stats to fulfill the different roles. There could be a snitch, but just make it so incredibly fast that it comes down to pure luck if you happen to catch it. Or just make different playable modes like “no snitch” and “with snitch”.

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          19 days ago

          That’s quite besides my point but I’ll answer in two ways:

          Firstly what defines “working” isn’t really your choice. If the goal is to have fun the silliest stuff can be called “working”. If the goal is to escape reality for a bit then pretending to be a mermaid might be quite effective.

          Secondly, my point was just that there is a game, played by people that are probably enjoying themselves, which could probably be translated into a Video game. Just like any other sports.

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        19 days ago

        I have played quidditch, with the broom.

        I spent more time trying not to trip over said broom than actually playing. And I’m somewhat athletic. It wasn’t great.

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    20 days ago

    I want them to make a Harry Potter souls like. Let me play as one of the Marauders during the first Wizarding War.

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      19 days ago

      Oohhh Sirius would be the best choice I think, so it can go on after James’s death and you can confront Peter at the end

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    20 days ago

    Oh god just remembering the vitriol from legacy’s launch is tiring, really hope people just ignore this ones existence rather than stoop so low as to threaten to kill peoples cats

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    20 days ago

    I bought Hogwarts Legacy against my better judgement, and the game had one of the worst main stories I’ve ever played. Honestly exploring the world was more fun than the story, and you can only do so much exploring.

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      20 days ago

      Yeah, the main story was pretty terrible. The console controls for broom flying were also criminally bad.

      I really liked the combat, though, and exploring the world was nice. Playing some of the puzzles was also fun. Even though the collect-them-all achievements were extremely vast (so much so that I didn’t even both trying for any of them when I found how ridiculously tedious it would have been to go after them), it wasn’t a deep game. But it was fun for a short time.

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        19 days ago

        I liked the little “rpg-lite” elements thrown around like getting to snack on candy and drinking butter beer and such. They really should’ve leaned more into that, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes with WB and all.