Hogwarts Legacy - Harry Potter open world RPG (no trannies allowed)

[Mcniggered]

I thought, "Oh cool, someone modded fucking Gundams into the wizard game", and I clicked and it's just another faggot game reviewer.

I got you if that's what you wanted. This guy's mod videos always crack me up. Only issue I have is that he's a faggot about sharing mod links outside of his patreon.

 

[MichałDrzymała]

In one of the books (I think Prisoner of Azkaban) the Ministry of Magic puts out a bulletin to stay away from a fugitive after informing the MoM and to let a Hitwizard team take care of them. When you've got dark magic and shit having dedicated kill teams makes a lot of sense, TBH. Aurors are, IIRC, magical detectives, equivalent to the upper-ranks of the British cops with a lot of lower-level guys acting as basic plods, as we see from Arthur Weasley's constant issues with his unloicensed everything he only barely dodges thanks to his connections as a government employee.

As to other duties that don't involve other wizards, there's monster hunters because of course things need to be dealt with, non-lethally or permanently, and the non-shitty adult Weasley child is a curse breaker for Gringotts who raids ancient tombs and shit for their loot, D&D style.

Are the Unspeakables the hitwizards you are referring to? I ask because Professor Hecat in Hogwarts Legacy mentioned she was an Unspeakable so I assume these wizards would be the ones to do the wizarding equivalent of "wet work".

 

[Snekposter]

Are the Unspeakables the hitwizards you are referring to? I ask because Professor Hecat in Hogwarts Legacy mentioned she was an Unspeakable so I assume these wizards would be the ones to do the wizarding equivalent of "wet work".

No, actually. The Unspeakables work with the Department of Mysteries, which contains a lot of really, really weird and dangerous magical artifacts that nobody knows how they work but aren't inherently good or evil but still really need to be kept out of the hands of literally everyone. We're talking shit like a bell jar that sends things inside of it into an irreversible time loop of aging, dying, and rebirth and a doorway to the afterlife. Its basically the equivalent of the SCP Foundation or the Bureau of Control. They're called Unspeakables because you don't ask questions about anything they do because they're dealing with shit wizards consider reality-breaking. The fact even Arthur Weasley refuses to engage in water cooler talk with them should tell you everything you need to know, and he's able to get just about anything done as a favor to him since he knows just about everyone else working there.

 

[Hokuriku]

Players are modding Hogwarts Legacy to make their characters paler

Yet another fantasy world that lacks Nordic representation?

www.pcgamer.com

A modder wasted no time giving players what they want, producing a Hogwarts Legacy mod called "Paler and Darker Skins for Player Character(opens in new tab)," which has already been downloaded over 11,000 times. As the mod's name suggests, it also adds darker skin tones, but the deficiency of pale tones was the complaint that led to its creation, and the primary driver of the mod's success—it was originally just called "Paler Skins for Player Character," and the darker tones were added later. The mod is currently the most popular Hogwarts Legacy mod on NexusMods.

I never thought that not playing a game could be this entertaining.

 

[Puff]

As a non-fan I ironically wanted the opposite, more emphasis on the school side. Your house doesn't matter, schoolmates are just quest givers, classes are just sidequests, etc. Stuff like curfew and student mischief is basically just background fluff, and in the 1800s the teachers should be beating the shit out of my character for being out of uniform rather than just making cute remarks.

I guess actual fans are probably set for this content already, but that'd be the more interesting part of the setting imo. Without the school it'd kinda bleed into more generic fantasy at a certain point.

Maybe if you really doubled down on the technical side of HP magic it'd be cool (like I think it was Kingdom Come: Deliverance that had a really sweet potion brewing interface? I kept wanting more like that) but then again a school setting would probably still be the best way to introduce players to that stuff.
Then again, you could play as a professor before branching out into Auror shit or whatever I guess, and kinda get the best of both.

Both please. I'd like separate school game and world game. This game, while interesting, would've been completely different if they'd put all of the work they did for the world into just the school and Hogsmead

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

This game, while interesting, would've been completely different if they'd put all of the work they did for the world into just the school and Hogsmead

I think you could do both without restricting the scope, just kick things off with a slower burn. Like more of an actual boarding school/prison initially, with a much slower day/night cycle and a real class schedule of more involved classes to start with, and turn the whole campus into a restricted zone during curfew so that getting off grounds is a stealth affair. Then with the increased focus on school life there'd be plenty of opportunity to focus on your house-mates' stories, schemes and enchanted soggy biscuit tournaments in a natural way.

Then as the game opens up use your characters' special investigation status/the fact that villainous goblins are trying to murder you constantly as an excuse for lifting the rules, which might actually feel rewarding rather than like vague game logic after the school experience has been imparted and you feel more like a real Hogwarts student.

Basically I just want Bully with wizzzards and shit

 

[Puff]

I like how when you capture a critter the game says you "rescued" it. They're trying so hard to not offend anyone, but in combat, you get literal death rattles out of human enemies.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I think you could do both without restricting the scope, just kick things off with a slower burn. Like more of an actual boarding school/prison initially, with a much slower day/night cycle and a real class schedule of more involved classes to start with, and turn the whole campus into a restricted zone during curfew so that getting off grounds is a stealth affair. Then with the increased focus on school life there'd be plenty of opportunity to focus on your house-mates' stories, schemes and enchanted soggy biscuit tournaments in a natural way.

Something like that could be entirely successful; hell, replace the difficulty slider with the harry potter fanatic slider, from "I just want the story and to kill some gobbos" to "I want to go to hogwarts you fucks" and make the far end of the second be a $$$ DLC lol.

stealth is way more important than I thought it would be, you can actually use it effectively. It's no Thief but it's better than many games I've played.

 

[MichałDrzymała]

Preferred mode of flight:

Broom or hippogriff?

Mine's the broom, handles better, and it comes with a speed boost while the animal mounts don't have the speed boost and such.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Pretty interesting that, had no idea ginger beer was a common reference in british literature. I guess either way it's smart to use 'beer', so you can insinuate that the kids are having a drink without tying it necessarily to alcohol. As you mentioned, ginger beer, root beer etc.

There's no real reason for a lot of people to know it. The current generation of British children for example will have no idea about it because the various soft drink brands are far more prominent in the current zeitgeist. And I myself had no real experience of ginger beer aside from in books for most of my early life (though I tend to drink it every month or so these days). But I'm younger than JK so she potentially has more memories of both it in literature and actual tasting of it.

Another bit of the past that fades away easily and without the context is easy to confuse.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

I like how when you capture a critter the game says you "rescued" it. They're trying so hard to not offend anyone, but in combat, you get literal death rattles out of human enemies.

yeah you spend all this time killing "poachers" but catching and selling animals is a legit money-making plan right around the point where you go from broke to not having anything to spend money on

I can see why they did it but a unicorn being worth 3x less than a single harvested unicorn dick is still annoying.

Preferred mode of flight:

Broom or hippogriff?

Mine's the broom, handles better, and it comes with a speed boost while the animal mounts don't have the speed boost and such.

It's hard to tell because the camera zooms out more but I think the griffs might be faster over long distances even with boosting?

But they take longer to whip out and land with and if I'm going to the other end of the map I'll fast travel anyway so broom all the way.

Man I hate the flight controls though. Imagine having this many screens of settings and not letting me set up Ace Combat controls

 

[MichałDrzymała]

Isidora Morganach would've done nothing wrong if only the wizards took 5 minutes to save her brother or send him to St. Mungo's. I mean you see him hobbling and sickly in the memory where she first sees the wizards restore her village...

 

[Snekposter]

Man I hate the flight controls though. Imagine having this many screens of settings and not letting me set up Ace Combat controls

Try these:
https://www.nexusmods.com/hogwartslegacy/mods/61
https://www.nexusmods.com/hogwartslegacy/mods/94

Good news though, the trannies who totally-don't-play-this are already getting trolled:
https://www.nexusmods.com/hogwartslegacy/mods/118
Moderators have had to delete and lock comments on the inevitable Trans Flag mod. Ahh, warms my heart.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Isidora Morganach would've done nothing wrong if only the wizards took 5 minutes to save her brother or send him to St. Mungo's. I mean you see him hobbling and sickly in the memory where she first sees the wizards restore her village...

Haven’t we had case and case again of the big bad in hogwarts being simple because wizards are dicks?

Fast travel is real nice but too damn convientent - should have made me work harder for it

Also fuck your rules I wanna broomstick down the hallways of hogwarts

 

[gata]

Most important question:
Has anyone made a Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way??
I need to see how much she's bullying preps

 

[Puff]

BTW, how did they manage, with all of the woke-lite shit in the game, to make the central conflict a racial supremacist uprising by an in-universe minority?

 

[MichałDrzymała]

BTW, how did they manage, with all of the woke-lite shit in the game, to make the central conflict a racial supremacist uprising by an in-universe minority?

Because a wizard got triggered harder than a slave owner who saw a slave trying to read when a goblin dared to pick up a wand to try and give it back to him after he dropped it or something.

 

[Puff]

Because a wizard got triggered harder than a slave owner who saw a slave trying to read when a goblin dared to pick up a wand to try and give it back to him after he dropped it or something.

While he was going to politely ask the guy to stop his illegal dragon breeding operation. This Goblin is clearly a tard.

 

[anti SJW]

Made a female character. Named Her Melody Terf.

 

[Jasper2K]

When your fighting multiple enemies like in combat arenas it really doesn't show the games combat in a nice light. Enemies floating around and sliding from across the arena to hit you. Freezing in mid air for you too counter/dodge then doing a 90 degree turn in air.