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

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A solution I've not seen... give the character a male name and a female name. Would work out better than the FF10 shit with never saying a name. If you want to remain woke, let the player choose name independently of gender. Never use pronouns. You don't regularly hear your own pronouns used anyway.
 
I generally enjoy the game. I grew up with HP but I'm not an avid fan beyond having read the books in my youth. Never played a game in that universe before and I also didn't follow any news before launch but I did get excited around launch.

So far it's not as good as I hoped but not as bad as I feared. Dialogues and characters are quite shallow but that's about what I expected. The open world dynamics are repetitive but so far still enjoyable.

Obviously this game can't escape the Zeitgeist and I cringe here and there. Mostly because of the diverse population. Having tons of black people, asians and pajeets running around 19th century England is weird and ahistorical but so are dragons and goblins. So I file that under fantasy.

The levelling could be more balanced. I'm sure they tried to cater to a wide audience with different levels of "power gaming" but I'm almost level 30 and the mission of the main quest I'm playing next is recommending level 15. And I have avoided a lot of the camps and side actitives on the main map.

The writing isn't on par with similar games, token NPCs, and I think the variety of enemies is lacking but the world holds enough wonder to have a fun time.
 
I've also been playing Magic British Troon Genocide game this weekend. I don't believe it'll be my GOTY this year, but it is a charming little game I wasn't expecting to be so competent. Maybe that's because it's not a Harry Potter film tie-in game and it's allowed to stand on its own merits.

My biggest complaint so far is that the combat system on console is a bit 'meh' - who thought it was a good idea to bind your basic fire and your special move button to the same trigger? There also feels like there's a bit of a lag between hitting an offensive move button and the move actually being performed. (Has Empress cracked the game on PC yet? I refuse to install Denuvo on my computer.)

I sort of wish that conversations and NPC interactions were a bit more Mass Effect or Dragon Age like and that NPCs would behave differently around you based on what you say during cutscenes. But it's fine for what it is.

I've just been running around, exploring everywhere I'm allowed to explore, doing as many of the sidequests as I can so I can be massively over-leveled by the time the endgame rolls around.

I'm finding it fun at least. And it makes trannies and leftists seethe, so that's a win for me too!
 
You can exit them by flying off course and waiting 5 seconds. I don't particularly mind the controls after inverting y-axis (though they do still screw me from time to time) but if you want to beat the top times you basically need to upgrade unless you're content playing Harry Potter and the Trackmania 2 Valley.
weird, when I fly off course on xbox the screen turns red and then it bumps me back on course
 
weird, when I fly off course on xbox the screen turns red and then it bumps me back on course
That is odd, I'm on PC (unmodded) and the screen turns red while giving me a 5 second countdown to get back on course before quitting the race. Maybe you just can't fly too far off course, just hang around where it turns red?

But quitting really should be an option, I agree.
 
Considering that it managed to beat Elden Ring’s four platform launch in physical with only two significantly rarer, more expensive platforms? It’s going to slaughter any other game of the year except for possibly this year’s copy of COD, yet considering it has three different launches over the year, it may even eclipse that.

Everything else in the year that could be a contender for sales is either a platform exclusive or current-gen exclusive, while Hogwarts gets current, last, Switch, AND PC.
 
damn that stupid flying race thing is annoying af. You can’t exit if you fuck up the first one and the dual stick controls are annoying - I keep trying to turn with the right stick instead of the left.

I hope I can eventually just buy some badass broom somewhere and just use that because I suck at pod racing

I'm horrible at anything needing timing. Like the stupid broom race. I've just given up on it for now and declared my broom "fast enough". I'm also bad at timing for blocks, and the block window is horribly short on this game, yet all the enemies have shields until you break them. Also not fond of the lock picking, but at least it's not the worst minigame I've seen.

A solution I've not seen... give the character a male name and a female name. Would work out better than the FF10 shit with never saying a name. If you want to remain woke, let the player choose name independently of gender. Never use pronouns. You don't regularly hear your own pronouns used anyway.
I'm wondering how far off we are from AI voiced characters or at least AI voice augmented characters so you can be addressed by name fluidly within games.
 
I'm also bad at timing for blocks, and the block window is horribly short on this game, yet all the enemies have shields until you break them
It helps to use side items like the plants a lot if you’re struggling with shielded mobs. I don’t usually end up using side mechanics like that but I’ve gotten out of a lot of bad situations with a well placed cabbage.
 
I'm wondering how far off we are from AI voiced characters or at least AI voice augmented characters so you can be addressed by name fluidly within games.
Honestly surprised we haven't gotten there yet. How much voice acting cost would it be for some of these RPGs to record however many lines with different names? Even without AI (which probably would work fine now, but could be funny when you name yourself DickMcNiggerPants) you could have the top 50? 100? male and female names available in the audio. The total number of times a name would be used isn't actually that great; even the gay thay pronouning isn't that noticeable because it's often "you".
It helps to use side items like the plants a lot if you’re struggling with shielded mobs. I don’t usually end up using side mechanics like that but I’ve gotten out of a lot of bad situations with a well placed cabbage.
Once you get talent points you can use them to cover for your own weaknesses, it actually works pretty well.
 
OK so I am mostly finished with the game (might finish up the sidequests and such but I killed the final boss already) and I wonder why does the game have a sort of base building system that you can use in the vivariums (you collect walls and the like during your travels that you can apparently use to make buildings).

It feels like the game was supposed to be something more but due to budget & time the systems were just kind of left in there.
 
It helps to use side items like the plants a lot if you’re struggling with shielded mobs. I don’t usually end up using side mechanics like that but I’ve gotten out of a lot of bad situations with a well placed cabbage.
Started getting my ass handed to me in one of the quests by the Pensieves. Out of desperation, I threw a couple cabbages to hopefully give me some breathing room, and by the time the cabbages despawned, it took out half the mob and severely weakened the rest.

10/10 would cabbage again
 
Obviously this game can't escape the Zeitgeist and I cringe here and there. Mostly because of the diverse population. Having tons of black people, asians and pajeets running around 19th century England is weird and ahistorical but so are dragons and goblins. So I file that under fantasy.
This doesn't bother me as much as it would in most games because wizard culture sounds like it's been pretty international for centuries. They didn't have to invent aeroplanes to immigrate easily, they can fucking teleport around if they want (I am not clear on why they bother with brooms and flying carriages) so having some darkies with heavy bong accents in the invisible containment valley makes as much sense to me even in the 1800s as having hippogriffs and shit there, yeah.
I just assume they don't visit the cities without a whiteface potion but it doesn't sound like most of these hick valley wizards are interested in doing that anyway.

I'm also bad at timing for blocks, and the block window is horribly short on this game, yet all the enemies have shields until you break them.
I'm not sure but I think you can hold the button for a much longer block, tapping it is more for Perfect Potato timing.
I dunno though because I just dodge roll exclusively, the timing is probably harder but you don't have to worry what colour the attack is that way.

I'm wondering how far off we are from AI voiced characters or at least AI voice augmented characters so you can be addressed by name fluidly within games.
Pretty close but I'm not even hyped for the voice part specifically. Remember how old games used to let you type to talk to characters and ask about a hundred different topics? (And it was dumb because any given NPC would only reply to a handful of keywords so everyone got sick of that.)
An RPG with characters using waifu GPT tech trained on in-universe concepts could be pretty sick. It goes beyond just conversations too, text transformers are connected to action agency research where AIs connect speech to their capabilities so we're close to an era where games will have characters who are genuinelly intelligent enough to listen to what you tell them to do or react to your actions according to their own motives.
 
I'm sold on total goblin death.
Guess the team were fans of goburin slayer
 
I'm with you regarding the male/female options, but people seriously have to stop getting pissy about the use of "they" as gender neutral language. Especially since the singular "they" has been part of literature for 500+ years.
I'd rather hear NPCs using "they" instead of listening to everyone calling my char "The Chosen One, Dragonborn, Vault Dweller, Champion, Survivor, New Student etc."
They as a singular is used when the subject is unknown. "Someone broke into the church. They wrote God is Dead on the altar". Correct usage. "Bob asked me out. They want to take me to dinner." Incorrect usage. It should be "He wants to...".

They isn't the corruption. Use of it for a character that has a known sex is the corruption.

Marvel Midnight Suns does it as well in a few places. For example a character refers to her ex- as "they" so the sex is unknown. If she dated them... she should know.
 
It’s just so off putting too. It’s such a cold, ridiculous way to refer to your character. I love when enemies shout “there she is!” or “come out little girl.”. It’s so creepy and immersive.

Now it’s this clinical they bullshit, which doesn’t make sense, because there is no third gender. You’re male/man or female/woman.

I’m sure it’s mostly companies being cheap bastards with the voice acting budget, but it’s also needlessly accommodating something that’s gonna age like unrefrigerated cream.
 
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I'm not going to spoil it, just wait until you see the guy with the enchanted socks coming out of the clothing store. That had me genuinely laughing.
That scene was so funny. There's another funny scene that happens in the Hospital wing of Hogwarts that I stumbled across the other day. These funny moments you stumble across are what's best about this game.
 
OK so I am mostly finished with the game (might finish up the sidequests and such but I killed the final boss already) and I wonder why does the game have a sort of base building system that you can use in the vivariums (you collect walls and the like during your travels that you can apparently use to make buildings).

It feels like the game was supposed to be something more but due to budget & time the systems were just kind of left in there.
did you somehow miss the room of requirement? It's a fucking digital dollhouse and will likely end up selling $troon_death in DLC alone to catwomen who NEED to decorate their potterlair.
 
did you somehow miss the room of requirement? It's a fucking digital dollhouse and will likely end up selling $troon_death in DLC alone to catwomen who NEED to decorate their potterlair.
No, I didn't miss the RoR. I am just wondering what is the point of building structures in the vivarium? Maybe it's just me as I am not into building things all that much, just give me the stuff that is actually useful like potion tables, composters, plant pots, and such.
 
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