This Harry Potter 1 (PC) Custom Map REIMAGINES Harrys first Day at Hogwarts and makes it OPEN WORLD!
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025
- This custom Map should have genuinely be how HP1 (PC) starts! Such a beautiful reimagination of the first Day and all it's Spell lessons and it actually finally feels like a proper and vibrant open world filled with magic and possibilities. Child me would have gone crazy over a game start like this so I am super happy that we at least get to experience it now as adults!
9/10, felt super nostalgic and just RIGHT. Plus it was super fun to play and to witness the creativitiy that went into it!
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-- Shoutouts to the creator of the Map! Warrington: / warringway
-- Downloading the Map: hp-games.net/m... (Harry's First Day)
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-- VOD: / 1904674899
-- Watch live at / nixxo
Thx to Blusagi for the Outro Art
Thx to Ignasci (www.fiverr.com...) for the outro music
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This is the 2nd open-world Hogwarts map I've seen for HP1, and this is definitely the better of the two in my opinion. This one does such a great job of keeping areas familiar enough to HP1 to not mess with your internal map too much, and while it has homages to the HP2 map it doesn't try to 1-for-1 port it over.
I assume the first one you have seen was HP1 Restored? That's the other big one I cam think of and I agree that this custom map does the open world a lot better. On top of the points you mentioned it's also a lot lass janky and more polished (apart from the Malfoy fight 🙃) I think because it was kept to a much smaller scale there was more time for actual good and thorough level design.
This is a map i wish it never end. Love it!!! I'm curious about more maps from this creator.🎉
Couldn't agree more, I would have loved a to replay the entire game in this sort of open World style tbh! Sadly this is the only thing they ever uploaded to the hp-games website so I'm not sure if we will ever get to play another project like this :/
I know old devs and owners to the HP game IP aren't watching or care, but I feel like the existence of so many maps for HP PC games shows that there's potential for remakes of the first 3-4 HP PC games WITH MODDING!
Remade games with higher graphics plus nostalgia alone might bring enough to pay off the cost of making remakes x10, but modding is gonna make em millions if they just implement it to encourage even more modding
There's was two devs watching nixxo if I'm not wrong
Would be more of a licensing issue
Oh my god, the things I would do for a full remake of the first three HP games the way you described it...
I especially liked the part of making it accessible for the modders, that way there would be Neverending content around the game.
Sadly I really doubt that we will ever get something like that even though I agree that they would absolutely make the money back they would invest in making the game. The licensing for the game is a mess nowadays and nobody really owns the full thing anymore from what I know do I doubt big companies would come to an agreement there.
Also regarding the devs watching me, I really doubt they are super active with that haha They certainly watched the video about the Interview I had with them qnd one of the follows me on Twitter but I doubt they watch the regular videos but who knows!
I think you are right there, it could probably be done in the way you described. But I feel like it would be quiiite different from the game we played and loved in our childhood so I'm not super sure how much people would still like it...
22:53 "This is where they drawned Snape in beans, oh my good this is cool" Nixxo, big beandrowning fan.
I genuinely watched that cutscene sooo many times as a child 😂 Just couldn't get enough of Snape getting suffocated in beans and then the final two beans bouncing out of his room at the end, absolutely loved it! So yeah, it's fair to say that I am indeed a big beandrowning fan!
I very like the journey of this from just a little fun exploring to embracing the role play. :D
Gotta warm up with a custom map at first sometimes haha This one made the immersion really easy though, very well made one!
Already knew that map from some other vid, but still enjoyed it very much. Its just so nice to see all of these areas connected and to really get the "big castle" feeling.
I guess back than it wasnt just the ressources which prevented such a game: many pcs (like mine) were utter trash and could never have run such a huge map. They really had to be careful with specification demands to not exclude to many people, since gaming PCs really were not a standard at that time.
I actually hadn't thought about the issue of very bad PCs at the time, I just expected it to be a time and deadline issue back then because of the short developement time this game had (its a miracle they even finished anything in time to be honest). But that's a really good point, old PCs would have absolutely just died trying to run a massive open world map like that where everything is connected. Such a shame we didn't get this "big castle feeling" because of that issue in our childhood but at least we have some talented modders around now to experience it as adults 😀
This is amazing! The fact we have Ai voice cloning now aswell means we're able to add more custom dialogue to add more custom scenes etc. Always drives me insane the fact we didn't get TGOF in this game format. One of my biggest wishes is for a modder to make a GOF remake in one of the engines of either HP1, HP2 or 3
I can't wait for the first HP custom map that utilizes AI voice technology either! The levels of immersion that could be reached with that are insane to think about, a full game remake (like the HP2 PC Extended mod kind of already does it) or stuff like turning HP4 into a game with the same concept of the first three could absolutely be possible like that! I'm really curious about what the future brings and what all the creative modders that are around can think of, looking forward to it!
Good lord, God only knows what I'd do for a Goblet of Fire remake in the HP2/HP3 engine.
Same here man, same here... They have robbed us of that in pur childhood but maybe we get a fan remake of it one day...
This is a great mod!
When watching this, I remembered the feeling the first game used to give me. It's kinda similar to what the "haunted beta versions" mods of Super Mario 64 have. A sort of liminal space, strange feeling, like the architecture and the design and stuff don't make sense. HP2 doesn't really have the same aura because it improves on the area design so much. For HP1 it's the combination of limited graphics (+gorgeous lighting!) and levels that don't feel like they are entirely connected, so it makes it feel like Hogwarts is ever-changing. This mod makes the space more cohesive but it still retains that odd dreamy feeling. Not sure if I explained it well, I can't quite put it.
Sorry I am gushing so much word salad, I just have a lot of nostalgia for these games.
Those Filch lines are really good. The voice actor did a great job, too bad they had to cut them out.
Absolutely never apologize for a lengthy youtube comment, especially not if it's kind words of praise for a great custom map 😄
I agree with you by the way, as much as I prefer HP2 in gameplay, mechanics and just overall fun HP1 PC is unbeaten when it comes to level design, lighting and just the overall mood. And the ever changing Hogwarts is indeed such an amazing detail, just like in the books. There is even the NPC that says something like "This staircase leads to the third floor, at least it did yesterday" which is just great detail to world building!
Couldn't agree more with your description of the mod there, nailed it down super well, thanks for the comment!
I would add fades after you complete the demonstration in the lessons to make it feel more like a full class
I think that's a very fair minor optimization, cool idea!
Very nice addition to story ;)
These r the kind of custom maps I love
Same here! So much effort and creativity while keeping it close to the base game.
@@Nixxo just started the extended mod for hp2pc, love the library
Yooo enjoy the extended mod, they really put some time and effort into that one, especially that library level!
Oh the map is taking some ideas from the PS1 version such as the lessions being similar as you don't have to do a pacours on PS1 after doing the button combo or Harry fixing the picture @ 18:58 and getting house points. :D
It was definitely inspired heavily by the beginning of the PS1 game haha But I honestly really like the way they did things in that game, the lessons are way more realistic being shorter and not as deadly and it feels more like an actual first day at school that makes sense which is also what the custom map was going for. So it works out perfectly for me!
HP1, 2, 3 is like a real position; gold, silver, and bronze, I'm not interested after HP3... just like the position, do you get it?
The series really fell off after HP4 unfortunately. Even though I'm personally still a fan of HP5 I can fully understand why some people aren't, HP1-3 will always be the goated games!
ORRRRRR! This mod is bloody brilliant!
It's sooo good and super well done for sure! It's amazing just how much love and effort was put into this to make it an improved nostalgic throwback for fans!
@@Nixxo Agreed!
There were venomous tentaculas you met before learning incendio. Are those can't be casted at all? Even if you replay the map? Alohomora secrets in the room where you learn the spell can be used only after the spell is learned as well.
Hmm I'm pretty sure the plants on the way to Herbology are just not castable indeed but the Alohomora area is weird indeed, I didn't think about that. Not sure how that is done in there, very good point. I'm still pretty sure that you have all spells from the beginning though, if you load a completely new game and then teleport to a later level straight away you will know them all without having to unlock anything...
@@Nixxo hm... I think then every level might unlock necessary spells by script. For example, if you load the Lumos level - it unlocks all the spells needed for the level, but with Alohomora level they might unlock Alohomora only after you learn it.
@@Nixxo oh, or rather they could have all the spells unlocked by default and then lock them in those 2 places... That would be more likely. That's why spells are unlocked on all the custom maps.
@UltimateGoblin That's got to be it, good thinking there! And actually a clever way to do it from the devs.
Yet another fire intro song.
POV: This would be the official map if development didn’t rushed.
Can't even blame the devs for it, they only had like 8 months after all. Biggest issue here was freaking EA sadly putting the deadlines like that but oh well, the game still turned out well imo
@@Nixxo Yeah, I meant that. If the movie came out in 2002, there would be more time.
Is there any way to find out more about the development leaks? I don't know if the game's TCRF article has those, and would love to find out more about what was cut from this game!
Hmm I don't know any specific sources to find out about more stuff that has been cut but I know there is a custom map showcasing a lot (if not all) of the cut content from the game. You can find the video about it here: ruclips.net/video/XkokphcfLNI/видео.html& I might make a video about this map as well at some point but it's uncertain for now.
hey mate, thanks for the nostalgia trip, can you tell me how I can download HP custom maps?
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Hey there, sorry for the late reply but I hope this will still help. I made a full tutorial on how to download and instal custom maps in HP2 (PC), it's pretty similar for HP1+HP3 but those games barely have any maps made for them so I would recommend HP2 in general.
Anyways, here it is: ruclips.net/video/kPeX8F_5SvM/видео.html
Thank you for the nice words as well, I'm super happy that you have enjoyed the video and that it was a nostalgic journey into the childhood!
очень клевый мод! действительно похоже на то как если бы дизайн делали для гп1, а не просто копия гп2
Я думаю, что было приложено много усилий для того, чтобы портировать карту Grand Staircase из HP2 в HP1 и заставить ее работать без проблем, и я согласен, она так хорошо вписывается в игру, что при этом не возникает ощущения, будто ее переработали! Такое ощущение, что так было всегда во время официальной игры!
Are you able to play the whole game with this?
Sadly this is all custom made and ends at the point in the story where my video ends too. If the creator sits down and invests another couple of probably hundreds of hours I'm sure they would manage to remake the entire game like this buuut I think it's sadly unlikely that that will ever happen...
Did anyone have trouble installing the mod? When i moved all the mod's folders to original game's directory, the game just begyn crashing raight on the startup. Does that mean there's an issue with the original game package, i've downloaded? Or is it jus me?
Just to make sure, you did copy the contents of the download into their respective game folders right? So everything that's in "maps" into the games "maps" folder, "Sounds" into the "Sounds" folder and so on+...