Agree on all points. No one was as hyped for this game as me, (a big gamer and HP fan). But I feel almost guilty that I haven't touched the game since I finished the main story. The world was just so boring. They build this beautiful castle, to send you out and into caves for 99% of the game, I feel like I'm Tomb Raider not a Hogwarts student. You can't interact or do anything in the castle or Hogsmede, it just all feels like a beautiful screensaver. Where was the fun, why can't I prank students, annoy teachers, throw potions and beasts intro crowds of students, sneak around at night with prefects trying to catch me, the list goes on and on. the game was just one giant missed opportunity after the next.
"feels like you are a superhero who resides at the school" is a great way of describing this game. I was saying to people you are like a "magical Rambo"
-Cut out 80% of the open world and make the forbidden forest and Hogwarts valley bigger. -Have the game take place in Hogwarts, Hogsmede and the forbidden forest. -Combat is good but needs more enemy varieties especially unique and memorable bosses. -Instead of an open world make it more of a student simulator, with schedules, classes, curfews, breakable rules etc. -Side charecters like students and professors needs to be fleshed out a lot more. -Have consequences for your actions especially for casting the unforgivables (dosen't necessary need to be sent to Azkaban)
I bought this game around launch and ended up playing half the story over a few days. One day I woke up and had 0 desire to open the game again. Still haven’t touched it since.
I agree with you and trust me... it ain't an RPG and I've played it, you can 1 single 'unique' character, maybe 2 with the 2nd one having literal 'few' different options in dialogue and copy paste this 2 times more to fill up those 4 save slots and try it with the other houses and that's it. A surprisingly great story (especially with Sebastian Sallow) but a garbage RPG.
a sad thing about this is, data mining of the games code showed that a lot of ideas like house points, reputation and relationships were originally planed for the game but got stripped at some point.
I just can't believe they spent 150 million making this game. It didn't feel like it. The biggest gripe I had with the game was how the atmosphere was just not right. Hogwarts though a school is a mysterious and eerie place. The forbidden forest did not make me uncomfortable at all. There was this cartoonie vibe to everything that killed the HP vibe for me. Being a student made no sense with no curfews, no dynamic NPC Schedules, classes. There was hardly any sneaking around hogwarts. Hogwarts felt more like a grand castle than a school. Hogmeade felt like I was in a studio, the country side was so bland and not well designed. Encountering creatures Outside of the castle should be scary.
For me, both Hogwarts and the landscape around it are completley detached from the actual gameplay. It makes zero differcene running around the forbidden forest, the class rooms or the open world. I just dont know why they decided to to make the open world so big, nobody in the history of harry potter ever asked what tf lies 2km beyond the castle to the south. It makes the forbidden forest actually look way too small. Also there was no need to have 15 smaller copy paste hogsmeades around the map. Both the lore and the setting are bad imo and the main character is either boring or extremely uncharismatic - like hes shouting how poachers do it to themselves while mass casting death curses
I found most of the characters boring compared to most RPG's. There really wasn't that much diversity in their faces and their voices feel monotone or at the least lackluster regardless of the scene. They definitely should have focused more on the castle being bigger on the inside rather than smaller and trying to make the game look big through the rest of the world. It was Hogwarts Legacy not a tour of a Britain legacy haha.
The protagonist in this game is as charismatic as a stone. Seriously, I thing my character in Dark Souls was more charismatic despite not saying single word through the entire game.
Well this was their first game at this caliber so it was a pretty decent albeit flawed effort. But I'm hopeful that they can create a much improved sequel a few years later. The amount of money this game made should be enough for massive improvements.
Devs are obsessed with the concept of open-world but can't consistently execute it well. The reason some of the best open-world games are popular is because you can interact with the the world in so many ways. If you can't even interact with the NPCs then you already failed at a fundamental level
PC version almost unplayable without mods. Now that I do have mods the game is very beautiful and doesn't lag. I got rid of the fog, students have better AI and different outfits (they hang out in hogsmeade and go to bed at night/classes in the day), i got a mod for flight controls so i can look around on a broom. Just a bunch of stuff that the game should have already had.
Hogwarts is boring af. It was alright for the first 5 hours but once you get out and explore the open world all the side activities are the same thing over and over again. Tedious boring side missions that don’t matter, little enemy variety, exploring caves gives a useless cosmetic item all the time. And for an rpg game it’s not very rpg. Any open world Bethesda game is way better than this.
I 100% agree with your video. I waited until i bought it as a treat for finishing my bachelor‘s thesis bc i thought that’s gonna be one of the best games i would ever play. This game would have been my absolute childhood dream. I was a huge hp fan as a kid/teenager. Now i am around 20 hours in game and i am already so bored, i didn‘t play for a week now. The main and the side quests are so boring, always the same patterns, always the shallow dialogues. My character is the most boring character i have ever met/played in a video game. Not even the 55€ i spent for this are enough motivation for me to continue this game rn. I‘m replaying rdr2 now
@Fullmoonwerewolf where RDR2 messed up was promoting itself heavily as a realistic grounded game, and it was so far from that. Side missions and John Marston epilogue 10/10. But main story from the first time you hear Dutch obsession with the Pinkerton to the old lady he killed in Guantanamo, Arthur was just a yes man, and the gang was just brain dead following Dutch through 36 eighty men shootouts. Fast & furious writing
Dumped 100 hours in during the first 8 days when it launched... 100%'d it and loved every minute of it ... Guess we got different things out of it .... "I" very much got my childhood fantasy out of it and very much my money's worth...
I played a couple of hours and skipped mostly entirely everything. Refunded and it's the best choice I made. The puzzles or hidden stuff was so boring to do and so is everything about the overrated game.
well... refunds are only possible up to 2 hours of game time. So you barely reached Hogwarts and had at most 1 to 2 classes and most things weren't even opened up to you at that point?! The truely boring part, the open world exploration doesn't start until 10 to 15 hours in. And it takes even more time to unlock most puzzles or hidden stuff. Also the statement "I skipped mostly entirely everything" and "there is nothing to do" is very kinda moronic. Sorry if I call BS on your post
The reason they don't give a broom later is because there isn't anything to see in between your start point and end point and would mean the devs have to make a decent open world. This game, isn't an RPG! I'm so glad you made this video, I thought I was going crazy trying to swim through all the 10/10 reviews from Harry Potter fans that only played the first 20 hours and have never played another game other than this pile of garbage!
Dont get me wrong, I love this game, but i can 100% agree with you. The game's peak was when you entered Hogwarts and visited lessons. Once you left the castle and 99% of the side quests happend outside Hogwarts, the game lost it's magic.
Agreed, shoudl've just focused on the school, like he said, no one even remotely cared whats outside the school lol. Imagine being able to hide around at night dodging the prefects and stuff, bullying other students, having romance options, it would've been much better than putting tons of empty forest and houses and caves full of clothes like who tf even put clothes inside a chest in a cave wtf
The biggest issue with this game that would be called out for literally any other game but this one gets away with it because muh childhood is that the developers literally canned all of the things that were going to make this game great. Much like RDR the game was supposed to have a rep system where your choices would matter, where breaking into peoples houses would get you a wanted level, where using dark magic would get you branded a dark wizard and attacked on sight in towns or the castle. It was supposed to have quidditch. All of it was canned.
The first few hours were really, really cool. But when they started to introduce the world surrounding Hoghwarts it went downhill. I didn't even finish the game as it just became tedious after the first few hours.
Great video which sums up the problems. I would add to the list of problems "revelio". In the books they allways talk about how many secrets hogwarts has. Even dumbledore sais that sometimes he finds a new room or secret. They couldnt even find the entrance to the chamber of secrets. And in the game you just run though the castle and spam revelio to find everything hogwarts has to offer after 3h gametime.
Spent days trying to convince each other (me and my brothers) that we loved the game cause it was our childhood and tried to get our money worth, all three of us stopped playing halfway and never touched it again, after a while we finally admitted it was dogshit
I’m glad the game was made, it just didn’t reach its full potential, BUT it’s a start, and hopefully they listen to the gamers and improve part 2 considerably… Dynamic seasons, Dynamic weather, more interaction with students and teachers,bring Hogwarts more to life instead of this big empty castle most of the time… Expand the world, anywhere you can see you can go to, in this game so much is blocked off… Also, makes the classes feel like classes more… Part 2 my guess would be Tom Riddle attends Hogwarts and this version was prior to his birth… THIS game has so much untapped potential…
I semi-agree with your point. The environment was fked up as well. 90% of the world, was random mountains trees, and caves. Towns were limited, and there were no realistic options to customize your character's voice. It was either high pitch voice or low-pitch, both sounds fked. The story was also not the best IMO. The spells were very limited, I expected there to be more spells, it would really be enjoyable. Lastly, there is no use of plants (like Chinese chomping cabbage and mandrakes, don't do shit) and lastly, unforgivable curses are overpowered.
I should've known, man I should've known that its gonna be a mediocre experience if avalanche is behind it. They are like the twin of ubisoft, both are the experts of creating mediocre, bloated, generic, soul-crushing open world games. It's also hilarious that the game is called Hogwarts Legacy, yet you spend 80% of time outside of Hogwarts. This game should've just called "Wizards Creed: Highland Legacy" 🤣
How can this game be better. Let me sleep in my fucking bed. Let me sit in a fucking chair. Bring back quidich and stop making the students disappear at night it’s like a fucking ghost town. And why is there nothing to do in Hogsmead seriously?
You are spot in about it all. I’ve never not finished a game ant 100% and I can’t even make myself finish the story at the minimum percent. I love open worlds but this world is so boring. Anywhere cool I actually want to go like the top of some mountain, boom, I can’t “land” there. It breaks the immersion terribly. And I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the voice actors were terrible. The character animations are terrible too. Why does everyone gesture weirdly in the exact same way seemingly at random within conversations? Feels like a game from the 90s.
Once again we have a game that shouldn't have be an open world being an open world game. 95% of people would riot it the game was announced as not an open world bcz they think its a requirement for a good game while its just some buzzwords that makes games worse
Open world wasn't the problem. The problem was that they weren't creative enough to make it open world within the castle and it's grounds. We've all read the books, we know the castle shifts, we know that it is theoretically bigger on the inside like the TARDIS. I don't know why they couldn't have made a massive map inside of Hogwarts proper. Open world traditionally meant not limited to story progression. There would have been plenty of exploring to do but instead they made Hogwarts feel smaller by making the outer world the explorable zones. So weird. Not a good comparison but think about Elden Ring and Raya Academy. It's a compact area compared to the map yet once you're inside it opens up and becomes huge.
I agree, game came out, played it for 4 days as I just had my holidays after exams and the disappointment was immense. Open world that couldn't be emptier, the immersiveness of the game was at a rock bottom. Shame that a world as beautiful as this in the game got wasted on such a boring plot. It's a 5/10 for me
Pros -Beautiful looking game cons: -Boring story -Boring mission design -Bland characters -Boring cutscene simulator -Boring gameplay/combat -No progression Maybe a cool game for somehow who is a new gamer or hasn't played a lot of games before but for someone like me that is a gamer since 15 years this game bored me out of my mind. Uninstalled after 15 hours.
Me personally, I did generally enjoy the open world, but I felt like it was to narrow. Sure, it is a huge map but only if you are traveling in one direction. I like big open worlds in all directions like RDR 2 and Witcher 3. I also wish that the dark forest could have been a lot bigger with more creatures. I agree with pretty much everything Fullmoonwerewolf said about the game. I would give it a solid B.
Completely agree with the broom part. I had to deliberately limit myself and explore new areas on foot only. What's funny that even the broom is kinda pointless since you can just fast travel everywhere. The entire game is just bland. Not bad, just bland.
I don't think you guys understand what the word Overrated means. Hogwarts legacy is anything BUT overrated. Baldurs Gate 3 though, it's very overrated. The only reason why it's not the most overrated game of the year is because Starfield exists. Overrated is a game that is being rated much higher than it deserves(regardless of actual quality, could be a great game, or a garbage game). People rate Baldur's Gate a 10, while unfairly focusing on the breadth of choices you're given, meanwhile they turn a blind eye to the many limitations and functions that were cut, and used to be present in older Baldur's Gate/Neverwinter Night games, in order to be able to bring those choices, there are also the mega buffs they gave to enemies, in order to provide artificial challenge, such as Gnolls, monsters that are supposed to be CR 2 enemies, having multishot skills that can't be found in any book, though an application of an ability that was only ever supposed to give them attacks if they used claws and teeth. The game is a 9,0 at most, although I would personally give it an 8,5, because I don't give the slightest fuck about having that many choices(at the end of the day, the game still fails to provide me with the options I want. Just like every other western RPG)
Hogwarts legacy got higher review than it should’ve. 84 on metacritic when it should be low 70s. I do personally think Baldurs gate 3 is overrated as well, I actually made a video about it. But I expect much more out of an open world Harry Potter game than generic AI content, and it got way better scores than it should’ve for what it did just because of Harry Potter blindness
no haha spider man is overrated. bg3 is the best game of the year, even tho i prefer starfield. sorry but youre in the wrong here for so many things. 1) ofc bg3 has limitations, they clearly focused everything on graphics and animations (bar Act III) and the dnd aspect. Which is great. 2) the game isnt overrated because you think there are too many choices haha wtf kinda argument is that... thats not how it works. All of larian games (or most) have focused on that aspect so why you choose to neglect that fact is beyond me. 3) the witcher 3 did similar things, albeit with no dnd or the same gameplay but they loved choices with consequences. BG3 did what it wanted to achieve, people who follows Larian Games knows that. Spider man is a very good game, but its definitely more overrated thab BG3 because it has the most generic story of them all. But both those games are stil l100 times better than hogwarts legacy, which is a game made by mobile phone companies. (just joking here but even the mobile game of hp did it better than this)
@@mustplay7212 No, BG3 is literally overrated, the game is not all that. When it comes o combat, it's actually inferior to older games even from Larian Studios itself. The game is also heavier than it should be, as games with better graphics and bigger worlds actually run better than it. The story itself is only ok. The sole advantage this game has over others is in it's huge number of meaningful choices, that's it. The game is good, but it's 8.5 not a 10
"A solid action-rpg" with a few good moments, i couldn´t resume it better, i would give a B- myself. What personally stands to me in this game are the visuals (graphically, aesthestics) and the audio (specially the OST´s) and also experience something new from the wizarding universe as a harry potter long fan and exploring hogwarts, the rest is just kinda borderline mediocre But even though it´s a solid, it could have been so much better, if they actually did any rpg improvements to the game (things like character traits, being an actual student and the game feels more of a story driven action game with the harry potter´s aesthetics. What dissapointed me the most, was the common rooms for the houses.
And here I am. Playing this game only for combat and graphics. And trying to enjoy this world as much as I can, until I just start any quest, and facepalm myself how terrible, predictable and boring they all are.
I haven't played the game but agree with your overall discussion points, but shouldn't be able to create your own charecter in a story based game is a bad take, you need to play more proper RPGs.
@@Fullmoonwerewolf ah okay that make sense, sounded like you thought it rarely worked rather than it being done poorly in Hogworts - glad my understanding about the game post launch were correct and I avoided it!
Trust! Casuals will love this game but anyone that played like 10 open world games would realise how boring and bloated this game is, I stopped after an hour because it made me want to sleep 💀
This game has a great map. Looks great! My biggest issues are the dead NPCs and boring story line. There was so much repetition with the dialogues it’s comical.
I agree... It feels like playing an open world game back from 2011... I mean, it's good... but it is more of the same... It can be a very good base if they improve and implements better mechanics for howarts legacy 2
Its alright I mean it ain't like good rdr 2 npc and enemies sounds a bit dull in Hogwarts like so repetitive that's the only issue for me and its lacking in spooky side
The eviorment is great and I love the game as a Harry Potter fan but as a fan of video games it is a good game with some major flaws. Story was downright boring at times and the only character I found genuine interest in was Sebastian. There are so many paths this game could of had to make it more re-playable, instead of the mini games, they could of had wizards chest, Quidditch, or fleshed out the dueling system between students. I disagree on the character creation as making your own student is part of the whole appeal but they need to flesh out the RPG aspects of it and have more consequences for being 'evil'.
Have been playing for two hours and I'm already bored 😅 the school doesn't seem exciting at all and I can't even interact with the random NPCs, there's no class schedule or anything... And just went to Hogsmeade and there's nothing to do there. Also I'm feeling super lost in the story, like what the heck is going on .... I thought this game would be more immersive... This game was so hyped but meh
As someone who read all the books and watched all the movies, this game is pretty shallow and boring. There are some redeeming factors but if you have played any other open world rpg/action games youll probably be bored by this. Its basically a super empty and shallow overall worse witcher 3 or AC origins/odyssy/valhalla remake, just with a Harry Potter theme and setting. The combat is new and kindv cool still not that awesome though.
Hogwarts Legacy imo is a great game if your a HP fan. The devs really wanted you to walk into the universe and feel like youre taking a tour of the school. They did most of their work on the school itself. Its fantastic. However, if you actually go out into the world and 'explore' and do the storyline everything else is mediocre at best. You really see the overused assets over and over. Merlin Trials to caves are all relatively the same thing. Its pretty bad. The story has a lot to be desired. You can't really make any distinct decisions, so its an on-rails storyline. The magical powers are pretty fun. But the enemy types are often the same thing from beginning to end. The 'classes' were just quick cutscenes. It would have been nice to have some intractable classes take places to make you feel like you were at school. And the secret room was underwhelming. There wasn't a need to have a lot of tables since crafting took 10 seconds for most things. Or 2 minutes on Rare things. So it was get in and get out crafting. And it wasn't in depth. The stores/merchants really didn't matter unless they sold a piece of gear you wanted. And the gear. Some of it looked really good but they really just did subtle color changes/schemes to say they had a lot of variety but really they didn't. And no quiddich was a huge disappointment for me. That would have been interesting to add a MP component using that but Warner Bros prolly wanted them to just release the game.
Hogwarts legacy is a terrible game if you read the books and understood how mature and deep harry potter is. Not just watching the movies with one hand on the remote and the other on your chamber of secrets.
If you think the combat is bland, you're not doing it right. There are so many spells, and plenty of ways to kick some ass. I rarely just hack away at the health bar with the basic spell.
I never said the combat is bland. It’s actually one of the stronger aspects, but I think it could’ve been improved still. I also never said I hack away with the basic spell, I was just saying that I hack away at one guy with multiple spells. My qualm was that I can only really fight one dude at a time which makes everyone else kinda stand around shooting spells while I’m dogging on one dude which makes the fights awkward sometimes
@@Fullmoonwerewolf sorry but thats simply not true. I can say the exact opposite. Whether you enjoy a game or not is entirely subjective. I have 4 playthroughs in hogwarts legacy and barely finished spiderman 2. If you are going to make claims make them objective. Both games are the same thing with different paint. And to be honest im not sure you even know what overrated means. The fact that most people enjoy a game doesnt mean its overrated, a game is overrated when people claim its a masterpiece. So if anything nobody has ever sais hogwarts legacy is goty but everyone is crying for spiderman 2 which it shouldnt even be in discussion for goty. So i will repeat , you made a video about the wrong game being overrated
i loved it, i got to like 95ish% completed and it was a ton of fun. without spoiling anything the scene with all the teachers got me a little teared up and the forbidden curses quest couldve been its own DLC, super short and very little replay value. . better end game content or some pvp stuff i would much happier
I don’t play video games like that other than gta and sims. However, even when playing this game, there were so many things that were annoying after hours of playing. I genuinely was here for Harry Potter. The game was a bonus 😂😂. But there’s no replayablitiy.
Relaxing and enchanting is how I would describe this game and it’s better for it. I don’t think it’s overrated, it comes down to what you want from a game
Its just personal taste. Like I don't like god of war or zelda which are considered some of the best games of all time. I don't just try to say that my opinion is subjective though and I realize that some people like it so won't just call them delusional.
@@marcoaureliorodriguesdevas135 jokes on you with that comment I'm a proper massive assassins creed fan. Valhalla is my favorite game of this gen and my favourite game of all time is AC syndicate
Complaining about the brooms making content too easy is like complaining about games having difficulty levels you can pick from. Yes, you can just hop on the broom and fly away if it's too hard, but not in all situations. What's also stopping you from loading from the last autosave and reducing the difficulty? Do you go around playing on the easiest difficulty on every game because it's available to you? Probably not. Do you change the difficulty in every situation that's hard? Probably not. Brooms in legacy are effectively the same there. Also, what about fast travel, waypoints, and the use of mounts in other games? Surely you use those right? Do they also not make certain aspects of the game redundant?
Fast travel points are typically only available after you make the journey to it conquering the challenges along the way. The reward is not having to walk there again if you don’t want to. The thing about the broom is that it allows you to bypass every challenge unlike any other vehicle, horse, or fast travel point in any other game. Think of any other open world game such as breath of the wild, rdr2, or ghost of Tsushima. Now imagine if there was a device allowing you to fly over everything. The locations, fights, npcs, encounters would be skipped to get right to your destination. So much content in these games are about experiencing things along the way to where you’re going. It’s not like difficulty because it makes you have the easiest difficulty for traversal. And when I have it might as well use it. It’s like having an all powerful one shot weapon in a game. You’d use it every time because you have it, but you’d miss out on so many good fights and moments.
I don’t think you play hogwarts legacy for the challenge, so the difficulty was just kind of annoying if anything. I didn’t feel happy to beat guys, I just felt relieved for it to be iver
Don't know about game of the year, but I enjoyed it. Biggest thing is I can't think of a decent game that came out this year (maybe Baldur's Gate, but I hate the turn based D&D system).
Tears of the kingdom, sea of stars, Spider-Man 2, resident evil, Mario wonder are all great games that came out this year. I haven’t played Alan wake 2 but I’ve heard it’s amazing
please, JUST PLEASE, SOMEONE, give this man a job in videogame gevelopment, this who should make games, i'm sure Harry Potter made by this man would be thousand time better then this THING we have. Hogwarts legacy my ass
i need to ask because i beat the game 3 times my 4th character is still waiting for me to come back i got sick of that room of trash i call it that can u skip it i hate that room i dont care to do that room i wish it was not in the game fuck that trash so i need to know can u skip it
@@Fullmoonwerewolf already played GOW. Thinking about buying elden ring, but im afraid i will just ragequit too quick and then stop playing it. So i was thinking about hogwarts Legacy, but after watching this video it seems like a boring game.....
If you’re one to rage quit and not play then idk if you’ll end up finishing elden ring. It takes a lot of patience although amazing to explore. I wouldn’t buy hogwarts legacy tho, there are so many better games out there. I’m starting the Witcher 3 and I’ve heard it’s good so that sounds like something for you. Red dead 2 as well perhaps.
@@Fullmoonwerewolf yeah witcher 3 was amazing. Completed it 3 times already. Rdr2 was great also, only completed it once tho. I want to try Elden ring, cause of the world and the bosses. Its juts that i never played any souls game before and im afraid that at the end i wont like it enough to finish it..... But as there arent many games like it, maybe i should just buy it?
Yeah just go for it. It’s incredible no matter whether you’re good or not. It was a lot of my friends Intro into the soulsborne series and they all loved it. I hope you have a great time with it
Ion agree wit most of the shit you said, other than the game needing more enemies to attack in the wild and find better loot. We need more games wit character creation, more open world easy traverse games and not every game needa be hard asf n stressful
Character creation is fine as long as the game doesn’t change based on what you look like. I’m all for games that aren’t hard or stressful, but it should be made easy through the actual challenges being easy and fun, not easy because you can always run away from combat
For me Hogwarts deserves some design awards the fact that they are snubbed is absolutely disgusting. The game world design is insane but the story and enemies leaves more to be desired for sure
Nothing about the design deserves awards lol Let's not kid ourselves here, doing the concept art for Hogwarts wasn't exactly difficult considering it's basically already been done in the books and films.
@@MarluxiaX2 go ahead and try to make one thats just as immersive then since its "so simple" putting books references into visuals that is just as accurate.
@@Fullmoonwerewolf When Hogmeade and Hogwarts are already so well thought out and lets not forget this is in a pretty deserted area in the late 1800s what else could be in those hill/villages in those times making the whole world look extra would just take away from the immersion of the world
There doesn’t have to be a town or house every 5 feet, there just needs to be substance when there is. You can’t interact with any of the NPC’s outside of a few that gives you a side quest. They don’t react to your spell, you can’t talk to them, they’re just there to look at. Stuff like this makes the world seem artificial and boring
I have played a LOT of games through my time on this earth and playing Hogwarts Legacy is easily in the top three gaming experiences of my entire life. There are many different factors that go into why that is but I know many people feel the same way. It is without a doubt the best game in the wizarding world to ever be made and a metric f*ck load of people were waiting for a Wizarding World game to really entrance you into the world and make you feel like a Wizard, and this is the first game to do it successfully. If you had ANY idea how long I have spent just roaming around casting spells at random things JUST because I can it would be embarrassing... it is for sure MY GOTY :D
@@Fullmoonwerewolf I mean... yeah for sure. No game has ever been made that is fault-free. One such fault for Hogwarts Legacy is the lack of a variety of enemies... that one is annoying. I'd also like more potions to make. But in the grand scheme of things, those things are trivial. It still remains one of the best things I've ever played personally. :)
Hogwarts Legacy definitely carried by the fact that it exists in the Harry Potter world. I liked being able to play a game set in that universe and I thought that was fun. But like mentioned in the video, a lot of the activities to do in the game is seemingly pointless and don't add that much. But overall I would say that this problem exists in all open world games. Just recently I beat Assassins' Creed Mirage and I noticed that even after doing the side content I never upgraded anything because there was no need. It felt like a pointless RPG upgrade elements were added in. That's just to say that the problems with Hogwarts Legacy exist in other games and I do agree that both these games are carried by the names/worlds they are apart of
I feel like this is a good game to spend the night playing at your friends house to check out all of the cool Harry Potter stuff then never play it again
Imo, the one factor that propels the game into popularity is the boycott, or attempt boycott anyways, before the game's release. It was basically the "Streisand effect" in that it did nothing but put the game on the map for many people.
I love rdr2, watch my review for that I glaze the game. The difference is that there’s thought and time put into everything rather than having AI generate a Harry Potter game
@@Fullmoonwerewolf you said every town was copy and paste, ( they all have different layouts) when you get the lock picking spell and can enter every single house you’ll see that’s not true. They’ll have families in some, people cleaning, cooking, and reading books. Same details as RDR2 except in RDR2 you can’t enter every building.
Sure they have different layouts but you can’t interact with anyone. It feels like I’m in a museum and they’re just there to look at. Sure you can’t go into every building in rdr2, but you can go into a lot including farm houses and such. And when you do there’s trespassing mechanics and you’ll get into a fight, or maybe if you’re sneaky enough you can steal things and get out. One time I found a person being held hostage in a basement and helped them escape. None of these things are remotely possible in hogwarts
@Fullmoonwerewolf there are you just choose not to see them, the spiders have people webbed up in there caves (alive &dead), you have to go in some one cellar to steal a formula that turns out to be huge, a witch tricks you into buying her house that turns out to be a crazy haunted house, one of the hogwarts elf ask you to save one of his friends who is being miss treated by his master, and your asked to save a town that's been over ran by spiders. Don't even get me started on the poacher den that looks like a regular tent on the outside and turns out to be a mega mansion with dragons when you walk through the door.
Right! It feels like people were just rushing through the game and didn't take time to appreciate the small things they added. Also, they beat the game, and now it's apparently "boring." That's what happens when you 100% a game. Only downside I can think of is the lack of content that was put out even months after the games release and the basic spells. I felt like with ancient magic, we should be able to do more advanced spells.
nah its feels like a mobile phone game with better graphics. its easy to see it was made as a cash grab game (yes most companies wants profits but this game had the least amount of "soul" than most games from 2023 combined @@masonambrose1093
Your generous😂 glad I got it onsale…its not worth 80$ they could have done so much better with this game but it is flat…hard mode isnt even hard…TOTK is way better then this disaster of a game…where do all these kids go at night? Why cant I have fun with them and interact and develop relationships with them and enjoy the common rooms with them…why isnt there rivalry between houses? Why cant we have randomn dueling games with anyone? This game is lame and I wish I hadnt gotten it
the most boring game ive ever played with horiffic dialogue, terrible voice acting, and a dead world.
we love it
@@Djoeeeeee we?
@@Djoeeeeeeppl who play this game are dumb
100% facts I had to force myself too play this game so I didnt feel like I wasted 70$
At certain points it honestly felt like self induced torture on everything
Agree on all points.
No one was as hyped for this game as me, (a big gamer and HP fan).
But I feel almost guilty that I haven't touched the game since I finished the main story.
The world was just so boring. They build this beautiful castle, to send you out and into caves for 99% of the game, I feel like I'm Tomb Raider not a Hogwarts student.
You can't interact or do anything in the castle or Hogsmede, it just all feels like a beautiful screensaver.
Where was the fun, why can't I prank students, annoy teachers, throw potions and beasts intro crowds of students, sneak around at night with prefects trying to catch me, the list goes on and on.
the game was just one giant missed opportunity after the next.
"feels like you are a superhero who resides at the school" is a great way of describing this game. I was saying to people you are like a "magical Rambo"
That’s a good one too
@@Fullmoonwerewolf -Did you really say that you hate British people? hardly anyone speaks like that in the UK as most people are not posh
lol
@@michaelhawkins7389ya rock and a hard place; and if they ain’t posh and queens English, then idk what they are saying
-Cut out 80% of the open world and make the forbidden forest and Hogwarts valley bigger.
-Have the game take place in Hogwarts, Hogsmede and the forbidden forest.
-Combat is good but needs more enemy varieties especially unique and memorable bosses.
-Instead of an open world make it more of a student simulator, with schedules, classes, curfews, breakable rules etc.
-Side charecters like students and professors needs to be fleshed out a lot more.
-Have consequences for your actions especially for casting the unforgivables (dosen't necessary need to be sent to Azkaban)
I was thinking the exact same thing. I’d love a game that was focused more on depth and story rather than a bunch of boring
ok you do it or shut up
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I bought this game around launch and ended up playing half the story over a few days. One day I woke up and had 0 desire to open the game again. Still haven’t touched it since.
Probably for the best
I went through the same feeling. By the time I did get back my PS4 died at the Map Chamber lol.
good let us enjoy
The companion quest were the best part of the game in my opinion. You missed out mate.
-Terrible optimization
-Laughably mediocre gameplay.
I wouldn't even call it an RPG, it's just Far Cry with Magic.
I agree with you and trust me... it ain't an RPG and I've played it, you can 1 single 'unique' character, maybe 2 with the 2nd one having literal 'few' different options in dialogue and copy paste this 2 times more to fill up those 4 save slots and try it with the other houses and that's it.
A surprisingly great story (especially with Sebastian Sallow) but a garbage RPG.
Far Cry is more fun than this, don't associate it with this game.
a sad thing about this is, data mining of the games code showed that a lot of ideas like house points, reputation and relationships were originally planed for the game but got stripped at some point.
Not sure why they didn’t include those but left in the entire room of requirement
Its a shame really
I just can't believe they spent 150 million making this game. It didn't feel like it. The biggest gripe I had with the game was how the atmosphere was just not right. Hogwarts though a school is a mysterious and eerie place. The forbidden forest did not make me uncomfortable at all. There was this cartoonie vibe to everything that killed the HP vibe for me. Being a student made no sense with no curfews, no dynamic NPC Schedules, classes. There was hardly any sneaking around hogwarts. Hogwarts felt more like a grand castle than a school. Hogmeade felt like I was in a studio, the country side was so bland and not well designed. Encountering creatures Outside of the castle should be scary.
All true
For me, both Hogwarts and the landscape around it are completley detached from the actual gameplay. It makes zero differcene running around the forbidden forest, the class rooms or the open world. I just dont know why they decided to to make the open world so big, nobody in the history of harry potter ever asked what tf lies 2km beyond the castle to the south. It makes the forbidden forest actually look way too small. Also there was no need to have 15 smaller copy paste hogsmeades around the map.
Both the lore and the setting are bad imo and the main character is either boring or extremely uncharismatic - like hes shouting how poachers do it to themselves while mass casting death curses
I found most of the characters boring compared to most RPG's. There really wasn't that much diversity in their faces and their voices feel monotone or at the least lackluster regardless of the scene. They definitely should have focused more on the castle being bigger on the inside rather than smaller and trying to make the game look big through the rest of the world. It was Hogwarts Legacy not a tour of a Britain legacy haha.
Hogwarts Legacy was the most disappointing game of the year. They out-ubisofted Ubisoft.
I think that’s the best way to put it I’ve seen
The protagonist in this game is as charismatic as a stone. Seriously, I thing my character in Dark Souls was more charismatic despite not saying single word through the entire game.
Put me in the writers room at Portkey, I’ll give them a masterpiece
Glad I wasn't the only one who though that.
I loved the game especially the combat. However, the games world feels empty at times.
The combat was pretty good yeah
world is dead, npcs during night everywhere
Well this was their first game at this caliber so it was a pretty decent albeit flawed effort. But I'm hopeful that they can create a much improved sequel a few years later. The amount of money this game made should be enough for massive improvements.
All the combats are based on the movies.
Devs are obsessed with the concept of open-world but can't consistently execute it well. The reason some of the best open-world games are popular is because you can interact with the the world in so many ways. If you can't even interact with the NPCs then you already failed at a fundamental level
I was excited for it and while it looks great. It just lacked life and everything felt empty and repetitive. No no soul.
Im so glad other people agree this game’s story was boring but the landscape was amazingly done
PC version almost unplayable without mods. Now that I do have mods the game is very beautiful and doesn't lag. I got rid of the fog, students have better AI and different outfits (they hang out in hogsmeade and go to bed at night/classes in the day), i got a mod for flight controls so i can look around on a broom. Just a bunch of stuff that the game should have already had.
Hogwarts is boring af. It was alright for the first 5 hours but once you get out and explore the open world all the side activities are the same thing over and over again. Tedious boring side missions that don’t matter, little enemy variety, exploring caves gives a useless cosmetic item all the time.
And for an rpg game it’s not very rpg. Any open world Bethesda game is way better than this.
Well said
I 100% agree with your video. I waited until i bought it as a treat for finishing my bachelor‘s thesis bc i thought that’s gonna be one of the best games i would ever play. This game would have been my absolute childhood dream. I was a huge hp fan as a kid/teenager. Now i am around 20 hours in game and i am already so bored, i didn‘t play for a week now. The main and the side quests are so boring, always the same patterns, always the shallow dialogues. My character is the most boring character i have ever met/played in a video game. Not even the 55€ i spent for this are enough motivation for me to continue this game rn. I‘m replaying rdr2 now
All exactly what I was thinking, I’ve got rdr2 redownloading rn
@alexwilliams4729 yeah the problem with what you’re saying is that rdr2 is better than hogwarts legacy
@Fullmoonwerewolf where RDR2 messed up was promoting itself heavily as a realistic grounded game, and it was so far from that. Side missions and John Marston epilogue 10/10. But main story from the first time you hear Dutch obsession with the Pinkerton to the old lady he killed in Guantanamo, Arthur was just a yes man, and the gang was just brain dead following Dutch through 36 eighty men shootouts. Fast & furious writing
That is true, anytime there is a dialogue option that looks sassy, it always ends up being really tame and lame.
Dumped 100 hours in during the first 8 days when it launched... 100%'d it and loved every minute of it ...
Guess we got different things out of it .... "I" very much got my childhood fantasy out of it and very much my money's worth...
Really glad you loved it!
The main character voice acting was terrible
It felt like a robot
Female MC voice is good
@@Ajar37 I should’ve just made a girl character
I played a couple of hours and skipped mostly entirely everything. Refunded and it's the best choice I made. The puzzles or hidden stuff was so boring to do and so is everything about the overrated game.
Big disappointment for an open world Harry Potter game
well... refunds are only possible up to 2 hours of game time. So you barely reached Hogwarts and had at most 1 to 2 classes and most things weren't even opened up to you at that point?! The truely boring part, the open world exploration doesn't start until 10 to 15 hours in. And it takes even more time to unlock most puzzles or hidden stuff. Also the statement "I skipped mostly entirely everything" and "there is nothing to do" is very kinda moronic. Sorry if I call BS on your post
He just saved himself 40 hours of monotonous gameplay and $60 I think this is a win
The reason they don't give a broom later is because there isn't anything to see in between your start point and end point and would mean the devs have to make a decent open world.
This game, isn't an RPG!
I'm so glad you made this video, I thought I was going crazy trying to swim through all the 10/10 reviews from Harry Potter fans that only played the first 20 hours and have never played another game other than this pile of garbage!
Glad I could help you out lmao
Dont get me wrong, I love this game, but i can 100% agree with you. The game's peak was when you entered Hogwarts and visited lessons. Once you left the castle and 99% of the side quests happend outside Hogwarts, the game lost it's magic.
One of the worst games I've ever played. Tried to give it multiple chances, not worth it. Will forever want my money back.
The honeymoon phase was strong enough to push me through the rest of the game. The back third definitely felt like a chore though
One of the worst games you’ve ever played ? It’s not even close to being that bad, unless you haven’t played many games…
They should've made it basically magic bully.
Agreed, shoudl've just focused on the school, like he said, no one even remotely cared whats outside the school lol. Imagine being able to hide around at night dodging the prefects and stuff, bullying other students, having romance options, it would've been much better than putting tons of empty forest and houses and caves full of clothes like who tf even put clothes inside a chest in a cave wtf
Omg yes I thought I was the only one who thought that.
The biggest issue with this game that would be called out for literally any other game but this one gets away with it because muh childhood is that the developers literally canned all of the things that were going to make this game great. Much like RDR the game was supposed to have a rep system where your choices would matter, where breaking into peoples houses would get you a wanted level, where using dark magic would get you branded a dark wizard and attacked on sight in towns or the castle. It was supposed to have quidditch. All of it was canned.
People underestimate how hard it is to make a video game. I'd put my money on content was cut was because the publisher wanted it shipped ASAP
The first few hours were really, really cool. But when they started to introduce the world surrounding Hoghwarts it went downhill. I didn't even finish the game as it just became tedious after the first few hours.
That post honeymoon phase hits like a truck
Rdr2 put that bar high for open world games, but anyways hogwarts legacy isn't bad game by any means
I said what I said
@Fullmoonwerewolf there's worse games out there other than hogwarts
@@Fullmoonwerewolf actually u are right, game is dead as fuck, it is engaging at the beginning, but after some time it is all the same
@@Fullmoonwerewolf you laughed at the idea it is game of the year! What an L take!
RdR2 sucks
Great video which sums up the problems. I would add to the list of problems "revelio". In the books they allways talk about how many secrets hogwarts has. Even dumbledore sais that sometimes he finds a new room or secret. They couldnt even find the entrance to the chamber of secrets. And in the game you just run though the castle and spam revelio to find everything hogwarts has to offer after 3h gametime.
Spent days trying to convince each other (me and my brothers) that we loved the game cause it was our childhood and tried to get our money worth, all three of us stopped playing halfway and never touched it again, after a while we finally admitted it was dogshit
I sold it after you save the dragon I just couldn’t play it anymore to boring 😅
I’m glad the game was made, it just didn’t reach its full potential, BUT it’s a start, and hopefully they listen to the gamers and improve part 2 considerably… Dynamic seasons, Dynamic weather, more interaction with students and teachers,bring Hogwarts more to life instead of this big empty castle most of the time… Expand the world, anywhere you can see you can go to, in this game so much is blocked off… Also, makes the classes feel like classes more… Part 2 my guess would be Tom Riddle attends Hogwarts and this version was prior to his birth… THIS game has so much untapped potential…
I semi-agree with your point. The environment was fked up as well. 90% of the world, was random mountains trees, and caves. Towns were limited, and there were no realistic options to customize your character's voice. It was either high pitch voice or low-pitch, both sounds fked. The story was also not the best IMO. The spells were very limited, I expected there to be more spells, it would really be enjoyable. Lastly, there is no use of plants (like Chinese chomping cabbage and mandrakes, don't do shit) and lastly, unforgivable curses are overpowered.
I like the overpowered unforgivable curses bc I don’t have to do the combat lmao
@@Fullmoonwerewolf fair, but combat was good imo.
Bully from 2006 was a better Harry Potter game than this
I should've known, man I should've known that its gonna be a mediocre experience if avalanche is behind it. They are like the twin of ubisoft, both are the experts of creating mediocre, bloated, generic, soul-crushing open world games. It's also hilarious that the game is called Hogwarts Legacy, yet you spend 80% of time outside of Hogwarts. This game should've just called "Wizards Creed: Highland Legacy" 🤣
How can this game be better. Let me sleep in my fucking bed. Let me sit in a fucking chair. Bring back quidich and stop making the students disappear at night it’s like a fucking ghost town. And why is there nothing to do in Hogsmead seriously?
Game looks cool. Everything else was too boring imo
You are spot in about it all. I’ve never not finished a game ant 100% and I can’t even make myself finish the story at the minimum percent. I love open worlds but this world is so boring. Anywhere cool I actually want to go like the top of some mountain, boom, I can’t “land” there. It breaks the immersion terribly. And I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the voice actors were terrible. The character animations are terrible too. Why does everyone gesture weirdly in the exact same way seemingly at random within conversations? Feels like a game from the 90s.
As someone who pirates games, I could care less about it being overrated or underrated. It's not my money spent lmaoaoaoaoa
Once again we have a game that shouldn't have be an open world being an open world game. 95% of people would riot it the game was announced as not an open world bcz they think its a requirement for a good game while its just some buzzwords that makes games worse
Very true
Open world wasn't the problem. The problem was that they weren't creative enough to make it open world within the castle and it's grounds. We've all read the books, we know the castle shifts, we know that it is theoretically bigger on the inside like the TARDIS. I don't know why they couldn't have made a massive map inside of Hogwarts proper. Open world traditionally meant not limited to story progression. There would have been plenty of exploring to do but instead they made Hogwarts feel smaller by making the outer world the explorable zones. So weird. Not a good comparison but think about Elden Ring and Raya Academy. It's a compact area compared to the map yet once you're inside it opens up and becomes huge.
I agree, game came out, played it for 4 days as I just had my holidays after exams and the disappointment was immense. Open world that couldn't be emptier, the immersiveness of the game was at a rock bottom. Shame that a world as beautiful as this in the game got wasted on such a boring plot. It's a 5/10 for me
good dont play
Pros
-Beautiful looking game
cons:
-Boring story
-Boring mission design
-Bland characters
-Boring cutscene simulator
-Boring gameplay/combat
-No progression
Maybe a cool game for somehow who is a new gamer or hasn't played a lot of games before but for someone like me that is a gamer since 15 years this game bored me out of my mind. Uninstalled after 15 hours.
The only part about making this video I didn’t like was that I had to go back and play some more to get more clips
Me personally, I did generally enjoy the open world, but I felt like it was to narrow. Sure, it is a huge map but only if you are traveling in one direction. I like big open worlds in all directions like RDR 2 and Witcher 3. I also wish that the dark forest could have been a lot bigger with more creatures. I agree with pretty much everything Fullmoonwerewolf said about the game. I would give it a solid B.
Completely agree with the broom part. I had to deliberately limit myself and explore new areas on foot only.
What's funny that even the broom is kinda pointless since you can just fast travel everywhere.
The entire game is just bland. Not bad, just bland.
I don't think you guys understand what the word Overrated means. Hogwarts legacy is anything BUT overrated. Baldurs Gate 3 though, it's very overrated. The only reason why it's not the most overrated game of the year is because Starfield exists.
Overrated is a game that is being rated much higher than it deserves(regardless of actual quality, could be a great game, or a garbage game). People rate Baldur's Gate a 10, while unfairly focusing on the breadth of choices you're given, meanwhile they turn a blind eye to the many limitations and functions that were cut, and used to be present in older Baldur's Gate/Neverwinter Night games, in order to be able to bring those choices, there are also the mega buffs they gave to enemies, in order to provide artificial challenge, such as Gnolls, monsters that are supposed to be CR 2 enemies, having multishot skills that can't be found in any book, though an application of an ability that was only ever supposed to give them attacks if they used claws and teeth. The game is a 9,0 at most, although I would personally give it an 8,5, because I don't give the slightest fuck about having that many choices(at the end of the day, the game still fails to provide me with the options I want. Just like every other western RPG)
Hogwarts legacy got higher review than it should’ve. 84 on metacritic when it should be low 70s. I do personally think Baldurs gate 3 is overrated as well, I actually made a video about it. But I expect much more out of an open world Harry Potter game than generic AI content, and it got way better scores than it should’ve for what it did just because of Harry Potter blindness
no haha spider man is overrated. bg3 is the best game of the year, even tho i prefer starfield. sorry but youre in the wrong here for so many things. 1) ofc bg3 has limitations, they clearly focused everything on graphics and animations (bar Act III) and the dnd aspect. Which is great. 2) the game isnt overrated because you think there are too many choices haha wtf kinda argument is that... thats not how it works. All of larian games (or most) have focused on that aspect so why you choose to neglect that fact is beyond me. 3) the witcher 3 did similar things, albeit with no dnd or the same gameplay but they loved choices with consequences. BG3 did what it wanted to achieve, people who follows Larian Games knows that. Spider man is a very good game, but its definitely more overrated thab BG3 because it has the most generic story of them all. But both those games are stil l100 times better than hogwarts legacy, which is a game made by mobile phone companies. (just joking here but even the mobile game of hp did it better than this)
@@mustplay7212 No, BG3 is literally overrated, the game is not all that. When it comes o combat, it's actually inferior to older games even from Larian Studios itself. The game is also heavier than it should be, as games with better graphics and bigger worlds actually run better than it. The story itself is only ok. The sole advantage this game has over others is in it's huge number of meaningful choices, that's it.
The game is good, but it's 8.5 not a 10
"A solid action-rpg" with a few good moments, i couldn´t resume it better, i would give a B- myself.
What personally stands to me in this game are the visuals (graphically, aesthestics) and the audio (specially the OST´s) and also experience something new from the wizarding universe as a harry potter long fan and exploring hogwarts, the rest is just kinda borderline mediocre
But even though it´s a solid, it could have been so much better, if they actually did any rpg improvements to the game (things like character traits, being an actual student and the game feels more of a story driven action game with the harry potter´s aesthetics.
What dissapointed me the most, was the common rooms for the houses.
And here I am. Playing this game only for combat and graphics. And trying to enjoy this world as much as I can, until I just start any quest, and facepalm myself how terrible, predictable and boring they all are.
I haven't played the game but agree with your overall discussion points, but shouldn't be able to create your own charecter in a story based game is a bad take, you need to play more proper RPGs.
I don’t think it’s a bad thing, but it’s not done well at all here. It can definitely work as long as you do it right
@@Fullmoonwerewolf ah okay that make sense, sounded like you thought it rarely worked rather than it being done poorly in Hogworts - glad my understanding about the game post launch were correct and I avoided it!
I dont even know what the story is about in this game
Me neither lol
Feels like the people who havent played good video games will say HL is a good game
Trust! Casuals will love this game but anyone that played like 10 open world games would realise how boring and bloated this game is, I stopped after an hour because it made me want to sleep 💀
Love this game, still playing, but that is my opinion
This game has a great map. Looks great! My biggest issues are the dead NPCs and boring story line. There was so much repetition with the dialogues it’s comical.
I wouldn’t be able to tell u if there was dialogue repetition bc I skipped all of it
This game is so boring...
Bought this game as a Harry Potter fan but was hugely disappointed 🤦🏾♂️
Exploring Hogwarts was fun.
But the world itself was dead.
I agree... It feels like playing an open world game back from 2011... I mean, it's good... but it is more of the same... It can be a very good base if they improve and implements better mechanics for howarts legacy 2
Its alright I mean it ain't like good rdr 2 npc and enemies sounds a bit dull in Hogwarts like so repetitive that's the only issue for me and its lacking in spooky side
The eviorment is great and I love the game as a Harry Potter fan but as a fan of video games it is a good game with some major flaws. Story was downright boring at times and the only character I found genuine interest in was Sebastian. There are so many paths this game could of had to make it more re-playable, instead of the mini games, they could of had wizards chest, Quidditch, or fleshed out the dueling system between students. I disagree on the character creation as making your own student is part of the whole appeal but they need to flesh out the RPG aspects of it and have more consequences for being 'evil'.
Have been playing for two hours and I'm already bored 😅 the school doesn't seem exciting at all and I can't even interact with the random NPCs, there's no class schedule or anything... And just went to Hogsmeade and there's nothing to do there.
Also I'm feeling super lost in the story, like what the heck is going on ....
I thought this game would be more immersive... This game was so hyped but meh
At least we experienced that together
"Do not recommend channel"
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I agree with like almost everything
Did you just confuse the words overrated and underrated?
Yeah my guy lots of love for the environment not the story.
Great video man I agree with you
Feels like you are on hogwarts but the itony is that they forgto the lottle magical details that made the movies and books
rockstars the bully from 2000s has better school than this it seems
Lmao its not even close, this game made me realise we are in desperate need for a Bully 2 for the love of god plz rockstar.
As someone who read all the books and watched all the movies, this game is pretty shallow and boring. There are some redeeming factors but if you have played any other open world rpg/action games youll probably be bored by this. Its basically a super empty and shallow overall worse witcher 3 or AC origins/odyssy/valhalla remake, just with a Harry Potter theme and setting. The combat is new and kindv cool still not that awesome though.
Its not bad just disappointing and you can tell after the world building which is a 10 they didn’t have time for literally anything else.
I found the world to be really boring
This guys voice: 🤓
This is a wake up call for me, didn’t know my voice classified under the 🤓 emoji
Bro you are speaking facts
Forspoken is still way better than Hogwarts mostly for te fact i dont get motion sickness on contrary of when i spam revelio
strong video.
Hogwarts Legacy imo is a great game if your a HP fan. The devs really wanted you to walk into the universe and feel like youre taking a tour of the school. They did most of their work on the school itself. Its fantastic.
However, if you actually go out into the world and 'explore' and do the storyline everything else is mediocre at best. You really see the overused assets over and over. Merlin Trials to caves are all relatively the same thing. Its pretty bad. The story has a lot to be desired. You can't really make any distinct decisions, so its an on-rails storyline.
The magical powers are pretty fun. But the enemy types are often the same thing from beginning to end.
The 'classes' were just quick cutscenes. It would have been nice to have some intractable classes take places to make you feel like you were at school.
And the secret room was underwhelming. There wasn't a need to have a lot of tables since crafting took 10 seconds for most things. Or 2 minutes on Rare things. So it was get in and get out crafting. And it wasn't in depth.
The stores/merchants really didn't matter unless they sold a piece of gear you wanted.
And the gear. Some of it looked really good but they really just did subtle color changes/schemes to say they had a lot of variety but really they didn't.
And no quiddich was a huge disappointment for me. That would have been interesting to add a MP component using that but Warner Bros prolly wanted them to just release the game.
All true
Hogwarts legacy is a terrible game if you read the books and understood how mature and deep harry potter is. Not just watching the movies with one hand on the remote and the other on your chamber of secrets.
If you think the combat is bland, you're not doing it right. There are so many spells, and plenty of ways to kick some ass. I rarely just hack away at the health bar with the basic spell.
I never said the combat is bland. It’s actually one of the stronger aspects, but I think it could’ve been improved still. I also never said I hack away with the basic spell, I was just saying that I hack away at one guy with multiple spells. My qualm was that I can only really fight one dude at a time which makes everyone else kinda stand around shooting spells while I’m dogging on one dude which makes the fights awkward sometimes
@@Fullmoonwerewolf Ah yes. Rewatched it. I didn't catch that you were talking about several opponents. Apologies.
@LieutenantIKim it’s alright
You misspelled spiderman 2
Haha while pretty overrated by the people who play it, it holds its ground as a really enjoyable rpg. Hogwarts legacy is not enjoyable
@@Fullmoonwerewolf sorry but thats simply not true. I can say the exact opposite. Whether you enjoy a game or not is entirely subjective. I have 4 playthroughs in hogwarts legacy and barely finished spiderman 2. If you are going to make claims make them objective. Both games are the same thing with different paint. And to be honest im not sure you even know what overrated means. The fact that most people enjoy a game doesnt mean its overrated, a game is overrated when people claim its a masterpiece. So if anything nobody has ever sais hogwarts legacy is goty but everyone is crying for spiderman 2 which it shouldnt even be in discussion for goty. So i will repeat , you made a video about the wrong game being overrated
I suppose not, but I can say whatever I want because it’s my opinion
@@Fullmoonwerewolf if you are sharing your opinion present it as such and not as a fact which you tried to
i loved it, i got to like 95ish% completed and it was a ton of fun. without spoiling anything the scene with all the teachers got me a little teared up and the forbidden curses quest couldve been its own DLC, super short and very little replay value. . better end game content or some pvp stuff i would much happier
I don’t play video games like that other than gta and sims. However, even when playing this game, there were so many things that were annoying after hours of playing. I genuinely was here for Harry Potter. The game was a bonus 😂😂. But there’s no replayablitiy.
GTA with wizzards
But not nearly as good
720p...? 🤔
Relaxing and enchanting is how I would describe this game and it’s better for it. I don’t think it’s overrated, it comes down to what you want from a game
it wasnt bad, it was just average. “mid” if you will
Its just personal taste. Like I don't like god of war or zelda which are considered some of the best games of all time. I don't just try to say that my opinion is subjective though and I realize that some people like it so won't just call them delusional.
I bloody loved it hogwart legacy is definitely game of year but I'm Potter fan.
Respect you feel different
If Hogwarts Legacy is game of the year material, the Assassins Creed franchise is THE masterpiece of gaming.
@@marcoaureliorodriguesdevas135 jokes on you with that comment I'm a proper massive assassins creed fan. Valhalla is my favorite game of this gen and my favourite game of all time is AC syndicate
@@johngray6215 yup. That explains a lot.
Complaining about the brooms making content too easy is like complaining about games having difficulty levels you can pick from. Yes, you can just hop on the broom and fly away if it's too hard, but not in all situations. What's also stopping you from loading from the last autosave and reducing the difficulty? Do you go around playing on the easiest difficulty on every game because it's available to you? Probably not. Do you change the difficulty in every situation that's hard? Probably not. Brooms in legacy are effectively the same there.
Also, what about fast travel, waypoints, and the use of mounts in other games? Surely you use those right? Do they also not make certain aspects of the game redundant?
Fast travel points are typically only available after you make the journey to it conquering the challenges along the way. The reward is not having to walk there again if you don’t want to. The thing about the broom is that it allows you to bypass every challenge unlike any other vehicle, horse, or fast travel point in any other game. Think of any other open world game such as breath of the wild, rdr2, or ghost of Tsushima. Now imagine if there was a device allowing you to fly over everything. The locations, fights, npcs, encounters would be skipped to get right to your destination. So much content in these games are about experiencing things along the way to where you’re going. It’s not like difficulty because it makes you have the easiest difficulty for traversal. And when I have it might as well use it. It’s like having an all powerful one shot weapon in a game. You’d use it every time because you have it, but you’d miss out on so many good fights and moments.
hey that is how i played the game i put it on hard and the game gave me hell but still i would not play it any other way
I don’t think you play hogwarts legacy for the challenge, so the difficulty was just kind of annoying if anything. I didn’t feel happy to beat guys, I just felt relieved for it to be iver
i play games for fun and i just dont like easy so i put every game on hard
Me too pretty much
Don't know about game of the year, but I enjoyed it. Biggest thing is I can't think of a decent game that came out this year (maybe Baldur's Gate, but I hate the turn based D&D system).
Tears of the kingdom, sea of stars, Spider-Man 2, resident evil, Mario wonder are all great games that came out this year. I haven’t played Alan wake 2 but I’ve heard it’s amazing
please, JUST PLEASE, SOMEONE, give this man a job in videogame gevelopment, this who should make games, i'm sure Harry Potter made by this man would be thousand time better then this THING we have. Hogwarts legacy my ass
I’ll be sure to use you as a reference
Is professor fog the same actor that played Ron’s rat/man in the movie?
Fig I meant
Not sure. I don’t think so
Bro, are you Matthew McConaughey‘s son because you talk just like him lol
I’ve never heard someone say that lmao that’s awesome
i need to ask because i beat the game 3 times my 4th character is still waiting for me to come back i got sick of that room of trash i call it that can u skip it i hate that room i dont care to do that room i wish it was not in the game fuck that trash so i need to know can u skip it
I don’t think so no
So i should buy Elden ring instead?
Yes definitely. I also have a god of war ragnarok vs elden ring video if you want to see my whole opinion on it
@@Fullmoonwerewolf already played GOW. Thinking about buying elden ring, but im afraid i will just ragequit too quick and then stop playing it. So i was thinking about hogwarts Legacy, but after watching this video it seems like a boring game.....
If you’re one to rage quit and not play then idk if you’ll end up finishing elden ring. It takes a lot of patience although amazing to explore. I wouldn’t buy hogwarts legacy tho, there are so many better games out there. I’m starting the Witcher 3 and I’ve heard it’s good so that sounds like something for you. Red dead 2 as well perhaps.
@@Fullmoonwerewolf yeah witcher 3 was amazing. Completed it 3 times already. Rdr2 was great also, only completed it once tho. I want to try Elden ring, cause of the world and the bosses. Its juts that i never played any souls game before and im afraid that at the end i wont like it enough to finish it..... But as there arent many games like it, maybe i should just buy it?
Yeah just go for it. It’s incredible no matter whether you’re good or not. It was a lot of my friends Intro into the soulsborne series and they all loved it. I hope you have a great time with it
Ion agree wit most of the shit you said, other than the game needing more enemies to attack in the wild and find better loot. We need more games wit character creation, more open world easy traverse games and not every game needa be hard asf n stressful
Character creation is fine as long as the game doesn’t change based on what you look like. I’m all for games that aren’t hard or stressful, but it should be made easy through the actual challenges being easy and fun, not easy because you can always run away from combat
For me Hogwarts deserves some design awards the fact that they are snubbed is absolutely disgusting. The game world design is insane but the story and enemies leaves more to be desired for sure
The world design is just a huge flat hilly area with random challenges and villages sprinkled throughout
Nothing about the design deserves awards lol Let's not kid ourselves here, doing the concept art for Hogwarts wasn't exactly difficult considering it's basically already been done in the books and films.
@@MarluxiaX2 go ahead and try to make one thats just as immersive then since its "so simple" putting books references into visuals that is just as accurate.
@@Fullmoonwerewolf When Hogmeade and Hogwarts are already so well thought out and lets not forget this is in a pretty deserted area in the late 1800s what else could be in those hill/villages in those times making the whole world look extra would just take away from the immersion of the world
There doesn’t have to be a town or house every 5 feet, there just needs to be substance when there is. You can’t interact with any of the NPC’s outside of a few that gives you a side quest. They don’t react to your spell, you can’t talk to them, they’re just there to look at. Stuff like this makes the world seem artificial and boring
I have played a LOT of games through my time on this earth and playing Hogwarts Legacy is easily in the top three gaming experiences of my entire life. There are many different factors that go into why that is but I know many people feel the same way. It is without a doubt the best game in the wizarding world to ever be made and a metric f*ck load of people were waiting for a Wizarding World game to really entrance you into the world and make you feel like a Wizard, and this is the first game to do it successfully. If you had ANY idea how long I have spent just roaming around casting spells at random things JUST because I can it would be embarrassing... it is for sure MY GOTY :D
Do you think there’s any negatives about the game or things they could’ve done better?
@@Fullmoonwerewolf I mean... yeah for sure. No game has ever been made that is fault-free. One such fault for Hogwarts Legacy is the lack of a variety of enemies... that one is annoying. I'd also like more potions to make. But in the grand scheme of things, those things are trivial. It still remains one of the best things I've ever played personally. :)
@skarmex3439 I’m glad that you had a lot of fun with it
Is it worse than Starfield tho
Starfield at least seems to have some new ideas
ur hud features are for toddlers, thats why the games not fun for you
Idk what this means
Hogwarts Legacy definitely carried by the fact that it exists in the Harry Potter world. I liked being able to play a game set in that universe and I thought that was fun. But like mentioned in the video, a lot of the activities to do in the game is seemingly pointless and don't add that much. But overall I would say that this problem exists in all open world games. Just recently I beat Assassins' Creed Mirage and I noticed that even after doing the side content I never upgraded anything because there was no need. It felt like a pointless RPG upgrade elements were added in. That's just to say that the problems with Hogwarts Legacy exist in other games and I do agree that both these games are carried by the names/worlds they are apart of
I feel like this is a good game to spend the night playing at your friends house to check out all of the cool Harry Potter stuff then never play it again
Imo, the one factor that propels the game into popularity is the boycott, or attempt boycott anyways, before the game's release. It was basically the "Streisand effect" in that it did nothing but put the game on the map for many people.
If this game is bad RDR2 would not peak your interest at all.
I love rdr2, watch my review for that I glaze the game. The difference is that there’s thought and time put into everything rather than having AI generate a Harry Potter game
@@Fullmoonwerewolf you said every town was copy and paste, ( they all have different layouts) when you get the lock picking spell and can enter every single house you’ll see that’s not true. They’ll have families in some, people cleaning, cooking, and reading books. Same details as RDR2 except in RDR2 you can’t enter every building.
Sure they have different layouts but you can’t interact with anyone. It feels like I’m in a museum and they’re just there to look at. Sure you can’t go into every building in rdr2, but you can go into a lot including farm houses and such. And when you do there’s trespassing mechanics and you’ll get into a fight, or maybe if you’re sneaky enough you can steal things and get out. One time I found a person being held hostage in a basement and helped them escape. None of these things are remotely possible in hogwarts
@Fullmoonwerewolf there are you just choose not to see them, the spiders have people webbed up in there caves (alive &dead), you have to go in some one cellar to steal a formula that turns out to be huge, a witch tricks you into buying her house that turns out to be a crazy haunted house, one of the hogwarts elf ask you to save one of his friends who is being miss treated by his master, and your asked to save a town that's been over ran by spiders. Don't even get me started on the poacher den that looks like a regular tent on the outside and turns out to be a mega mansion with dragons when you walk through the door.
this game is amazing..stop
The lies, Hogwarts legacy is amazing
Right! It feels like people were just rushing through the game and didn't take time to appreciate the small things they added. Also, they beat the game, and now it's apparently "boring." That's what happens when you 100% a game. Only downside I can think of is the lack of content that was put out even months after the games release and the basic spells. I felt like with ancient magic, we should be able to do more advanced spells.
nah its feels like a mobile phone game with better graphics. its easy to see it was made as a cash grab game (yes most companies wants profits but this game had the least amount of "soul" than most games from 2023 combined @@masonambrose1093
Your generous😂 glad I got it onsale…its not worth 80$ they could have done so much better with this game but it is flat…hard mode isnt even hard…TOTK is way better then this disaster of a game…where do all these kids go at night? Why cant I have fun with them and interact and develop relationships with them and enjoy the common rooms with them…why isnt there rivalry between houses? Why cant we have randomn dueling games with anyone? This game is lame and I wish I hadnt gotten it