Topic: Hogwarts Legacy

All this fuss over toilet etiquette, madness!

@jump For me the toilet is very important! I do a big portion of my gaming from there!

@Zuljaras : You learn something new about the Pooyoos every day.

@Zuljaras
No one is "forcing" you to agree with anything, you just need to show some respect and stop constantly insulting them or making harmful accusations. Trans is not just someone simply deciding on their gender one day as it's way, way more complex than that.

I have a question for you. Have you taken any time to research why someone even became trans? Based on you're past comments, no you haven't since they've all been misinformation or come from extremist propaganda. Trans stems from a serious mental health issue called Gender Dysphoria. It'll take me a while to explain it, so please read here and here to learn more information about it.

@Link-Hero you are right. Gender dysphoria is not a good thing and we should not encourage it. Thank you for that.

Also it is not harmful to say that I do not agree with self identification.

But this is the Hogwarts Legacy thread so lets continue to talk about the game and not this stuff.

Ok. That's enough derailing the thread. Please move on.

Let's stay on topic, please.

Has anyone played through the story on another platform? How's the combat? Is it all magic casting combat?

@WoomyNNYes The combat is....alright, it's kinda annoying at times. I haven't gotten too far simply because I'm not a huge PC gamer and I have it on Steam. Aside from the fighting, it okay. I just haven't gotten too far so I haven't seen everything yet, no idea when I'll go back to it with all the other games I'm dealing with...and Pikmin 4 is coming out soon, so, yeah...lol

@WoomyNNYes got the platinum trophy on ps5, meaning I actually did EVERYTHING the game has to offer.

Combat is basic but gives you a fairly big amount of options and how you build your character/toolset. It's pretty fun, overall, but even on the highest difficulty it wasn't super difficult or anything. There's lots of interactivity between spells in way of combos but, unfortunately, not much interactivity with the environment. I was actually disappointed that you can't just mess with people outside of combat, would've been fun.

The story is...there. Absolutely nothing to write home about, it's super generic but without making you wish it would just end, I guess. Barely engaging enough to keep you going but not so much that I didn't end up around lv30 or so before I started tackling more story missions. There's a sort of level for collectibles and because I explored for hours upon hours in between the big story beats I ended up having 60-70% of the collection done before the fourth main quest lol

The Star of the game is absolutely the setting. But even then you may want to get it only if you're a big Harry Potter Fan or at the very least read some of the books/saw a couple of the movies. The game is CHOCK-FULL of references to details from both books and movies, you'll recognize many of the ghosts and there's a few characters that are namedropped in the series I believe, or at the very least ancestors of characters who appear or are mentioned in the "main timeline" of the series/the books and movies. Also loads of creatures from the fantastical beasts book.

Without that context? It's a bog Standard ubisoft-openworld, basically, with checklists, kind of generic missions and serviceable gameplay.
As a fan of the setting and story, it's the game I always wanted for Harry Potter with pretty dense World building and so many callbacks that you'll damn near constantly go "oh neat" or just recognize names and places behind every corner of Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and the Highlands in general.

I will eat a sheet of paper if Hogwarts Legacy manages to release on the 14th of November.

When is the next big gaming event where they might finally show switch footage of Hogwarts?

@WoomyNNYes It is more fitting to show it during the September Nintendo Direct.

Wife finished the game on ps4. She loved the exploration more than the story and characters. The world, looks like the devs took a lot of time.

...I need to play this game again...only thing I can think of that caused me to stop is that it's still open world. T.T