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Trying to generalize about the success of this game seems obviously ridiculous. The game is successful because it's the first game to tap into like 20 years of pent up demand for a real Harry Potter game.

I also wonder if some of the game's success is in being set in a charming world with lower stakes, independent of the Harry Potter IP. I feel like so many AAA games create uncomfortable worlds that you can only interact with violently. These games can be great, but they'll never be something I return to just to chill out and sight see for a moment.

7 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

I don’t feel as though the goblins resembling caricatures from anti-semetic propaganda is actually intentional, I think it’s a by product of how European depictions of goblins were influenced over the years/decades/century. If the horn thing is real, though (and I kinda doubt it is), my opinion changes slightly. I don’t believe HP is intentionally anti-semetic or anti-anything really.

Saying the depiction of goblins resembling previously mentioned caricatures is by no means a stretch, saying it was done intentionally, IMO, kind of is.

It was either done maliciously or negligently. Given the longstanding criticisms of the goblins in HP, they probably should've just stayed away from them. If they really had their hearts set on including the goblins then they should've dialed back the antisemitic tropes and been deliberate about not invoking additional antisemitic parallels. Instead they included the literal blood libel. There's no way nobody brought this issue up in development so at best they had to decide they just didn't give a shit.

They really could have done anything else, but they didn't.

It's cool that they included at least one trans character to distance themselves from JKR's shit. I also like that the player chooses their dorm rather than their sex or gender. It's a shame their ability to be culturally sensitive didn't extend further.

Hufflepuff is for the kids without personality disorders. 

1 hour ago, TheLeon said:

 

The best thing to come out of Hogwarts Legacy is me now knowing these videos exist.

14 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

I guess there was so much concern about how the game would handle playing as an evil wizard that I was under the impression that this game had some kind of morality system in it, but that doesn't appear to be the case according to the GamesRadar review.

 

 

I think that's probably all for the best. In most cases having the game more or less ignore the morality of your actions is probably better than actively confronting it and building questionable game systems around it.

There’s something really funny about the prospect of just being evil as hell and having the game treat you as a YA protagonist. I want to see a pumped up kicks music video to the protagonist just abra kadabraing the hell out of fellow students who like, bullied someone on the quidditch course or something. 
 

Commit a few war crimes on the way to herbology.

I’m looking forward to the launch drama. This is a hugely ambitious game with high expectations from a relatively unproven dev. Just that means that there’s a huge range to the potential quality of the game. Combine that with the various controversies, which I’m sure some reviewers will take into account, makes the whole thing a guaranteed shitshow.   
 

23 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I'm not even going to go as far as saying that WhatsHerName is deliberately anti-Semitic in the same way that's she's willfully -- even gleefully -- transphobic.  It's more than likely the situation as described by this article:

 

 

HOWEVER, whoever the developer(s) was (were) that came up with that blood libel-esque storyline? Naaaaaaah - they don't get the benefit of the doubt from me on that one!

I agree with this so much just a reaction wouldn’t do. 

1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

The goblins in HP are obvious stand ins for Jewish stereotypes and the game apparently revolves around them teaming up with evil wizards to take over the world. Shit is completely unhinged.

Right, I had just always thought of the antisemitism in Harry Potter as the vague stereotypical stuff that is pretty endemic to the fantasy genre where different races tend to be stand ins for real world cultures, ethnicities, and religions. I'm definitely being too charitable with my phrasing here, but I won't spend too much time finding the right way to put it since I'm about to get less charitable.

The blood libel is a lot more specific, obscure, and harmful. It's been used to justify murdering Jews for thousands of years, and the inclusion of anything remotely resembling it in something that is already clearly engaging in antisemetic tropes is hard to interpret as anything other than deliberate hate.

"The main scheme of the primary antagonist is to kidnap the player character, and harvest their blood for a spell that will wipe out his enemies while aligned with a number of dark wizards. While the narrative is somewhat problematic..."

I knew JK was off her rocker and the devs of the game weren't far behind, but I didn't know the game was literally incorporating the blood libel into the primary conflict.

That looked boring enough to be real.

You guys just don't remember the part in the movie where they told John Diehard that his game was gonna be no good and then at the end of the movie it totally was.

12 hours ago, Derek said:

Oh 😞

I was also disappointed by this. 

This looks like a supersampled PS2 game in a way that's actually kind of appealing.

15 hours ago, TheLeon said:

Like last week, the new stuff was by far the most compelling for me. The rest of the episode was very well executed, but a little distracting by how close it was emulating the game. That museum set was almost too good. 

I think some people are butting up against the fact that adapting from one visual medium to another is never going to be as transformative as book adaptations. 

I like that we're still capable of beefing over LOST.

1 hour ago, stepee said:

malignant was kinda boring me about an hour in but then for the last third the pay off was actually rly good and made it worth it 

Barbarian

Malignant

2 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

If you own a PS5, I'd buy the "remake" of part 1 and TLOU 2 and have an amazing gameathon session. 

I assure you if I owned any playstations I would've played these games. At least part 1 is coming to PC relatively soon.

I ain’t played no last of us but thought the first episode was good. 

Martin McDonagh sure seems to believe in sticking to one's principles. 

9 hours ago, TheLeon said:

This is a game that I enjoyed quite a bit, but I read these complaints and I’m like “I get it” 

Yeah, I mean I wouldn’t play any of these alone. You need a few friends to provide the fun and character since the cast usually doesn’t. 

Got around to playing this one and enjoyed it. I wouldn’t play these games alone but they’re always a good time with friends. Compared to the other ones it was significantly scarier but also had a less interesting cast, although I liked Jesse Buckley’s performance . Overall I think it was better than Man of Medan and Little Hope but not as strong as House of Ashes, Until Dawn, or The Quarry. 

The enduring legacy of this game in my mind is reminding me how good Suttree was.