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Why Hogwart's Legacy will be TERRIBLE

2023-02-02 · 5 min

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  1. There's a lot of excitement for the new

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  2. Hogwarts Legacy game that's coming out

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  3. next week, and there's a lot of videos

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  4. going on about how great and amazing the

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  5. game is. But I think there's a few reasons

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  6. why this game's gonna be kind of rubbish

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  7. and it's gonna fail. So first of all,

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  8. there's no multiplayer. I have no idea why

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  9. they would make such an epic RPG fantasy

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  10. game such as this and not make it

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  11. multiplayer, or at least give you options

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  12. so you can play co-op with a friend. The

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  13. game could have been much more interesting

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  14. if they made it an MMO. Hogwarts could

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  15. have been the main hub where all the

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  16. players gather and pick up quests and

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  17. group up and buy stuff. There's already

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  18. things like dueling arenas with magic,

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  19. but you fight against NPCs. This would

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  20. have been much more interesting if you

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  21. fight against other players and they had

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  22. some kind of PvP battle arena. They could

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  23. have copied something like Elden Ring

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  24. where you can summon in other players to

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  25. help you defeat difficult bosses. But no,

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  26. for some reason they've decided not to

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  27. have any multiplayer at all. Maybe they're

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  28. just really rushing the game so they can

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  29. release it quickly. The game's already

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  30. been delayed quite a lot, and adding

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  31. multiplayer would require quite a lot of

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  32. work and take a lot of time to implement.

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  33. The other thing I don't like about what

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  34. I've seen so far from the game is the fact

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  35. that there's no gear, there's no loot.

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  36. You don't really loot pieces of armor or

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  37. headsets or different wands that can

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  38. increase your power. How can you have a

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  39. fantasy RPG game where there's no loot and

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  40. you just wear basically the same thing?

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  41. Maybe there's different outfits, but I

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  42. think they're purely cosmetic. It seems

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  43. like there's no way to change your wand or

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  44. get a more powerful wand or maybe more

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  45. powerful robes that increase your magical

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  46. damage. One of the most addictive things

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  47. about RPG games is the fact that you can

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  48. upgrade your character's gear and armor

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  49. and weapons. And without that, I don't

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  50. know how addictive this Hogwarts Legacy

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  51. game is actually going to be. There

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  52. obviously seems to be a leveling system

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  53. and experience points when you defeat

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  54. enemies, but are you really going to be

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  55. able to upgrade your character and make

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  56. them more powerful in a way that you want

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  57. them to become? The game just seems to be

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  58. trying to be an RPG fantasy game, but it

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  59. just seems very surface level and very

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  60. basic. It doesn't really seem like it's an

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  61. in-depth fantasy RPG game such as Skyrim

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  62. or I think because they think that Harry

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  63. Potter fans are going to be children,

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  64. which I disagree with, I think they're

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  65. going to try and make a dumbed-down RPG

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  66. game that seems like it appeals to

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  67. hardcore RPG fans, but in reality it's

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  68. just gonna be like a dumbed-down, basic,

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  69. good-looking version of the LEGO Harry

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  70. Potter games. I think it's kind of silly

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  71. to assume that Harry Potter fans are going

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  72. to be young. I think most Harry Potter

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  73. fans are going to be in their late 20s or

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  74. the 30s and even in their 40s because the

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  75. original Harry Potter movies came out

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  76. almost 20 years ago— well, over 20 years

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  77. ago. So most people who saw Harry Potter

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  78. Potter when they were a teenager, myself

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  79. included, are going to be over 30.

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  80. There's not really been any really big

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  81. popular Harry Potter movies in ages, and I

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  82. don't think the young generation don't

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  83. really care that much about a very old

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  84. franchise that was very popular over 15

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  85. years ago. Next, I don't think it's a good

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  86. idea that they've decided not to have a

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  87. morality system. So they do let you choose

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  88. between evil and good dialogue options,

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  89. but is this really going to have any

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  90. meaningful consequences when there's no

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  91. morality system? A true morality system

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  92. would have a scale that tips you between

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  93. evil and good depending on your actions in

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  94. the game. And if you're evil or if you're

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  95. good, this would actually have real

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  96. ramifications in the game world and how

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  97. the game world reacts to you and how the

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  98. other characters react to you and how your

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  99. storyline progresses in the game. But it

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  100. seems like this isn't really present in

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  101. the game. They like to give you this

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  102. illusion of freedom and choice, but I

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  103. think that's all it is really, just an

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  104. illusion. I don't think the game will have

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  105. long-term longevity to really keep players

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  106. hooked playing over 100 hours unless

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  107. you're a hardcore Harry Potter fan. I

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  108. think you'd get the main story done in

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  109. maybe about a week, which would take you—

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  110. well, it would take the casual player

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  111. maybe 40 hours. I reckon in about 30 or 40

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  112. hours you would finish the main

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  113. storylines, maybe do some side quests,

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  114. level up a little bit, and mess around

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  115. with some of the features. But I think

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  116. after you finish the main storyline,

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  117. there's not really going to be much else

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  118. to keep you interested in playing the

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  119. game. I think down the line they're going

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  120. to add a lot more stuff and DLC, but this

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  121. is going to come out slowly over years and

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  122. years. They're probably going to add

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  123. Quidditch, and maybe they're going to add

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  124. some kind of multiplayer functionality

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  125. later in the game, and also some side

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  126. stuff and more bonus things, and maybe

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  127. they will add some kind of morality system

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  128. later. So, I think the game might not be

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  129. as amazing as everyone's hyping it up to

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  130. be. I will be playing it next week, so I

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  131. guess I'll find out for myself if it's

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  132. actually good or not. I am going into it

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  133. with low expectations because I don't want

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  134. to be disappointed like I was before. But

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  135. I do really hope it's a good game because

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  136. I would like to get stuck into another

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  137. game where I can really get my fingernails

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  138. into it. It's been a long time since I

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  139. really felt addicted to a game and felt

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  140. obsessed with it. Maybe Harry Potter

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  141. Hogwarts Legacy will be that game. But you

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  142. never know, maybe it won't.

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