Hogwarts Legacy open world RPG game

[kmeyers]

Any Harry Potter fans here? Even if you're not, this game looks pretty cool. Although it's been delayed until next year now, anyone else looking forward to it?



Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover fantastic beasts, customize your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents, and become the wizard you want to be.

Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. You have received a late acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and soon discover that you are no ordinary student: you possess an unusual ability to perceive and master Ancient Magic. Only you can decide if you will protect this secret for the good of all, or yield to the temptation of more sinister magic.

Discover the feeling of living at Hogwarts as you make allies, battle Dark wizards, and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it.

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https://www.hogwartslegacy.com/en-us

[Derek Metaltron]

Pretty excited for this one, especially since it's in a new era and you can pick your looks and house (definitely going with Ravenclaw). Some will whine inevitably about giving JK money but that shouldn't stop us from being excited for such an experience.

[Immortal Weapon]

I'm not a Potter fan but I'm always up for an RPG. I want to know more about this one before making up my mind on it.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I was a big Harry Potter fan as a kid. A RPG set in Hogwarts feels like a dream come true.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

I am curious how they go about it.

The HP world, or Hogwarts really, is generally speaking not really conducive to a videogame adaptation. You have a single large map and one building and sub-sections. Then you have the school setting or fantasy. So you don't have the sprawl and variety that you get in Witcher.

The magic system in HP books is also frankly speaking quite dull...it wouldn't give you the sense of using magic and power that you get in a game like DISHONORED, or Witcher, or Zelda.

I played the first two HP games made by EA and I liked them at the time when I was a kid but I also felt that despite both games being quite faithful to the books and movies, it was actually quite dull because school is dull as a setting.

The Harry Potter books work because of the characters and not the setting. In a videogame the setting in general has to work and feel like good gameplay. When you are adapting a license, you have to bank it all on the setting and not the character. That doesn't work at all if you do a game in the magical world without Harry Potter because that world doesn't have interest without the main protagonist.

[Frobisher]

What genders will be allowed in character creation?

[kmeyers]

I am curious how they go about it.

The HP world, or Hogwarts really, is generally speaking not really conducive to a videogame adaptation. You have a single large map and one building and sub-sections. Then you have the school setting or fantasy. So you don't have the sprawl and variety that you get in Witcher.

The magic system in HP books is also frankly speaking quite dull...it wouldn't give you the sense of using magic and power that you get in a game like DISHONORED, or Witcher, or Zelda.

I played the first two HP games made by EA and I liked them at the time when I was a kid but I also felt that despite both games being quite faithful to the books and movies, it was actually quite dull because school is dull as a setting.

The Harry Potter books work because of the characters and not the setting. In a videogame the setting in general has to work and feel like good gameplay. When you are adapting a license, you have to bank it all on the setting and not the character. That doesn't work at all if you do a game in the magical world without Harry Potter because that world doesn't have interest without the main protagonist.

I think there are plenty of areas that will be playable in the Wizarding World. It's not going to just be Hogwarts castle. I'm not sure how expansive the world will be, but it sounds like it will incorporate the whole wizarding world. The castle will probably be the place for power ups, spells, potions, and gaining attributes. Maybe gaining party members?

There are plenty of other areas to.explore in the wizarding world aside from Hogwarts itself. It should explore familiar places around the castle like Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley, Gringott's Bank, to the Black Lake, The Dark Forrest, The Hogwarts Express, Kings Cross Station, Hagrid's, the land of the giants, Dragon's lairs, to The Ministry of Magic and possibly all of the other schools, Durmstrang and Beubaxton and others not named, maybe take the Knight Bus to anywhere in the Muggle world.

It also sounds like it might be incorporating Fantastic Beasts, which opens up North America and a whole new area of schools and locations(and creatures!). So I don't think the setting is going to be limited,.or a problem at all. There should be plenty to explore while fighting Dark wizards and whatever else along the way.

And since it takes.place well before Harry's time, it will be completely independent from that storyline, and looks like it lends itself to multiple storyline possibilities, like possibly choosing to become a Dark wizard or an Auror.

Anyway, that's what I'm hoping for.