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Hogwarts Legacy - Not as good as Dog Kid University

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4 hours ago, Uzi said:

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Doesn't this one have the dubious honour of being one of the worst games ever made? Or at least, maybe the second worst on the N64?

 

I know it's certainly one of the worst I've ever experienced. Not played. Suffered.

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4 hours ago, Uncle Nasty said:

I like the environmental interaction/physics, great for puzzles and destruction. Repairing the bridge after demolishing it is a nice touch.

 

Makes me think Lego game seeing it.

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2 minutes ago, thesnwmn said:

 

Makes me think Lego game seeing it.

Makes me think there'll be about 20 of them during the game runtime and it's just a canned anim captured from a physics simulation each time.

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6 hours ago, Spacehost said:

Makes me think there'll be about 20 of them during the game runtime and it's just a canned anim captured from a physics simulation each time.


I think Harry Potter Battlefield type destruction would be expulsion from Hogwarts.

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Some of the posts in this thread stray dangerously close to a historical pattern that has always been negative. The idea that persecuted minority groups and the people who support them should be quiet and polite and only deal with social issues in terms which are comfortable for the majority groups is bullshit. Martin Luther King was repeatedly told that if he really wanted to affect change he needed to be polite and quiet and engage with the persecution him and other black people faced using the systems that were set up to destroy their lives and to definitely never make any white people uncomfortable, because what if they could be convinced to care about the lives of black people but were put off by being told the ways they were complicit in racism. The suffragettes were told to be less hysterical and make absolutely sure that they didn’t upset any men who might one day theoretically decide that actually they did care about women’s rights. 
 

Deciding to buy this game is like continuing to support a bakery that won’t make cakes for gay weddings because you love their Victoria sponge. You are absolutely free to make that choice, but when someone from the group who are being persecuted tells you that that is wrong, no amount of mental gymnastics or “well actually” is going to change the fact that you are choosing your own entertainment over caring about the rights of people whose lives are being made miserable and difficult. You can bring up all the unethical buying habits in other unrelated areas that you want to, but they’re completely irrelevant to this particular discussion. You are choosing to financially support a campaign of repression lead by an individual and if that makes you feel uncomfortable and you care about those people, you should be looking that fact straight in the eye and feeling that discomfort, not trying to come up with excuses about other people being wrong because they once bought a tub of nesquik. 
 

In our repulsive hyper capitalist hellscape we are all complicit in supporting repulsive practices. You can make whatever choices you want, but you need to be honest about what the choices you are making mean and accept that you might be making the world a worse place through what you choose to support financially. The idea that if I buy Zelda this year I will be in any way supporting the human rights abuses of the Saudi government makes me feel repulsive. I might still decide to do that, but if I’m going to state that those abuses are something I think is wrong, I absolutely should not be trying to pretend that actually it’s fine because someone else bought a new iPhone. 
 

I grew up with Harry Potter, queued up to buy the books at midnight, read them to my kids, watched the movies with my mum, went to the studio tour and bought an overpriced slytherin hoodie. This game looks shit, but the world means a lot to me and it has been really hard for me to let go of that because I don’t feel comfortable directly financially supporting someone who despises others because of their identity and uses their influence and money to encourage others to do the same. 

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18 hours ago, Uncle Nasty said:

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I like the environmental interaction/physics, great for puzzles and destruction. Repairing the bridge after demolishing it is a nice touch.

 

I fancy a lot of that is animation and not physics. Gives the same impression though.

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11 minutes ago, Broker said:

Deciding to buy this game is like continuing to support a bakery that won’t make cakes for gay weddings because you love their Victoria sponge. You are absolutely free to make that choice, but when someone from the group who are being persecuted tells you that that is wrong, no amount of mental gymnastics or “well actually” is going to change the fact that you are choosing your own entertainment over caring about the rights of people whose lives are being made miserable and difficult. You can bring up all the unethical buying habits in other unrelated areas that you want to, but they’re completely irrelevant to this particular discussion. You are choosing to financially support a campaign of repression lead by an individual and if that makes you feel uncomfortable and you care about those people, you should be looking that fact straight in the eye and feeling that discomfort, not trying to come up with excuses about other people being wrong because they once bought a tub of nesquik. 

 

It doesn't matter because people don't care.

 

They care about how they feel, their enjoyment, and what fulfills them.

 

I head on the radio someone saying that they felt awful about the whole thing, and they didn't agree with JK. It/she was bad, bad, bad. So they wouldn't buy the game...new! They would only buy it second hand so she didn't get any money. Entirely missing the point.

 

People don't care, man. They get their kicks or their fun and that's all that really matters to them. It is sad. It is wrong. It is true.

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8 hours ago, Dirty Harry Potter said:

The game looks pretty but the voice acting sounds like it’s sub porno level and its going to ruin the game for me based on the clips I have seen. 

 

Sounds decent, might buy now actually.

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I had a ding dong with someone on a discord yesterday. He kept saying "she's committed no actual crimes". I left him ranting about the Saudis because life is way too short to try and argue against that.

 

Knowing my luck he's in this thread.

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7 minutes ago, Hamus said:

 

It doesn't matter because people don't care.

 

They care about how they feel, their enjoyment, and what fulfills them.

 

I head on the radio someone saying that they felt awful about the whole thing, and they didn't agree with JK. It/she was bad, bad, bad. So they wouldn't buy the game...new! They would only buy it second hand so she didn't get any money. Entirely missing the point.

 

People don't care, man. They get their kicks or their fun and that's all that really matters to them. It is sad. It is wrong. It is true.

 

And people didn't care about abolishing slavery, or equality for women, or civil rights, or gay rights, or or or...

 

And in all those cases, if the people who DID care had just accepted that the majority didn't, and just stopped going on about it, nothing would have changed.

 

But instead they chipped away, little by little, a person at a time, until in each case they eventually got to the point where a critical mass now cared, and then things changed for the better.

 

So by all means keep banging the "nobody cares so you might as well give up" drum, but be aware that you're on the wrong side of history when you do.

 

Meanwhile those of us who do care will keep going on about it. Suck it up!

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15 minutes ago, Darren said:

 

And people didn't care about abolishing slavery, or equality for women, or civil rights, or gay rights, or or or...

 

And in all those cases, if the people who DID care had just accepted that the majority didn't, and just stopped going on about it, nothing would have changed.

 

But instead they chipped away, little by little, a person at a time, until in each case they eventually got to the point where a critical mass now cared, and then things changed for the better.

 

So by all means keep banging the "nobody cares so you might as well give up" drum, but be aware that you're on the wrong side of history when you do.

 

Meanwhile those of us who do care will keep going on about it. Suck it up!

 

I'm absolutely not saying "nobody cares so give up" I'm outlining a reality.

 

There's a lot going on in the world and I'm glad there are people fighting for important causes.

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3 minutes ago, Hamus said:

I'm absolutely not saying "nobody cares so give up" I'm outlining a reality.

 

Oh in that case thank you for your helpful and insightful contribution!

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13 minutes ago, Darren said:

 

Oh in that case thank you for your helpful and insightful contribution!

 

Yes you're right. I have further helped your cause and you feel better for it. Doing it for the feels. Feels better to be smart 

 

See, it's recursive.

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