I am never touching this game, not because of the controversy surrounding it, but simply because I watched a friend play through most of it and it looks like one of the most bland, soulless and casualized open-world "RPG" experiences since fucking Skyrim and I know it'll be a waste of money and I'll hate it.
Slap one of the biggest names in fiction on something like Skyrim and it's just guaranteed to be a hit with the most casual, entry level gamers so no wonder it's selling like crazy, this wasn't made for people who actually enjoy gaming. It exudes nearly every trope in modern gaming that is simply popular because people who have never played a game before in their lives eat that shit up, bland open world, checklist collectathon, MMO elements like glam and gear level, the most barebone RPG elements "choices matter!", ffs you don't even get experience for fighting enemies, just from completing "challenges" Excuse me for coming across as a gatekeeper, but this is WHY RPGs weren't meant to be made for everyone. RPGs have always been meant for the most hardcore fantasy nerds since the earliest days of D&D so making it appeal to the casual market might make a best selling game due to appealing to more people, but it will also alienate your core demographic and make the final product just come off as corporate and soulless.
Also if that isn't bad enough the combat in this game is just as shallow as everything else, no matter what spells you use or what enemy you fight every encounter ends up feeling the same, there's no depth at all and you will get insanely bored of it because it just becomes repetitive after the initial awe wears off.
Legit the only redeeming quality of the game is that it captures the lore and setting of the Wizarding World™ very well and I'm sure for hardcore HP fans who aren't big gamers that'll be enough for them to think the game is amazing, but for the rest of us? There's really just nothing here you haven't seen done before over the past decade of gaming.
Slap one of the biggest names in fiction on something like Skyrim and it's just guaranteed to be a hit with the most casual, entry level gamers so no wonder it's selling like crazy, this wasn't made for people who actually enjoy gaming. It exudes nearly every trope in modern gaming that is simply popular because people who have never played a game before in their lives eat that shit up, bland open world, checklist collectathon, MMO elements like glam and gear level, the most barebone RPG elements "choices matter!", ffs you don't even get experience for fighting enemies, just from completing "challenges" Excuse me for coming across as a gatekeeper, but this is WHY RPGs weren't meant to be made for everyone. RPGs have always been meant for the most hardcore fantasy nerds since the earliest days of D&D so making it appeal to the casual market might make a best selling game due to appealing to more people, but it will also alienate your core demographic and make the final product just come off as corporate and soulless.
Also if that isn't bad enough the combat in this game is just as shallow as everything else, no matter what spells you use or what enemy you fight every encounter ends up feeling the same, there's no depth at all and you will get insanely bored of it because it just becomes repetitive after the initial awe wears off.
Legit the only redeeming quality of the game is that it captures the lore and setting of the Wizarding World™ very well and I'm sure for hardcore HP fans who aren't big gamers that'll be enough for them to think the game is amazing, but for the rest of us? There's really just nothing here you haven't seen done before over the past decade of gaming.
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@CNM, yeah why wouldn't I be? I'm just explaining why the game is shit. shrugs
why are you reviewing a game you've never played
@GilmarPirocudo First of all, why do you care? People do that shit all the time and my opinion is still very informed, considering I don't need to play a game to know it is shit when I've watched someone play it for like 30 hours lmao. Nothing about playing it for myself would change my opinion on how awful this game is. The design is generic and the gameplay is boring and sleep inducing and I don't need to actually play the game to see that shrugs
This has to be satire? Reviewing a game you haven't played is top tier comedy.
There's simply no difference in a game like this. You watch someone play it and it provides the same damn experience. Games like fighting games, character action games, mechanically deep games that require play interaction sure, but for a game with as generic of gameplay and design as this? Whether you watch someone else play or personally use the controller yourself will change legit nothing about an opinion. If it was just watching for 5 mins that'd be different, but seeing almost the entire mainline story and a lot of the side stuff too (which is extremely superficial btw) I think I've seen more than enough of the game to develop a pretty fair opinion about it. shrugs
The game is a shitty generic open world that is no better than most Assassin's Creed titles and the combat has as much depth as a puddle, I'm sorry, but it just isn't a good game.
Ignore the trolls you can reflect on a game you haven't played these people just have rigid minds.
@Erato_Heti, appreciate the vote of confidence, but honestly they don't bother me because I think this is 1 of maybe 5 times total that I've developed an opinion on a game I haven't legit played. Out of the like 1200+ games I have played I think I'm doing perfectly alright. It's just every once and awhile comes along a game that all I need to do is watch it and I can tell it just isn't for me and it's not like I said watched it for 5 mins, no I watched this shit for hours hoping it would improve, but it just didn't so I have no desire to ever waste my money on.
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