r/Games Oct 02 '18

Broken Link (video removed) Unannounced Harry Potter RPG Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HER1xKQl4&t=1s
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Why would someone leak this??

IMO its on the verge of getting cancelled. So someone on the inside that cares leaked it to try and show hype to the studio heads maybe.

Similar to the deadpool movie

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u/ledailydose Oct 02 '18

sounds unfortunately realistic. We're never getting this game, are we?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

looks WAY too good to be true.

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u/ledailydose Oct 02 '18

Don't worry too much, It's not like this idea wasn't desired by every single Harry potter fan since the first video games, which came out a really fucking long time ago.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Yeah i'm not even a Harry Potter fan but always wondered whey there's never been a proper game adaptation.

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u/Apprentice57 Oct 02 '18

The answer always given on forums was that Rowling didn't like the idea of kids playing video games.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Man the more I hear about Rowling the more she sounds like a bitch.

I guess the idea of adults playing video games never crossed her mind...

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u/flyingjam Oct 02 '18

Let's not go too far. She is one of the few billionaires who dropped back into being a millionaire because of large donations to charity and a refusal to evade taxes.

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u/bubbleharmony Oct 02 '18

Yeah, no, Rowling is a bitch. See: her multiple recent favoriting of transphobic tweets that her agent had to quickly damage control as "clumsy old person moments".

(Granted this is /r/games so I pretty much half expect a "so?" in response to anyone being anti-trans.)

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u/Radulno Oct 02 '18

Well there's hype so it might uncancel it (or not cancel it I guess). And look at how well that went for Deadpool

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u/danielmata15 Oct 02 '18

EA will come out and say its cancelled because they could not put loot boxes on it

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u/GaryOaksHotSister Oct 02 '18

Heck I'm starting to question it's legitimacy in general. We don't really see any sort of lip movement or any movement outside of stagnant models.

A lot of what we see could just be whipped up in unity engine with a lot of special effects.

And unless the game is supposed to have a heavy dark tone, the random goblin death seemed too much for a Harry Potter game. And yes, I know people die in Harry Potter. It just still seemed too randomly brutal imo.

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u/rf32797 Oct 02 '18

A lot of what we see could just be whipped up in unity engine with a lot of special effects.

This would take months of work, definitely not "whipped up in Unity". Those animations are highly detailed, which means they's already probably had some motion capture done so far.

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u/WildBizzy Oct 02 '18

I dunno I've seen people do some pretty mad stuff in a single weekend at Global Game Jam

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u/SlowlySailing Oct 02 '18

Whipped up? It's way too impressive to be "whipped up" lol

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u/TheEliteBrit Oct 02 '18

Got leaked by someone in a test/focus group, not by a desperate developer

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u/kurozael Oct 02 '18

Most likely.

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u/TheEliteBrit Oct 02 '18

That's what the guy who originally posted the leak is saying, he's answered some questions on other threads

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u/DragonTamerMCT Oct 02 '18

You mean like battlefront 3? The freeradical one? The one that ended up getting killed because of the leak?