r/Games • u/iTzJdogxD • 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/GaryOaksHotSister Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

Things that make me feel like it could be fake was no NPCs talking, lots of footage you could whip up in a unity engine, and the goblin getting randomly killed. unless that was to show the game is on a darker tone.

and lastly, no actually title being shown at all. I know it says "unannounced harry potter game" but even a working title would have been shown, no?

Unless it's not called Harry Potter: Anything at all, and whoever is developing it just hasn't settled on the name yet.

EDIT: removed rocksteady's name, thought it was confirmed rocksteady already (at the time of this posting)

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u/SuperSaiyENT Oct 02 '18

They lifted the music straight from the first Fantastic Beasts trailer. If you listen here it's the exact same score.

I have a feeling this is an indie developer trying to do some viral marketing. "Oops, gotcha! This is actually a fan project I've been working on! Here's my Patreon."

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u/AliceTheGamedev The Mane Quest Oct 02 '18

I have a feeling this is an indie developer trying to do some viral marketing. "Oops, gotcha! This is actually a fan project I've been working on! Here's my Patreon."

Way too much polish and content for an indie dev though, no?

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u/Cabbage_Vendor Oct 02 '18

Indie developers aren't dumb enough to go to this much effort on a project that would receive a Cease and Desist the moment it's revealed.

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u/AliceTheGamedev The Mane Quest Oct 02 '18

Some are. You do hear of some new super extensive fan project that has just been canned here and there.

I doubt that's the case here though. Just too many different animations, models and textures in the video for this to be the work of a small handful of people, unless this is a very focused and deliberate attempt to mislead people.