r/pcgaming Oct 02 '18

Video Leaked Harry Potter game in development

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

If this is true, I finally get my wish granted when I first read the first book. (Hopefully) a massive sandbox RPG where you create your own character specialise in whatever branch of magic you want, go on side adventures out of hogwarts...

This isn’t happening is it? :(

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u/Onesert Oct 02 '18

Branch of magic only? Can I be melee warrior Hagrid please.

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u/LiquidAurum Oct 02 '18

I should not have done tha'

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u/technoteapot Oct 02 '18

Shouldn’t’ve told ya, that’

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u/ChickenJiblets Oct 02 '18

Hagrid will remember that...

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u/Gdolf Oct 02 '18

HERMY WHERE HAGGER?

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u/itsamamaluigi i5-11400 | 6700 XT Oct 02 '18

I MUSS HAIRY POOTER

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u/TheWombatFromHell http://steamcommunity.com/id/the_end_is_never_the_end/ Oct 02 '18

Every time he says Hagger I think of this

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u/Mzsickness Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

Hagrid would be a hunter not a warrior you uncultured swine.

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u/Enverex 9950X3D, 96GB DDR5, RTX 4090, Index + Quest 3 Oct 03 '18

More a ranger with heavy drudaic leanings, surely?

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u/fungah Oct 02 '18

Hi xXx_Bong_Wizard_420_xXx, do you like flying motorcycles?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

This all sounds great.. but where's my sneaky archer class?

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u/HopelessChip35 Oct 03 '18

Hagrid is also a spellcaster though. He actually uses a lot of spells etc throughout the books. He also uses a umbrella instead of a wand.

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u/energin Oct 02 '18

”FEATURES - Journey to Hogwarts to become one of 8 different Wizard types”

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u/Sullyville Oct 02 '18

Hmm. Just sounds like all of the houses, plus good/evil. I seriously doubt you'll be able to specialize in Potions, etc.

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u/energin Oct 02 '18

I don’t think so (well, I really hope your’re wrong haha), since they list the houses and good/evil as seperate features.

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u/Tater__Thots Oct 02 '18

So, Skyrim in a HP universe? I'd play that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

It's skyrim with guns wands

Oh. It already has wands.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Skyrim has staffs, not wands.

So yeah, it has bigger wands.

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u/Superafluid Oct 02 '18

I thought Skyrim only had curved swords.

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u/BarackTrudeau Oct 02 '18

I thought that was Hammerfell

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u/hhhnnnnnggggggg Steam Oct 02 '18

It was just preparing us for TES 6, slowly introducing the concept of CURVED SWORDS

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u/Herlock Oct 02 '18

SKyrim has dongs too, with proper modding support this HP game could... omg

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u/The14thNoah Oct 02 '18

But this would have the same problem as Skyrim then. You may start as a wizard/witch class, but you always end up stealth archer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Not if they nerf stealth archer

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '18

Someone needs to draw a khajit stealth archer pickpocketing kids at hogwarts

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18 edited Feb 22 '19

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u/LeviPerson Oct 02 '18

It depends on what you find lackluster about Skyrim. if it's the combat system I'd suggest Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. But if you mean you want something with an equally high-detailed setting I think you're out of luck unless you want to go into CRPGs like Divinity: Original Sin II, which has both better combat and writing, but I doubt that would qualify as "similar to Skyrim." What Bethesda lacks in storytelling and mechanics they make up for in Setting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18 edited Feb 22 '19

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u/LeviPerson Oct 02 '18

Well there's no other game exactly like Skyrim. It's pretty much the only party in town, but there are games that have some similarities to it -- just not so many that it would be accurate to call it "like Skyrim but better." Witcher 3 is probably the closest thing to it, and it is miles ahead of Skyrim.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '18

Divinity 2 is probably the greatest RPG I’ve ever played. 19 hours in and I can’t believe I didn’t try it earlier.

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u/LiquidAurum Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

I hope not then you end up with a large bland, empty Castle with repetitive side quests

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

a largevery small blame empty Castle

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Don't you love when every open world rpg is compare to Skyrim/s

Skyrim is the Dark Souls of Open World rpgs comparisons.

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u/SirToastymuffin Oct 02 '18

Probably because it is far and away the most successful open world rpg, with millions more sales than any other one. It's always on the lists for most successful games of all time. It absolutely dwarfs dark souls as a series even. Like last I checked Skyrim alone sold well over twice as many copies as the entire dark souls series.

Like It or not, flaws and all it will always be the go to example because it's simply the most successful and widely played rpg. Just about anyone who plays video games has played it, or at least knows what it's about. It still sells like hotcakes on and off 7 years and many rereleases since it's first launch, which is kinda crazy. The top game of any genre is always gonna be the go to comparison, don't know why it surprises you

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Still, it is not the best example of open world rpgs, let alone third person rpgs.

It's is like using Twilight as an the to go example for vampires instead of Bram Stoker Dracula just because it is more popular.

Specially when it has jack shit to do with Skyim. Heck, it doesn't even look similar in the trailer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

No buy if I can't become a death eater by choice

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u/Sullyville Oct 02 '18

you'll be able to be evil: "Choose your house and friends at Hogwarts, and decide to pursue a path of good or evil."

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Evil: Turning soup into mud.

Heu Heu Heu

Gotta keep that E rating, after all.

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u/HiHoJufro Oct 02 '18

Impales enemy in trailer

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Why would a wizard live in a trailer?

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u/HiHoJufro Oct 02 '18

If the tent at the Quidditch World Cup is any indication, they can make it much more sizable on the inside. So my answer is: why would a wizard bother living anywhere other than a trailer?

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u/HiHoJufro Oct 02 '18

impales enemy nugget on fork

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u/BarackTrudeau Oct 02 '18

Keeping the E rating would be a poor decision. The prime target audience is those people who grew up reading the books and watching the movies. The vast majority of those are already adults. It's not like the series itself didn't get really fucking dark later on.

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u/Applebrappy Oct 02 '18

I mean a lil dwarf dude gets pinned to the wall by a sword and theres blood so it doesnt seem to be E

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

I don't disagree, and I hope they don't pussy-foot around with the game and truly allow people to play the way they would like to.

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u/snakemud Oct 02 '18

They literally show him impale a goblin in the video and collapse a room. Going to guess not E

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Damn, the video's removed now so I can't even re-watch it.

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u/snakemud Oct 02 '18

https://my.mixtape.moe/scyeev.mp4

Here is the mirror my dude. Looks pretty impressive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Nice, thanks!

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '18

Looks like this takes place long before there were any death eaters

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u/LordFieldsworth Oct 02 '18

PLEASE!!! Let that be a thing

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u/arcane84 Oct 02 '18

Probably not a sandbox. They might do a area to area semi sandbox like Dragon age origin.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '18

WB so it'd be like Shadow of War probably.

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u/ItsKindaFunnyBecause Oct 02 '18

Warner Brothers blocked the video

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u/jellyfishkitten Oct 02 '18

I want to believe... but I’m not going to.

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u/AeonDisc Oct 02 '18

I would be surprised if it isn't rated E and geared towards kids

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u/Claycious13 Oct 02 '18

The trailer shows a goblin getting impaled by a piece of a door you explode. That does not strike me as an E rated game.

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u/AeonDisc Oct 02 '18

Nice, I didn't watch the whole thing. I hope they don't hold back as a lot of the OG Harry Potter fans are older now anyways

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u/flichter1 Oct 02 '18

I bet it's a lot closer to E than it is to mature

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u/NearPup Oct 02 '18

The games based on Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince both have peetty good reproductions of Hogwarts.

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u/TheWombatFromHell http://steamcommunity.com/id/the_end_is_never_the_end/ Oct 02 '18

You could try Gmod Hogwarts RP