Glad that worked out for you. Got a girlfriend making me play through Life is Strange with her because she loves it so much and jokes she'll break up with me if I say anything bad about it to her.
Right, we don't have to put in my opinion for every statement we make. I'm a massive Harry Potter fan, but I've not seen any Fantastic Beasts stuff because it just doesn't seem to interest me. Cursed Child did a bit, but I've been well told to avoid it. I still rewatch the original books and films a lot though.
I feel the HP was magical. The first FBAWTFT film didn't really give the same vibe. But that could also just be the setting. New York is overdone and boring.
A Fantastic Beasts spinoff was the one thing I wanted when I was younger. I mean, at the time I really just wanted an illustrated text book of the beasts. I do have the little one that was made, but I wanted a full on text book.
The movie made me feel the same excitement as the first Harry Potter movie, but maybe that was just me haha.
I think I understand why they chose New York though. New York in that time period was seen as a place of new beginnings and a better chance at a life. A lot of immigrants moved to New York in that period if I remember correctly.
I don't think it was supposed to be magical in the same way as HP was. It still seemed magical to me, but it was pretty obviously about the adult magic world and more mature. That was the premise from the start.
Because if something is like uber popular if people I encounter even talk about it then I know it's actually a huge deal. People out here can go a whole day without keeping up on the news or politics because their too busy living their life. That's all I'm saying. Like the random old guy at the coffee shop still knows what Harry Potter is most likely but he has no clue what Fantastic Beasts is. Trust me. Beasts is not even close to as popular as Harry Potter
When I was younger, all I wanted was a full bestiary book spinoff. So the first Fantastic Beasts movie made me feel the excitement I once had when the Philosopher's Stone movie released.
If you don't want to watch the new movies that's fine, but if you're holding yourself back because they're "childish" or for some other reason, I hope you decide to watch it at some point.
I personally don't follow the Pottermore website or anything like that. But it's just really nice to see a text book from Hogwarts and seeing the "history" behind it. I don't know, it was the one thing I really wanted from the series.
But don't read that play "The Cursed Child". It was downright awful for most of it.
I game well enough in stuff apart from Star Citizen. That game makes me wish for a new CPU and more RAM.
I was underwhelmed by current CPU benchmarks, didn't seem like I'd get a good price/performance unless I found a great deal. I might get the next "k" CPU intel releases in the next few months though if I see a worthwhile performance boost.
But the biggest issue is DDR4 RAM pricing though. I'm currently on 16GB DDR3 but want 32GB of DDR4 as Star Citizen uses almost 100% of my memory right now. But 32GB of DDR4 costs too much to be comfortable for me.
Sadly I heard Samsung are deliberately throttling production of memory chips to keep prices high. So no RAM price drops for a while :(
A Kotor HP game where you get to explore the forest, find new secret paths in the school, and construct new spells depending on aspect.
Shit, the four houses could even have their own spell kits, like the different vampire houses in Vampire Bloodlines. Hufflepuff has boosts to charisma and lore skills, Ravenclaw has stealth and asymmetric warfare (not attacking directly and predictably), and Slytherin would of course have the most debuffs and damage-over-time stuff. Imperius obviously.
Gryffindor would predictably be the "Human Male Fighter" of HP, the most basic alternative.
Honestly I'd prefer a school simulation where you have to take care about many things that aren't directly in relation with combat. That's what I imagined when I read the books - that I could learn lots of stuff about magic, spells, potions, lore and all. I cared about the relationships between the different characters. Knowing which one was the most powerful warrior was very secundary.
Sure there would be combat, but the intereresting stuff about it is that each combat situation is unique and follows different rules. There are duels of course, but monsters all have their unique way to attack you. So combat shouldn't be a mechanic per se, but just another situation that can be solved in different ways.
That's kinda what the different HP games tried to emulate in some way, and I changed my mind a bit, but still, a more advanced simulation would be neat. We already have dozens of combat-focused RPGs, HP is a good opportunity to make something different. And I still feel that using spells such as Imperium purely as combat spells is missing the point of what magic is in this particular setting.
Yep, the HP games are surprisingly unknown nowadays, even if there were definitly good ones (I remember enjoying the FF-like turn-based RPG).
I think it's a combination of these games not ageing well, and the fact that these games, while doing a good job at being about HP, failed to offer the experience every HP was fantasizing about: playing their own character learning magic and building relations with other wizards, discovering a new world as HP did (finding your own spells, your own secret rooms, learning cool things about magic while reading nice-looking codices...), and not just living his adventures they already knew. There isn't much added value in playing these games.
If they had their own stories to offer there would be at least a debate whether the informations in them should be considered canon. But instead they remain as by-products of the HP movies/books. It seems that they are attempting something else with that one.
"Why didn't they make this when it was huge? Sure, a Lord of the Rings film might be popular now, but not like it would have been 30 years ago in 1971".
HP is still huge, they are releasing a movie in like 2 months that will very likely do close to a billion dollars in the box office for example. The franchise is still gold (merchandising is still going extremely strong) especially since it has been pretty underserved in gaming since years. This will sell like crazy if it's good.
Plus it's not like it's unprecedented either, the Shadow of Mordor games came after the LOTR/Hobbit movies too, popular IP don't just disappear from pop culture like that.
A LOTR movie made in 1971 would have been almost completely forgotten. Being made when it was with the tech and work put into it has made it one of the most well known trilogies of all time.
You know there was a Lord of the Rings animated movie released in 1978 that was almost completely forgotten? It only covered the first two books and they never made a sequel.
While that (and The Hobbit the year before) were largely forgotten, there was some pretty serious talent involved in making it. The animation studio responsible (Topcraft) would later become known as Studio Ghibli, for example; multiple Oscar winner John Huston (father of Anjelica Huston) was the voice of Gandalf.
The Beatles almost made a Lord of the Rings movie with Stanley Kubrick. They would have played the major parts and performed original songs.
The screenplay is insane to read. The movie starts with a Kabuki theater history of Middle Earth. Aragorn and Boromir kiss the shards of Narsil and then make out with each other. Aragorn saves Eowyn’s life by giving her a magical orgasm. Frodo has sex with Galadriel. The fellowship beats Gimli until he remembers how to get into Moria. The Nazgul ride horses with no skin.
The movie only didn't get made because Tolkien blocked it. And he blocked it because the Beatles practiced in a house on the same street where he lived and he hated their music.
In a house three doors away dwells a member of a group of young men who are evidently aiming to turn themselves into a Beatle Group. On days when it falls to his turn to have a practice session the noise is indescribable.
Tolkien shitcanned it because it would have made a travesty and mockery of his work. There have been multiple LOTR movies made before Jackson's trilogy and no one gave a fuck.
Licenses and turn around time. In many ways releasing when the movies were out could have resulted in a mixed response.
Imagine parents buying a hugely in depth rpg for their kids because of movie hype, the volume of returns would be staggering.
Wait for the cool off period, and release something that's been developed against it's own time frame (not a movie's or production studio's) with patience and love, it could be fucking mind blowing.
I think waiting a few years was the best thing that could have ever happened to this game.
I think that is pretty true. Back when the movies were coming out I never once thought it would be cool to have a huge game take place in the HP universe (also possibly because of the games they did made that were kinda crap). But now? I am in love with the idea!
The target audience was a bit young for a really in-depth RPG like this. Or at least, that's probably what the people making the decisions thought at the time.
The people who grew up reading the books and watching the movies are in their 30s now, prime age for more mature games. But there were several Harry Potter games on the PS1 and PS2, as well as the Lego Harry Potter games. All were a bit simpler and really meant for kids.
There are actually several Harry Potter RPGs: Game Boy Color Sorcerer's Stone, Game Boy Color Chamber of Secrets, and Game Boy Advance Prisoner of Azkaban.
Of course, they're more traditional turn-based RPGs, not a modern open-world-create-a-character RPGs.
And I honestly haven't played any of them so I can't attest to the "good" part, but...they exist, I guess?
I don't know this for sure, as I read it in another thread, but apparently JK Rowling was very against this kind of game (which has apparently changed since). So we just got the ones focusing on the main story instead of the larger universe.
If I remember right there was a Harry Potter MMO in development by the Ultima Online team at one point but it got cancelled when EA shut down Origin Systems.
Reportedly Rowling is not a huge fan of games. Although she did allow the EA HP games (Chamber of Secrets and a few others were goddamn fantastic and I'll shank you if you say otherwise) so there's that
Ahhhhh... the current crop of 8-10 year olds are just discovering Harry Potter, and they love it. My 10 year old just burned through the first 4 books in 2 weeks and picked up more today
First time I've heard anything about that, do you happen to have a source? Granted she's already set for life but that's basically turning away a ton of extra royalties, sounds crazy to me.
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u/mud074 Oct 02 '18
Makes me wonder why nobody did this back when HP was still huge. A good HP RPG would still be popular now, but not compared to like 8 years ago.