r/hatethissmug • u/SquigglesFan tar filled • 13h ago

Gaming I fucking hate Hogwarts Legacy

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A year ago i bought Hogwarts Legacy for like 8 dollars and it fucking stinks, i got 10 hours on it and im still being railroaded and all the character faces look like roadkill. I genuinely believe that game was conceived to actively hurt you (though i am trans so maybe its on purpose), i fell asleep for 4 hours two separate times while playing it and woke up at 3AM with sweat all over me because i was having a nightmare. Probably the second worst thing JK Rowling's done

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa 13h ago

Why do you hate it though?

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u/GodButCursed bad grammar haver 13h ago

Im not OP but i do have the platinum thropy so i will also say it

The world except hogwarts and hogmeat(the stupid town dont know the english name) is pretty boring.

The World itself is empty and everything you can do gets repeated like 100 times.

The armor upgrading system is useless because you will find always something better in the next chest you open.

There are more things but these describe it very well

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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 13h ago

The later areas of the world are crazy barebones/repetitive, but I did very much enjoy exploring hogwarts and found the whole castle positively enchanting.

If the game had focused more on the school, the classes, and learning to be a wizard and dropped the goblin stuff in favour of just unravelling the mystery of the ancient magic, it would be a substantial improvement imo.

The room of requirement was also a huge success for me. Collecting creatures and creating a few sanctuaries was really cosy. The slytherin storyline with Gaunt and the other fella was also quite compelling.

Overall it struck me as the type of game a novice team would make, and I would anticipate the next game that team makes as a lot of the issues with the game are quite fixable. At the same time though I wouldn't buy a sequel or somesuch without giving it a little scrutiny, as it would be fairly clear whether it has those same problems or not.

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u/GodButCursed bad grammar haver 13h ago

Not everything was bad. Its just more so that they had a huge ip to cover and the game was lackluster.

The game itself is okay at best. You can find joy in it but its also not a game i would play again...

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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 13h ago

I feel no need to return to it either, just pointing out some of the better aspects of the game in my opinion.

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u/GodButCursed bad grammar haver 12h ago

Also his name was sebastian. Remembered that rn

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u/lollolcheese123 13h ago

The English name is Hogsmeade iirc.

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u/Valuable-Way-5464 13h ago

"Meade"???

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u/lollolcheese123 13h ago

Either that or Hogsmead, not entirely sure on which

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u/AlarmingAd103 8h ago

english town names are weird man

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u/Patient-Ad-4274 13h ago

hogmeat😭😭😭

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u/Future_Quality5756 13h ago

I’m cackling at hogmeat

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u/AlarmingAd103 8h ago

hogsmeade

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa 13h ago

I never played the game so I have no clue what the game involves. It's one to thing to hate it because of the actual game itself and it's another to hate it because of JKR.

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u/Tebenox 13h ago

Super over the top rundown because I played it a while ago and didn't finish it.

Basically you are a late student to Hogwarts (it isn't explained immediately why are you so late and who are your parents) and you can see and interact with ancient magic which is supposedly different from regular old magic.

The game itself sees you fight against a goblin? (Forgot if that's the term for the dobbir creatures) insurrection led by a tyrant and a group of evil wizards while also juggling school and social interactions

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u/GodButCursed bad grammar haver 13h ago

The game is just a pretty boring wizard game with harry potter slapped on it.