State of Play on March 17, focusing on Hogwarts Legacy

[kitler53]

it's amazing this is coming from the developer that latest game is "cars 3 driven to win" and prior to that disney infinity

[kitler53]

even if not perfect this is such a huge leap in quality and effort

[BananaKing]

I have to say, im super impressed so far. Weakest element seems gameplay, but as long as its good, then I feel the other aspects could lift it up.

I feel they should have looked at infamous second son for gameplay.

[kitler53]

you can really see the excitement on that guys face.  soo genuine.

[kitler53]

there's more to gameplay than just dueling though.   the other gameplay elements look good.  i think it's just the dueling that looks a bit weak.

[BananaKing]

Possible GoTY contender if it manages to deliver. Looks super impressive and honestly it feels like the devs are actually fans and super passionate about this.

So much detail and thought seems to ge put in this.

No mention of a date right? Not even a 2022 confirmation?

[kitler53]

Possible GoTY contender if it manages to deliver. Looks super impressive and honestly it feels like the devs are actually fans and super passionate about this.

So much detail and thought seems to ge put in this.

No mention of a date right? Not even a 2022 confirmation?

i agree.  the graphics aren't ND quality or anything but the attention to detail and the art style is exactly what i'd want in a AAA harry potter game.  I saw a bit of pop-in but i don't really care that much.  not nearly as bad as elden ring and i'm still enjoying that.

harry potter already has mainstream appeal.   so the fact that it actually looks good too,.. this could easily be a 20M+ game.

holiday 2022 was re-enforced at the end.  @14:43

[the-pi-guy]

No mention of a date right? Not even a 2022 confirmation?

There's supposed to be more info on the blog, might be a release date?

 nothing has been posted yet.

[BananaKing]

i agree.  the graphics aren't ND quality or anything but the attention to detail and the art style is exactly what i'd want in a AAA harry potter game.  I saw a bit of pop-in but i don't really care that much.  not nearly as bad as elden ring and i'm still enjoying that.

harry potter already has mainstream appeal.   so the fact that it actually looks good too,.. this could easily be a 20M+ game.

holiday 2022 was re-enforced at the end.

Yeah seems I missed the date and wasn't paying attention

The graphics aren't the best. But they still look good and the art style is very good. HP fans will go crazy when playing this at this level of graphics.

I really loved the season changes. That seems cool.

We have seen what can happen when a popular IP is done right and faithfully with spiderman. If its done right and appeases to the fans, I can see this easily doing 20M+ as well.

[kitler53]

man, this gen has been kind of amazing already.  in the first 2 years:
- BC with ps4
- astro's playroom
- spider man MM
- sackboy's big adventure
- demon's souls remaster
- rachet and clank
- kena
- returnal
- horizon FW
- elden ring
- GT 7 
- forespoken
- hogwarts
- it takes two
- RE viliage
- probably GoW ragnorok
- maybe psvr 2
- ...and a bunch of smaller titles worth playing but not worth listing.  

[kitler53]

well, with no era impressions to read i went back to vgchartz for the first time in years.   the 6 people that still post there seem happy with it.   

[BananaKing]

Yeah the gen is definitely starting out strong. I have so many games I wanna get on the PS5 already, and that list will continue to grow until I eventually get it.

Sony has yet to announce its next wave of games. We have GoW coming up next which will top of the first wave of PS5 games. Then we know just about spiderman and Wolverine, which are from the same studio. So I bet Sony has a lot more in store coming sooner rather than later.

[Dr. Pezus]

staring in the 5th year is an awkard decision.

Why? Much more fun

[BananaKing]

If this releases near forespoken then forespoken is iced.

[Dr. Pezus]

I'm actually pretty dang impressed! I'm glad it's about more than just mediocre spells or something. Looks fun and graph is look clean to me.

Customization will be great

Just what a HP fan wants