Hey Somethings!<\/p>\n
New Year, New Us, Same Blog!<\/p>\n
We have some things in the works that we’re excited for coming in March, and we hope you end up excited for it too!<\/p>\n
So, over the holidays, thanks to Steam’s sale (=shakes fist at clouds=), I ended up buying Hogwarts Legacy because… well.. I had wanted to try it when it came out, but the price was a huge turn of for me (to say nothing of the personality issues and social beliefs of Ms. R…) but the pricing on the sale made me ok with my decision (in both regards) and I was eager to dip into it.<\/p>\n
First thing I noticed is the game is…\u00a0 not…\u00a0 \u00a0overly stunning graphics-wise.\u00a0 Now my rig has a 3060 and 32g of ram.. not bleeding edge, but still a strong system.\u00a0 It looked… “ok”.\u00a0 Even on Ultra settings, the game looked “ok”… it SURE didn’t look like one would assume a game on Ultra would look.\u00a0 After doing some digging, I found many online who agreed that “Medium” and “Ultra” were not huge differences… in some cased no different… in the appearance of the game.\u00a0 I ended up finding one link that suggested a mish-mosh of “High-Low-Ultra-Medium-off-off-on…” settings that, made the game look as best as it was going to.\u00a0 Ok.. settings handled, off to Hogwarts!<\/p>\n
The gameplay is…\u00a0 ok.\u00a0 The spells you learn are varied and visually pretty cool, and the school and surrounding areas are well designed.<\/p>\n
Pros : You get to ROAM AROUND HOGWARTS!\u00a0 HOGSMEADE!\u00a0 QUIDDI..well.. no.\u00a0 No Quidditch.\u00a0 The pitch is there, and you can fly around it on your broom, but you can’t play.\u00a0 More on that.\u00a0 The accuracy and care given to the design of the school and Hogsmeade is impressive and… for those who’ve read the books and seen the movies.. dare I say ‘comforting’.\u00a0 I feel most of the movies were a great visual representation of the books descriptions, and now with the game, being in control of WHERE you go and roam around… it felt…good<\/em>.\u00a0 As far as gear goes, you can make your character look regal, understated, or outright SILLY, and I like that.\u00a0 Tailored and smart?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Want to look like Snape dressed as a grandma coming out of a boggart closet?\u00a0 You can do that too.<\/p>\n Cons : You get to roam around Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and.. so much of it feels like fan service.\u00a0 Can you go in Honeydukes?\u00a0 Sure!\u00a0 And… look around.. and.. activate a few things.\u00a0 Now, some places have quests or are shops to buy certain things needed down the road, but even then, interaction feels stifled.\u00a0 Quidditch?\u00a0 The pitch is there, but the game tells you right from the beginning that there’s no Quidditch season ‘this year’….\u00a0 apparently a different company is working on a stand alone Quidditch game, so the rights weren’t available.\u00a0 The other thing that was an… odd choice for me… the game takes place 100 years before ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’, but some of the choices felt STRICTLY made for fan service.\u00a0 The two co-headmasters are related to characters in the movies.. yet.. why did the movies\/books never say anything?\u00a0 Yes, I know the movies\/books came first.. but they created such a rich world to pull from..\u00a0 would Ron and the other Weasleys be treated the way they were if it was ‘known’ that Ron’s Great-Great-Grandmother was a Co-Headmaster of the school?\u00a0 There are a lot of choices that make you go “Hey!\u00a0 That’s neat!\u00a0 \u00a0…waitaminute…”<\/p>\n The combat also feels, while interesting with spell combos.. repetitive.\u00a0 I’m hoping as I get deeper into the game, that feel will change.<\/p>\n Overall, it’s an ok game.\u00a0 If you’ve been looking for the opportunity to get into it, definitely get it on sale IMO.\u00a0 Capture the warm and fuzzies of the fan service and hopefully that will keep you warm enough during the Meh of the game.<\/p>\n What did YOU think?\u00a0 Let us know in our socials!<\/p>\n – PCR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey Somethings!<\/p>\n New Year, New Us, Same Blog!<\/p>\n We have some things in the works that we’re excited for coming in March, and we hope you end up excited for it too!<\/p>\n So, over the holidays, thanks to Steam’s sale (=shakes fist at clouds=), I ended up buying Hogwarts Legacy because… well.. I had wanted to try it when it came out, but the price was a huge turn of for me (to say nothing of the personality issues and social beliefs of Ms. R…) but the pricing on the sale made me ok with my decision (in both regards) and I was eager to dip into it.<\/p>\n First thing I noticed is the game is…\u00a0 not…\u00a0 \u00a0overly stunning graphics-wise.\u00a0 Now my rig has a 3060 and 32g of ram.. not bleeding edge, but still a strong system.\u00a0 It looked… “ok”.\u00a0 Even on Ultra settings, the game looked “ok”… it SURE didn’t look like one would assume a game on Ultra would look.\u00a0 After doing some digging, I found many online who agreed that “Medium” and “Ultra” were not huge differences… in some cased no different… in the appearance of the game.\u00a0 I ended up finding one link that suggested a mish-mosh of “High-Low-Ultra-Medium-off-off-on…” settings that, made the game look as best as it was going to.\u00a0 Ok.. settings handled, off to Hogwarts!<\/p>\n The gameplay is…\u00a0 ok.\u00a0 The spells you learn are varied and visually pretty cool, and the school and surrounding areas are well designed.<\/p>\n Pros : You get to ROAM AROUND HOGWARTS!\u00a0 HOGSMEADE!\u00a0 QUIDDI..well.. no.\u00a0 No Quidditch.\u00a0 The pitch is there, and you can fly around it on your broom, but you can’t play.\u00a0 More on that.\u00a0 The accuracy and care given to the design of the school and Hogsmeade is impressive and… for those who’ve read the books and seen the movies.. dare I say ‘comforting’.\u00a0 I feel most of the movies were a great visual representation of the books descriptions, and now with the game, being in control of WHERE you go and roam around… it felt…good<\/em>.\u00a0 As far as gear goes, you can make your character look regal, understated, or outright SILLY, and I like that.\u00a0 Tailored and smart?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Want to look like Snape dressed as a grandma coming out of a boggart closet?\u00a0 You can do that too.<\/p>\n Cons : You get to roam around Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and.. so much of it feels like fan service.\u00a0 Can you go in Honeydukes?\u00a0 Sure!\u00a0 And… look around.. and.. activate a few things.\u00a0 Now, some places have quests or are shops to buy certain things needed down the road, but even then, interaction feels stifled.\u00a0 Quidditch?\u00a0 The pitch is there, but the game tells you right from the beginning that there’s no Quidditch season ‘this year’….\u00a0 apparently a different company is working on a stand alone Quidditch game, so the rights weren’t available.\u00a0 The other thing that was an… odd choice for me… the game takes place 100 years before ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’, but some of the choices felt STRICTLY made for fan service.\u00a0 The two co-headmasters are related to characters in the movies.. yet.. why did the movies\/books never say anything?\u00a0 Yes, I know the movies\/books came first.. but they created such a rich world to pull from..\u00a0 would Ron and the other Weasleys be 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