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Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 173 points 9 months ago

It's honestly amazing how well this game sold considering how mid the gameplay actually is. Having a popular IP really helped.

[-] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My wife, whose entire history with video games is Sims 3, Animal Crossing: NH, and Pokémon Go, played through this game start to finish and loved it. It wasn't really made for "gamers", it was made for Harry Potter fans that wanted to play a Hogwarts game. It didn't succeed as a gaming revolution, it succeeded in bringing non-gamers to buy it.

Personally, I love that she got into it whether it's mid or not, because it introduced her to a lot of the mechanics necessary to play "real" games in the future. And she had a lot of fun.

[-] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

I'm both a gamer and HP fan.

I thought the game was great, and I didn't really realize the depths of people's distaste for it, I guess.

Was it crazy revolutionary? No, but it was fun.

[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Fellow HP fan, I was kinda weirded out by the whole "free access to unforgivable curses" and "canonically killing people" and the honestly kinda disheartening stance on goblin personhood but man flying around the grounds is so fun

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh yeah me too. There are a lot of moments in the writing that make me go "wait... what? are you sure about that?" and some of the game design was iffy here and there but the main attraction is just the fact that they've given us a "full-scale" Hogwarts and surroundings.

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Oh no kidding, I loved how they handled the curses. For the most part at least. Like, I would’ve been pretty disappointed if they weren’t usable in-game at all, but was never sure how they could introduce them in a realistic way. So HL literally having entire side quests devoted to you discovering the curses and learning how to use them honestly blew away my expectations.

My only issue with them is being able to use them in front of others so casually. They should’ve just made them unusable if you had another character accompanying you.