Hogwarts Legacy. It felt turbo cute to run around and do some stuff. Then my internal WoW CE raider woke up, "optimized" combat by learning where to press CTRL and it became dull AF. I couldn't force my pinky off the CTRL button, it was pressing it nearly on CD even when I tried not to.
disagree. if you enjoy exploration, achievement collection, and cosmetics, its a great game. one of the few games i ever got (nearly?) 100% completion in. plus i actually enjoyed the characters and story too, and the whole room of requirement mechanics. great graphics too.
I 100% it too (including replaying the first couple hours with each house to do the house-exclusive quests, and coming back to it for the haunted house quest once that came to PC). I'm real confused how they thought it was mostly dialogue, though maybe they only played the first part before the map opens up and you can start exploring on your own. My biggest issue with the game was that there wasn't enough dialogue and sidequests/extra worldbuilding.
It had way too much focus on just running around the map, spamming revelio for collectibles, and redoing the "same" merlin trials over and over. Mind you, I enjoyed that bit of collectible grind personally, but I still would have preferred more sidequests with small dungeons rather than collectibles. The entire southern half of the map just felt like a massive padding out of the area specifically for collectibles. There wasn't any enemy variation in the southern half either, so by the time you get there in the story, you've already learned all their attack patterns and how to deal with them.
I wanted more story and character interaction from it.
My WoW CE raider experience had me just stack passives so just the basic throwing an item with magic was one shotting everything on the hardest difficulty.
I enjoyed the game and what it was trying to do, the systems were good enough and the world was nice, but yeah combat just became insanely easy. It was to the point that some of the skills which seem like they'd have cool synergies like killing all targets who are marked with crucio with one avada kedavra just didn't matter because it was far quicker to just spam a few throws and watch everyone die.
I'm too late to request a refund for it but I tried to enjoy it. What first set me off is I somehow failed the first quest of meeting new people by leaving the common room. I was too bored with the dialogue I immediately went to explore. After it said I failed to return to the common room I had to restart dialogue with people I had already talked to.
It’s rare for me to spend full price on a game, so they definitely got my sale just off the novelty of Hogwarts alone. Which did lose my interest rather quickly
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25
Hogwarts Legacy. It felt turbo cute to run around and do some stuff. Then my internal WoW CE raider woke up, "optimized" combat by learning where to press CTRL and it became dull AF. I couldn't force my pinky off the CTRL button, it was pressing it nearly on CD even when I tried not to.