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Hogwarts Legacy | Review Thread

Vestal

Gold Member
They are only unforgivable if you are caught!
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IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
I can't see Eurogamer have reviewed this yet. Are they one of the sites that aren't talking about the game?
 
During 2019-2020 they took a turn for the worst.. It wasn't so much banning people for their views, being assholes or trolls, but banning people for trying to have an actual educated discussion on a topic. I was banned there in relation to an incident that occurred between the kid and a cop. I simply asked, what had happened before the video started to trigger such an escalation.. That was viewed as "Whataboutism" and being somehow incentive towards a victim.

CONTEXT AND INFORMATION IS KING! 5 questions.. What, where, when, how and why!


A persons actions should always be judged not just by the action itself but by the context of the situation.
Even if one doesn't agree with the premise you don't spread ideas shutting down ones you don't like. I think they might be well intentioned but are a bad mouthpiece for progressive views.
 

Thaedolus

Gold Member
During 2019-2020 they took a turn for the worst.. It wasn't so much banning people for their views, being assholes or trolls, but banning people for trying to have an actual educated discussion on a topic. I was banned there in relation to an incident that occurred between the kid and a cop. I simply asked, what had happened before the video started to trigger such an escalation.. That was viewed as "Whataboutism" and being somehow incentive towards a victim.

CONTEXT AND INFORMATION IS KING! 5 questions.. What, where, when, how and why!


A persons actions should always be judged not just by the action itself but by the context of the situation.
It was never great and always felt like walking on eggshells but definitely by early 2019 I was like uhhhh something is fucked…to be clear, I 100% support LGBTQ rights and most of the time when people complain that something is “woke” because it’s got a female lead or whatever my eyes roll out the back of my head, but what that’s not really what that place is about. It’s really just a bunch of power tripping mods ready to crucify anyone for the crime of violating their orthodoxy, which has the same rules as Calvinball.

I’m glad this game is reviewing well and has a chance to be successful for all the people that put hard work into making it, and for all the people that will get enjoyment out of it. And I’m certain none of that will actually hurt anyone, or if it does hurt someone’s feelings, they got other stuff to work on.
 
Even if one doesn't agree with the premise you don't spread ideas shutting down ones you don't like. I think they might be well intentioned but are a bad mouthpiece for progressive views.
They're 100% not well intentioned. These people hate their lives and set out to make everyone as miserable as possible.

They hide behind "virtuous" causes because that's what gives them the license to attack and control people. The primary motivating factor is gaining clout and power for themselves online since their lives are a disaster.
 
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Regginator

Member
Huh, Metacritic says it releases in seven hours (7 February) but I keep seeing this Friday everywhere (10 February). What gives?

edit: Never mind, apparently people who bought the Deluxe Edition get 3 days early access. That's weak.
 
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TheUsual

Gold Member
Found some gift cards that will help buy this. Someone needs to photoshop Private Ryan when he's cradling himself with shellshock towards the end of Saving Private Ryan as an Era hivemind crying and the Metacritic score in the background. I have no photoshop skills at all.
 
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What in the actual truck. I thought barely a STRONG at best.



. . . agreed. With the technical issues they mention and enemy variety sounds like an 8 more than a 9. 🤔
"They mentioned flaws, it can't be a 9!", is such a weird take. Especially when they outright said the issues were very minor and didn't affect his enjoyment.
 

AtomAtom

Banned


No wonder most reviewers play console release, look that pc performance, dropping to 25fps with RTX3080, a lot of bugs, graphical glitches, insane ram usage, hope the day 1 patches are magical, or the reviewers pc is trash
 

Kacho

Member


No wonder most reviewers play console release, look that pc performance, dropping to 25fps with RTX3080, a lot of bugs, graphical glitches, insane ram usage, hope the day 1 patches are magical, or the reviewers pc is trash

Yeah I’ve stopped doing day one PC purchases for that reason. Console games still have issues, but not to the extent that PC games do.
 

Klik

Member
I was lookin at this build for pc how is your current experience with games? Sorry for off topic
Its actually better than i thought it would be. I play all games @1440p with high settings and get 80+fps(i have 165hz monitor). With DLSS its even better. Currently i play 2 games.

Assetto Corsa Competizione(full AI grid) i get around 100fps at max settings and Squad(100 player lobby) around 90-100fps with almost all high settings.And Squad graphics/explosions are gorgeous..

BF2042 128players i get around 100fps with DLSS at quality and high settings.

Even in VR i can get 80-90fps at higher settings.

Im definitely gonna skip RTX 4xxx series and get 5xxx next year
 
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Pagusas

Elden Member
Curious what the day 1 patch will do for PC's, but when they announced no PC pre-loading, i 100% assumed its because they are doing last of last minute optimizations to it. I hope my wife's 2070 laptop can handle it at 1080p. DLSS do your magic for her.
 
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VivaR3V

Neo Member
Great review scores. The world is saved. I was banned about two years ago at Re for speaking out about all the sick “FK JK” comments, also wishing her dead. I said something about people jumping on the bandwagon, not actually believing what they were saying ((to appease the thought police there) ..

I’m so pleased the game has turned out good and there are still safe spaces in which we can voice our opinions.

The people “over there” must be biting their nails, fighting to not post something that speaks out about this nonsense.

Can’t wait to play it later.
 
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belmarduk

Member
Glad to see the game is good. It's also great news for GAF. Lots of the reasonable ERA users will gravitate here and see its a superior gaming forum with the unreasonable ERA users left to furrow their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation.
 

MastAndo

Member
Glad to see it's reviewing well.

Do any of the reviews talk about DualSense vibration features? I'm still deciding between the XSX and PS5 versions of this.
 
I can't see Eurogamer have reviewed this yet. Are they one of the sites that aren't talking about the game?
Either that, or they'll slate it in a long rant and then disable comments. That's about how childish that particular site is nowadays. They used to just shadowban anyone who opposed their view, but now that they push (and somehow manage to take) subscription cash from those gullible enough to pay it, they can't really do that anymore. Hence they don't allow comments when they know what the response will be.

They'll also happily take the cash from ads for the game, of course.
 

Cyberpunkd

Member
Sneak peek inside JK Rowling mansion:

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We got also another feed from Resetera HQ:

Nervous The Big Bang Theory GIF
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Congrats to the developers and hope everyone enjoys the game. Also Elvis groomed his first wife, just sayin'...

Mozart's wife asked someone else to finish his Requiem...

Bach was white cis and complained endlessly about making more money...
 
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tmlDan

Member
There is more talk about trans people and Era than there is talk about the game

Now on topic the game seems quite good, but from what I have read the pc performance may not be, people with no raytracing and RTX4090 at 4k everything else had fps as low as 45, no DLSS
I am thinking now on getting it on ps5
PC performance for most games has been horrible over the past 5 years, BF2042 finally feels good after more than a year.

I've honestly decided to buy the majority of my games on PS5 even tho i paid for a great PC a year ago or two ago
 
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Curious what the day 1 patch will do for PC's, but when they announced no PC pre-loading, i 100% assumed its because they are doing last of last minute optimizations to it. I hope my wife's 2070 laptop can handle it at 1080p. DLSS do your magic for her.
did they confirm a PC day 1 patch?
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes


No wonder most reviewers play console release, look that pc performance, dropping to 25fps with RTX3080, a lot of bugs, graphical glitches, insane ram usage, hope the day 1 patches are magical, or the reviewers pc is trash

lol thats hilarious.

Lets hope they get it sorted out. Feel bad for people who paid $10 extra to play it 3 days early.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
They're 100% not well intentioned. These people hate their lives and set out to make everyone as miserable as possible.

They hide behind "virtuous" causes because that's what gives them the license to attack and control people. The primary motivating factor is gaining clout and power for themselves online since their lives are a disaster.
Yup.

Rarely do you see well groomed, solid career, great family life people going ape shit protesting and doing cancel culture/doxxing. They got other things to worry about like a job and paying the mortgage and kids soccer leagues.

It's bottom of the barrel losers who have noting left, but got lucky social media has allowed them to stick together. And they know it. If this was before the internet, they'd be relegated to being loners in their basement or some kind of rag tag group contacting each other by mailing lists they found at the back of a shitty magazine.

Their win for the week is arguing on social media and forums, when in reality humans only live around 70-80 years. So you'd think they'd put that effort into getting a job and being more level headed so the general population will interact with them. Instead, you got weird people griping over JK Rowling and a video game she probably wasnt even part of making except for granting the license. Go figure.
 
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ShadowNate

Member
I kind of had Eurogamer in my mind as defiant of trends and not giving a shit about controversies. I guess I was wrong? Or maybe it's too early for their review. Hopefully the latter.
 

rofif

Banned


No wonder most reviewers play console release, look that pc performance, dropping to 25fps with RTX3080, a lot of bugs, graphical glitches, insane ram usage, hope the day 1 patches are magical, or the reviewers pc is trash

to 25fps? I see drops to 10. look 1:20 lol
 

FBeeEye

Banned
I can't see Eurogamer have reviewed this yet. Are they one of the sites that aren't talking about the game?
It's interesting to see who will put their money where their mouth is. These sites thrive on traffic from Game Previews and Reviews. Are they really going to sacrifice their livelihoods over what a vocal minority cares about?
 
I kind of had Eurogamer in my mind as defiant of trends and not giving a shit about controversies. I guess I was wrong? Or maybe it's too early for their review. Hopefully the latter.
Many years ago, yes. Now sadly the opposite. They're right near the top of the cancel brigade.
 

FeralEcho

Member
If you're in the UK I'll buy it for you too.
Goddamn you're a champ.I salute you for what you're doing for these guys, you're a real one.

I'm not from UK,only play on a UK account,gonna get it eventually,looking forward to talking about it with you muggles in the future though.
 
I’m not sensitive to performance issues and bugs - I played thru cyberpunk the first week it released and was totally fine with it.

I honestly wasn’t going to get this game cus I assumed it would be shit since the developers didn’t seem to have that great of a track record… but these reviews are great. And it scoring like this even with the controversy/culture war thing around it (yes it fully exists don’t be a moron - mention of the game is banned from the largest gaming forum on the planet/multiple reviewers mention it) its probably even better than the scores suggest.
 
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