yeah, most regular gamers I know are looking forward to it, but then also my wife and several of my friends wives, who only rarely play games (and one who doesn’t play at all) are all wanting to play it. It has a hugely broad demographic appeal and excitement from all those groups. It will do very well.
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Hogwarts Legacy is the most anticipated game of 2023
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dr_octagon
Banned
I want to fight everyone as the true hero Tom Riddleston and use the ultimate spell 'Nevada Canada'.
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remember_spinal
Banned
This is my most anticipated game too.
Avalanche Software
You can’t argue the numbers, Harry Potter fans don’t give a shit about the studios track record
ThatOneGrunt
Member
No she isn’t.
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Deleted member 471617
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Just watched the video. Negatives were Avalanche Software's previous games which were mainly for kids and not meant to be amazing critic wise, a horrible $300 collector's edition which isn't for me and the Dark Arts Combat Arena being tied to the deluxe edition which also includes three days early access. Since I will be on vacation that week, getting to play the game three days earlier while also getting access to the combat arena which I see as a bonus since im buying the deluxe edition for the three days early access. Then he talks about Shadow of War and the monetization in that game which okay but different development studio and game was still an 82 on Open Critic.
To each their own but none of what Luke says is even remotely concerning to me.
Wastelander92
Member
The reviews are not gonna be fair to Hogwarts regardless how it turns out.I am interested in Starfield, but there's quite a high chance it will be a trainwreck.
Looking forward to harry potter, but will await reviews.
Then...
balls of snow
Member
This is my most anticipated game too.
Avalanche Software
Elden ring was not built in a day.
Umbasaborne
Banned
People are never willing to give up and comer studios the benefit of the doubt. Rocksteady wasn’t exactly hitting home runs before batman arkham asylum eitherElden ring was not built in a day.
GenericUser
Member
I hope hogwarts turns out to be great for all the people that are looking forward to it. But it's definitely not for me.
Hero_Select
Member
If it gets the "You can explore Hogwarts" right then I think I'll really like it.
Boneless
Member
Ok good arguments buddy.
DragoonWalker
Member
This is my most anticipated game too.
Avalanche Software
The life you've lived is not the only life you're capable of living.
If people never gave anything/anyone new or unproven a chance and only ever look at track records, we wouldn't even any successful properties we have today across any media. The newbie of today could be the master of tomorrow.
belmarduk
Member
Tears of the Kingdom being only at number ten really shows how Nintendo's marketing strategies aren't helping publicize the game. Breath of the Wild sold almost 28 million copies... this game should be more highly-anticipated.
Release more footage of the game! The Zelda fans who do endless theorizing based on a few seconds of footage are not the majority of fans!
Release more footage of the game! The Zelda fans who do endless theorizing based on a few seconds of footage are not the majority of fans!
remember_spinal
Banned
This data is flawed, peopel are probably searching for the sequel as BOTW/Breath Of The Wild 2, not Tears of The Kingdom.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Looking forward to the "Hogwarts Legacy breaking sales records depresses me" and "Hogwarts Legacy selling this well shows how hateful the world is" cope articles from the beta and weirdo writers on Kotaku and Polygon.
belmarduk
Member
I look forward to a lesser gaming forum banning discussion of the most anticipated game of the year and people flocking here to NeoGAF to discuss it. The game really looks great and despite not really being a fan of the franchise, I plan to buy it.
belmarduk
Member
People have known about the title since December. The anticipation just isn't there. I'm sure the game will be good regardless. There's never been a bad Zelda game.
The artful mincer
Member
People pay waaaaaaaaay to much attention to developers track record...
Think of all the devs that taken multiple attempts to get a hit. FROM Software, CD project red, Rocksteady even Naughty Dog took till 2009 to get a mega hit.
Now think of the good devs that delivered a disappointment.... Bethesda, Bioware, Ubisoft, CD project red LOL, Naughty Dog LOL Budgie.... I could go on.
This is there first major game. Judging them on bunch of licence games they needed to bash out in a year doesn't seem appropriate.
Until we play the game I think Judging it by the footage is the best indicator of its quality and it looks fantastic.
Think of all the devs that taken multiple attempts to get a hit. FROM Software, CD project red, Rocksteady even Naughty Dog took till 2009 to get a mega hit.
Now think of the good devs that delivered a disappointment.... Bethesda, Bioware, Ubisoft, CD project red LOL, Naughty Dog LOL Budgie.... I could go on.
This is there first major game. Judging them on bunch of licence games they needed to bash out in a year doesn't seem appropriate.
Until we play the game I think Judging it by the footage is the best indicator of its quality and it looks fantastic.
remember_spinal
Banned
It won most anticipated at the game awards, now don’t tell me those awards dont count after all these GOTY elden Ring threads
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Mr Moose
Member
The data is even more flawed since Zelda doesn't appear on the page they got their game list from, but still somehow made it into their top 10. (Unless I am fucking blind lol).
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kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
The game does seem interesting, but magic bores me to death. Give me swords and axes and I’ll be there day 1.
Sybrix
Member
The game does seem interesting, but magic bores me to death. Give me swords and axes and I’ll be there day 1.
I'm sorta with you on that.
I dont like Harry Potter movies, the whole magic wizard thing is stupid.
However, the allure of brand new open world game is pretty enticing. After seeing the gameplay videos so far it does look fun.
I'm a huge fan of Bully and hope this game offers a Bully type experience.
The artful mincer
Member
Meh what would have been more useful is if he critiqued the footage available of which there is about 90 minutes now.
Instead all we get is a bunch of guff about the dev track record and monetisation practices. That's 25 minutes of my life I am not getting back! (Not blaming you for posting I saw thus before!)
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Hogwarts Legacy is likely to be Elden Ring big or perhaps bigger imo. It looks that good.
This is my most anticipated game too.
Avalanche Software
Avalanche Studios was a "corporate" studio whose sole job was to produce video game tie-ins for their corporate bosses. The goal for every game in their portfolio was player engagement not quality (and they likely weren't even given much of a budget to do either). Fast forward to DISNEY dumping their in-house video game dreams with WB picking up an already established studio who goes "Oh, so we have a chance to work on non-cynical advertising and make an actual game? Let's go." Like I could see if ANYTHING they were working on in their portfolio was an ACTUAL game meant to be played by people who aren't old enough to drive and are just happy to see cartoon characters move across their screen.
. . .always said this has a chance to absolutely crash and burn, but it won't be because the development team isn't trying to put their best foot forward.
Deputy Moonman
Member
It will sell well being multiplatform, but I don't believe for a second that it is the most anticipated game of 2023.
The artful mincer
Member
Thor. "Don't you know what I've Done!
Kratos. "Yes! But what are you going to do now?!
Someone smarter than me needs to make I gif of that!
STARSBarry
Gold Member
As someone who was actually in the toys-to-life business back in the day. Disney infinity while having a few misteps especially with the first release, did have great ideas especially with the toy box, which was a carry over of the Toy box from the Toy Story 3 videogame and they did an actual great job on improving on until Version 3.
No idea what happened with cars as I was out by then and it's not a TTL game by the looks of it.
And as others have pointed out Rome wasn't built in a day, and visually their new game looks leagues better than prior titles with a real attention to detail. I'm more than willing to give them a chance.
No idea what happened with cars as I was out by then and it's not a TTL game by the looks of it.
And as others have pointed out Rome wasn't built in a day, and visually their new game looks leagues better than prior titles with a real attention to detail. I'm more than willing to give them a chance.
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pleaseinsertdisctwo
Member
What kind of garbage article and “study” is this? In what universe does Google searches equate to anticipation/sales? Calling this a “study” is like me opening up an Etsy account called UseyPoosey where I sell my used underwear and I advertise on my LinkedIn that I’m the “CEO” of UseyPoosey
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Search lists mean nothing. Zelda at 10th place at 1/8th the searches and only sold on Switch will probably outsell Harry Potter.
Who knew more gamers cared about Forspoken than Zelda.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Harry Potter seemed like a big thing, a lot of it is spells, jk rolling being under pressure for certain views. A wizard game is definitely interesting.
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
I can easily see Hogwarts being the second best selling game next year after COD (assuming MW2 has the legs).
Fake
Member
Neither 'likes' from Twitter and Facebook, but PR those days use this as a metric quite a lot.
In fact, none of this are better representation of sales. Saint Rows got a tons of 'like' and sells like shit.
Harry Potter is a huge franchise, but I do agree with you about the search mean nothing. Probably after that witch hunt social media is doing to the HP writer is making the search increase those days.
.Pennywise
Banned
Bold take. Bet?
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
It will be wayy more pg and pc than Bully I'm afraid
Unknown Soldier
Member
Hogwarts Legacy has been delayed a million years now, what are even the odds it will actually be good?
Harry Potter is a franchise where I can't think of a single good videogame that has ever been made relating to it.
Harry Potter is a franchise where I can't think of a single good videogame that has ever been made relating to it.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Someone hasn't been watching any footage apparently.
Chamber of secrets was pretty good in its time
sandbood
Banned
How is that bole take when Zelda BOTW is selling around 30 million units at full price while no Harry Potter's games came close to it.
Sequel to the highest rated game of the generation is going to blow Hogwarts Legacy without any trouble.
Larxia
Member
I really don't get it. From what I followed, she simply said that men can't have babies, only women can, and that's somehow the issue? Do they realize that... We all agree with her since that's just... a fact?
It's really weird.