Hogwarts Legacy

I'm sorry but this just isn't acceptable. A lot of fans of this series who will be buying and playing this game will be young people who maybe aren't equipped to deal with entitled, angry, 30 and 40 somethings ranting and raving about bigots and "trans genocide" or sending death threats etc. To be honest a lot of adults probably aren't really equipped to deal with it either.

A large percentage of people genuinely won't know what JK Rowling has said and some might not even be able to properly parse her statements either. So to have a situation where people are wary of admitting that they will play the game, are wary of letting their children go to Smyths to buy the game or are wary of streaming because of thinly veiled threats is just not on.

There's no way to rationalize it at all and "you are just going to have to put up with it" is such a cowardly stance to take.

The degree of outrage, harassment and outright abuse here is simply not commensurate with the actual situation. More people should be willing to speak up and condemn the kind of bullying that we are seeing.

I get that the trans-community have to deal with a lot of nonsense both online and in real life. This in no way justifies what is now basically an organised harassment campaign against people who have not done anything wrong and who may not really be able to handle this kind of abuse.

There's a real "it's OK when we do it" angle to this whole controversy and it's actually insane to see the moderator of a videogame board basically say "well if you buy the game and try to talk about it then you need to deal with the consequences". It's just wrong.

For anyone who's actually played the game and hasn't been burned at the stake how good is it compared to say God of War Ragnarok?

That's the game I'm playing through since Christmas but seeing an awful lot of good things about this and even though I'm not the biggest fan (I've seen the films) it looks like its worth a play.

I'm just curious as to what kind of gaming experience the game provides? Should i just leave it for now and keep playing through GOW or should I give this a bash right away?

You could always buy it on CDKeys.com? Stick it to her by buying a dubiously acquired cheaper key? 😁

Seriously dude, there's a real bang of cutting off your nose to spite your face about this.

Delete Twitter, stop giving both sides of this nonsense and audience (remember the episode of the Simpsons with the advertisements destroying everything and the 'Just don't look song'?) and instead spend hours chasing around floating pieces of books in the air in a superbly fun game with the rest of us.

anyone else's finger absolutely knackered from using r2 on dual sense ? Some push back on it while firing off spells I might have see it there option in settings to tone it down a bit 🥲

Just back from picking it up. Lady in the store told me a kid had dragged his mother to the store before school to get it but he was looking for the PS4 version which isn't out for another 2 months. Kid moaned enough that mother bought him a PS5 and the game there instead. That never worked for me growing up :D

Maybe the mother was JK Rowling ?

Smyths in Carrickmines, and they had plenty of consoles in there?

I've decided to boycott this game until the 25th of July due to clear prejudice against Nintendo Switch owners. Power to the people!

I'm really interested in seeing how it's handled on the Switch. I know this is a joke but I don't think it's going to be too far from reality :eek: