/v/ - Video Games

Just memes. They weren't that great.

>>15715499

I’m still amazed they tried turning it into a GoW clone. I bet those particular games have aged like sour milk. Had some fun with the GBC game though. Dunno if those have aged any better.

The GBC games for 1 and 2 were actually pretty neat RPGs

The first one on PC and PS1 and chamber of secrets are good, didn't the others.

>>15715524

Gameboy Advance game was actually really good too.

>>15715534

>Zelda Harry Potter before it all went to poz

I’m gonna have to emulate this. Sounds kinda neat.

>>15715547

actually good game, although i noticed a lot of movie tie-ins have some kind of stealth sections

HP games PS1 were pretty much disc 1 and disc 2.

Feels right to play during the holidays, don't know why. They just felt christmasy.

HP3 on PC = Nude Hermione mod.

HP4 = Gay shit.

HP5 = Better

HP6 = Copy 5

HP7 = CoD

>>15715568

Nope. That's late 2000s.

>>15715577

>HP3 on PC = Nude Hermione mod.

that game was moddable?

I think we can all agree that the first 2-3 movies were good and the rest after that were shit.

>>15715661

Well, when her competition is Hermoine, it's not really a contest. The shoved in ethnic background characters couldn't compete either.

>>15715708

>try to make emotionally charged scene

>it ends up being hilarious watching a bitch melt down

I feel like even the actors knew how silly it was with the whole glance back.

>>15715718

It is silly. Most of the drama, beginning with the GoF is either who's going out or in love with who, and/or complete angst.

They seemed good to me.

>>15715553

They're on PC too. I played Prisoner of Azkaban as a kid, it was my favorite game ever then.

>>15715728

They must've been pandering to the teenage girl audience, they eat that shit up.

>>15715766

>I never understood the appeal of Harry Potter

it was a lucky break, I don't know if it would survive in a modern market but somehow it fell in to existence just before internet was mainstream and there was seemingly no competition for other youth novels so. Despite being picked apart for being fairly tripe by now its lunatic fans still swear by it

>>15715492

FLIPPENDO

i wish more games had trees that punched the shit out of people. i dont mean treants, although theyre cool. just otherwise regular trees

>>15715780

>it was a lucky break

With the amount of marketing it got when it was new there is no way that is true, it was an engineered success.

>>15715835

She's pretty good at drawing.

>>15715969

certainly not bad for what is supposedly a napkin doodle for character planning (or so the story goes)

>>15715492

I SWARE ON ME MUMS LYFE I'LL FLIPPENDO U IN THE GABBER M8

>>15715969

Looks like your typical high schooler who likes to draw's doodle.

>>15716072

wizahs n shit

>>15715577

>Nude Hermione mod.

That existed? Can't find any record of it now…

>>15715780

The first two movies were pretty good.

Once the teen angst came into play I dropped that shit.

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>>15715693

>an anime art style can fix one of the most boring stories in western media

How is this?

>>15716116

You're a weeaboo, Harry.

>>15715693

Luna would be some good loving, although >>15715766

looks cuter. But I think I'd like Luna's personality more

>>15715492

I read these books a bunch as a kid. I don't know why catladies tout them so much though, they're more Faustian to the young mind than they are "muh ecoolity" as Potter fights Voldemort over and over, a much more powerful wizard. Then I learned that Voldemort was right the whole time and that his was the real tale of valor as he strived with all he had to reach the deaf ears of a world that was bent on polluting the little sacred blood that was possessed for the sake of who knows the deuce what, complete integration with a muggle population but at the same time magic must be kept a sekret, whereas a muggle free world would have this issue and Voldemort could become the Emperor Wizard who begins to expand into the stars.

>>15716217

whatafuck you doin

>>15716224

I'm wondering why you have such trash saved on your computer anon.

>>15716232

dont make me get my katana

>>15715492

The original games were alright, going back to them now you will have fun but you'll realize some glaring issues. The newer ones on the other hand, no.

>>15716255

even downs can be cute if you make it moe enough

>>15716291

Moe is downs.

>>15715754

Is this the one universally liked Traveller's Tales game?

>>15716299

what if moe is downs + moe?

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>>15716307

Don't forget 2D: moe = Downs + 2D

>>15715524

the music is by the Elder Scrolls guy, too and holy hell there are some bangers in it.

>>15716398

isnt the elder scrolls guy the same guy as the total annihilation guy?

First two games on the PS1 were alright, as were the first three on PS2. Those games were literally Zelda for normalfags, and they did their job well. They fucked around with the formula for Goblet of Fire and the later titles. and that's when they started modelling them directly after the movies, all the way down to making the characters represent their actors instead of caricatured combinations of their actors and the book illustrations. Later titles were pure unbridled shit made just for the money.

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>>15716410

Just say Jeremy Soule, he's done more than enough music in vidya to warrant knowing his name.

>>15716726

>PS1

I don't remember whether Philosopher's Stone had the same bullshit, but I always resented the Chamber of Secrets one because you're locked out from the rest of the overworld once you beat the game. You can't go out and collect anything or replay duels. And only some levels can be replayed, by selecting them through a menu.

>>15715534

CoS on GC is fantastic, it was one of the few GC games I had. I want to give it another try.

>>15715547

It is like the PC version? I remember liking the PC version.

>>15716304

Yes, is pretty damn good and I want to play some again.

the Spanish translations of the PC games are burned into my brain

JERMION

>>15715547

The GBA one is underrated as fuck too.

i know their all different but is the gc version the best one? (CoC)

>>15717329

got any more Lovegoods?

>>15715661

>>15715708

It's a real shame there was never a cute tsundere Slytherin girl. She could have been all haughty and 90s shoujo smug, but with a secret crush on Harry that causes her to softly bully him.

But instead we got Cho Chink, with about as much personality as the girls that obsess over these books.

As someone who started reading the books in 1st grade the only people who give a fuck about Harry Potter just watched the movies.

>>15717944

With copy-pasted tier memetext like that I wonder as well.

>>15717944

Quidditch kind of sucks to actually play though. Even if you address the problems caused by the Snitch, better fictional sport games have been made.

>>15717884

>It's a real shame there was never a cute tsundere Slytherin girl.

Try the mobile game.

>>15717884

There will be several fanfictions with this premise. Probably with Pansy Parkinson or Daphne Greengrass or maybe Tracey Davis

>>15717974

I can't remember who any of those three are

>>15717973

I think that might be what the anon was referring to.

>>15717982

Draco Malfoy's girlfriend and 2 other Slytherins in Harry's year who are mentioned about one each but are not explicitly mentioned to look half troll like Millicent Bullstrode

>>15717973

I played a hacked apk for a while that removed all the grinding and I still just couldn't get into it. The tsundere Slytherin was the best part, though.

>>15718079

>coming out soon

Considering the only reason we even know about it is a leak, that seem unlikely.

>>15718079

Severita Snape

Ronalda Weasley

Harriet Potter

Voldemorta

Frederica and Georgina Weasley

But what would the masculine of Ginevra Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange(keeping in mind her family names everyone after celestial bodies)

The early HP games are comfy as fuck.

>>15718094

Oh and Hermione Granger, how do you get a masculine of Hermione?

>>15718103

Or Rummy

>>15718104

Mirzam Black(Mirzam being beta canis majoris as opposed to Sirius which is alpha canis majoris)

Jamie Potter

Rema Lupin? I dunno it's kinda a weird one

Petra? Peta? Pettigrew

>>15715766

It was the worldbuilding that hooked me as a kid, but I got bored as fuck with the series around the 4th book when it became clear that the setting wasn't mysterious and slowly being explored, just that it was a shitty setting. Mostly because Rowling is a fucking hack (and conspiracy theories show that she may not have even written the books and that her whole "I was poor and this was my lucky break" sob story was fabricated) and couldn't actually create an internally consistent world even with several thousand pages worth of low-quality writing.

Now I'm just reminded of this

>>15718187

Surprised I haven't seen this before, pretty good

>>15718164

Haven’t heard these theories. Are people thinking a ghost writer did most of the work?

>>15718236

Yep, I remember hearing that the Rowling didn't even write the seventh book. However, I haven't seen a source to these theories. So take them with a grain of salt. If they are true, it may tank any future that the franchise has. However, if they're false, it's just another case of a celerity letting their ego get the best of them.

>>15716410

He’s also the Pajama Sam guy

>>15718357

PC is the best version for Toy Story 2

>>15718345

>I remember hearing that the Rowling didn't even write the seventh book.

That's actually very believable. It's by far the worst book in the series and reads more like a fanfic trying to rip-off LOTR.

>>15718371

dreamcast is

>>15718236

There’s a lot of accusations of plagiarism against her. One guy claims she copied the whole thing from some book about a boarding school published in the 1800s and just added magic tropes and made the school coed. There’s also apparently some character named Harry Potter who looks just like hers minus the scar, who had been around for a few years before her books.

>>15718164

That's the thing, the books are meant to be about this magical world but Rowling sucks at worldbuilding. She basically just made shit up as she went along and as a result you end up with tons of things that sound fine on their own but just don't make sense if considered with all of the other components.

>>15718236

At the very least, her whole story is fishy. Being poor and jobless and, yet, somehow knocking out a bunch of books without a sliver of experience of knowhow when it comes to publishing. It reeks of fake PR nonsense to jazz up some mediocre YA books.

The conspiracy theory shit kicks in when you dig into her family and her connections. I wish I'd saved the thread, because I remember it was mildly interesting stuff. The gist of it is that Rowling is allegedly part of and married into a number of very wealthy families in the Britbong circles, and that the publishing company that picked up Harry Potter was founded and put into business under very unusual circumstances.

Less extreme theories claim that Rowling showed up with a handful of poorly developed ideas and the publisher hired out ghostwriters to flesh out everything else and tie it together, because Rowling, yet again, wasn't a professional writer and had no idea what she was doing. This potentially explains why the books are a hodgepodge of random ideas that seemingly pop up at random and then vanish from the narrative, because Rowling wrote them down on a napkin and a group of no names strung it together into a passable narrative.

>>15718380

Correction, he was called Larry Potter and the book even had “muggles” in the title

>>15718215

The follow up with Chamber of Secrets is even better (much like the game itself), though sadly it was watched way less and though supposed to be multiple parts it's only got two with no updates since last December. Still both CoS parts are great.

>>15718397

It would also explain why the latter books are so much worse than the first ones if it was a group writing them and some of the more creative ones left part way through, probably after the 4th or 5th book. Keep in mind there was a 3 year gap between books 4 and 5 being released which could be explained by a number of the ghostwriters leaving.

>>15718432

No she didn't, that's not her

>>15718440

Oh did I fall for a meme back then?

>>15718445

Not sure if it's a meme, but you certainly got roped in by a lookalike

>>15718399

That's actually two seperate books. Muggle seems like a really obvious word to make up for something in a fantasy story while Potter is a fairly common second name so a character called Larry Potter is inevitable. It is really weird how both books were by the same author though.

>>15718380

>One guy claims she copied the whole thing from some book about a boarding school published in the 1800s and just added magic tropes

That's a bit like saying Star Wars copies the hero's journey in fantasy stories and just puts it in a space opera setting. You're not really shocking anyone by identifying what the story borrows from.

>>15718397

>Being poor and jobless and, yet, somehow knocking out a bunch of books without a sliver of experience of knowhow when it comes to publishing.

Well you don't need money or a job to write a story, and it wasn't as if she self-published.

>>15718440

There are actual nudes though, only a search away

>>15718424

Might as well post the last one so just they're all here.

>>15718445

There was a thing where the actress who played Fleur Delacour did a topless scene, you might be thinking of that.

>>15718460

>Evanna Lynch grew out of the cute pixie look pretty soon after the movies

I was very upset when I found this out. She grew up to be ugly.

>>15718543

She looks very very Irish

>>15718567

>first one

tacky but it does remind me how almost pointless actually making the whole story take place in the 90s is, you don't really gain anything from it beyond having the train and the flying car if while in hogwarts itself where 90% of the story takes place everything is medieval themed. no kid wanted to take their walkman or their gameboy to boarding school? even something like that coulda made for a fun piece of setting fluff to see these wizard teenagers experience 90s music culture

>>15718581

High concentrations of magic like Hogwarts interfere with the workings of electronics

>>15718581

>no kid wanted to take their walkman or their gameboy to boarding school?

Supposedly Hogwarts made electronic devices not work or some shit, but I remember one kid got a camera there or something. I feel like you could have done magic shit to a Gameboy to make it really cool. But Rowling never thought of actual cool shit.

>>15718591

It was an old fashioned pre-electronic camera.

>>15718591

>I feel like you could have done magic shit to a Gameboy to make it really cool.

even not using these things magically could enhance and separate the setting and rowling really shows no understanding of how teenagers operate because you know they'd be trying to jig up some means to watch MTV to watch grunge music videos and other mischief

luna lovegood is proof that the midteens are a woman's prime

>>15718647

You might as well not bother with 3D at all. 2D stays cute forever.

>>15718628

Thing is, apparently most wizard families don't actually use electronics at all. Only the muggleborns would have any interest in muggle entertainment, like when Thomas Deen mentions Football in the first book.

>>15718678

might as well made it in the victorian era or something to still get your train sequence but not have wasted potential of the era

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>>15718581

Fucking isekai garbage, there's way better anime than this.

>>15718846

most would agree, I hold no nostalgia or love for HP the topic just ended up being kinda interesting to discuss in this thread. Most high fantasy settings with use of magic loses appeal to me when the "rules" to magic aren't structured well. Oddly enough isekais sorta found a solution by following RPG rules in some cases but the delivery isn't always great but there's some semblance of rules

>>15718587

>High concentrations of magic like Hogwarts interfere with the workings of electronics

I am reminded of where the original MIB comic did kinda the same thing but in reverse

Where power lines worked as an antimagic grid keeping most of the populace safe and under control

until some nerds get a Tibetan d20 which is strong enough to break through and accidentally summon a demon

thought for sure I had all the issues so I could post the relevant pages but I seem to have misplaced them

>>15718857

Thanks for the explanation. So basically CoS for consoles is one of, if not the best game?

>>15716398

I always forget to look at licensed titles for cool music . dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed

This thread is surprisingly pleasant. What do you all think of the Deathly Hallows bloodbath? Admirable attempt at compensating for things being too "safe" and deaths being too predictable for beloved protectors or misunderstanding, hilariously bad body count for the big finale? I've never gotten to ask anon opinion on this.

They even fucking killed that kid with a camera who annoyed Harry in the second book until he got petrified and his younger brother who just started school 2 years ago, wew.

>>15719852

It seemed a little excessive. Both Lupin and Tonks? Really? Off screen? Both Camera kid and his brother too.? The problem is they lack a lot of impact because you just saw Fred die so it's like "Oh? them too? Damn."

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>>15719886

Lupin died because Rowling changed her mind about killing off Arthur Weasley in the fifth book, but still wanted to kill off another one of Harry's father figures. And I don't remember Dennis dying. Admittedly, it has been a while since I read the books, but I have a pretty good memory.

>>15715766

the first three novels were decent when I read them as a kid. GoF was long winded as fuck and I never got very far into it without getting bored and stopping. I can't imagine the novels that came after being any better. The Halo novels were decent sci-fi when I was in middle school, except for the novelization of the first game which was also a snoozefest and done by a shittier author.

>>15719852

Rowling let her critics bully her into submission. The previous three books got a little formulaic with one major death to end on, so she overcompensated in Deathly Hallows. The death that I thought was most pointless and annoying was one of the Weasley twins.

>>15719852

Deathly Hallows was a mistake, if not content-wise, then timing-wise. The whole point of Harry Potter is escapism, it's like Persona. Taking away that comfy high school setting took away everything HP had going for it. Now, maybe if it had happened during book 6, and book 7 marked a TRUE return to Hogwartz, that might have worked. The series was already fucked since Goblet of Fire, though. Going back to the persona comparison, the way the narrative is handled in those games, it would be more like harry potter being friends with mostly muggles. The social links with the ignorant help provide respite from the escalating tensions in the main plot, while also giving the protagonist something special to protect.

>>15718857

So it's kinda like spiderman 2 games?

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>>15720193

first half was kind of good, second one shit the bed

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>>15718104

What is this RPG? fan-made RPG with the Harry Potter universe?

>>15722755

Warner Bros are making a Harry Potter RPG, the only info we have on it is through a leak.

>>15722755

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>>15715553

The differences between PC versions and both "strains" of the first two console games on consoles (PS1 versions are unique when compared with ports on more modern hardware!) are huge. I generally like PC versions more, followed by PS1 games with other versions coming last (didn't play handheld games). The ones before Prisoner of Azkaban are solid - but never approaching the level where I'd be comfortable calling them notable. Just good old fun.

After PoA, which was already heavily flawed, it started coming apart.

>>15725475

Chamber of Secrets for gamecube was pretty fucking nice with the exploration. Yes, the originals on PC and PS1 were fun as fuck, but they were level based, if I remember correctly there wasn't a hub, exactly. By the end of CoS in GC you could explore the castle freely because you had the broom and all.

>>15715492

French AVGN did the most awesome review of them.

>>15718857

The PC version of the game is missing chunks of content (diagon alley, the weasly residence and maybe some other things) compared to the ps2 version at least.

>>15725957

In CoS, you get the broom about a third of the way into the game, and all it's really good for is collecting Beans. Yeah, you can explore the "entire" castle grounds, but it's while on the back of your broom. Any ground exploration on the exterior of the castles just loads a few specific areas. PoA, meanwhile is completely exploreable. I remember jumping on the back of Buckbeak, flying all the way to the otherside of the map, and then switch between all of the characters as everyone is running around.

>>15725986

I believe the PS2 port of CoS had grounds explorable by foot - not that there was anything of substance there beyond the few areas you'd warp to in GCN version.

>>15725957

At several points you were allowed to roam a bit in forst two PC games but you always were constrained. It was still an amazing level of freedom for younger me back in early 2000s though.

>>15718857

Prisoner of Azkaban for PS2 was actually pretty underwhelming, I played it recently and it was missing a bunch of content like quidditch and flying compared to Chamber of Secrets, also butchering Harry's skillset and redistributing his abilities and spells to Ron and Hermione was kind of a poor choice IMO

>>15726577

The GC version did that as well, except you could still fly once Buckbeak becomes available.

>>15726577

Hmm so it seems like Chamber of Secrets was the best one. Funnily enough, that was always my favorite book at well. People tended to shit on in my experience, but I always liked it a lot.

>>15725980

He has higher production values than TV shows.

>>15726627

>He has higher production values than TV shows.

Well yeah that's why I like it, it's the opposite of the average e-celeb.

>Start of as a fat french version of AVGN.

>Knows success.

>Get /fit/.

>Doesn't sellout.

>Doesn't cuck-out either.

>Doesn't branch out and re-invest it's shekels into his show to get more production value out them.

>As a result it's still fun to watch even it's been 10 years of a nerd yelling at vidya.

The guy is a youtube anomaly.

>>15726722

He falls into the same traps youtubers do though, he spends too much time on skits instead on focusing on the review now.

Also his gf is a gook but I'm happy for him he got one.

>>15726747

>he spends too much time on skits instead on focusing on the review now.

Well yeah but after 10 years he has basically reviewed all the famous bad retro games, the stuff he reviews now are hardly retro nor even proper dog turds.

Hence why investing in the skits was the smart choice.

Also the skits are generally fun and related to the game as an absurd exaggeration of it, which helps a lot.

>>15726832

also while he doesn't cuck out, he's friends with a lot of cucks I don't like seeing and who are in a lot of his skits.

>>15726337

>all that projecting onto children’s books

It’s funny they bring up “sexuality” when that wasn’t even a thing in the books till being gay was the in thing a Rowling just made up that dumbledore was gay after all the books were already out.