Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not the person you asked, but for me personally to rate some open world games:

  • Hogwarts: 4/10-5/10. It’s pretty damn bad IMO, beyond the fan pandering.
  • Avatar Frontiers of Pandora: 5/10-7/10, it’s a slightly worse Far Cry (which is already damn tepid) but looks insanely pretty which makes it a good braindead time waster.
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Originally 2/10, laughably underdesigned and so buggy it felt like industry-criticizing sarcasm. Nowadays 7/10 if including the expansion, still quite buggy but not in a bad way, and the redesigned combat and character systems feel artificial but pretty fun. City still too dead and underdesigned, sadly.
  • Witcher 3: 8/10-9/10, essentially same design flaws as modern CP2077, but given its fantasy world suffers much less from it, of course the empty countryside is, well, empty.
  • Subnautica: 10/10, amazing horror vibes, good progression, not too open and not too confined, focus on exploration.
  • Outer Wilds: 10/10, completely open and pure exploration, reductive game design done perfectly right.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the redesigned combat and character systems feel artificial but pretty fun

    What do you even mean by this? Artificial gameplay?

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No like… it feels pretty obvious they weren’t that way originally, if that makes sense? That this got changed after the game was already out for a while, this wasn’t how it was designed at first?

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got Subnautica for free twice (PlayStation and Epic), I should really look at giving it a proper try. I have the feeling it’d be really good in VR, played No Man’s Sky in VR recently and I immediately loved it while on flatscreen it didn’t click with me as much.

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    • FunnyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Subnautica is a masterpiece.

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• orientalsniper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Witcher 3 I’d rate 9/10.

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• FunnyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Subnautica gets a 9/10. Fallout 2 and 3, if we’re specifically going RPGs. NieR: Automata for action RPGs. Look at Persona for school influenced RPGs. I’d have geeked out so hard if we got even Persona-style class experiences in Hogwarts Legacy. Instead, all we get is completely contextless montage cutscenes.

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  • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I wish Hogwarts Legacy had taken more inspiration from Persona. Having a schedule, working on social links, engaging in fun activities outside of school, it all lends itself incredibly well to a Hogwarts game.

    Unfortunately it sounds like the creators haven’t ever even touched a Persona game. I remember before the game launched they were asked if there’d be romance options, and they seemed almost offended by the thought since the characters are kids, despite Persona doing so for literal decades.

    Going to a ball in Hogwarts Legacy, or going on a date in Hogsmead, would’ve been so much fun too.

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    • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine that, teens dating… What a wild concept.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 are both up there for me.

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