Reskinned Hogwarts Legacy

[Runic]

I refuse to buy a game that is basically a reskin of Hogwarts Legacy and not the Dragon age we know and love with the heart and the grit of a Grim Medieval world. To those saying "It's Queer and Trans grooming!", it's not. It's the studio trying to be 'woke' and 'inclusive'. It's HR trying to make a game and hand holding. Don't blame a community for this game, blame the developers, the studio and their HR reps who are LARPing as Developers for turning our Dragon Age into something it's not.

[Ernasty]

lol, the game is actually really fun, enjoy your friday night ranting into the void

[Call Sign: Raven]

Gaming is going through a rough spot, unfortunately. That's why I'm simply sticking to older games, right now.

[Sillonihre]

HL played just fine? Funny that this game didn't please any side and was boycotted from TGA.

[Drakzen]

That would be an insult to Hogwarts Legacy as that actually sold well.

[Kozzy]

"and not the Dragon age we know and love with the heart and the grit of a Grim Medieval world."

DA2 and Inquisition had NON of that, this game is not as good as Origins but it is WAY better than the utter trash that was Inquisition and better than the average DA2. Inquisition and DA2 didn't have a "Grim Medieval world" at all, Origins yes but DA2 and Inquisition sucked.

[Cutlass Jack]

Solas was the worst Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor.

[Runic]

Originally posted by Sillonihre:

HL played just fine? Funny that this game didn't please any side and was boycotted from TGA.

Hogwarts did play just fine. The point I'm making though is they got rid of a system by saying they were going back to the basic way, which they never departed from until now. Having looked at game play side by side? It's ridiculously similar.

[Runic]

Originally posted by Ernasty:

lol, the game is actually really fun, enjoy your friday night ranting into the void

Hardly, I actually played some Hunter:COTW and some Kingdom Come, I had a great night with friends and scary movies!

[Runic]

Originally posted by Drakzen:

That would be an insult to Hogwarts Legacy as that actually sold well.

As I played and enjoyed a blast to my childhood? I totally agree. I literally was playing Hogwarts and listening to some Dragon Age play when I saw how alike they were. I just.... I had to set down the controller and say something. I love Dragon Age, it is one of my top games (Woo! Morrigan/Fenris/Solas is my 👑!) and we get this? Like I want my choices from other games to matter. Look how Inquisition did it!

[Muad'Dib]

You're right, It IS Hogwarts Legacy

Thank god some few good people are actually noticing it! I thought I was tripping with how nobody ever brought that up. The similarities are uncanny to the point it's impossible to shrug it off as coincidence

This is an incredibly anomalous case and I feel we need to get to the bottom of this story and make it public known as a manner of better understanding and "bookmarking" this behavior to all.

Why we should we care and why would this matter?

I fear this episode may not stay an isolated instance and mark the beginnings of a new trend in AAA studios and games.
This is fundamentally different from the current status quo, where, be it the new FIFA, Madden, Far Cry, Assassin's Creed or whatever sequel you're buying into you know exactly what you're buying. It'd always be safe to assume some expectations will be met due to basic branding. You're, after all, purchasing the same game as last year's, but with some extra bells and whistles

But the shady thing here is there was no implicit or explicit signs shown by EA or Bioware that did much as hint as this being the case for Veilguard. Basically blindsiding customers and breaching all trust constructed on the branding side of things

How did Avalanche Software's Harry Potter game got flipped and sold as completely new IP and nobody, ABSOLUTELY nobody is squeaking a peep about it!

And it's not just the fact that almost the whole code seems to have been replicated either, but the way It's been implemented that's even more damming. They've designed it, in many ways, in the exact same fashion it was done in Hogwarts Legacy. Take a look at companions and their side quests, at how they stop you from advancing through the main quest until certain required quest lines have been progressed!

I don't get why, and it doesn't make any sense, but it feels Avalanche Software has acted as a ghostwriter for this one and did 80% of what's being attributed to Bioware. Maybe Bioware isn't functional as a studio anymore or maybe they just hired a bunch of former Avalanche employees which, in turn, replicated code.

But what would I know if I don't have any evidence. As far as I'm concerned only by having enough reliable inside sources would we be to infer what the hell is happening

[alt]

I have been watching streams of the game and the combat reminded me immediately of Hogwarts Legacy.