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Footage from a new Harry Potter RPG may have been leaked

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Download, Oct 2, 2018.

  1. Skeletaure

    Skeletaure Magical Core Enthusiast ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    It would be hilarious if the devs have mined fanfiction for ideas for what to fill Hogwarts up with. Multi-compartment trunk in every dorm.
     
  2. Gengar

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    We won't know for certain until the game's Best Girl turns out to be Phaphne Yellowmoss.
     
  3. SeverusTheKnight

    SeverusTheKnight First Year

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    Wulfric Brian Dumbledore will probably be a character, if this is set in the 1800s
     
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    I don't know if choosing to use his last 3 names, but not his first 2, is more or less disrespectful than just using his last name...
     
  5. Nerdman3000

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    So it’s kind of like the LOTR: Shadow of Mordor games, in that it’s it’s own continuity separate from the books and movies, but inspired heavily by both.

    Anyways, I wonder if we’ll see any ancestors of main HP characters, like the Potters and Weasley ancestors. At the very least we’re likely to see Phineas Nigellus Black, whom I wonder if he was the drunk looking professor in the trailer.
     
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    I got a headache from all that PR speak. The comment about lore did pique my interest, though.

    10:1 odds we‘ll see some kind of mythical artifact from “Muggle legend” at the heart of this Ancient Magic. The final choice will be to harness its power for yourself or to give it up for your friends / Hogwarts / magical society at large.

    Although I‘d quite like to see the Chamber of Even Secreter Secrets.
     
  7. Skeletaure

    Skeletaure Magical Core Enthusiast ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Lots of people complaining about the "late bloomer" thing. While yes, the same plotline in fanfiction would make me cringe, I can see why it works for this. They want you to have the "being introduced to magic" experience, but they want the tone of the game to be darker than would be possible if you were 11-years-old. Coming to magic late is really the only way to do both.
     
  8. Celestin

    Celestin Dimensional Trunk

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    Is it confirmed that it will be a complete start of an education for the main character? If I was doing this game, I would make him a normal student that was transferred and the tutorial would be a headmaster checking what basic magic he learned in the other school.
     
  9. Skeletaure

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    Yes. Also it was leaked a while back that you essentially specialise in a branch of magic, turning Charms, Transfiguration etc. into character classes.
     
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    Literally just montage the first four years and start the game proper in 5th year. They could have made it an extended, in depth character creation that introduced the world and the people in it.

    Not a fan of the idea.
     
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    Celestin Dimensional Trunk

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    Transfiguration in an open world could be fun, but I expect it will be rather restricted no just in number of spells, but objects you can change.
     
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    Guaranteed it'll start to show up as a common trope in fics soon. Harry "the late bloomer" Potter etc
     
  13. PomMan

    PomMan High Inquisitor

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    I imagine they wont want Albus in the game at all, but I could see us meeting Percival Dumbledore and Kendra as a bit of fanservice that also means we wont interact with anything that the FB movies might want to include at some point.
     
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    Big ghey. I am gonna cheat to get everything.
     
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    Couldn't give less of a shit about when education starts. First time I'm hearing it a being a cringe trope honestly - personally I prefer it if magical schooling as a whole starts later. The later the better (up to a point).
     
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    It's not cringe because the MC starts later, but because only the MC starts later, and is as such super speshul.

    ...what are the odds they have a secret inheritance/magic/bloodline.
     
  17. Gengar

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    Probably minimal? I'm guessing this will be basically a nothing protagonist so you can project yourself onto them.
     
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    100%. It's confirmed the MC will have a special ability.

     
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    Jfc they capitalised it and everything.
     
  20. Skeletaure

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    If I were optimistic, I would hope that the devs had observed the way that canon refers to the magic in dragon hide which repels spells as "ancient magic" and therefore would do something interesting with it.

    However, I am not optimistic. I am sure they will do the same thing with it that everyone in shitty fanfic has done: long-forgotten uber spells. Probably like Skyrim shouts.
     
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