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No.88357
  Hmmm.

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No.88358
  Wait, what?

No.88360
What is this I don't even...

No.88361
Wands are guns now. Go figure.

Wait hang on was that the Crucio spell?

No.88362
You see, this is why I never really grasped the appeal of the franchise.

A mediocre 3rd-person shooter is fine, but why the hell would I want to play it as a dorky British highschooler in a purple hoodie attacking street thugs with ill-defined blobs of light? They're even color-coded... Hell, that wand twirling looks like a conductor having a seizure. Shouldn't the idea of playing as a wizard conjure up ideas of Gandalf, Dr. Strange, Lina Inverse, or (hell) even Rincewind? Somebody with style and/or personality, wielding the destructive powers of the arcane in some fantastical setting?

No.88363
That doesn't seem too bad.

No.88364
HA HA HA HA HA OH WOW.

>>88361
YEAH IT WAS.

No.88365
pew pew pew pew. So how long till we see the hidden auto wand or chain wand weapons?

No.88366
>>88362
Reading that, I just realised how awesome an action-oriented Ricewind game would be. It could be a speed-oriented platformer, and every level would be running from a new monster/army/mob/god/volcanic eruption over a new piece of cruel and unusual geology.

No.88368
Those spells sound a lot like lasers, Harry.

>>88366
It would be like Dino Run!

No.88370
>>88368
>>88366
I even got a name: Run like the Rincewind!


Also, these wizards are worse than stromtroopers.
They should teach some marksmanship in that school.

No.88372
Harry Potter and the kingdom of PEW PEW PEW PEW

I think the lego harry potter game my dad's play is a better game than this is looking to be.

No.88373
>>88366
>>88368
>>88370
Any other character and I would scoff, but Rincewind has run from some serious shit in his time. Throw in some "run here to cause a lucky chain of events to stop the monster" type stuff and you're gold.

No.88374
>ZAP MOTHERFUCKER.jpg

From an RPG on the Gameboy Color to a next-gen Gears of Hogwarts. It's rather strange seeing Harry do any kind of magic spells considering he just deus ex machinas his way through all the books.

No.88376
>>88374

Heh he's still bullshitting his way through life ten years later since he never learned dick about advanced magic practices.

No.88377
wand fights were normally like gun fights.
Wizard Duels weren't.

No.88379
Flipendo! Flipendo! Flipendo!

>>88361
Supposedly, the developers are trying to find some way to discourage use of Crucio, like giving a benefit to not using it. It didn't sound like they had any particularly good ideas, though.

No.88390
>>88377
Is there a button to tip your glasses to greet other students and teachers?

No.88391
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88391
I'm kinda surprised they were so quick to do a video game adapatation of Garth Ennis' "The Potter".

No.88394
i like that the game is set in south africa

No.88395
>>88394

do we need a Vuvuzela sound mod then?

No.88402
>Gears of Wars with wands

No.88403
>>88402
NUMBER 83! THE RON TRAAAAAAIN!!!!!

No.88411
  So yeah.

>>88361
>>88364
>>88379
What's the deal with the Crucio?

No.88413
>>88411
It's a spell that causes excruciating pain. I think you find out in The Goblet of Fire that Neville's parents had it cast on them until they went insane
Suffice to say, it's considered one of the Unforgivable Curses for a reason.

>>88372
I was debating getting that. Apparently the Lego games have a good track record, and the game features all of the good books (before the suck set in), so...

No.88419
>>88413

It's got a weird streak of humor that I think its target audience misses, intentionally.

No.88429
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88429
It doesn't seem feasible, but I wish there was a more creative way to use spells in this game. Like, turn their legs to jelly and make a nearby armoire come to life and attack them. Or, some system to quickly recall a happy memory to make a patronus. Or a story that involves clever puzzles and dialogue options to get what you want (information, an item) - but this is probably the least feasible of all since everyone in the world has read the books and knows all the answers.

Point is, making a Harry Potter FPS is taking the basest option available.

No.88432
>>88429

>Point is, making a Harry Potter FPS is taking the basest option available.

Good thing theyre not making an FPS then

No.88435
>>88429
It's been ages, but I'm fairly certain that both Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets on the PC were FPS. I don't know about after that though, since after that when I'd pick one up (something I did habitually until Order of the Pheonix) it would be on a console.

No.88436
>>88435 I think those were more platformers than anything else

No.88437
>>88436
Not really. Sorcerer's Stone maybe, since that used a dedicated jump button and the only way to fight was FLIPENDO FLIPENDO FLIPENDO, but Chamber of Secrets was about puzzles and fighting.

No.88438
They should just make it an RPG, except since there's only one class you can focus on really perfecting the mechanics of it. You make your own wizard, you become a student at Hogwarts, and instead of Deus Ex Machina-ing your way through seven books you have to work at it.

I can imagine your character standing over Voldemort's corpse with a bloody Beater's bat and all hopped up on Unicorn Blood.

No.88439
>>88438
That sounds like a Fallout 3 mod actually.

No.88443
>>88438

well there are the Jobs that you could use as specializations in the later years.

No.88447
>>88432
ah, you know I meant a shooter. Like everyone else already said, I see nothing in these trailers except PEW PEW.

One way to make Crucio unappealing is to, without informing the player, create an alternate ending/plotline wherea now-sadistic Harry goes mad with powerand takes control of the government for the greater good.

No.88450
>>88447
Ron argues with Harry that what he's doing is wrong, it turns violent, Ginny gets caught in the crossfire and dies. Ron vows revenge and becomes Magical Batman.

No.88472
>>88450
But... b-but it has to be the other way around, so that Ron can become WIZARD JOKER with a fetish for his brothers' style of magic joke shop trickery.

No.88475
>>88472
He's right. Anything that leads to Magical Batman could never be a real bad end.

No.88477
>>88472
>>88475
Hermione confirmed for Harvey Dent?
And Ron acts out The Killing Joke by shooting Luna Lovegood in the stomach and taking her father to an abandoned carnival near Hogsmeade

Holy crap, it's all falling into place... IT'S ALL FALLING INTO PLACE!

Although Neville would make a better Magical Batman than Harry because he actually has some trauma related to their "death," and reacts to seeing the Cruciatus Curse the same way Bruce does whenever anyone mentions Zorro, parents, or pearl necklaces.

No.88479
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88479
>>88477

No.88524
More like Magical Justice League. Or maybe Magical Batfamily. There's like a million Weasleys, after all.

>>88477
MY PARENTS ARE MAAAAAAAAAAAAD!

No.88534
>This thread.
I love you guys.

No.88557
Coming around full circle, the latest Harry Potter game sucks because Magical Batman doesn't like curses.

No.88562
Along the lines of the whole Crucio thing, apparently one of Harry's spells is Confringo.

It causes explosions.

It's how Peter Pettigrew blew up like 12 people.

No.88573
how does wizard society even exist instead of being an anarchistic deathrally 24/7

No.88574
>>88573
Any evil wizard is only allowed to mount a insurrection upon the current order every ten years or so depending on power base. Its all in the charter.

No.88575
Dementors look like 5 buck big lots tree ghosts

No.88579
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88579
>>88575

No.88590
>>88573
In all reality, it shouldn't. Rowling is a very creative individual (in that she stole the entire book series from The Books of Magic), but she can't build a world for shit. Every time she expanded on the wizarding world it made even less sense than before.

I think it was /sp/ that had an entire thread on Quidditch, using that as a basis to show how Harry Potter's world just wouldn't work.

No.88592
>>88590
more than the fact that from the start it was explained to be a blood sport. Heck I saw 3 and 4 to be the best at starting to explain the world and go more into that..well fuck that and then..nada



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