How would they get that done? It's been brilliant imo. Elden Ring, while called Dark Souls 4 by some, had the magic of a Souls game in an open world. I was also more hyped for Cyberpunk 2077, which I couldn't grasp before playing, it had been a mystery of a game (I don't mind the enough times mentioned launch window technical issues in retrospective). So I'm more interested in a new game like Hogwarts Legacy. Haven't seen anything particular new in the trailers. GoW 2018 was neat, but yes, this Ragnarok looks like more of the same. While I guess I'm going to play it sooner or later, I'm not hyped about it at all. Reception in magazines by comments were rather hyped, only a few voices raised concerns and called it 'GoW DLC' or 'GoW 1.5'. That’s the only reason I see HL being delayed.

People say the game is nearly finished but Sony asked them to move the date so that it’s not released close to Ragnarok. So it’s possible that they might not release together which would suck. The only reason I see that they won’t release close to each other is that they hold a close relationship with PlayStation since they’re doing most of the marketing push. A couple of big outlets like IGN to do their thing and just ignore all of these websites like Kotaku and Fanbyte and possible Kinda Funny who are really not that big. All they need to do is get the vocal YouTubers to get the ball rolling. At the end of the day the people will play it if it’s good because it’s Harry Potter. A bunch of big “million subs” YouTubers I follow went through the state of play and had awesome things to say about it.

But then Alanah Pearce had a favorable reaction to it and even addressed the JK Rowling issue. My guess is that they were playing it safe and tried to measure the waters thinking that everyone would hate on it and it could possibly hurt their brand if they covered the state of play and said nice things about it. I love those guys but when it came to the State of Play they refused to watch it and went as far as hinting they would not cover the game. I’m starting to see a lot more videos and just general YouTube reactions that are favorable to the game.Īlso, the people that were “taking a stand” are starting to become quiet about it. Different director, people think it looks samey (and it does), it suffers from the sequel curse that it will never be as good as the first one, and the marketing for a PS5 SONY FIRST PARTY seems way off. The original stands at a 94 on metacritic. From the podcasts that I’ve heard, people are getting the feeling that it will score worse than the first one.

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