Current Events > Hogwarts Legacy got no GOTY nominations

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SocialistGamer
11/13/23 12:17:24 PM
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Hmm...

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mario2000
11/13/23 12:19:32 PM
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can't believe a mid af game didn't get nominated

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Will_VIIII
11/13/23 12:19:42 PM
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Should it have?

Controversy with the author aside I've heard it's a mediocre experience given the source material.

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gmanthebest
11/13/23 12:21:28 PM
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It wasn't that great of a game tbh. Was only talked about because of the controversy

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ai123
11/13/23 12:21:31 PM
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Was it expected to?

I've heard it was an OK game, but nothing special.

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Zwijn
11/13/23 12:22:49 PM
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Will_VIIII posted...
Should it have?

Controversy with the author aside I've heard it's a mediocre experience given the source material.
The source material is the only good thing. The moment you step out of Hogwarts you step into Ubisoftland. No idea how people arent tired of this formula yet.
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JuanCarlos1
11/13/23 12:23:10 PM
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Seems to have been an aggressively 8/10 game that was boosted by its brand.

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Dabrikishaw15
11/13/23 12:23:25 PM
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ai123 posted...
Was it expected to?

I've heard it was an OK game, but nothing special.
Everyone assumed it would based on branding alone. But I didn't see i once during the Golden Joystick show.

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CoyoteTheGreat
11/13/23 12:24:37 PM
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It seems like it was really, really good, by the standards of a licensed game. But the standards of a licensed game are very, very low.

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Dark_twisted
11/13/23 12:25:09 PM
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A mid-good game would've gotten a nomination in a lesser year. This was not a lesser year.

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ItsNotA2Mer
11/13/23 12:25:12 PM
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Game was fairly mid, I wasn't expecting to see it on a lot of 'best of' lists.

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Hayame_Zero
11/13/23 12:25:17 PM
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It was fine, and might have been a nomination if it wasn't in such a stacked year.

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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy
11/13/23 12:25:32 PM
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In the year of Bangers that is 2023, an 8/10 ain't gonna make the list.

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Revisited
11/13/23 12:31:13 PM
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So is it worth getting if I have nostalgia over the first 2 games?
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Mew
11/13/23 12:32:25 PM
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Why would it?

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Kaldrenthebold
11/13/23 12:32:30 PM
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If it didn't have HP fanservice it would legit just fade away as another boring open world game.

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Umbreon
11/13/23 12:33:08 PM
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Man, where are all the users who insisted this would be GoTY and that players boycotting the game only made it more popular?

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PiOverlord
11/13/23 12:33:34 PM
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If it released in 2016, it defo would have gotten nominations.

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The-Apostle
11/13/23 12:34:52 PM
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I thought it was a great game.

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Trelve
11/13/23 12:42:48 PM
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Of course it wouldn't. Imagine the backlash if it did. People would be calling Geoff a TERF.
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Trelve
11/13/23 12:52:17 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Or could it be to avoid controversy, they pretend it doesn't exist? The game reviewed well, sold even better. Something doesn't add up.
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Umbreon
11/13/23 12:54:36 PM
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Trelve posted...
Or could it be to avoid controversy, they pretend it doesn't exist? The game reviewed well, sold even better. Something doesn't add up.


Or could just be that other games were just better. Hogwarts had no endurance.

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littlebro07
11/13/23 1:00:49 PM
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It's a great game, but 2023 is full of excellent games so great isn't enough for a nomination.

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VerisimiIitude
11/13/23 1:02:31 PM
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Anyone who paid attention to what was being released this year knew it wasnt even going to be part of the conversation.

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Were_Wyrm
11/13/23 1:04:44 PM
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Came out too early.

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Alucard188
11/13/23 1:06:51 PM
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No Starfield either. Good to see actual good games in the consideration. Gonna be a toss up between TotK and BG3. I think BG3 takes it just because Zelda is Zelda, but BG3 came out of almost no where to be as good as it is.

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CyricZ
11/13/23 1:07:08 PM
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mario2000 posted...
can't believe a mid af game didn't get nominated


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lilORANG
11/13/23 1:08:24 PM
#29:


Still made a ton of money tho

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Crimsoness
11/13/23 1:09:21 PM
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lilORANG posted...
Still made a ton of money tho
Streisand effect basically

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A_Good_Boy
11/13/23 1:09:50 PM
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Trelve posted...
Or could it be to avoid controversy, they pretend it doesn't exist? The game reviewed well, sold even better. Something doesn't add up.
Why would several different platforms avoid nominating this game for goty to avoid controversy when they had no problem promoting it in the first place while still ensuring controversy? Idk man, maybe the game is just mid.

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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy
11/13/23 1:11:00 PM
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Hogwarts was an 8/10, basically every other game up there is a better reviewed game.

I don't understand why there is even a conversation about it.

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lilORANG
11/13/23 1:12:19 PM
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Crimsoness posted...
Streisand effect basically
More like enormously popular franchise finally giving fans a Hogwarts sim that they've been wanting for decades.

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I4NRulez
11/13/23 1:14:45 PM
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HL was a pretty good game. The combat was fun, the game looked great, and i really liked exploring Hogwarts.

But the story was kinda meh and outside of Hogwarts and the other little town the world felt kinda empty. I wouldn't call it mid but I wouldn't call it GOTY caliber either. There's really only 3 games i would consider GOTY though. BG3, TOTK, and Dead Space.

If it counted though i would give it to Phantom Liberty because that has been my favorite gaming experience of all 2023 so far next to Lethal Company.

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CSCA33
11/13/23 1:21:47 PM
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Looks like the game just wasn't "magical" enough

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Ratchetrockon
11/13/23 1:22:18 PM
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Popping balloons is like the best part of the game so I'm not surprised

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Umbreon
11/13/23 1:25:03 PM
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Crimsoness posted...
Streisand effect basically

You're hard capping if you think a HP open world game wasn't going to make Bank regardless.

Just turns out it didn't have the substance to hang with the kings of 2023. Or even the princes.

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bsp77
11/13/23 1:34:56 PM
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Trelve posted...
Or could it be to avoid controversy, they pretend it doesn't exist? The game reviewed well, sold even better. Something doesn't add up.
Read all of the comments in this thread. Most people aren't even talking about the controversy, they are talking about how it is a kind of standard game that is elevated by its license. The game is just an outdated open world RPG and doesn't add anything new, especially in a year as stacked as this one is.

And yes, I played and beat the game, as has my 17 year old daughter

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Turbam
11/13/23 1:35:23 PM
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Flopwarts Legacy

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MC_BatCommander
11/13/23 1:53:04 PM
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It's not surprising, general consensus of the game seemed like it just wasn't very good.

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dezeree
11/13/23 1:54:29 PM
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It had a banger soundtrack. Was hoping it'd at least get nominated for that.
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MegamanXfan21xx
11/13/23 2:01:56 PM
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Twitter would literally have a nuclear meltdown if it got nominated.

Also, having played it myself, it's fairly good, but not really GotY material.

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aarrgus
11/13/23 2:10:38 PM
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I mean... the game was extremely Avalanche Software. A licensed property that was competently made.

I'm not sure what it did better than other games like it.

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UnholyMudcrab
11/13/23 2:10:52 PM
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They screwed up by making it a generic open world game with a Hogwarts coat of paint instead of an actual Hogwarts simulator

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ellis123
11/13/23 2:12:21 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
They screwed up by making it a generic open world game with a Hogwarts coat of paint instead of an actual Hogwarts simulator
People have shown that they overwhelmingly are uninterested in anything that isn't high octane excitement. A Hogwarts simulator would fail pretty spectacularly financially.

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JuanCarlos1
11/13/23 2:13:49 PM
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Seems like it was disqualified over JK Rowling.

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Ratchetrockon
11/13/23 2:16:16 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
They screwed up by making it a generic open world game with a Hogwarts coat of paint instead of an actual Hogwarts simulator

Yeah I expected a sim with deep rpg mechanics.

It just ended up being a modern version of HP Chamber of Secrets (ps2 version) without quidditch.


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Enclave
11/13/23 2:17:20 PM
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It was a good game but it wasn't GOTY material.

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HHH_is_the_game
11/13/23 2:19:16 PM
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It was good for what it was, and one of the best harry potter games to come out, but it did feel like a Ubisoft game. It wasn't really a GOTY game over the ones that got nominated.

Still for a Harry Potter fan it would feel better because you get to explore the world and castle

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Spiritlittle
11/13/23 2:21:07 PM
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mario2000 posted...
can't believe a mid af game didn't get nominated
This.

The game was beyond average.

The big surprise was FF16 getting snubbed for GoTY for Spider-Man 2 instead.

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