Poll of the Day > Hogwarts Legacy tv series on HBO? Possibly.

(+) Yeah! (+)

based on that other topic, half of potd will cancel their HBO subs and the other half will watch it

Not just watch it, they make up any nonsense excuse they can to justify why they absolutely need to watch it, and it would be wrong to not do that.

Apparently the game sold 12 million copies and made about $850 million since launch. In another week or two it'll eclipse the total earnings of the last two Fantastic Beasts movies. No idea if a TV show based on this game would be any good but clearly the market for Harry Potter stuff that isn't directionless soulless garbage is still huge.

Not just watch it, they make up any nonsense excuse they can to justify why they absolutely need to watch it, and it would be wrong to not do that.

I don't think it's so much that Legacy tells a story that's more appealing than other Harry Potter EU stuff so much as it is that the fandom has had a long-standing desire to play an open-world RPG set in the HP universe. The notion of dicking around freely with spells and brooms and quidditch is something that appeals to a lot of people, and Legacy is the first time that's really come to fruition. It's similar to why Pokemon Go was so explosively successful: People like the idea of going on their own adventure to catch Pokemon, and Go provided exactly that.

To that end, I don't know that a TV show has much potential to cash in on the game's success. A TV show would be simply a matter of telling another story from the universe's history, not unlike what Fantastic Beasts did. That's something that's going to have to succeed on its own merits, rather than being able to coast on a fundamental idea that people really like.

They could just do various shows using all the lore that was never part of the books.

based on that other topic, half of potd will cancel their HBO subs and the other half will watch it

The notion of dicking around freely with spells and brooms and quidditch is something that appeals to a lot of people, and Legacy is the first time that's really come to fruition.

I don't think it's so much that Legacy tells a story that's more appealing than other Harry Potter EU stuff so much as it is that the fandom has had a long-standing desire to play an open-world RPG set in the HP universe. The notion of dicking around freely with spells and brooms and quidditch is something that appeals to a lot of people, and Legacy is the first time that's really come to fruition. It's similar to why Pokemon Go was so explosively successful: People like the idea of going on their own adventure to catch Pokemon, and Go provided exactly that.

To that end, I don't know that a TV show has much potential to cash in on the game's success. A TV show would be simply a matter of telling another story from the universe's history, not unlike what Fantastic Beasts did. That's something that's going to have to succeed on its own merits, rather than being able to coast on a fundamental idea that people really like.

I view HP the same way I view SW at this point. Please god just let it die. No more.

I was burnt on the Harry Potter franchise back before JK Rowling started being an ass. The 7th book was garbage, along with every movie after the 2nd. The 7th movie was the last one I watched and I didn't want to watch the last one. I thought the entire franchise was a whole bunch of schlock by 2010, so I don't really care about any of the new games. The lore is a fucking mess along with every part of the extended universe. They're trying to expand a poorly written children's book.

I mean, I did say that I had no idea if the story itself was particularly special. More just that its clearly not a soulless slog like those aimless Fantastic Beasts movies were/are.

legacy doesn't have quidditch lol. i bet they're gonna add that as paid DLC in a year from now though

The overarching storyline in Fantastic Beasts is so convoluted and has become complete shlock. That series is pretty terrible, even though the actors themselves do a great job.

It's not helped by the fact that the appeal of the original movies isn't necessarily replicated. People who fell in love with a story about British kids in an English school archetype which is sort of an odd blend of modern time and the pre-technological past aren't necessarily going to be into a story set in the US in the 1920s and based around a bunch of adults and weird monsters.

Plus because of the nature of serial stories, once you lose the audience with your first or second story (or fail to capture them in the first place) you're unlikely to ever get them back with later movies, even if the later movies improve. So at a certain point you're just better off cutting bait.

There's probably an interesting story in there (and Youtube channels like the SuperCarlinBrothers certainly seem to get a ton of interest out of watching them and trying to figure out/speculate where the story is going), but if no one is all that interested in finding it, it doesn't really help.

Meanwhile, games like Hogwarts Legacy and stuff like the Wizarding World in Universal Studios are more closely replicating the feel of the original story while simultaneously giving the audience the chance to be part of the story, which is probably far more appealing to people who grew up loving Harry Potter (in the same way that people who grew up with Star Wars love the idea of stuff like Galaxy's Edge and Rise of the Resistance at Disney).

I sure as hell hope not

but how does Harry somehow stumble into a life-endangering scenario where he has to save the world every year in elementary school? This is supposed to be a safe place for kids?

how does Harry somehow stumble into a life-endangering scenario where he has to save the world every year in elementary school?

This is supposed to be a safe place for kids?

JK Rowling being transphobic really annoys me because now my hatred of HP is supposed to be political.

JK Rowling being transphobic really annoys me because now my hatred of HP is supposed to be political.

It never made any sense to me. Yeah, the theme was pretty cool, but how does Harry somehow stumble into a life-endangering scenario where he has to save the world every year in elementary school? This is supposed to be a safe place for kids?

i dont really like the idea, i think it would ruin the game

How would a series work if each season is a separate book? they would be excluding too much.

A series is much, much longer than a film, and they didn't seem to have trouble with those

How would a series work if each season is a separate book? they would be excluding too much.

What's up with the TC? Doesn't say banned or closed...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/community/agoat

They'd have a lot more wiggle room to make seasons of different lengths. You could probably do Philosopher's Stone in 4 episodes, easily.

Guess I'm transphobic for liking Harry Potter and agreeing with J.K., even though chronicly online people have taken what she said completely out of context. Good to know Hogwarts Lagacy sold well enough to get a series. Good going internet hate train, ya played yourself.

For being the leader of the trans people are predators movement, retweeting literal Nazis that agree with her, and all the "lgb" rights groups she shows up for?

I don't know what I'm supposed to be taking with context because she definitely explicitly detests trans people, even if one day she says out of nowhere "I have trans friends"

For being the leader of the trans people are predators movement, retweeting literal Nazis that agree with her, and all the "lgb" rights groups she shows up for?

I don't know what I'm supposed to be taking with context because she definitely explicitly detests trans people, even if one day she says out of nowhere "I have trans friends"