Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

It's honestly amazing how well this game sold considering how mid the gameplay actually is. Having a popular IP really helped.

I'm playing this game right now and it's honestly a six out of 10. The only reason to launch the game at all is because of the world design which is top notch. So top notch it scores all of those six points, because the plot characters story and gameplay are all a let down otherwise. This is the type of game that will disable the controls for your magical flying broom and then tell you that you need to climb a wall. I wish it wasn't so successful so they didn't think this formula was so good, because if they made the game actually good AND a Harry Potter property, that would have really been something special. But as it is now, it's just an uninspired video game painted in a pretty coat of a popular franchise. I'm sure we'll get a sequel.

I pirated the game. The first part in the actual school was really fun. But once you get out into the world, you quickly realise that it's just another generic open world game with outposts, collectibles, and general busywork that you've seen in every other open world game. It got boring very quickly for me and I never finished it.

It's multi-platform, uses one of the biggest IPs of an entire generation and seems to do it quite well too. Everything else would have been more surprising to me.

I wonder it's because it attracted a bunch of people who weren't into games, but are huge Harry Potter fans.

Zelda was more fun though

I guess all the twitter drama around the author matters less to the real world. It's impressive to see how a vocal minority can completely distort what is happening offline.

Hasnt Nintendo like, not released digital sales for TotK? I remember reading that recently.

Not a cope post, I don't care if you play the terf game, just actually curious.

Never got into Harry Potter since I was too old. This game was really fun to just explore and I constantly felt a forward momentum. Some of the stories were good, and some were awful.

I would absolutely play a sequel just based on the well done sense of discovery alone. I just wish more of what you found was impactful instead of cosmetic.

If you have nothing else to play and want a simple open world game set in and around Hogwarts, it's perfectly servicable as long as you pirate it. Don't expect to be blown away by it though.

Has anyone played both? Im loving zelda at the moment and wouldn't mind moving onto this next

If you are WB, I can't see how you compare the performance of this game vs the performance of Suicide Squad (which had similar development time) and not rethink your approach to future licensed titles

I pirated it and played for maybe two hours. It was boring and the controls didn't feel good. Uninstalled shortly after.

Nooooooooo!

I mean both were good games, but Zelda is just legendary status and on another level. It holds a special place for me, and they somehow nailed it out of the park yet again with TOTK. I don't know how they keep doing it! They have some geniuses over there.

Completed both 100% and they're such great fun games.

Hogwarts was awesome to walk through the wizardry world. Battling wizards, poachers, spiders, etc. Finding all the secrets and going through the story. Finished the game in a week, I just couldn't put the controller down.

Very curious. I played for about 10-15 hours and was just bored, but I’ve never been a huge potter head. Glad people like it though

I bought it and was hoping for more leveling up and more RPG elements but it wasn't.

poped in to say transrights! that'll be all

I thought it was a great game that captured the spirit of the books & movies so well. Thankfully all the mock outrage and virtue signaling didn't affect its sales and probably boosted them.

where do we find the stats for zelda?

Millions of people have bad taste. Shocker

The open world Zeldazes were over hyped but still, really? I haven't played it myself but watching others play, it didn't seem all that great.

Serious question. Who'd win, wizard trying to cast a spell or sovereign citizen with a gun?

Embarrassing.

Oh just now?… wow they had to work real hard to top a game that released on a single console.

I absolutely loved hogwarts legacy personally. Any other year it would have won more awards, just that Baldurs Gate and Alan Wake were even better. We really were spoiled in 2023

Culture wars sell games. If not for all of the noise surrounding JK Rowling, the right wing contingent of the internet probably would have passed it over as "a game for kids". If comment sections are any metric to go by, everyone that played it either thought it was completely mid or bought it to own the libs.

Oh no, but what about the boycott...

Hogwarts Legacy is a 7.5 of 10. It's a fun game. But it's not revolutionary or break new ground. I hadn't played Tears of the Kingdom.

The two things the boycott did is to make the trans community look bad and made people hate them. The final thing was to give the game free advertising.

Here's a video about the Harry Potter IP. Like who owns the rights to the games, books, plays, and so on.

EDIT

...boycott did is to make the trans community look bad and made people hate them.

I was talking about the harassment and doxing of people who played/streamed Hogwarts Legacy during the boycott.

The people who tried cancelling the game are the reason it sold so well and that is hilarious. Everyone was talking about it, any advertising is good advertising

PS I pirated my copy