Hogwarts Legacy NON-SPOILERCAST

[00:00:00] Strangers from different lands, friends of old, and friends of new, welcome to another episode of The Elder Trolls Gaming Podcast. If you are new and joining us in this journey, we are three brothers who get together and talk about gaming.

[00:00:47] And we may also talk about TV movies, comics, other cool, geeky stuff too. I am take it easy, John O. And I am joined by my two brothers. Nasty Nate, and Dan off the wise. And today, we will be discussing Hogwarts Legacy.

[00:01:14] Yes, that's right. That's right. Hogwarts is a game by Abelent Software and Warner Brothers games. And we are going to be talking about that later. But first, it's Friday night and we are having a good time here. We are going to record an episode here.

[00:01:33] I didn't bring a drink. I don't. Yeah, just the same as the water. I was just thinking about it. I actually don't own alcohol in my house right now. I have a box of, what is it? Vodka iced tea, a box, a bag and a box.

[00:01:48] Like box like alcohol. It's like a bag and a box, like a bladder. Right. Yeah. A bladder. Got a bunch of booze in your bladder. Just look a bladder. I don't have anything. I have some booze. I have some bomb-based sapphire. That's good sad.

[00:02:06] That maximum brought me for my birthday, actually. But do you mind that I play with? Maybe we'll take a break at some point and get a filler booze a little bit. Failure booze, man. It's fun. It's fun. Guys, I put some product in my beard. Can you tell?

[00:02:21] No. Getting ready. I put some wax. The moustache. The moustache. Oh, the moustache. Like an evil wizard. A daring, deaf and air. I'm so sore. I'm a ball hockey yesterday. Oh, ball hockey. Like a street hockey. Placed street hockey at like for a work thing.

[00:02:44] For work sports day. And I haven't done anything in like the last two months. I'm gonna have fucking slob. Yes, same. Just spin a hog. Like I don't ever run or play ball hockey. So when I do it's like, it's a fucking, it hurts.

[00:03:04] We were supposed to play ice hockey. But then it was like 10 degrees outside of the. Yeah. That ranks just knelted. So I was like, man, we were so excited because we've never had a work ice hockey. So me and Ben were like, oh, man, you know,

[00:03:19] finally we get to play some ice hockey against these nerds. And then it fell through. But we always played, we always played the ball hockey. But of course, like it's us to so high impact and hurts. Yeah. I can't do that shit.

[00:03:34] And I got my gut will just be like every time I take a big step. My gut will come up and slam down even more weight onto my knee. Like stretching your skin. Yes. No thanks. Well, and another thing is we thought it was indoors, okay?

[00:03:47] We thought the ball hockey, like they were supposed to be ice and ball hockey. And we get there thinking that it's indoors. Like I brought my like gym shoes, my shorts. Like, and it's fucking outside. So I'm reat hockey in the freezer. I'm here.

[00:04:03] I wore my jacket in my pants. And I just we were just running around. Like it was so dumb. I was like, man, there was nothing on the email or anything that said the ball hockey would be outside. Like we've everyone thought it would be inside.

[00:04:15] So no one was prepared. We wanted anyway. Went three and no. Not a big deal. I beat Ben's team in the blast. But like the balls were all fucking frozen and you're a little orange ball. Like, well, at least we were wearing your your big jacket.

[00:04:33] So that wouldn't sting if it got slapped into your arm or something. Well, like I'd slapped in the back of my friggin leg and it really hurt. And now I got a big purple welt.

[00:04:42] Oh, but yeah beat Ben's team and I won a delicious beaver tail for my efforts. Oh nice. For a American for American friends. What is a beaver tail? What is a beaver tail? I don't know. I don't know what it's called elsewhere.

[00:04:59] It's a deep fried dough with sugar sprinkled on top and then with multiple different toppings. So you can get like a like a cinnamon toast crunch kind of beaver tail deep fried dough. You got to my personal favorites. The new telep with banana.

[00:05:18] Oh yeah on it. Oh fuck it's so good. It's almost like a donut flat out into like a flat bread. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's like a flat bread donut. Yep. Yeah. It's so fucking good. Oh my god. I heard another news.

[00:05:34] I heard someone got an OLED television. You guys hear about this? Oh, what's up guys name? Oh, that's right. It was me. I got the OLED. I think the sheep shit. I did. Oh yeah, I did. That's my new tech toy. That's my tech toy.

[00:05:51] Oh, you got a tech toy. So why don't you say your piece right now then? Oh man. Those of you are debating it. No debate. There's no debate. Like every experience visually is just better having having it. And it's not something that you like

[00:06:12] Understand until you see it until you experience it. And I feel like that's enforcing like a shortcoming because not everybody is just going to like be able to Try an OLED TV and see what it looks like right?

[00:06:23] Unless they know people who have them and they go over in which case that's exactly what happened to me. Because I saw you guys your televisions. All I can say is that it's worth it because the black levels are just what make everything.

[00:06:36] If if like I couldn't give a shit about the 4K or whatever the resolution all that stuff, it's the black levels just the lighting everything that makes the lighting just pop and the colors pop. Oh, we have the contrast. The contrast contrast. Yeah.

[00:06:53] And the I've been preaching this for a while guys. I've been preaching. I've been preaching. Stuff I preach upon deaf ears. Heavenly father. Heavenly father. Heavenly father. I have pulled me get an old lead. Heavenly father has told you to get an OLED.

[00:07:11] And man, the other TV is fornication. Fornication.

[00:07:18] But yeah, it's just not something you understand until you see it like that each year gaming on an OLED like looking at cyberpunk on the OLED or you know why don't they like a best buy why don't they have just a little room. You only mean. That's room.

[00:07:36] Like a dark room with an OLED and a fucking PlayStation. They have that with movies though. Okay. Okay, not for like if you go into best buy the lights are beaming in you in your face everything is so distracting. You can't really see what the OLED can do.

[00:07:51] You know what I mean? Until you get it home, you put it into a little dark room, turn down the lights. But like, When I brought my home, oh man, it was so sweet. It's just like because the gray.

[00:08:04] The black is so black and you're not like looking at the gray. You know what I mean? Yeah. It just makes everything else stand out. Yeah. Yeah. That isn't black. So it's like it's perceptively brighter. Even though it might not actually be.

[00:08:23] If you measure compared to an LCD. But the range, this is when we talk about high dynamic range. It's a wider range because black is zero instead of you know raised to whatever 100 black is zero.

[00:08:39] Yeah, that's something I just got tired of over time because like when the screen goes black and you're in the black room you're watching them. It's actually black transition. Yeah. The screen goes dark. And it's like a charcoal like a charcoal and you're just like.

[00:08:55] Well, but now when I'm in my room and the lights are off and there's a transition into black it's like black can't see shit in here. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, I'm like, is there a TV in front of me? I don't know.

[00:09:07] I mean, I mean, it's you can't see the black bars the black bars at the top of the bottom are. No, yeah. It just looks like you're looking at a very wide screen that's like perfect, you know. Yeah. The black bars are the worst thing on a non-alented.

[00:09:23] It's true. And then they're always there. You just can't escape them. So if you don't have an OLED, you're just looking at these like charcoal, like black bars for lights or the bloom, the light like blooms out into them if it's if it's on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:39] No thanks. If anyone is debating. Just save your duckets. Save your shillings. Yeah. Save your shillings. And buy an eyewlad. Oh, God. I got the, for anyone interested. I got the LG B2, which was I think around 1500ish.

[00:10:02] But the, and the presets are awesome right out of the box. Like, I barely really needed to touch anything because I did some research based on a couple of different sources. And they each said you really don't have to touch too much.

[00:10:16] So a couple of changes that I were preferences of mine, but barely anything. And they just look sweet. Everything looks great in terms of HDR or 4K and all that. The SDR, you know, like watching the sensors, somebody doesn't matter.

[00:10:30] But when you're watching a movie or you're playing games, the presets like film maker mode and game optimizer and everything look really, really good. Hmm. But you got it on sale. It was, it wasn't 1500ish. I was like, I didn't know. I was like 13 or something.

[00:10:45] It wasn't that much of a city. It wasn't a city. It's a Canadian doll, whatever. Probably very cheap in American dollars. Anyway, should we, should we move on to a game time? Well, I was going to talk about nothing.

[00:10:58] It was going to be an add-on to your exercising. But never mind. We went to the, this is a gaming podcast. Can we don't talk about exercise? We don't do that. No, we, no, gamers still have exercise. I exercise a wild playing games.

[00:11:16] Maybe I should start a YouTube exercise channel, you know, with a nice tight shirt. Gah, Jane Fonda of the video. Someone might watch it. Someone might watch it. Might be some kind of fetish. Look at the, there's an ass for every seat.

[00:11:35] Or yeah, a B for every flower. That's nice for every seat. I've never heard of anything. I don't know. I don't know. All right, let's go. All right, so we're here in game time now. We're going to talk a little bit about what we're playing.

[00:11:58] But I think we know what we've been playing. Yeah. I mean, I have something else that I've been playing. But I am always playing it. But let me tell you about apex legends new season for those. We're not in the know. Very big update.

[00:12:17] Very big, very fresh feeling really fresh added a bunch of new stuff. Change some classes around, you know, they categorized the legends into different classes that do different things now. Some weapons got nerfed.

[00:12:31] We got a new weapon that is of course far too powerful and everyone is using it. It is a four burst energy assault rifle. Okay. And it sounds like a tie fighter. Oh, sweet. When it's like shooting, it's like,

[00:12:50] Yeah, it sounds exactly like sounds like the tie fighters weapons or a tie fighter itself. It sounds like the tie fighter engines, but like in the in the OK. I don't know.

[00:13:03] I started to explain, but that's what I think of whenever here and that's all you hear, and every match now. Oh, the way to do this is everyone's so confusing it.

[00:13:12] Do you guys know how they got that tie fighter sound for the way they flew? I think it was. I don't remember, I watch some a similar tie fighter. Install the system. Really? I watched them back behind the scenes stuff for their audio. I don't remember that one.

[00:13:29] If I remember correctly, they would they strung up a bunch of like thick wired cables. Oh, okay. Yeah. And then they would smack it with like, with a wrench or something and it would make like that. Well, well, well, and then they would queue it and shit.

[00:13:44] Yeah, I don't know where to. That's cool. Hmm. Well, they probably recorded the tape back in like 78 as well, 77. And they recorded, they recorded a straight to their hard drive to the cloud. Right to the hard drive to the cloud also hard drive. Yes.

[00:14:04] But they probably were able to slow down the tape. The playback has in shit too, which would like lower the pitch and stuff like that. I think just really cool anyway. Interesting. Well, as always, there are new game modes that will be now full time rotating through

[00:14:23] and not just for like two weeks and then they're gone until the next LTM, like they would have had like before they would have control for two weeks and then it's gone for two months. There will always be a playlist rotating now.

[00:14:36] Okay, between team death match, control and gun game, which is so cool because if you don't want to play the BRE, you just fire into a TDM for a few minutes if you want. Man, that's cool. They also have a new feature for brand new players.

[00:14:55] Just like Fortnite does they have bot lobbies. So actual bots, not like, not like you guys. In the game, you know, actual bots. Which has been missing because we have a bad smurf problem in apex like oh, God.

[00:15:11] Very bad smurf problem for new players like they start now and they're just getting rolled by these morons who, I don't know why they do it. They just create new accounts just to grief new players. No, they just want to feel good.

[00:15:25] They just want to get a soft dick losers. That's all it is. Great community play the soundboard right now. Well, not anymore because unless they like killing A. Yeah, fuck them. I know that's all. I've been playing that and then of course, Shaw Gorts legacy.

[00:15:48] So did I tell you guys about the VR arcade I went to for Almas birthday? Not really. Not in detail. You just said that's pictures I think. Yeah, so we went through the VR arcade that is actually down my street and it was freaking sweet. It was awesome.

[00:16:07] There was about eight of us. Yeah, eight of us and we rented two rooms that have a four player VR system each. And they're right beside each other. So like you, there's four there's a room and it's separated into four sections for each player.

[00:16:27] And then the room beside is separated by like a curtain. And then there's another four squares for the next four people. Yeah, we played a handful of games like four player games and then we played this big eight player game. And it was sick.

[00:16:40] It was everyone had a headset eight players. Yeah, man, you should see the PCs it's crazy. The PCs are mounted on the like the big pipe framing of these rooms. Like their big pipe framing kind of like a,

[00:16:54] It's got the concert you know those like concert pipe frames. It's got a whole scaffolding, whatever. They have these PCs that are like strapped to them and there's one for each one of those squares in the room. So there's four PCs for the four players.

[00:17:09] And then four more PCs for the other four players. It's insane. It's crazy and they all have like 3070 TI's pretty sick. And yeah, you hook up into them. We play this sweet Viking rhythm game called regular rock. Our OCK. Fuck it was so sick.

[00:17:31] I can't wait to play more of it. There's eight players. You hook up onto the same room and you stand on a boat like a big Viking boat. And you've got your long boat. Yeah, and you've got your Viking, I don't know, minions in front of you.

[00:17:46] Like rowing. And in front of you, you've got four big drums that you have to bang with the, with the hammers or you're perfect for you. With yeah, with your big Viking hammers, right? And then you'll go to your right.

[00:17:58] You see all the other players in their long boats. And you can like wave to them. And like they're all like ready to go. And then they start the music and the music is so sick. It's like Viking metal. Fucking awesome tunes.

[00:18:12] And you're just beating the drums to it. Oh, man. It's like that guy. Just like, okay, you're on a Mad Max Fury Road. One of those positions. Yeah, yeah. It is a pop-up. The guitar player on the freaking front of the truck. Yeah, yeah. So stupid, man.

[00:18:29] And then like, it's a race. So it's a boat race. So you hope you race beating the drums? Okay. And whoever messes up the most, it's like it slows you down when you mess up. Okay. And then there's sometimes where in the off beats,

[00:18:45] you can hit your war symbols and it'll like power you up and give you a speed boost. But you have to hit them in the off beats. Oh, it's really cool. So it's like, do it. But, yeah, it rushes you forward and I was skunking everybody.

[00:19:04] Like, just fucking skunk everybody. Do you play this before? No. I've just been playing drums for 20 fucking years. Like I have rhythm. It's called rhythm. And the album is one of the albums friends. He's actually pretty good at rhythm games.

[00:19:19] And he beat me once out of the 10 matches we did. And it was only because my controllers disconnected. Ah, huh. So I challenged him to a rematch. So we got to do the rematch. Your hammer's disconnected. Yeah, like I had one hammer. I was like what the fuck?

[00:19:36] And I was like trying to hit all the drums with the one hammer. But it was awesome. I'm hoping it comes out for PSVR 2. I tweeted them. I tweeted at them. I was like, is this coming out? Like we can't say anything right now. It's like, huh.

[00:19:51] So hopefully, hopefully it comes out for PSVR 2 because it is fucking sweet. I mean, right. Even if it wasn't coming out soon, they still couldn't say anything, right? So it's like, is I can't tell you that shit. Yeah, I guess not. Hmm. So well, that's cool.

[00:20:08] Not to be a Johnny Rain Cloud or anything. Let's go here, Johnny Rain Cloud. A damn damn good. What if you've been playing Johnny Clues? Me? I've been playing nothing but Hogwarts. Literally, non-stop. I bought a bunch of UHD movies like I told you guys.

[00:20:24] I haven't even watched any of them on the OLED yet. Just because I've been playing Hogwarts. And I have, I was going to say, my ass has heard for a while now. And I thought it was just because I was sitting on my ass

[00:20:37] playing video games like constantly all night. But I don't know. Maybe it was because of something I do as I was something I was doing at work. But wow, I was sitting down last night. And it was like, at its peak. I was like, this is so good.

[00:20:47] I'm going to do that. But you have, that's called gamer ass. That's my right. That's my right. That's six. Your cox six. You've got that right. For our cox. Cox. Cox six. I don't remember what it's called. Uncle. Uncle, what's his name from Napoleon says cox? Uncle Rico.

[00:21:09] Uncle Leo. Jerry. Hello. I am a Leo. All right. It was such a sleazeball. I love him. His like drawn on eyebrows. F**k. Oh yeah. All right. Let's go to the Twitter.

[00:21:31] We asked a question to the Twitter and I'm wondering, I don't think I've ever asked you this. But did you see that? The question? Yes. I didn't say. I asked our our faithful followers. When you listen to a podcast, do you listen to an old episode?

[00:21:55] Or maybe the first episode? Or do you just start off with something more recent if not the most recent? Right. And the answers were overwhelmingly towards most recent or recent episodes. Now I like to do one of each.

[00:22:11] I think I'll take an old one and then a new one. Just to see how they see progress exactly. I do that too. Makes sense. So you would agree. Would you agree with the doing one of each or would you sway one way or the other?

[00:22:26] Well, what I usually do is I'll go back. Like say like within within a year, I'll go back within the year and I'll choose one with a topic that I'm interested in and I'll listen to it. And then I'll listen to their latest.

[00:22:41] I also have that ring down. I would go back and see if something catches my eye or what. Cool. Thanks for anyone who who messages or who commented to give us your thoughts. That's cool. Nasty has some hog work. Tim bits you brought donuts for us.

[00:23:01] Tim bits are just gaming news. Don't not holes. Oh, give me news. All right. What is it? We're going into gaming news. So guys, the PSVR2 reviews are out and from the looks of it. Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic.

[00:23:28] Nine set of tens for the device like how for the device for the headset and the games that they were playing before launch. So there's like 30 games launching next week. So when this comes out, 30 games. It's going to be two days after this comes out. It looks great.

[00:23:48] I've been watching people play it and they said this the technology in it. The OLED screens inside. They say when it's black, it's looking black and old. Old. Old. When you're in there. It's black. So that's going to be sweet. I can't wait. I'm not there yet.

[00:24:06] I still got some shillings to put away for it. But it's like wearing an OLED on your face. On your face. Yeah. And what's cool is if Almas playing switch on the TV, I can just put the headset on and play in cinema mode.

[00:24:23] Did I already say this? On the other episodes? You did. No, I don't think he did. But yeah, it's going to be 1080p HDR in the headset in cinema mode that you can just put the headset on and play. How big was the screen look like in there?

[00:24:43] In cinema mode is it like hundreds of inches? Yeah, they say it's massive. That's cool. Yeah, I don't know. I can't wait to try it. It's going to be pretty sweet. And if we can't see it again. Yeah. We're going to come over. Ready player one world.

[00:25:03] Next Thursday night. Next Friday night. Okay. I just don't know what game I'm going to get. Well, you already have grandrismo. Oh, yeah, it's going to be so good. The grandrismo. The video I've been seeing. Oh my goodness. It's going to be sick.

[00:25:19] Oh, I might get the bundle with the horizon since it's supposed to be like the showcase. Like it's supposed to showcase all the features and all that kind of stuff. So probably get the bundle. But you had other in the first one. This has nothing.

[00:25:35] Well, it has something to do because it's in the same universe, but it's a completely different character in the sexist. Oh, okay. Yeah. But other than that, Hogwarts is smashing records guys. Ongwards legacy, smash and records. I'm not surprised.

[00:25:52] During release week, Hogwarts Legacy was the top selling physical game in the UK. Soundly beating other popular titles like Dead Space in God of War, right? Got War, right? Oh, like in its lifetime. It's release week. Okay. Man, don't quote me that.

[00:26:11] That's just the quote from twistedvoxel.com. Another one is on early access launch, Hogwarts Legacy broke records for the most streams of a single game with 1.28 million concurrence. I did see that. That I did see is fucking insane. Yeah. That's insane.

[00:26:31] Another one is Hogwarts Legacy sold 80% more copies in the UK than Elden Ring did in its first week. Nice. Yeah. Elden Ring is at a total of 17.5 million copies right now. I couldn't find any numbers for Hogwarts opening week,

[00:26:51] but I believe it will outsell Elden Ring by the end of 2023. Make my words Julian. Make it. Make my words Julian. But that's it. That's, it's crazy because people are buying it. The hype is that hype and the hype and Hogwarts fandom. That hype. That hype.

[00:27:16] Hi, Potter has powerful train. That is a train with everything. Everything, all, friggin engines going off the rails. Okay. That was it this hype to the sewer fall. To see this hype to this game. I don't think it was more hyped. Yeah, he thinks so.

[00:27:35] I mean, I didn't think so. But like all the pre-orders and everything. That's crazy. Remember it's not just the desire and the hype to play the game, but it's controversy, it's everything. It's all attention that is on the game.

[00:27:49] Bring it to somewhere another to everyone's eyes right into focus. So I think that still counts as hype. You know what I mean? There's hype around it. Everyone's all hyped up around it. There's always necessarily a positive thing. I guess it's just a hot topic, right? Trending.

[00:28:10] Yeah, it's trending. Trending. Well, should we get into it then? Fuck, yes, let's do it. Let's head over to today's topic. Today's topic is of course Hogwarts legacy. We all purchased Hogwarts legacy. I got a PS5 and the thing that got a PS5 Daniel,

[00:28:38] did you get it for Xbox? Xbox Series X. Xbox 360. Xbox. It is a PC. Looks like the old PS1 game. Oh wait, this is that Quidditch game. I bought that old Quidditch game. Oh man, I played that game. I don't know. That was fun. I didn't on PC.

[00:28:58] Me too. Yes, actually adventure game in the Harry Potter universe by Abelanch's software as we said before. We're going to be talking about the different categories of the game performance. We're going to go controls gameplay, visuals, sound and music and the story.

[00:29:14] And then we're going to get into some little things that maybe we didn't like about the game anything we did like about the game. We're going to mention in the app for mentioned topics. And we'll save the negative stuff to the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:29:29] But what negative stuff? Well, we'll see. So, where should we start? Should we start it off in the performance? Yes. What's everyone playing at that? Okay. Well, I don't know if the data, I wonder if all the options were the same as on the PS5.

[00:29:48] I believe they would the same. They should be. I believe so. The performance modes available to us were you have balanced fidelity, fidelity with rate tracing performance and high frame rate performance.

[00:30:05] Do we want to get into specifics of what each of these are or do we care about that? We just want to say what we each because we don't really know for certain what exactly the specs are right? It's not public.

[00:30:16] I don't know the exact like resolutions of each. Yeah, I mean, I think it's obvious pretty obvious. I couldn't fucking find it. They wouldn't tell me anywhere is very tracing either means just shadows or shadows or shadows. I think they're all targeting 4K.

[00:30:32] Like obviously they're targeting 4K with a dynamic resolution. It's just the balance. I did try balanced first of first I tried balance and I was like, this is pretty good. This is like I would get a guess it was about 45 frames per second probably.

[00:30:48] Ish it wasn't quite 60 but it was definitely more than 30. So you mean the high frame rate. No, you know, balanced balance. Yeah, so I said. So I did play on that for a bit and I was like this is decent. And then I was just food fiddling around.

[00:31:05] So I put fidelity with ray tracing on which I'm guessing is like 4K trying to get, you know, the max with the ray tracing but that's what I stayed on for the rest of the game. It was very good. A very good 30 frames per second.

[00:31:20] Absolutely playable even for me and I hate the 3FPS. That is saying something. Yeah, but I actually played the entire game 47 hours in a fidelity mode. Wow. Actually, I played about two hours with the high frame rate mode. Oh, right. Just to test it out. I did.

[00:31:44] Well, it was nice. It didn't look as good obviously. It doesn't hold a candle to the other mode in terms of fidelity. Yeah. I don't think it's really worth playing it in the high frame rate mode.

[00:31:57] It's a bit blurry and my TV, I don't know if it couldn't quite keep up with it. There was a little bit of ghosting when you moved the camera fast. That being said, like 120 FPS on console gaming. I just don't think it's really there yet.

[00:32:12] You know what I mean? Like my TV is one of the top of the line. HDMI 2.12 frame. Oh, that's like, if I can't do it in the response. Time isn't enough, you know what I mean? On that then what is really what's good enough.

[00:32:28] It's just not there yet, you know? Yeah. I agree. So like I wouldn't let that make make your mind up on any like TV buying decisions. Like don't even worry about 120 FPS on your console. 60 FPS at 4k. Yeah, good enough. Good enough. What do you guys play at?

[00:32:51] Well, my TV doesn't have the VRR, so I can't get... I'm not allowed to select balanced. Oh, really? Yeah. So I only get fidelity with ray tracing and performance. I get the three. I went to fidelity first because whenever you boot the game up,

[00:33:11] it asks you if you want to do fidelity or performance. For the first time when you start the first time. I always have the two options. Yes. And I selected fidelity and I was like usually really say fidelity. It's it means the ray tracing is on high five.

[00:33:32] High five. It's this high five. If you're freaking in for Dell. So I'm playing around on my home. I call this game looks so fucking good. It looks so good. And then later on, Daniel or Jonathan, How did you find out? Daniel was playing on...

[00:33:45] I think you didn't know. I was just checking my settings. Oh, shit. I'm not even on ray tracing. Oh, right. And then John the Royal. And then John the Royal. You're making fun of Daniel. I don't like wait a second. I'm fucking check. Like fuck.

[00:33:57] I wasn't even on my daily with ray tracing. Yeah. Losers. But yeah. Yeah. I played with fidelity with ray tracing at the 30FPS. And it was great. I had zero issues with how it handled in house. How smooth it was.

[00:34:16] I guess I kept the cap on the frame cap on. Yeah. The oh yeah, there is an option to take the first cap off. When I turned that shit off, it got so choppy and like... Oh yeah. It was just all over the place.

[00:34:29] And I was just weird. That's really weird. I wonder why that is. Like the discrepancy between the frames it would drop so hot. Like it would drop hard and then it would come back up. So it felt really very choppy. But you did. It did in some places.

[00:34:45] Good up to 60FPS for me in that. Oh yeah. Like I did notice that. And I'm like, oh wow. This can get up like really fast. Framework. And then it just like... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather just a nice stable ish. Yeah. For me. But yeah.

[00:35:03] That's what I played. Yeah. Frame cap on. It was good. Damn. But Daniel, I think you just played fidelity. I have the frame cap on. I didn't touch any of those settings. There's definitely, there's definitely some times where like, I think it's specifically the dark arts tower.

[00:35:25] There's this corridor with some statues and I know there's a lot of those. But it's where the string quartet is playing. Yeah. And that same building. There's a corridor with like when you go through it.

[00:35:38] There's lights shining on the opposite of the hallway from the windows right above the hallway. On to the floor and every time I go to that one little corridor, the frame rate definitely drops. I don't know to what number. I never noticed any. Because you're playing on Xbox.

[00:35:56] Oh, is the Xbox Series X? In fear. Is it in fear or illusion? Because I never think so. I just noticed notice any frame drop at all. It playing in the capped. I don't sure I have it on because I didn't touch it and it starts on,

[00:36:14] I think frame cap. Although let me just claim though. It drops briefly like the game has to catch up with the graphics. Then it like picks back up. I don't I don't need to say that the frame rate drops like the entire time you're in that dark arts.

[00:36:28] Area. I just mean like when I go into that hallway, it gets choppy and then it picks back up. So it like you know what I mean? Interesting. Yeah. Okay. The loading times are pretty good too. I noticed. Really good. Oh, when you're faster, I've been like.

[00:36:45] I never was like waiting a long time for anything. Or when you're in your room of this physical room of discovery requirement. When you're going in between the B-strums, I love how they did that at that school. Like a zero loading. Like a second.

[00:37:01] And it just like puts you back into the other room. Oh, it's great. Did you guys even, oh, I guess you tried it. Daniel did you try it on performance at all or just kept it now? I haven't really wanted to because I always struggle with that.

[00:37:13] Like if I train, I don't like going back for it and trying it out and then part of me wants to play performance. And then the other part of me wants. Yeah. Yeah. So like the third. Yeah. I didn't go on performance. Yeah.

[00:37:26] I didn't go into the performance mode at all. The 30 FPS is all you need to enjoy this game. It is sensational. Whatever they did to make this game look this good and play this nicely at 30 FPS. Great job. Yeah, it's true. True. Yes. It's true. It's true.

[00:37:44] It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. It's true. I didn't really have any issues other than the obvious. This is probably the elephant in the room playing on a controller.

[00:38:07] It's probably not like this on PC if you're playing keyboard and mouse. The spells, the amount of spells that there are. Oh, it is. I don't think you get any more slots on PC than you do on really. You can't just press like one to nine or something.

[00:38:21] No. I don't think so. Oh, no. I probably can keep on them. I guarantee you can keep on them. Maybe not guarantee.

[00:38:30] But I saw some, I was looking at PC screenshots and I just had the same amount of spells just in a line instead of a diamond really. Okay. Well, I'm saying because there are so many spells you only have four buttons on your controller.

[00:38:45] What you have to do is you have to hold left trigger and press it. You have to do it with a D pad button. Yeah, one for each page. So you get four different pages for your spells and then cast the spell with right

[00:39:01] of your face button with right trigger in the face button that you want. Now this is kind of a pain and it gets a bit slow because if you're comboing spells, you want to switch between your pages.

[00:39:13] You literally have to stop and then do it because you have to take your thumb off unless you're using claw. Unless you're using claw, we talk about claw. You could claw, you could claw grip it and and keep your thumb on the joystick.

[00:39:26] But if you're not doing that, or literally a sitting duck, you'll just stop and you have to switch your pages while people fucking shoot at you and yeah, it leaves you wide open. So that's not amazing. I use my paddles on the back to dodge. Yes.

[00:39:44] I was going to say that. So I'm dodging while my spells are recharging. Just keep fucking dodging and then whip them around. But I'm talking about actually like switching pages in the middle of a fight is not great.

[00:39:57] Yeah, I usually just roll out of the way and like while I'm rolling, I'll do it. You know, so that at least if my character's moving or all gains and distance from the enemies, then I'll just take a second and do it and I'll swap it.

[00:40:13] You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I would always like think about the next thing that I want to do and I was able to switch it really quick

[00:40:20] and kind of get the thing off, but you have to think about it ahead of time if you want to do that.

[00:40:25] Like you can switch, cast a spell and then switch back, but it's something it's not something you're going to do as a reaction to something, you know, you have to like you have to free, free conceivit. Well, I have to do.

[00:40:39] You have like your combo right? You have your combo or you should have your full combo in the diamond. Yeah, but it doesn't always work that like because like what if you have a, we can talk about this in gameplay, we can switch it into gameplay.

[00:40:53] But when you have the enemies with a different color bubbles that you need to break and you don't have that color spell on your page. You have a switch page. Like it's not always feasible. That was my biggest, I think my biggest issue.

[00:41:08] What about like the, did you guys notice that whatever you cast a different kind of spell your PS5 controller lights up a different color? Is it notice that? I wouldn't notice that. No, you wouldn't because Xbox is trash. Haha. It's funny.

[00:41:24] I remember always being the Sony proponent and you guys are always like, oh, it focuses obviously the better fuck the console. Don't mess. I don't know. Now or the tables have turned. I mean, I still love both. I'm just fucking around.

[00:41:37] But and like that, let's get into the, the epic feedback with the buttons. Yeah, because very nice because on the PS5 controller, you can just tap a little bit on the right and do your main spell fling right your main, just your auto, your fire.

[00:41:55] Then you press it down to engage the other one. But what's nice about the PS5 is it has that shell for right you can click it just a little bit and keep firing really nicely.

[00:42:05] You don't have to keep pressing the whole button down to fire and I love that. I just keep flicking, flicking the R2. Flicking your bean. Flicking your bean. Like your little bean. Just flick it and then you press it down.

[00:42:18] I didn't notice the shoulder buttons or the epic feedback for different spells. I don't know. Did you guys notice that? I don't know if they are trying to go for that. But like, no, it was just one. I was going to ask you how to one feed back.

[00:42:33] Yeah, just a little bit of resistance. A little bit of resistance. A little bit of resistance. It would have been really cool is if you're getting into like a one battle where your wand, your spells are like smashing or in contata. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:42:48] That your shoulder button would like really go crazy and really be hard electric you. That would be sick. That would be so sick. Yeah. It was like, ah. You died. And now I'm dead down. But I was going to go. Like I've got a lot for controls here.

[00:43:06] Should I just keep going? How about the battery life for your controller and this one? Because it was spew and outsounds on my controller. Like my batteries last. Yeah. Steer shit. Yeah. Same actually. I did notice that. I didn't write that down but I did actually notice that.

[00:43:21] Yeah. It was brutal. Like Alma would play for her session. And she's like, can you go and the fucking controllers did? So we always have to have one swapping. But I don't like playing the game too much with my pro controller quote unquote.

[00:43:37] I don't really like it because the shoulder buttons are shallow. The short they don't go deep like the like the stock PS5 controller. So I wanted to play with my stock PS5 controller but it was always at a fucking battery.

[00:43:51] So the battery life was brutal in this game. I don't know if it was because the lights were changing every time you're fling a spell at the same time. The vibrations, the double it's the depth of triggers probably and it had to feed back everything.

[00:44:04] But those colors that's part of the experience. So I didn't want to turn them off. You know, just fucking plug it in. Actually, you know, I had two controllers on the go anyway. You know, I got that nice controller that I won from the gaming duo podcast.

[00:44:19] The regular rock got to work control. It's had that gone with my custom fully modded controller. Now you need to Hogwarts controller. We're like gamers are like when the new game comes out, gamers are like Andy and Toy Story is fucking room changes.

[00:44:32] But like all the shit that like it's trending and all. Like we go from what he, you go from what he to like buzz light ear and your bed sheets change. Let's talk about the story. We'll set it up a little bit.

[00:44:44] We will not get in the spoilers here because this is a non-spoil request. And then we'll go into some gameplay. So the story is, We'll set it up. We'll set up a basic premise here.

[00:44:59] You're a fifth year starting in Hogwarts for the first time in your fifth year for an unknown reason. It's quite adventure. And it starts it off on your way to Hogwarts. You meet your professor that will be a huge part of the game throughout the story. Professor. Figure.

[00:45:18] Figure. Professor. Figure. Yeah something crazy happens on your way to Hogwarts and it kind of sends you on this journey. Now, you don't know why you're starting up if you're whatever it is what it is. You get to go in.

[00:45:34] You get to do the sorting hat ceremony and all that which is very cool. You can either answer the questions that it asks you and take what you get or you can just choose whatever the hell you want. I was sorted into Ravenclaw.

[00:45:50] And I accepted, I accepted my charge. I accepted my charge into the house of Ravenclaw. Daniel, where were you? Same. I was also placed in Ravenclaw. I did their little, I did their little sorting hat survey thing in game. I didn't do the whole app thing.

[00:46:09] I thought about linking my counts and doing the survey. I couldn't stand the notion of fiddling with my fucking phone and shit on mobile while I'm trying to start the game. No, no.

[00:46:19] So I was sitting in, I was playing a game and I did the little sorting hat thing. And I think they ask a couple questions and actually he tried to place me in Griffendor first. And I was like, I don't like that. So you did choose Ravenclaw.

[00:46:37] I chose it because the sorting, as is canon, the sorting hat takes your choice into account. Oh, true. So I was like, I'm okay with being like, no, I want to be placed in Ravenclaw. Harry didn't, not actually didn't request Griffendor, but he just said not slithering.

[00:46:53] Yes, true. So I was okay having chosen manually Ravenclaw. Because that's really well. I thought that created creativity and wit. That's me curiosity, that's Ravenclaw. I'm Ravenclaw. So I was like, I don't know. You are a Rwina Ravenclaw. Yeah, I started.

[00:47:14] I booted up the game and then to get my pre-order deluxe shit, I thought I had to link the account. So I went through this whole fucking thing with my account linking in the app. And the questionnaire through the app was way more.

[00:47:31] It was like, there was like 10 questions. 15 questions or something? It was crazy. And they brought it through and you got to create your patronus, your wand. What? I didn't get to do that. All that's. And the app. But in the app, I got placed in slithering.

[00:47:49] See my slithering colors. Right. So I went through the big questionnaire and got placed in slithering. And then I was like, what the hell are you doing? I'm like, oh, I don't know. I just should on my phone. She's like, you don't have to do that.

[00:48:00] Just go into the game. So then I went into the game. Did the questionnaire and landed again in slithering? So I'm just a slithering kind of. I mean, it's probably pretty easy to land in slither and he asked fucking sorting question. Ask you two questions.

[00:48:14] Just answer the most evil shit and like your inslithering. Yeah, but I wasn't trying to get into slithering. I was answering how I was to answer in real life. No, no man. I just told you, and I did it through the app. And it put me in slithering.

[00:48:29] All right. All right. We're talking about the story here. Okay. Yeah. Now. So the, while it has its holes, I thought it was pretty engaging. I mean, some of the side stuff that the tie in, there's a few like side quests with

[00:48:49] like the unforgivable curses that are kind of tied in kind of. Yeah. Sometimes still share a main quest yet. It was cool. It was cool. I mean, they never actually explain why you're in your fifth year and just starting how

[00:49:02] Gorts, but I mean, just go with it. You just go with it. And yeah, I don't want to give too much away, but there is a special ability that you have That is kind of what the main story is.

[00:49:15] Yeah, based on there's a lot of mysteries surrounding that. And I've got questions because I'm not even that far like I feel like I'm playing for a while and the main quest. Oh, yeah.

[00:49:27] And it takes its time, which is actually nice because you're not like, you know, rushed through everything. So I still have questions very mysterious so far. So I dig it. Yeah. I'm about. From my. Thirty two hours in, I think. I am. But you finish half that.

[00:49:47] I finished the main quest yet. Yeah. I haven't rolled the credits yet. No, there's no credits after the main story. True. Correct. No, this is boiler. Is that spoil? No. You just aren't done the game yet. Yeah. Yeah. There's like the main quest.

[00:50:06] But if I had to say, I think the story out of all of our other categories that we're going to go through the stories, though I liked it a lot, is probably the weakest. And how they all finish everything else.

[00:50:24] But it did pull my heartstrings a bit a few times. The goblin and taginists didn't really do it for me. I think he was okay, but I think a lot of his supporting cast, like the voice acting and all that kind of stuff was fantastic.

[00:50:41] He was really good. Yeah. good. Yeah, okay. Well, let's move on into the gameplay then. The gameplay, you know, there's just a formula here, guys. There's a formula here. When you talk about the combat

[00:50:59] system, you look at the collection system, you know, you get, yeah, get a collector or things. Anyway, I'll talk about the combat system. It's similar to other games with great combat systems. Like I said, there's a formula. Spider-Man PS4, PS5. God of war. Lord the rings,

[00:51:17] shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War. They all use the same formula. You dodge around hack and slash or beat them up or spellcasting in this case. It's similar in control and function.

[00:51:30] You get a counter attack, a timed counter attack button. The same in across all those games. And then you combo moves with others, depending on your talent tree. I mean, they're very similar.

[00:51:44] That's it's the formula for a good combat system and they all use it. That's the first thing I noticed when I played the Spider-Man game. I was at the Spider-Man game or the Shadow of War

[00:51:56] Shadow of Mordor. I think the Blade Shadow first. Yeah, I played first. Oh yeah, I played Shadow first. So when I played Spider-Man, I was like this is almost exactly like the combat in Shadow of

[00:52:06] War, Shadow of Mordor. It's it's amazing. It's perfect. And then the same thing in God of War. I'm like this is the same as those games. It's just the dodge, the timed counter.

[00:52:19] It's awesome. That's what a good combat system is and there's a reason why they just keep using it. It's just it works. It's the same. So fucking good. So the formula. I just want to say,

[00:52:30] I don't think I've had this much fun in an open-world game since like Skyrim. I think they did such a superb job in this game. I've played Elden Ring and I got to say

[00:52:43] I enjoyed this game a lot more. A lot more. I put 90 hours in Elden Ring. I definitely got Skyrim vibes from it for sure. Oh man, 100% I don't know if it's the world.

[00:52:58] Maybe I'm a huge of a bigger Potter fan like I'm a Potter fan. So jumping into this world made it that much more engaging. But just like the map and like looking at the map,

[00:53:08] it's almost like Skyrim. You know what I mean? Yeah, all the the POIs and the things you're seeing on the map. Oh, what's over there? I go check that out. Yeah, and it's not frustrating. You know,

[00:53:18] the game plays up frustrating. You're not smashing your head against the wall. It's not super hard or anything like that. You just have to take like maybe maybe like a handful of times I had to think for more than two seconds on a puzzle.

[00:53:33] Both on like normal difficulty hard. I'm on normal. Just the default. Like nothing had me stuck and nothing wanted me to put disc controller down. And you have your all your familiar spells from the books and movies they're all there.

[00:53:50] You know, very nostalgic and fun to use those. You get to use those even the unforgivable curses. Battling never got old for me. Like I kept looking for fights. Yeah, fucking curge. You know? I can curse you. Cruccio. Cruccio.

[00:54:08] Do everybody and then. I'm a kill them all. That's sweet. So good. The talent tree too. If you talk about that, you'd have to spec into that for that to happen. But the talent tree is simple. Nothing overcomplicated. Which is nice for a change. True. Actually,

[00:54:27] there's no overwhelming. It's just a few things in what is it like four different five different categories. You unlock any unlock one thing. It's not like multiple. I don't think yet because

[00:54:40] one through that one. One, I would like. It's like one. Yeah. You don't put multiple into one and then you have to do it. You know, do any math or calculating? I really like it easy. I noticed that I'd

[00:54:50] always have around two or three unspent talents for some reason. And I'd keep them because I was scared. I didn't want to put them in because in this game, once they're spent, they're spent.

[00:55:02] You can't reset them. So I always had like two unspent talents just in case not you know. I was like, I was like, hey, hey, I just was lying right away. Right now. Oh, it's kind of why.

[00:55:15] Anyway, you can definitely run. You can spec into two. Yeah, they're easy to read through. If you can make your decision pretty quickly, I feel like. Yeah, but you can spec and and some of them

[00:55:25] don't have very many in them. So if you want to just throw like stealth only has four four talent points in it, if you want to go stealth, it only costs four to max out the stealth

[00:55:34] tree, four levels. Yeah, um, you can go with plants. You know, if you want to be some weirdo, her ballad just and chuck and cabbages at people or whatever the hell they do, yeah, you could do that.

[00:55:44] You want to be a never long bottom? Yeah, if you're on a never long do-ball as it is in French, that means long in the bottom literal translation. Wow. He's long in the bottom.

[00:56:00] But yeah, he can tall but you can spec into potions and drinking potions and doing that kind of thing. The dark arts, um, you know, make your choice. It's really cool. I did find that not spending

[00:56:14] talents saved to be one time because I wanted to get through this like castle and there was so many bad guys as we're going. And I was like maybe I should put something in stealth, right? Like

[00:56:29] so then I went into the talent tree and I was like, oh, I have it unspent talent point. And I go into the stealth point, the stealth tree and I see it says run or sprint while stealth.

[00:56:42] I was like, oh, I was like, click. So you're saying that not spending talents saved you by spending talents.

[00:56:53] Yeah, because I got to a point in the game when he had it, he had them available to him at a certain point in the game when he needed to like

[00:57:01] on ability when he needed to unlock and ability. But it has put them in there. I wouldn't have known to put them in there because if I

[00:57:08] spelt if I spent them all and I got to that point. And I was like, I could really use a stealth talent. You'd read them before.

[00:57:14] Yes, I did. But as I said, you have no talent. Okay. I didn't max out. I think I had three at a forward stealth or something like that.

[00:57:24] Well, I just have the one just the run while it's stealth. It's all you need because it's so fucking slow if you're not. If you don't. Yeah, I definitely had that one. That's for sure. What did you speck into? Did I know?

[00:57:34] I'm not putting anything in stealth or don't. I'm doing all, I didn't put anything in room requirement. I'm doing spells, dark arts and core because you can, you can max those out. Those three cores based on how many what the level cap is.

[00:57:49] Whatever, you can max out the first. Some of them, some of those. I don't need that. I don't need that. So I did skip as did skip some of them. And I put them else. Yeah, like it's very it's first tall. You can do what you want.

[00:58:03] Yeah, that's true. But I'm not going to bother. I don't think with the room requirement or the because I'm not a huge potions guy. You know, I make what I need and I use it. But definitely I'm speccing mostly into the spell based trees.

[00:58:20] Because I love the combat and I am a big lately, especially for sign playing a game. I'm a big proponent for just combat builds and just being able to be capable in the game and get through it. And, you know,

[00:58:33] not having any issues in combat, shit like that. So I always like going damage first. I used to do a lot of stealth stuff first. You should go. I want to be stealthy whatever.

[00:58:43] Now this time it's all spells. Maybe I tend to go stealth to sometimes. That's for the combat. It's stealth. There's a I find while playing this game, there's a notion of being creative in combat

[00:58:57] and using spells like accio and depulse, and levioso to manipulate your enemies and like execute. Yeah, creative combat plays to defeat them low. So So So you're thinking like when you're fighting, when you're battling, do I want to pull my enemy

[00:59:24] toward me just to push them away? Because I can do that. Because I can. So why not? Because it's fun to play with your prey type thing, right? Or do I want to pull them toward me and then use incendiot

[00:59:34] while they're immobilized in the air and set them on fire or do I want to use the tried and true ranged attacks like expelia armiston can free go because they're just easy and they are dependable.

[00:59:44] But sometimes you have to use different ones because how are you both? Right? Because of the enemies have shields, colored shields. You can just throw something at them. Yes, you can do that too. There's a lot of environmental stuff you can use, which actually

[00:59:58] does a lot of damage if you guys are just like the same as spider-man. Same. This is, oh yeah. Love that. I love press R1 to chuck a fucking, you know, like a man.

[01:00:09] Oh, cover. Yeah. It's the same thing. But I like these kind of moves and the shield is a cool thing. So enemies have the shields with different colors that correspond to the colors of the

[01:00:19] spells in your palette to break them, et cetera. But I love these kinds of options in combat. Do I want to use the less lethal shit? Do I want to use like a glacier or whatever to freeze

[01:00:31] them and mobilize them so I can go focus on this powerful enemy here or whatever. Right? They force you to pull, they force players to think quickly, you know, while engaging, which is a challenge that I love because you don't want it to get too stale and boring,

[01:00:44] you know, it feels, it feels great. I took a few cap captures of like a sick fucking like spell combo or like fight that I just wrecked a whole camp, a guy's like, yeah,

[01:00:56] bowl, am I getting what else? Anyone else? Anyone else here? What up? What up? What up? My my practicing with with Elden Ring and Demon souls. I was just fucking rolling around and I got the

[01:01:07] talent where if you dodge, then you get more spell, uh, you get more ancient magic. Yeah. Oh man, I was dodging like a motherfucker like, no, no, the whole, the whole, the dog button to like teleport.

[01:01:19] Oh, yeah. Yeah. I never used. I never used potato. Not fucking. One of it. What? Really? Once I was dodging all the time. Just dog, how did you not use potato if you're in the dark arts? It literally, when you use potato and um,

[01:01:35] stupify it curses them. How could you like your mother skilled into if you're spak it into dark arts? I believe that's what happens. Like you can put a curse on someone just

[01:01:44] like that, just by doing that. That's, I just dodge. She obviously don't know how to play the game. So, um, I'm like, good. Let's just because I don't play like you. Uh, what about the, uh, Matt? Let's talk about let's talk about

[01:02:02] you obviously have your main quest. There are I think 14 main quests. That's it. I think that's not said more than that. According to the challenge book, there's only 14 main quests. It seems longer but maybe that's because you do side stuff. Yeah. You have no. If

[01:02:19] to do side stuff in order to unlock the next one, I think that's why you have to do other things to unlock the next main quest. So that's how it kind of works. Um, the quest will have

[01:02:29] you flying all over the greater Hogwarts area, the GHA. You get to go to Hogsmeat, you get to see Hogsmeat just like in the movies. You get to be there and walk around and

[01:02:44] get to explore the map traversal. You have choices. You can, you can just fly your broom. You get to have a flying mount. You can get a Thess Stroller, Griffin, or, or you eventually get a ground mount, um, the flier, or just stomped around on the ground.

[01:03:02] Just getting around is really easy because and the fast travel is so easy. The fast travel in this game is probably one of the best, yeah, I've ever used in, in a game. You literally click

[01:03:14] on the way point and you go there and they're all over the place. So you don't have to go somewhere first. No, you don't. You don't have to go anywhere. Like in the Witcher, you have to go to the

[01:03:24] sign. You do good signposts. Yeah. It's the same in the library CD project, Red Thing. Yeah, it's not like that. You literally pop up your map. I want to go there. Boom. You're gone, your way and the

[01:03:33] loading times were fast. So that's, I loved it. I love that. It was really good. And it, and it also helped that like just jump it on your broom and flying is like so good. And whatever you fast travel

[01:03:46] and you're just fucking right. And it jumped on my broom and I'm going to fly to the quest. Like it's done so well. So well. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, but that lets you explore when you hop on your

[01:03:56] broom, you're like, oh, what's this that I see? Yeah. And you just fly in another direction from where you thought you were going to go and you're like, oh, I'm going to go explore this. What's this?

[01:04:09] I found a, I don't know, a bandit camp or whatever and you want to just go get your, your collection chest from that camp. That's where I got a lot of Skyrim vibes from it. You just like passing through

[01:04:23] and you find something. Yeah, and then a case stumble upon shit. Yeah, you just stumble upon like a cave or exactly a band camp or whatever. Right. But yeah, but hugs me and this rounding map is

[01:04:36] awesome. There's lots to explore. There's lots of little things to do on the map if that's your thing. Were you a fan of the beast collection and caretaking and glad you brought that up? I thought

[01:04:47] the beast catching was going to be some weird like afterthought kind of thing, but it's so fun. I love catching the beasts actually haven't done any yet because I think I just I just got to the

[01:04:59] quest where I have to attend beast. Beast reality. Okay. But it's like it's like they inserted this cozy game exactly what I was going to say in Hogwarts legacy and it's so fun. Good. So good because

[01:05:16] in your room of requirement, you get these beast areas to take care of them right? Like they're own little farmlands and in these little areas you can build like a your own little village like

[01:05:25] I'm you should see my village I have in my beast camp. It's so soft. Yeah, you can plot you can hide. You find designs around the world. Yeah, you're collecting so your collection. So I've

[01:05:38] ploped like three different kinds of houses in this beast. I've wrote I put down a cobblestone street I've got my beasts and their pens. I've got pumpkin patches everywhere. Oh man it's so

[01:05:50] fucking good. I didn't do any of that. I didn't actually know you could do that. I just I know you could like place things in there, but I was like a fuck it here. Go animals. You get a feeding it's so

[01:05:59] awful. That's it. No no no no no no no. I'm not spending my time in there. I'm not putting my animals. Oh man you put your... There's a text forever to freaking feed them and brush

[01:06:08] them all to get their stuff and like come on I bathe them and I crimp them myself. And I stand by my performance. Now I didn't actually know about that but that's pretty cool. Yeah it is really cool

[01:06:20] and you I put my cabin like my house right beside the stream I put a couple of trees beside it little bench in front of my house so I can watch this. Oh man. I here you go a little co as a game

[01:06:31] within Hogwarts. Look at it. It's so cool. But did you see that you can also get like shiny beasts? There's a little shiny. Yeah like a shiny Pokemon. Oh it's a different color and

[01:06:45] there's a little shiny. Oh okay. See? Oh man so fucking good. If you breed them with the different color do they pop out different colors? I don't know. Because you could breed your beasts

[01:06:57] as well. You can breed them and that'd be safer collecting like materials that you need for upgrading your gear. For upgrading your. Yep that's cool. Yeah we'll see I mean I haven't haven't got to that point yet but it's funny because there's so many with like these new

[01:07:12] sweet games that come out we say this is a non-spoiler cast but it's almost like where do we draw the line with spoilers like not telling like telling people about experiences in the game

[01:07:23] because they're so fun do we want to in any mean? I think spoilers. I had a more like story like yeah yeah yeah I know I'm just saying because these because there's cool features and shit

[01:07:32] in people might or not you know anyway. We're not spoiling the story here. No of course not. I wanted to ask you guys would you agree I had this written down this is just in gameplay in general

[01:07:45] the feel of this game if I can summarize it. I got like fabled two and three vibes meets a assassin's creed with like Bethesda dialogue options and bioware care. I didn't play any

[01:08:03] him games. I was gonna say I didn't play I played fabled one so you guys have played Assassin's Creed oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's a great one kind of play spell. That's a great idea. I can see

[01:08:14] that's a great Belle Hullo that is all. Bethesda dialogue options and your character speaks like in bioware games with dialogue options obviously Assassin's Creed your character speeds but there's

[01:08:26] not a lot of dialogue options as far as I remember those are the vibes that I got man I was trying to tell him my buddy if I could summarize it like that would it that's what it would be like

[01:08:35] because they he played all of those when he was wondering if he should pick it up. Oh yeah there you go. Shall we move on? Yeah let's move on the visuals. Visuals. Pretty it yes yes oh my fucking god

[01:08:51] beach what a beautiful game. Beautiful yes okay it's beautiful. The melody was ray tracing. The lighting is very realistic now the ray tracing I believe is only reflections. I don't know what I've seen walking around Hogwarts though Hogwarts. Hogwarts it's gorgeous it's breathtaking it's amazing

[01:09:15] like the inside of Hogwarts just walking around and looking at the like architecture and just the the decorations and all the stuff they have everywhere yeah I would just I would just got a bit

[01:09:29] misty because because it was the sheer attention to detail and like the devotion that that requires for all that architecture. Oh yeah from the developers and like holy shit this is like this is unprecedented like I've never it's anything like this so that goosebumps just thinking about

[01:09:47] my first experience in the game. Whenever whenever I got whatever you go to green gods no nothing god not going to god's fuck all of Anders the wand store oh yeah when I went into the store

[01:10:01] I was blown away but the boxes on the shelf other shelf yeah and it's just so perfectly done it was it blew my fucking mind I couldn't I couldn't believe how good this game looked that's an

[01:10:14] whole thing. I think it's probably the best looking console game I've played I've played and on the OLED fucksie probably yes it's up there I mean it's up there cyberpunk be also

[01:10:30] I don't know between cyberpunk and this oh I would say cyberpunk goes to Sushima is one of mine so but it's up there with them I would say yeah for sure I would just walk around and look at everything

[01:10:40] I spent a lot of time just exploring the castle and and you just find things you find little puzzles you find my 16 hours really is yeah fucking walking right tons of locked rooms that you can

[01:10:52] eventually gain access to and puzzles and and side quests you find in the castle it is awesome but I had a thought about about some lighting here I want to because I wonder if you guys agree but I had written here the grand staircase lighting at night

[01:11:10] makes me feel like I'm watching one of the films like a particular the earlier one's like number one and two kind of things so I get like really nostalgic like Hogwarts vibes like I've

[01:11:21] watched and lost for stone or chamber secrets because it's like both the music and the lighting the music will get into but the lighting at night especially they like the two of them together

[01:11:30] contribute to that weird like good old fashion Harry Potter feeling yeah for sure weird for sure but it's like perfect it's perfect now talking about the lighting though you saying you don't think

[01:11:43] it's just reflections because I we were all saying here if you want me to go through it we were watching that video on the difference like on and off ray tracing on and off

[01:11:51] and I couldn't really tell the difference in outdoor scenes during the day it looks exactly the same but where you're gonna see the differences is when you're in Hogwarts when you're in the castle

[01:12:04] you see the floors they're gonna be nice reflections off the floor make it look like a buffed like finished surface maybe a little too buffed I think yeah it's I was gonna say metal objects

[01:12:16] will shine here but is it not supposed to be like a stone floor is it sort of like should supposed to be like our stones reflective that much well if they're like polished it's like if

[01:12:27] it's like it's like it's like it must have been polished by like those house selves for all day every day for the last seven hundred layers those houses are just slaves those house elves are polished in the floor yeah and I've seen them polished with the floor

[01:12:42] they disappear when they took it in but yeah yeah that's where you're gonna see it yeah for sure the shadows don't really look different I don't know if you notice that but I think

[01:12:51] it was just reflections let me go through my little thing and you guys can interject okay I was trying to find out on the internet what exactly or what ray tracing modes they put in

[01:13:01] or what effects they put in and I could tell obviously reflections going into the hall and running around the hallways the castle where the big windows are there reflections out the floor on the doors that doorways are reflective if you turn off ray tracing the doors don't

[01:13:16] reflect there's no nice shine on the doors there are reflections on the floor in my opinion very nice but like we said maybe a bit too much and it just it gives me a little more grip on my

[01:13:29] testies you know it's like yeah looks so good oh not much outside though other than some puddles on the beach and after a rain you're not gonna find much outside shadows when I was

[01:13:45] walking when you walk up to the castle the shadows and the vines you can tell they're straight with ray tracing off the shadows are just straight lines go outside and when you're walking through

[01:13:57] archways it's just like straight lines when you turn on fidelity with ray tracing it's like they're shaped properly and they're blended better on like the vines and the walls and stuff

[01:14:09] and yeah oh so like that makes there I feel like I because when I turned it on when we had that little bungalow where neither of us realized that it was on when I turned it on and I started

[01:14:21] walking around was like okay it does feel more things felt a little blend more blended like everything looked a bit softer in the darker parts like in the corners like the walls and stuff

[01:14:34] so I think I noticed it but I only had the one momentary like experience so I don't know I should try it maybe turning it on enough now just for curiosity sake but I think I noticed I definitely

[01:14:47] whenever I turned it on and I went to that little hamlet that's down the street from Hogwarts south it was so nice like at night with the fog there was a little bit of fog the reflections

[01:15:01] off the windows the lamp light on the street the lamp lights a big one oh my god it was sharp fucking beautiful what about the changing of the seasons did you notice that? that's an interesting

[01:15:11] that's a new one I depending on depending on where you are I guess in the story I don't think it's not just like a it's not just like a seasonal cycle yeah it goes to the story it goes to the story which is kind

[01:15:23] of cool how often do you guys take advantage of using lumos because it's pretty much every fucking dynamite way almost every time I'm smatting everyone what's the other one call I love lumos every

[01:15:37] time it's like at night and walking on the cast Louvos and the thing comes on there little sound that's like it I only used it when I needed to for the little uh little challenges and puzzles

[01:15:50] yeah yeah like the butterfly puzzles that's the only time I really used it and obviously I couldn't have friggin seen anything with you know not very often I've taken advantage of it

[01:16:00] I turned it on because I just want to see like the contrast and it looks lumos is like a great example of how good the lighting in the shadows can be if you're looking at like in the ruins or

[01:16:11] if you're in like a dark passage or something and you turn it on you really see what it can do because it's like this white light it's like a very harsh white like this is LED and the shadows when

[01:16:23] it when it cast the shadows everywhere it's very harsh harsh shadows light is pretty cool yeah yeah it's cool very rich just think about the fire like the when you're tomb crawling

[01:16:36] when you're going around the tombs the the fire and the lighting in the tombs yeah like that kind of thing they were cool I like the um I just would light brazers yeah because of that let's get some light

[01:16:50] up in this moth this moth yeah what did those black uh tentacle vines called again that react to lumos oh I thought those were just roots I don't remember if good but it's

[01:17:04] I was lighting them on fire I kept spamming my area of effect fire spell you're supposed to use lumos I didn't know I didn't know that until like the end of the game like my yeah

[01:17:16] I wouldn't use fire sometimes when I didn't because it was changing my fucking spell page and going to put lumos on I would just like blast fire at them which is why I never used lumos because

[01:17:25] I didn't have it on my damn there was always a breeze your near those vines yeah those roots so I'd light that on I was like oh they're scared of fire so I just light them on fire and they would

[01:17:38] okay well we can move into sound and music and um I don't really have a whole lot to say about this maybe you do um I just will comment on this around sound was working properly and really

[01:17:55] it was in Dolby digital because I play on the full surround sound with my big tower speakers in the front I got a at most 5.1.2 and it was working I don't think it used at most there was no

[01:18:10] at most height channels or anything like that so maybe it was just 5.1 but um when you're in the dialogue scenes and you're moving around it would it would track properly and that's all I asked for

[01:18:22] but I had my nephew over around nephew and we were playing and he noticed it and he was like man this surround sound is sick and I like as I was walking around people during the quest and

[01:18:37] like they're dialogue and talking to me as we were walking there's a lot of that yeah it's all around so that's cool that it works that's what I wanted I was having some issues with the PS5

[01:18:51] and enabling the surround sound I don't know what the fuck is wrong with it maybe it's my HDMI cable but every time I unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in and it resolves itself

[01:19:02] I don't know what the hell it is I'd never had issues like that on an Xbox on the Xbox ever reset I don't know I think it's just the PlayStation the way it decodes the audio is just

[01:19:14] it's not great it's not good I need to boot yeah I don't I just need like I was getting pissed I was like there's no fucking surround why is this an unfitably with just setting some my TV you know is

[01:19:27] that the TV settings my pass through the HDMI pass through what the hell is it and then just unplug the stupid cable and plug it back in and it magically works it's just like you fucking stupid thing

[01:19:38] but yeah I haven't really noticed I feel like it's easier I don't wear these when I play single player stuff because like I have a soundbar I feel like if I wore headphones I'd be

[01:19:51] able to hear more detail in terms of the sound design and all that stuff so right now I don't want to have a lot of comments on it I like the sounds that I hear in particular that Lumos sound

[01:20:01] brings me right back to Prisoner Vaskaban and like you know like when he's doing it at the beginning Lumos maxima and his bedroom or like whenever whenever he the encounter with Harry's

[01:20:11] snake and looping and like the black hallways at night out for a little walk in the moonlight takes me right back so I love those last allergics sounds the sounds that they used you know

[01:20:24] in the movies but I got some stuff to say about them music yeah the music I did uh but you want to talk about music or sound sound okay let's talk about the voice audio because

[01:20:39] I was playing yes I was playing in my headphones all right most of the time and the voice audio was perfect it was so crisp and clean and clear the clicks and the pops and the speech was

[01:20:55] you're talking about the character's voice no no I'm like I'll get that but like everyone else is character's voice and like the audio for that oh man it was like ASMR hard work Hogwarts

[01:21:08] Professor edition I didn't get to experience that because I had them yeah because I had them in the speakers so I didn't really exist oh man yes when it was really in here it was so crisp and clean

[01:21:19] I was like oh the voice acting is probably some of the best I've heard in a fucking video game like like some of the professors did such a fantastic job pretty good yeah it's pretty good I love the voice acting

[01:21:33] voice acting for the main male character yes decent is good okay I like his voice I like his voice I like his voice though like his quality like who they chose to be that voice how can you know

[01:21:49] what he sounds like though because the female just pitched corrected like weirdness 10 canny yeah the female voice was the female voice actor I thought was better because I watched out and I found the female voice actor was

[01:22:03] better than the male I didn't switch to female in the I didn't I didn't listen to it in the character creation I forgot to do that yeah but the only gripe I have had with the with the voice audio

[01:22:14] the voice sound was like you guys said the like the tone or pitch stacking they did should be should be it's a wane what's going on so when you're creating your character you can choose the

[01:22:26] the pitch of your character's voice higher low and if you if you don't use the middle as recorded I'm assuming quote unquote as recorded pitch if you pitch it down or up you're

[01:22:38] going to get like artifacts I'm assuming because of how they process that and how they pitched the voice down because it's the same character it's the same actor's voice they didn't use other actors for lower pitches like other games have like things like shivari or whatever where there

[01:22:53] are different tones different characters of voices yeah this is the same one they just pitched it down and there's this weird kind of artifact that happens that almost sounds a bit phazy almost like

[01:23:02] there's this weird kind of tin canny resonance that's happening at the same time I thought it was a little crazy but when you get on your mount and he like yells he's like oh it's just like his

[01:23:18] voice is so strange I'm like oh my god I was like sir character sound really weird she's like no I was like my sounds fucking weird I don't know yeah just that weird phase the pitch correction

[01:23:33] is super strange I used to it though I wasn't a huge fan wasn't a huge fan but the music talk about the music and stuff about this weirdo's voice the music was there there was a theme in

[01:23:47] there that sounded like the home alone thing yeah yeah they're pretty few is it the same guy no it's very similar very similar it's definitely because imagine being asked to do the music for Hogwarts games and be like here you go your references John Williams fucking

[01:24:07] scores for the first three movies because he didn't do four five six or seven he did the first three so he wrote the theme the main theme had weeks they even all this shit so imagine being that composer

[01:24:18] and being like well that's the benchmark here so I have to meet it or rise above let's just say that he just used the hook theme for the Harry Potter theme well yeah same fucking song this is

[01:24:32] same thing oh no maybe no no first three no you can start humming the Harry Potter tune and go and talk like perfectly what is same I can't think of it now

[01:24:44] focus what I just saying bomb bomb bomb bomb but and then this is the same what what's after that that's the first it just does like bomb bomb I don't remember but those few first few notes in the same

[01:24:57] ahead weeks bomb bomb no I can't think of it I like it though there was a lot of different stuff different love to kind of feels there was at one point I felt like I was listening to like the

[01:25:13] Minecraft like the little in I think it's in the beast year when you're in your like room of the climate like just a couple of like piano notes so good it's like stuff yeah it's like the

[01:25:25] Minecraft kind of piano music that's what it sounded like I love the room of a quiet music whenever I'm almost tending to my beasts I could stay there forever in that little Well I don't I'm not crazy about the actual like just the main room of requirement theme

[01:25:45] I feel like it's a little too whimsical and playful for me in that kind of environment like it's a little too almost comical sounds almost like comedic in a weird way yeah I meant the beast I know

[01:25:57] but I'm just saying for the main one I found it a little bit of a strange choice because like if you in your room of requirement I feel like it'd be you'd want it a little bit more chill almost like

[01:26:06] what it sounds like you're describing the beastiery music you know I'd want it to be a little bit more chill a little more laid back and because it's just like this room where

[01:26:15] you can regroup and think about stuff and do it's like your own little space here your other bedroom in the game so I thought it was a little weird but whatever I don't care it's not a big deal

[01:26:27] all I know is that the music is like it's everything I could have wanted and more from a Hogwarts game like there's no way they could have done anything else like you know imagine a electronic elements because I haven't heard of E.D. sometimes no rhythm game

[01:26:48] there's like Hogwarts Ray party Ray party in the great hall Ray party one of them bring your Polyjuice potion we're all gonna change our periods and have an orgy so we all look the same

[01:27:08] just a bunch of snakes crawling all over each other some composers do hybrid setups right like they'll do orchestral and they'll do like some electronic elements or whatever right but this is just

[01:27:24] all from what I can tell or orchestral palette and it was a must but they use like every color in the book with memorable themes and they stand up on their own as music because I was like on love

[01:27:34] is telling you guys in the chat I was on YouTube checking out the actual soundtrack from the Warner Water Tower music label I guess which is one of their like inside companies like the official

[01:27:46] game sound yeah the official game channel the soundtrack channel Warner Brothers like Water Tower music channel and I was listening to that they have two sound tracks there's like two tracklist there's

[01:27:59] the main soundtrack and there's like a study themes and I'm not sure what that means I think it's just like sub themes that weren't like parts of the main score that the producers and everybody chose as

[01:28:11] like the main OST I think it's just like extra music that they put on but man like the a couple my favorites are one was called like seeking the keepers and it's like this really like solo violin

[01:28:22] in a minor mode like kind of a gypsy style and you probably heard it roaming around hogs me to area or like the greater and it's like plays at night it's just like a violin almost like very

[01:28:32] somber kind of thing but it sounds like that gypsy style very cool and the greenhouse music that whimsical kind of innocent great light-hearted the plant when you're in teacher yeah

[01:28:47] so that's another one of my favorites I did want to kind of read you guys you check this out this is just a quote from the composers on gamepress.com they say a gamepress.com says in a joint

[01:28:59] statement the composers because there's more than one there's this is group effort Myers-Rakazimare along with Alexander Horowitz these are the last names I'm assuming of the composers who additionally contributed music to the game express their enthusiasm about working

[01:29:13] on the hogwords legacy music we feel so unbelievably lucky privilege and grateful to be a part of the amazing team behind Hogwarts legacy so many talented and brilliant people have poured their hearts

[01:29:23] and minds into this game made by fans for fans it is so impressive on a multitude of levels the moment you step foot inside these great halls of Hogwarts you can sense the love and passion

[01:29:35] that each person involved gave to this project it's an experience like no other which is so true and I've thought about this so many times and they just put it into words so that's why I wanted

[01:29:44] to read it. It's our sincere hope that fans of Hogwarts legacy will experience the joy the awe and the magic we felt when immersing ourselves into the game and its music were excited to see

[01:29:55] the players reactions as they see and hear the world for themselves did you guys have favorite musical like excerpts that you could think of to your recollection from the game? really oh something that's really stood out yes there was a portrait of a guy playing a loot

[01:30:15] oh yeah I sat there and listened to it the whole time is odd like this is amazing the song of a sweet I didn't know what the hell it is the song's good just some god it sounds like

[01:30:27] an portrait sounds like cannon indeed but it's like it's like it's not they matched they matched that reverb in that room with that oh man it was like I was there it was like I was there

[01:30:38] listening to it in the hall like in that hall bouncing around and listening to that violent and then there's that trio playing oh man it was so oh yeah the quartet and then I oh yeah

[01:30:48] then I told you guys I walked into the into the music room all fucking places totally accidentally I had no idea why it was just wandered into it and there's the theater like the seats going down

[01:30:58] and the piano is playing like this block number that I learned along god i'm ago and it's just like playing gently it's called prelude and see and it's just this really nice kind of

[01:31:07] like rolling thing buddha da da da da da da da da da da da da da da like our peggios and I was just walking around unlocking the chest in there just like do do it was so nice

[01:31:16] and then I come back up and it's playing showpan and other pieces that I learned just the way the music contributes to the the ambiance the game I guess the the environment and man it was

[01:31:29] it was great yeah it's a cozy place yes Hogwarts oh yeah I'm finishing the castle they want you to feel safe they want to go cozy and it works is that all we have for music and sound is that

[01:31:42] had as all of our categories now let's talk a little bit about what we didn't like probably maybe not that much but I didn't like the fact that you can't respect and you like

[01:31:56] I didn't like that your talents were permanent I don't like that because you had to have to start a whole new game just this back into something different like someone data-mined and they actually had the option to respect and they decided not to yeah with a potion there's

[01:32:13] a potion the lock and drink to reach avalanche like that's just you think that that might be a like an update thing though maybe I hope so like that information is out there so maybe it

[01:32:24] means they've got it on the right turn because it's not easy to level up to get those points like gas takes a while and okay so you didn't like that because I wanted to respect

[01:32:35] into to try the plant thing because I had a whole set of gear that I upgraded for using the plants and if I'm not specced into it like what's the point? What are we going to do?

[01:32:48] Start the game again. No I'm not doing that. Yeah that was dumb. I had morality meter yeah that's a big one for me. Come on. Maybe one had it. Yeah that was like and that was almost one of the original like

[01:33:06] besides black and white that lion. The more choices. Yeah we're choices. The choices. The choices were there for being a kid being an asshole and it didn't matter it would just be like

[01:33:17] oh yeah like that would kind of look back to the thing in a world where there is a very big swing between good and evil you know what I mean like Voldemort and Dumbledore you know like

[01:33:32] there's a channel. There's a channel. There's a channel. There's a channel. There's a channel. There's true evil in this world and I want to be that evil. I want to look that evil you know?

[01:33:43] I but I want to be that we could have been those got we could have been that mistake. Oh my god that really shouldn't have bucked that guy. We could have been those guys.

[01:33:56] No but it's true. I think that that's the biggest one for me if so far playing the game if they had put that in out of them like okay this is like this is all we're gonna bring.

[01:34:07] All right over my favorite yeah Star Wars the MMO Star Wars had that. They had it. Yeah that was awesome. Well that's all by our where games have that though even

[01:34:15] like the look like the change of your look like how many times I cruise you or someone like that's got to put my morality debt like that's got to you're severing your soul every time every single time

[01:34:29] yeah or was it just a better cover of a piece is told that did that seven pieces stop. I think it's just this is all for academic purposes just oh yes of course

[01:34:46] Another a smaller less significant complaint for me would have been like an outfit loadout like cyberpunk would have been really cool because like there's a lot of cool clothes a lot of good like a thing that can match yeah save your set yeah

[01:35:01] yeah I might be coming again there still updates to come so maybe they'll do that at one point because cyberpunk did Who knows they'll probably maybe put it in the bedroom there's a lot of shit they can speak and of that will they bring quit it.

[01:35:12] Well they bring quit it. What about right no quit it yeah but what about dying your clothes like make a potion that can die me all black yeah you know or change colors a little bit they did you can

[01:35:24] change colors with the items in your room of the like in in Zelda requirement in the breath of the wild you did die yeah yeah yeah that was a big list maybe it's coming maybe it's coming we'll see back to

[01:35:38] Quidditch. Good. No Quidditch everyone talks about it in the fucking game how professor black or the It's got to be coming it's got to be coming it has to be coming yeah yeah that's to be coming the very

[01:35:49] Again just quit it's pitch is there perfectly model I think it's perfectly usable It's got to come it it's definitely coming in like an explanation maybe they could change it if you play it again

[01:36:00] And they just they need it to get the game out. They're like just taking a disabled separate game that they have to make inside of the game right So oh yeah yeah oh maybe imagine like multiplayer online Quidditch Oh yeah so it would be cool world champion

[01:36:19] That's what I said that's why I said he points I'll reserve judgment at this time yeah okay because in my But I Know the thing I didn't like was the broom controls oh well sorry the controls were fine

[01:36:33] But sometimes it would just like fucking spin me around or something yeah It's not the controls, but it affects your control. It's the camera It's like user error to me. It's like user error off center

[01:36:46] It's it maintains that over the right shoulder camera where it should be centered behind you when you're on your mouth But it doesn't so yeah you're always Looking Kind of slightly off-kilter whenever you're on your broom or on your mouth

[01:37:05] Which doesn't make any sense at all to me? Why would they do that? I've had some maneuvering and doing the obstacle courses on the broom. It affects it greatly like it's always

[01:37:17] Curving to one side and you and moving the camera makes you turn so it's it gets really fucked up Sometimes so I did not like that. I did not like that at all and I noticed it right away as soon as I was started flying my broom

[01:37:31] Like sometimes I'd be like how do I get out of the spin? I mean I'm like I have this like Just your overcompensating if you move the left trigger it's brood like turns

[01:37:41] And then it does this kind of fish tailing thing that you kind of get stuck yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Like go and reset But I have had no problems. I really like the broom. I'm so used to the over-the-right shoulder thing

[01:37:54] They do that in so many games now. It's just like a fucking it's not on a broom. Not on a flying vehicle sure And which are three actually which are three is interesting because it has an option the menu to change What do you find in the Witcher 3?

[01:38:08] No, no just on horseback like if you think about your mouth you're you're moving thing The same shit yeah, but you have an option to the ground on a horse What does it matter you're still gonna follow the path still by the golden right shoulder?

[01:38:21] Yeah, I don't think that was the issue though Well, anyway, I was gonna say in the Witcher 3 they have an option to change that either over-the-shoulder or directly behind So I'm it since I probably changed that then when I played yeah, yeah, yeah

[01:38:35] Okay, wow, but skyrim had over-the-shoulder So I don't know over-the-shoulder holders Yeah All right, and is there any other issues you had yeah, that's all about a motor no photo mode

[01:38:53] Oh yeah fucking photo mode in a game that looks this should every game and again that looks this fucking did photo mode and Overwatch two men what the hell man Actually there's played play horse stone or so photo mode what the fuck off

[01:39:09] And again it looks this fucking good. They can't put a photo mode In God of War they added a photo mode so I'm hoping that they do that in this maybe is that becoming a big thing now?

[01:39:22] Maybe oh, it's yes. Oh, yeah for sure. Maybe they'll do it For sure quit that photo mode some action shots. Oh That would be cool like I want it when I'm have a cadavre somebody I want to freeze that frame

[01:39:35] Go to photo mode get out of there and get I don't want to see the light leave their eyes Zoom into the rise Always say Say I must make remember time for the niceties now bow oh

[01:39:51] Yes, yeah, yeah, fuck. Oh, I got a I got a finished seventh movie. I had I got a watch that shit too. Which one was that in? I finished sitting in the graveyard. Is that that's so yeah

[01:40:01] That's what I was a man is for or not number four oh yeah, I'm on graveyard is number four Yeah, I'm on goblet of fires my next one a couple of times Did you put your name? Yes, did you put your name into that go-bye boy?

[01:40:12] What's the boy? Did you put your name into the go-bye to four? All right, I think that's it so it's a absolute hi the question for you guys this is not related to things that

[01:40:23] You uh, didn't like but I just had a questionnaire felt like asking because I was curious once okay the ones oh yes, though. Can I talk about this what? Wands did you guys choose okay, so I'm talking yeah would length

[01:40:38] Sorry would length, probability and core but most importantly why what made you choose the features of your wand? I started I went with English oak solid 12 inch length and Phoenix feather court you did a but you did 12 full inches wand I

[01:41:01] Heart English look because I was like I remembered a zeme in Robin I'd Prince of these when he's trying to bet Bash the door down with the statue and he's like damn English oak

[01:41:10] It's like it doesn't give yeah, I was like oh, I like that so I threw it in I don't remember so I did Canadian maple Can you do maple? I did Canadian maple 13 inch 13 inch length

[01:41:23] And then I did the Phoenix core because I'm a jack of all trades master of none Right, I don't okay, so you like the versatility of the Phoenix feather core yes, yeah as opposed to what it said

[01:41:34] Did it say then because the dragon the what was it dragon twos core dragon hard string is dragon hard string power powerful the most powerful magic Yeah, I put that one I thought one of you I thought for sure to fan it would have chosen that one

[01:41:47] That's very weird. I was gonna put money on that that you would have chosen dragon hard string because it's like powerful spells But the unicorn unicorn unicorn one Unicorn Unicorn hair not be pretty bad or harvesting Unicorn horn is laid from the pure pair of a unicorn

[01:42:09] You see a very bestiary cruelty That one was just a very faithful wand like it would obey you and my long one. I wanted to look to do you guys put your wand wippy Was it a wippy wand?

[01:42:23] I think like so solid semi-pliable or some shit. Yeah, why is it? I think this is what Doesn't do anything Why I ask you because it just doesn't have any effect and so I wonder you know That's why I didn't remember really well

[01:42:38] Okay, he just chose whatever interesting I chose the color it was white or like gray mine was gray and and the handle that I chose was really cool and it's like gray as well and a nice little

[01:42:51] Nice little thing on the end and nice belled and nice belled Mine was the rib skeleton finger looking one For your pleasure yeah, I chose that you're a pleasure oh yeah, yeah, I chose the ring one because it

[01:43:06] I just had a cool look to it. It was between that or like the the notted one the one with the knot in it I think Was called anyway Anyway, I was curious let's like not talk about this anymore

[01:43:21] So are we giving this a score out of ten I think we are I'll give it a 9.5 oh Mine is points because Just like maybe the story I guess isn't really kind of there it is it's good but

[01:43:41] It the rest of it makes up for it and I haven't had This much fun or been hooked on a game since probably Like miles Morales or Or spider in ps4 or on chartered four oh yeah and and and if this game is is being compared to those

[01:44:05] It's in the upper echelon of of games. Yeah, all right 9.5 yeah, I'm in my first like 10 hours I was like 10 out of 10 I can't get enough this is amazing. I like it's My favorite game of all time 10 out of 10 I love it but then the more I played

[01:44:27] The more there was the things that bothered me kind of crept in more like the little like the little the morality meter I just couldn't believe it the no dying of the clothes Like Jonathan said there's no respect in the game on things that didn't

[01:44:41] Have rather than judging it was yes, obviously no photo mode Yes, but the main issue in here is where you can choose your path

[01:44:51] Side with troubled wizards push them down darker paths use curse spells and not have a morality meter like if they put the morality meter in this Like I said before it would have been my favorite game of like all time

[01:45:02] It was it was just such a missed opportunity and a bummer Yeah, okay Saying that I don't know if this happened to you, but it has to do with when you learn one of the curses

[01:45:15] Like there's an option you choose and I chose it and he just didn't Teach me the curse But then I loaded and I choose the other thing and he taught it to me. Oh So I don't know if there's a thing

[01:45:29] Where you can't actually learn it or if you just learn it at another time. Mm-hmm. Oh interesting Yeah, I guess I'll find it. I don't know about that. Yeah, because I was like wait a minute

[01:45:40] Was he gonna teach me a curse there and then I loaded and he did Okay, it was weird But that being said the story I thought the story was good It pulled me through with the cutscenes for great pulled me through I didn't want to stop playing

[01:45:55] But yeah, I would also give this a 9.5 It's almost there it was so close it was so fucking close Yeah, that's what it is. I can't comment again too much on the story So it's hard for me to give it like you know a mark at a 10

[01:46:15] so far Because of the little things that I've said there, you know the morality meters of big one for me That's really it though. I can't speak again too much on this story So I'm gonna have to so far I'm gonna give it like a 9.5

[01:46:29] I would say like 9.6 If we're getting real specific okay, they it's pretty The breaking good and there's just a couple points missing there and I'm gonna have to reserve a few points for the story because I don't know yet Can this be a game of the year contender?

[01:46:46] Yes, absolutely You know what and if these fucking composers don't even get like no, I'm gonna have to be I in my opinion They should be winning the best score at the next game of the year awards. I'll be very

[01:46:59] Very disappointed if they don't win we'll see what I was going to show Jocked like if this is not on On the ballot there's no way if it's on on the ballot. I've never watched those stupid awards ever again

[01:47:12] Yeah, like if they leave it out because of all that controversy or whatever yeah Oh, that's a good point. That's an absolute joke. That's an absolute fucking joke Yeah, they may they may they may put out a statement. I don't think so too Just because the amount of

[01:47:31] Sales and the huge Ros and all yeah, the stats after speed review that's true Yeah, anyway, I feel like they get a lot of flack if we got like a that's an average of like 9.5 Yeah There you have folks

[01:47:49] There you have it we didn't spoil anything if you haven't played yet. You know what it's about now You know what you're gonna get into without knowing what you're getting into Okay, hopefully

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