Harry Potter Games Used To Be Great... Until They Weren't 

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Ps2 version of chamber of secrets there’s no teleportation

I'd love to see your opinion on Hogwarts Legacy compared to all the EA games! I grew up playing the original 3 HP games (philosophers stone and Chamber of Secrets on PC and Prisoner of Azkaban on PS2) Hogwarts Legacy feels like I'm dreaming. The combat is insanely well done, the collectables are super fun, and the exploration is superb 😁 I've been waiting for this game for the past 16 years

Gameboy color version of cos was great

What about pc versions of SS ,CHOS and POA they are entirely different versions from PS2 and PS1 also

And also why: -You see Peeves -The Bloody Baron is mentioned -The potion's riddle under the trapdoor is in the first game -You see the Deathday Party in the second game (Gameboy Color and PS1 versions) -Potion ingredients for the polyjuice potion are seen -You bring Norbert to Charlie Weasley's friends in the tallest tower (PC version) Etc. Edit: changed my comment to include the PS1 version of the second game as one of the versions with the Deathday Party.

which isn't true because there were so many things in the games that weren't in the books either

​@@jhman378 that's why they said it was *based* on the book. They can still include original stuff in there

@@elephant35e Pretty sure there's a deathday level in the PS1 Chamber of secrets

@@MrHostile12 Ohhh, OK. I haven't played the PS1 version in over 10 years (played it in late 2012-ish), so I don't remember that much of it.

Yeah the last two were textbook cover shooters and as a kid lowkey they were my favourite, revisiting them last year they don’t live up to my memory but are still really cool lowkey😂

@Jason Green wands being like guns is just ridiculous to me and takes away the meaning of the individual spells but at the same time its weirdly cool to have a "magic gun"

Don't forget the sports one :D

​@@GrosvnerMcaffrey a wand with a switch sounds awesome

EA just made the genre that was popular at the time, and the games suffered for it.

Ok but it doesn't get more cozy than hogsmeade 😤🤬

I was so disappointed when they overhauled everything with the fourth game The atmosphere of the first three games, largely contributed to by the beautiful BGM, was just never matched by any other HP game Not even Hogwarts Legacy got that magical feeling down right

Goblet of Fire was totally different from the first three but still a great one. Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince were not that nostalgic but were good on their own right (since you could explore the Hogwarts of the movies), but the last two games did not catch any of the nostalgia of the earlier ones.

Also only played the first 3 PC ones, better than any of the ones shown here imo.

@@theravenclaw2689 Most definitely.

I agree, and I played both the PS1 and PC versions as a kid. Chamber of secrets PC version is my favorite out of all Harry potter games, it has an incredible soundtrack (pause menu track is nostalgic as fuck) and the general athmosphere of the game somehow feels different to the other games (I guess it has a "darker" vibe somehow). Goblet of Fire felt boring to me as well and never finished it. Order of phoenix was average and it had some very frustrating parts like finding the statues. Half blood prince was a bit better but I remember it being incredibly short. Never played the deathly hallows, and don't think I missed out on anything judging by how it looks :D. But in the end those ps1 and pc games are the only ones I've bothered to revisit even as an adult.

SAME!! I hope yo find a way to replay them with my current pc

and on top of that you can play with your friends

Not to mention that the Lego games are always hilarious and great fun to play casually

screw that,lego is for toddlers.

The Lego Harry Potter games are FANTASTIC. If you haven't played them, you're missing out!

Played the second Lego HP game with a friend, it was the least amount of fun I had that day. We later played a Jojo fighting game and Rayman, which was actually fun.

Definitely man, they’re designed a little more like the Iga Castlevania games in a way, where after you learned a new spell you could go back and find secrets you knew needed something but didn’t have the means to get.

Ya i played the first 3 games like 1 year ago and sorcerers stone and chamber of secrets are still very fun games. Maybe i need to play them in a few weeks again

Yeah, they were fun. I loved a glitch in Chamber of Secrets that made the beans giant level-eating monstrosities.

@@bladeworksmaster Iga Castlevania. Now I’m interested.

I prefer the PC version of CoS, but the console version of Sorcerer's Stone IMO is better if nostalgia is ignored.

When is she mentioned in chamber of secrets?

Plus the fact that Peeves exists at all in the games haha - i was a huge HP fan growing up; read every book countless times, watched the movies fairly often (and played the first two games, none past that) - but it never occurred to me until i saw someone mention it years later that Peeves is never in the movies at all and, from memory, is never even mentioned? I dunno haha, i found that interesting after realising 😅 though there's about a million other important things omitted from the movies so it's pretty standard i suppose haha

@@beverlyarcher546 There's a NPC in the common room that will say "That Cho Chang is a bit of alright isn't she Harry?"

@@WilbertBeltman yeah I never played the games outside of the GBC, GBA, and DS systems so I never saw that why I asked cause I don't think the color ever mentions

It was the first Harry Potter game I played, second was prisoner of Azkaban, I couldn't complete goblet of Fire now that wear I stopped.

@@AnonymousEnigma19 Me too, i got so much nostalgia for the first 3 games.

The stealth sections scared me as a kid 😅 being able to fly around Hogwarts was incredible to

@@-Nihilus- To me the stealth sections annoyed me rather than scare me, and you're right the broom was incredible, ha I remembering trying to fly as high as I could to see how far I can go into the sky.

Never knew I could be terrified of PREFECTS until I played it

I had the GameCube version of Prisoner of Azkaban, it’s still one of my favourite games ever. I really loved how each of the trio had their own spells and special abilities, and thus their own little challenges (like Ron and the stink pellet bucket things on the walls), and how completing wizard card sets gave actual bonuses like boosted health. If there’s one game I would love to see remastered or remade it would be that one, or Quidditch World Cup.

Wasn't the PS2 version of Chamber of Secrets more similar to Philosophers Stone? I am pretty sure only the gamecube version had that weird jump from location to location.

@@shaid1111 hmm not sure only played the ps1 and ps2 versions personally.

@@shaid1111 yes that’s right. I played the ps2 version and it was entirely open ended. I was confused when he mentioned the jumping from zone to zone because that isn’t in the ps2 version.

I had PC!!

Yeah I played the ps2 version when I was kid and I was confused when he talked about not being able to fully explore. Didn’t know the xbox/GC versions were that different. They do look better visually, but idk if that’s worth the compromises they made.

@katielogue5107 I think I only played sorcerers stone for the GBA! That one must've been different than all the other ones. I remember SS and CoS actually being pretty similar to adventure games just in 2d instead of 3d. I think the PC games really got it right though for sure.

Also PS2/Xbox/GameCube and GBC (Gameboy Color). The first two games had FIVE completely different versions, with some differences among the PS2/Xbox/GameCube (ex: the PS2 version of the second game had much more exploration outside the castle) and the third game had three different versions (no GBC or PS1 version).

@Katie Logue GBA was only turn-based RPG for the third game. The first two games were turn-based RPGs for the Gameboy COLOR, but not Gameboy ADVANCE. The GBA versions of the first two games were action-adventure.

There's even a perticular spell that is an hommage to these old games in it!

@@terla2971 Flipendo is one of them. That spell came from the first few P/SS games

@@delusion5867 I believe Flipendo was actually created specifically for the original games, and Rowling liked it so much that she made it canon.

@Sorthen Daniel Also the difference between hard and normal difficulty is mad.

@Sorthen Daniel I keep getting lost in the castle but I don't even mind because it's just fun to explore it

I'm pretty sure GoF had a lot of material to expand the game adaptation. The GBA version was the only game that cared about the Yule Ball part, lmao

Gae

The excruciatingly repetitive melody will never abandon me. But I really enjoyed that one though

And Philosopher's stone. They were both great games.

Yeah, I'm not sure why you couldn't explore the whole grounds on Xbox or GameCube.

The ps2 version is technically a port of the gamecube version handled by different devs, and I guess they managed to remove the dumb limitation of not being able to walk around everywhere.

@@Laenthor Apparently the PS2 version was being made first and the studio that made the gamecube version weren't allowed access to the code, only the art assets, so they had to recreate the whole game from scratch

@@lazyspongieThat explains why the PS2 version is so different from the Gamecube/Xbox versions

Was that maybe the PC version? Or was the PC version just a port of the PS2 version? Hey, I haven’t played either in over 15 years, give me a break 😅

It did, he's testing the GameCube version which had segmented exploration

@@TheTrueBatBrain Hey, like I said. 15 years 😅

I thought so.

@@CyborgCharlotte PC versions is different, the third version of first two games. Prisoner of Azkaban also had 2 different versions - PS2\Gamecube one and PC one.

Chamber of Secrets PS2 is better than the GC version, and better than Philosopher's Stone in many ways.

@@yrooxrksvi7142 I grew up with the PS2 version and I swear the grounds were fully open in CoS.

@@-Nihilus- Because they were open and fully explorable

​​@@yrooxrksvi7142 Such as: in CoS, Harry doesn't say the flavor of every single bean he collects, the wizard cards are hidden in many different random places and not the same unsurprising golden chests, there's 4 rounds of quidditch play instead of 1, there's Diagon Alley and wizard dueling, you can actually lose the House Cup... So yeah, better in many ways.

I can level with you that I had a love/hate relationship with Chamber of Secrets (GameCube version) as a young lad because of the prefect stealth sections. I sucked at them, I had no measure of patience to get through them, and I couldn’t tolerate losing 20 points for getting caught. When I returned to the game in high school, I found out that abusing Luminous Balloons and having Stink Pellets ready made them (mostly) stress free. The GameCube version is pretty good as far as licensed games are concerned, but it feels watered down compared to the PS2 version. You couldn’t even explore the Grounds on foot properly on GCN!

Everybody hates Quidditch so much that they just straight up scraped it for Legacy . I can’t imagine anyone liking Quidditch enough to buy a HP game just around that .

@@WheresMyInhaler Well most people taking about wanting DLC are asking for it. So I would say you seem to be in the minority in not liking it. I had a blast with the game and hope to see it included in the future. I mean they even have a "Professional" Quidditch in RL with people being willing to run around the Field with Brooms between their legs. If thats "everybody" hating it then it would be crazy to see what they would do if they liked it.

@@nobalkain624I think the main problem people had with Quidditch in the video games is that they never found a way to make it that engaging which is why they probably didn’t waste their time doing it for Hogwarts legacy. They could’ve spent 100s of hours making quidditch and people would still complain about it.

I didn’t play the first two but I did play prisoner of Azkaban on GBA and it was a lot of fun. I’m thinking of downloading and playing it again

Yeah it is him, he finally brought it up on the old channels community page. Really nice to see he is back, and this video in particular feels just like one of those older game reviews which is NOT a bad thing Mr Bacon.

Why don't you try emulation ?

@@yrooxrksvi7142 I just like to collect original releases, that's all.

@@PanHellmuncikPL That's pretty cool. I own all of the original games since childhood, but I emulate them at this point because I don't trust either of my PS2s lol

@@yrooxrksvi7142 fully understand that. Well, I'm collecting back titles of my childhood and to be honest I prefer playing them on original hardware BUT Xbox Series X do a pretty good job with emulation :D

You mean Buckbeak the hippogriff 😏😉

@@therunawaykid6523 yeah, I think in my language was Bicuço, o Hipogrifo

@@tartaruganinjas oh I see, been playing through this awesome game on my aya Neo handheld pc not quite at the stage of unlocking the hippogriff yet but it looks so cool being able to fly anywhere on it in the massive open world!

She doesn't care about the ladies, she just cares up to the point she can shit on trans people. Trans person does a thing, like any thing at all: JK is right there to tweet about how bad it is and how ladies are super oppressed over the trans agenda literally trying to murder them. Abortion rights stripped away: sleeps on it for a day or two then remembers she's supposed to be a feminist and kind of pushes back on it. She's not defending anyone, she's just a bigot.

@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 nah trans peopl out there selves always sending her death threats for defending real females such as herself. I personally find it insane seeing dudes throw on a wig say their female and aloud to hop into female sporting events and straight up cheating with a natural advantage

@@andrewherman9915 I find it odd people still think like you considering that we have Google to actually look into things and not just believe whatever Fox News tells us to believe... Literally just not happening. Chopping up babies to change their sex, not happening. Trans women only "pretending to be women" just to win a few swimming tournaments, doesn't happen. Hormone therapy being this big scary irreversible damage, doesn't happen. I used to think like you, didn't know shit about trans people and thought "lol dudes in wigs I'm a helicopter lol" like a total dumbass because I just kind of believed the next guy that agreed with me already. Didn't spare a moment to learn what trans people were going through, even thought the whole "trans-trender" shit was real. I mean, who the fuck comes out as trans for attention? Most of the attention you get is either shallow like a "yass queen" and the rest is just hate and death threats. And on death threats, yeah, JK received them, not cool. But was that only and ALL trans people doing? No, trans people being blamed for this is entirely unfair, like saying black people are violent criminals gang members because you've got Chicago. She defends no one. She cares more about shitting on trans people as often as possible over any actual harm coming to women, like how in America taking away women's autonomy. Again, she just sat on that not caring until she realized she's supposed to be a feminist.

@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 That was all lies. Do you really feel morally superior pedaling crap like that?

@@JDoe-gf5oz A bit more morally superior than someone saying that trying to raise the suicide rate of a marginalized group of people is helping out women somehow. Not sure how try to help legislate trans people into the shadow realm helps women but whatever, guess if she wants to consider herself a "feminist" while only ever doing work to hurt trans people then I can consider myself morally superior for disagreeing with her.