Hogwarts Legacy vs Harry Potter Game - Physics and Details Comparison 

Well, Student is always awake too

In fact, they are asleep at night. If you stop casting Revelio every 5 seconds, of course.

It's because they're a gif lol

They do sleep at night

They do sleep at night. At least in the head masters room

The staircase is book accurate.

@@Makapend yeah, not as cool though

@@robtennant98 what are you talking about hogwarts legacy’s staircase is better than the movies😂

@@Sadwilly nah movie is more creative and iconic

​@@mattrb8101 no lmao,This is just nostalgia speaking louder

Are you talking about Chamber of Secrets on PC or PS2 ? Because they're radically different games, but both very charming.

@@yrooxrksvi7142 PS2, I’d hasten to guess. It helps that the composer for the soundtrack was none other than Jeremy Soule, who also scored Oblivion.

@@tsrashi8229 CoS PS2 has to be my favorite HP game (until I get my hands on HL, naturally). And speaking of Jeremy Soule, I'd love to see a soundtrack replacement mod where they use his music and James Hannigan's from Order of The Phoenix onwards.

"late 2000s' bruh it aint 2090, its 2023, we still in the early 2000s.

liked prisoner of azkaban more, cuz of the hogwarts exploring

Atmosphere of The Half Blood Prince >>>>

It's terrible.

​@GeorgeMonet You got any idea what games in the 2000s look like? In comparison to the others, this is awesome

​@@holymacaroni19 All the games i can think from that year (or before) looked lightyears better than this. Killzone 2, MGS4, Uncharted 2, Resident Evil 5, L4D2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Battlefield Bad Company (which also introduced destructible enviroments to that series), Gears of War 1 & 2... even going back to 2007 you got stuff like Halo 3, BioShock, COD4 (i'd mention Crysis but pretty much nothing could compete with that game until the next generation). I'm surprised just how many likes that original comment has, honestly, either people are remembering wrong or they never experienced the PS3-X360 era.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

especially the flying broom!

Also the old games are back 2 console generations on the ps3 and ps2 😅

The Harry potter games were very good, it is bad thats there is no more of them to buy 😢 I had but they CD crashed

They were rated pretty harshly back in the day by reviewers. However myself and many others enjoyed these games and I think overtime they're considered great games. I'd go as far as to say some of the best of the PS2 era. Definitely worth checking out even today.

​​@@luanamendes1710 U can always play on Ps2 emu btw..

Modern graphic Yes, maybe some quality of life improvements definitely, but a remaster rather than a remake is what I'd love. I'm having heavy nostalgia for PS2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I'd love a remaster if that gem and the PS2 Chamber of secrets

if they would do that they would make everyone black like they did in legacy and likely hate on whites and add some gay and trans characters because hey game developers dont exist anymore everyones a political activist for whatever reason

@@SaintJimmy379you want to pay full price for a game released 2 decades ago? 💀 remake >>> remaster

@@justinluna6668 Call of Duty creators: first time?

i think we shouldnt let them temper anymore with that story better to move forward instead of backward we know how it goes with the remasters...

Also the house points structure!

They did say they were basing the game more on the books than the movies, with just enough of the movies/music thrown in

Movies are for gheys

I was nerding out ... - the honeydukes shortcut behind the Witch statue. - entering the kitchens by tickling the pear on the portrait So many direct references from the books I teared up and I haven't read the books in ages I'll be honest but instant whiplash.

Also de prefects bathroom is exactly as the description in the books, absolutely amazing. (is it called in english like that?sry)

i mean they kinda do they kinda jerk backwards sometimes

@@Annathebelle123 yeah okay, but their conversation continues like nothing happened.

you could Avada Kedavra someone and nobody could care in Legacy

Cause it was made by noob cash grab

​@@claymorexx the fuck do you mean cash grab? Hogwarts legacy is in no way a cash grab. It has LITERALLY only one thing you can buy in game with real money which is the dark arts pack and you can totally not buy it.

Another nice thing in my opinion was the manual spell casting. You actually had to make specific mouse movements to cast spells and had to remember the movements. I wish this was at least an option in legacy

@@alex786 they could have made combos for controler gameplay too instead of having 4 spells sloted and then changing them. I think it would have actually improved fighting.

Half blood prince potion making was the biggest part i miss. Now You just select the potion and it makes it for you. But in half blood prince it was so entertaining to make all these potions. Trying to make the perfect potion.

But deek thinks you should be proud with all potions you've brewed

@@kakemi9 i loved order of the Phoenix it was so fun

Cuz in the old games voldemort was alive, in Legacy nope

It was around Wizarding War times lol

For me, this has always been weird. Hogwarts is rarely described as scary, but rather as a warm and welcoming, yet confusing magical place.

Its accurate to the tone of Half Blood Prince since it was also the year the Ministry formally announced that the Second Wizarding War is on going.

exactly, completetly agree with you.

Though some of the old games reused a lot of things from previous games. Ps2 Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets had basically the same castle. Also Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince were very similar. The biggest difference can be seen between Prisoner of Azkaban and Order the Phoenix and inbetween those they had that rushed dumbsterfire of Goblet of Fire. Also the games were a lot shorter in terms of story and world. Not saying smaller size is automatically a bad thing but it definitely affects the time needed for development.

That my friend is why movie tie-in games barely exist nowadays, it was a dumb practice made only for advertising

Cos you’re harry potter! Thats why u are public attention

​@@dikaduha6891 You're also supposed to be public attention in Hogwarts Legacy too with how you attended Hogwarts on the fift year and joined the ceremony late. You have dialogues about you everytime you see other students and all.

The NPCs acted very erratically during cutscenes in legacy, sometimes they would walk back and forth when the camera switched focus 🙄lmfao they would look like they were obviously eavesdropping LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yeah they mostly look at you and curse at you mostly Slytherins for ex "Potty Potter" and "Mudblood when Hermione is with you" And so many things. Best thing you can beat every student up anytime

Aren't you a new student in legacy? I don't think much people would pay attention to a new person unless they make the effort.

Yeah that game was so awesome! The in-game map was like the marauder's map. And you could just attack any random student and they would duel you, i loved that detail. In legacy the students don't even react if you're shooting spells right at them.

Half-blood prince works the same but it’s way less boring.

Yes daddy!

Yes PS3's era was the dark age of desaturated crap

It has its charm though, makes me nostalgia seeing it.

​@@phaexalI dont know what are you talking about i play a lot ps3 games and everything look colorful and crisp maybe is your tv.

In this case, sure, but in many, if not most modern games, the warm coloring and overly realistic environments - are pretty boring, overused and make locations seem less creative/artistic, more similar to one another. Also, artists often can't pull out details without making your eyes having a hard time to focus on one particular thing with all the "Visual noise" you see on the screen. Which is why the older, more outdated technology actually made games look better, in a way, because game developers had limited space and resources which's forced them to only show you what they really wanted to show you, without all the extra unnecessary foliage, rocks, etc. - which often is just copy pasted and pretty randomly spread across the ground. This is also why Open World games are so boring to look at / explore, for the most part.

Well you know.. Technology keeps advancing so you have more to work with nowadays in terms of colour

No, it's not because of that, Hogwarts didn't change Its appearance. It's just the devopers of the game based their Hogwarts on its depiction from the books rather than films. So Hogwarts Legacy is just closer to the canon

@@thedamntrain this^^

In my headcanon Hogwarts can change its appearance and size depending on how many students attend Hogwarts. For example the common rooms and great hall can get bigger or smaller.

@@hansyolo9649 Makes sense

​@@thedamntrain I agree

That's my feeling towards Hogwarts Legacy too compared to the movies. Hogwarts doesn't have the ambience and look of an ancient 1000 year old castle. It leans way too much on the glamorous side.

My thought is because Hogwarts Legacy's timeline is different. It's way way back before Harry Potter which may be the reason why the castle is not that worn out yet. I read somewhere that the game's timeline took place around the 1890s, that's about a century before the events in the Harry Potter books and films. The first wizarding war hasn't taken place yet.

@@tinbear1121 the game is based on the books, not movies, just that.

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​@@tinbear1121 and, according to your beautiful logic, a thousand-year-old castle is brand new, and after some hundred years it has grown old It stood new for a thousand years, and sharply dilapidated in a hundred years.

the harry potter game had wayy better flying physics

​@@UncleLumbago0 I think they are equal, just different styles.

The Harry Potter games have assists in sharp turns and rotate the camera automatically so that’s why is easier but not better, in Hogwarts Legacy you control every single movement and camera angle

They need to make a quidditch game again last they made was on the original Xbox 🙄

@@Arachnophobia20 Wow that's a long time😂 But I think a pure Quidditch game wouldn't meet today's expectitions, I think it will akways be integrated into another, bigger game.

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But the staircases in Hogwarts legacy are based off the book

@@ConsumptiveSoul they don't. On the books they changed directions. The Legacy ones can't have that option being designed in a different way

@@morannonnorstund254 well yeah it be harder to do

​@@morannonnorstund254 why cant have that option?

@@morannonnorstund254 No thats not true. In the books they are NOT constantly moving. It is just mentioned, that they can lead on i.e. Friday somewhere else than on Thursday (but also only some staircases).

I got really tired of the bleakness after seeing it in so many movies (3, 4, 5, 6, 7 part 1 and 7 part 2) Too depressive considering it's supposed to be a world of magic

it should be angular like in the movies. That spiral staircase doesnt feel hogwartsy

​@@mikkihintikka7273 well the staircase is based off the books rather the movie a lot was taken from the books over the movie and I prefer that

@@plaxxle130 thanks

I would like to be able to fall down also instead of invisible walls -_-

@@plaxxle130 I don't recall the books saying the staircase is spiral. Not a fan of the spiral version either.

the time in hogwart legacy was a long time before the movie

​@@tienhoang5918 It's the same Hogwarts. I mean that the structure itself is very accurate to the film

They mixed the book and the movie version of Hogwarts together thats why its a little different

@@jennys4562 It’s the same Hogwarts but the game takes place in the 1800s. Just like schools in real life, they can be renovated in the future.

@@__mindflayer__ Yes, but the main structure is different. It wasn't a critique, I just pointed out why I liked the HBP game so much

Same. Felt so good to just throw a bench at other students.

Posh and ever so slightly pretentious

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The combat felt much more responsive in HBP and the character models looked better too.

@@Night_frost It’s because it’s been refined from the previous game. It’s a normal thing for studios to do. Except in normal video game titles they tend to have the budget/expectation to increase graphics quality. Which almost never happens for movie tie in games.

@@Night_frost wasn't HBP utter shit, extremely buggy and nearly all about it was just collecting stuff? I have the first 5 games and I remember that I didn't get the 6th because it was supposed to be pretty bad and very buggy too or having stuff coded in a way that makes small "mistakes" made by the player very punishing.

@@LunnarisLP Wasn’t buggy IIRC. It does have a lot to collect though (but not much more than OOTP).

legacy is based on the books

Well, it also may be cuz the story is set a century earlier than the films so who knows, they may have done renovations or changed things in a hundred years.

Shallow gameplay and fetch quests? Sounds like Hogwarts Legacy. The game is nothing more than a pretty movie-set.

@@amysteriousviewer3772 If you put HBP on the same boat as Legacy, you obviously never played either. Hogwarts Legacy has actual dungeons, hordes of enemies, actual combos, puzzles to solve, harvesting potion ingredients, stealth. HBP just makes you walk around the castle and do the same 3 things : potions, broken duels, on-rail Quidditch. You're obviously talking aimlessly here.

@@yrooxrksvi7142 I didn't put them on the same level I said that Hogwarts Legacy has shallow gameplay and fetch quests because it does. It has all those things you listed but none of them have any depth. It's a well designed world with barley anything worthwhile to do in it. Dungeons are short, Puzzles are repetitive and dead simple, collectibles are boring, combat is spamming the same 4 spells (yellow, purple, red + basic cast) over and over, brewing potions is literally just a menu, stealth is overpowered because the AI is so braindead. And the worst thing is that the only reward for doing anything is boring loot with arbitrary stats that don't have any tangible impact on gameplay.

@@amysteriousviewer3772 I disagree on the dungeons length, some may be shorter than others, but overall they last enough. Puzzles being repetitive is nothing new to Harry Potter games, I do wish there were more collectibles than money loot, clothes and guide pages though. As for combat, I have some gripes with how some spells have been handled : I don't like Stupefy being tied ONLY to counters and Petrificus Totalus strictly to stealth, as Glacius and Arresto Momentum feel like weaker versions that could have been used a bit more for interacting with the enviroment than just combat.

I agree. I remember playing the first few harry potter games and loving them. But then they stopped making it open world, the scope was diminished, so I stopped buying them.

HP 4 is trash

"Cute and fun" tf is cute and fun in graphics lmao

such a classic 2 me

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@@CITYZEN50 yeah gotta agree with the others, you haven't played it i assume, because that's exactly how i would describe it as well hah

Because it is based on the movies. I agree the new one looks too posh at times, but it is generally more accurate to the actual books.

Howart's it's a failing school. After WWII and magic war, Howart's became a dangerous place, no father wants expose his sons and prefers that study something to generate money.

@@hatoriddr Are you referencing your own fan fiction? I have no idea wth you’re talking about 😂

@@10293 U caught me!

It can’t keep up man let it rest in peace. The colors are boring and monotone and it’s just a dated game in general

09 definitely can’t keep up with 23. 09 was great for its time, but let’s not push it lol. If 09 was released today, that shit would get torn apart by these reviews lmao.

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They did because in gaming everything has to be quick and snappy, then people would be complaining about the opposite things (Oooo Door takes so much time to open takes, its not immersive) People always complain about things

@@BlazeZ__ i dont know why everything needs to be so quick. Why cant a fregging door take 1 second to open? Can’t you wait a second? The doors in this game are ridiculous, you touch a imense, heavy wood door from a castle and it just snaps open in a split of a second.

@@Dmplivemail Most devs do it so the flow of the gameplay is faster and traversal feels quicker. Which I prefer to something like RDR2 where everything takes a while to do.

@@kubamax9kubowski176 Im sure is matter of preference, of course. But it does takes on immersion: every time the character opens a huge door instantly, it feels like a Lego game.

@@Dmplivemail I mean, it sure is a matter of preferences but having a door opening quick is the least of my concerns tbh. It's just a door, not the entire game.

Doesn't matter. Even in the movies Hogwarts Layout changed like 4-5 times (removed Towers/Building, added new one, moved them somewhere else). Of course it's easier to be more accurate for game based on an specific movie. They did a great job in Hogwarts Legacy

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@@Sausagerills 😎👌

Felix Felicis potion

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He uses levioso at first when the purple beam shoots out. However when the yellow beam shouts out and he walks around with the barrel, that's wingardium leviosa. Both are in Hogwarts Legacy

Na verdade se passa em um tempo bem antigo ao atual de Harry Potter, provável que mudarão e adaptarão filelmente ao atualconforme as mudanças no tempo.

Escada do legacy nada a vê

É que a escadaria do legacy é fiel aos livros, as escadarias que se vê nos primeiros jogos é uma coisa dos filmes

@@theshenkz eu acredito que a maioria gostaria de vê as escadas do filmes, em alto nível, eu gostava dela já nos jogos anteriores, nessa geração iria ficar top, eu pelo menos... n curti

​​@@fernandodimi Além de as escadas do HL serem fiéis aos livros, também tem a questão de que HL se passa mais de 150 anos antes de Harry Potter. Dá pra pensar que várias coisas não são iguais porquê as coisas são antigas e vão mudando com o tempo.

Estamos hablando de un juego más antiguo si lo comparamos co el howars legacy para aquellos tiempos pues si estaba guapo pero ya se nota muncho la evolución de uno y otro

@@official_GameBest259 💀

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No you are not, almost every main commenter here prefers the old game more, so here you go

hey that is why it is called “magic”😂

@@user-ki5dq7vq6f 😂😂

they dont, the stairs changed direction in the books, which was whats so magical about them. the legacy ones are made up and dont have anything to do with the books

​@@mattiabarone9078 the reason for the stairs could be because of the reason that legacy is based way before and maybe Hogwarts makes changes through the years in some places

You do know a smaller square can fit inside a bigger circle...? Look at a floor plan of hogwarts and you'll see how it it's designed.

Year 7?

It's too narrow, the tables are too close to each other. And the roof and wall don't have a lot of details

Surely you cant be serious? The 2009 Great Hall looks like a hallway, with tables stuffed in. Narrow looking, and not great at all. Hogwarts Legacy made it look like a Great Hall.

@@vitorcomacento Yeah I agree it looks better in Hogwarts Legacy (OBVIOUSLY) but it's too small.

@@KuroKaii991 Yes, Hogwarts students study there for 7 years...

Oh yeah no Half-Blood Prince was really fun to play

Half blood Prince and prisoner of azkaban are definitely worth playing.

read the books play them all they are nice

Order of Phoenix as well actually it was that game that created this world half blood prince just built upon it. The games before order of Phoenix were quite different in every aspect. Order of Phoenix built this amazing hogwarts castle

@@siddarthbalakrishnan9657 it was nice to see the evolution of these games. i always compared them to the books. even the movies were spot on in almost every aspect. being a fan ofcourse i spotted some differences but they were so minor... it didnt even matter, it seems they really put a big effort into making them just as we imagined them

The npcs density in Phoenix game is waaaay higher. You can also talk and point wand to students. Hogwarts Legacy kinda gives me fanfic vibes

@@samuraibruga9177 I actually don’t know much about the other Harry Potter games, I’ve only seen some short gameplay videos. Comparing The two always reminds me of Grandtheft auto San Andreas versus Grandtheft auto 5. The first one was massive but lacked a lot of details that the future games had, and Grandtheft auto five was the most detailed although it just didn’t seem as fun and free is the first one.

​@Clem F no, it's totally different. Flying on a broomstick shouldn't be easy, and in HP games it seemed to be something simple, very hard. just go through the hoops without moving too much. Hogwarts Legacy shows the complexity and precision needed to fly

@Clem F I just watched the clips over and I'm pretty sure in the Hogwartz Legacy gameplay the broom is flying at its top speed lol. I've watched most of the gameplay of H.L. and saw the lessons they took on the broom etc. as well. Comparing thoee 2 clips though, the Harry potter game looks so much better (more magical) because when the camera pans as harry turns back into the ring, you get an affect feeling as if you're actually flying and cutting a sharp turn. Youre trying to keep up with the stich just like in the movie, although I do agree it may be too easy for the controls as this other commenter said. Whereas on the Hogwartz game, I really don't like how the camera angle is controlled. I haven't played it but I'm assuming it's manually controlled by the joystick. Both games are doing the exact same thing and even though the graphics aren't the same at all, the harry potter game just looks better and embodies the feeling of flying better.

@Clem F Looks like he used the turbo briefly at the beginning in this video. You also fly faster when closer to the ground I heard.

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