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Otter on 12 October 2022
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JuliusHackebeil said:
Otter said:

The franchise is still huge, but a big franchise doesn't mean all endevours are massively successful (see Pokemon spinoffs like Pokken). The thing about Hogwarts is that it taps into every Harry Potters fans antasy, its the at the heart of what made the IP successful. It will have a massive fanbase amongst casual gamers, so might be hard to gauge the hype from your perspective... But to put some data to our speculation, the reveal trailer is the most watched game trailer on the playstation channels History.

1. Hogwarts 30m
2. Spiderman (E3 2016) reveal 29m
3. Marvels Spiderman 2 reveal 25m
4. Marvel Spiderman (E3 2017)
5. God of War 23m

The big variable will be quality. But if the game is good, it will easily trump almost all AAA releases we see next year. 

Wow! Colour me absolutely surprised! Did not expect at all that Hogwarts would have that amount of views. I think you are right that it is hard for me to gauge the hype.

I guess we will see. I hope of course that it turns out to be an excellent game. But I have a bad feeling about it for some reason. Combat looks blah to me. Not that this proved to be all important for general audiences in the past. But also the characters seem off brand for some reason. I don't know.

I'm cautiously optimistic. They're building a gameplay/combat system from scratch without too many direct competitors to reference, so I'm expecting some growing pains, but I think it'll be a solid foundation to build a franchise from. And as long as they get the world building and atmosphere right, I think the core gameplay could be quite average and it'll still tick the most important box for the fanbase. Would love for it to come out the gates swinging with an 88-92 metacritic, but I'm expecting a high 70s/low 80s which would be a great achievement for a relatively unknown team on an open world AAA RPG.