Originally Posted by Warlocke
No. Somebody politely asking you to refrain from a topic of discussion is not indicative that they care to discuss that topic. Obviously.
While that statement can not be proven either way if your response indicate that you care or do not care. This was before that had to with my modding game system on Pillars of Eternity 2 characters when you responded with huge facepalm picture and your response was the very first response to that post. If that is not a reaction then I do not know what is reaction?

Anyway after I considered what is fare to do I did put that specific part into spoilers and lets not discuss that subject you reacted with facepalm at least not outside any spoiler. If I discuss POE2 I do not need feel that I need to go into that detail level so deep anymore or if I do I will remember to put that part into spoiler.

Originally Posted by Silver/
Originally Posted by Terminator2020
Originally Posted by timebean
Been playing Hogwarts. Beautiful graphics, fun spells, decent story…but its major mechanic is literally “dress up your wizard by grinding”. So only a 6/10 for me, personally.

Did anyone here play Tyranny by chance? A shorter game, but I personally enjoyed it. Curious what other more hard core rpg gamers thought about it.
Actually not 100% true. You can optionally in Hogwarts if you want buy with real money cosmetics in the cash shop then there is less grind to get the cosmetic item. However you can not buy power in that game. Have not played Hogwarts, but I know it from the review. However this grind and lack of enough good cosmetic item rewards was the bad I did not say in my last comment.

You know there is lots of grind in WOW MMO and Neverwinter Nights ONLINE MMO yet I enjoyed them for years. Of course they had the ultimate carrot though grind for power and not oosmetics! Well ok it was some grind to get fastest horse in Neverwinter Nights ONLINE MMO to earn that took look time. That horse was example of things that does not give power it does not help in combat you unmount in Neverwinter ONLINE MMO.
Um, yeah... There's games which drive on beautiful cosmetics and games that don't. As far as I can see, Hogwarts would, for example, have you pay 20-120€ (from memory) for a slightly different wand. That isn't really comparable to a skin that makes your char look completely different.

The grind for power and largely pew pew spell combat are also major turn offs. I don't like the story at all from what I've seen of it. Maybe the writing is good, maybe it's horrible... but it just doesn't appeal to me

Politically, it's not the ultra left that condemns it (like communists) it's LGBT people and allies from all kinds of political leanings.

Whatever you think of this, almost everyone was united in their dislike for SIRona RYAN for one precious moment. Rumour has it Rowling's Manina Dress wasn't approved by their PR department. (This is a joke)

You are true about many things you say I stand corrected on that detail except LGBT usually are considered a faction within the left. Wired gave it 1/10 Hogwarts review and on top of that Wired Director defended later that 1/10 review. Well and Wired is generally very much left indeed.

This model of grind for power or to grind for cosmetics is like apples vs oranges I am not saying anything is wrong regarding that. It is kind of subjective taste what you want as gamer.
In a perfect world though everything gaming should feel nice to do and not like a grind though, but here is the challenge with that. If you have no grinding if you do not want people to complain it is to short game then it demands lots of work from the developers to create such a game.

Last edited by Terminator2020; 20/02/23 12:04 AM.