Yes, Hogwarts Legacy includes a trans NPC who runs a pub, I believe.
I stand corrected on that detail.
Moving on my focus on sales stand I believe very strongly Hogwarts Legacy will be among top 5 sales of 2023 game titles and I plan to buy it but not before one can buy it with clear discount. As for BG3 it got a head start with Early Access sales I bought BG3 a long time ago so in BG3 case to sales should be included Early Access buy of course.
Diablo IV is such a big IP I would not be surprised if Diablo IV sells well at least if they can avoid to make it pay to win which is a bit unknown currently. Starfield might satisfy those player who want future SCIFI world and is a big title released in 2023 and Company of Heroes 3 offers a strategy game. I am sure many bit titles released in 2023 exist, but lets see how it goes and I mentioned as example some big titles.
I was reading some posts the other day of some people hyped for Starfield talking about how stupid people are that don't reaiize Starfield would be 'the biggest release in years'. And I was like... with Hogwarts Legacy, Diablo IV, Zelda, Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2, Baldur's Gate 3 and Spider-Man 2 along with it being an Xbox exclusive I'm not sure if it will be in the top 3 games sales wise for 2023 (though it probably will be) - let alone the 'biggest release in years'.
2023 is packed.
I am not expert on how well Starfield will sell that remains to be seen yet many times it is named as big title for 2023. Personally my interest is more fantasy then SCIFI anyway. I did have added sigh Zelda™: Tears of the Kingdom to top selling games, but that was post you quoted me.
Well and this has been ongoing to promote games release in Asia or none Asia. Personally I am not interested usually in Asia developed games due to their unrealistic and fast combat systems and top that with heavy pay to win though of course some exceptions might exist and yes many Western released games are also pay to win.
People tend to talk about the games they like.
There is one Asia developed game that interest me and not because it will sell most and that is Throne of Liberty MMO aka Lineage 3 that I will perhaps buy.
I am not saying it is wrong to like unrealistic combat. It is personal subjective taste. I have trained martial arts myself example Karate and Tae Kwon Do. In movies I tend to dislike martial arts movies that have unrealistic combat example people can even fly and stuff like that.
Now fantasy has of course fantasy stuff that is true not realistic, but I like if the melee combat and ranged example bow has some amount of fair realism to it. While many Asian games released is more about fancy looking moves and very fast (and stressful) combat gameplay. That is not all I find tab targeting very relaxing and nice. That said example Neverwinter ONLINE MMO that I played had Action combat and I liked it, but they did in Neverwinter ONLINE MMO makes the moves at least fairly realistic looking (if it is Hitpoints that is ok I am not talking about realism how much damage one can take and stay alive and able to fight) and not some flying in air stuff or a sword that is over 3 meters long. Now this is subjective taste, but I like more like fairly realistic combat and I tried to explain myself.
