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[IbizaPocholo]

 

[GametimeUK]

This is hilarious, but comparing anything to RDR2 is just unfair, man.

 

[Irobot82]

Rockstar always takes every detail to the extreme. It's amazing what they do.

I also wonder what the budgets between the two games are.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Rockstar’s attention to detail is unparalleled. RDR2 is the fucking GoAT

 

[Germuso]

But Howards triggers more

 

[Gaiff]

 

[mansoor1980]

But Howards triggers more

 

[Guilty_AI]

Exactly how i felt about the game.
People praise it for these small details, but it misses the ball horribly in what should be some of the most basic aspects of a game.

 

[Yoboman]

Cool detail that doesn't matter one bit

 

[ANDS]

Slow news day I suppose.

Cool detail that doesn't matter one bit

It's an odd thing to post honestly, given how much detail exists in other areas of the game (like everywhere else).

 

[Azurro]

RDR2 most likely had a much bigger budget to play with, and 99% of the players will never pay attention to what those NPCs are exactly doing. They could have gone with a better animation, sure, but yeah, not a big deal.

 

[Jack Videogames]

I never realized how much food is there just lying around in Hogwarts. Took a trip from the common room to the stairs and had two cups of tea, three apples and some cake I found along the way. It's weird there aren't more fat wizards

 

[Magic Carpet]

Are they holding the forks like wands?

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I was never expecting RDR2 levels of detail but wow, that looks hilariously bad! They’re just waving a fork in the air, the arms/hands even look terrible.

They couldn’t even just nail a simple plate to mouth animation with the food remaining static?

 

[Loke]

I never realized how much food is there just lying around in Hogwarts. Took a trip from the common room to the stairs and had two cups of tea, three apples and some cake I found along the way. It's weird there aren't more fat wizards

They do crazy cardio probably.

 

[Deerock71]

Tell those missing checkmarks to my 10-year old. He loves the game so much I feel like he's going to fall through our 4K tv. He's also rich in the game because of all the trading he's done.

 

[SmokedMeat]

What mouth breather made this checklist? The game’s fun as hell!

Bah!

 

[AJUMP23]

I cannot play with such poor detail.

 

[DeepEnigma]

RDR2 is GOAT.

Too bad T2/R* don’t appreciate their fans. All 50m+ of them.

 

[Gaiff]

Tell those missing checkmarks to my 10-year old. He loves the game so much I feel like he's going to fall through our 4K tv. He's also rich in the game because of all the trading he's done.

 

[SportsFan581]

I never realized how much food is there just lying around in Hogwarts. Took a trip from the common room to the stairs and had two cups of tea, three apples and some cake I found along the way. It's weird there aren't more fat wizards

They do a skinny spell on themselves every day.

The animations cause the NPCs look more like puppets with strings there, I guess they are all also heavy drinkers and can barely get the forks to their faces. I was considering putting the game on my purchase on sale list, but if the NPCs are all drunk and don't clean their plates, I don't know.

 

[Myths]

Rockstar is unmatched when it comes to small details, be it character movement, gestures, and/or actions/responses.

 

[Balducci30]

Holy shit I never even noticed that when I played rdr2 - I wonder when there will be a game that beats it in the details department. I feel like you’d have to “crunch” to do all the weird things in there

 

[Flabagast]

I also wonder what the budgets between the two games are.

RDR2 budget must be four times the one of Hogwarts Legacy

 

[Guilty_AI]

Tell those missing checkmarks to my 10-year old. He loves the game so much I feel like he's going to fall through our 4K tv. He's also rich in the game because of all the trading he's done.

"See that hooker son? You can have her give you a bath. Then rob her."

 

[rofif]

None of this crap matters.
They wasted so much time putting these details into rdr2 instead of focusing on better missions variety and controls.

 

[Laieon]

It hurts that we'll never get Undead Nightmare 2.

 

[Ghost23]

Yea how can you even compare this? Rockstar had 2000 people with an endless amount of time and money to put into RDR2. It would be insanely naive to think Avalanche could have achieved this level of detail

 

[Fbh]

I mean sure but if you are on console at least you can see NPC's eat in 60fps in Hogwarts Legacy

 

[Paasei]

I’d rather have good gameplay, though. Something Rockstar seems to be terrible at, still.

Gotta admit. Their attention to detail is great. Just hope they put that attention and hard work somewhere else.

 

[Bekind]

To be fair, RDR2 is a great game, and it was the only game that i tried so hard not to fall asleep when playing it, and i failed.

Then it became one of my favorite because of its special feature: bedtime game.

Whenever i can't fall asleep at night, RDR2 would always be one and only game for me to play before bed, it does help me get into sleep mode very fast. Just turn on the game, and after 10 mins i would already be snorzing, and it works every single time. What a great game.

 

[Moriah20]

It's hilarious how cynical some of you are, and can't just accept that it's a cool detail and immediately try and clap back at one of the most sucecssful games of the 8th gen. I'm pretty sure the gameplay designers of Hogwarts and RDR 2 weren't the ones working on adding minutea detail and animations.

 

[Represent.]

Game deserved the 1/10

 

[Luipadre]

This is pretty stupid. Hogwarts also has tons of attention to detail in other areas

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Rockstar always takes every detail to the extreme. It's amazing what they do.

 

[shaddam]

I could only play RD2 for maybe 3 hours and NOTHING happened. I loved the first one, but RDR 2 was my biggest preorder regret.

 

[ckaneo]

Im pissed Rockstar never updated the controls

 

[GymWolf]

Nobody is gonna come close to the amount of micro details in the world of rdr2 until gta6.

 

[semiconscious]

yep. you can love the game & still acknowledge the truth of this...

 

[SeraphJan]

What a coincident that the latter 5 criteria are totally subjective

 

[Arachnid]

This is devastating to those who bought Hogwarts to watch NPCs eat.

 

[vodka-bull]

Nobody is gonna come close to the amount of micro details in the world of rdr2 until gta6.

But RDR2 taught me to not preorder a R* game again and if GTA6 turns out to be as boring as RDR2 many people will pass.

 

[Supple]

Im pissed Rockstar never updated the controls

Their tank controls in their GTA and RDR games are the worst.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

This is devastating to those who bought Hogwarts to watch NPCs eat.

Yeah I couldn't cope.
Had to pass on this purchase. The Wired review also got me worried..

 

[rabbity-thing]

My brain is broken y'alls. I was expecting more droids.

 

[Nankatsu]

Rockstar's Hogwarts when?

 

[EDMIX]

I agree with many saying Rockstar are unmatched in this area, but they gave the blueprint years ago, there is no excuse to ignore some of those details in a game where you know people will be eating.



So what are we saying? The Sim's modders are on the level of this team? lol

So hopefully with a sequel these details are made.

 

[PonyStation4]

 

[Mozzarella]

I hope game devs dont take these comparison videos by filthy casuals serious, because if they do its doomed, not only this makes lower budget dev struggle with game development time and management but it also puts game design priorities on the wrong things.

 

[Ozriel]

None of that level of detail matters, tbh.