Thread 12034372

Let's talk about the retro Harry Potter games. Did you get to play them at the time? Which one is your favorite? Do you think they managed to capture the magic of the books and movies?
Did you play the console or PC versions of 1-3? They are completely different games, made by different developers. Also, did you play the handheld turn-based RPGs?

I played first one on PC as a kid and never could beat Voldemort, I also played the 6th one much later
I am going through all versions of the first 3 games and I'm playing CoS on the GBC right now, it's definiely an improvement on the first.
I heard Goblet of Fire really sucks and games ghet much worse after the 3rd one so I'm gonna skip it and play Ordel of Phoenix after that

My dad's friend got me a copy of the first one on PC and I remember it being weird and not very good. Despite being licensed around the time of the movies it had characters that were only in the books and kid-me expected some kind of rpg where you can roam the school, attend lessons, play quiddich etc (which i guess is what that hogwarts game is) but instead it was a mid 3D platformer.

>>12034381
As someone who extensively played the first GBC game, can you explain some of the improvements?

>>12034386
Spell casting is much easier and there are more side activities, you play as multiple characters and not just Harry

What are the differences between Chamber of Secrets on PC versus console? Are there differences between the console versions too?

>>12034372 (OP)
>Did you get to play them at the time?
Was born in '93 so yep. Honestly, I was always the HP1-3 kid - I never watched 4th - 7th movies in cinema and only saw second part of 7th film when I was already in my 20s, I never played HP games beyond 1-3 and I never really liked where the series went starting from 4th book.
>Which one is your favorite?
Probably Chamber of Secrets on PC, I think it had the best ratio of content (lesson challenges, exploring the castle, magic duels, three types of magician cards to collect) and nothing felt too rough or too boring for me to give up.
>Do you think they managed to capture the magic of the books and movies?
They had many different devs (except HP4 and onwards which was managed by the same dev studio) so the atmosphere varied. I still think first two movies by Columbus are 10/10 and I think I enjoyed them more than books themselves, but third book is probably my favourite and I'm saddened by how gutted third movie ended up being. So when you compare my feelings about the games compared to books and movies... I'd say first two games did really well in their circumstances (in terms of hardware and its graphics compared to movies) but I didn't like the third game because I didn't really like the third movie and too much stuff was missing from third book.
>Did you play the console or PC versions of 1-3?
I played HP1, 2 and 3 on PC, HP1 on PS1 and Quidditch World Cup on PC. I played a bit of HP2 on PS2 but didn't get very far.
>Also, did you play the handheld turn-based RPGs?
The GBC ones? No, but I've heard they're really good.
>captcha - HWVRY
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>>12034412
First 2 games had 5 different versions, PC, PS1, 6th gen consoles, GBC and GBA
Prisoner of Azkaban only had 3, consoles, PC and GBA
From 4th game onward there were basically just different versions for consoles/PC and handhelds

Also oddly enough Philosopher's Stone on the 6th gen consoles came out after Chamber of Secrets and reuses lots of assets from that game

>>12034470
>but third book is probably my favourite and I'm saddened by how gutted third movie ended up being
What stuff was missing from the movie? It's odd because many people regard it as the best film in the series

Chamber on PC is my fave
I played the PS2 version a little bit but the broom flying lesson filters me

Kinda unrelated but I also played the PC version of Shrek 2 as a kid which was also made by KnowWonder who did the Harry Potter games on PC
I heard it's worse than console versions but haven't tried those

>>12034519
I think they also made the Brother Bear PC game, I played that one back then

>>12034523
Yes I played that one as well, got it as a present
And Finding Nemo which was a point and click adventure

>>12034485
Pretty much every activity outside of Hogwarts (aka slice of life) is cut or watered down.
>first few chapters of the book being so fucking rushed in the movie
>Hey, remember quidditch? Welp, it's pretty much gone now! But hey, here's a short moment with Fireblot from the middle of the book that was moved to the end of the movie for no fucking reason! But at least you get pic related!
>Hogsmeade parts are short and brief compared to the book, and they're the most comfy parts of the book
>I think the movie spent waaaaaaaaay too much time on Buckbeak and Time-Turner, probably because time travel and animated hippogriff would sell the movie
>pretty sure the drama between Ron and Hermione due to their animals was toned down in the movie compared to book (which is funny because 7th book was FULL of that crap and it WAS in the movie as well but it was way worse compared to their selves from third book)
>not really related to book contents, but holy fuck dropping the robes and going for muggle clothes was a mistake
And a bunch of small episodes either being cut or shortened as well
Honestly, it was an issue of every movie past the second one - page count got higher and higher with each book while the screentime was still limited to 2-3 hours. Maybe they should've split good books into two movies and not the final book where the first movie was a snoozefest with Twilight tier of forced drama

Chamber of Secrets on PC and Prisoner of Azkaban on Gamecube were my childhood. The former was actually one of the first video games I ever owned. One cool detail about CoS on PC was that during the installation, you'd see screenshots of all the different versions of the game. I also remember being scared of opening a chest and having that one ghost enemy jump at me, as well as the plant things that would attack you if you got too close, I actually got stuck on the forbidden forest for a bit because of that. I remember still booting up the game a couple of times after finishing it, just to wander around a bit. I actually replayed it a couple of years ago, played for like 10 hours straight and did everything.
I played through the PC version of HP1 once, it was entertaining but too linear compared to CoS. I don't really have much to say about it.
I got PoA as a christmas gift, I remember getting stuck at an early game puzzle and having to restart the campaign a bunch of times, I ended up figuring it out, though. It wasn't as comfy as CoS but the dungeons and free roaming were still pretty cool. Me and my sister would often just wander around the halls or the grounds.
I rented Goblet of Fire and beat it after playing for a day. I don't remember much other than it being more like an isometric action game.
I want to play through the console versions of the first two games someday. Anyway, I have to post this everytime the topic comes up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEgLvaMDT4E

Ps1 harry potter 1 dubbed to your language is pretty cool.

I want my hogwarts letter bros...

>>12034745
the first HP console game dubbed in my langugage is Azkaban PS2

>>12034762
It's over for us, anon...

>>12034762
>Dear, Anon Potter. You are receiving this letter, because you are not like the other boys and girls. You have special gifts that you were born with. These gifts are powerful and need to be harnessed properly. This is an acceptance letter to Cockwarts school of dickcraft and buttfuckery. Here at Cockwarts, you'll be groomed by the most leftist, communist of pedophiles and even some far right Nazis! You will be taught how to be a human cum dumpster for rich elitists and in recompense you will be sacrificed to an ancient deity. We hope you enjoy your stay!

>>12034797
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>>12034776
It's never too late to dub it the first game.

>>12034797
mental illness
CAPTCHA: ATGAY

>>12034513
It was couple of years ago when I finished ps2 version for first time.
It was fun nostalgia trip and better thanI thought.
When I was a child I didn't know english well enough to find missions and I just ran around the castle.

>>12034745
PS2 games are something special.

>>12034881
Dumb me.
I meant 1

>>12034881
Mistä tiesit et tarkotin just tälle kielelle.

to anyone who played both the console and pc versions, which do you prefer?

Btw I find it fascinating there were like 6 different versions of most of these games where every single platform got a different one and that might have not been super rare at the time but still. It's not like they used mostly same assets or script but they made every game different from ground up.

>>12034372 (OP)
I remember borrowing the first game for PSX from a friend at the time.

Very fun and fitting game honestly.

I get that a gba, ps1 and ps2/gc/xbox/pc will already means 3 different imaginations of the game but iirc they made pc and all the console ports different. Haven't played them tho.

Chamber of Secrets on PC was my childhood.

>>12034891
The PC versions are better, more fleshed out platformers. The console versions felt a bit more like a story book psuedo-adventure game and have a special charm to them.

>>12034381
>I played first one on PC
Yup and it was amazing

>>12034372 (OP)
i put 200 hours into the game boy colour games as a kid, did new game +7 or so in chamber of secrets trying to get the last few cards, could never complete the bestiary either

>>12035571
https://youtu.be/mdLrUo_O52E?si=6XHVzh5uVuEvE5jP
https://youtu.be/l4ssW7D13Sc?si=0KFQuctqgp0UrSBa
https://youtu.be/8eEWlywTa8E?si=3nB1feir1F8uz76m
https://youtu.be/HT1bY64RLuM?si=j4pIXhbAHEy7INlg
https://youtu.be/ykYdmRa-K-0?si=X5E_tHhJNA5tDV00

Never played them back in the day but I did go through the first few pc versions a while ago for that simple charm they have. They capture a certain je ne sais quoi that a lot of platformers of the era did where they were aimed at children but kept a certain something in the style/presentation that kept them grounded for want of a better term.

My favorites are 1 and 2 on the PC. I just love how Hogwarts is depicted in those games. Exploring it was magical, you never knew what you'd find. I really like the lighting too: it makes the place feel wondrous. My favorite part are the spell challenges where you're left to your own devices in a new area of Hogwarts, even if in reality that would be scary as hell if you had to do it as part of the curriculum.
Also, Jeremy Soule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxeIZutIklQ

>>12034485
>many people regard it as the best film in the series
These tend to be normies who watched some shitty YouTube essay about how Cuarón's cinematography is the only good one in the series and parrot it nonstop. In reality everything people dislike about the later firms started with this one, and as an adaptation it sucked not just because it removed things, but because it added bullshit filler instead: the entire backstory of the map that explained Sirius' motivations was removed, but we had like ten minutes of "funny" rastafaro bus shenanigans.

>>12035714
Jeremy's music is half of what makes these games so special.

>>12034797
Barry Trotter did it better

>>12034479
what are the best versions of chamber of secrets/the ones worth playing?

>>12036615
Pretty much all of them except the GBA one
PC, GBC and PS2 are probably the best depending on your preference

Deh

>>12034372 (OP)
I never played any of them, what does hermione look like?

>>12034385
They fucked up so hard. Make one good open world map of Hogwarts to use as a base and then add other areas as needed. Copy paste Potter shit into Bully, add bits as needed and you have like 7 games.

>>12036894
she looks cute in the third game

>>12036923
I thought the new game would be this but still no. It was even worse. And it had some annoying grand narrative chosen one shit
I don't fucking get it. A fucking Bully inspired Harry Potter game would be great
You even have precedent for troublemaking with the weasleys and them encouraging the next generation to copy them and having their joke shop.
Its just so crazy to me. They could have a personal story like Bully too that revolves around the school. Not some big Wizarding world event.

When I played the old Harry Potter games as a kid I roleplayed as just a regular student a lot

>>12034372 (OP)
I had the first one on PC and always got filtered by the platforming, but it had a charm and character to it. It was somewhat like that Fellowship of the Ring game that came out around the same time as the film but clearly wasn't part of the Peter Jackson Cinematic Ringverse.

>>12037101
Shut up nerd

I played console Chamber and Prisoner, the GBA Chamber, and Gameboy Sorcerer's and Chamber.
I loved the art and music of the gameboy games, pretty bog standard RPG but I fucking loved walking around just tapping A for invisible items and cards in foreground spots, one of the more rewarding games for finding minor invisible secrets.
The isoplatformer that the GBA game was was also fun, simple, not amazing but not shite. The stealth segments never worked right though.
Speaking of stealth that was probably the jankiest parts of the console games, as I could never beat Chamber because of some mid/late game level of sneaking into the restricted section of the library. I did appreciate what the game was trying to do, like some platformer/puzzle solver/combat game, a jack of all trades. The broomstick flying segments were also neat for the time, getting to fly around the empty sandbox of Hogwarts. Though I will also say the fact taking damage causes 10 beans to erupt from you and those beans jumped out of bounds was just such a dick move.
https://youtu.be/mae2i1atCWk?t=14m5s

>released in december 2003
Anyone played 6th gen Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone? How is it?

>>12038743
It's a blatant asset flip that recycles over half of the content from Chamber of Secrets, it's still decent if you want more Harry Potter though

>>12034372 (OP)
my first HP game was 2 on the PSX and i did later on play the first one.
did play the first 3 ones that released on GBA + quidditch game
Dont remember many details but i had a good time with the.

>>12034408
But youre harry. Just harry.

>>12034797
Kek

>>12034412
The PS2 one has a loading screen for just about every door you opened. It was fine on release. Second playthrough just 2 years later was painful. Third playthrough was impossible.

>>12038743
I grew up with the 6th generation console games and really liked them. I can't get into the earlier more platformy ones

>>12039783
The 6th gen games aren't platformers? Guess I gotta try them one of these days, only played the PC versions

I never realized people liked these games. so I tried a few and was refreshed by the fact that people are retarded

>>12040589
Do you happen to only play mature games for mature gamers such as yourself?

>>12040589
You have no heart or soul.

i had CoS on gamecube and CoS on GBC and CoS on GBA and CoS on pc because my grandparents just kept buying me the different ports for christmas 3-4 years in a row.

never got any of the other games so ive been playing stone on ps2 for the last few days, its aged really well honestly

>>12034372 (OP)
I have played and beaten Harry Potter 1(PS1), 2 (GC and GBC), 3(GC and GBA) and 4 (DS). Surprisingly I think my favorites were the Gameboy ones. Pretty solid RPGs.

>>12034372 (OP)
I had the PS1 game for the first movie, and the GBC game of the first movie.

The PS1 game wasn't that great, but it was short and colourful with plenty of set pieces, so I enjoyed it.

The GBC game was genuinely great. Really solid pixel art, a fairly large and realised world for the GBC - didn't feel generic at all either, a simple but solid turn-based combat system, and the house points gave a diagetic reason to engage with side content. I played it through dozens of times despite having a lot of other consoles and games that were arguably "better".

>>12041847
>>12041860
Well, looks like I gotta play the Gameboy games one of these days.

>>12034372 (OP)
My parents weren't perfect but I will be forever grateful that they bought me actual games instead of licensed movie shit. If you think you enjoyed this stuff, let me correct you: you didn't. No, it was not "actually good", I did not "miss out", or whatever cope you want to use. Each and every licensed game outside of one in a million releases like Goldeneye and Riddick is shitty, bottom of the barrel, grandpa's-elementary-school-graduation-gift-tier garbage. I cannot fathom playing this shit, let alone having nostalgia for it. The 2000s was absolutely soaked with the piss of Harry Potter, Shrek, Star Wars, and shitty cartoons. It is legitimately mindblowing to me that anyone could look back on this stuff with fondness. Licensed games are utterly soulless.

>>12042223
Cope. https://youtu.be/-bNCGR1D9WE

>>12042241
>you didn't grow up with licensed games, c-cope...
Lmao

>you did NOT have fun
what a weird thing to say

>>12042251
>Licensed games are utterly soulless.
Cope.

>>12040589
>>12042223
Imagine being so devoid of joy and mirth that you HAVE to bring everyone down with you.

>>12042241
>>12042251
>>12042273
>>12042274
>>12042278
they hated him because he spoke the truth

>>12034385
That’s because they werent Able to get enough references from the movie so they opted to take inspiration from the book. It’s why they would remake the first one later on next gen consoles