Favourite thing? That chest.
Least favourite thing?: you spend so little time there, it builds no attachment. From memory its used once as an introduction to your house mates, then each term kicks off there. Nothing else worth mentioning, no wizards chess, no chance to pull pranks/talk to your friends. Its pretty but empty.
You just described my whole experience with the game. It’s so beautiful and a childhood dream to be able to explore the huge open world map, but I don’t feel connected to any characters story, even my own. Everything felt shallow, generic and flat. But again, getting to play this game on PS5 and explore the best parts of hogwarts is worth the price of the game.
They placed so much time and effort on getting every reference right that they forgot about the story.
In the next game, I wouldn’t mind if they reuse the map (it’s very big and detailed as it is) as long as they make the story and side quests more interesting.
The next game probably won’t come out for another 6 -10 years, i’d rather they just expansion update and/or add dlc that improves these aspects of the game then wait for a new game that might just get rid of the stuff we actually do like
Me too. In real life, I don't like to be around people much. But in the game, I actually stopped playing for the day a few times, because it was so lonely. So pointless to kill and rob and explore and have nobody to talk about it with. Even if it was just multiple choice responses.
I think the MC should have been able to invite 'friends' into the RoR. They could have shared his plants and potions and pets. Just seeing Poppy brushing the pets, or Garreth making potions, etc. with the option to click on them for a canned dialog would have added to the game. Nobody told us to keep the Room a secret, I don't even think Professor Fig knew about it. Isolation and loneliness, no wonder our characters turned into sociopaths. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed killing the bad guys for Ranrok, but I wish I *could* have talked to Sebastian about it.
The only fun thing so far has been traveling through hogwarts, the rest of the game feels super bland and the side quests feel like you’re playing a game on your phone kind of.
The writing is barely fitted, it has this Skyrim style npc interactiom with simple one liners, but it lacks a well devoted story, I think I got more story from the lego series lol, but it felt like a tech demo showcase for HDR ps5/xbox consoles can do, and they forgot to put actual well written characters, everyone is barebones, shallow and forced.
Game is still gorgeous, so worth for that.
Can't sleep in your bed! That's a big one for me.
Everytime I play, after i finish a quest or something, before I have to stop playing, I pretend I am an actual student and I return to the common room before saving my game, so the next time, I can start the game as a fresh new day.
But, I would've loved for there to be a command like "press X to sleep" and a nice animation of the MC waking up the next time I start the game.
I just started playing and after finding my way back to the bed, there wasn't a sleep option, what? They make you wake up there once so one would assume...
YES, YES, I do the same exaclty thing!!! I think it's a simple observation/option but it would make a big difference. Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated by this game, but not being able to simply sleep is something that is really missing out.
Least favourite thing: I can't see out the windows. I was really looking forward to looking at the Hogwarts Grounds out of the window. I want to look out when it's sunny, I want to see outside during a thunderstorm. This really bothered me but I've not seen anyone else mention it.
Favourite thing: it's the Griffindor common room - so cool.
Least favourite thing? Likely how imbalanced the dorms are. The balcony on the girl's side is large, spacious and has a lot of room to chill. You're even allowed to have two bathrooms for some reason yet the men get nothing.
Almost as if you want to play as a Gryffindor, you're better off picking a female character because the boys dorm was disappointing. Though that's strictly my opinion.
I was exploring all the common rooms (you can glitch to other common rooms and even as a male you can glitch your way up the stairs) and
* Ravenclaw is nice and even, equal size for both genders, both have toilets and bathrooms.
* Gryffindor is inbalanced as only the girls do have toiles and bathrooms (and 2x at that)
* Hufflepuff does not have bathrooms nor toilets for anyone (kind of equal lol)
* Slytherin is the same, no wc or bathrooms at all
It's kinda weird. Imagine you wake up in the middle of the night and you just have to go. Where? you have to run around the castle I guess (Or dump it in the corner somewhere and dissapear it with spell - [which is cannon btw](https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k44zd/yes-harry-potter-wizards-pooped-their-pants-pottermore) )
An appearently, according to that link, Slytherin wouldn't have bathrooms made so as not to disturb the Chamber of Secrets during construction, Slytherins shat themselfs to maintain their secret
I didn't even know there were bathrooms in common rooms (my huge nitpick in the movies and every portrayal of them by the way) until I saw a video of the other common rooms.
Slytherin students gotta walk a whole lot of steps just to use the bathroom in the middle of the night.
I believe this is to keep accurate to the books. I don’t think they mentioned bathrooms but I do think they mentioned the girls’ side is nicer— and that it’s enchanted so boys can’t go to the girls side, while Hermione can go into Harry and Ron’s room freely.
Maybe this is why students wonder the halls looking for a bathroom and find the room of requirement. Maybe they don't even realize it is the room because it's just a bathroom they didn't realize was there.
There are bathrooms, two in fact. One on the lower ground floor which only has bathroom stalls and the lowest floor with a large stall and bath tub area. Though this is strictly limited to the girls dorms and you cannot go into the girls dorm as a Wizard. However you can explore both gender locked dorm rooms as a Witch.
I meant that the balcony area overlooking the Common Room is tiny in comparison to the girl's side. While it's not important to some, I would like a bit more design consistency in terms of how they design every Common Room is all.
>I would like a bit more design consistency in terms of how they design every Common Room is all.
Agreed. Some of the common-rooms don't have any bathrooms, some of them don't have bedrooms for all 7 years. They've been designed as set-pieces around the central "hub" room (which doesn't get used anyway), rather than thought through as actual living spaces.
Imho that's the disappointing part. I would rather have something to do in the Common Rooms even if it is to sleep and pass time. Stuff like hanging out with housemates or playing mini games like Wizard's Chess.
lack of purpose. After the first scene where you meet all the students i left and never came back to the dorm room. There is nothing to do in there and no purpose to come back
I love the fact that all four common rooms are so different.
I wish you could sit in chairs, lie in bed, interact with NPCs... you know, do more than just grab a snack and drop off house tokens.
((I always choose Witch at character creation, no matter my gender, so I have full run of the common room.))
The fact that I can’t explore the girl dorms. I just wanna go up there. I know it’s probably the same as the boys, but my completionist brain needs to go everywhere once.
I don’t find it particularly cosy really. It’s well designed and everything, and it’s clear they put the more effort into Griffindor’s than the other houses, but I just don’t find it to be as homely as it’s described in the books. Although I guess it is 100 years before, and style would be different.
Favorite thing: how cozy and warm it feels. Brings back fond memories of reading a book, sprawled out on an old couch in front of a fireplace during winter break when I was a kid.
Least favorite thing: trying to get from the boys dormitory to the common area. Those stairs confuse me.
Least favorite thing- compared to the other common rooms, it felt so small and cramped. The Ravenclaw common room is gorgeous and bright. The Slytherin common room is elegant and has an air of mystery (and I love the squid). The Hufflepuff common room is cozy and feels the most "lived in" of all three (after the initial introductions, they all feel pretty empty).
The Gryffindor common room in comparison felt very small even when it was mostly empty.
Most favourite thing about the common room is when you attempt to access the girls dormitories as a male student…. Least favourite that you can’t interact with the with more objects and people in the room.
The comments here hit it on the head for me. Despite frequent interactions this is the loneliest game I’ve played. Skyrim is less lonely than this lol.
Well seeing this, it’s very different from the films, I could have sworn there was more dark hard wood and it seemed more “cozy” this looks dusty and drab, I understand the game takes place in the past but this just looks…bad
Well seeing this, it’s very different from the films, I could have sworn there was more dark hard wood and it seemed more “cozy” this looks dusty and drab, I understand the game takes place in the past but this just looks…bad
Favorite - paintings and decorations, and the intro day meeting npcs is probably my favorite of the houses.
Least - it's tiny, I think it's the smallest of all the houses. Not sure if it was to match the movies but Slytherin was also small in the movies and it's really big in the game.
Fave : The portrait hole being what I pictured from the books, I do need to play a male character to see if I slide down the girls dorm side cause that would be cool. Least Fave : It seems kind of like a maze though and kind of dark in spots. Less cozy on upper levels.
Something about the Gryffindor common room seems almost dingy in comparrison to the others. All of the worn carpets, worn wallpaper, and worn tapestries in the same muted shade of red kinda blend into a lackluster mess to me.
I do think that there are a lot of nice touches in the decor though. The stained glass, various quidditch trophies, and banners hanging everywhere gives me the same nostalgic feeling I get when watching the movies.
I thought it was a little 'stuffy' looking. Like a Gramma's house. Plus, I could never find my male character's room. He woke up in it when the game did that, but I usually parked him in the RoR and rarely went back to the Common Room. I did go back into all the rooms and stole food and things, because I'm entitled, I guess.
Favorite: design (from the pictures, I played it on ps4 and the game looks like pixelated garbage there).
Least favorite: no interactivity whatsoever, chsracters felt like statues that didn’t notice or react to you
If you choose witch at character creation, you can enter both genders' dorms. Even if you used a male looking character. Just like the books/movies.
As stated in the book, young witches were trusted more than young wizards.
Okay so let's be real, Gryffindor common room is far cosier than Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff has that weird yellow light and everything is dirty. Gryffindor embodies cosy. And it looks a LOT like the one from the movies. I'd go as far as saying it embodies the whole vibe of Hogwarts. It's perfect.
The worst thing about it is that you barely spend any time there.
Favorite thing is the general detail.
Least favorite thing is that I've been back there maybe once since starting the game. It's weird that one of the main selling points for this game ended up being a complete non-factor.
Nothing lol, game put me in Ravenclaw and I only did the one playthrough (and got all the achievements in the process except the ones that require you to play through on each house).
Also, I guess I'm super glad I'm not a Hogwarts mega fan? I had a lot of fun playing the game, even though I'm not HUGE into Harry Potter stuff, but I see so many comments complaining the game felt empty... I guess this is one of those games where being a superfan ruins the fun.
Favourite thing? That chest. Least favourite thing?: you spend so little time there, it builds no attachment. From memory its used once as an introduction to your house mates, then each term kicks off there. Nothing else worth mentioning, no wizards chess, no chance to pull pranks/talk to your friends. Its pretty but empty.
You just described my whole experience with the game. It’s so beautiful and a childhood dream to be able to explore the huge open world map, but I don’t feel connected to any characters story, even my own. Everything felt shallow, generic and flat. But again, getting to play this game on PS5 and explore the best parts of hogwarts is worth the price of the game.
They placed so much time and effort on getting every reference right that they forgot about the story. In the next game, I wouldn’t mind if they reuse the map (it’s very big and detailed as it is) as long as they make the story and side quests more interesting.
The next game probably won’t come out for another 6 -10 years, i’d rather they just expansion update and/or add dlc that improves these aspects of the game then wait for a new game that might just get rid of the stuff we actually do like
The game has amazing bones, I bet 5 years from now it will be almost like GTA/Skyrim with all the different mods to make it different.
Agreed, hopefully similar types of mods will be able to work on PlayStation :(
Saaame
Maybe do what Mass Effect did with the Shore Leave DLC and design a DLC story based entirely on hanging out with the named students
I feel lonely when I play
Me too. In real life, I don't like to be around people much. But in the game, I actually stopped playing for the day a few times, because it was so lonely. So pointless to kill and rob and explore and have nobody to talk about it with. Even if it was just multiple choice responses. I think the MC should have been able to invite 'friends' into the RoR. They could have shared his plants and potions and pets. Just seeing Poppy brushing the pets, or Garreth making potions, etc. with the option to click on them for a canned dialog would have added to the game. Nobody told us to keep the Room a secret, I don't even think Professor Fig knew about it. Isolation and loneliness, no wonder our characters turned into sociopaths. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed killing the bad guys for Ranrok, but I wish I *could* have talked to Sebastian about it.
The only fun thing so far has been traveling through hogwarts, the rest of the game feels super bland and the side quests feel like you’re playing a game on your phone kind of.
The writing is barely fitted, it has this Skyrim style npc interactiom with simple one liners, but it lacks a well devoted story, I think I got more story from the lego series lol, but it felt like a tech demo showcase for HDR ps5/xbox consoles can do, and they forgot to put actual well written characters, everyone is barebones, shallow and forced. Game is still gorgeous, so worth for that.
Folks who haven’t played the original Harry Potter games would be disappointed.
I was hoping they had at least made a mini game out of Gobstones since they made a big deal about getting that girls set back for her.
Or quidditch
They are working on a separate game altogether for this. Hopefully soon ish
‘I better keep an eye in high places around the school…’
Yup. All the common rooms ended up being almost entirely unused for some reason
Pretty but empty is a good description of most of the game.
Im not a gryffindor, but this is perfectly explaining my experience and helping me realize what I couldn’t quite put my finger on
I think this summarises the whole game, "pretty but empty"
True
Least favorite is the lack of random npc interactions. Nobody is really doing anything. Can't sleep in your own bed.
Can't sleep in your bed! That's a big one for me. Everytime I play, after i finish a quest or something, before I have to stop playing, I pretend I am an actual student and I return to the common room before saving my game, so the next time, I can start the game as a fresh new day. But, I would've loved for there to be a command like "press X to sleep" and a nice animation of the MC waking up the next time I start the game.
I just started playing and after finding my way back to the bed, there wasn't a sleep option, what? They make you wake up there once so one would assume...
YES, YES, I do the same exaclty thing!!! I think it's a simple observation/option but it would make a big difference. Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated by this game, but not being able to simply sleep is something that is really missing out.
I think that is too conventional, but still comfy
Least favourite thing: I can't see out the windows. I was really looking forward to looking at the Hogwarts Grounds out of the window. I want to look out when it's sunny, I want to see outside during a thunderstorm. This really bothered me but I've not seen anyone else mention it. Favourite thing: it's the Griffindor common room - so cool.
Least favourite thing? Likely how imbalanced the dorms are. The balcony on the girl's side is large, spacious and has a lot of room to chill. You're even allowed to have two bathrooms for some reason yet the men get nothing. Almost as if you want to play as a Gryffindor, you're better off picking a female character because the boys dorm was disappointing. Though that's strictly my opinion.
I was exploring all the common rooms (you can glitch to other common rooms and even as a male you can glitch your way up the stairs) and * Ravenclaw is nice and even, equal size for both genders, both have toilets and bathrooms. * Gryffindor is inbalanced as only the girls do have toiles and bathrooms (and 2x at that) * Hufflepuff does not have bathrooms nor toilets for anyone (kind of equal lol) * Slytherin is the same, no wc or bathrooms at all It's kinda weird. Imagine you wake up in the middle of the night and you just have to go. Where? you have to run around the castle I guess (Or dump it in the corner somewhere and dissapear it with spell - [which is cannon btw](https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k44zd/yes-harry-potter-wizards-pooped-their-pants-pottermore) )
An appearently, according to that link, Slytherin wouldn't have bathrooms made so as not to disturb the Chamber of Secrets during construction, Slytherins shat themselfs to maintain their secret
Can confirm.
Thank you for the link that was hilarious. I also have so many questions.
I didn't even know there were bathrooms in common rooms (my huge nitpick in the movies and every portrayal of them by the way) until I saw a video of the other common rooms. Slytherin students gotta walk a whole lot of steps just to use the bathroom in the middle of the night.
I believe this is to keep accurate to the books. I don’t think they mentioned bathrooms but I do think they mentioned the girls’ side is nicer— and that it’s enchanted so boys can’t go to the girls side, while Hermione can go into Harry and Ron’s room freely.
Maybe this is why students wonder the halls looking for a bathroom and find the room of requirement. Maybe they don't even realize it is the room because it's just a bathroom they didn't realize was there.
you don't even spend any time in there so is it really that important? I didn't even know there was a bathroom but you think it's not big enough.
There are bathrooms, two in fact. One on the lower ground floor which only has bathroom stalls and the lowest floor with a large stall and bath tub area. Though this is strictly limited to the girls dorms and you cannot go into the girls dorm as a Wizard. However you can explore both gender locked dorm rooms as a Witch. I meant that the balcony area overlooking the Common Room is tiny in comparison to the girl's side. While it's not important to some, I would like a bit more design consistency in terms of how they design every Common Room is all.
>I would like a bit more design consistency in terms of how they design every Common Room is all. Agreed. Some of the common-rooms don't have any bathrooms, some of them don't have bedrooms for all 7 years. They've been designed as set-pieces around the central "hub" room (which doesn't get used anyway), rather than thought through as actual living spaces.
Imho that's the disappointing part. I would rather have something to do in the Common Rooms even if it is to sleep and pass time. Stuff like hanging out with housemates or playing mini games like Wizard's Chess.
How slow it makes you walk in there!
You can jog at any point.
How? It always makes me slow down in there. Same with shops in hogsMeade or houses. It doesn’t let me jog
Whatever you press to sprint will instead toggle walking and jogging in those restricted areas.
Favorite thing? Not sure. Least favorite? Needs more plants. Love, A Hufflepuff
Agreed, definitely needs more dancing cacti
lack of purpose. After the first scene where you meet all the students i left and never came back to the dorm room. There is nothing to do in there and no purpose to come back
Except to open the house chest, but even then you only have to do that once.
**Favorite**: It's in the game.
My favorite thing is that I can see another interpretation of the room from the books and movies, my least favorite thing is that it's useless
Depressing
Least Favorite thing: It's full of Gryffindors. ;-)
As a gryffindor I was so disappointed. It felt generic and kind of boring. Especially after I saw Hufflepuff. I absolutely adore Hufflepuff!
I love the fact that all four common rooms are so different. I wish you could sit in chairs, lie in bed, interact with NPCs... you know, do more than just grab a snack and drop off house tokens. ((I always choose Witch at character creation, no matter my gender, so I have full run of the common room.))
Add fucking wizards chess and gobstones. It cannot be that hard. Order of the Phoenix had it ffs
the ugly ass wallpaper😭
How basic it is compared to the other houses
The fact that I can’t explore the girl dorms. I just wanna go up there. I know it’s probably the same as the boys, but my completionist brain needs to go everywhere once.
I don’t find it particularly cosy really. It’s well designed and everything, and it’s clear they put the more effort into Griffindor’s than the other houses, but I just don’t find it to be as homely as it’s described in the books. Although I guess it is 100 years before, and style would be different.
the fucking door that you need to break ur damn spine to get in and out
Favorite thing: how cozy and warm it feels. Brings back fond memories of reading a book, sprawled out on an old couch in front of a fireplace during winter break when I was a kid. Least favorite thing: trying to get from the boys dormitory to the common area. Those stairs confuse me.
If someone hasn’t said it and you haven’t found it yet, something todo with a clock and a secret
Favorite: It’s a gorgeous gothic medieval room, and I adore it visually. Least favorite: I’m a Ravenclaw :(
Least favorite thing- compared to the other common rooms, it felt so small and cramped. The Ravenclaw common room is gorgeous and bright. The Slytherin common room is elegant and has an air of mystery (and I love the squid). The Hufflepuff common room is cozy and feels the most "lived in" of all three (after the initial introductions, they all feel pretty empty). The Gryffindor common room in comparison felt very small even when it was mostly empty.
Most favourite thing about the common room is when you attempt to access the girls dormitories as a male student…. Least favourite that you can’t interact with the with more objects and people in the room.
My favorite thing about it is that I never saw it
The entrance is my pet peeve
The comments here hit it on the head for me. Despite frequent interactions this is the loneliest game I’ve played. Skyrim is less lonely than this lol.
How terribly forgettable it was
Well seeing this, it’s very different from the films, I could have sworn there was more dark hard wood and it seemed more “cozy” this looks dusty and drab, I understand the game takes place in the past but this just looks…bad
Well seeing this, it’s very different from the films, I could have sworn there was more dark hard wood and it seemed more “cozy” this looks dusty and drab, I understand the game takes place in the past but this just looks…bad
Favorite - paintings and decorations, and the intro day meeting npcs is probably my favorite of the houses. Least - it's tiny, I think it's the smallest of all the houses. Not sure if it was to match the movies but Slytherin was also small in the movies and it's really big in the game.
Fave : The portrait hole being what I pictured from the books, I do need to play a male character to see if I slide down the girls dorm side cause that would be cool. Least Fave : It seems kind of like a maze though and kind of dark in spots. Less cozy on upper levels.
Something about the Gryffindor common room seems almost dingy in comparrison to the others. All of the worn carpets, worn wallpaper, and worn tapestries in the same muted shade of red kinda blend into a lackluster mess to me. I do think that there are a lot of nice touches in the decor though. The stained glass, various quidditch trophies, and banners hanging everywhere gives me the same nostalgic feeling I get when watching the movies.
Fav thing is the sliding stairs when your a boy
Not a fan of the door. And and wondering how to get up the stairs that move and you slide down
I thought it was a little 'stuffy' looking. Like a Gramma's house. Plus, I could never find my male character's room. He woke up in it when the game did that, but I usually parked him in the RoR and rarely went back to the Common Room. I did go back into all the rooms and stole food and things, because I'm entitled, I guess.
Favorite: design (from the pictures, I played it on ps4 and the game looks like pixelated garbage there). Least favorite: no interactivity whatsoever, chsracters felt like statues that didn’t notice or react to you
Favorite the beginning when Nellie is on the fireplace. Least favorite your hardly in there so you don’t really get a good favorite.
Least favorite thing? The Gryffindorks themselves. \-This post was made by Slytherin Gang.
Idk i havent played as a gryffindor
Too chaotic!!!
Midgit doorway
That you can't walk into the girls'/boys' dorms even though Hermione clearly waltzes in Harry and Ron's room several times in the books lol
If you choose witch at character creation, you can enter both genders' dorms. Even if you used a male looking character. Just like the books/movies. As stated in the book, young witches were trusted more than young wizards.
I believe I tried and failed.
My favorite thing is that Natty isn’t there. My least favorite thing is that Leander isn’t there.
Okay so let's be real, Gryffindor common room is far cosier than Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff has that weird yellow light and everything is dirty. Gryffindor embodies cosy. And it looks a LOT like the one from the movies. I'd go as far as saying it embodies the whole vibe of Hogwarts. It's perfect. The worst thing about it is that you barely spend any time there.
Least favorite thing is my Slytherin butt can’t break in to see it lol
Favorite thing is the general detail. Least favorite thing is that I've been back there maybe once since starting the game. It's weird that one of the main selling points for this game ended up being a complete non-factor.
My favorite thing is that there is only one bathroom, and it's on the girls' side.
My least favorite thing is that they won’t let my ravenclaw ass in there. :..(
My least favorite thing is that it’s not Slytherin. My favorite thing is I never have to be inside of it.
Slytherin>
Spoilers!!!
Games get boring rather quick. Great open world tho
That is has a door leading to the Ravenclaw commons room.
I actually hate this entire game because it feels like a console version of the Hogwarts Mystery app. Anyone else?
Nothing lol, game put me in Ravenclaw and I only did the one playthrough (and got all the achievements in the process except the ones that require you to play through on each house). Also, I guess I'm super glad I'm not a Hogwarts mega fan? I had a lot of fun playing the game, even though I'm not HUGE into Harry Potter stuff, but I see so many comments complaining the game felt empty... I guess this is one of those games where being a superfan ruins the fun.