This data does not include digital sales, so it’s essentially useless. Not saying MW3 is likely or deserves to be higher, but this article is misleading.
Because MW3 is just… garbage. It’s a cookie that was made with a cookie cutter. It doesn’t bring anything new or interesting to the table in terms of gameplay, or truly novel developments in the game universe.
HL, despite the Rowling-oriented issues with the franchise, frankly knocked it out of the park, and moreover pretty squarely addressed the Feminist/Trans kerfluffle Rowling kicked up - the gender selection during character creation is “witch” or “wizard”, and it simply determines whether or not you can go into one half of your dorm area, and all the lines that refer to your character use “they” - never a gendered pronoun. The second part was a deliciously holistic “fuck your bigotry” move, and it was very obviously directed at Rowling.
Both are so high because they are well known properties with long term fans.
Popularity sells.
And it works on linux. Using Lemmy btw
That’s awesome. I use Lemmy too. Small world, huh?
what’s lemmy?
Is this surprising?
Especially considering platform availability. I think it says more about ToTK being 3rd on a single platform vs the other two being available on multiple platforms.
I mean, Mario Kart 8 has become one of the best selling video games of all time. Even if you remove the WiiU version, the sales numbers of the Switch version rival Red Dead 2.
The Switch has been an absolute sales machine for Nintendo IP
Call of Duty has been a sales juggernaut for the past two decades, despite it’s annual release nature. At one point it used to absolutely smoke any and all competitors.
It being beat out by a licensed game and being closely followed by a Zelda game (which is only available on one platform) is VERY surprising.
Hey the game wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t too good either. Hope their next iteration does better.
I literally never hear anything about hogwarts legacy except for how well it’s sold. None of my friends who are into the series ever even mention it. I realize all I really have to go off of is a personal anecdote, but I would not be surprised in the slightest if those numbers ended up being heavily inflated.
As for modern warfare, I’ve never played it and I’ve never been a fan of cod. I’m just surprised the series is still going, I thought people would be burnt out on it by now.
I bought Hogwarts Legacy when it releases. The magic combat is pretty fun and can get pretty tricky to handle very quickly. The “puzzles” are probably one of the weakest aspects of the game, which kinda sucks because they make up so much of the side content (like about 80%). The story is fine, but it kinda falls apart towards the ending. Some of the pacing for some of the mechanics seems a little off as well.
The main draws to the game are the exploration, customization, and the world. Getting to explore every nook and cranny of Hogwarts was honestly an actual dream come true ever since I watched the movies as a kid (I never read the books), and the rest of the game world is massive. Flying around on a broom is actually really fun in-game, too. The customization options in the game are pretty robust; there are hundreds of different clothing and accessory items to find throughout the game world, and customizing the Room of Requirement can be a good time sink similarly to settlement building in Fallout 4.
Aside from some QoL things that probably should be in the game, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game. Just treat it as Harry Potter RPG Lite.
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It’s probably denuvo.
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Works beautifully on my desktop on Ultra settings. What hardware are you running?
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Could be crossfire.
I have a Ryzen 5 5600X, Radeon 5700 XT, 32 GB RAM, and run it off an SSD.
The game runs great on ultra on my system, and I didn’t do anything but install the latest Radeon driver.
What is your load when running?
I’ve never used Crossfire. I’m not sure if that causes problems .
It’s definitely better than my PC so not sure what’s wrong.
Also I still run windows 10, so could be different operating systems.
Works fine on consoles.
I got it working fine too and my PC was not a beast 4 years ago when I made it.
I have a problem with XMP in Bios for a lot of games that are ported. Maybe it’s that for you? Something just doesn’t work right outside stock memory Ryzen.
Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Sackboy all required me to turn off XMP.
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What are your specs?
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Worked great on a humble ps5. Might be the way to go for this title.
Game has a really cool castle but once you get over that it kinda falls into repetitive open world stuff.
I would have liked more of a focus on class stuff, though to be fair I’m not sure if that would have been fun long term. Outside the class missions is doesn’t feel enough like a school. Sneaking around at night doesn’t have the same tenseness as the novels if there is no one looking for you.
I would be interested in a sequel if they can figure that out.
They should’ve made it more like Magic Bully, but I still enjoyed the game.
