One game I do not and one I want to play
Feb. 17th, 2023 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkMany of my colleagues know that I play computer games, so I've already been asked twice this week if I'm playing Hogwarts: Legacy. The first time a colleague I'm less close to tried to recommend it to me and I couldn't be bothered to go into more detail than that I'm absolutely not planning to play it, nope; the second time a colleague I work with a lot asked me why and I was too short on brain to come up with anything more detailed than "Rowling is a bitch, and from all I've heard the game is bad and the antisemitism is badly hidden," which thankfully she didn't ask me to elaborate on (though in hindsight I do regret a little just going with that insult, meh.)
In general I'm torn between wanting to pretend that the game doesn't exist, and wanting to know more about it so I can make fun of it more accurately. There's been a lot of disbelieving "wait what??" at our kitchen table. DD was very annoyed that they didn't manage to make a better game even though Rowling wasn't even directly involved herself.
I want a game for Animorphs instead. I found out that there was an Animorphs computer game for the Game Boy in 2000, but I'm thinking of a big, basically-open-world one. Imagine: you can turn into animals, but you have to figure out how to acquire them first, and only for a limited time; and each shape is hard to control at first and it gets easier over time, but the risk of being spotted and then this type of animal being deliberately targeted gets higher. You have to choose who to trust, you have to weigh how important it is to you to keep your identity secret… I think it could make a cool game.
In general I'm torn between wanting to pretend that the game doesn't exist, and wanting to know more about it so I can make fun of it more accurately. There's been a lot of disbelieving "wait what??" at our kitchen table. DD was very annoyed that they didn't manage to make a better game even though Rowling wasn't even directly involved herself.
I want a game for Animorphs instead. I found out that there was an Animorphs computer game for the Game Boy in 2000, but I'm thinking of a big, basically-open-world one. Imagine: you can turn into animals, but you have to figure out how to acquire them first, and only for a limited time; and each shape is hard to control at first and it gets easier over time, but the risk of being spotted and then this type of animal being deliberately targeted gets higher. You have to choose who to trust, you have to weigh how important it is to you to keep your identity secret… I think it could make a cool game.
