Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001 PC Game - Retrospective

[@Obmelg]

Oh my god, i might have let out an audible little scream when i saw that you are covering this game! One of my favorites, the nostalgia!

[@bencemervay]

@@Obmelg i hope you will like it :)

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

To split hairs, I’d say Rowling has tremendous talent for writing paragraphs and chapters, but her plotting leaves a lot of room for improvement

[@bencemervay]

@@yesfredfredburger8008 about the plotting I definitely agree. You may be right about paragraphs, it was a while ago since I last read a Harry Potter book. Next time I read one I will pay more attention.

[@proclarushtaonasat]

as for altering game mechanics, specifically the pots, i´d make them always have a chance to drop something valuable, such as potion ingredients, but always have the game penalize you, if you break them in front of teachers, or students of other houses.

[@bencemervay]

@@proclarushtaonasat good idea!

[@u9vata]

Oh my God.... I literally loved "Kincskereső kisködmön" when being small. Do not dare to say its "hard to grasp"... It is like a fake spread of information that grown ups usually say and the issue is not with the books but probably with amounts or teaching or anything else. PS.: This is not against Rowling books. They are also awsome, just I think the pick was really poor comparison. PS.: The game was well crafted - btw it even ran on our very weak 200Mhz pentium MMX with NO real 3D card just this S3 something in it... Yes... okay... it was skipping frames and went like 3-5 FPS I think but young me did not seem to care that much lol.

[@bencemervay]

@@u9vata Hey! Thank you for the comment! I did not mean that Kincskereső Kisködmön was hard to grasp. I meant that it was depressing (for me). And learning to read with a depressing book is hard. At least it was for me back then. This does not mean that you cannot love the book :)

[@u9vata]

@@bencemervay I see. Just I remember it very liking when being a kid (and I think we read it in second grade and before third btw in the summer as first book in my time). For some reason I never have remembered it as "depressing" but very much just feeling for the people in it and seeing them as good people so it felt not at all depressing and very positive - just saying as a counter-point. But I grew up parents reading all kinds of folk tales for me so was pretty used to deeper stories when I was already big enough to read on my own I think - so maybe because of this? Some generations earlier that was very common so probably there were much less issues grasping stuff? But I generally did not see my class mates struggling with it - except one guy, but he had dyslexia so he struggled beforehand even in the classes so its different. To the contrary I saw a lot of struggling with later "more modern" books that were on the "need to read" list so was just very baffled by the choice.

[@bencemervay]

Na, gondoltam, inkább magyarul válaszolok, a félreértések elkerülése végett. A Kincskereső első fejezetében rögtön azzal találkozunk, hogy Gergő irigységből nem adja oda a körtemuzsikát a haldokló húgának. Nekem három húgom is van. Nem mondom, hogy sosem voltam irigy, de egy ilyen esetben számomra elképzelhetetlen és visszataszító ez a viselkedés. Régen voltam kisiskolás ('91-ben születtem), de én úgy emlékszem, hogy harmadikos korunkban kellett először kötelezőt olvasni, ami a Kincskereső volt. Én küzdöttem az olvasással, és az, hogy egy ilyen könyvön gyakoroljak, nekem nagyon nehéz volt. 1-2 oldal elolvasása után inkább otthagytam az egészet a francba. A Harry Potter nekem megváltás volt. Izgalmas, érdekes. Észre sem vettem, és megtanultam olvasni. Sőt, meg is szerettem az olvasást. És félreértés ne essék, ettől a Kincskereső Kisködmön nem lesz egy rossz könyv, de én (a magam példájából kiindulva) úgy gondolom, hogy ezt nem feltétlenül alsóban kellene olvasni, vagy ha igen, akkor is úgy, hogy az olvasni tudás már alap legyen, mert egy érzelmileg nehéz műről van szó, és szerintem olvasni nem ilyenen kell(ene) megtanulni.

[@u9vata]

@@bencemervay Nem volt semmi félreértés, csak nem értek egyet 🙂. Azért mondtam, hogy én még harmadiknál is korábban olvastam és akkori énem szerint is nagy kedvenc volt - pont ezért írtam ezt le, mert számomra meglepő, hogy "de pont ezt a könyvet veszi valaki elő?". A könyv kifejezetten tanító hatású, az pedig, hogy érzelmeket érzel közben nem egyenlő a "depresszív a könyv" megjegyzéssel - vagy maradjunk abban, hogy neked az volt valamiért, de a könyben kifejezetten van személyiségfejlődés és ezt tényleg kifejezetten annak a korosztálynak jó szerintem olvasni ahol még nem alakul ki ezek közül mi miért jó, nem jó... Aranyos kis könyvecske, gyakorlatilag "hőstörténet" olyan szemmel, hogy miként alakul át a főszereplő. Én nem ismertem olyat, aki nem szerette volna, ezért furcsa - de hát kinek mi...

[@bencemervay]

@@u9vata köszi a választ! Lehet, hogy ideje lenne újra olvasnom felnőtt fejjel :)

[@Rihcterwilker]

I firmly believe limitations breed creativity. all the use of lighting dark areas over low-poly environments, the whinsical music, it gave us just enough, so that we would fill the rest with our imagination, which is something new games fail to do nowadays.

[@bencemervay]

@@Rihcterwilker i totally agree!

[@lonerider543]

This is a really well made video and nicely thought out. Hope that people will come across it as it deserves way more views than it has currently. Well done! :)

[@bencemervay]

@@lonerider543 thank you for the praise! I have one other game review video (about Gothic 1, an rpg) if you liked this video you might like that one as well!

[@lonerider543]

@bencemervay I'll put it on my watch list. I've heard of the gothic game series but never actually played it so will be interesting to find out more!

[@Tim3LPs]

Great video! I very much enjoy it, if you played any other's as a kid please cover them too!

[@Tim3LPs]

Also, I definitely also missed the jars in the Filch level. I always tried to walk by him right near the door and it took me so many tries

[@bencemervay]

I knew I am not the only one!

[@modplayer727]

i love this game , can you do the second one please ?

[@bencemervay]

Hi! Thank you for the comment! I think about it.

[@FrozenCider]

Still better than Hogwarts Legacy

[@bencemervay]

@@FrozenCider i actually have not played that. I want to have an rtx capable card first

[@proclarushtaonasat]

i still cant believe, that they have not made a straightforward hogwarts simulator yet. either play as a student, or a fully grown wizard, but not half-assing your education by skipping the first 4 years, but still having enough time to go adventuring as the chosen one with special ancient magic stuff going on.