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    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good

    Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer

    Delaying Harry Potter Has Cost Electronic Arts *THIS* Much

    Half-Blood Prince Game Follows Movie Delay Closely

    Something Wicked This Way Comes, A New Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Trailer

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    Image of Kris Kris
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    Please tell me it has Crabbe and Goyle running around as little girls. That would almost make it worth it. And certainly worth grabbing when it's cheaper.

    I thought the OotP game for the Wii was pretty OK; I had fun with it anyway, and it seems like it was better than this one...which isn't how it should be.
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    Image of bobtheduck in Korea bobtheduck in Korea
    07/30/09

    @Kris: I know the older games had more stuff from the books that wasn't in the movies, but I think this game was sticking closer to the movie than the book... I say that, but the fact that one of the ghosts is in it means that there is at least SOMETHING from the book that's not in the movie, though I can't actually remember what part NHN would have played in the book... It's been a while since I read HBP the last time.
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    Image of Kris Kris
    07/30/09

    @bobtheduck:
    He doesn't really do anything in the book. I think he's at Slughorn's party, but not much else.
    He's in this one to replace the "follow the footprint" system that was in Order of the Phoenix.
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    Image of spiderweb1986 spiderweb1986
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    "There's a very bizarre section of the game where Harry drinks a Liquid Luck potion and then the game goes into Naked Gun Intro mode so you can watch Harry stroll around Hogwarts to bad jazz club music."

    Sounds more like Spider-Man 3 to me.
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    Image of Thorax Thorax
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    Am I the only one who didn't think Half Blood Prince was the best book? It might have something to do with everyone on THE FUCKING PLANET GIVING AWAY THE ENDING BEFORE I WAS DONE WITH IT.

    Either way, I liked Goblet of Fire the best.
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    Image of Lee Lee
    07/29/09

    @Thorax: I preferred the third and seventh books =D
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    Kris promoted this comment Lee was starred Lee was unstarred
    Image of The Red Comet The Red Comet
    07/29/09

    @Thorax: I don't know, I know at least one person who vehemently hates it to the point where he doesn't even consider it part of the canon any more, and has boycotted the film.
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    Image of jcous jcous
    07/29/09

    @Thorax: Half Blood was my least favorite book, to be honest. A little dull and it kind of felt like stalling/throwing in a bunch of things that had to be done before the conclusion, but a bit joyless compared to some of the other books. That being said, the series on a whole was great, so one dud of a book is completely forgivable.
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    Image of MykalBloom MykalBloom
    07/29/09

    @Thorax: Oh, I hated the sixth book. It felt like a very long prologue for seven.
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    Image of Zippy The Space Cougar Zippy The Space Cougar
    07/29/09

    @Thorax:

    The first 3/4 of Half-Blood Prince is worthless. But it's worth going through it for the last 1/4 of the book to see the start of Harry's manning up.

    "Man, fuck this school. I'm going to kick Voldemort's ass and shag my best friend's sister. AND NOBODY GON' DO SHIT ABOUT IT!"
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    Image of spiderweb1986 spiderweb1986
    07/29/09

    @Thorax: I've always thought that Chamber of Secrets and Half Blood Prince were weak compared to the rest of the series.

    The first book and Goblet of Fire will always be my two favorites in the series.
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    Image of AJ Glasser AJ Glasser
    07/29/09

    @Thorax: I liked the third and fourth books the best. The fifth book I absolutely despised and I think the fan fiction-ish epilogue in book seven was pathetic.
    What's interesting to me is to see which movies I like, since it hasn't corresponded one-to-one with my book preferences. So far, I like this sixth movie the best with the fourth movie being a close runner-up. The second film is probably my least-favorite film.
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    Image of Kris Kris
    07/29/09

    @Lee:
    Prisoner of Azkaban all the way! I love that one; both the book and film.
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    Image of laikapants laikapants
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    Can they take another and better shot at making a Quidditch game? I already get enough magic-y video game goodness elsewhere, but can't get mah Quidditch anywhere else.

    Also, why not just go ahead and make a whole fictional sports division of EA Sports and give us Pyramid Ball from BSG as well. (currently blanking on other fictional sports)
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    Image of Trey Trey
    07/29/09

    @laikapants: They made a Quidditch game. I quite enjoyed it.
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    Kris promoted this comment Trey was starred Trey was unstarred
    Image of Kris Kris
    07/29/09

    @Trey:
    Yeah, it wasn't too bad at all, really.
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    Image of Jeff Paine Jeff Paine
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    Penultimate means second-to-last, not the last.
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    Image of SuperTongue SuperTongue
    07/29/09

    @Jeff Paine: Unless Mr. Glasser edited the post, he seems to have intended to use penultimate. Half Blood Prince is the second to last book, making his use of it still valid.
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    Image of bobtheduck in Korea bobtheduck in Korea
    07/30/09

    @SuperTongue: A.J. Glasser is a woman.
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    Image of Psudonym Psudonym
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    Hoy! Hoy EA! Over here!

    Step one! Make a Harry Potter game where you don't play any of the established characters but make your own totally fan-fictiony mary-suey self inserts!

    Step two! Make it open world and base it on Rockstar's Bully! That was an awesome school game! And you can probably like, make out with Padma Patil or Viktor Krum or whatever you fancy!

    Step three!

    Step four! Give me your profit! Seriously, I need health insurance money!
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    Image of gold163 (° д° ) gold163 (° д° )
    07/29/09

    @Psudonym: I think at some point EA had a dorky looking Harry Potter MMO in the works. I'm surprised that companies haven't done more to capitalize on the whole Hogwarts concept, and instead we're stuck with movie games of the shittiest caliber. There is nobody else to blame but the game developers themselves, who seek only to make a quick buck off of a successful franchise.
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    Image of ZackRI ZackRI
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    Y'know whats going to be REALLY awesome? The Harry Potter games, that DON'T have a movie tie in. Just imagine... After all the movies are done... They do something that they take their time on.. Wouldn't that be wonderful. A dork can dream right?
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    Image of Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire
    07/29/09

    @ZackRI: you know, i wish all games based on a movie didn't have to tie into the movie to begin with. i wish those games were great but its just because the developers didn't have enough time. 1 year does make a big difference.
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    Image of gold163 (° д° ) gold163 (° д° )
    07/29/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah-Here to Create a Star Commenter...: I don't understand why they don't just make the games completely separate entities from the books and movies. A series of 7 self-contained games that portray the Harry Potter universe as well as any game can tell a story, along with competent magic-casting gameplay, would have been a blast. Too bad the guys at EA don't give a shit, they just want people to spend money on this game when they think of the movie.
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    Image of Psudonym Psudonym
    07/29/09

    @gold163 (° д° ): I think we're all on the same page here.
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    07/29/09

    @gold163 (° д° ): who says its EA is the movie developers. they decide the time limit on when the game is due and its usually 3 years which is not enough these days.
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    07/29/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah-Here to Create a Star Commenter...: even less than 3. three is like the minimum now.
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    07/29/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah-Here to Create a Star Commenter...: This movie was delayed by 6 months. That is half of one year and this game was the result of 6 months extra time.
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    Image of Kris Kris
    07/29/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah-Here to Create a Star Commenter...:
    EA had a whole freakin' extra year to tweak it, after the movie's huge delay. Understandably you can only employ X amount of people for a project for so long, but I'd like to think they wouldn't just sit on the thing for 8 months doing nothing.
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    Image of emwurst emwurst
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    That part with the liquid luck really got me thinking of how it would work in the game. I thought, "Man, that could make for an awesome section of the game! Something new, something interesting, something..."

    And then I sobbed because I knew it would be too much to ask from a merciful lord.
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    lol the magic wasn't there for the making of this game, hahahaha, i kill myself.
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    07/29/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah-Here to Create a Star Commenter...: or any of the games for that matter 0__0
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    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    07/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
    That's a lot of red.
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    Image of Ghetto Cornetto Ghetto Cornetto
    06/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
    I will now forever refer to Malfoy as "Widdle Wesker"
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    06/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
    Jeeze... do they have it on enough systems? 0_o


    "... now available on XBOX 360, Wii, Playstaion 3, Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, PSP, PC, GameBoy Advance, GameBoy Color, Super GameBoy, GameBoy, VirtualBoy, Sega Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Atari Lynx, GameCube, Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64DD, NES, Commodore 64, Turbo CD, Turbo Grafx 16, Atari 7800, Atari 5200, Atari 2600, Apple II, Amiga, Colecovision, Famicom Disk System, Jaguar, N-Gage, NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket Color, Odyssey, Vectrex, TI-99/4A, iPhone, DVD, HD DVD, all pocket calculators, toast, your mother, and by pony express."

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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Do they need more?

    I know I sure am looking forward to playing Harry Potter 6 on your mother.
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    Image of gurfinki gurfinki
    06/29/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com:


    you forgot the Wonderswan and the Nomad! HOW COULD YOU????? T__T

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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    06/29/09

    @gurfinki: I knew I'd get guff for missing some. >_< Damnit! Well, those suck, so no Potter on those. :-P
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
    Also, anyone else bugged by Hairy Potter's hairdo, the buff Ron Weasly or the fact that Ginny sounds like a 30-year-old in a 10-year-old's body?
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has great graphics if this was 20 years ago. Had a man been frozen alive and just been brought back to life and then been shown this as the first thing (which is how EA does alot when quality-checking their graphics on license-games) then he would've been seriously wowed, asked to meet our robot overlords and asked us if we had heard 'Another Day In Paradise' by Phil Collins which is topping the Pop Radio Top 20.
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    Image of Booji-Boy Booji-Boy
    06/29/09

    In reply to Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Launch Trailer
    I sometimes wonder, are the books as hard to follow as the last 2 movies were? Cuz damn, those were a MESS!
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    @Booji-Boy: lol, no, the movies are basically fanservice to kids who have read the books. The books aren't even as close as the rushed wreck the movies are.
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