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

    Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do

    Daniel Radcliffe Aided By Gaming

    Next Lego Game? Try Harry Potter

    Delaying Harry Potter Has Cost Electronic Arts *THIS* Much

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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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    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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    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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    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 phicaluk phicaluk
    06/30/09

    In reply to Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do
    Alright me hearties, follow me!
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    Image of elmorepow elmorepow
    06/29/09

    In reply to Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do
    Where's my PS3 release?
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    @elmorepow: It's connected to the TV. Have you checked there? Usually where I leave mine.


    Except when I use it for barbecues.

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

    @ShadowOdin isn't american: I was sure you had written something completely different.


    I need sleep it seems.

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    Image of Chances Chances
    06/29/09

    In reply to Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do
    Beyond the three movies, was there really a pirate craze?
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    Image of phicaluk phicaluk
    06/30/09

    @Chances: I hear there's a pretty big pirate craze in Somalia.
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    In reply to Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do
    Wow, a hack and slash involving ferocious weapons and a buff male character.

    My testosterone is guzzling.

    Please let there be a secret mode where we unlock a space marine-suit for him to wear.


    Were it not for the beautiful vistas I would've filed it under M, for generic.


    Now you might say "Hey 'ShadowOdin isn't american', Generic isn't spelled with M"

    To which I will reply "Ur momma" and then explain that the M stands for 'Modern day Japanimation'

    Thus: Generic

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    Image of TexanBoy TexanBoy
    06/29/09

    In reply to Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do
    Errol Flynn made a great pirate, none of that namby pamby Johnny Depp crap either.


    Captain Blood is an amazing book, awesome movie, and hopefully a great game.


    Go rent the movie, you won't regret it. And get The Sea Hawk while you're at it.

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    Image of TexanBoy TexanBoy
    06/29/09

    @TexanBoy: As long as I'm here, I'm going to assume I'm one of the very few 19 year olds on here who even know who Errol Flynn is, much less is a fan of his movies beyond Robin Hood...
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    06/29/09

    @TexanBoy: HAH! I knew who he was when I was 15.


    Which isn't an accomplishment in any way.


    This is just one of the few bits of trivia of myself that I am leaving on the internet so that my decendants can piece together my biography from.

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