User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/Lord Voldemort vs Darth Vader/@comment-4484220-20111216140308/@comment-4552610-20111216220815

The magic in Harry Potter is the most unrealistic magic I have ever seen. One, they come out of nowhere and has no source. In a game like Hackmaster or D&D, you need a material or source. Fireball need bat guanno and flint and Summon Monster needs a bag and a candle. You can't just have a ball of fire or electricity appear out of nowhere because you said some gibberish. Secondly, the spells are ridiculously powerful. You can kill a man just by saying a dumb ass word like "Avada Kedavra". Again, in Hackmaster, you need to be extremely powerful to cast spells like that. Third, the name of the spells are so stupid. Most of them sound like a shampoo brand. In Hackmaster, their spells pretty much say what they are, Like Fireball or Blind or Make Wound. The spells are extremely lame. Forth and Lastly, the spells are so anti-climactic. When I saw one of them shot a bolt, it looked like a blueish paint-ball. In Hackmaster, Fireball looks like a FIREBALL. The magic in Harry Potter are too powerful but extremely dull to look at. It doesn't give that much for us to see.

As for the scariness factor, Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers have an element of intimidation to them. They are wearing armor and carrying dangerous looking weapons. They look far more threatinging than a bunch of goth assholes carrying around sticks.