The Order: 1886 |OT| Gears of Yore

I really like Lafayette; I think he's my favourite member of the team. I finished the
hospital
chapter a while ago, and that was pretty damn amazing.
That fight with the Elder Lycan felt so tough and gruelling.
I'm now
making my way through the airship
. Probably about 4 hours in, and I believe this is chapter 5.
 
Gaz_RB said:
Damn you guys. I'm probably gonna buy it tonight.

I was so relieved that I wouldn't have to drop 60 on it because it wasn't that great, but here you guys are saying its actually pretty good...
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It is more then pretty good. It's just some of the level design and obviously the cutscenes lets it down. The story is not as bad as the reviews say either.
 
Just in case anyone is wondering, if you pre-ordered the game from PSN, you get the soundtrack for free. Here's how it works:


  • From PS4's Dynamic Menu, highlight the game and press down. From there you'll see "Related Items" and the Soundtrack will be listed there and should appear as "Free"
  • Click that and it will take you to the store where it will download an app
  • The soundtrack app will appear on your Dynamic Menu.
  • Launching the app lets you play the music while viewing screenshots/media, etc.
  • Clicking the Options button will give you an option to "Download the Playlist"
  • Insert a USB drive and it will copy a ZIP file with the soundtrack on it.
  • Unzip the file on your PC/Mac and you'll have the full soundtrack for installation on your phone, etc.
  • The files are 320kbps MP3 format
 
The thing that surprise me most not only is the game amazing looking but it runs really well too.

Performance is the icing on the cake, and an area where we had some concerns. Initial game footage we saw revealed some clear frame-rate issues - and even the 2014 Gamescom demo exhibited noticeable performance hiccups, despite the letterboxed 1920x800 rendering resolution (which is retained for the final game). The final game is a world apart: Ready at Dawn aims for a locked 30fps and for the vast majority of the experience it doesn't deviate from the target, with most of the dropped frames occurring on cuts, making them totally unnoticeable. There are very rare performance dips during the most intense of combat scenes, but these are mild judged by the standard of the majority of 30fps titles.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-the-order-1886-performance-analysis
 
Triggerhappytel said:
I really like Lafayette; I think he's my favourite member of the team. I finished the
hospital
chapter a while ago, and that was pretty damn amazing.
That fight with the Elder Lycan felt so tough and gruelling.
I'm now
making my way through the airship
. Probably about 4 hours in, and I believe this is chapter 5.
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The Elder Lycan fight is how to do a QTE fight imo.
 
Triggerhappytel said:
I really like Lafayette; I think he's my favourite member of the team. I finished the
hospital
chapter a while ago, and that was pretty damn amazing.
That fight with the Elder Lycan felt so tough and gruelling.
I'm now
making my way through the airship
. Probably about 4 hours in, and I believe this is chapter 5.
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I just got to that chapter but now I have to go out and be social with friends.
 
Beefy said:
It is more then pretty good. It's just some of the level design and obviously the cutscenes lets it down. The story is not as bad as the reviews say either.
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Yeah I've sort of gotten used to the new trend of using lower scores lately/being more critical (especially due to the craziness of last year). I shoulda known.

I'll pick it up when I get home.
 
You guys think that Sony will give them a shot to make a sequel if the game sells well?

Or have reviews destroyed any hope of that?
 
Squall ASF said:
Hey buddy! I intend to as well. Did you play it yet? Not sure if you received a copy early for review. I decided to leave it in the car so I won't suffer as much ;P I got a text from Leon right as I was re-entering work asking if I could help him, Paul and some friends with a Destiny Raid but I have plans to play this... I won't be a bad friend for playing this, right? ;p

Nice to see positive impressions in here after people have actually played the damn game. I appreciate cinematic approach so I expect to enjoy this game. Besides, these cut scenes won't be shit compared to what I endured for Xenosaga and MGS games ;P
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No our site didn't get it otherwise I would have been the one covering it so I'm jumping in fresh tonight! As for being a bad friend, naw, it's just Destiny, there will be plenty more nights for that. LOL Reminds me, I need to stop by sometime once you got your house all settled. Hope you enjoy the game. Will look forward to your impressions on here. I'll post mine tonight or tommorrow.
 
So far I'm really enjoying the game, although the reviews certainly weren't joking when they said there's hardly any gameplay. I love linear atmospheric, story-driven games as much as the next guy, but I was getting seriously pissed off in the opening couple of hours. Thankfully it's opened up the more I've played, but I cannot deny the fact that maybe the developers should have focussed less on storytelling and more on storyplaying.
 
Platinum'd it in one sitting. Probably took 6-7 hours.

It's OK for the most part but the game dragged for sure in the middle there. So many cut scenes!

Not a fan of forced walking in games either and there's a bit of that in here.

Fell a tad sorry for the people who bought this digitally. Not a game that warrants multiple playthroughs I mean even the platinum is dead easy. It's almost as if it was made to be played just once.

Strange game.
 
Loomba said:
You guys think that Sony will give them a shot to make a sequel if the game sells well?

Or have reviews destroyed any hope of that?
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I know nothing about how game development works, but I imagine a lot of the dev time on this game was spent building the engine/on the technical aspects? If so, a sequel should have a much quicker dev-time, and more focus can be given to pacing, story, gameplay, etc.

I feel like RaD have the base of a potentially superb game, and it would be a shame not to see what else they can do on consoles.
 
Loomba said:
You guys think that Sony will give them a shot to make a sequel if the game sells well?

Or have reviews destroyed any hope of that?
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Even if it sells just ok I think it deserves a sequel. It is a good game that gets let down by a few (if not big) faults.
 
So... is anyone else's PS4 displaying odd black artifacts in-game? This is the first time I've ever seen my console do this since launch, and I initially thought it was part of the cutscene.
 
SlasherJPC said:
No our site didn't get it otherwise I would have been the one covering it so I'm jumping in fresh tonight! As for being a bad friend, naw, it's just Destiny, there will be plenty more nights for that. LOL Reminds me, I need to stop by sometime once you got your house all settled. Hope you enjoy the game. Will look forward to your impressions on here. I'll post mine tonight or tommorrow.
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As soon as I get my damn furniture! Next week is the last week of the timetable so... I'll try to remember to post my impressions in here but you'll get them regardless ;P I'm wondering if I'll beat the whole thing tonight. I plan on Platinum-ing the game since I'm getting the impression it's easy to do.


For those that have achieved platinum, are all the trophies just for progression and grabbing all the collectibles?
 
Loomba said:
You guys think that Sony will give them a shot to make a sequel if the game sells well?

Or have reviews destroyed any hope of that?
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Not trying to hate on Killzone or anything, but given how bad the first one was, and how great the 2nd and 3rd game were, I'd say it would be a crime not to give RAD a 2nd chance.
 
koshunter said:
Normal. I typically like a run and gun style in my TPS games and so I didn't want to get bogged down in being cover most of the time.
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That's my one main complaint - cover is way, way too sticky. Also, pressing the cover button doesn't actually get you out of cover. You have to pull backwards on the stick. Even if you actually then want to move forwards. It's not great.

Gunplay is satisfying and, unlike games like Gears which have nothing but gunplay (and lack the diversity of something like UC), I actually enjoy how sparse it is. It means I'm not bored of shooting because that's all I do.

Unfortunately the shootouts are still in fairly small arenas. Not huge options for tactical moves, especially on hard where you can die quite quickly.

I'm on Chapter IV and enjoying it so far. I feel like it's got a nice balance of gameplay to exposition. Certainly a better game than Ryse which bored me to death through repetition (which I actually quite liked as a whole but still).
 
Wow. holy shit. wow wow wow. I knew the graphics would be good but actually seeing it in person...there are just no words. It is cgi. The streams do not do it justice at all. I'm spending every corner just taking screenshots and trying to soak up the environment instead of you know actually playing the game.

I'm only just finished chp.3 but I am totally enjoying everything about it. I adore the lore and the interactions between the characters, who by the way are very well written. The gameplay is very decent too and very uncharted like in some sections.

The reviews look silly right now. This is not a 5/10 game at all. If you enjoy cinematic video games then you will be in for a treat. I'm calling it right now, this will be a cult favourite series in a few years time.
 
Ok, just resumed after a couple hours break. How the hell did the RaD wizards manage to load a chapter with graphics like this in 2 seconds?!
 
Vitor711 said:
That's my one main complaint - cover is way, way too sticky. Also, pressing the cover button doesn't actually get you out of cover. You have to pull backwards on the stick. Even if you actually then want to move forwards. It's not great.
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Circle brings you into cover, X gets you out (or back on left stick as you said you didn't prefer).
 
Anyone in the New England area having trouble getting Amazon to stick to their release day shipping? Seems like my CE is lost somewhere in Rhode Island at the moment...

Damn you, snow!
 
hal9001 said:
Wow. holy shit. wow wow wow. I knew the graphics would be good but actually seeing it in person...there are just no words. It is cgi. The streams do not do it justice at all. I'm spending every corner just taking screenshots and trying to soak up the environment instead of you know actually playing the game.

I'm only just finished chp.3 but I am totally enjoying everything about it. I adore the lore and the interactions between the characters, who by the way are very well written. The gameplay is very decent too and very uncharted like in some sections.

The reviews look silly right now. This is not a 5/10 game at all. If you enjoy cinematic video games then you will be in for a treat. I'm calling it right now, this will be a cult favourite series in a few years time.
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Good thing the meta is higher then.
 
The more I read here the more I think my first instinct just to buy this game was correct. Reviews had me wavering about waiting longer and saving some money (I'm definitely playing it at some stage, the game looks incredibly atmospheric). I get paid next Friday and I'm buying it then.

I love taking my time in games like this. I spent ages just soaking up the atmosphere in TLOU and in the beautiful parts of the Uncharted games. Appreciating impressive and realistic looking graphics is a large part of the appeal for me, it really is. I never understood people who want to skip all the cut scenes and then run as fast as they can through a level or area. I literally just don't understand what they take away from games like TLOU. Seemingly it's just trophies/gamerscore nonsense. These are the people who'd watch an ad on their Xbox to earn some more gamerscore ffs.

Anyway most of the impressions from reviews tells me at least I'll get the best graphics porn the world has ever seen, on any platform. The game really creates atmosphere like no other from the snippets I've spoiled myself with so far. I should be able to get the game for about £35 once trade ins are accounted for so for me that's an acceptable price to pay for the experience I expect to get from it, and I expect a good 8 to 10 hours of play from it with my play style. I'm happy with that.

Driveclub reviews, from some big sites, were really eye opening to me as to just how flat out insane they seemed versus my own opinion so for once and for all I'm taking with a pinch (block!) of salt anything they say from now on. People on here, the ones who have actually played the game have given mixed but generally positive impressions. The things that have annoyed are things I'm happy to overlook, and the areas where it has impressed is what I've been waiting for from this game since it's reveal. I'm all set. I expect it will be traded in come Bloodborne time however, same as any other single player campaign based game would have been (trading in Alien to help pay for The Order for example). Circle of life!
 
I did the prologue mission before work and even though it was basically a long interactive cutscene I really loved it. Can't wait to get off work and dig into it more!
 
antitrop said:
Complaints about the general gunplay in reviews just further confirms my theory that game reviewers are sick of shooting in games, in general.

Cuz this shit is hot, reviewers have no idea what good gunplay means.
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Put the game on hard aim assist off and I really love the feel of the gunplay at the moment, I can't wait to play more and have the shotgun.
 
Gaz_RB said:
Damn you guys. I'm probably gonna buy it tonight.

I was so relieved that I wouldn't have to drop 60 on it because it wasn't that great, but here you guys are saying its actually pretty good...
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Would I prefer less of the quick time events? For sure, but everything else that is wrapped around them is great. Thus, I cannot hate on the game. It has sucked me right in.
 
Monogatari said:
Anyone in the New England area having trouble getting Amazon to stick to their release day shipping? Seems like my CE is lost somewhere in Rhode Island at the moment...

Damn you, snow!
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I'm in RI and my Premium CE was here about noon time. Haven't had any issues with Release shipping except for the few times they do the stupid ups to usps transfer non-sense.
It's still on my bed unopened as I try to decide to keep and play or send back
I love the story ideas and settings just.....concerned with so many negative comments and articles.
I will say this thread has me more and more likely to open it though.
 
ironcreed said:
Would I prefer less of the quick time events? For sure, but everything else that is wrapped around them are great. Thus, I cannot hate on the game. It has sucked me right in.
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Often, games are more (or less) than the sum of their parts. Maybe there isn't one thing in particular that's revolutionary or amazing, but do they all work together to form something memorable? To me, that's the biggest thing, and how I will judge The Order once I finally play it this weekend.

How does everything come together as a whole? Is it a fun, satisfying experience? That's what I will be looking for.
 
ckohler said:
Just in case anyone is wondering, if you pre-ordered the game from PSN, you get the soundtrack for free. Here's how it works:


  • From PS4's Dynamic Menu, highlight the game and press down. From there you'll see "Related Items" and the Soundtrack will be listed there and should appear as "Free"
  • Click that and it will take you to the store where it will download an app
  • The soundtrack app will appear on your Dynamic Menu.
  • Launching the app lets you play the music while viewing screenshots/media, etc.
  • Clicking the Options button will give you an option to "Download the Playlist"
  • Insert a USB drive and it will copy a ZIP file with the soundtrack on it.
  • Unzip the file on your PC/Mac and you'll have the full soundtrack for installation on your phone, etc.
  • The files are 320kbps MP3 format
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Ahh thanks for this. Is this how all of these soundtrack unlocks work digitally then? I believe Bloodborne has a soundtrack code as well in some versions. I always just thought they were for a console only download as they never advertised that it was a genuine download that could be copied to a PC. Nice. I'll bear this in mind in future, cheers!
 
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