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[AyaisMUsikWhore]

Feel really bad for RAD, must be really tough seeing all of these reviews.
Hopefully they learn from this and come back stronger.

I don't think they will tbh. The sad state of new IPs

 

[bombshell]

Well as expected this is getting very polarized reviews.

Gamereactor Norway 9/10

Gamereactor Denmark 8/10

Gamereactor Sweden 6/10

 

[Septic360]

 

[Bishop89]

Or maybe the game wasn't the reviewers cup of tea with an emphasis on being a cinematic experience and not focusing on what matters most which is the gameplay.

doesnt explain heavy rain having an 87 metascore.

 

[TheSlySoul]

This seems to be a mixed bag as well. Every game this week was one.

 

[BlackJace]

Woah, looks like a rental then...

 

[SmithnCo]

I'll take my steak as a rental, please

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Yeah, I knew already in the beginning when people were complaining about qte's and not seeing gameplay, that shit was gonna go bad.

 

[samn]

Feels bad for the people at Ready at Dawn They obviously worked really hard.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

Well then. This sure did take a turn...huh. I'm still buying the game for what it is and I'm so excited. I'm out of here before it gets reeeeeeeally crazy.

 

[GnawtyDog]

It's nice to see high standards. I wonder which story driven game will be drilled next when it fails to get anywhere near TLOU in quality - and that's going to happen for quite a while. Currently the bar.

 

[Dark_castle]

Loved this comment @ Eurogamer:

Omg...

 

[Deadpool_X]

Good thing they delayed it by like 8 months. Imagine the state it was in when it was originally supposed to be released!

 

[Auto-Reply]

The Videogamer score gif had me puzzled for a sec lol

 

[PerezDeCorcho]

N4G 8.5/10 http://n4g.com/news/1674865/the-ord...tional-and-ultra-polished-heresy-dualshockers

You mean Dualshockers. N4G just links to the site.

 

[Pooya]

sounds like perfect weekend rental to me, I played through garbage Beyond Two Souls because of the graphics and I even enjoyed that, this can't be worse. :v

 

[The Last One]

WAIT! The sites are posting the grades or the game's length?

 

[meanspartan]

Fucking rad....

I swear to God, some companies just have no common sense.

Gameplay Always comes first. Always.

I could already see the review headlines a mile away. Urghh. Hopefully rad survives this.

Yup, the naysayers of the whole "cinematic experience" won big here. You can have a good cinematic experience game, but Last of Us or Uncharted is about the most in the cinematic direction you should go perhaps.

Especially a shame considering we know that RAD can make excellent gameplay. Loved Daxter and their GoW games.

 

[Kezen]

I'm very interested to now return to that Eurogamer video preview thread.

Because I believe there is a long list of people that require a massive serving of crow.

Oh yes indeed. I wonder how they feel now.

 

[Hanmik]

N4G 8.5/10 http://n4g.com/news/1674865/the-ord...tional-and-ultra-polished-heresy-dualshockers

lol.. that´s one way to post a link to a banned site..

 

[kamandi]

This is not going to end well. Gonna play anyway.

 

[Any Questions]

Ladies and gentlemen I present to you GAF's 10th most anticipated game this year.

Failing over here to stifle my giggles

 

[Jonboy]

Going to give it a chance, but yikes. A "no" from kotaku? Pretty disappointed right now.

If Bloodborne is a flop I think I'll cry.

 

[supervillain]

still gonna play this tonight.

 

[Ostinatto]

i haven't read the thread, waiting for my cup of coffee and snacks. this gon be gud son !!!

 

[Kriken]

Gamespot: 5/10
http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-order-1886-review/1900-6416033/

Giant Bomb 2/5

On par with Kirby confirmed /s

 

[nelsonroyale]

Fuck graphics.. I want good game with good gameplay instead Sony. (I'm still buying the game anyway and I hope I will enjoy it).

I want games with good graphics.

 

[Blackquill]

I'm amazed by how people have waited until the first reviews to cancel the preorder. This game sent us red flags since his first trailer...

 

[BlazingDarkness]

Anything that's a Gears of War clone deserves to be shat on from a great height.
I'm disappointed that Sony have put so much into this dross of a game when they're generally known for trying to innovate.
They're doing a terrible job of selling me on a PS4.

 

[LegoArmo]

I should really learn to stop digitally pre-ordering games.

 

[jmaine_ph]

WAIT! The site are posting the grades or the game's length?

Daaaamn! LMAO!

 

[duckielein]

Or maybe the game wasn't the reviewers cup of tea with an emphasis on being a cinematic experience and not focusing on what matters most which is the gameplay.

Or maybe the game is just not worth a higher Score? Damn, the fact that it is not the score you wanted doesn't mean the reviewer fucked up or sth. else. Soe people just have to realise the reality.

 

[Thornton Reed]

Reviewers are the new bullies.

oh no you didn't

 

[Turkoop]

Few Gamereactor scores
http://www.gamereactor.de/Kritiken/222774/The+Order:+1886/?rs=rss

 

[fluffydelusions]

"Joyless lump of a game" - that's pretty harsh. :-/

 

[Stereogatari]

I don't think they will tbh. The sad state of new IPs

The sad state of new IPs that aren't trying to bring anything good to the table. Watch Bloodborne next month. That's how it should be done.

 

[Sid]

After my shittastic experience with Shadow Fall and Infamous I'm not buying this,at least not for the foreseeable future

 

[kuroneko0509]

So.....

When can we expect this on Plus?

After Knack probably?

 

[gigantor21]

This quote from the Metro review stuck out for me in particular.

‘I think story and visuals are very high. Gameplay is something that… it’s a game, we make games, we can’t get around it. We love games, but we also love telling stories, so I think story is always going to be at the top because it’s what we start with. It’s at the top of the pyramid and everything else supports that. I think it’d be more challenging to make a game for the gameplay’s sake, then try to make a story that fits in there’.

But there barely is any story in The Order. There’s a very loosely told plot that helps explain why you’re moving from one place to the other but there’s no clear villain or threat for the majority of the game. The four main characters are one-dimensional non-entities, with little in the way of personality or character development. Instead, most of them spend the whole game being terse and grumpy, except the French guy who is a sex-obssessed lady’s man. You know, because he’s French… and this is a lazily written video game.

THIS was the main thing I was worried about, not the game's length. They kept saying that they wanted to make the game as close to a cinematic experience as possible, but nothing about the actual plot or the characters looked or sounded interesting in playthroughs or trailers. That itself would've been fine had the gameplay been good, but reading this and other reviews the actual "game" stuff they sounded like they didn't even want to do was nothing special either (at best). Not to mention there are chapters with next to no gameplay at all...

It sounds like it's turned out as I feared. So much for people's fears being unjustified. *sigh*

 

[Truant]

Think he meant 5/10.

Ice cold

 

[cHinzo]

I guess it looks nice. I hope we don't get too many of these kind of games this gen.

 

[Midn1ght]

Jim Sterling's Review

"Fantastic teaser… can’t wait for the actual game to come out."

6.5/10

 

[KingFire]

Somebody update that Spanish video with the scores.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Review sites are coming after PS4 exclusives.

Or maybe it´s not a good game?

 

[Axass]

Everyeye.it 8
Multiplayer.it 7.8

Italian sites are jokes.

Spoiler

(I'm Italian)

 

[TheSlySoul]

On par with Kirby confirmed /s

Was about to say that. Too funny.

 

[sammyCYBORG]

Will wait for price drop.

What a shame. PS4 is hurting a bit good good exclusives at the moment. Was hoping to grab this tomorrow and blow some of the dust away!

 

[Spacecowboy77]

Yup, as expected.

Still, might be a pretty good rental.

 

[SparkTR]

Is this going to score worse than Lair?

 

[Orniletter]

Review sites are coming after PS4 exclusives.

More like PS4 exclusives have been mostly shit so far.

Bloodbourne will be great and review great.