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[EL CUCO]

My copy is arriving today. I'm going to Platinum this game is quick as possible and recover whatever money of the $60 I can.

Damn shame...

 

[thatJohann]

Make up your own damn mind. Screw reviews. If you can afford to buy it, just do it and sell it later or something.

This game is a work of art. Enjoy it for what it is.

 

[grimmiq]

Ok, I'm slow and dont get why this is funny/pissing some people off. Can someone ELI5?

I think that's the devs celebrating after they finished working on it..

 

[toastyToast]

EGM: 4.5/10
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/the-order-1886-review/

This is EGM

EGM!!!

They'd give a 9 to a slice of toast.

 

[Phediuk]

So this looks like the PS4's Ryse.

 

[SymbiantXenos]

so.... those of you who hide your true colors and those of you who constantly defend everything to the moon... how does the crow taste?? or are you still in denial?? Will you still be in denial after you already finish you 5 hour interactive movie??? It's cool... I bet you were the same quality of people that bashed games like Titanfall and Evolve for being Multiplayer only even though you never played it...You are the type that bashed something like Sunset because it wasn't "true 1080p"....your damage control is one of the other major reasons gaming continues to slip down the slippery slope....

Step up and make a damn example for once..... stop buying these overhyped exclusive piles of poop and tell Sony (and all these damn companies for that matter) to STOP OVER PROMISING AND UNDER DELIVERING.... this game has NO RIGHT charging $60.. you want to go for $20 ... ok cooooool... also LOL at the fact it was always hyped and advertised as a "shooter".... but hey its just Sony being Sony...

I haven't clicked on Gamespot system wars by mistake have I.

Game arrives tomorrow. Still looking forward to it.

 

[OsirisBlack]

Reading several of the worst reviews they reflect what I expected. Some reviewers still holding on to bad PR statements and using them to fuel their desire for something to be worse than it actually is. The game is far from revolutionary but it is also not a bad game this is pretty pathetic, journalism at its worst.

Looking at the scores of more recent games and then looking at the score the Order received just confirms these scores were set in stone quite a while ago.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Oh come on, it's just fun jeez.

So you find other people's failure fun? I wasn't going to comment, but what you posted was tasteless.

 

[Always-honest]

Ridiculous some of the gripes in these review...

Like what gripes and have you played it?
Just asking.

 

[FairXchange]

See now that seems harsh to me. Everyone here is free to express their opinion whether serious or jovial, doesn't mean they lack any respect for anything

Opinion? I saw no opinion being expressed in that post. Did you?

 

[mumbles365]

Still excited to get this game, I'll form my own opinion, only thing I'm worried about is the story being boring because thats one of the main reasons I'm getting this.

 

[Gestault]

Jim Sterling's Review

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

6.5/10

Outside of combat, things are little less enthralling. The game shamelessly opens with remedial quick-time-events through a network of restrictive corridors, all set at a plodding pace, and this framework comes to characterize much of the resulting campaign. Linearity is not a bad thing, but The Order has no interest whatsoever in exploration, curiosity, or player agency. You’re allowed to run only when the game tells you, your hand is held by immersion-breaking tutorial pop-ups that never stop and cannot be turned off, you’ll come to doors that you know you can open, but are barred from touching until the patronizing prompt appears.

Much of your progress is stuttered as you are forced to stop and start through a level constantly, with no real flow to the events that unfold – just as you begin to get into the action, another long cutscene will pull you out of it, or yet another door will bar your path and arbitrarily halt you until it’s ready for your prescribed interaction.

Meanwhile, it paints by numbers as it goes through the checklist of standardized videogame features. Simplistic stealth chapters occur now and then, forcing the player to awkwardly sneak about and one-hit-kill grizzly men from behind. Galahad picks locks and hacks electricity boxes via primitive minigames. Fighting lycans is promising and paranoia-inducing, but all too brief and astoundingly infrequent. Meanwhile, the two battles that could feasibly be deemed boss encounters are, themselves, little more than QTEs of another flavor. All this, spread fairly thinly across a campaign that will maybe take five or six hours to get through.

The Order‘s real problem, however, isn’t that it’s short – it’s that it does so very little with the time it has. Narratively, the game is a prologue as opposed to a full-fledged story, concerned only with building to a crescendo that never comes

This game is not for me.

 

[Ponchito]

This is terrible for AAA titles. At this rate even Uncharted 4 will not deliver. Very disappointed at Sony exclusives.

Feel sorry for RAD but it looks they had their heads up their buts during development ignoring all the criticism up until this day.

Hopefully it'll come out one day for PS plus. I'll ty it then for sure.

 

[Blackquill]

Well I'm still excited to pick up my Premium Edition of The Order 1886 tomorrow. What, I'm suppose to change my mind based off some stranger's opinion? Nope. I'm way too much of an independent thinker to allow that madness to occur.

Yeah you're right, I'm also an independant thinker. I didn't wait the review to know it was shit.

 

[Majmun]

Not really surprising. The gameplay looked really bland.

 

[Meltsi]

For full price no no no, this seems to go under 20 € or maybe a ps plus title? I wait

 

[meanspartan]

I was fairly close to getting fucking fired at work for laughing over this.

You know what makes that post? How ecstatic you just know he was to see those low review scores. Like, that was a victory for him and he gleefully typed out that "revenge" post.

 

[Ape]

Is this bizzaro world? I've read a couple posts where they're saying PS4 games are attacked by reviewers? I thought the overwhelming feeling of persecution was an xbox thing...


Anyways, this sucks. I was looking forward to this game and now it is looking more like I'll be passing on it. Especially if it isn't dirt cheap (I mean TLOU digital voucher prices) by the time I pick up my ps4. Probably won't happen, but what can you do. :/

 

[ConradCervantes]

14.98 off a Target clearance shelf, it is.

 

[Vitanimus]

so.... those of you who hide your true colors and those of you who constantly defend everything to the moon... how does the crow taste?? or are you still in denial?? Will you still be in denial after you already finish you 5 hour interactive movie??? It's cool... I bet you were the same quality of people that bashed games like Titanfall and Evolve for being Multiplayer only even though you never played it...You are the type that bashed something like Sunset because it wasn't "true 1080p"....your damage control is one of the other major reasons gaming continues to slip down the slippery slope....

Step up and make a damn example for once..... stop buying these overhyped exclusive piles of poop and tell Sony (and all these damn companies for that matter) to STOP OVER PROMISING AND UNDER DELIVERING.... this game has NO RIGHT charging $60.. you want to go for $20 ... ok cooooool... also LOL at the fact it was always hyped and advertised as a "shooter".... but hey its just Sony being Sony...

I'm cackling

 

[chadskin]

Unfortunately, both DriveClub and The Order actually hearken back to older times. They feel like experiences one might have had on the PS2 with cutting edge visuals. I actually really like that about them and have enjoyed them quite a bit. They actually almost feel out of place in 2014/2015 in that sense.

I feel kind of sad knowing that these games will be viewed as failures and will likely put a dead stop to this type of design.

Interestingly, I also lump Alien Isolation and The Evil Within in with these games. These are types of experiences I want these days. The Evil Within was shredded as well and suffered from annoying technical faults while Alien has a pretty limited fan base as well. It has occurred to me that I'm not really in line with what's popular these days. :\

We're getting old, dude. The cool kids we're not anymore.

 

[Axass]

Are there really though? I really can't think of 5.

Kojima (MGS4)
Naughty Dog (Uncharted)
RAD (The Order)
David Cage (Beyond/Heavy Rain)
Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword)

BTW these are all basically self proclaimed, at one point they said they wanted to make the games movie-like or have a cinematic feeling.

 

[Az]

God damn, this is brutal.

 

[Sendou]

You're acting like Ryse never happened. Funny enough, both these games are likely going to share a similar metacritic score, and both are among the best looking, but also most linear games on their respective consoles lol.

One of them is a great benchmark tool though.

 

[maverick40]

I know I will get trolled for this , but it may be time for Sony to look at replacing Shu . Sony was always known to have great first party exclusives, but this gen we have had knack, killzone. Driveclub which is a great game but launched after multiple delays , and was broke as heck at launch which killed the buzz for the game . Infamous which was beautiful, but scored rather average, and now the order , which appears to be another ryse. If his job is to manage first party games. I would say he has done a poor job overall. In my opinion

He is the reason bloodborne is in existence, your statement is 100% invalid

 

[WITHE1982]

so.... those of you who hide your true colors and those of you who constantly defend everything to the moon... how does the crow taste?? or are you still in denial?? Will you still be in denial after you already finish you 5 hour interactive movie??? It's cool... I bet you were the same quality of people that bashed games like Titanfall and Evolve for being Multiplayer only even though you never played it...You are the type that bashed something like Sunset because it wasn't "true 1080p"....your damage control is one of the other major reasons gaming continues to slip down the slippery slope....

Step up and make a damn example for once..... stop buying these overhyped exclusive piles of poop and tell Sony (and all these damn companies for that matter) to STOP OVER PROMISING AND UNDER DELIVERING.... this game has NO RIGHT charging $60.. you want to go for $20 ... ok cooooool... also LOL at the fact it was always hyped and advertised as a "shooter".... but hey its just Sony being Sony...

Wow. talk about going out in a blaze of... well bullshit.

 

[c0de]

Pretty undeserved in my opinion, but this is no a real issue for me (I really enjoyed this game!).

So, except some kids, fanboys (and fangirl) and nintendo, is there someone else who still care/trust in metacritic ?

Ps On N4G, right now it's 75, just to say.

And how is that of importance? N4G?!

 

[pokeystaples]

I'm still baffled at no weapon upgrades at all. I know it sounds silly but I was really hoping this was gonna be Wolfenstein levels of surprisingly good. :-/

 

[Alienous]

This is terrible for AAA titles. At this rate even Uncharted 4 will not deliver. Very disappointed at Sony exclusives.

Feel sorry for RAD but it looks they had their heads up their buts during development ignoring all the criticism up until this day.

Hopefully it'll come out one day for PS plus. I'll ty it then for sure.

What, do you not have thumbs?

 

[Mass_Pincup]

This is terrible for AAA titles. At this rate even Uncharted 4 will not deliver. Very disappointed at Sony exclusives.

Feel sorry for RAD but it looks they had their heads up their buts during development ignoring all the criticism up until this day.

Hopefully it'll come out one day for PS plus. I'll ty it then for sure.

What does this have to do with ND and Uncharted 4?

 

[Lakitu]

I'm glad I was on the fence TBH. I may get it when it hits half price or the bargain bin. Ready at Dawn seem like fantastic developers but hopefully this can spur them to create a really good game next time around.

 

[.hacked]

ps4 finally got that Ryse killer it was looking for...


Got my copy for $22ish think it will be worth it.

 

[buckeye13]

This is pretty fucking unprofessional.

If I were Sony I would be pissed.

Certainly screams bias

 

[orthodoxy1095]

I know I will get trolled for this , but it may be time for Sony to look at replacing Shu . Sony was always known to have great first party exclusives, but this gen we have had knack, killzone. Driveclub which is a great game but launched after multiple delays , and was broke as heck at launch which killed the buzz for the game . Infamous which was beautiful, but scored rather average, and now the order , which appears to be another ryse. If his job is to manage first party games. I would say he has done a poor job overall. In my opinion

TIL an 80 is average.

 

[Melchiah]

We'll see how Sony feels if they stop the advertising blitz. Driveclub was never advertised from the getgo, but I've been seeing consistent commercials for this for awhile.

Driveclub was advertised continuously here in Finland, along with TLOU, LBP3, Singstar and Destiny, during The Walking Dead series. I wonder how it was with the other European countries, where racing in general is more popular than in the States.

 

[Jeronimo Jones]

Just checking here out of curiosity, and though I kind of expected scores to run the gamut, I expected the average to be a little better.

Either way, just like I don't rely on the Oscars to pick movies that I'll like, I'm going to play it myself and decide.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

It's a QTE and cutscene heavy, I assume 7-10 hours long game for $60.

Its never intended to be a TPS though. Its a story telling game, something more in the lines with Quantic Dream or Telltale games. Its just very different then a TPS, and it may give you much more in-game choices then The Order.

It's just different genres of games. So I don't agree that this is a valid comparison by any extent.

 

[Badpsychometry]

Sooo, no refunds on PSN? Fuck. I jumped the gun...

 

[Floridian]

See now that seems harsh to me. Everyone here is free to express their opinion whether serious or jovial, doesn't mean they lack any respect for anything

Saying I like/dislike this game is an opinion. Posting pictures of developers who were at the time celebrating their work now at a time where reviews for this game are bad and people are ragging on them is kind of rude imo.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Oh puh-leaze, if the game had received good scores the haters would've had to endure the same treatment from the other side.

Exactly!

In fact I'm not a hater, I respet RAD for what they did and can't wait what's next ...I hope they learn from their mistakes.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

This is terrible for AAA titles. At this rate even Uncharted 4 will not deliver. Very disappointed at Sony exclusives.

Feel sorry for RAD but it looks they had their heads up their buts during development ignoring all the criticism up until this day.

Hopefully it'll come out one day for PS plus. I'll ty it then for sure.

What does this have to do with Uncharted, or Sony exclusives?

 

[Mr. X]

As long as the devs end product is what they wanted to make and there are people who buy it and enjoy, everything is good IMO. Congrats to RAD.

But honestly, how did people not expect this from the previews? My impression was that it would be a game designed around a great first play through but the mechanics were not something that would bring you back to play over and over again (which is how I view the aim of most games made nowadays).

The reviews make it sound like the inverse of Vanquish.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Seriously I love my PS4 but I'm dissapointed in Sony first party games released right now..

Not first party. Or atleast as much first party as Quantic Dream. Independents on this scale are a dime a dozen, who knows where this leaves RAD if this game does indeed bomb commercially

 

[Always-honest]

At this rate even Uncharted 4 will not deliver.

Come on now... You're acting like it's a virus.

 

[Benjamin1981]

I expected high 70s/low 80s but not this. What is the next exclusive on PS4 besides Bloodbourne (which is not for me)?

 

[StoppedInTracks]

I'm going to be real honest, I don't know if I can justify a PS4 for one game right now.

For Bloodborne?

I can.

 

[Tambini]

Shame the game didn't turn out great but I always thought it looked a bit slow since they revealed it. I can't really stand playing games where they keep taking control from the player/QTE fests, no matter how good it looks

@ lol at some replies

 

[Final Verdict]

It reviewes below Ryse so far. Unthinkable.

Ehh, I got Ryse for $10 recently, and it isn't all that bad (though not that great either).
I will probably end up getting this when it is cheap as well.

 

[PBY]

Reading several of the worst reviews they reflect what I expected. Some reviewers still holding on to bad PR statements and using them to fuel their desire for something to be worse than it actually is. The game is far from revolutionary but it is also not a bad game this is pretty pathetic, journalism at its worst.

Looking at the scores of more recent games and then looking at the score the Order received just confirms these scores were set in stone quite a while ago.

Damn dude. Just let it go. Have you played it even?

 

[Justice_Bolt]

It's a QTE and cutscene heavy, I assume 7-10 hours long game for $60.

But the game has replay value. I don't think that's the case with The Order based on reviews.