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The Order 1886 Review Thread
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Are you implying they should stoo making all the other games they make then? I personally enjoy The Last of Us and Uncharteds. Although they both have multiplayer. But then also the non heavy story little big planets, ratchet and clanks and all that.
Plus this isn't even a first party studio that made the order.
Since you asked
PS4:
XB1:
Jeez nothing but ports and remasters... I wish they would just start focusing on more good original games -___-
just shelled out 70 for the game and now I come home and see this?
I believed in you Sony
Christ that GIF. Always has me pissing my pants with giggles.
Yup. Around the time when Order was announced in 2013, Ready at Dawn CEO and Creative Director Ru Weerasuriya made a post in PlayStation Blog about how the game had been in development in some form since 2010. It's releasing February 2015, ergo... 5 years.
Cranberrys
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It's absolutely stunning visually, on a good calibrated TV it's jaw dropping even. For the rest, as I said before, it's a competent pop corn game. Not Revolutionary, no sophisticated gameplay mechanics either, but cool story so far (about 3 hours in last night), very cool setting, solid gunfight. Pop corn. It's enjoyable, you'll probably have a great time playing it, if you like a cool cinematic action game and of course, if you like the victorian gloomy era.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Realistically I can see it getting criticism for reusing so many assets.
So many GUFU guys posting in this thread. Brings a tear to my eye.
Damn lol
Mods I'm like 90% sure this was a joke and not ban worthy.
That's the real gem of the PS4, I'm betting a 93 score for it. Sony is confident on the title you can tell for the huge amount of footage they making avaible to media and huge amount of coverage already.
Yes, initial engine development would totally count in my mind if this was the first game to use it...
WOW
....? How many of those have they been making lately?
Basically just this one you say? That's what I thought.
Killzone was hot garbage IMO, but there was some non linearity to the encounters.
LyleLanley
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I don't see why they wouldn't, The Order doesn't seem like a poorly made game.
What's their agenda?
Not sure if bait.
Ninja Scooter
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I was a staunch defender of The Order but if it's rrallly a 7-10 hour game with very little in the way of replayability or variation then I can understand these scores. If you are going to do that then your core gameplay has to be super tight and engaging, and to a lot of folks that doesn't appear to be the case with this. I'll still play it myself as the setting and atmosphere look on point but it's disappointing to see some of these scores.
You can also see a sort of sea change in the industry with these kinds of games, and when you look at the landscape of what's out there and what is popular, I wonder how much longer publishers will see a point to funding super linear, guided experiences like this unless they have something to really make them stand out. Like you can spend all this time and money creating these Michael Bay esque set pieces and action scenes but it seems like in this day and age people would rather jump in GTA online and create their own.
You can also see a sort of sea change in the industry with these kinds of games, and when you look at the landscape of what's out there and what is popular, I wonder how much longer publishers will see a point to funding super linear, guided experiences like this unless they have something to really make them stand out. Like you can spend all this time and money creating these Michael Bay esque set pieces and action scenes but it seems like in this day and age people would rather jump in GTA online and create their own.
derExperte
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After getting called out as a troll or whatever it's good to see that I'm not the only one not being completely blown away by the visuals since some reviewers think it's too 'drab and dark' and generally limited in scope too. Also all the previously lauded 'cinematic' effects negatively impacting the gameplay? Who would have thought. Still didn't expect the scores to be this low and for whatever reason I kinda want to pick it up tomorrow irregardless. Guess they chose a good release date with not a lot going on in the AAA-space, could save their asses (financially).
SolidChamp
Banned
For what it's worth guys, I'm enjoying the game.
I don't think it's pushing it. It isn't open world, but some maps certainly gives you the illusion (Bill's town main street, the sniper section, ...), and they give you tons of gameplay options. They are essentially big corridors, but they are big enough to make things interesting to play in. I believe this is the kind of scale that linear game should aim for.
Something that RaD -and most other devs for that matter, but especially true for The Order- should have taken from Naughty Dog's game was the in-game story-telling. You don't need to show a cut-scene and steal control from the player every single time someone is speaking, or doing something quite inconsequencial. Make it all playable, and keep the cut-scenes / interactive QTEs for whenever something really special happen.
Anyway, huge missed opportunity here imo. If you want to go on Naughty Do'g's turf, try and take away what's so brilliant about their games.
Naw, they just need a really good story. That would have been enough for the first game.
Shadow_FFVI
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was a great game and an 88 on metacritic though.
I'll see if I like the Order myself soon enough.
I woudlve thought this was it. The half-breeds acting as the Locust type enemies. Bummer. Still excited to play!
a secret-boss
Banned
Read page one to release of score.
Optimistic to bloodbath
Optimistic to bloodbath
Von Krukru
Banned
Will play on hard and
have fun.
probably
That's really the only thing that matters.
dragonbane
Member
And now imagine what would have happened if they didn't delay The Order at all. It's probably only not broken too because they took their time to polish it. If it came out as planned it would have been a mess.
Or it could just not be a great game.
Nobody is saying that you should not enjoy the game you purchased
Final Verdict
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I agree. If you go back and look at the UC4 demo we got, you can see that the level design is excellent, and very sandboxy.
Getting past enemies is like a puzzle that you can solve multiple ways (stealth, guns blazing, or a combination of both.)
It sounds like the encounter design for the Order was just bad/boring, and very linear in how the player has to approach each situation.
The fact that they have forced stealth sections just proves the point.
What would have been nice to see is sections where stealth is encouraged, but not mandatory that way the play has more options as to how he wants to beat the section, and it encourages replay.
I think Halo CE is one of the first games to do this very well to where an encounter felt different every time you played, and a lot of that has to do with making good AI, and on top of that, giving the AI more options on how they can flank you, and work together to combat you.
Cod, can be seen as quite the opposite, were a lot of times if feels like you just go into one room, shoot, and then go into the next and do the same.
From what little I have played, it felt a lot more linear, and therefore does not encourage replay....now of coarse Cod can get away with this because they have a lot more content to justify the $60 pricetag....
N° 2048
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But but they have families and joooobbsss /s
I agree, crap games like this will not do the studio any good.
Sucks about the scores, I was hoping it would do well just for the sake of it being a new IP. I have it pre-ordered but I'll probably play it and use the 7 day return policy on it to exchange it for $100 towards my Bloodborne pre-order. Will still give it a play through, good or not it will be nice to see that eye candy.
Doctor_Thomas
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Currently sitting above Knack on Metacritic!
My opinion on this is that many companies want to maximise their revenue and make sure the adoption of the machines is as high as possible before releasing their games. The remasters trend requires very little investment and has shown great returns as people wait for such releases, so companies are taking advantage of that, and likely will continue to do so.
legacyzero
Banned
You hate to see such an opportunity wasted with last-gen gameplay standards.
Hahahah
lmao I'll show myself out
Hahahah
that should be a good thing.
Like how MCC got 9's when it deserved 5's?
Shyakugaun
Banned
constantstatic
Member
I hate this way of thinking Wolfenstein was fantastic and I loved all the bioshock games. Single player games can sell fine if they are good. I hate having multiplier especially coop stuffed into single player games to hit a check box.
If the order had a competent story and a few more hours of gameplay I'm sure it would have reviewed better. Some of these reviews are saying the story just stops on a cliff hanger. This game has been marketed with story in mind and it doesn't sounds like the devs wrote a good one.
N° 2048
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Most definitely, I get more time with Dying Light now.
Post of the Year material right here.
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