The Order 1886 [FEB 20 PS4] (Metacritic: 65)

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Fatboi1 said:
How it looks on a 21:9 monitor.


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I'm at chapter five. The game is not bad. :ehh: it's picking up.
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what size is that monitor and how much did you pay?
 
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The gunplay is really satisfying in this game, it's such a shame there' no MP. Using the shotty or the thermite rifle is soo good.
 
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winb83 said:
I can't comment on Ryse because I haven't got around to playing it yet. I just recently bought it on Steam for $10 so I will play it.

How much content should a single player interactive linear movie have? This isn't a choose your own adventure game either it's straight up a linear single player story that you play through. Again I'm talking about people reviewing and judging content for what it actually is not what they expect it to be or what they think it should have.

If I had to give a score to what I've played so far I'd lean towards the 75-80 range. Scores in the 60 range should be reserved for broken games that don't even function the way they're supposed to not well made games that do what they're advertised to do and actually do it well.

I do have problems with The Order. The murky plot that starts in the middle of the events and doesn't even bother to fill you in on what's really going on especially with the back story and world state. The slow methodical pacing where you have to literally walk around from point A to B and I mean slowly walk. The AI partners that mostly don't help you out at all and are just window dressings that seldom kill anything. The enemy AI that uses the Uncharted style take cover and when time goes on too long chuck grenades over and over while staying behind cover and doesn't seem to form any strategy other than that. The fact that The Order is supposed to be fighting "half-breeds" but you spend 90% of the game fighting "rebels" (What are they rebelling against anyway? The Queen? The Order? Why am I at chapter 8 of 16 and that has yet to be revealed?) The cast is also a bit cliche and dry. There really aren't any stand out characters so far.

The game isn't without faults but criticizing a game for being an interactive movie when that's what it's supposed to be is silly.
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12 to 15 hours of raw action.
 
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winb83 said:
If I had to give a score to what I've played so far I'd lean towards the 75-80 range.
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plenty of sites gave it a similar score. it even got a 95 from one site. however the average is lower :yeshrug:
 
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just starting chap 5, thoughts so far:

- this game is gorgeous...it's crisp and the details, oh my damn....

- it's seamless between cutscenes and gameplay...it goes back and forth between them effortlessly and unnoticed...

- to piggyback off the last point: which is a good thing cause there are a shytload of cutscenes....they went with cutscene overload...they got cutscenes for no reason like: you open a door, which starts a cutscene showing you walk down the hall, then switches back to gameplay to open another door lol....hell, one chap I've played so far was all cutscene...

- the game is more movie than game...it's big on presentation, story, atmosphere, the plot, etc., with some gameplay sprinkled in....which is what I expected...the gameplay that is sprinkled in is fun...although I don't like that blacksight shyt...

- the enemy ai is cool...they flank, call out your position, rush you, dont miss when shooting, basically do whatever to fukk you up...your companion ai not so much....they help kill some shyt, but they will also get in your way....

- that thermite gun, oh my.....

- those that said the game is 5 hours are full of shyt....they had to have been playing the game on easy....I say that for a couple reason: 1) for the most part, you're literally walking everywhere, which takes time...2) the game is not very forgiving...i'm playing on hard and you get shot like 3 times and you're about to die; the werewolves kill you in 3 hits; and you cant always use that blackwater health refill trick..
 
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