Many gamers are concerned over The Order: 1886 reportedly short game length. But why should that be a concern when high-quality entertainment is there? The Geek Culture discusses.
A sequel to Sony and Ready At Dawn's action-adventure game, The Order: 1886, would have featured larger-scale battles as well as multiplayer.
I missed it when games use to have a multiplayer to them.
Hope Sony revives the game at one point
Killzone, Resistance, Uncharted, TLOU, Motorstorm. Great times. Its a shame how far they've fallen this generation
Why add multiplayer when the single player (despite enjoying it for what it was) had flaws?
You'd work out the issues with how you craft the single player then once you’ve perfected it do multiplayer after.
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"Two sequels were planned for the franchise, The Order 1891 and The Order 1899. While the third game was never in development, Weerasuriya says he had planned where the story of the franchise was planned to go, if he had been able to develop the full trilogy."
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Alas, we'll also might never get the PC version of 1886, which is currently residing in some dev's hard drive, nearly ready for a release if required.
It’s a shame we didn’t gave its chance to this franchise.
Game world was very interesting, and gameplay could have evolved to a major hit with sequels.
Not even speaking about graphics that were way ahead of their time.
If "we" is sony, i agree. I liked the game but it was metacritic that contributed to it's death. It's a shame.
No, we are "us," the gamers who rated it so low on Metacritic, hurting... Killing its sales. I agree it is a shame. I loved this game.
No it is not, it is us has a community which crucified this game, which is happening much too often.
I think MP being co-op would’ve been awesome. Essentially, I always viewed this as Sony’s take on the Gears series.
However, it really failed to measure up to what I expected. I definitely saw the potential but there were some things that really bogged it down for me like the forced slow walking segments (which I know was to hide loading), the repetitive warehouse werewolf fights, not enough variety in enemies, oddly we fought more humans than Darkstalkers, and the stealth sections were infuriating.
One thing there’s no denying though, this damn game was a looker. Such a shame at the wasted potential.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "After finally playing the now decade-old The Order: 1886, what do I think about it? Is it really worthy of all the hate it has received over the past decade? Or is it some kind of hidden gem? I honestly think it falls somewhere in the middle. I loved the setting, the story is initially fine, the combat isn’t half-bad, and the potential for some awesome world building was there. It was all bogged down by too much ambition against a tight deadline, as well as poor marketing. As a result, it’s short, full of plotholes, infested with QTEs, and not exactly memorable as a whole. As a game you can grab for less than ten bucks today, I absolutely think it’s worth checking out. It’s one hell of a wasted potential, but for such a discount, I had some fun with it, and I’m sure you will too."
Great setting, great graphics, even decent gun play, but what a trash of a game. The fuck were these people thinking? We could've had something like an Alan Wake 2 meets Mass Effect 2 style game. With investigations, creepy locations to uncover and explore, people to talk to and even recruit, clues to uncover and connect, monsters to slay, side quests to get lost in, and a more expansive lore to go with it.
Instead we got a shitty AAAAAAAAA Third Person Pew Pew snoozfest. Awesome.
The order 1886 was one of the best games I played on ps4. Within a top 5 best ps4 games I'd put the last of us 2, the order 1886, days gone, horizon zero dawn and God of war.
"The order 1886 was one of the best games I played on ps4. Within a top 5 best ps4 games..."
Jesus H. Christ, bud. You just sound like a Sony apologist. What the fuck? Anyways. Good luck with that or whatever.
God. The "what could've been" you're describing would've been way better than just being the most empty cinematic shooter slop of that generation.
Right? I mean, I can understand people enjoying this thing ironically. Knowing that it sucks but still enjoying it for what it is. I get that. That's fine. We all have our guilty pleasure no doubt. But to come here and actually pretend that this is a top 5 PS4 game? Wow!
To pretend that this barely there game is anything more than an "empty cinematic shooter slop of that generation," as you said, is beyond ridiculous. But I guess Self-Awareness is some expensive ass DLC still.
I really enjoyed this game and also think it was one of the best PS4 games. It’s weird to me that this makes you so angry. I’m not a Sony fan at all by the way, very much pc player.
"and also think it was one of the best PS4 games"
"I’m not a Sony fan at all by the way, very much pc player."
Yeah, OK. You want to lie to yourself? You do you, bud. But like I said to the other Sony apologist, "good luck with that or whatever."
Jesus, it had some flaws but you're acting like it was unplayable.
It built a foundation, a rocky one but a sequel is where they could have refined things.
Personally my only issue is I feel like the "Gears of War" like over the shoulder gameplay, especially getting into cover and the like didn't really fit the game as much. In Gears you understand that kind of gameplay because they are wearing super heavy amour and guns but in the Order these guys are super human, they should feel more of a breeze to control, easily jumping over things and being allowed to climb whatever similar to Uncharted.
Im back again to simp for The Order, if ya like games well grounded in their reality with consistency in everything it does then I recommend it if ya haven't played it. Play it thru emulation or on your PS it don't matter just play it.
A great game run down by the media for it's price vs length - Which was understandable, but it shouldn't of been the be all and end all.
At the right price this was a great game & deserved a sequel!
Exactly. What a weird metric that suddenly was important and then, within a few months, no longer mattered.
I enjoyed this. I think the complaints were the length if I remember. Nothing wrong with a short good game, at least to physical copy owners 😅
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Since The Order:1886 is an exclusive.
Length has always been a minor issue since forever. Games in the past weren't as long as I thought they were, and I realized that when I played Ocarina of time on my 3DS. Do people really put length over fun and quality? I actually never cared and still don't care about the length of games. I just care about the fun and entertainment.
And let's not talk about many short games out there that still many didn't seem to complain about. What I've seen is that people use the economy crisis to justify that a game should be over 20 hrs to be worth $60 bucks. That'd be a good point for some people, but length isn't the only factor for a game to be worth the orice tag. I wonder how many found AC Unity worth the money at launch. No Quality, tons of quantity.
When a PSP developers decided to make a great looking game exclusive for the PS4.
Or when the director of Far Cry 4 said that linear games wont work this gen and some people actually believed him.
- Since small sites jumped on the same wagon, seeing that even though they might lose all credibility, they might still get a few clicks.
- Since Sony just re-won the NPD again.
- Since MS fans are scared about the fact they have almost no exclusives for 7 months.
Those are a few.. Shameful, all of it. Gaming is not what it used to be, because of the community of self entitled brats, teenage bloggers, and angry children whose parents cannot afford more than 1 console.
I've despised the gaming media since the PS3 came late to the party, and the hate tirade started then. I truly think the downfall of gaming journalism started then.
I think 7-8 hrs is good for a game like this. The devs have said this is a cinematic experience. Some games are meant to be played over & over (multiplayer) - some are meant as a fine wine that you experience once and you never forget. I've played really good short games.
I think it does become relevant to some for value of their $. I personally don't buy games unless I plan on playing them for a long time. Sometimes I'm right, and sometimes I'm wrong.
If I can beat a game in a week, and there isn't much replay value I'm just going to rent it.
If this game only has 4-5 hours of actual gameplay time I just can't personally justify buying it. http://videogamesandnews.co... So i'm going to rent it. And hopefully i'll enjoy it. I rented Horizon 2, but later ended up buying it because the replay value was a lot more than I anticipated. I'd have no problem doing the same here if i'm wrong.
If I remember correctly, it was Modern Warfare 2 that kicked it off last gen.