Great write-up, and you seem to qualify a lot of your points in a really helpful way for readers. I hope I enjoy the underlying story as much as some have. Without details, would you say it's a novel story? In the sense of telling something that isn't as common in recent games?
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The Order 1886 | Impressions Thread of not shooting the messenger.
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I'm not talking about revealing parts of the story itself, but whether it's something which would count as one of the game's strengths or weaknesses.
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I think suggesting that it's good enough to not want to spoil gives a sense of that.
BiGBoSSMk23
A company being excited for their new game is a huge slap in the face to all the fans that liked their old games.
It was meant as an endearing joke referencing all the bickering about the game. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Some more specific notes about the Gameplay:
There's a wide variety of guns at your disposal, all of which sound and feel as tangible as their rendering looks. You can feel the gun powder making the metal snap against the battered, grainy wood of your rifles. Explosions leave believable carnage and destruction, both on the environment and the enemies. All of which is accentuated by various uses of on-screen effects like DOF and motion blur, especially as you take cover.
Cover is another curious aspect of the game. You can move in pressing circle, vault or get out of it by pressing X or simply walking away from it. You're able to move and fire while in cover, and depending on which side of the left stick you're pointing at, Galahad will pop out from the side, or up top. It gives the combat a more organic feel, rather than simply popping UP. Blind fire also works beautifully from many different poses.
Your pose depends on whether you're engaged in combat or undetected, so it's context sensitive.
I'll keep updating as I remember.
Guys, let's not start the us vs them mentality on this thread too.
The other impressions thread got closed because of this. If you are hyped that's great, don't start this soft accusation of other members that have some reservations about the game.
The other impressions thread got closed because of this. If you are hyped that's great, don't start this soft accusation of other members that have some reservations about the game.
I mean, I assume he enjoyed it but the wording could be interpreted as somewhat ambiguous. I'm sure every story-driven game was intended to be experienced without being previously spoiled.
Apparently, according to some, there were negative impressions in the spoilers thread. And I ain't going in there to read them.
infiniteheteroskdasticity
Member
Sold. I just preordered it. Thank you for your impressions. I'm all about single player, story driven games and have started to like linear ones much more because of the time constraints I have on my gaming.
biglittleps
Member
Do yourself a favor and don't look for rating, just look at what this game does and try to be then if you are interested go ahead otherwise skip it.
If you can't pay $60 for the single player games (only games that can be played offline forever) which focus on story that can be played only once then you are not gonna see them anymore in future other than online multiplayer F2P games which is the future we are gonna see(already it began as we can see so many F2P and online only games where you are not asked to pay at first but need more than $60 to see everything in the game). Seems like Single player AAA games are not anymore if gamers keep saying that they won't pay $60 for them then developers won't try unless if the IP they are doing is popular one which is going to be rare release for those.
Systemwarrior
Member
Can't wait until Friday! My hype has held firm. Anyone get the Collectors edition early and any impressions on the extras included?
EGOMON
Member
My assumption was he did it because the people blindly defending the game and the people blindly attacking it are acting like children.
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Deleted member 752119
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Same. I still won't get it around launch as I've got several games to get through first and it doesn't seem worth a day one price to me. But I was just hoping for a cinematic, story-driven third person shooter so it looks right up my alley.
Well he's kinda right. Every game needs to have some shoehorned MP or else it doesn't provide enough "value".
BiGBoSSMk23
A company being excited for their new game is a huge slap in the face to all the fans that liked their old games.
It's hard to say because the plot itself and devices can seem a bit tropey at times, while the character dialogue and interaction are definitely novel. It's a strange beast. Definitely not commonplace though.
LookAtMeGo
Member
Thats how I feel. I rarely finish games these days. Its a nice change to have a focused (linear) SP experience on the new consoles.
Yes you can
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
This. I've never subscribed to the "x amount of hours per x amount of dollars" train of thought. Is the game as long as it should be? This is all I care about.
Man I love the sound of this.
BiGBoSSMk23
A company being excited for their new game is a huge slap in the face to all the fans that liked their old games.
Sorry, I must have missed it. What was it?
TetraGenesis
Member
Thank you for the well written impression, looking forward to it. I'll be renting anyway so I'll be able to get everything I need out of it without feeling like I'm discarding it too soon for my money.
NullPointer
Member
I'd figure that Vanquish has decent replayability because of the skill curve in the game's mechanics. Not sure exactly how you mean it here though, in relation to The Order, especially after the caveats re: gameplay.
Replayability is probably my number one question with this game, especially when it comes to when to pick it up, if it turns out OK.
Online features are what killed story driven games imo.
This is not an rpg, what the hell are people expecting. Bioshock infinite, 10 hours no online. Evil within 10 hours no online. Dead space 1 and 2, 10 hours no online. Resident evil 4, 10 hours no online. Dead space 3 and resident evil 5 both ruined by coop....this is typical length for a single player game.
Freeman
Banned
biglittleps
Member
I mean many gamers are like children these days who don't know what are single player games actually because they got addicted to multiplayer online games so forgot old fashioned SP games.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I can dig that. When tropes are used as a bounce-board for more human or interesting reactions, I can't say a word against them. Playing with expectations is a big draw for me. I'm glad to hear it.
You'll just have to find out yourself, but you'll probably be surprised.
These are weirdly creative answers.
Yes he did
LookAtMeGo
Member
I'm personally going to find replayability when they release the photomode. Hope I wont be waiting too long for it.
SOO excited for Friday. Just got my PSN cards to pre-order the digital version. Can't wait to immerse myself in what sounds like an incredibly interesting and authentic Victorian mystery (albeit with huge effing guns and crazy *nightmare creatures*. Yes, I am hoping this creates an atmosphere like Nightmare creatures did). Plus I desperately need to something to take me away from Destiny for a while. 
jackissocool
Member
Damn! Them's some positive impressions.
Getting me all kinds of hyped. I keep going back and forth on buying this day 1 or waiting until it's 10 or 15 bucks off, but I'm really thinking I gotta Day 1 it.
Getting me all kinds of hyped. I keep going back and forth on buying this day 1 or waiting until it's 10 or 15 bucks off, but I'm really thinking I gotta Day 1 it.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Your impressions make it sound exactly like the game I wanted it to be. Feels like every game lately has been an open-world collectathon, I'm really in the mood of a brutal cinematic TPS right now.
again: da fuk
seriously stop, no ones a child because they want some value for their $60. Whether that means a longer SP campaign, replay-ability, MP, coop, etc... doesn't matter.
Still conflicted on if this is what I want to spend my budget on. Nothing is actually scaring me away from what I've heard and the short time I saw on Live from Playstation just upped me wanting to get in.
Also...people need to get over the children thing...it was harmless and such a nitpick over everything else written in the OP. Lighten up a bit. I just took it as...it's storytime gather around.
Also...people need to get over the children thing...it was harmless and such a nitpick over everything else written in the OP. Lighten up a bit. I just took it as...it's storytime gather around.
BiGBoSSMk23
A company being excited for their new game is a huge slap in the face to all the fans that liked their old games.
On it.
Freeman
Banned
They can be depending on how they react when they don't get what they want.
Not that I agree with the way it was said.