Apparently.
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"Previously Recorded" review The Order 1886
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Apparently.
EDIT: Shit. Why do posts I actually want at the top of a page never end up there, and crap like this does!?
freenudemacusers
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You should have been there for their Twitch stream of it.
"This stream is gonna end with 'Gunshot fade to black'."
Never played The Order, but it really sounds like the push for it to have the best visuals and production values above all else just killed every other aspect of the game. It may look like a true next-gen game but when it improves on literally nothing from the past decade people won't like it.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I think the Pre-Rec OT getting bumped probably helped a little: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=802521
It still baffles me
It's like The Order was made by aliens with no concept of what makes a final confrontation exciting. You can't try to have a dramatic conclusion when it looks like you're putting little effort into it. It'd be like if Star Wars ended
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they reused the midgame QTE boss fight for the final boss.
with reused stock footage from an earlier fight
No, not really. All the time while I was playing BTS I was either thinking "You have great concepts here, make an actual video game out of this" or "I wish this was a movie so I could at least not confuse myself with nonsensical next-gen analog to pixel hunting".
It's exact same thing. Heard Heavy Rain was better. Maybe it was, but I have no intention on giving it a try after BTS.
Apparently all TO1886 has over that is a standard issue GoW-type shooting.
Acerac
Banned
They specifically say that it isn't steampunk though.
I love these guys. Its the only twitch steam I watch. And the only one I will everrrrr watch.
The melt down is still on their twitch steam for the ending, it was pretty great.
http://www.twitch.tv/previouslyrecorded_live/v/3835355 2hrs 42mins in. You have to try a few times usually cause the audio can get funky.
They destroyed the game cause thats what they do at the ends on their series 'best of the worst' for really bad movies they watch.
The melt down is still on their twitch steam for the ending, it was pretty great.
http://www.twitch.tv/previouslyrecorded_live/v/3835355 2hrs 42mins in. You have to try a few times usually cause the audio can get funky.
They destroyed the game cause thats what they do at the ends on their series 'best of the worst' for really bad movies they watch.
Thats probably the best thing about it. They ripped it to shreds without even touching the "I rather have a 6 hour fun game than a 20 hour boring game" bullshit defense mechanism that was used for this game's length.
ProvenDeadly
Member
The way they literally attack every single aspect of this game, leaving no room for "but this part was good" was excellent.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Oh snap. Didn't even know RLM reviewed games. Will watch
Hey now, don't forget the dick punches. They loved the dick punches.
NullPointer
Member
Flawless victory, right there.
On the idea that The Order is cynical corporate "art", wouldn't that by-the-numbers third person cover shooter also come with by-the-numbers co-op or by-the-numbers multiplayer versus? Wouldn't it be peppered with microtransactions or companion apps? Or was the original idea something so ambitious that the end result was maybe a third or less of what we were supposed to play? That'd at least explain the incomplete and often contradictory frankenstein of a plot and re-used Lycan... everything.
I'm torn between this being a completely busted labor of art focused on pushing visuals and reproducing film effects and conventions, or a purely cynical collection of things meant to make a buck. Maybe its neither, or both. Or a half-breed of the two.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I think whoever locked the thread forgot that there is no review thread for The Order anymore. lol
David Cage games have actual branching paths. Which is more than can be said for even the Telltale games. That's just something you can't do on youtube, unless you watch like 10 different playthroughs of the game or something.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
MGS3 has like, twenty more minutes of content after the
gunshot/fade to black scenario
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Yeah, people making that comparison really have no understanding of the trope at play.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yes, I love RLM but I don't like Previously Recorded at all. They seem to me to be trying too hard to dislike stuff and had some incredibly weird complaints about Alien Isolation, as a recent example I watched.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
in the Community No-Man's Land
There's plenty of videos where they're extremely positive about games.
Brad Grenz
Member
It's not a game about making choices. It was never pitched as a game about making choices. It's like complaining your seafood platter tastes of fish or being mad no one would just talk normal at the opera.
I thought we were talking about QTEs. Now it sounds like you're just referring to a contextual interact button. So either you are being obtuse and purposefully mislabeling a very common mechanic dozens of games use for environmental interaction without any outcry, or you're misrepresenting the QTEs that do existing in this game. As for what QTEs can add to a game absent choice, I've already addressed that.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Also, it doesn't actually cut to black. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯ MGS4 is the one that does it, and then it goes ahead and
undoes it to further shit on the franchise's legacy, even to the point of copying the iconic Big Boss salute for the sake of fanservice.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Pop
Member
Yeahhh, I watched some videos I see their routine.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
I did go a bit "wtf?" at the part where
when they've already shown the outcome of that hours before.
As a game built on a story, the plot seems to exist as if it were supposed to be an episodic game. That ending felt especially disappointing.
they show the girl get fucking wrecked by a werewolf, trying to make an intense scene,
As a game built on a story, the plot seems to exist as if it were supposed to be an episodic game. That ending felt especially disappointing.
Just watched final and credits part. God damn, I wish I saw that live just to see all the chat reactions.
No, the whole game built up to that moment.
In The Order you're shooting a person that you personally knew from the second they walked on screen was the bad guy and felt nothing for killing him.
As others have said though MGS3 has a good deal of closure after that.
cheezcake
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All games are about making choices, that's the precise thing that makes a game a game. And choice doesn't have to be different dialogue responses and branching game worlds, it can just mean having the ability to go actually influence the way encounters work. Good shooters all have SOME feeling of choice. Halo has a crapton of different weapons, abilities and vehicles along with sandbox-y areas to give the player the ability to play out encounters however they want to. Bioshock has plasmids. Other games have freeform stealth mechanics, or maybe a large variety of enemy types. The Order has nothing which gives players the feeling of choice.
And besides even ignoring the gameplay in its entirety the story of the game isn't too hot either.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
I like the dick punching part. That was good.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
This isn't even a review.
Its just satire.
They literally don't have one positive thing to say about the game.
Its just satire.
They literally don't have one positive thing to say about the game.
They kinda like the dick punching.
What if there.....Isn't *gasp* No but really would that would of made the review better for you if they lied?
MurkyZebra2417
Member
But it is so cool to hate on the game! They are cool.
There are more good than bad things about the game.
rokkerkory
Member
Those poor matches gave their lives
OrlanisWorks
Banned
They overlooked some things. Focused entirely on plot and gameplay. Didn't quite say much about how goddamn gorgeous the game looks.
Real shame they never got around to all them good things in the review.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
I know. After they said it was steampunk-ish, they then said it was 1886 with machine guns, then steampunk without any of the fun of steampunk... then I realized this wasn't for me.
IIRC, someone asked Jack if Nintendo is his favorite developer, and he said "By default", because Nintendo hasn't really knocked the ball out of the park in years, they're just coasting along on previous times that they knocked the ball out of the park.
I think Rich Evans feels the same. Like in their review of Mario Kart Wii U, he says that the series peaked with Double Dash on the GameCube.
They don't dislike AAA games, they like things that are fresh and new, but lately in videogames, the AAA industry is mostly sticking to tried-and-true ideas because of serious financial concerns, while more of the "creative risks" are being taken by indies.
cheezcake
Member
I can think of graphics, what else?
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