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virtualboyCOLOR
Dec 22, 2004



Here's a thread to talk about a PS4 exclusive game. It's a pretty short game that costs $60. Many reports are stating its less than 5 hours long.

http://www.vg247.com/2015/02/16/is-the-order-1886-too-short-were-not-going-to-comment-says-developer/ posted:


Is The Order: 1886 too short? “We’re not going to comment,” says developer

Ready at Dawn, developer of The Order: 1886, has said it won’t comment directly on the length of the game.

theorder1886

The new PS4 exclusive is being criticised for lasting for less than six hours in total despite it being a full-priced release.

Speaking to Eurogamer, CEO of Ready at Dawn Ru Weerasuriya refused to clarify average playtime for the game, and said his team was not going to discuss length despite videos on YouTube showing the entire game completed in 5 hours and 30 minutes.

“At the end of the day, we’re not going to comment on it,” he said. “We can’t stop people from writing the things they do. And we’re not going to jump at every single mistake that is made out there.

“Every time somebody has the wrong impression of something we made, or somebody writes the wrong thing about what we did, it would be a full-time job to be like, oh no, that’s not right. We make games. We do what we do for the players. And, ultimately, that’s where I want to leave it.”

Weerasuriya said he understood the concerns about value for money in the single-player game, but he believes the games business should offer diverse experiences.

“To tell you the truth, that’s something we always keep in our heads. We know people want to be entertained and have things they can play longer.

“But the industry has always had diversity. You go back 10 years, there were a lot of games that were just single-player, one time play. There were some games that were single-player and you could jump back in and get more. That’s what we did in our game. You can jump back and get other things out of it.”

“Gameplay length for me is so relative to quality. It’s just like a movie. Just because a movie is three hours long, it doesn’t make it better,” he added.

It's also not very pretty:



And there are reports of really bad glitches already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nvWXgIjCg

The Final Boss is just one long QTE SPOILER AS HELL!!!!

This video was taken down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5dYAUdybA

Luckily it was reuploaded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSzR4MvAVA



Release date(s) February 20, 2015

Reviews: THEY ARE OUT after being EMBARGO'd! A lot of PS4 owners have been waiting for an EXCLUSIVE PS4 title to play in their brand new almost 2 year old PS4. Here is what an exclusive title on the PS4 looks like:


virtualboyCOLOR fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Feb 19, 2015

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Agnostalgia
Dec 22, 2009
Every single thing about this game from the first teaser has looked bad but people are going to buy it.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
The Order? More like My Pre-Order! Which I have made for this badarse-looking game where you shoot people in steampunk gear like a sir!

Strange Matter
Oct 6, 2009

Ask me about Genocide

quote:

"Gameplay length for me is so relative to quality. It’s just like a movie. Just because a movie is three hours long, it doesn’t make it better,” he added.
How can anyone think this is a valid argument when a movie costs $10.00 to see in the theaters and pennies via online streaming?

Unlucky7
Jul 11, 2006

Fallen Rib
Every thing I have seen about this game is basically ”It looks pretty! And...uh...it looks pretty! "

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

I am currently making GBS threads liquid because of some bad strawberries and I'd literally rather be doing that than playing The Order: 1886, thank you and good night

abagofcheetos
Oct 29, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I wish this thread existed when Gears of War 1 came out, it would have saved me wasting a few days worth of Gamefly.

Davincie
Jul 7, 2008

gears had multiplayer....

virtualboyCOLOR
Dec 22, 2004

abagofcheetos posted:

I wish this thread existed when Gears of War 1 came out, it would have saved me wasting a few days worth of Gamefly.
According to the developers, this game is more like a cinematic movie. Luckily, just like movies, this will be available to rent at your local Red Box.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Are those comparison screenshots accurate? That's mindbogglingly bad. Even a PS3 game looks better than that.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



RatHat posted:

Are those comparison screenshots accurate? That's mindbogglingly bad. Even a PS3 game looks better than that.

No. The final PS4 game looks a lot better than the "actual" graphics but not as good as the target shot although often it isn't really that far away. Also, it's got a ton of filters and motion blur going on, so freeze frames will tend to look a bit iffy, but nothing close to the "actual" screenshot there.

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

I finally caved and looked up what the plot behind this game is because I've only seen screenshots and the logo and it all looked painfully uninteresting.

The story alone sounds like "A SyFy Channel Original Series - The Video Game," but then again that's pretty much most games, but I'm having a hard time understanding the hype around this one.

Also:

RatHat posted:

Are those comparison screenshots accurate? That's mindbogglingly bad. Even a PS3 game looks better than that.

I'm interested in more about this, because I'd love another AAA video game trainwreck


edit: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I see, still doesn't look very good at all

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Awesome Welles posted:

I finally caved and looked up what the plot behind this game is because I've only seen screenshots and the logo and it all looked painfully uninteresting.

The story alone sounds like "A SyFy Channel Original Series - The Video Game," but then again that's pretty much most games, but I'm having a hard time understanding the hype around this one.

Also:


I'm interested in more about this, because I'd love another AAA video game trainwreck


edit: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I see, still doesn't look very good at all

The hype is that it's being advertised so you are supposed to be excited for it.

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

elf help book posted:

The hype is that it's being advertised so you are supposed to be excited for it.

But I haven't seen any Doritos yet :smith:

Unlucky7
Jul 11, 2006

Fallen Rib
What has Ready at Dawn done, aside from being a farm for ports and handheld franchise games?

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord
This game was doomed from Day One when the brought up how they wanted to be "cinematic" and not let the gameplay get in the way of "their story".

Devs for well-written, good games don't do either. Only game designers that can't write or design a game worth a poo poo say that.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Feb 16, 2015

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Unlucky7 posted:

What has Ready at Dawn done, aside from being a farm for ports and handheld franchise games?

Literally nothing at all IIRC, didn't they make that Daxter game? Clearly they're the best choice for this kind of game. :v:

Donovan Trip
Jan 6, 2007
It's trash for trash people

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!
Gonna two-day rental this poo poo at the video store. Looks bad at $60, at $5 I'm cool with a short game at cheap show prices.

They are nuts selling this at $60 though.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Unlucky7 posted:

What has Ready at Dawn done, aside from being a farm for ports and handheld franchise games?

They did the PSP Daxter game, co-developed the PSP God of War games, and the ports of Okami and the HD collection for PSP God of War games.

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

lmao that final boss isn't even good at being cinematic or whatever it looks like a lovely Van Helsing reskin of the Krauser fight in RE4 by an Eastern European shovelware developer

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

virtualboyCOLOR posted:

According to the developers, this game is more like a cinematic movie. Luckily, just like movies, this will be available to rent at your local Red Box.
They must have forgotten movies usually have things like music in them when the made that boss fight.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

Father Wendigo posted:

They must have forgotten movies usually have things like music in them when the made that boss fight.

The lack of music was to take away any sense of triumph in combat because that mustache werewolf knife-fight was supposed to be very tragic and sad and emotional.

I've never heard so much acting effort put into lines so cliche.

virtualboyCOLOR
Dec 22, 2004

echronorian posted:

It's trash for trash people

Its a PS4 exclusive game for PS4 owners.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007


"We are not so different, you and I"

:barf:

SunAndSpring
Dec 4, 2013

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

"We are not so different, you and I"

:barf:

Do they also say, "If you kill him, you will be just like him!" as well to round out the cliche poo poo?

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Oxxidation posted:

I've never heard so much acting effort put into lines so cliche.

Ah yes, the "Louder = More Dramatic" school of acting. Does Cap'n Stace deliver all of his lines like he's shouting to someone across a busy street?

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
This is already coming out? drat.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

SunAndSpring posted:

Do they also say, "If you kill him, you will be just like him!" as well to round out the cliche poo poo?

No but nothing much of it makes sense to me since I have no idea what the story is supposed to be other than Victorian Werewolf shooter?

It definitely does seem really bad though.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
All I know about The Order is some guy at work saying itll be amazing with no further details. Im confident that hes totally wrong

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Please all, consider contributing to the Shadowrun: Hong Kong Kickstarter over this. Even if you don't like RPGs. Even if you hate RPGs and will never play it. You will still be spending better money than spending it on this, which looks really dumb.

virtualboyCOLOR
Dec 22, 2004

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

Please all, consider contributing to the Shadowrun: Hong Kong Kickstarter over this. Even if you don't like RPGs. Even if you hate RPGs and will never play it. You will still be spending better money than spending it on this, which looks really dumb.

This is not a PS4 exclusive game for the PS4 console. Please show respect by only discussing this PS4 exclusive game for the PS4 console.

SunAndSpring
Dec 4, 2013
You know, you could just buy 3 Blu-Rays for the price of this game and put them into your PS4.

Awesome!
Oct 17, 2008

Ready for adventure!


this is going to be bad but i hope the people that spend $60 on it at least get some enjoyment from it

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
Why did they delay it if it's seemingly a short play piece of poo poo?

Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?

Lofty132 posted:

Why did they delay it if it's seemingly a short play piece of poo poo?

Graphics are hard.

Donovan Trip
Jan 6, 2007
Besides it being short or whatever else, the aesthetic is just loving awful. It makes me mad

Neo Rasa
Mar 8, 2007
Everyone should play DUKE games.

:dukedog:
It's impressively bland and cynical in its attempt to capture both Gears people and Bioshock/steampunk people. Actually makes sense for a free to play game which is what this should have been. Or like a $20 game or something.

SunAndSpring posted:

Do they also say, "If you kill him, you will be just like him!" as well to round out the cliche poo poo?

No but they do do the thing where the main guy hesitates to kill the big bad even though this has basically been his mission in life for the entire game and he just slaughtered a billion of his kind like it was no thing.

Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Feb 17, 2015

Carew
Jun 22, 2006
i watched a playthrough of this on youtube and if you don't count all the qte "interactive cutscene" garbage you spend about 2 hours and 10 minutes of a 6-9 hour game watching movies. also there are multiple chapters which are seriously 100% movies

edit: also they're all unskippable

Carew fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Feb 17, 2015

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Awesome!
Oct 17, 2008

Ready for adventure!



lol it's a telltale game boss fight

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