There's no doubt that The Order: 1886 has received a bad rap for its cinematic focus, but there is quite a lot to the game. In addition to third-person shooting and interactive cut-scenes, recent trailers have shown that the title also includes climbing mechanics, exploration, and hand-to-hand combat. As such, there's a lot of density stuffed into its controversial running time.
"If you want to talk about the number of gameplay mechanics, we probably have a lot more than normally any single game would have," creative director Ru Weerasuriya told Eurogamer.net. "Across the board, like the different melee systems, from the different gun systems, the breadth of guns that you can use in the game, the different navigation stuff, even on the puzzle side, the interactive cinematics, all of that stuff, we actually probably, piece by piece, if you look at it, and the diversity of it, we built more content than a lot of games would."
He continued: "We didn't rely on the same content. That's one of the things that we did. We didn't want to be the one trick pony that went, 'Alright, we're making a shooter, so basically forget everything else, you're just going to pick up a gun and you can go around and shoot at people.' Not to sound like I'm putting anything down, it's actually easier to do that and say, 'Look, that's all that we're going to do.'"
The most challenging task for the studio, then, was piecing all of these disparate gameplay systems together. "The harder part was to try and figure out a way to build all of these different mechanics and then through the thread of gameplay through the game, and the storyline through the game, put all of these moments together that made you feel like you're going on a rollercoaster."
The forthcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive has come under some criticism over the past few days due to its campaign length, but developer Ready at Dawn has urged that the industry needs different types of games – and story-driven single player experiences factor into that. Of course, are you willing to pay full price for a release that can be completed in ten hours or less? According to our poll, you lot are a bit split.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Put a sock in it, Creative Director is sounding a bit desperate now.
You can feel the desperation
LOL they are trying to save what they can.
I will wait for a 50% price drop. No way am I spending 69.99 on a 5hr game with hardly any replayability.
Indeed. If I can complete the game with an axe I'd be much happier, I don't care about various systems and push up and x to climb a wall. I know there's always poor efforts and pointless reasons for many multiplayer add ons but I think this game could do with it and I think it could be pretty good. Nevermind.
If true this is disappointing Platinum achieved in around 10-12hours.
It doesn't matter to me how many mechanics are used - there is NO way I'm paying that much for something that I will be finished with in a day (or less)
I dont understand why people are so concerned about the length. Ready at Dawn has said twice already that the game is 8-10 hours long depending on how much you rush through the game. id rather have a quality campaign, then an average campaign and tacked on multiplayer
I hate when they lie to our faces.
@FallingVector I guess the problem here is not the lenght of the campaign (for a shooter, 8 hours are fine). It is that once you finish it, the game is ready for shelves or for a trip back to your videogame store.... there is nothing else to do, and a multiplayer, considering the kind of game, would have helped a lot....
So, I think is normal many of us are questioning themselves about the price/ contents of this game
For having so many gameplay mechanics as you say it has, the trailers have made a titanic effort to hide them. So no, I don't believe it.
The digital version of the game should be $30. Why is a game that might have no re-playability be full retail price?
30 Euro's is the most I will pay for a game this short. I am really curious for the reviews. The graphics are looking very good but a game needs more that that.
@RawWilson1 I suspect one week after release the 2nd hand shelves will be flooded by copies of this game. I'll wait that moment to get the game...
@AyeHaley
I hear that same story from lots of people, but here's what I always do with games like these: I preorder them cheaply, play them right away and sell it after 2 or 3 days. I actually made a profit doing this more than once because the second hand market is pretty good here (when you're selling that is). If you wait till the prices drop the game is no longer popular and will be harder to offload.
OT: Quite a surprising turn of events, a developer that actually likes his own game! Now there's something you don't see often!
Edit: I think more people are gonna hold on to this game as everyone here seems to believe. It's the same as with Ryse: finished it in about 6 hours, but still show it to people whenever I get the chance. The Order will be my rather expensive PS4 tech demo!
I probably comment after ive played the game.
It'll be interesting to see how it sells, cos a lot of people would buy it for just how it looks alone. Plus you have to take into account the people who don't follow gaming press sites everyday may well see ad's for this and be amazed. If Driveclub could sell well after the problems that had then this can, and I hope it does.
I once beat the original Metal Gear game on the PlayStation in 6 hours! That game was long,but I speedran through the game, so that should tell you something..mirror's edge was really short, but it was ok it cause the game was great!
@arnoldlayne83 i can see how some may feel but personally i usually only play single player games. Many argued that uncharted 1 should have had multiplayer but it did really well. The replayability of the campaign is a little concerning to me. I understand there is difficulties to choose from but are there unlockables or collectibles?
Well I have to check when this article came out time , the reason I say that is we were treated to another article with story line was about now get this . It was about how long play was for the the order , I feel like I am living in the Groundhog Day movie . I am about to lose it flush my meds down the crapper and go % 100 off MY NUT , is it me or is this been what we have to endure every time a big title is going to be release . I feel like I am living bizarro world ( sry about the spelling ) I trying to get done my thought on here before I start drooling on myself . Lol this game is going to have a hard time living up to the hype no way , sry I have to leave u folks to talk about how long game ,on Witcher 3 and uncharted 4 and and oohhh .
Hello early I post a comment mostly taking a few jabs about all the craziness around the game The Order, for the last 2 weeks it's kinda been all ppl talked about . Mostly weather it's worth paying $ 60.00 for a game some folks said it 5 hrs long and others said that it will 10 to 12 hrs .but the comments I made early was just me goofing that's what I do I am a57 yr old grandfather with 5 kids that are gamers and my 2 grandsons also game. But anyway someone took offense , I don't make a habit about responseing to post or on forums , so if I offened anyone I am sry to all of you . But to the person that enjoys calling ppl morons my comments to you still stand ,from now on I will keep my comments to my family they alrdy know I don't care what they think, J/K. (Sry for the spelling errors )
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