The Order: 1886

[CubFan23]

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Speaking of, I really need to look into GCU. Especially with all these upcoming releases.

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it's $30 now, you should definitely grab one, will pay for itself in no time

[thaSLAB]

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it's $30 now, you should definitely grab one, will pay for itself in no time

It's still $30? Is there some trick (code) to it? I remember there were deals around the holidays... I'll do a little searching. Thanks for the heads up though.

Sorry for going off-topic folks, but this is sort of a "value in gaming" thread now, right?

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[mestevo]

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Per this thread, it's $30 until/through Sunday.

http://slickdeals.net/f/7647218-2-years-best-buy-gamers-club-unlocked-gcu-30-best-buy-2-15-2-21

[daniel77733]

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Less than 36 hours for me as I'll be at Best Buy at 10am EST Friday morning to pick up The Order. Definitely looking forward to playing it and will give my impressions at some point on Friday.

As for length, I think that it's based more on difficulty than anything else. What difficulty level did the user who beat the game in five hours play on?

Either way, I think that the story, characters, music, sound, voice acting, atmosphere and setting will carry the game's "generic" gameplay as im not expecting that to be anything new, unique or innovative. Have to wait and see but im guessing that the game will be rated in the 8-9 range.

On a related side note - For those who don't have GCU at Best Buy, they're having a sale on the two year membership that ends this Saturday (2/21) for $30. If you use The Order: 1886 as an example, you would get 20% off the game which reduces the price from $60 to $48. Excluding tax, if you buy three $60 games within two years, you'll save $36 which already gives you a $6 profit from spending $30 on GCU. Also, the extra 10% bonus on trade ins, 10% discount on used games and the fact that it works when Best Buy does a buy 2 get 1 free promotion, it's literally a steal.

The best thing about GCU is that it allows me to take more risks and chances on games on release day than I normally would and while some people may wait until a price drop or the game going on sale for $40 or less, I disagree with this idea simply because the trade in value will drop and you get a lot more when the game releases at launch for it's full retail price.

A good example of this is of me personally buying Dying Light after launch for $60 ($48 GCU) and trying it twice but just couldn't get into the game. Traded it in to Best Buy for $42.90. Excluding tax, the game cost me $5.10 for three days and trying it twice. Basically, a rental. Sad part is that if I would have pre-ordered the game, I would have received the $10 reward cert so the game wouldn't have cost me anything period if I include the tax. Not including the tax, I would have actually made a profit.

While it's obviously up to the person to do this or not, if you're going to buy at least three games at launch in two years, I say sign up by Saturday. Easily worth it in my opinion.

And back to The Order, I stopped collecting games two generations ago so once im finished with the game, I trade it in. Even if the max I get is $35 in credit, the game would only cost me $13 excluding tax. $13 to play an exclusive at launch and finish it is worth it in my opinion.

[49UNCFan]

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Buying this because I want it and want to support a developer on a good game

[CaliDude916]

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Ready for this to drop.

[mestevo]

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[PhiPsi1]

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On a related side note - For those who don't have GCU at Best Buy, they're having a sale on the two year membership that ends this Saturday (2/21) for $30. If you use The Order: 1886 as an example, you would get 20% off the game which reduces the price from $60 to $48. Excluding tax, if you buy three $60 games within two years, you'll save $36 which already gives you a $6 profit from spending $30 on GCU. Also, the extra 10% bonus on trade ins, 10% discount on used games and the fact that it works when Best Buy does a buy 2 get 1 free promotion, it's literally a steal.

The best thing about GCU is that it allows me to take more risks and chances on games on release day than I normally would and while some people may wait until a price drop or the game going on sale for $40 or less, I disagree with this idea simply because the trade in value will drop and you get a lot more when the game releases at launch for it's full retail price.

A good example of this is of me personally buying Dying Light after launch for $60 ($48 GCU) and trying it twice but just couldn't get into the game. Traded it in to Best Buy for $42.90. Excluding tax, the game cost me $5.10 for three days and trying it twice. Basically, a rental. Sad part is that if I would have pre-ordered the game, I would have received the $10 reward cert so the game wouldn't have cost me anything period if I include the tax. Not including the tax, I would have actually made a profit.

While it's obviously up to the person to do this or not, if you're going to buy at least three games at launch in two years, I say sign up by Saturday. Easily worth it in my opinion.

And back to The Order, I stopped collecting games two generations ago so once im finished with the game, I trade it in. Even if the max I get is $35 in credit, the game would only cost me $13 excluding tax. $13 to play an exclusive at launch and finish it is worth it in my opinion.

Thanks for the explanation on this...I'm definitely thinking about taking advantage of this deal for a 2 year membership at $30!

Question: Does this membership automatically renew after 2 years and I will be forced to pay regular price or is it just a 2 year membership. Like for instance, will they let me pay in cash rather than credit card?

[ricky24]

The Order: 1886

Less than 36 hours for me as I'll be at Best Buy at 10am EST Friday morning to pick up The Order. Definitely looking forward to playing it and will give my impressions at some point on Friday.



As for length, I think that it's based more on difficulty than anything else. What difficulty level did the user who beat the game in five hours play on?



Either way, I think that the story, characters, music, sound, voice acting, atmosphere and setting will carry the game's "generic" gameplay as im not expecting that to be anything new, unique or innovative. Have to wait and see but im guessing that the game will be rated in the 8-9 range.



On a related side note - For those who don't have GCU at Best Buy, they're having a sale on the two year membership that ends this Saturday (2/21) for $30. If you use The Order: 1886 as an example, you would get 20% off the game which reduces the price from $60 to $48. Excluding tax, if you buy three $60 games within two years, you'll save $36 which already gives you a $6 profit from spending $30 on GCU. Also, the extra 10% bonus on trade ins, 10% discount on used games and the fact that it works when Best Buy does a buy 2 get 1 free promotion, it's literally a steal.



The best thing about GCU is that it allows me to take more risks and chances on games on release day than I normally would and while some people may wait until a price drop or the game going on sale for $40 or less, I disagree with this idea simply because the trade in value will drop and you get a lot more when the game releases at launch for it's full retail price.



A good example of this is of me personally buying Dying Light after launch for $60 ($48 GCU) and trying it twice but just couldn't get into the game. Traded it in to Best Buy for $42.90. Excluding tax, the game cost me $5.10 for three days and trying it twice. Basically, a rental. Sad part is that if I would have pre-ordered the game, I would have received the $10 reward cert so the game wouldn't have cost me anything period if I include the tax. Not including the tax, I would have actually made a profit.



While it's obviously up to the person to do this or not, if you're going to buy at least three games at launch in two years, I say sign up by Saturday. Easily worth it in my opinion.



And back to The Order, I stopped collecting games two generations ago so once im finished with the game, I trade it in. Even if the max I get is $35 in credit, the game would only cost me $13 excluding tax. $13 to play an exclusive at launch and finish it is worth it in my opinion.

You could red box it for 2.99 and finish it in a night.

[Flawless]

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IGN - 6.5

Though absolutely gorgeous and wonderfully atmospheric, The Order: 1886 is a deeply conflicted thing. Even more than its secret battle against the monsters of legend, The Order’s greatest struggle is ultimately its own internal tug-of-war between telling a beautifully presented story and granting the level of interactivity we've come to expect from a game. In the end, a lopsided commitment to perfecting style and plot comes at the cost of sluggish pacing, a look-but-don't-touch world, and paint-by-numbers gunplay.

Gamespot - 5

"Boring" is the best word to describe The Order in general, actually. That this third-person action game turns a parade of steampunk imagery and Arthurian legends into a dull stew of modern games' most tiresome cliches is quite a feat, though hardly one worth celebrating.

Polygon - 5.5

But the real sin of The Order: 1886 isn't its shoddy storytelling or regrettable dialogue. No, the real problem is that it's all so incredibly boring.

Kotaku - No

Do you like movies? Do you like video games? If you answered "yes" to either of those questions, you should probably skip The Order: 1886.

Giant Bomb - 2/5

There are things here worth checking out, but the action feels half-cocked and you'll be finished with it in an afternoon. I won't pretend to guess at how much $60 means to you, dear reader, but I will say that The Order is a middling experience with a couple of bright flashes that only serve to remind you that this could be a more interesting game if more of its ideas were fully formed. If you're bent on seeing The Order for yourself, you should probably rent it.

Eurogamer

The Order: 1886 isn't a disaster, nor is it a particularly good game. It's a hollow diversion, entertaining but outmoded and caught somewhere between a medium it repeatedly fumbles and one it fails to effectively embrace.

Game Informer - 7.75

While The Order: 1886 is a fun adventure with lots of intriguing reveals about the nature of its world, it’s also clear that Ready At Dawn intends for this to be the first game of a grander story. Players should brace themselves for a lot of unresolved character arcs and unanswered questions. This is an origin story, but a fascinating one. 1886 goes against the current tide of open-world wandering and emergent sequences, and banks on the idea that players can enjoy a straightforward and relatively brief cinematic adventure – if it’s well told and original. I hope Ready At Dawn is right; I’d love to see what happens in 1887.

[VTPack919]

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Reviews are coming in pretty disappointing for this game.


The one thing I don't understand is the overwhelming sentiment in this thread that if you don't appreciate the games length (or aren't overwhelmingly positive about it) that it means you have some kind of agenda?


Either way the game seems like what I thought it would be, a qte filled, cut-scene heavy, ultra linear, BEAUTIFUL game. Nothing really wrong with that. I will definitely be picking this up after a couple price drops.

[bhurst99]

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Those are some of the worst reviews I've ever read for a major release. The Kotaku review was brutal.

[injunwal]

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Its too bad, the game looks so cool. I watched a couple video reviews and if I had done it without the reviewers audio or seeing a score I would think 9/10. just sounds like there is a lot of boredom in the game

[Flightwhite24]

The Order: 1886

Woah, didn't see these reviews coming.


Sent from my iPhone/iPad mini

[fishepa]

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Wow, those are brutal. The video looks good too.