Killzone 2 ends with the main objective being completed but then right before the credits hit something big begins to happen which spoils the victory, leaving you to say "WTF?!!! How can you end it like that?!".

I was seriously annoyed by that and from what I am getting from your responses, it doesn't seem the be the case here with The Order. I will find out soon though.

I get what the OP is stating and yet I can't help but disagree. Even if Ready At Dawn delivered everything they promised in The Order, that does not mean they didn't make any mistakes. What if their vision was flawed in the first place? If they erroneously thought they could pass off a 5 to 10 hour tech demo as a game, they were mistaken. And that seems to be the consensus by the reviewers (beautiful visuals with lackluster gameplay).

If the developers promised us a turd and delivered just that, you don't think that they were in error to think this is what we wanted?

That's 7th gen thinking. 70 is the new 75.

Oh, then yeah, it's nothing like that. You do end up thinking "How can you end it like that?", but not because the end reveals some big new twist revelation that answers every old question, but brings about 20 new ones.

It's more like you're reading a book chapter by chapter, and then you finish one chapter, only to realize that there are no more pages, but you were expecting like five more chapters. And then you think about it more and think "Wow. That was the end of it."

Did I ever imply they were?

Consumers fall for hype and pre-order games. There haven't been any blockbuster games over the past 2 months, so people were betting on the Order 1886 to be "that game". It isn't, and beyond the first week or two where pre-order and hype alone carries many games, I doubt it does very well.

It's a brand new IP that has gotten horrible reception from critics and has very little content. I think expecting it to stay afloat long-term is being too optimistic.

So not exactly a cliffhanger but just a disappointing ending. That's a shame. Maybe they will have some post ending DLC to ease the pain of that wound.

Thanks for all the replies!

And that's the catch 22. They like aspects of it well enough to think there is a great game potentially in there and want to see a sequel. But the reviews this game is getting will probably ensure this world never sees the light of day again.

Reading Jim Sterling's review, he almost seems to think a sequel is a foregone conclusion. He had plenty of complimentary things to say about the game but ultimately felt he could only give the game a 6.5. New IP that meta in the 60's rarely achieve adequate sales to justify investment in a sequel. So Jim's score, which I am not saying is unjustified, is working against his ambition for the, not yet and possibly never will be, franchise. 

Yeah, that pretty much is it. I've seen a lot of people saying it's baiting a sequel, but I don't see that at all. There's nothing about the way it ends that makes you feel like the ever intended to answer any of the, pretty major, loose ends. It halfway feels like they thought no one would care about the answers to a lot of those lose ends with the way they left it.

I also don't know how DLC could fix it. Like I said, it ends very conclusively. The story is finished. It all comes full circle, just in a very weird place for an ending to this particular story, with the way it was set up, and the direction it seemed to be obviously going.

I think it's an incredebly interesting game to disect though. I look forward to your thoughts!

Yes you did, by assuming that they know no better of a product their buying your assuming that they aren't conservative of their decisions and that isn't true at all ...

Hype usually only works when the said product turns out to be good ... 

Beyond all this The Order is hardly selling off of hype seeing as it's shrouded in total skepticism pre-release and don't assume that critic's have a similar view to consumers ...

We'll see if the hate for linear TPS continues with other TPS this gen.