10 things you need to know about The Order: 1886

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I'll definitely try it once I have the chance, I'm just very cautious about being excited for games that employ all the tricks of the trade from the 7th gen; I feel that most games used the same mechanics and the division between genres was somewhat smudged out, making the strongest elements of individual genres weaker in a sort of converging middle point (the cover and shooting mechanics in GTA IV were atrocious), almost all RPG's started leaning heavily towards action and adopted plain combat with "one button press = one hit" design or combo strikes without any skill or timing required, animations of visually crazy attacks triggered by mashing the same button (Skyrim and Assassin's Creed spring to mind).

I think I'm just sad that so many massive budgets went towards visual splendor and 7.1 uncompressed sound and so little went to good writing and actual depth and variation (depth in itself often yields variation). RPG's and strategy games took a massive hit and have been stripped down to the skeleton in order to appeal to the fabled "broader audience" that they need to sell enough copies to remain profitable.

Short version; I'll remain a skeptic with The Order until I get to actually try it myself and I feel like I recognize a lot of elements that made the 7th gen a 7-8 year old long letdown for me personally.