I end up wasting my time and procrastinating in open world games because I can't be arsed moving on to the next story mission. So I appreciate linear games for forcing me out of my procrastinating ways. I'm already 24 hrs into Shadow of Mordor and I haven't gone onto phase 2 of the story. It's just so damned fun running around killing Orcses. I got robbed of my first graug kill because a frikkin' caragor pounced on it after I'd stunned it.
OT, I don;t mind QTE's one bit. I am fine with them in GoW, I was fine with them in Heavenly Sword, I was fine with Heavy Rain. QTE's have their place in game design, they just need to not be in every game. I'll be fine with QTE's in The Order.
I'm actually starting to crave a linear adventure game a bit. So far this year the closest I've got to that is Tomb Raider and that was back in Feb, and it is not a linear game. I could have done with The Order now, but then again I will have Dragon Age tomorrow and I would play this in preference to The Order any day. So being early next year The Order is coming along at about the right time for me. As long as the story is solid and the characters are engaging I'm sure I will like it.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
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Jimi Hendrix
