The Order: 1886 Attracts “Uncanny Haterade” Says Director

[Normchacho]

starcraft said:

Kerotan said:

I love Wolfenstein.  If the order turns out as good I'll love it too.  But you can't defend all these people hating on the game when many of them bought Wolfenstein or ryse at full price. 

Rol's joke thread was pertinent. 

At the end of the day, dismissing a game before its out is often counterproductive. But equally counterproductive is all this silly defense of poor practices in games. Like offering limited content, having appalling endings, using QTE's where better gameplay options exist.

If you want to say 'lets just wait and see if the Order really has all these things before we attack it,' that would be fine. But so many in this thread and others are actually defending these practices (on principle) and it is incredibly apparent in most cases that its because they fear they are present in The Order, and want to defend that title specifically.

That just encourages other developers to make those poor design decisions, irrespective of whether they actually wind up being abundant in The Order.

Umm...well, I don't think a bad ending has ever been a design choice...but the other two things you mention I would think would be personal preference would they not? Somebody might think that The Order doesn't offer enough content, while others may think it does, Someone might hate QTE and someone else may either not mind them or like them. 

I don't know about you but I don't consider someone giving an unpopular opinion on a game mechanic to be counterproductive.

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of QTE. But I don't mind them if character needs to perform a task to complex for the regular controls, or even just to keep the player involved. But I don't feel strongly enough about them either way to let them sway me on a game.

As for content, I would rather the dev team tell the story they want to tell and spend my $60 on a short game. Than have the dev finish the story and go "uh oh, it isn't long enough...we need to make this longer". I want the developer to make the best game they can, not the best value they can an As a consumer, I determine value based on how I feel when it's over, not based how much of my time it took up.