Metascore disappointments sales battle The Order:1886 vs. Quantum Break (Xb one)

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Blob said:

GribbleGrunger said:

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with shorter games, It's just striking that the reviews docked it points for being short, there were dozens and dozens of articles and you couldn't go in a single The Order thread without it being full of 'games too short' comments. The Order was destroyed by the media but clearly they want this game to be successful, which it likely deserves of course.

 

So my playthrough of the order on hard was 5 and a half hours. My playthrough of quantom break on normal was 9 hours and 50 minutes. While almost ten hours is on the shorter side, there is short, and then there's the order...  

I made my playthrough longer by a) not being all that good and hence dying more than others probably did, and b) forgetting that bullet time (or whatever it was called in The Order) existed, which made some of the set piece fights a lot harder (with more deaths) than they needed to be. Actually if RaD hadn't bothered with that bullet time cop out for the game the average play time on hard would have probably been 2 hours longer, which would have lessened (but not eliminated) the complaints. The fact that I 9being only an average skilled gamer) finished the game on hard having never once used bullet time proves that the game was not difficult enough to need bullet time, and all bullet time did was shorten the plays through by making it easier to get through the tougher fights. When you consider a game like Red Dead Redemption where for some segments it's impossible to get through a fight (or shoot down the birds) without bullet time to save yo' arse, if developers are going to use bullet time as a gameplay feature they need to make sure it's not possible to complete the game without it, IMO.