Allow me to repost this exquisite comment made on the Eurogamer thread:

"We only have to look at The Crew, Assassins Creed: Unity and Halo the Master Chief Collection to know that this year publishers have really been pushing their luck when it comes to releasing games that are a little bit broken"

Let's have a look then:

The Crew: 8/10 Eurogamer:

"No game has mined that cultural seam quite so authentically or with such all-encompassing ambition. It's a game that requires and occasionally enforces patience, but like all great road trips it's about the journey, not the destination."
Assassin's Creed Unity: 7/10 Eurogamer:

"As it is, mild improvements in traversal and combat are quickly overwhelmed by the creaking systems onto which they have been grafted. Revolutionary Paris is one of the most beautifully realised environments in a series that has had its fair share of them, but the game you play doesn't really do it justice." 

Yes, this was a SEVEN.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection: 9/10 Eurogamer:

"The Collection is an instantaneous embrace of past and present that combines gaming's powerful sense of nostalgia with its perpetual arms race of processing and graphical power. It is part of a growing appreciation of the past in a medium which until recently was resolutely forward-looking. Proust would bloody love it."

Those publishers must be quaking in their boots, I mean, yes, I know this is how the world works but sometimes the hypocrisy can grow quite tiring.

Tldr: They might as well release it now for a 7/10, maybe pushing an 8/10. 6/10 at the worst if Eurogamer is out to prove a point, whatever that may be.

Nah, but it's pushed way harder than it's ever been. You go to a gaming store and buy a game, they ask if you want to put down money on future games, "guaranteeing you a copy at launch," and you get bonus garbage. In reality, except for the super nichest games out there, you can find a çopy, and that bonus content is straight garbage that adds very little to the actual core game, existing purely as an incentive to buy day one. Why? To minimize the chance you read a review that dissuades you from buying. Publishers also love preorders, using them as a gauge for how much interest there is in the game - if there are enough preorders, they've already sold plenty of copies, why worry about all of them pesky bugs on day one when the money is surely gonna come inanyways?

I rail against preorders because they are blind faith purchases - fine if you're an established fan, but what the hell is the reasoning behind blindly purchasing a new IP months in advance? The last year has proven the gaming industry doesn't deserve such trust.

Yeah, that is trying way too hard to find something to bitch about. 

I'm fine with QTEs in moderation, but I don't like too much of that sort of thing in an action game.

What exactly is wrong with instafail sheath sections? Again if they aren't too frequent or lengthy without checkpoints it's all good. Who cares what the fail animation is?

I really didn't get what he was on about with the hand holding criticism. Presumably if you were able to shoot the wrong person it would be an instafail, and he doesn't seem to like those.

I can live with mediocre gun play. Just as long as it's not broken.

But I will probably still be playing dragon age, when this comes out, so it won't be a day 1 buy for me and I will have the benefit of checking out the word if mouth around here and other places.

Im preordering this next week just because of the collectors edition, normally i don't though.

Just read my post a couple comments up and you'll see the same thing with Eurogamer. He specifically calls out games like the Crew and MCC for their horrible online component on Day one and how the games are riddled with bugs, but then the Crew gets an 8 and MCC gets a 9?

A point well made indeed.

The Ryse of Playstation 4

I just realized OP says 1866. Is this the prequel? =P

I really wished they had made GoW for Vita instead.

Good on eurogamer to come out and criticise. Maybe they will fix it before release.
With that said, i dislike how they trolled us by saying 30 fps is more "cinematic" than 60fps so i dont feel too sorry for them.

Thanks for taking the time to show the problem with Eurogamer, i.e. them being inexcusably inconsistent at least when it comes to their scores. Everyone else seems to be busy making it into "you only hate them because it's a Sony game" and don't look at the facts. Console wars are ridiculous as always. 

ok i got it, this is a preview of Reasons why this Eurogamer might not want to pre-order The Order 1886...