The Order: 1886 Leaks to YouTube in Full, Playthrough is Five Hours Long

[Dohc-WP]

YouTuber PlayMeThrough has uploaded a complete playthrough of The Order: 1886 to their YouTube channel. The footage totals roughly five hours of playtime, including both gameplay and cutscenes. The time devoted to cutscenes appears to be roughly half of that playtime, and the cutscenes are reported to be unskippable.

The leak has arrived shortly after rumours circulated that the game was only three hours long, and after Ready At Dawn founder and CTO Andrea Pessino responded to a query that the game was less than five hours long by stating that was "not true". Pessino later tweeted that he would no longer comment on such questions.

Another leak from NeoGAF user Renegade contains a screenshot of some of the game's ultra-violent gore effects.

Source: Gamespot

 

[Tom]

Jeez... so that pretty much confirms it then... Its like a long movie

 

[BeoTeK]

Yeah, I either borrow it from a friend or pick a second hand copy. No rush for this.

 

[brendanvb]

There have been wildly varying accounts on the length of The Order: 1886, but a full playthrough has finally been posted by YouTube user PlayMeThrough, and it’s pretty interesting, because it’s basically a “bare minimum” walkthrough. He doesn’t stop to examine any of the many story-related items that can be found around the game, and almost never dies.

The full playtime accounts to about five hours and a half, which definitely puts to rest the “rumors” about the game being three hours long. And that’s without enjoying a lot of the content included in Ready at Dawn’s title.

On the other hand, cutscenes cannot be skipped, as they have a lot of interactive elements within. We also learn that you can change difficulty dynamically at any time while you play, without needing to restart a chapter.

Interestingly, PlayMeThrough himself mentions that the game feels “much longer than it really is,” which is often the case with heavily story-driven games.

Of course, that’s not the time a normal user will take to complete the game, as many would probably need to try quite a few challenging parts a multiple times to achieve this kind of “perfect run,” and most will stop and catch the story clues, which take a reasonable amount of time (and some are absolutely hilarious, especially one in Nikola Tesla’s lab, but I won’t spoil it).

In fact other users that have played the game report over social media and forums times varying between eight and even as long as fifteen hours (for example, one of the first players to achieve the platinum trophy took about nine hours to complete his first playthrough, even if he had to go back to find some collectibles afterwards), if you spend a lot of time getting immersed in the beautiful world, look at everything there’s to look at, and if you die a reasonable amount of times.

That said, no more room for rumors. If you run through the game with full sails, without being sidetracked by story and flavor elements (again, I definitely don’t advise it, but to each his own), and you’re much better at shooters than I am, this is how fast you can make it.

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/02...r-1886-if-you-skip-all-you-can-and-never-die/

People are trying really hard to discredit this game. I understand it isn't everyone's cup of tea but there's a big difference between a first playthrough and rushing through the game knowing exactly where to go and what to do. The Evil Within for example took me 22 hours to finish on my first playthrough, but there is a trophy you get if you complete it in under 5 hours. I'm still looking forward to it as despite all the mostly wrong controversy over it's length everyone seems to be praising the story.

 

[Tom]

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/02...r-1886-if-you-skip-all-you-can-and-never-die/

People are trying really hard to discredit this game. I understand it isn't everyone's cup of tea but there's a big difference between a first playthrough and rushing through the game knowing exactly where to go and what to do. The Evil Within for example took me 22 hours to finish on my first playthrough, but there is a trophy you get if you complete it in under 5 hours. I'm still looking forward to it as despite all the mostly wrong controversy over it's length everyone seems to be praising the story.

You make a very good point, once you have played a game through multiple times you obviously going to get better at it...

 

[The Joker]

[MENTION=13400]brendanvb[/MENTION] 9 hours for a platinum completion is pretty damn short.

 

[brendanvb]

[MENTION=13400]brendanvb[/MENTION] 9 hours for a platinum completion is pretty damn short.

Yeah it is, but for a game without multiplayer it doesn't seem so awful (to me). It isn't really a multiple-playthroughs kinda game. It's a story based game. If Uncharted didn't have multiplayer it would be in the same boat, as the campaigns are around the 8 hour marks so if you knew what trophies to get and how to get them you could also platinum it in that time (obviously this is hypothetical as the UC games have multiplayer trophies).

Look, I'm not trying to be a fanboy either, but I enjoy these cinematic games, and don't feel they should be judged in the same way you would judge an RPG or open world game. Nobody complained when Metal Gear Rising or God of War Ascension were completed in 6 hours (and those times were on my first playthroughs). I feel like people are just trying to bring this game down and don't understand why.
But to each his own.

 

[Dohc-WP]

Yeah it is, but for a game without multiplayer it doesn't seem so awful (to me). It isn't really a multiple-playthroughs kinda game. It's a story based game. If Uncharted didn't have multiplayer it would be in the same boat, as the campaigns are around the 8 hour marks so if you knew what trophies to get and how to get them you could also platinum it in that time (obviously this is hypothetical as the UC games have multiplayer trophies).

Look, I'm not trying to be a fanboy either, but I enjoy these cinematic games, and don't feel they should be judged in the same way you would judge an RPG or open world game. Nobody complained when Metal Gear Rising or God of War Ascension were completed in 6 hours (and those times were on my first playthroughs). I feel like people are just trying to bring this game down and don't understand why.
But to each his own.

i remember finishing Cod ghost in under 5 Hours, i dont have an issue with short titles, but inskippable cutscenes are just annoying

 

[Hagan]

Unless I see an article about it or "YouTube recommended" video; I forget about its existence...

 

[Snare]

Ground Zeroes was pretty short and it was a phenomenal experience that also didn't feel like it only comprised of the few physical game hours. Granted the situations are different in this context but I still think the game itself can be very enjoyable if it feels like the content delivered adds value to the overall product and doesn't feel fundamentally hamstrung in the terms of production.

 

[Toxin]

[MENTION=13400]brendanvb[/MENTION] 9 hours for a platinum completion is pretty damn short.

That sentence is a bit misleading.

one of the first players to achieve the platinum trophy took about nine hours to complete his first playthrough

Does that mean got his platinum trophy in 9 hours or that his first playthrough took nine hours and that he needed another playthrough or two after that to get the trophy?

 

[XbatousaiX]

One of the best games I have played ICO can be beaten in no time but remains a classic in my book.I would rather have a good time for ten hours than dredge through a game padded with crap.