The Order 1886 is garbage. (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, June 03, 2016, 18:34 (3098 days ago) @ cheapLEY

The thing is, I love The Last of Us, and I think the beginning is perfect. It's intriguing and makes me want to explore the house. The Order makes the fundamental act of controlling your character unbearable. Every time he stumbles and wrests control from me it's annoying. It's not dramatic or tense. It's just bad design... I'm a firm believer that games should open on strong points that highlight the good things about the gameplay.

But the first five minutes of The Last of Us are just watching a child walk around the house. The next five minutes are a slow car ride that only lets you look around, and the next five minutes are just helplessly running. Given that none of these segments remotely resembles the gameplay of the rest of the game, by your own admission these are three consecutive instances of the game "not respecting your time" and "not giving you what you want".

Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Should we say that the film is garbage after the first ten minutes, because the pacing is slow (doesn't respect your time), and is not representative of the rest of the film (not giving you what you want)? Who are these people? Why should I care? They're not important, so what's the point? 2001 is garbage!

For what it's worth, my first post was supposed to come off as more sarcastic and light hearted than it actually did. I'm trying to be better about that too, but clearly it needs more work. Really I was just flabbergasted that anyone would open a game in such an awful way.

The problem with written statements is that it's never about what you wanted to say, it's what you say. You said "The Order 1886 is garbage", not "I played less than ten minutes of The Order: 1886, and they did something that I don't enjoy in video games". The problem is that you used an absolute statement that people can take at face value, because there is no way to interpret it as "sarcastic and light hearted". If you watch the first ten minutes of Breaking Bad, and you say "Breaking Bad is garbage", then someone who enjoys great storytelling might pass and miss out on the show, because they think that your statement is based on a solid foundation, instead of just an odd pet peeve that you decided overrides every single bit of the rest of the package for you. Sure, you specified within the post about your specific nitpick, but not everyone is going to analyze the context of your initial statements.

Nobody likes people who make exaggerated opinions as if they were the absolute truth; it can skew one's perception of something that they don't know anything about.