Admit it. It was never that great to begin with. It just came out at the perfect time. This new series never started off right anyway. "Young blood isn't good like the original two games". Bullshit. New Order wasn't that great to begin with. It was fun at plenty of moments but not great.
>But it was so well received when it came out!
New Order came out in March of 2014. The perfect time. People were sick of 2012-2013's open world sandbox games and wanted something more linear and focused. Something different.
>But new order was on game of the year lists in 2014!
Yeah, but guess what? Hardly any good AAA games came out in 2014. Tons of games were delayed (Witcher 3 would see a release in 2015) or did get released but were broken/buggy (Master chief collection, AC Unity, Warlords of Draenor, even fucking tetris on PS4).'
Play New Order again and you will see its:
>Terrible optimization. Even on good hardware BOTH Nvidia and AMD cards suffered but especially AMD this game had issues.
>Difficulty spikes through bad level design. You take damage so quick you might as well play it like a cover shooter unless your in hallways which is the only way the game becomes tolerable and even fun.
>Gimped stealth mechanics. Open area levels are particularly bad with this. Little cover between you and the commanders that can call in new enemies.
>Limited enemy variety. They aren't really that fun to fight either, just take more bullets.
Old blood suffers from most of the same gameplay problems. The only thing the game had going for it was the setting but that was probably a fucking accident because of how badly they fucked up The New Colossus.
