Are you serious?

(Akkers) #1

Are you serious Splash damage? I actually feel like you are making fun of us with this game.

7 tiny maps. Terrible net code. Poor offline AI. Fairly easy challenges and stupidly easy story, regardless of difficulty setting. I could go on but its all been covered in these forums.

To all those saying it’s really good, I agree. What is there is great, but only constitutes 5 hours play maximum and having done it three times already, I am bored out of my mind with it. This game makes Borderlands look like Deus-Ex, Fallout and Disgaea all rolled into one in terms of depth.

Taking it online changes nothing because guess what, they made it identical to single player. All you get are players who do not understand how to play it and are actually worse teammates than the bots.

If you have some friends to play it with then it is more fun, except that you will never all get into a game that is not unplayable through lag and instead spend hours trying to find a server you can all play in.

But wait, two free maps are coming in a month and some paid DLC. So, that means that I can spend a month being bored stiff as a reward for buying on release day and after that I can spend even more money on having nothing to play. I don’t think so.

Seriously, I have played longer flashgames. For £40, I would rather have gone to a gay club and bought some men some drinks. At least then I might get a reach-around when I get bummed.

Edytid fur schepplin

(tokamak) #2

7 maps? Looks like someone hasn’t unlocked the secret tapir level yet.

(Akkers) #3

Damn, you have completely undermined me.

Oh no wait, you posted something unrelated. Phew, worried for a minute there.

(Honelith) #4

I’m hoping SD will add CTF and base captures/point captures, which provides alot of fun in other games, like TF2 for example.

(Bakercompany) #5

The maps and campaign to me feels very last minute for a game in development for years. Its like they had something fantastic going and at the end scrapped it for something…I don’t know cheaper? Easier?

But I seriously think I made a more impressive campaign for Neverwinter Nights like 10 years ago. With such an amazing backstory that they created, you could have fit double the campaign missions in. It feels so watered down and bland. Like they made the maps very quickly (very little SMART areas) and just stuck an objective at the end or beginning.

So yeah, more maps would be great. Everything else about Brink rocks, the foundation is amazing. The campaign is just so hollow.

(asmo) #6

please guys dont make me scared as the Brink is on the way to me and should arrive in 20 minutes … i hope i wont regret buying it. Was not cheap.

(Akkers) #7

At this point I would tell you not to open it and to return it immediately using whatever excuse is viable wherever you live.

As someone else pointed out elsewhere on here, it will be in the bargain bin in two weeks. Buy it then, you won’t be missing out on anything and will save $£.

(Honelith) #8

As long as Splash Damage add CTF/Base Capture, BRINK will probably have a very bright future. The campaign is just dull and repetitive, that I’d rather just enter a map and do the objectives and pass on the whole story altogether.

(Kalbuth) #9

Errrrr…
It’s all about multiplayer, I hope no one bought this game for solo, they would, rightfully so, feel robbed :frowning:

And the way SD carve their map, they are made to endure, they are made for players to play them again and again, discovering each and every little polished detail SD put in that gives an edge over the opponent, with constantly evolving tactics on each map. There is a high level of metagame in SD creations.
There is few maps because they take their time to polish every details and every aspect of them, even if it doesn’t appear so at first glance.
Trashing the game because players do not play it properly (which is basically your reason for doing it)… well, I don’t know what to say. 1st, before blaming the others, I’d advise to raise your own play level yourself, and work for the team as much as you expect the others to help you.

It takes time to get into it, I’m myself not sure I’ll be as happy of Brink as I’ve been of ETQW, but it’s not a let down game, not at all

(fearlessfox) #10

Not sure what game you guys are playing, honestly. The Brink I got is funz. :frowning:

(Litego) #11

TF2 launched with 6 maps, no challenges, no campaign, no bots, just 6 maps and great gameplay! Brink has great gameplay and Im loving it! This is a multiplayer game, if you bought it to play campaign then yeah it sucks.

(Honelith) #12

The game is indeed fun ONLINE. Allow us to disable all videos/cinematics since I’ve seen them hundreds of times already, and I’ll be more content until new game modes/maps arrive via DLC. :smiley:

(Akkers) #13

[QUOTE=Kalbuth;310047]Errrrr…
It’s all about multiplayer, I hope no one bought this game for solo, they would, rightfully so, feel robbed :([/Quote]

Errr…

Please read OP, I answered your comment long before you posted, stating that having human players in the same maps as the campaign does not make me feel better about it because it is still the same maps and therefore boring and lazy on the part of SD.

[Quote=Kalbuth;310047]

Trashing the game because players do not play it properly (which is basically your reason for doing it)… well, I don’t know what to say. 1st, before blaming the others, I’d advise to raise your own play level yourself, and work for the team as much as you expect the others to help you.

It takes time to get into it, I’m myself not sure I’ll be as happy of Brink as I’ve been of ETQW, but it’s not a let down game, not at all[/QUOTE]

I am not being funny, but what touchy-feely crap is that? You have no idea how I play and giving me the Jesus-babble ‘do unto others’ doesn’t wash. I have been an FPS player since I had Doom on shareware in 1993. I know the difference between team players and lone wolves, thanks very much

Moreover, I do work for the team because I can read the ingame prompts and watched the videos and read the manual and know that is how you score and win. That kind of background reading is something most gamers fail to do. Case in point is your post, you failed at reading the OP and wasted our time with this.

Also, what part of I’ve played it three times and completed everythign it had to offer and found it was not remotely challenging means that I need to play it MORE!?

Seriously, read the OP and then the thread before posting Kalbuth. It is in the rules of vitually every forum in the world.

Also I strongly disagree that the maps are polished or dynamic. There is bugger all to use SMART with, which was meant to be the freshest thing about the game. In actuality, it is just more choke-point hell like every other FPS but with poor net code and glaring ommissions.

I want to clarify, I didnt buy this game for the campaign, I bought it for the MP like everyone else. My problem is that after I finished the campaign and moved onto multi, I found out that they are the same thing. Unacceptable.

(Vaporman) #14

Yep, there’s no doubt that SD is having to clean up a lot of messes with the release of this game. I think it was not SMART to not have an Xbox 360 Beta to figure out some of the lag problems and other online glitches. Still, they’re trying to do what they can, and you have to give them credit for it. They’ve been fast and furious with updates and they’re promising some free DLC. It’s a start. Give them a chance to do the legwork necessary to get the game up to snuff. I know you shouldn’t have to, having paid full price for the game, but in the end I think it will be worth it. Just cut them some slack.

(Kalbuth) #15

Yeehaa, a testosteron-full “I’m better than 'thou” FPS hyper-hero!
You played this game 3 times and “completed it”? Good, go get a candy!
So you already know every map by heart? You know every possible path for the 3 types of chars? You have tested plenty of working tictacs on each objective? When to use Adre, where is heavy better suited, blablabla?
It’s funny a noob like me can get around chokepoint hell to nme back, when it’s supposedly not possible because not made for …

My personnal fear is that there is potentially less variety of situations than in SD preceding opus, but seriously, “beating the game 3 times” … well… speechless I am

(Akkers) #16

You said it yourself, Vaporman. Having paid full price, we shouldn’t have to. It may not read like it, but I really want to like it, but it is just not likeable. I feel deeply let down.

Like every other game that has a release like this, it will flop. People will trade their copies in and drive down the price. That means that sales of new copies will drop/stop. Due to the losses SD wont be able to continue supporting it and it will just be another Kane and Lynch 2. A game that is almost really good, but in reality, was a giant waste of time and money for the dev’s and the players.

(Diablo85) #17

TF 2 was bundeled two other games so it wasn’t full priced as stand alone. And it got crazy free support. I can’t see that happening to BRINK. So you can’t really compare the two games.

(Shotgun Surgeon) #18

[QUOTE=Kalbuth;310087]Yeehaa, a testosteron-full “I’m better than 'thou” FPS hyper-hero!
You played this game 3 times and “completed it”? Good, go get a candy!
So you already know every map by heart? You know every possible path for the 3 types of chars? You have tested plenty of working tictacs on each objective? When to use Adre, where is heavy better suited, blablabla?
It’s funny a noob like me can get around chokepoint hell to nme back, when it’s supposedly not possible because not made for …

My personnal fear is that there is potentially less variety of situations than in SD preceding opus, but seriously, “beating the game 3 times” … well… speechless I am[/QUOTE]

Hah people are ignorant. OP can’t even scratch the surface on the depth of this game. Every day we’re all learning something new. It’s a shame that people like OP can’t see past anything. Ignorant indeed.

(Akkers) #19

[QUOTE=Kalbuth;310087]Yeehaa, a testosteron-full “I’m better than 'thou” FPS hyper-hero!
You played this game 3 times and “completed it”? Good, go get a candy!
So you already know every map by heart? You know every possible path for the 3 types of chars? You have tested plenty of working tictacs on each objective? When to use Adre, where is heavy better suited, blablabla?
It’s funny a noob like me can get around chokepoint hell to nme back, when it’s supposedly not possible because not made for …

My personnal fear is that there is potentially less variety of situations than in SD preceding opus, but seriously, “beating the game 3 times” … well… speechless I am[/QUOTE]

You know what I am saying, the game is too short. Yes I completed it. You know, what happens when you finished everything the game has to offer? Pretty common parlance among gamers. The fact that I played it 3 times is not a badge of honour to me, rather a disappointing fact that is indicative of how this is barely half a game.

I have played it (and games in general) long enough to know that there are no win formulas like you insinuate with your ‘when is heavy better suited’ kind of jibes, so you are only making yourself look like you don’t get it. You aren’t showing me up here, just yourself. BTW- go read up, the heavy is way underpowered.

Stop embarrassing yourself, Kalbuth. You know what I am saying you are just being difficult because you don’t like it. Grow up, flamefag. And get a dictionary while you are at it.

(Akkers) #20

Lol wut? I dare you to support that statement. In fact I will paypal you $10 and post you a cookie if you can back that up with stuff from what I have posted and not your own self-aggrandising b/s.

+1 to Diablo as well. This full-price, full-release game is a shoddy version of one that was in a bundle and cost less than a third of the money. Unacceptable.