FIRST POST FTW.
I’ve been noticing,every time I ask someone at school or on another forum site,nobody knows what the hell Brink even is.Aparrently the ONLY people who seem to know what Brink is come here,and I’m wondering why it never got as popular as CoD because Brink is awesomeness :o
It was advertised, but CoD + people following the mainstream give this situation.
Also, Brink had somewhat of a clunky launch.
It was mis-advertised as having a cinematic, single player campaign, which just created backlash among the people who bought it for that. (Specifically, that early video of Container City.)
It should have been advertised for what it was… a class-based multiplayer shooter. There would be fewer pre-orders but the reception would have been better, and the game wouldn’t have gotten the bad reputation it got.
CoD: BlOps didn’t have a rosey release either (for PC anyway), with a complete opposite to Brink, nvidia cards had performance issues which took 2 weeks to get patched. I was affected by this but the sheer momentum of the series carried it through, I think Brink being a new IP wasn’t afforded the same forgiving attitude which was also combined with a failure to deliver a fix over several iterations of drivers from Ati. As tangoliber says as well, what was expected and what was delivered were 2 different things which I believe drove review scores down.
[QUOTE=tangoliber;379314] (Specifically, that early video of Container City.)
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Yeah, that was quite irritating, to say the least. The final product was like a movie of a book. It was like you read that book and while you watch the movie you wait for a certain event or a character to show up. And when finally the credits appear it’s starting to dawn on you, that that might never happen at all. Maybe it was a good movie, maybe it was even a very good movie, but the entire time you watched it you missed something. Brink is still a good game imho, but it’s a bad “adaption” of its own trailers and promo vids.
It’s still glitchy as hell. My pc is sub-par, but my brother’s pc isn’t and both have the same ATI cards.
hmm I just bought it on steam with all DLC, feeling ripped off it still has issues with ati cards…
silly me for not checking - kinda thought after so long steam and splash would have fixed it.
[QUOTE=Leethal;379329]hmm I just bought it on steam with all DLC, feeling ripped off it still has issues with ati cards…
silly me for not checking - kinda thought after so long steam and splash would have fixed it.[/QUOTE]
Lol, you know the DLC was free a few weeks back right? <_<
Welcome to the forums, first off! Second off, Brink was actually pretty popular; a sequel will make it even more-so.
oh the troll comes again <_<
It was so popular that after a week 90% of the player base left
[QUOTE=Crytiqal;379341]oh the troll comes again <_<
It was so popular that after a week 90% of the player base left[/QUOTE]…But over a million people purchased the game…not sure what you consider popular, but that’s indeed one measure.
So popular that anyone he asks hasn’t heard of it. Go to dictionary.com and look up the meaning of ‘popular’.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
94th most played game on Steam as of the time of linking. For a game that requires Steam to play it, this isn’t great and hardly indicative of being ‘popular’.
I consider things popular when the majority actually likes it.
Initial sales only show the hype…
Seeing how it bombed after release shows how Unpopular the game is.
I’m not sure what platform the OP is on, but I’ll address xbox.
The main thing that hurt Brink’s popularity on xbox was the bad launch. Single player, back then, meant playing against super deadly enemy bots, while the bots on your own team were only slightly better than useless. Multiplayer, where Brink really shines, was so laggy that playing online became an exercise in frustration.
The other thing is that Brink just isn’t for everyone. It’s an objective based team game, with no real reward for going off on your own and racking up kills. It also doesn’t track stats that CoD players tend to value, like K/D.
Finally, many people got frustrated by the relatively inaccurate weapons. Still the best online versus FPS for me though.
[QUOTE=Crytiqal;379365]I consider things popular when the majority actually likes it.
Initial sales only show the hype…
Seeing how it bombed after release shows how Unpopular the game is.[/QUOTE]Well, I consider it to be a popular game. Its also important in that it introduces something newer to the FPS landscape. We need fresh blood like this or else be forced to wade through the stagnant pool of regurgitated sequels. By that measure, its pretty popular for what its trying to do. Yay!
