[QUOTE=TheStank;297596]I just spent 5 hours with the PC version and, well, yeah, I want my 50 dollars back.
First off the technical incompetence is challenging to overlook, with audio bugs killing much of the sound in most games I play, at some point or another all I can hear is ambient sounds or can no longer hear gun shots etc. Also the FPS drops to single digits or even lower every time I search for servers, making the simple process of scrolling down and clicking a server an experience of agony. Movement glitches, I find myself getting stuck in place after using a command station, floating around like a zombie when the lock-on mechanic kicks in when I’m trying to heal someone, like moving past them or around them in a semi-circle before actually healing them. The AI might be the worst I’ve ever seen in a video game, I haven’t played every game so I don’t know if it’s actually the worst but from my experiences with shooters it’s certainly the worst. There are only eight maps, and more will surely come at a premium. The challenges are bland and either way too easy to be fun or way too frustrating to be worth it. The game runs like hell whenever I play with other people, but then again it’s only somewhat worse than bot matches. The controls are clunky and weirdly sluggish for the emphasis on platforming mechanics that don’t add as much as they could, especially if you’re a heavy. The controls feel convoluted with one too many radial menus, which gives a strong impression of an XBox as the native platform, or a “PC with an Xbox controller” if you prefer to be delusional. The level design and presentation also reminds me of Kill Zone more than Quake Wars, and Kill Zone is a game I’d probably pay not to play. Even if the game was a technical masterwork it would still feel like a perpetual mess of combat and visual information, which I know some of you love but that just doesn’t fly when I’ve spent the last 4 years playing Team Fortress 2 where everything can be happening at once and not be overwhelming and confusing, to the mind or eye. I can tell some of you guys are dedicated to the point that an honest take isn’t going to change a thing, but if this games doesn’t get patched big time I can’t help but go on associating Slash Damage with questionable work.[/QUOTE]
There’s this thing that we invented recently, just for BRINK, called the “PARAGRAPH” system. It stands for “Please Add Readability Adjustments, Gratuitous Reading is Actually Ph***ing Hard.” It’s this thing where you put white space between your text and it makes you look less like a moron, and people can more easily read your message, which they will now also be assuming might be correct due to being written by a not-moron.
