Oh jeez..... Brink preview in XBW360

(LyndonL) #41

To play devil’s advocate though - some people gave Waterworld a good review…

(Linsolv) #42

I like Waterworld.

Now, to play devil’s advocate PROPERLY, Bulletstorm received a 9/10 or above from no less than 5 major magazines.

(iheartchainsaw) #43

Lol its not misleading NOW since badman fixed your title but it certainly was when it said it was a review. But to give you the benefit of the doubt the thread on the Beth blog was vague and misleading in the first place.

I don’t think you should worry though.

I also like water world.

(Linsolv) #44

That’s because no matter how unrealistic the writing, setting, or costuming, it’s Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper. Can’t go that wrong. Not Bulletstorm-level wrong, anyway.

(LyndonL) #45

Speaks volumes, really :tongue:

(Linsolv) #46

Listen, not every film has to be a The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Sometimes you’re a mediocre film, and that’s okay.

(BiigDaddyDellta) #47

Water world was pretty epic, maybe a little out there with the weird pirates and the mocked up outfits but it was still frigging awesome.

(H0RSE) #48

I liked Waterworld.

(zerorawr) #49

I liked Waterworld too. Am I cool now?

(Linsolv) #50

Do you like indie music, and feel for the plight of the proletariat?

(Slade05) #51

I`m indifferent about waterworld and cool at the same time.

(iheartchainsaw) #52

They had jetskis UNDERWATER?! Honestly though that old man living in the oil hold is probably one of the saddest characters in film. When it all blows up…“Oh thank god.” Brutal.

(Linsolv) #53

As long as water doesn’t get inside the engine, jetskis would theoretically run fine underwater, and if they were put underwater in the right way (which would be hard but not impossible to do) you could keep the engine dry. It’s implausible, but hardly impossible.

Incidentally, I found XBW 360’s review of Bulletstorm: 9.1/10. I guess we can safely say they don’t know what they’re talking about.

(H0RSE) #54

What did you expect. Bulletstorm is mindless fun - something a lot of gamers (especially FPS fans) love. Brink involves things like “tactics”, “strategy” and “teamwork.” Of course they would score it low.

Bulletstorm is like like watching football, whereas Brink is like a game of Chess or Billiards.

(Linsolv) #55

Bulletstorm isn’t like watching football, it’s like watching… jeez. I can’t think of anything as low-brow as Bulletstorm was. I mean, sure. Crass humor. Fine. I LIKE crass humor. No MP? Alright, your SP better impress, but we can still talk.

A system that was supposed to rely on skill that only allowed 3 (maybe as many as 4-5?) moves (that weren’t actually that interesting, and many of which were mutually exclusive?)

Don’t be absurd, only Uwe Boll can make something that stupid.

(iheartchainsaw) #56

Arena lingerie football?

(Linsolv) #57

That sounds less uninteresting by quite a bit. ;p

Unless it’s still men playing. Then, weird by ANY standard (I’ve never met a homosexual who thought muscular men in women’s underwear was attractive, so it’s not homophobia or something, just weird)

(BrigandSk(A)) #58

His point is that Bulletstorm pure fun like serious sam franchise, wild (go big and in style, dukenukem thingy) and mindless fun (attractive action and colourful & high tech styled).

While Brink is more tactical (strategy feature) and rewarding (fun factor)… but it also has the bulletstorm factors…they are just least focused (futuristic weapons / high tech, big guns, colourful and style, 100% unscripted events and close combat action).

(iheartchainsaw) #59

Yeah I meant with men. No one wants to see that. And I think Linsolv just really doesn’t like Bulletstorm.

(Linsolv) #60

My point is that I can recognize stylistic differences and account for them. I like Duke Nukem (though I haven’t played Gearbox’s interpretation, obviously). I like WWE. Heck, if it weren’t for the netcoding issues, I even like Call of Duty.

At the same time, I also like SOCOM (though, not #3, which I didn’t play). I also like chess. I also like Formula 1 racing. I also like fencing.

There are a lot of games I don’t like, too, that I know are unfair to the games themselves. I don’t like Halo’s art style (I disliked it so much, even when I was on 360 I never once considered buying it). I don’t like Oblivion, even though I loved Morrowind. I don’t like Need for Speed. I don’t like WipeOut.

Bulletstorm is a game that I reference when I want to point to a game that got a ton of hype, declared itself a Call of Duty killer, and was terrible—because it wasn’t a stylistic or ideological problem I had with it. The game looked great. The humor was not terrible, at least from what I saw and played. The problem was, I’d see people play it, doing unimpressive combos, and I’d say to myself “I can do better” because I’m at least anal retentive enough to keep trying. But I couldn’t. Not because of my skill, but because there’s an artificial ceiling to skill despite their bragging about how great it is.

Now, if I want to talk about a game I had ideological differences with, I can talk Fallout 3 (they explicitly wrote out any rational reason a character might side against the Brotherhood of Steel). If I want to talk about a game I hated purely on aesthetics, I can talk about Oblivion (I hated the characters, hated the dated-looking engine, etc). But if I want a game that got TONS and TONS of positive press, and then everyone I spoke to who didn’t have a soapbox to stand on didn’t like? I talk about Bulletstorm.