Piss poor review

(GR0MIT) #1

http://www.gamervision.com/users/guiltychippx/articles/brink_xbox_360_

Probably did’nt play like halo which is why they did’nt like it, or they insisted on comparing it to cod and tf2 and then found out they were wrong. All in all that was probably the worst game review i’ve seen, concentrated too much on the ingame cutomisation and none of the actually gameplay, most important of all the S.M.A.R.T which only got several sentances and not an entire paragraph or even page to itself as i’d say its a fairly revolutionary concept to put into a shooter. but im guessing the reviewer has the mind of a 14 year old and the attentio… oohhhh shiny spoon… sorry attention span of a gold fish.

So to sum up up, just ignore this review because its obviously biased towards kids that only want to make a cool looking character and not even play the damn game.

DONT WORRY SPLASH DAMAGE, YOU STILL GOT MY PREORDER.

(SAI 9to5) #2

He gave it a 7.25… Why are you attacking him like he killed your dog?

7.25=Good game

“This is definitely the best online shooter of summer 2011”

Wow, he is so incredibly harsh…

(madness) #3

You post a review and then say “ignore it” :smiley:

(Mustkunstn1k) #4

Exactly, if a review is not worth watching, then don’t post it. Specially if it’s from a so-so site.
Besides, it was a decent review.
Of course the game isn’t gonna be for those who only want a singleplayer experience

(ClickClickBOOM) #5

XBOX Review, before the official release date, playing only offline mode / without the day 1 patch.

Well that must be a high quality review.

(Tec) #6

[QUOTE=GR0MIT;293663]http://www.gamervision.com/users/guiltychippx/articles/brink_xbox_360_

Probably did’nt play like halo which is why they did’nt like it, or they insisted on comparing it to cod and tf2 and then found out they were wrong. All in all that was probably the worst game review i’ve seen, concentrated too much on the ingame cutomisation and none of the actually gameplay, most important of all the S.M.A.R.T which only got several sentances and not an entire paragraph or even page to itself as i’d say its a fairly revolutionary concept to put into a shooter. but im guessing the reviewer has the mind of a 14 year old and the attentio… oohhhh shiny spoon… sorry attention span of a gold fish.

So to sum up up, just ignore this review because its obviously biased towards kids that only want to make a cool looking character and not even play the damn game.

DONT WORRY SPLASH DAMAGE, YOU STILL GOT MY PREORDER.[/QUOTE]

I think his review was very accurate. I’ll make it short:

-Dont buy brink for sp only, weak story & Ai.
-Average graphics with low details. weak explotions effects.
-SMART is great.
-Maps are great.
-Menu + customization - sharp and neat.
-MP is great with friends/organized teams

I think that average of the reviews will be between 7 to 8.

(GR0MIT) #7

So you did’nt get the joke then facepalm

but yea 7.25 is respectable but this game in my opinion from pre release footage, screenshots and what the devs say deserves an 8 atleast but in a few days we’ll know if it deserves 7+

But the whole idea of a review at the moment is more for LOLS than anything else.

(Hansi) #8

The most important sentence in this review:

“Brink is a multiplayer game at its heart, it’s balanced, fun, and different enough from the rest of the pack to try it out.”

(CENB71) #9

I don’t really see reviews’ helping anymore :frowning: I might be wrong but it seem like people’s taste in video games are lower and lower imo.

People are praising Fallout 3… the game that full of bug and glitches with bad animation and speech dialogs and the whole game look like been left for mod community to make it better.

The game like Homefront is not bad at all for me, campaign is a little bit short but well placed scenario feels like watching 2hrs film(4-5hrs playthrough) and multiplayer that’s not revolutional but offer something different from the CoD genre out there… which is Homefront when compare to CoD… CoD series offer nothing new but a recycle from old CoD games… not that i expected much from FPS genre and im not saying CoD is bad but it’s like CoD influenced people alittle bit too much.

BRINK is a really good game so far as I can see. I’ve been waiting for this game for years and I think what BRINK offers something that very different from the mainstream FPS… the downside that i see for the game is the gameplay concept that don’t attract mainstream gamers(since ETW and ETQW) which is not bad for me but probably bad for sales.

btw sorry for my english :smiley:

(trollface) #10

[QUOTE=GR0MIT;293676]So you did’nt get the joke then facepalm

but yea 7.25 is respectable but this game in my opinion from pre release footage, screenshots and what the devs say deserves an 8 atleast but in a few days we’ll know if it deserves 7+

But the whole idea of a review at the moment is more for LOLS than anything else.[/QUOTE]
I didn’t get the joke, did you make one?

Someone should rename the misleading title of this thread because the OP is obviously clueless.

(Mephster) #11

Well if you go in thinking that the game will get a perfect 10 review each time then yeah, you are going to be disappointed. Most reviews I have seen gave it an 8 most of the time.

(ClickClickBOOM) #12

I love the tags the reviewer used

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(DazTroyer) #13

I actually thought the review wasn’t to bad, ignore the score and it sounds pretty balanced. Shadowrun had the same problem with reviews as it to didn’t really have a sp campaign as such. You can drop a point just for this alone.

As everyone here want it for the mp there was. nothing really marked down.

(Diablo85) #14

This ‘reviewer’ was promoting his site and review over at gamefaqs. Seems to me he’s far from a professional reviewer. I will take his review as seriously as from any other gamer. He even admitted he didn’t play the multiplayer with yet because there weren’t enough people playing yet.

(SentencedToBurn) #15

This review is a shining example of why one shouldn’t review a game like BRINK when

  1. The day one patch isn’t out yet, and
  2. There isn’t a community to play against (Brink being a game that looks heavily community and teamwork-oriented)

You know what other multiplayer, team-oriented objective-based game sucks without any online patches or people to play against?
All of them.

(Bakewell) #16

Hi. I’m new here so my opinion probably isn’t worth much but I will share it anyway.

Who cares what a reviewer say about a game? It’s one persons opinion on Brink. The reviewer is no more qualified to say if the games good or not than anyone else. Take any review you read with a pinch of salt.

I’ve got faith this game is going to be awesome, someone else’s opinion isn’t going to change that.

(DazTroyer) #17

Very true, all reviews are just personal opinions.

Imo the update some guys have had for Brink, IS the day one patch.

(Murderous Pie) #18

this is a good review… he understands this game very well. he is just doing it differently and focusing on customization because no one has done that yet.

(Otto) #19

The thing that bothers me about any of these unofficial early reviews is that they are NOT playing them on a PC, They are playing them on an Xbox or a ps3. In the case of this review it was on a Xbox360, and I quote: “here are poor looking textures, pop in, and weak looking explosion effects.” how could that be, the power of the all mighty ati x1900 is absolute?
I’m not surprised the bot AI is a lil dumb on a xbox 360, that’s to help appeal to the general console player ability.

This game, tho multiplatform, was made for PC gamers in mind; both in game-play and in graphics, as is the nature of FPS’s. Take Portal 2 for example, Just about every PC review I have ever seen is a 9-9.5 /10 but quite often if the review is from an xbox/ps3 perspective it falls to a 8-8.5. same game, different hardware different players. A great example of this is watching the official brink videos, the container city videos look amazing graphically, all the other game play videos are on a console, and much more primitive graphically.

Wait till the console reviews come in, I put my faith that they will be considerably better. And as mentioned Brink is built around team work and multi-player game play, some thing no platform has going yet. Its much too early; a good chunk of time needs to pass before a true review can reflect upon all the game’s aspects.

(SentencedToBurn) #20

[QUOTE=Otto;293800]
I’m not surprised the bot AI is a lil dumb on a xbox 360, that’s to help appeal to the genral console player abbilty.[/QUOTE]
Don’t lump everyone in to the same category, just because you prefer playing on a PC. Lets ignore, for the moment; the fact that you’re comparing the AI on the Xbox-360 version to the AI on the PC version (as if the developers would change parameters and game-values arbitrarily “to appeal to the console gamers”).
For instance, I have a piece of s*** computer, but on the other hand, I have a $3500 TV. Which do you think I’d rather play BRINK on?
Also, you spelled “general” and “ability” incorrectly (I guess those red squiggly lines underneath those words didn’t show up on your obviously superior PC).

This game, tho multiplatform, was made for PC gamers in mind

Care to quote the source you got that from?

I’ll quote Richard Ham directly:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/244021/news/brink-ps3-360-as-good-as-pc/

“Our biggest success is achieving this goal. Right now, all three platforms are running great and it’s hard to tell at a glance the difference between the three, until you look at the player’s hands to see how he’s controlling the game!”

and Paul Wedgewood:

Incidentally, all three versions of Brink will be “exactly the same game”, apart from the inherent graphics scalability of a PC title, plus the varying control methods of each machine.

I know you’re going to jump all over the use of the term “graphics scalability” so here’s something to think about: How many people (who are purchasing BRINK for PC) Have the latest and most capable graphics hardware, or are running it on the equivalent of a gaming PC or laptop?
You’re probably looking at around 30-40%, whereas the majority of PC gamers (sic) are most likely working with less, or in some cases, the bare minimum of system requirements.

The most common reason for the use of graphics scalability in PC games is for down-scaling graphics/frame-rate to meet the processing capability of the system.

You may also argue that; if one were to combine a high-performance PC with a high-performance TV, you would get a superior result when compared to consoles, but that is only assuming that the majority of the consumers have the ability to do this. It’s usually one or the other, and in most cases, neither.

Case in point? Word on the street is that this game is well balanced for PC, PS3 and XBOX, and there is no clearly discernible preference given for game design, graphics capability OR performance.

(sic) is in reference to the fact that the use of the term “majority of PC gamers” incorporates only the majority of those purchasing BRINK.