Whould you buy Brink 2?

(thrill11) #1

I was just wonderng based on another thread if some of you would buy Brink 2.
As of now, I probably wouldn’t buy it. It really seems like Brink is low budget, so I doubt that this would happen ANY time soon, but I also know some of you hope to see more maps, females, fixed bugs, and other stuff in Brink 2. You think Brink 2 will be another fail, or do you think that developers would learn from there mistakes and make Brink 2 as good as Brink should’ve been right from the get go? :stroggbanana:

(tokamak) #2

Depends on who publishes it… unless there’s female models then I just pre-order five copies from the moment I can, I hope there are special edition skirts.

(TheMattylongden) #3

at the moment if things stay the same, Probably not, it feels like an arcade game with limited progression.

but i have faith in SD to release some wicked life saving DLC’s in the future, this game has so much potential.

Just like APB. its ashame everything is going t1ts up, Steam problems at Launch, bugs ingame etc.

so this just from what has happened isn’t very encouraging for a sequal, For a sequal to be successful you have to have a playerbase.

PS, i really do hate seeing UK based game companys doing a fail. Mainly due to bad game release launches

(Krallis) #4

I think they should fix a few things with BRINK before they think about BRINK 2.
And it all depends o what the game is like.
I spent ages looking at reviews and gameplay wlakthroughs on youtue before I bought the game, so I knew what I was getting into. So I’d do the same for BRINK 2 (as i do with any game that I buy)

(thrill11) #5

[QUOTE=TheMattylongden;337568]at the moment if things stay the same, Probably not, it feels like an arcade game with limited progression.

but i have faith in SD to release some wicked life saving DLC’s in the future, this game has so much potential.

Just like APB. its ashame everything is going t1ts up, Steam problems at Launch, bugs ingame etc.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but what if everyone quits before the SDs release the life saving DLCs? I doubt people would buy it again.

(stealth6) #6

OMG, school girl uniforms pl0x

(thrill11) #7

LOL you guys are in it for the girls? Don’t think resistance’s girls will have ripped shirts cus it aint happening.

(tokamak) #8

Brink 2 will be as perverted as Sucker Punch

(darthmob) #9

Sure. I would buy more or less any game from Splash Damage. The bigger the budget and target group the lower my expectations for the game though.

(Singh400) #10

No, I wouldn’t. Certainly not with my current experience. Maybe ETQW two or WET two

(its al bout security) #11

havent we all learned by now that games sequels are almost alwayse better?? like 10 fold??

i mean brink needs some work but i voted YES MAKE BRINK 2 NOW

(PsYcHo) #12

I would like to vote “Yes, because I like Brink”. Please add it :wink:

(Cep) #13

To be perfectly honest I don’t want to see a Brink 2. I would much rather SD learns from the mistakes of this release and just improves the game.

I mean you only have to look at what THQ/Relic did with Dawn of War. The initial release was absolutely slated, the game offered nothing new, had one playable race and had a rather overused weak story for the single player campaign but rather than scrapping the game and making a sequel, they created expansions and the game steadily grew better and better until it became a legend in its own right.

That is what I would prefer to see with Brink. No sequel, just expansions.

I think the problem with Brink is that:

  1. It was rushed through production to try and get it released before the competition got theirs out. Unforuantley this is a mistake being repeated not just in the games industry but films as well but is a dire mistake as I believe SD have acknowledged.

  2. The game was so over hyped that it raised peoples expectations too far. Yes you need to beef up initial sales but don’t promise the world and end up giving a rushed out buggy product, players hate that and it does SD no favours for its reputation. A lot of people say that SD were trying to do something different, but were they? An objective, team based FPS is certainly nothing new, and even from SD’s catalogue of titles it is definetly nothing new to them. Adding a parkour SMART system was a nice gimic, but in true fashion thats all it really is, a gimic.

  3. It was developed for too many systems and by the sounds of it SD just doesn’t have the manpower to deliver across each platform successfully, which is why we hear sooo many complaints from 360/PS3 players. An initial PC release followed by console would have been better, at least on the PC they could have developed more to get the formula right before porting (since I think we PC players tend to be a bit more forgiving, afterall Microsoft and Sony love to overprice their games so you can understand).

Getting back to expectations some things that SD could have done initially to improve the games original reception (aside from the bugs) are certainly things SD could bring into expansion packs.

For example:

  1. When I was first checking Brink out they explained that XP would allow you “buy” weapons/attachments and outfits and that no two characters on Brink would be alike. This is just simply not true. Instead you have level tokens, and only 20 of them (at the moment) and rather than buying your weapons and attachments you are actually given everything at reaching level 20. Personally I think SD should have made a shop available in game where you spend your XP (not level points, I wouldnt have even bothered with levelling) on buying an outfit, haircut, silencer, CARB-9 etc etc and allowing you to alter the colours from a much wider pallette than is currently available.

  2. The levels should have been far larger and far more open. Having come from ETQW I feel extremely limited by the number of approaches that I or a team can take in the game. The standard seems to be three approaches to most areas on a map. Not many at all.

  3. When I heard Bethesda would be involved I instantly thought about player content. Would it not be amazing if people could create their own tatoos, their own hair models, their own clothing? PC gamers know that almost all successful games have allowed their community to mod content. It creates a great player base, introduces unique and expansive content and generally gives the devs the ability to play off of community ideas.

Anyway before I digress any further, would I buy Brink 2 if they released it within the next few years? Hell no. If a company decides to release an unfinished product, have it slated and then just moves onto the next title without fixing/expanding the original I am certainly not trusting any future title they release.

SD have so far made a bad release but they are working on the game, they are patching and they are developing more content. If they keep that up and don’t abandon the title simply because of the bad press I am certain Brink will be the success it was envisaged to be.

(Nexolate) #14

To say that Brink was a perfect game is nowhere near true. It has its problems, like most games nowadays there were minor technical problems (at least with the PC version) but the dev team is working pretty fast to get the major ones fixed and I don’t get the impression that level of support will be diminishing any time soon.

That being said to say that Brink is broken, unplayable, boring or unfinished are statements that I just don’t agree with. I think that Brink’s only problem, from a design standpoint, is that there’s not enough content currently in the game. That can be fixed very easily and I think with another 2/3 DLC packs, I’d feel pretty comfortable with the amount of content.

As for the question of buying Brink 2? Absolutely. I mentioned it in my Shotgun Damage Falloff thread but I feel that Brink is the kind of deep, involving multiplayer experience that we just don’t see enough of nowadays. So if time and money would allow it, I would absolutely love to see a Brink 2 which expands on the mechanics of the first. This could really become something quite remarkable, given enough support.

Regards,
Nexo

(haccess) #15

The first one being free, how many people out there do you imagine will devote more money into Brink?

(Miken420) #16

If they tried to make a new Brink every friggin year like the Call of Duty games, I’d probably just stick to the original for a few years until they came out with Brink 3 or Brink 4.

Buying the same game in different clothing every year isn’t in the cards for me.

If it came out a few years from now once Brink has been all but used up. Sure I’d buy it.

(TVSUCKS) #17

I think the whole “2” idea is the problem. Focus on one thing, Brink one - it’s already here. What is present in the game now is pretty cool. Take the base ideas and develop them, polish them up. Often complaints about games, not just this one really involve what I would call polish items like balancing weapons and maps etc. I been messing around with MW2 testing my headset (having some technical difficulties). You realize how much Brink does have to offer, so work on this one and make it better. As the game matures there may be fundamentally new things that can be changed, but I don’t see that unless the hardware is upgrading in the next gen boxes.

john

(SK7109) #18

I have to see how they handle the product they have to work with now. The game has HUGE potential. How they go about dealing with what they have will show us all what they stand for.

(Mad Hatter) #19

I would definitely buy Brink 2. Brink had its problems, but they’ve already fixed the vast majority of them, and they’re giving us free DLC to boot. SD are quality people. They wouldn’t suddenly ignore Brink, nor would they half-ass their own sequel.

In other words, Brink can only get better with time. And BrIInk, after learning from Brink, should be at least twice the Brink that Brink is.

(Jess Alon) #20

You need to fix your poll. It doesn’t have a “I play Brink every day and I would buy the new one to continue playing MORE BRINK.”