[ALL] Brink

[BrntO4Life]

I'm confused? What does the PSN have to do with Brink?

Just letting people know that if they were interested in getting Brink, don't let the PSN outage stop you. You'll get a leg up on those that do wait when PSN comes back online.

 

[tigstah]

gamefly shipped it to me today......

 

[jms493]

gamefly shipped it to me today......

I just smashed some of your times on NFS:HP....fyi:drive:

 

[JayDizzle]

Did it state whether or not the bots could be adjusted? I didn't remember seeing that in my first read-through.

The developers keep touting that the game could be played seemlessly from MP to SP with the bot system they have in place...

As for adjustments, I'd either have to see the game myself or assume that the tweaks to the Bot A.I. would just be directly affected by an "Easy --- Normal --- Hard --- Impossible" slider.

whats up with this game....is it supposed to be good.....seems semi interesting.

Think of a tactical shooter in the vein of Battlefield minus the vehicles but with the addition of free-roam scaling of any environment you're in.

There's customization for your personal character (clothing, tattoos, hairstyles, facemasks, etc.) as well as the weapons they use and the gear they carry (if you play as a Heavy-type Soldier, you can carry a huge Mini-gun and dispense ammo to teammates for example); all of which can be earned through XP while playing.

Also, depending on the level you're on and what class type you have, you can choose to do extra objectives for XP points and to help your team win (you can set up turrets as an Engineer to help cover your buddies in a firefight).

 

[jms493]

sounds intriguing.

 

[BrntO4Life]

It's basically Team Fortress 2 meets Mirror's Edge.

 

[tigstah]

I just smashed some of your times on NFS:HP....fyi:drive:

oh yeah....i havent played in over a week....or 2

 

[Sharkweather]

gamefly shipped it to me today......

What system?

 

[stevsta]

ive seen this game on ign and gameinformer, but dont have a clear Idea what it is or what its about besides being a first person shooter

 

[tigstah]

What system?

ps3..wanted it for the 360....stock was low....

 

[ThomasTomasz]

ive seen this game on ign and gameinformer, but dont have a clear Idea what it is or what its about besides being a first person shooter

Not sure on the background story, but I know it runs on id-Tech 4, and it being published by Bethesda. SplashDamage was the developer, who helped on Doom 3 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

 

[JayDizzle]

ive seen this game on ign and gameinformer, but dont have a clear Idea what it is or what its about besides being a first person shooter

Think of a tactical shooter in the vein of Battlefield minus the vehicles but with the addition of free-roam scaling of any environment you're in.

There's customization for your personal character (clothing, tattoos, hairstyles, facemasks, etc.) as well as the weapons they use and the gear they carry (if you play as a Heavy-type Soldier, you can carry a huge Mini-gun and dispense ammo to teammates for example); all of which can be earned through XP while playing.

Also, depending on the level you're on and what class type you have, you can choose to do extra objectives for XP points and to help your team win (you can set up turrets as an Engineer to help cover your buddies in a firefight).

 

[jms493]

6.0 from IGN
7.9 from gametrailers....

 

[BrntO4Life]

6.0 from IGN
7.9 from gametrailers....

That's a huge discrepancy in score. I'll wait for more reviews.

 

[padman59]

There are a few people already playing this on JTV if you're interested in hearing someone's opinion as they play or if you want to watch and decide for yourself if it interests you.

http://www.justin.tv/directory/gaming

EDIT: Here's GiantBomb's 48 minute look at Brink.

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-brink/17-4101/

Cliffs Notes from the vid:

-Bots suck (while you still gain XP playing with bots, PS3 users might want to hold off until PSN's online capabilities are back up).
-Campaign seems incomplete, not very cohesive.
-Might be more of a niche game with it's steep learning curve.
-Game feels unfinished.

EDIT 2: So from the few streams I watched on JTV, the player reactions have been positive. One thing to consider is that all of the guys I saw were playing the PC version as opposed to the 360 copy that most (if not all) reviewers were basing their reviews on. Another is that the players were playing against other people as opposed to bots. One guy went as far as saying that he'd probably give it a 5/10 if he only played against bots. Take it for what it's worth, but this seems to be one of those games that will have very different user reviews than the critics'.

 

[Twigg4075]

http://i.joystiq.com/2011/05/10/brink-review/

2/5. Apparently the "single player" is trash.

 

[JMeist]

just burned this game, gonna have to wait until Thursday to play though. Multiplayer doesn't look half bad.

 

[JayDizzle]

Not ready to throw my hands up on this game until either one of you bums or myself pick it up and review it.

I figured the Bot system wouldn't be perfect but the idea of what a player wants from an A.I. (plays as realistic as a person would given the situation at the time; being hard as shit to beat to the point that it's cheating; etc.) varies from person to person.

To think they'd get it perfect or even semi-perfect would be asking a lot.

Now, to say the game's "incomplete" does bother me some... I don't want to say it but if this game's looking at adding DLC to fill in gaps or content left out... :smh:

 

[BrntO4Life]

It is interesting that actual player reception has been quite positive so far.

Reviewers are bums if they're knocking the game for having a steep learning curve. Everyone wants games to be so easy these days.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

Just like Shadowrun or UT3, I don't see how you can really "review" the single player portion of a game that is built from the ground up to be a MP experience. The reviewers knocking it down because of the SP experience are idiots.

Player reception I'm sure has been positive because they are playing it how it was meant to be played, online, with other people, not bots...

I don't see why/how SP should be weighed so heavily in the score of this game. It seems like reviewers are knocking it down an entire point or two just because the SP isn't much. That's lame. People aren't going to go get it saying "Man, I so can't wait to go home and play this campaign!", they are going to get it to play online...