From what I've been reading, it seems to be on par with most opinions and reviews. It's just too bad that anyone with a PS3 won't be able to enjoy the online sensation.
What's unique about Brink?
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Its sad you can just go out and rent a game and make your own opinion on something, you rather just follow what other people say about the game and completely ignore the fact that you most likely havnt played it and have hardly the right to make an opinion of it.Jazoni89 said:
so what you are saying is that if you don't succeed you run the risk of failure? why thank you for that insight George W.Tdc2182 said:
I'm still in two minds about brink. Some games which try to build themselves as genre defying and unique by sticking in aspects from as many genres as possible, well there are many more places in which it can fall short. The free-running can work as well as anyone ever dreamed, but if the combat fails, then it's not going to work. that's part of what dragged mirrors edge down for example. i hope it makes it, it certainly deserves it simply because of being more inventive than most games on how the action is delivered.
I am pretty sure the game will be awesome too, but I doubt it will change the genre. Doesn't add nothing new, just mixes everything that worked on other games into 1. The best thing is that apparently it still manages to be a balanced game with multiple ways to be played, depending on your class and your body type. It sure offers a lot of fun to be had, I'm getting it fo'shizzle.
Definitely genre-defying, even in some small ways. It looks amazing, can't wait till my copy arrives.
Actually, I think you leaped in front of a bullet as soon as you started listening to IGN. There are as many good reviews as bad. Don't judge a game solely based on the first bad review you see.Rednog said:
Having played it for a few hours last night, I can confidently state two things about Brink:
1) It's a very fun game, with a great deal of depth and lot of things to enjoy about it. Especially if you enjoy TF2 or other similar objective-based team shooters.
2) It desperately needs a tutorial. There's a lot of new, or at least unusual, mechanics in Brink, and they don't explain any of it. The challenges do a fairly decent job of getting everyone acquainted with the various bits in the gameplay, but a tutorial that walked you through everything instead of just trial and error all day would have been very nice.
Once I figured out how to play the stupid thing, I loved it to bits. The first 45-60 minutes drove me up the wall, though. If you can manage to push through the learning curve, it's awesome. Until then, it's an exercise in annoyance and frustration.
1) It's a very fun game, with a great deal of depth and lot of things to enjoy about it. Especially if you enjoy TF2 or other similar objective-based team shooters.
2) It desperately needs a tutorial. There's a lot of new, or at least unusual, mechanics in Brink, and they don't explain any of it. The challenges do a fairly decent job of getting everyone acquainted with the various bits in the gameplay, but a tutorial that walked you through everything instead of just trial and error all day would have been very nice.
Once I figured out how to play the stupid thing, I loved it to bits. The first 45-60 minutes drove me up the wall, though. If you can manage to push through the learning curve, it's awesome. Until then, it's an exercise in annoyance and frustration.
It's added the feature du jour (parkour... which should probably be showing up in a Mario game any day now) to a MP FPS, so there's that. And if you're hankering for some Team Fortress style MP on a console, there's that.UberaDpmn said:
Slightly different recipe made from familiar ingredients. Really comes down to whether console players what a TF-style game. Even the most favorable reviews I've seen dismiss the single player campaign, which isn't surprising. Unreal Tournament was probably the best MP game as single player experience ever... and the team modes were on the annoying side. Depending on the map, you were either useless or had to carry the whole show... and neither situation is much fun. Looks like bot technology hasn't gotten any better.
Well, since that's actually a 'Bushism' and i was using it to illustrate how you were kind of pointing out the obvious, well it probably sounds stupid to you but i still would have thought you would have realised i was being sarcastic when i referred to you as George W.Tdc2182 said:
Oh yeah, you may want to look up 'condescending' in a dictionary.
I noticed that using the Smart button by its self is kinda robotic, its much easier to tap it for sprint and to hold jump to climb. That made things for me so much easierWitty Name Here said:
Oh really? I thought you actually thought I was the real George W. Bush for a second there. Crisis averted.socialmenace42 said:
And seeing how it's not entirely obvious as any small gimmick will sell millions of Copies (look towards the Wii), I still stand by what I said.
And what does Condescending have to do with anything? I already know what it means. And I know it was used here a few times by both me and you.
Is there a reason to this homework assignment, or did you just really want me to discover this new fabulous word that is all the rage these days?
My hopes. So shattered. Brink was sop hyped to surpass CoD, and it appears to have parkour'd it's way into a faceplant. I may have to rent it to give it my own verdict. If it isn't worth it, at least I only spent $5.
... Just wondering, why 'Brink' exactly? what does the name lend to the game itself? Brink is somehow so generic, so recyclable. Could be used for pretty much any genre, bar Sports simulator. Brink wants to be unique? try a unique kind of title.