So Brink guys

How is it? You all will be my reviewers! Now go!

Good luck with that! Been waiting all day, keep watching my friends list and have yet to see anyone online playing Brink. What the hell is up with that guys!?

I get the game today and my 360 tommorrow so also curious.. The only person i know who played it so far is Gibbs.

I just checked again and Grey is play as well as a lass I play homefront with is playing it.

Hmmm thats surprising. Seems this was the game half the SeC was waiting for. What happened? I doubt ill get it unless everyone is playing it. Just got Crysis 2 and LA Noire comes out next week!

LA Noire does indeed look pretty bad ass!

I am shocked as well Sym. Hell I went home from work early to play Homefront and there was 6 or 7 folks on my FL playing Homefront by noon. I feel like more folk was interested in Brink and all day I've been waiting to hear from folk but its like a Ghost town.

Here's a pic from when you load up Brink pretty funny.

https://2img.net/h/oi53.tinypic.com/28a6q1g.jpg

HAHA Nice Pic! I hope more games do these training vids for xp. Great idea!

DATS RACIST! Or would it be platformist? Either way, I laughed.

The game in concept seems fun, but a few things are shying me away.

- bullet sponge(already expressed my views on this)
- no stats( I know I know. I like keeping track of my actions)
- seems a bit arcadey for my tastes

But I may check it out if you guys like it(ala Homefront)

What do you mean by bullet sponge?

I haven't kept a close eye on this game, but I watched a few gameplays and it really doesn't look that good to me. I don't plan on buying it.

Bullet sponge= tons of bullets to down an enemy. From videos its seems it takes a full mag to drop someone.

Ah I see. Another reason why I won't get the game. That's one of the reasons why I dislike the Halo franchise so much.

I don't see what the problem is with taking a lot of bullets to die. The best First Person Shooters make it hard to kill people. Also, it doesn't take an entire magazine to kill someone >.>

I agree. Some will argue it takes more skill, but I see valid arguments for both sides. To each his own. Ive always preferred more realistic damage models.

I am sure if your buffed it'll be quicker and could've just been bad aimers? Well i'll try to address that once i play it.

Personally it annoys me in games like that for a few reasons

- seems you get in a long firefight with a group, only to have a recently spawned player kill you/your target with one bullet. That shit annoys me I wont lie.

-i like shooters where the weapons feel deadly, powerful. Which doesnt have the same effect in games like Halo.

This is all just my opinion so whatev

So Brink Bad?


I'm also curious.

I won't be getting it because i just don't really buy video games much...

But it looks plenty fun.

Just got the game in the mail.. Maybe i'll try it on one of my brothers 360's maybe.

All I've played is the challenges so far to unlock some weapon attachments. I'm gonna try multiplayer out later, since that's what the whole game is based upon.

The weapon sound is nice and the guns actually have a lot more recoil than it originally looked like. I've only tried a few so far though. There is really no ambient sound though.

AI is poop. Your teammates really do just sit there and do nothing some times. The first challenge is just downright ridiculous to do solo because there's a clusterfuck of 10 guys around the objective which is located next to their spawn, and your 3 teammates don't do anything except maybe shoot a bullet or two every once and a while. Luckily you don't need to do the 3 star challenge to unlock anything but the 2 star was still a bitch.

Customization is actually not as immense as I thought, but it's still cool.

Leveling up is really fast. I'm a 7 or 8 now just from doing challenges.

Core gameplay is fun though, I like the way the guns feel and the SMART system is pretty good. Don't expect to be bouncing all over the place but it does help you get places.

I'll play some multiplayer tonight probably and post my thoughts on it. That's really the most important part and I haven't even gotten to it.

Let us know what the hard mode A.I. is like.

You get dropped fast as shit by them. I played a tower defense challenge online thinking it was 1 star but it was clearly not because I died in like a half second of seeing enemies. It's like they had CoD damage guns while you still had the Brink damage guns, and this was when I was a heavy body type.

Haven't seen how the AI teammates play though, only enemies, I'll let you know.

+1 ac cred to you Chewy! Thanks for giving some insight on what you have played so far!

I have not have more fun with a FPS in a long time.

DAMNIT why can't my xbox be here now.. I don't wanna start it up on one of my brothers because i won't get off it and i'll have all that progress that isen't on my 360.

-deep breath- You can do this chris you've waited a month + for your 360 one more day won't kill you.

I forgot to pick it up on my way home. Oops...

lol

Spoiler:

Kyuubey wrote:lol

Spoiler:

Ohhh IGN...

I almost said what the fuck out loud when reading that.

IGN has a tendency to rate a game by how much they get payed

Well I just went out and picked it up. Hopefully I really like it. I'll let you know.

If any of you that have played it could comment a bit on the multiplayer that would be great. Do people actually work together or does the majority still go and do their own thing like COD? Any connection / lag issues?

I may pick it up some time tomorrow if the multiplayer aspect is worth it.

Sigh at sunday...
ill have vids up monday morning if anyone is holding out.
ill go over all the modes and take ya'll through the some of the smart stuff and try and get all three body types up.

I'm actually debating not opening it at the moment due to a lack of Psycho Pack...

It is fun. Me, Camel, Bolt, and Bolt's friends played the campaign. I got what I expected fully. A literal run and gun game with action, romance... Well not romance. But there was action... And me slide tackling people in the nuts.

It's interesting that you are debating not opening it. I've seen other forum posts on this same thing. Wowsers. I was interested in what you had to say on the game Metal. THis is one case where I'm not going to say Mail it to me if your not going to play it! HAHA

Chewy wrote:All I've played is the challenges so far to unlock some weapon attachments. I'm gonna try multiplayer out later, since that's what the whole game is based upon.

The weapon sound is nice and the guns actually have a lot more recoil than it originally looked like. I've only tried a few so far though. There is really no ambient sound though.

AI is poop. Your teammates really do just sit there and do nothing some times. The first challenge is just downright ridiculous to do solo because there's a clusterfuck of 10 guys around the objective which is located next to their spawn, and your 3 teammates don't do anything except maybe shoot a bullet or two every once and a while. Luckily you don't need to do the 3 star challenge to unlock anything but the 2 star was still a bitch.

Customization is actually not as immense as I thought, but it's still cool.

Leveling up is really fast. I'm a 7 or 8 now just from doing challenges.

Core gameplay is fun though, I like the way the guns feel and the SMART system is pretty good. Don't expect to be bouncing all over the place but it does help you get places.

I'll play some multiplayer tonight probably and post my thoughts on it. That's really the most important part and I haven't even gotten to it.

Continuing on from this with multiplayer impressions:

Played a few matches.

I tried a couple campaign missions which were pretty fun. Pretty much just mowing down bots though. No lag for these.

Then I went on to versus. First game I joined I couldn't move. Lag was that bad. Second game, I was a spectator. I don't know why they think I'd want to do that. Then I finally got into a good one third game.

My team was kind of getting our asses kicked every round but I thought it was still fun. This seems like it would be a really fun game to play with people that actually communicate, but my team was kinda dumb. I think I was getting hit by teammates a decent amount too since there would be points where I'd die quickly but not see any enemies around. I'd definitely recommend it, I'm having fun with it.

But there are some gripes I have with it. First of all operative classes disguise skills kind of suck. You can't even throw a sticky grenade while disguised, you have to pull out your gun(which can take a few seconds if you're holding a heavy one), and then throw it. But your disguise is ruined right when you start pulling out your gun so that gives the enemy team plenty of time to kill you.

Also the auto-shotgun sucks. I've only tried it on campaign but I don't know why you would waste a heavy slot for it when you can just use a pump action for a secondary that doesn't fire all that much slower. It reloads a lot faster but meh. Auto grenade launcher is also extremely situational as the grenades don't explode on impact. Great for clearing out tight groups of people though.

And there is another mechanic about the gunplay that takes getting used to. You can't continue to fire in the process of aiming down sights. Now this makes complete sense because IRL there is no way in hell you could line up sights while in the middle of firing an automatic gun, but other games aren't like this and it sometimes makes it feel unresponsive due to it.


Overall I'd probably rate the game a 7.8/10. It's a fun game but it has plenty of technical flaws and the full 8v8 multi-player is currently unplayable. Fortunately 5v5 seems like a better amount actually, any more would probably be a clusterfuck.