I've been posting and lurking these boards for awhile now, making comments and posts here and there and observing. A lot of the behavior and opinions I have observed since the release of this game are just flat out silly. "Don't pick on my game, it's my favorite game ever!"

People need to give it a rest, seriously. This is a message board, a public forum -- for a video game made by Splash Damage. People are going to come here with all sorts of issues with the game -- they like it, they hate it, or they have significant problems with the game and/or technical issues. What I am seeing on these forums is just plain ridiculous, and the term "devoted fan"(edited for censor) has just been brought to a whole new level.

1: The Anti-COD- I think it's safe to say that everyone is familiar with COD and the MW series. I think you'd be just straight up ignorant to say it's not popular and/or successful. I think the more hardcoe of us PC Gamers can agree that everything went downhill with the release of MW2 and IW's decision to not include dedicated servers. This created a lot of anger in the PC community and resulted in less than stellar PC sales. It also turned the tides in the sense that a lot of people (such as myself) will never purchase another MW game unless it has dedicated servers, period. Whether you like COD or MW or not, you can't deny its presence. I think most of us can agree that MW2 was not a great game either, all the killstreaks and all the new COD BS with chopper gunners etc is just plain silly and bad.

With all that said, all I see on these boards is this sort of "Anti-COD" ism, if I may call it that. I think a lot of the people on these boards have never played anything other than COD and are just scratching at the doors looking for something different -- they found something different and now it's suddenly their all holy messiah of FPS. YES, Brink is different -- it's not about KD/R, and there's no silly killstreak chopper gunners flying around. Does that make it a good game? Just on those grounds? Is Brink GREAT because it's not COD? Just sit and think about it. If you need more experience with good games, PM me I will give you a list of recommendations. For starters I'd suggest TF2, ET:QW, CS, Section 8:Prejudice.

Stop being foolish, please.

2: "The game just came out, give it some time"- I for one am tired of hearing this from people, and it scares me that so many people say it over and over. "The game just came out, it has bugs -- Look at FO:NV, it was nigh unplayable for months". REALLY? I mean, is that OK NOW? Let me tell you something, and I really want this to stick -- "IT IS NOT OK TO RELEASE GAMES THAT FUNDAMENTALLY DO NOT WORK.". Just because we have the internet and the capability to patch, DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN RELEASE GAMES BEFORE THEY ARE READY.

Patching is for hotfixes and BALANCE ADJUSTMENT, not FINISHING THE GAME.


I want this game to work, I really do. I've been looking forward to it for some time now. I'd say once or twice a day I get into a decent game that works -- and it's fairly fun. It's not worth the work though. I see hundreds of EMPTY servers in my server browser, I am forced to play on servers with pings above 120 because that's all I can find with other players.

3: Let's be honest here- The guns are sloppy, usable yes, but very sloppy. The movement system is sluggish, very sluggish. Yes you can mantle things, you can climb things -- GREAT, but you still get stuck on EVERYTHING and the fact remains, it's sluggish as all hell. The maps are bloody terrible. I like close quarters fighting and intense firefights -- but this is just too much. One corridor to the next. Container City is a disaster of map design, seriously. I wonder if when they were designing it if they actually said "OK, spawn point here, and right outside of it put a bunch of really good defensive camping spots. We want it to be nearly impossible for the team to get out of their spawn here." IT'S NOT EVEN FUN ON THE DEFENDING TEAM. I FEEL BAD. I feel like the map design is probably the worst problem in Brink.

The graphics are TERRIBLE. I know they are going for a certain art style, and I like it -- but the actual textures and effects are JUST PLAIN UGLY. I run this game at 1920x1080 with an i7 and a 5870 -- and I have to turn settings halfway down because the game is so poorly optimized. Yes I've updated drivers -- YES, I used to 11.5a ATI hotfix.

No excuses here. Splash Damage is a PC DEVELOPER. You know what you're supposed to do before you release PC GAMES? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TEST THEM.

I dropped $50 on this game, I'm trying desperately to get my money's worth and to like this game, but I'm here posting on the forums instead.

Well then sir, I am hoping you are getting a desperate bit of fun out of the game while i'm having a "blast" killing four folks at once with my grenade launcher. Good day Mate!

you reposted a post that was locked?

He sure did

If you were playing on a console I might be able to sympathize and understand where you are coming from, but if you're playing this on PC and you have the gripes that you do, you're a console kiddie in wolf's clothing.

The CoD games svck because any moronic monkey can be "good" at it. It takes little to no skill, no coordination with your team, and even if they had dedicated servers the games would still svck.

You presume to speak for a large group of people while at the same time assuming you known and understand the gaming habits of people you've never met and have nothing in common with.

I would say to you that knowing is a road block to learning, but you know your right and won't leave room for learning.

To clarify: I don't give a rat's hind end if you like the game or not. Your opinion is just that and you are perfectly entitled to have and share it. Just don't try to speak for large groups of people, make assumptions about other people's habits, make broad generalizations, and/or act like you've cornered the market on what is, isn't, and what should or shouldn't be.

Having a "blast" killing four BOTS at once with your grenade launcher.
Good day Mate!
:celebration:

Reposting something that has been locked is against the rules.

Not sure why this would be locked, everything he said is actually on the money.

the OP's post is going to get flamed and probably go unnoticed by many but it rings extremely true to me

I don't have the PC version but I do have a similar rig to you, i7 with a 5870.. i'd be amazed if it struggled to run this thing O.o
I've been having fun with some friends over the last few days with the 360 version.. but it feels like we spend 50% of the time just game hopping to find one that actually has players in it and isn't lagging all to hell.. no way a game that at it's core is focused on multiplayer should have so many issues finding a playable game vs other players

My biggest gripe with brink is the bots, does anyone actually want bots in a multiplayer game? They should not be there unless we choose for them to be.. they are beyond terrible

Even with the problems, we've had some fun.. pretty much everyone of my friends who picked this up is disappointed in it, but we play on anyway.. trying to squeeze our moneys worth out if it

Dude, big no-no. This will get locked.

Trolling vs constructive criticism

No it really isn't. You agree with him and that's fine but it's not the end all be all perspective that everyone must eventually come to realize.

Or "Honest Post Of Truthfulness" in this case

Yes I agree. My clan stopped playing Cod because of this fact and it was a unanimous vote we took and we all a agreed not to buy because of this fact because of no dedicated servers.




agree again




sloppy I don't know what that means.
Heres where I disagree on my pc it runs smooth and looks decent I will say can it look better yes defiantly. Could it be your ATI gc? Because people have been reporting problem with this brand of gc. Could the maps be better designed? YES. There on the right track just wish they could made them different I not going to get specifics that's SD job.



I droppeed $38 on my copy. Was is worth it? YES and I believe it will only get better with the fixes coming out.

I lost you when you said that it was a forum so people should expect negative responses on Brink. But then you complain about all the anti-COD talk on a forum for a game dedicated to teamwork? It's only a public forum after all..

Re-posting a locked topic is not a good idea.