» Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:53 pm
The FPS game market has been so saturated with CoD and BF that they are what's considered the benchmarks of the genre. With that said, they don't promote the type of gameplay Brink does. Brink is more about objectives, teamwork and using the terrain as a part of the combat, rather then the other mentioned games, which are about point and shoot with little to no strategy. Sure, they have objectove based modes, but since when has CoD anything focused on objectives outside of single player? In brink, it's not about your KDR, it's about how you work with your team. In that alone, Brink isn't going to cater to the CoD or BF crowd. It takes no brain power whatsoever to play those games, and anyone can be "dominant" in it thanks to ridiculous perks, overpowered weapons and cheap exploits that have still not been fixed. Brink on the otherhand, is going to make us think twice about how to engage the enemy as well as tackle the objectives set forth. The MAG community (which I'm part of) embrace the game because it takes the team based concept we're all acclimated to and runs with it. So on that note, I doubt the Brink community will get very large (as MAG's hasn't), but like MAG the community it does gain will be loyal and play the absolute crap out of the game. I prefer a smaller community of people committed to getting better at it, and getting the most out of it then a large community of hotshots who stat pad and play just for the sake of raising up leaderboards. KDR in Brink will not be the telling tale of your overall skill. I'll go into battle with a guy who's KDR is 0.70 but has a crap load of XP anyway, because I know he's more focused on completing objectives then running around killing people...thus not helping the team win the match.
