I've been randomly dragged to this game, to play it mainly because of the innovations that it brought forth.

I myself, have low standards for games and I didn't bother with many issues that were brought forth on the release.
I was a bit aggravated, and slightly worried that I might hate the game, but once I opened it, I loved it!

I really felt that it was a great game bringing the old mix of SWBF2 (I oddly connect this game to it...) So I was really pleased.
I joined the forums and started looking over the discussions that were brought forth by people and the disagreements.

This also started to get me worried.

By now, I am almost scared to think of what might happen to this game.
To me it's a success, but that's not enough to keep it going, what I'm wondering about is whether or not this game will exist as a played game for very long.

I am at a point of no return considering I have already opened and played the game, and I am not willing to return it.

In your opinions... Did I make a mistake to buy and enjoy this and then only see it go to waste (I'm not sure, but many people seem confident enough to say that this is the predicament that will befall this game)... Or did I buy it to see it grow along with a set community of players that enjoy it and aren't going to quit on it?

This may be a rhetorical question in some of your heads, but the answer is not clear to me.

High regards,
Angelix

No. People have and are entitled to their own OPINIONS. Some people expected more, and did not realize that this game was a success for being the first of it's kind.

Ah, now that you put it that way I have a boost of confidence in it

for PC, absolutely get it

I didn't ask that, I ALREADY... HAVE the game for PS3 and it's working fine without complaints, the only thing that worries me is the fanbase complaining on the forums.

it's frustration mostly, the game has a steeper learning curve than some people are used to, that and some of the bugs make for frustration to people who have somewhat limited patience.

I Just got this game and I love it so much. All I did was play the same map twice and customized my guy and it was one of my best video game experiences ever! Also I was playing campaign and I think all the people were real, or do they put fake gamer-tags on the bots?

I was like you, i bought it and played it and was enjoying all excited for online when psn was down then it was revived n i played a couple games and my hype hit me like a brick.I haven't touched the game in days

I love how they innovated with this game its great but in my opinion they tried so hard not to be CoD they messed up what made CoD something to play for a long time

SD is patching it but i think by the time the patches make it a complete game the community on consoles will have disappeared

One of Brink's most interesting features is what will kill it off.

Integrating the story with the multiplayer is something interesting and new but it essentially kills the replay value. On a traditional shooter you might have a favourite map but you're not forced to play it the same way and have the same outcome every time. Brink, you do.

I like the game and will keep playing it because when you get a decent HvsH game it's really fun, but some quick DLC will do this game well. (Yes I know we've been promised this)

If you think the complaints are bad here you should see the Bungie forums post Reach release. Now that was hatred lol. This forum is pretty easy going in comparison.
Brinks a really good game let down by some workable annoyances. It will improve and the complaints will simmer down. Its just the way of the interwebs

For me it was a big mistake.

I could have purchased a game i'am acutally able to play without 20 FPS max cause of "Open (G)ood(L)uck",like Witcher 2 for instance.

I mean,40 euro is much money for me and i an expect a little bit of quality ina product which costs 40 euro.To be most developers and publishers give a [censored] about quality.
Some people may say,"pff 40 euro much money ohlololol" but go work for it and then come back.

NOT that Brink in general would be a [censored] game OFC it's NOT but i purchased a Alpha version here with so much bugs that it's gettin ridiculous.

Amen to that brother. I to, am a Bungie.net forum vet. That was the epitome of forum base hatred.
And i thought Reach was fine. One or two bugs.. but an awesome experience in general.

I just hope S.D. fixes some of Brinks issues quick, before the population leaves something that has the potential to destroy the Cod franchise.
Yes i went there, COD is a cheap knock off of Battlefield and Halo.
It copies Halo's story based campaign and Battlefields mutliplayer. Yet fails at both, with no innovations to the mess that is its sloppy make up.
IMO

Brink could be great epic! but fixes need to be made ASAP.

I have every confidence that SD will get the game sorted... whether it will get sorted in time to maintain a healthy community is yet to be seen, but I sure hope it does.

The next obstacle that's emerging is that some gamers are raising their expectations WAY too high regarding what the free DLC will contain, and are expecting it to completely transform the game... It's just a DLC, not a game re-write... the best we can honestly expect are some more maps, cosmetic extras (clothes & weapons) and patches for existing issues.

After all, what's the point of sweating over new game modes and stuff if the basic nuts & bolts still need to be ironed out? To expect anything more is being unrealistic about the capabilities of a relatively small development team.

Potential to break Call of Duty? Haha...
That's a funny one right there. Unless you were serious...
Then that's just sad. A game can't beat another when it isn't done right to begin with.

Whenever I open up brink, and go to the servers page, that is a BUTT load of servers, this game is still very much alive.

I bought BRINK 2 weeks ago and have hardly played anything else on my PS3 since. I'm hooked, in fact my whole family is hooked lol.
Besides a couple minor short comings that will no doubt be fixed very soon by the sounds, this game has everything going for it and i sure hope the people stay to enjoy the online experience.

From what i've seen, the large majority of complainers about the game are ones who have experienced specific severe issues which not everyone is having to deal with. If they were "blanket" problems (affecting the entire game), I'd be worried, but they're not.

The only real "all version affected" problem on release was the AI, and that's been improved (at least for PS3 and PC). Other than that, only the majority of 360 owners, and a selection of PC gamers with specific graphics cards the game has trouble with have been hard-hit - there are a few players with lag issues on PC, mainly ones they can resolve by learning how to read a server list, and there are a lot of XBox players, along with a few PS3 players, who are experiencing lag as well. Unfortunately, unlike the PC players, we don't get the "server list" option as a way around the problem, so we kind of have to work with what we're given.

I'm pretty sure that, as time goes on, and as the patches roll out, the game will continue to improve.

no offence but last night lag was terrible. im well aware of how to read a server list. if i join a server with <80ms ping i would expect it to be fine. i try to go into my history but due to so many servers shutting down due to lack of interest every night you need to find new servers - even a good one i used to visit was laggy. i fired up bc2 and found loads of games that were lag free. its not all down to us. plus the sound dropping now on shipyard, unreadable text, poor fps even with lots of stuff turned down. and no an influx of one-hit-kills. they told us this would not happen! i have headshot people with the barnet and they dont die in one shot, wtf is happening?

the thing is you buy a game because you want to play it. i dont mind beta testing (hell, i turned down a preview of fifa12 in london this week) but i want to be paid for my time. my hourly rate starts at $50/hour for freelance work. thats what i charge normally. i work long hours and have little free time, i dont want to waste it!

if you visit the SD forums or pc forums here there are loads of people with severe issues with gfx (for instance why the game now runs worse on my new 6970 than on a 5 year old 8800gtx). even when i get decent fps it doesnt feel smooth. i dont get that issue with any other game.

1. I said "mainly" because there will always be occasional issues with lag, even when you connect to what looks like a good server - sometimes. From what I've heard, not being a current-gen PC gamer, the lag issues are intermittent and generally minimal when you're connecting to a good server. If that's changed/changing, then sorry for the mistake, my information may be out of date - I've heard in a couple of threads today that there was a new patch for PC which has fixed a few sound issues, but caused more - it at least looks like they're trying to work on the problem though.

As for my own experience on PS3, it's been pretty much flawless since the weekend, where the friendly AI suddenly became not stupid. And before that, it was far from the epic fail a lot of PC and XBox players are calling it. I'm only seeing minimal complaints from PS3 players in comparison, and most of them are relating to a misunderstanding of what the game is trying to achieve - people wanting a game that Brink never wanted to be.

im pretty sure u pay for dedicated servers on a monthly basis, wait a month or so and say that

Ahem... well I feel I should give something to prove my pedigree as a gamer, and avid Brink lover, before you all write me off for just joining. I have been on these forums almost everyday for more than the past year, vehemently following this game. Reading your posts and laughing at how foolish some "gamers" are, but also inspired to see that there actually is a fanbase for this type of FPS besides my brother and I, with a lot of similiar views on shooters in general. After reading the OP, I had to create an account and put in my two cents, because I know exactly where he/she is coming from.

(A little bit of my gaming background, skip ahead to the next paragraph if you like)
A very good friend and I started a local CoD clan when we were juniors in high school, this was right after the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Of course that game was and is amazing, so we quickly gathered followers. There are about six of us that have been getting on and playing FPShooters together almost every night since then. We are all 20 now, and we all grew up on Halo and CoD, which in my book have always been solid FPS, but I will admit that I was getting tired of the same recyled CoD game after like 4 years in a row. So naturally when I first heard about Brink I was very intreagued. Shortly after I did some initial research I pre-ordered the game to get my soda can silencer, and started trying to sway the rest of my clan away from the same old FPS nonsense and onto to something that I saw as extremely innovative and full of potential. When the game released four of us got it, now I am the only one who still owns a copy.

The reason I had to reply to your post is beacuse I was, and still am a bit, disgusted by how my clan mates call themselves gamers and fans of the FPS genre, when the made there minds up about this game after like 5 hours of gameplay, kind of, actually exactly like that idiotic reviewer from IGNorant reviews. Anyways, what I'm getting at is that when you have a game this new and this unprecidented, you need to give time, at least time enough for an initial patch, at least enough time to get one character to level 20, or get some of the ridulously easy-to-get achievements for this game. The more I play, the more I effing LOVE this game, and after SMARTing everywhere, and working with my team, and completing objectives, I can't imaging going back to the plethora of boring, linear, go this way over and over and when you die just keep doing it some more FPShooters that are clogging the unique, and innovative arteries of the gaming industry.

This game deffinitely deserves more praise, and respect, than it's getting. Even if it svcked, the developers still had the balls to deliver a new and unique FPS, and frankly I think they nailed it with loads of fun. Unfortunately, like I said, out of four of us, only I still have the game, but love it too might I add. I did however convince a different clan member to get the game last night, we only played for a little bit, but I made sure he approched it with the right state of mind and I was there to give him ammo and throw flashbang molotovs and what not. After a few hours he loves it. So essentially the point I've been trying to make, is that the people who've already returned this game are fools and will most likely not pick it up again or give it another chance, but this game, I feel, right now has more potential than any other FPS out there, and I feel that people who get the game after the patch is released and actually give it more than a few hours, will come to love and cherish this game for what it is, genius.

fair play, i sacked off kz3 due to the bloody PSN being down for ages. i dont like console pads for fps but i did enjoy kz3 with the sharpshooter. i will probably go back to that with brink being in its current state. i was 1 game off unlocking some great stuff before the PSN went down!



yup, when i search my history many of the servers are just empty. this game seems to be dying on its ass i guess a few clans etc are dropping it.

I think the fact that people are complaining means that they still care. I'm pretty confident that Splash Damage will sort all the problems out, tweak things, change the maps a bit and (hopefully) introduce a mode like CTF or CP that will make things flow a little more freely. Since I finally completed that bloody 'Early Launch' mission I've started enjoying the game a lot more.

This game is not the first of it's kind. It employs elements from several games, and more importantly looks like a mainstream version of Dystopia, with a class based system slopped on.

I wouldn't worry too much on what other people think of Brink. The simple fact is, if everyone were to listen too all the review sites which slated Brink off for whatever purpose then the game wouldn't have sold. Opinions are sometimes taken way to seriously and for some people its enough to let those opinions make there minds up, even if they haven't actually spent time with whatever it maybe for themselves.

The threads which pop up such as..I.E - ''What i hate about Brink'' or ''Brink is (insert appropriate word here)'' are made by people who have played Brink and want to complain about it. Its in there right to explain why they are disappointed with the product they bought/received. But its the people who go to extreme lengths to make sure everyone knows just how they feel that cause problems in the community.. also known as Trolls, but those are a completely different ball game.

At the end of the day not everyone is going to be happy, so people bring there negative opinions on the message boards just to vent frustration. its up to the reader too make there own minds up on what they see.

For me, i joined this forum before purchasing brink and all i could see was complaints... after reading most of them i went ahead and bought Brink anyway, did any of the previous knowledge gained from reading those particular threads have any effect on my experience? Not really, infact.. i haven't looked back since stepping foot on the ARK and I'm loving every minute of it.

I guess this whole reply i have posted is an opinion of mine, so people can take it however they want. Honestly though... Don't be put off on what you read, enjoy the game and look forward to future DLC etc =)