Brink One of 2011's Most Wanted : Othor Games

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:00 am

The start of the year is traditionally when gaming sites and magazines publish their 'Most Wanted' lists to let gamers everywhere know what titles to look out for. We're delighted to see Brink pop up in way over 80 of these features so far this year, a truly staggering number to us. This includes everything from mainstream portals like MSN, gaming sites like Eurogamer and Shacknews, to newspapers like The Telegraph and The Guardian. We had some really fantastic feedback from those who got to play Brink at various events last year, and to now have folks in the press put the game amongst their most anticipated titles of 2011 is extremely humbling and exciting all at the same time. Here's a taster:

MSN
X360 Magazine
Eurogamer
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Computer & Video Games
Shacknews
G4TV
IncGamers
Check out the rest of the list after the jump!

Machinima.com
The Telegraph
Strategy Informer
The Guardian (1)
Techland
Stuff.tv
Metro.co.uk
Spong
Play.tm
Quarter to Three
Co-optimus
The Guardian (2)
The Sixth Axis
Planet Xbox 360
GameOn
MS Xbox World
News 24
IGN
Badass Panda
Epic Mind
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Blog Technical
Game Focus
Reghardware
All Voices
The Inquisitr
Original Gamster
TehLoft
Black Panel
SuperGamerBros
To Be Phair
Computer Bild Spiele
Gamestar
360 Live
GBase.ch
Just Gaming
NoFrag
PCActu
PS3Gen
ES.PlayStation.com
Vandal.net
20 Minutos
El Gamer
Vida Extra
GameMag.it
PC Professionale
XGN
Gamer NL
Power Unlimited
Evil Gamerz
And that's just the online stuff! In addition to these, Brink has also featured in the Most Wanted lists of well over 30 magazines from all around the world. Mindboggling!

http://www.splashdamage.com/content/brink-one-2011s-most-wanted?

Good that Brink is getting some seriously awesome advertisemant and hype.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:23 am

That sounds good in a way that BRINK will most likely become a good seller.

That sounds bad in a way that BRINK will most likely be picked up by the crowd.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:45 am

That sounds good in a way that BRINK will most likely become a good seller.

That sounds bad in a way that BRINK will most likely be picked up by the crowd.

I agree 100%. I love the community so far, especially the mentality towards teamplay.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:58 am

I play CoD myself (quick save: Battlefield, Team Fortress and Armed Assault too :whistling: ) but I'm not worried of the crowd. I think most people are capable of being a helpful team member if the game rewards this, and the objectives require this: The rest will die, suffer and ragequit anyway...

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:37 pm

That sounds good in a way that BRINK will most likely become a good seller.

That sounds bad in a way that BRINK will most likely be picked up by the crowd.

I agree 100%. I love the community so far, especially the mentality towards teamplay.

This is how I fell as well, so far I love the community as well, since everybody here seems pretty well educated with their responses and decent or good personality. It's just when the 'crowd' comes along, it'll heavily ruin the game. I know on APB I quit for a week since I kept getting back to back bad teammates who either can't kill anybody, doesn't do objective, or messes me up by giving away location by following me or hitting me with a car. Communities play a huge role in a game, all it takes is a few days of bad teammates to push some people's limit.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:16 pm

This is how I fell as well, so far I love the community as well, since everybody here seems pretty well educated with their responses and decent or good personality. It's just when the 'crowd' comes along, it'll heavily ruin the game. I know on APB I quit for a week since I kept getting back to back bad teammates who either can't kill anybody, doesn't do objective, or messes me up by giving away location by following me or hitting me with a car. Communities play a huge role in a game, all it takes is a few days of bad teammates to push some people's limit.

I agree.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:08 am

This is how I fell as well, so far I love the community as well, since everybody here seems pretty well educated with their responses and decent or good personality. It's just when the 'crowd' comes along, it'll heavily ruin the game. I know on APB I quit for a week since I kept getting back to back bad teammates who either can't kill anybody, doesn't do objective, or messes me up by giving away location by following me or hitting me with a car. Communities play a huge role in a game, all it takes is a few days of bad teammates to push some people's limit.

Ever played League of legends? I know how it feels, getting fail teams...

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:28 am

Ever played League of legends? I know how it feels, getting fail teams...

I used to for about 2 weeks, mainly only played it since my clanmates from a mmorpg played it.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:28 pm

I used to for about 2 weeks, mainly only played it since my clanmates from a mmorpg played it.

So you didn't solo queue then?
Well, my point is, sometimes I'm carrying the whole team (15+ kills, couple of deaths and decent amount of assists) and then they start feeding/going off on their own, getting slammed in the face over and over. Result: You lose while having a really good score.

Before anyone comments about kills/deaths, play League of Legends for a while and then judge

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:42 pm

So you didn't solo queue then?
Well, my point is, sometimes I'm carrying the whole team (15+ kills, couple of deaths and decent amount of assists) and then they start feeding/going off on their own, getting slammed in the face over and over. Result: You lose while having a really good score.

I had same issue with APB, I usually had around same score as you did, and they usually did similar things such as going off on their own or going same exact way, or standing still by a sniper and such.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:46 am

I agree that obsessing about K/D is a bad thing but is a measure in my. Since most games are deathmatch or team deathmatch. Patience and stealth seems more sensible then mindlessly charging the enemy position (which I see all the time.)

Seriously lots of people are insane aka doing the exact same thing and expecting different results.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:31 am

That sounds good in a way that BRINK will most likely become a good seller.

That sounds bad in a way that BRINK will most likely be picked up by the crowd.

Well from remembering reading about the game in one of the E3 demo reveiws thats how the game started out. Everone doing theri own thing and getting slaughtered, but eventualy it stated that the "crowd" started working together more like a team.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:32 am

I agree that obsessing about K/D is a bad thing but is a measure in my. Since most games are deathmatch or team deathmatch. Patience and stealth seems more sensible then mindlessly charging the enemy position (which I see all the time.)

Seriously lots of people are insane aka doing the exact same thing and expecting different results.

And thats why I brought the pwnsauce in AC:B's multiplayer. Everyone else would go nuts trying to find their targets while I blended in, walked casually over to my target, struck, and got 600 points.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:03 am

This game will sell millions of copies; lets just hope it won't flop. (Highly Unlikely)

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:37 am

Ever played League of legends? I know how it feels, getting fail teams...

The real problem with League of Legends (rather: every DOTA-esque game) is the elitism. "You don't know what item you should buy for your hero when the game starts? GET LOST!" "You are new? GET LOST, NOOB!"

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:09 pm

The real problem with League of Legends (rather: every DOTA-esque game) is the elitism. "You don't know what item you should buy for your hero when the game starts? GET LOST!" "You are new? GET LOST, NOOB!"

True. The blametrain is strong in them.

But, atleast you expect to be on the team with players around your skill level? I'm level 25 and still get matched up with level 1 people who don't know the basics of the game. I don't comment on them and I don't leave, but it's annoying, since they can ruin the whole game.

You don't have this problem in FPS. If one guy really svcks, and get killed all the time, he won't feed the enemy like in LoL.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:30 pm

In TDM he will.
And in objective-based games he will put your team at a large disadvantage.

(And I see where you're coming from, because in DOTA people get a lot for killing other players. For COD that'd be killstreaks, though.)

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:37 pm

In TDM he will.
And in objective-based games he will put your team at a large disadvantage.

(And I see where you're coming from, because in DOTA people get a lot for killing other players. For COD that'd be killstreaks, though.)

In FPS, it can be cancelled out easier. If you play well and smart, you can kill 2 people, while this is really difficult in DOTA styles games, no matter how good you are.

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:22 am

One of the points of Brink is that SP is trying to get"the crowd" into a revolution! this game has enough that they can relate to to pull them in, and then enough that's different to convert them. :foodndrink:

» Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:20 pm

When I play LOL with new players I'm more then happy to advise them, some people like it and listen some don't but you have to learn quick with that game.