Hello my Brink Brethren, (Speaking for 360 Version)

I have been browsing these forums for a while now and just wanted to add my opinion on the growing influx of post's
regarding the leaked video's with commentary appraising the game with negative review's.

First and foremost,
The true tactician's/strategists & even fun causal player's with maturity values SEE the amazing draw potential of this game.
The essence of teamwork & balance (to the best of human ingenuity) working harmoniously. All these excellent feature's:
Drop in/out, Bots, Amazing Customization, MISSIONS/OBJECTIVES... etc..

SD did an amazing job with trying to negate a lot of the barrier's that exist in the FPS field.
These things alone warrant great attention.

The Brink Bible did an excellent job for me breaking down this game. When I read it- ALL, It opened my eyes.
Prior to the bible, I was not going to buy the game, I heard of it, saw some videos... but only thought the new feature's was customization & SMART, it did not take my attention.
Until I learned this game was built from the ground up with teamwork in mind, missions & objectives to complete and not mindless one side kill's the other.
(I am sorry, but those types of games have numbed my mind)

I still play Rainbow Vegas 1 (It has 4 player campaign co-op, part 2 does not) it is the ONLY fps I have.
I am all about teamwork, not 1 man dominating games.. which is why I burned out of CoD & BFbC2 and got rid of them.

Basically, in short, the review's matter ONLY to an extent, the meat for this game to do well is US.
If we keep this game alive, play it constantly, ignore the new FPS's (except BF3, srry I have to play that) and just focus on playing this game, learning it, placing great tactical videos up on youtube
this game will blow up and bring in the "Right kind of Player's" and that's the kind of person we want to draw in. Not the immature crowd. We are the review people.


Xbox live tag: odi0n (thats a zero after the i not a capital O)
(Send an invite if you'd like to have someone to play the campaign with this Tues, I am in the Central Time Zone (CDT)
Mature people only. Thanks.


Ps. If you have not read the Brink Bible, I suggest you do so, it is way more in-depth than the get smart videos and will literally break down classes & everything else by the "grams" not the full picture, here is the link:
http://www.fragworld.org/frag/brink/the-fragworld-brink-compendium.html


Peace.

Again there is allready topics on this stuff, search bar please.

Dude your just being a whiny ****.

@ OP, I don`t think BFBC2 is a "1 man dominating game", battlefield games are all about teamwork and I rarely see anything such as that unless there is some sniper in hardcoe mode.

Is there???

I saw those, I am offsetting those negative one's by creating a counter. Anyways, I do agree with the other poster, you are being whiny. Have a nice day. (I will ignore your Whining from here on out)

Your right, I should had mentioned what I highlighted in bold in your above statement.
Since all I did play it on was hardcoe mode, I guess that's what made it seem dominating by one man or 1 class.

Or sitting at the edge of the map and grinding kills from a distance. Even in normal mode and with Soldier, Medic or Engineer.


Yes. There is literally no thread/topic which we haven't had yet. And one like this has popped up about a month ago already.

Ouch so much hater's, there is a first for everything on this forum.

Agreed, It's bound to happen.

Nothing wrong with individual expressions, even if they reflect a similar from one of prior.
There's always bound to be overlap in forums. We all are Human after all.

Not saying your complaining, but that guy you quoted I think was just being sarcastic or poking tongue in cheek to the whiny guy who shops in the citadel above him.



BACK ON TOPIC

It will come down to us how this game is perceived in masses. This game is a fresh take in so many ways (at least for us Console player's- PC ppl always had the great tactical, team based games).
Therefore I do not see it being difficult, Brink to catch the eye's of Team based, Objective based minded player's and those just tired of the constant back & forth dance of TDM.

I do hope and look forward to constant Objectives & Mission DLC's down the road, this too will also propel those that did not buy initially to maybe want to buy and give it a try.

Dude you should come shopping there some time they have great prices!

But there is a risk that the reapers might come and ruin everything

Lol. I shop there all the time. I am actually there now on a side quest mission.

reviews are EXTREMELY important. without a good review, dont expect it to sell well. if it doesnt sell well, not only will there be no DLCs, but also the community will die out.

I got a sick AR there the other day. :gun:

It looks fun, if the recent flood of videos are any indication.

TL;DR, but going off just the thread title pre-release review scores are meaningless. All it is is a bunch of marketing, and companies like EA wont even give out review copies unless they get a guarantee of an 7+. Not to mention almost every review is opinion based.

well the people who get the game for free shouldent be counted because they dident pay for the game,GS,IGN and what not only glace at what score they give a game because alot of games are good its just they dont know how too play a game or skim it and pop it a score,and then we take in too account for bugs whats nots and then the haters on the game thinking its a cod/bf type play and they give it a low score because there are no OHK.BF3 is not on my list too get might get it wayyyy later like 2012 july im just not as hyped as i am with brink.now if u asked me what score would i give Brink i would say 10 i can miss look lil bugs i dont care about the candy eye, i game for the fun of the game and how long it would last me so i would give it a 10.FONV got a 8.5 for GS i gave it a 10 because its fun and alot of die hard fans come out with sick mods i over looked a few bugs in the game just because i dident care much and the only bug i had in the game was from the start when the npc ran like she was forest.

I do not think this is necessarily true.

EA's latest Medal of Honor, for all it's publicity, all it's GROUND breaking hype prior to release made you think Armageddon was coming to FPS's.
Yet when it dropped, it received mediocre score: Source Link: http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/037/037290.html (IGN.com)
The game still went on and sold over 2 million copies to date!

THQ's Homefront, also dropped megaton bomb's with it's marketing blitz campaign. It too received mediocre score.
Source link: http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/143/14335476.html (IGN.com)
This game also went on to to selling (I think 2 million copies or more to date)

Also, on my main subject above I was not adhering to Major site review's and their effect's to mass public perception or influence on decision.
I was speaking on the reviews towards leaked footage associated with negative commentary.

However, I also do believe reviews from Major site's only help to a substantial amount.
There are many mind/excitement trigger's and elements that resolve into this "substantial value" so I won't even go into detail's on it.

That being said, word of mouth is alway's the greatest marketing tool.
Youtube videos being put up with great gameplay, and exposing the strengths of this game:

Team Work
Tactical Execution
Strategic Approaches
Communication Amongst The 8 Man Fireteam

Will penetrate and resonate more than a one time review from a major site.

Haha,

Thanks for the tip, I'll look out for that.

Stop being a really devoted fan and wait untill you're able to actually play the game before saying bad reviews are wrong and should be unnoticed.

Stop being Devoted?

Why?

Bad reviews from ppl that somehow got the game early?
and giving it bad commentary, not playing it the way the way the game was developed to be played?

This is the actual first game for a console that actually mingle's all the elements I have always wanted.
I won't stop sorry.

As far as you saying "Stop Being"
That's rather strong approach of "Telling Someone" what not to do or express.. you came here just to say that bit of Negativity? More power to you my man.
Thanks for stopping by. I will ignore you now

Reviews do affect a persons purchase.
If a game gets poor reviews people do avoid it.
If a game gets positive reviews people do buy it.
It may be silly to base a purchase on the opinions of others, but it does happen.

I gues my opinion on the subject is here http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1187113-why-do-u-care-about-what-others-say-about-brink/

Yes,reviews form opinion in a percentace,what i don't know is we prefer playing a popular game cause it's good or cause this way we can popular?

Other than that the reviews offer another guys opinion.If the review is proper he should explain why something is negative on the game from a 3rd perspective and not by he's own likings.
And for us it's just a bit of info on the game,we must play it to be conclusive and absolute.

It appears that word 'f.anboy' is filtered as 'really devorted fan'.
Why are you so upset if i tell people to wait untill they get the game before saying people who already are playing it are wrong and their opinions are invalid. Your statement makes no sense and you're just defending the game blindy without basing your opinions on anything.

Only to an extent reviews help- I placed examples several posts prior to this one with Homefront & Medal of Honor.
I do agree with what you are saying- but again only to a certain extent.

It won't affect the kind of gamer's that have always looked toward's a game of this nature (For Consoles). We will still test it, for this kind of game is rare on console.
(When I say "We" I don't mean everyone, but I know several already whom will test it- even if bad review)

If you are not into Objective's & Teamplay, Planning out approaches and rather just run & shoot all day-
No matter how good the review for this game- you won't be picking it up, it's not your "flavor"

Now if the game get's a 3 out of a 10 score... well... that's a different story! That just horrible! I wouldn't pick it up either right off the bat out of caution.
However, I would still rent and go from there.

Now why would I rent? because, from a psychological stand point, this game has the personality of what I want in a shooter, and though the review may have shoveled me into caution by the score, I will "STILL" rent the game, and see if I agree with the score or not. Either way, (Low Review score or not) I still went and "RENTED" the game to give it a personal spin.

Review does not stop the psychological effect a game has due to it's personality and how it connect's with the person whom is interested in this kind of personality.

There is a psychology involved you know.

You can't really make a credible review for a game that is geared toward a multiplayer/ team-work experience when there aren't even enough people who have it to test the full extent of that experience. All I hear is people complaining about how dumb the bots are and how they don't complete the objectives for you, blah blah blah. This makes a lot of sense if you're thinking about it from a single-player perspective because if the bots took care of the objectives, you wouldn't be able to get any XP from it, right?

In any case, once the game is in the hands of a few thousand people (hopefully a few hundred thousand or more), then the reviews following that increase in players may have a bit more weight. Until then, I don't think any premature reviews are even worth paying attention to when the people writing them either don't understand how the game should be played, or are unable to play the game the way it should be played because of the inherent lack of people to play with at the moment.