FPS game, lots of customisation splash damage/Bethesda.

By the way the guy was talking in 2010 I dont think it'll be anything special.

Just making big deals out of relatively little or obvious things.

Unique looking levels.
Customised guns/characters etc.
movement system that behaves properly in relation to environment, i.e. you don't just bump into things, but I think all of this is just obvious.

(I mean these are fairly basic/obvious right into a modern shooter)

It might end up good, but my prediction is another 7.5 / 10 shooter you've played a 1000 times before that'll struggle to sell 500,000 copies.

Umm 7.5/10 means good. If you meant average then that'd be 5/10.

With video games I'd say 5/10 is crap.
If the game is good but not original it will get 6-7/10.
That's how it works with most sites I'd say.

Game reviews do not really work like that, you can release a bag of shit and it 'll get 5/10 no problem.

There are tons of ~9/10 FPS games out there, unless Brink has something really special about it, most people will probably just buy something else.

The game people really talk about are usually the one's that get 9/10. SO to me 75% will not budge me unless it has a hook.

Zombies, gore, or a special feature, and I'm not talking about an intelligent hit box.

a 3d poster, with some hologram in the corner

The reviews are out...



"It might end up good, but my prediction is another 7.5 / 10 shooter you've played a 1000 times before that'll struggle to sell 500,000 copies."

-Jamerio (Two weeks before the reviews were out and from a 30 second video analysis)

I mean, how do these devs spend years making games when I can spend half a minute looking at a grainy youtube video and already predict it to within a few % of mediocrity?

Its just sad there are so many clueless people making games.

For a dev that specialises in FPS for over 10 years its kinda worrying.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/wh...it-yet.ars

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/br...of-fun.ars

Have you actually played it? Many of the reviews I've read - although supporting your case - seem to me to be very focused on the single player, which is fair enough. Yet for me, the game is great.

It's fast, responsive and fun not to mention that the manner in which it is designed really pushes people to work as a team.

I'm all for it, and as soon as I buy a new computer I will definately be playing it.

You should give it a go.

Oh but on the developer side of things - it's pretty garbage how a 'finished product' can be so faulty (sound cutting out for entire maps at a time) but what game in the past decade, for a pc that is, hasn't had kinks on release? Not many.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m2b-j1Yu8M7

wauevs

A sort of a mashup of TF2 and MW2. Heavy focus on menu structure, character and level design rather than actual gameplay. Movement is horrid by the looks of it, despite the implementation of "S.M.A.R.T". I'm quite certain they'll be altering/downgrading a lot of things just like they did with quakewars before the official release. I thought that the so called "heavily modified" ID Tech4 engine taught em a lesson, but I guess it didn't.

It's heading down the path of quakewars.Huge overhype with an eventually disappointing delivery. Prediction: It will die within 6 months. I do hope I'm wrong.

You are wrong, 6 months is overly optimistic.

Keyword being 'within'.

didn't read lol

not a modified idtech4, its just a newer snapshot on its way to idtach5, idtech4 quakewars is 98% idtech5

port are you sure? all say its heavily modified d3-engine, but so much that nobody can see it.

quakewars isnt a modified [heavily] engine, quakewars has a few tweaks for the ingame features, nothing much more, its a newer working stored snapshot of idtech 5, when all goes to shit, you bring out the a stored snapshot

brink has had 3rds of the engine and renderer recoded, or so they say in some interview http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/brink/news/...ech_4.html , and the same interview on a few sites, videogame just came up on google

IT ISA WHEN YU MOISTEN YOUR EYEBARRS

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I GEDDIT

racial.

so...

pretty girl on the hood of a cadillac yeah...

I want to plus this more.

do not get it: care to explain?

IT ISA WHEN YU MOISTEN YOUR EYEBARRS

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Error: You have already judged this post. :-(

Why are you bringing posts that should be "left behind" or never be bought back from the dead?

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

yawn

TF2 clone? Looks like it.

agree. but what im far more interested in is RAGE from id also. looks awesome, check it out. link: rage.com

yeah, nice console game right there.

movement and gameplay will be most likely boring, probably tons of players for a few months at least though

hoping for a demo, and not 2 months after release.

Yeah nowadays you have to hope for a demo. I want my shareware back.

right now no demo is planed.

I haven't heard someone say Shareware in way too long, I remember playing Secret Agent Sam and Keen Dreams shareware thinking that was the whole game.

haha Yeah, I remember being on BBS with ~20kbps dial up. Took hours to DL Wolf3d shareware.

good times

i downloaded the two or three q3 beta/test versions with my 33.6k, parents were well mad at me :p

lol

Not I game I'm even considering buying. It's shit.

it's bad, haven't come across anyone who likes it even in the brink channel on irc. every major review on the internet from sites like ign is bad as well

looks like muff garbage

What a pile of shit the game is.

I fucking wonder how they can make a great game like Wolf:ET and then years after they push out brink that is utter crap.
Another 1 hit wonder company.

http://www.esl.eu/eu/news/158869/

*sigh* why can't ID push the game :*(

As I said on IRC to sum up Brink:


Brink is as smooth as my ballsack, but as fun as taking a power-shower to it

not as bad as u would think
the 1st time I played it feeled kinda bleah but after playing more it becomes kinda fun

Played this on Xbox, it's fun, for a team shooter...

Everyone is always on the move, vaulting or diving or whatever, contrast that to Call of Duty where it seems that 90% of players are just hiding in a corner like fucking dickheads. Certainly no bunny hopping or strafe jumping like velocity but the smart system does some nice work to speed things up.

Maybe the game was an awful mess pre-patch but it's certainly playable and enjoyable now if you're into that sort of game.

I played it quite a bit yesterday (lvl 12 now) and I don't see this game lasting long unless SD patches the hell out of it. Biggest offenders:

- Lack of smoothness. This is what we are used to with id Tech 4 games, but the recoil and the movement make it much more unsatisfying. The movement idea is okay, but every time you do something the camera and the animation is so weird and rough that many times you wish you could just jump normally. Just play Mirror's Edge after Brink and you'll see what I mean.

- The maps are terrible, terrible. Apart from being quite confusing, they favour defence so much that on a public server where both teams are mildly coordinated the defending team will always win.

Part of the problem is that the players do not have much offensive potential. Fall-off distance, lack of big weapons, etc. Only a few abilities that make up for this, like adrenaline, but it's not enough. Compare this to RtCW/ET where you could throw an air strike to clear a defensive line, suicide yourself with the panzer, etc.

- The character system is retarded and diminishes the dynamism of previous games. You have to spend your points on either general abilities or class specific ones. Obviously you want to spend everything on general and one class, but then you are kind of stuck with that class because you cannot switch characters ingame.

Also, you cannot change the body type ingame.


It's fun for now, but I bet it won't stick.

* this unfortunately


The movement, which has been so greatly emphasized doesn't contribute that much to the strategic/surprise point of view: sure, you could sneak up behind two enemies in a few seconds, but instead ,with the current firing mechanism, which focuses a lot on crouching+ironsight in order to be accurate, it just won't reward such tactics, as in you can't kill quick enough to exploit your upper hand.
This could be easily improved by an ET-like fire spread, in order to speed up the game, thus making it more challenging, thus rewarding.
I can't possibly see a 1vs3 happening right now.
It basically makes the S.M.A.R.T. function unsmart.

^this

SD will have to patch the shit out of this game because
there are so many things that cant be fixed by a promod.

The one thing that needs to be fixed in a promod by far is levels/abilities.

If you're playing against someone with a higher level and more abilities, you stand no chance at all.

If I remember correctly, in both RtCW:ET and ET:QW competetive games were played without any levels. You basically started with Level 0 and no abilites and could gain levels/skills during the match, but on the next map, or even on side-switch, they were reset back to 0. So it would not surprise me if this kind of system would be used again, especially cuz the objective/main goal of brink is almost the same as in RtCW:ET/ET:QW.

in ETQW upgrades persisted throughout the 3 maps of each campaign, but those were disabled anyway during competitions: they should really release a brink promod fast enough to not let it die like before

ET stopwatch was initially played with XP each round - so during the round itself you could earn upgrades (such as additional ammo / increased arti damage), but they would reset at the start of the next stopwatch round.

ETPro the competition mod subsequently capped and then finally abolished the XL upgrades in comp play. It was deemed unbalanced & too favourable to the defending team.

hannes needs to save the day once again

I like the game but it lags so much on my computer it's unplayable.

i3, 4 gbs of ram, HD5650 1gb

Did r_shadows 0, updated it three times, and what not, still lags like ASS.

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I've got no idea what to download and how to install. If you would be so kind and tell me :))) thanks man

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this is really funny because every game ran fine in 16:9 max settings, even Crysis 2. either this game is optimised shit, or they increased the system gap by a long shot

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So if I install the latest drivers (which I do by first removing the current ATI catalyst via windows system stuff, right? and then installing) will it run better? Because if it's a minimal increase, then I won't take the time to actually do it... It's a nice looking game and all, but it's not worth messing with fckin' drivers for hours, especially if it will help nothing.

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I play with picmip 16 in QL so nah, no issue. I may try it, thanks cheater!