Is it that bad?

>>387914137
http://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/BRINK/

Why now

Why was this bad to begin with?

>>387914137
are you ready boiiis???

>>387914528
ready for a dead mediocre game?

Well would you look at that

Also
https://youtu.be/35p4wyuzNY0
Best review

>>387914137
It's the game that got tons of retarded kids to swear off preorders for the rest of their lives.
I'd put it in the same category as Spore.

>>387914137
weirdest news of the month

isn't this game like 7 years old?

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>9 players online

>>387914709
>Release Date: May 10, 2011
That said, this was the game Splash Damage tried to mount their comeback on before they tried again with Dirty Bomb.

>>387914137
Wait, they just pushed a massive update for Dirty Bomb, why would they do this?

Great game with a shitty launch. The servers were fucked and performance back then wasn't good. It died in about two weeks.

>good objective based gameplay
>excellent movement system
>weapons feel good
>great art style and the best use of id Tech 4

>>387914137
Now what did the people who bought it get? except for buyers remorse of course. I unironically enjoyed the bot skirmish mode

What would happen if every game ever for some reason became free after set amount of years?

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>>387914137
So whats the catch? Loot boxes?

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>>387914137
>tfw bought this on launch day

>>387915063
>great game

>>387914137
>Now free to play
Were their servers up the entire time?!

>>387914806
Almost enough for 5v5

>>387915157
No catch, other than the fact that Splash Damage has practically abandoned the game. Maybe by making it free to play, they're gauging if it's worth at least throwing a little spitpolish on it.

I bought it at launch and had fun with it. It wasn't mind blowing, but it was ok when playing with people. The characters were all hideous but then environment was aesthetic and the guns felt nice.

>>387915307
Why did they even bother keeping the servers alive?

>>387915063
Funny. Many of the reviews are saying the gunplay was garbage.

>>387914137
Yes its fucking terrible. Anyone saying otherwise here wasn't alive to play it on release

>>387914137
Anyone down to play? I'm downloading right now

>>387915137
I like how Blizzard did Starcraft. They made the original free and started selling an HD version (For a reasonable 14.99 USD) that was compatible with original.

Regardless of if you hate Blizzard or not, you have to agree that is pretty fucking cool.

>>387914137
My one genuine experience of buyers remorse. Fell for the teaser trailers hook line and sinker.

>>387914528
TIME TO BRINK IT UP!

>>387915063
>>>weapons feel good
t. shitposter that hasn't played the game.

>>387915063
>best use of idtech 4
You mean Prey? Brink hardly utilizes 4's biggest strength which was the lighting.

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Still have my copy.
>Friend and I were pretty hyped for it before launch
>The closer it got to launch had the feeling it was gonna be shit
>So did my friend
>Tried to convince him to buy it anyways so I didn't have to and could just borrow it off him when he eventually got bored of it
>He knew what I was planning and didn't buy it at the end
>I still went out and bought it anyways
It's an extremely flawed game but I still had fun with it for that first month or so, and again when the dlc came out. Loved the customization in the game too. Probably my favourite part of the game.
I might just give this a download for the hell of it anyways and just reminisce about how bad it was.

>>387914137
I always got a kick how they tried to pass the terrible character faces off as unique and fresh.

Is the solo mode free too?

>>387915389
Once you unlocked some of the better ones they were fine, but it's stupid in the first place that you have to do that.

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>>387914137
Yes, they literally did everything wrong and only made it worse in the attempts to fix it. Since it's free like you claim go for it so you can learn exactly what not to do in game design.

>>387914137
gonna idle this just so it has more players than Battleborne.

>Brink in 2017 will have more players than Battleborn

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Say, was there ever any point in not picking the heavy bodytype? Because from what I faintly remember of the game, the parkour never actually seemed to serve any purpose.

Why would you even bother making this free to play? So 50 people can circlejerk?

INTO THE TRASH

>>387916314
Small body moves faster

>>387916314
Light and Medium was useful for escort objectives and some capture ones because smaller bodies moved way faster and could climb more shit.

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kek

Brink is not bad but it's dead as fuck

It probably became F2P to revive the game.

I do like some aspects of the aesthetic, though.

There's some cool looking shit in this game.

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>>387916306
>>387916253
I hope this actually happens

>>387916603
Just a tad bit late

>>387915362
ME too, I had some fun with it at launch day because I enjoyed the movement system gimmick. It died within like 3 days though. Like no population online at all.

I think I had this for Xbox 360 even. Since this came out I finished my education, switched jobs 2 or 3 times, moved once, bought a house and who knows what else. This game is OLD. Why go f2p now of all times. I mean, I would have expected it 5 years ago, but now?

>>387916561
FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTEEN

sad

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125 people need to launch Brink to beat Battleborns daily player count.

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>>387916983
consider this done

>>387915137
If such a system was in place, you'd see a lot of people just quitting a game when it becomes free because they wouldn't want to be seen as poor. Lemmy was right when he said that being poor is worse than having aids in modern society's eyes.

>>387914695
I like when someone points out when thing B copies something from thing A but misses what made the thing work well in the first place so it ends up just being a haphazard move for thing B

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>>387914137
>still no map tools
the dev promised map tools than didnt deliver. the stock maps are unplayable meat grinders

>>387916561
>all time peak
>417
No fucking way

>>387917403
there is no flood sadly

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Oh man we got hard choices.

>>387914137
yeah, but i loved that game, i used to play daily on my 360 until it died, people still played online months ago

>>387914137
>Splash Damage

Fuck those cunts. You shouldn't play those cocksuckers games

>>387917441
the game released before charts started recording, you dongus

>>387917696
Enemy Territory was good though.

I dropped this pile of shit on the dumb blue mission that's literally impossible with bots.

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i paid for this shit

>>387914973
Oh yeah, Splash Damage.
I bought the game expecting it to be great since Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was the shit but that title was just shit.
Too bad they went to shit since they had a promising start.

>>387917829

Time to tip them in sweet and salty tears, anon.

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>>387914137
Brink is a game that wasn't really a bad game.. It just didn't have a lot of good in it.
Functional but that is about it. I still had quite a bit of fun when I was able to find a game.

>>387914137
>mankind’s

>>387917829
So do i, and twice

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>>387917721
Ah, gotcha

>>387914572
I fucking love brink it's a fun game. It may not be a "good" game but I think it's really fun

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Do your pal Bethesda a favour and make sure you pre-order The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, only on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

>>387915082
Same i enjoyed playing the bots the most

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This game was the first time I have ever felt massive disappointment with a game that I've bought
Thank you Bethesda, for ruining my innocence like I'm sure you've ruined so many others

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>>387914137
Took long enough. Did the devs suddenly remember there was a game of theirs meant to go f2p?
>For the past six years I've had the feeling I've been forgetting something. It's been driving me crazy!
>I wonder what it could...oh shit. BRINK!

wait what the fuck, why would they do this, especially this late?

>>387916086
no, maps had poor chokepoints and that's the only major issue.

minor issue was the heavy body type couldn't parkour, and wasn't as fun.

you never played it so fuck off nu-/v/ cunt.

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Do people still play ET?

>>387918260
what do they have to lose, literally nothing

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>63 players soon

Give it a few hours and it will overtake Battleborn

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>>387918272
>That one mall level where the capture point was right below a set of escalators in an open area
>The two parkour points or w/e were always guarded by sentries
>When you finally took the point you now had to fight up the escalator and some cramped as fuck hallway

Oh shit, I know what I'm doing for the next few days.

>>387915165
Pre-ordered

>>387915382
TO SEE IF THERES ENOUGH INTEREST TO DETERMINE IF IT WOULD BE WORTH THE EFFORT TO SELL LOCKBOXES

>>387918319
I tried a month or two ago. Servers are filled with nothing but bots and people who get mad when you push an objective because they want to deathmatch.

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BATTLEBORN BTFO

>>387917332
ye, it's why you see poor cunts rocking around with 300 dollar clothes and shoes because they want to appear rich even tho they arnt the sad fucks

>>387918319
no

>>387918747
Likely. Can't wait to see a year from now.
>MAJOR NEWS
>We'd like to thank the one user who bought our Brink Box

>>387918808
DELET THIS

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>>387918808
>BRINK of all things has twice as many players as Battleborn

>>387914267
>>387914709
>>387918260
Im fairly certain they are testing if a bunch of people will give it a shot now that it's free. Maybe they are testing the possibility of starting over with a sequel that doesn't suck.

>>387914137
I'm only slightly bitter since I preordered it.
Might be fun to try and blind myself and enjoy the game for a bit with the new players.

ENGI MVP ALL GAME EVERY GAME

What have the devs been doing? They made Batman Origins back in 13 and now this goes f2p. I just assumed they were dead.

I remember playing this right when it came out. I think they even had a free week or something along those lines.
I was really into TF2 and this just seemed like utter trash by comparison. The parkour idea was somewhat neat, though.

>>387919132
I've noticed a small trend of game devs going f2p + cash shop on Steam when they hit rock bottom and their game dies. They hope the steam population can revitalize them.

>>387919481
I give the devs a couple of months before announcing their bankruptcy.

>>387919132
That already happened though.
After brink died they went on to make Dirty Bomb which is also pretty dead.

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>>387919440
Splash Damage has been busy with Dirty Bomb.

>>387919778
>dirty bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9MmUvqZKBA

>>387919778
Didn't know it was by them. I guess they'll stick around then.

>>387916314
What are you doing here Sal, you don't know how to play video games.

>>387914137
I liked the customisation you had over the characters looks, but the game itself is pretty meh, not bad but not something you come back to

This is cool. I'm gonna see if I can set up a 360 controller profile for it.

Its probably because I have shit taste, but I loved this game.the customization was so expansive, and creative, and Im a sucker for games that adds a bunch of attachments to your guns. I'll be perfectly honest here, I would love a Brink 2.

>>387914137
>now
this shit should have literally happened YEARS AGO

>>387920538
Goddamn it so did I. I fucking loved it and the only game that customization is Escape from Tarkov. I fucking loved how it was in Brink.

>>387914137
nah, it's just the last attempt to squeeze out remaining drops of juice from the multiplayer title that's not call of duty

>>387914267
pretty sure decision is based on sales report

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>>387914137
the characters look like those freaks from road rash series

>>387914137
Oh yeah to anyone coming in to try it out.
Do the fucking tutorials first.
It unlocks everything for your guns and it unlocks the guns as well

It wad such a cool setting with a great concept for combat. It still hurts.you feel it too, don't you?

I might play it later.

>>387919850
the actual memes themselves is cringe but I thought the trailer itself was funny, mostly because of the dialogue.

Dirty bomb was fun when I played it, loved the combat but once they introduced the stealth character I stopped playing, it ruined everything

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I hope its better than battleborn

>>387922240
>shit with corn is better than diarrea

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the character and world design is top notch, it's a shame it was so barebones and the gameplay was much worse than what was promised

>>387922312
I like corn so its already better

Isn't their a good campaign or am i missing something? did they add microtransactions?

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>>387922343
higher res

>>387922003
Before Phantom got nerfed he was OP as shit

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>>387922378
I laughed

>>387922425
There wasn't a campaign. It was just the multiplayer maps/missions with different dialogue to tell a "story." Other than that it was the exact same as the multiplayer mode gameplay wise.

>>387922607
they finally nerfed him? thank god, I had so much fun with the game until his release day, then everyone started playing him, sitting in corners in stealth, and one shotting with his sword

>>387922425
They didn't add anything.
All weapons are unlocked by doing the challenges twice.
The Campaign is all told in the maps and bot matches.

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>>387914137
>Dirty Bomb flopped so hard that they're going back to bring Brink back from the dead

Joke's on them though, Brink was significantly better in every way except being released 2 months early

>>387922425
There's a decent story imo but the entire game is essentially 8 multiplayer maps.
When you play in single player it's just the same maps except with a cut scene at the start and NPCs
When you play the challenges, if I remember correctly, it's just the same maps with harder NPCs
And in multiplayer you are still playing the same maps with the same objectives

Also I recall the maps being pretty unbalanced.

>>387922785
>finally
He was nerfed, like, a week or two after he came out. He was never even that strong, he was just a pubstomp character because SD had no idea what they were doing with him or what he was even supposed to be.

>>387923123
SD never owned the IP, this is Bethesda's choice. SD was also purchased last year; they're no longer independent so it's unlikely they'd ever work with Beth again.

>Your rank is too high to play on this server
>Your rank is too high to play on this server
>Your rank is too high to play on this server

>getting one shot

welp

>>387918035
hey todd shouldn't you be working on a game

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Brink bringing the fucking heat holy shit

consolefags btfo

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>>387914137
>TFW I bought Brink ages ago
>TFW I really fucking enjoy playing Brink
>TFW as far as I can tell this move to free to play was just making the game free and not adding cash shop retardation
>TFW I might actually have some players and can get some games of Brink in
Thank you Todd you are my greatest ally.

>647 players online

Wow. Thati s like 7 Battleborns worth of players!

is there any way to change the FOV? this is fucking killer

I remember playing this at a friend's house, might give it a shot again.

MUCHO BADGUYS SPOTTED

>>387926773
kek

>>387914137
Well, only really played it at launch... It was mediocre, which made the visible potential that much more painful to see wasted.

It also had a launch bug that rendered it unplayable on AMD video cards for about a week.

Overall:

Base TTK was in the acceptable range, though
>Difference in life between the classes was 1 unaugmented SMG bullet.
>Difference in mobility between the classes was extreme.
>Heavy had no mobility, and at launch their exclusive guns were complete dogshit. So, the game was pretty much 100% Medium or light characters.
Then we get into the engineer upgrades, which was a simple, one time interaction between a player and teammate. The first damage upgrade didn't do much, but the second lowered the TTK to Call of Duty levels.
This class also got a turret to drop at chokepoints, which is well placed and maintained was capable of holding off many players.

The maps were, in general, underutilizing of alternate routes and flanking for objectives. There were usually 1 route, with a mildly divergant side route that tended to end up in the same killzone as the main route. And was usually restricted to light mobility.

The hype trailers promised a single-player campaign with a story and cutscenes. What was delivered was bot matches that unlocked text-logs of lore. [Insert, thus of my team, thus of my foe's.jpg]

Oh yeah, customization was sold as a big feature, but the options on release were just... bad, and boring.

It wasn't TERRIBLE, it just wasn't good and arrived practically stillborn.

>>387918808
Randy on suicide watch

>>387930405
>1 route, with a mildly divergant side route that tended to end up in the same killzone as the main route

Reminds me of Dirty Bomb.

>>387917619
It is interesting to me that the refugees are unmitigatingly the bad guys.

In that way, the story was well ahead of it's time.

>>387917342
what is, minecraft building in fallout 4 alex.

>>387931039
It should. Brink and Dirty Bomb are by the same developer: Splash Damage.

>>387914486
Terrible level design mostly.
The game was designed to have parkour as a main mechanic but the levels all had tight bottle necks.
All the parkour in the world can't save you in a narrow hallway.

>>387915165
rented

>>387914137
Yeah the online doesnt work because its 900ping and DCs constantly.

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>>387921104
yeaaaaaah boiiiiiiiiiiii

so I'm downloading for shits and giggles, anybody else joining
seeing the same people every game is gonna get old, but whatever

>>387914806

tfw i was one of them

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>>387914137
>tfw you remember the hundreds of pre-release threads on /v/ hyping it up as some kind of CoD/Halo/Battlefield killer
>tfw it flopped and you didn't buy into the the hype
>tfw it was 6 years ago

>>387935087
It was on par with CoD if not buggy at release. Can't fuck with established IPs