Brink release date announced

[Rakewell]

<insert sound of crickets>

 

[Texashiker]

Why do game publishers always release games on a Monday or Tuesday, and not Friday, for the weekend?

<insert sound of crickets>

Crickets, like your sitting outside and all you can hear is crickets. There are no other sounds, but sounds of the night.

It means nobody knows, your probably not going to get an answer to your question.

 

[Rakewell]

Crickets, like your sitting outside and all you can hear is crickets. There are no other sounds, but sounds of the night.

It means nobody knows, your probably not going to get an answer to your question.

Ah.

Thanks for taking the time to re-quote my posts, and qualify your thinly-veiled assessment of my rhetorical question.

 

[wrbt]

Cautiously optimistic.

I thought ETQW was somewhat underappreciated, unfortunately the learning curve was a little bit steep and that probably had a factor in it ever gaining any traction with player counts in online server.

It sounds like this game has a few things going for it, one being seamless multiplayer and single player. A lot of how well this turns out depends on the quality of the bot AI, but sometimes it is fun to play on your own when you want to, and I like that you have the same character/attributes/levels accumulating either online or off.

I also like the tighter range of basic combat capabilities for classes. Classes in TF2 are so specialized, from what I understand any of the medic/eng/soldier/spy can pick up and use any weapon in Brink, it is more your character's chosen body type that limits your weapon options.

The scale being a little smaller is a good thing IMO, some of my fondest memories of FPS are the smaller maps in Unreal Tournament back in the day. We'll see I guess, as so much of a game's success is whether it catches a good online following. I for one am ready for a nice team based FPS that isn't based on realistic combat from any era in history.

 

[drizek]

I actually decided not to jump in on the preorder. I was afraid the game would be a bit... ADD. It seems like there is too much stuff going on all at once. objectives, points, scores, achievements, rewards, etc...

I would love to play a demo first.

 

[Texashiker]

New brink video I found posted in the Steam forums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0r9Pw1CB4

Shows a lot of the game play features.

 

[DirkGently1]

Watching some of the 'official' pre-release videos compared to the actual gameplay videos, reminds me of when the same thing happened with the original Crysis. What you get is not exactly what you thought it would be!

 

[Texashiker]

A new Brink video has been posted on the Bethesda Software blog - this video was posted today.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/04/27/get-smart-series-objectives/

It seems they are trying to release a series of videos detailing the game before its released. A video series before the game release seems like a good idea.

I pre-purchased brink for my son. After its released I will look at getting it for myself. I just want to read some reviews first.

 

[wrbt]

Thanks for the videos guys, I remain optimistic on this one.

One thing I liked on the mission video was the guard mission they mentioned at the end, sounds like if don't want to get to deep into things you can just jump on and have a mission of going where others are fighting for general attacking purposes.

 

[CottonRabbit]

Brink will actually have real dedicated servers that anyone can setup and customize. Pretty rare in a modern FPS.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/04/28/brink-dedicated-server-faq/

 

[mb]

I'm super excited about this game! I preordered from Amazon. Free release day delivery with Prime, IMHO the best preorder pack of in-game items, and a few bucks cheaper than everywhere else, plus I used a $20 promo credit.

 

[gorcorps]

I'm super excited about this game! I preordered from Amazon. Free release day delivery with Prime, IMHO the best preorder pack of in-game items, and a few bucks cheaper than everywhere else, plus I used a $20 promo credit.

I can't check on it right now, but what are the pre-order bonuses on this?

 

[mb]

I can't check on it right now, but what are the pre-order bonuses on this?

Amazon $46.99:

Gamestop $49.99

Steam $49.99:

best buy 49.99:

• Unique Fallout Vault 101 body tattoo
• Exclusive Vault 101 (Security) and Fallout New Vegas Vault Boy (Resistance) customized skins for the CARB-9 SMG
• Exclusive Fallout Vault 101 (Security) and Fallout New Vegas Vault Boy (Resistance) T-shirts
• Exclusive Vault-Tec beanie cap (Security) and Fallout bandana (Resistance)

wal-mart $46.54 same pack as steam

 

[Wag]

Why do game publishers always release games on a Monday or Tuesday, and not Friday, for the weekend?

I assume it's because Tuesday is the same day other new media like Blu-Ray and DVDs get released, and it's just stuck (even though irrelevant with digital distribution).

 

[CVSiN]

Well I preordered mine today on Steam.. hope some of you guys are going to get it as well!
cant believe a AAA title like this is releasing and not much going on here about it.

 

[KaOTiK]

Well I preordered mine today on Steam.. hope some of you guys are going to get it as well!
cant believe a AAA title like this is releasing and not much going on here about it.

You should preorder it on Direct 2 Drive. They have it for on sale this weekend, 25% off the preorder, so it is $38. It is a steamworks game and has to be registered on Steam so doesn't matter where you buy it. I'd send an email to Steam asking them to cancel it.

 

[Phobic9]

This looks more like they dredged up a bunch of homeless people and washed out punk rockers, popped a few cans of paint, lined up some amateur tattoo artists, and a random assortment of narcotics, and threw the whole lot into a room-sized washer/dryer set to a spin cycle and a tumble-dry setting. Only they didn't add any water or detergent. Who actually wants that scum to be their in-game avatar? Seems quite counterproductive and, again, very undesirable / unappealing. You could put a million polygons into the character models and they'd still be repulsive because you made them douchebag rejects.
I hope we're nearing the bottom of this devolution in game atmosphere and character design and things rise up from here.

Ok this is hilarious.

 

[CVSiN]

thanks bro I appreciate it. don't care for D2D and FP though.. 10 dollars is worth it to just deal with Valve and Steam instead.

but glad that there are others getting it too. should be a blast! looks fun anyway.

 

[Karstein]

I'm tempted to buy it, but ultimately worried about it being consolized - even if it is developed by Splash Damage.

 

[CVSiN]

I'm tempted to buy it, but ultimately worried about it being consolized - even if it is developed by Splash Damage.

PC version was written on PC.. and has real dedicated servers that are fully customizable.

put your fears at rest.

 

[Karstein]

No footage of someone playing it on a KB+M at this stage is kinda concerning, though.

 

[CVSiN]

well these days they are mainly targeting the consoles for mass sales. the PC crowd buys no matter what for the most part. I wouldn't sweat it too much.

 

[greenhawk]

Why do game publishers always release games on a Monday or Tuesday, and not Friday, for the weekend?

Australia has a Thursday release normally. Rather a tuesday release myself. Here, even online orders do not get posted out from a store until that day (so out side a capital city, the mail means you get it the following monday).

Any steam purchase, while you have the cd key, steam does not allow activiation until early saturday morning (stuff the people that want to play friday night once they have had the cd key for over a day).

 

[greenhawk]

Watching some of the 'official' pre-release videos compared to the actual gameplay videos, reminds me of when the same thing happened with the original Crysis. What you get is not exactly what you thought it would be!

+1

definitly not worth buying a game based on pre-release videos that might as well be ingame cut sceans for all the relation it has to game play.

 

[simonizor]

I haven't really read into this game much until now. It sounds pretty awesome. It sounds like TF2 combined with ET. Every class having access to all of the weapons is great.