http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/h8zh1/brink_for_pc_runs_great_plays_well_online_is_a/

It seems the PC community loves this game, and reviewers only took console versions into consideration while playing against bots. LOL.

Buy this game, it's really fun and it's amazing how they removed the K:D rating.

Everyone has their own opinion I guess. It was a pretty disheartening review but in the end I watched hours of live streaming and I couldn't be more excited for the european release tonight! No sleep for me.

II think all the bad reviews have been generated due to over-hype. I mean what where people expecting from Brink? apart from a solid, entertaining and improved QW:ET with SMART! (I personally loved QW:ET) These games have never had a fantastic campaign... it's all about the online pew pew.

I'll pass.

I disagree with basically every review they put out so who knows, I might like this game.

I really don't understand why the focused so much on the singleplayer of what seems so obviously a multiplayer game. Though, I guess a lot of their press talked about the SP portion and the reviewers need to consider the entire package.

My buddy purchased the game on PC not reading any reviews and not really hyped or anything about it, he watched a few trailers and such last week and bought it. I asked him if he liked it. He said its ok , but not great. It will depend on how the mainstream will take to it I guess.

" Buy this game, it's really fun and it's amazing how they removed the K:D rating. "

I often disagree with their reviews, but I'm not sure where I stand with Brink.

 @papuccino1: The publisher sent it to them on the 360. No one but occasional reviewers are playing pre-street date, so bots are what you end up with a lot of the time. Why is that so tough for people to understand? Jeff himself on Twitter said the PC version was a better game after spending a little bit of time with it, but if the publisher doesn't send that to you, I'm not really sure how anyone was supposed to know that, or if it would have changed the review all that drastically.

Assuming I didn't have the awful 4xxx series gridding issue, I'd completely agree. I've enjoyed most of the campaign stuff despite the ugly. 

I'll buy it during a huge Steam sale. I'm not paying full price for this game.

NEIN

I think it's really funny that Brink for PS3 has the best reviews out there. It's 78 on metacritic, with PC at 74 and 360 at 69.
PSN is still down afaik.

But Jeff said it was a piece of shit game.

Looks like a situation where the PC version will likely gather a greater audience that may keep that game alive.  Hearing about dedicated servers on the PC version and seamless netcode from that review makes it sound like they were developing for PC and porting over to consoles, only to mess up a lot of it throughout the process. 

However the two complaints that are valid regardless of the platform are the dumb AI (at least true for any characters in the early levels I have heard) and that $60 is understandably quite a bit much for what looks like a multiplayer component to what should feel like a bigger game.

Is that why ars technica refused to review it? Not because it was broken but because it's so fun? Right...

 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/why-were-not-review-brink-and-why-you-shouldnt-buy-it-yet.ars 

The Witcher 2 > Brink

Everyone has their opinions. Speaking of opinions, here are other opinions from other VG reviewers:
Source: of course Wikipedia
 

Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	D
Eurogamer	8/10
GameSpot	6/10
GameSpy
GamesRadar	8/10
IGN	6/10

" Is that why ars technica refused to review it? Not because it was broken but because it's so fun? Right...

 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/why-were-not-review-brink-and-why-you-shouldnt-buy-it-yet.ars  "

Most game reviewers don't really like online multiplayer. They generally don't have enough time to invest in it, etc.

Brink looked interesting, but if it actually comes down to the value proposition I might have to pass or rent it.

Also: PSN is down so I will wait until that get's sorted out.

For me Brink is just a great disappointment.
 
 

" The Witcher 2 > Brink "

" But Jeff said it was a piece of shit game. "

There are better games coming out this month.

I haven't bought this game(but I'm not liking what I've seen so far) but I imagine this game being at least 10 times better on PC than on a console.

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

" But Jeff said it was a piece of shit game. "

And at this point it is!

From what I saw in the quick look, it looked incredibly boring.

I already bought Shadowrun once...

in all honesty, once i saw the map design and how it doesn't encourage the use of the SMART system at all, I cancelled my preorder. 

It's an okay game. It is definitely not able to live up to the hype they put out for it. It really really doesn't warrant the dollars that it cost to purchase the game. Probably, this will be one of those division lines in the gaming world.

I have disagreed with plenty of their reviews but I agree with the majority. Jeff stated his review was for the Xbox 360 version.

" I already bought Shadowrun once... "

" From what I saw in the quick look, it looked incredibly boring. "

I'm pretty sure a lot of people in the PC community are trying to rationalize their bad purchase because they pre-ordered at full price well in advance of any reviews.

I "disagreed" with Mercs 2, Brutal Legend, Dante's Inferno... it doesn't really matter though.

I played this game for a couple hours, felt terrible in every respect. I felt like I was playing assault mode on the original unreal tournament.

This game is NOT worth 60 bucks by any stretch of the imagination

So I can either get Brink and hope that it is actually better than every review says it is or I could just wait a week and play the hell out of LA Norie? Pass

PC version is living up to the hype and hopefully a nice chunk of the  bugs will be knocked out, especially before PSN is  back up.

This isn't everyone's cup of tea. My friend hated it because he couldn't get headshots  or OHK with grenades. I told that was implemented on purpose and give the game a little more time before he sells it. Besides the lag issues he's grown to like the game some what and probably won't be selling it right away.

I think they marketed the game wrong. People going in thinking CoD with Parkour will be sorely disappointed. Brink tries to be the "Alternative FPS" for this generation.

I disagree with buying and using consoles, it doesn't mean people wont still buy and use consoles.

Kinda feel like maybe this should have been PC only.

It might be good if you have an Nvidia card, but last I checked it didn't fucking run at all on ATI cards.

" @JasonR86 said:

" I already bought Shadowrun once... "

Shadowrun was an alright game, you take that back motherfucker "

Have you played the part where the game drops you out of single player challenges because their servers can't keep up?

I totally agree with the Topic Creator, this game is good on PC. Glad that one of the 5 members of GB made them all hate it because of a review of the console version. Also was shot down for TNT this week because of Jeff's(one person's) review of the game.

But hey! it's the internet! Weeeee

I totally agree with the Topic Creator, this game is good on PC. Glad that one of the 5 members of GB made them all hate it because of a review of the console version. Also was shot down for TNT this week because of Jeff's(one person's) review of the game.

But hey! it's the internet! Weeeee