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I noticed that Brink is available on Steam for 5 bucks this weekend and I was wondering if anyone who bought this, were they able to work out the bugs that people talked about initially?

I have dont play it, and wont be playing it.   Would play mw3 before I played brink.

That bad, huh?  ;D  Thanks for the feedback. I won't waste my 5 bucks then.

Well for $5 bucks might as well... never know a mod might come out or something that actually makes it good.

I dunno, I think it would be better buying a 5.00 lottery ticket vs this game.   There are no mod tools for it, and its a TF2 clone that even the tf2 people didnt like.  A turd is still a turd no matter the price or how much you polish it.

Heck if I was able to I would give my copy to you in steam, I will never play it again as I am sure Cyphis, Ronster and a few othrers would as well.

Good point.

LOL. :-)

weak ass game what a waste

Yes, a turd of a game, but I liked it better than TF2.  Of course, Dead Island was a bust.  BF3 was a bit of a bust for me and MW3 was a bust.  games this year just suck.  I am so ready for Star Wars The Old Republic to immerse myself into that so I can quit all the other games.  Although until that, I am immersed in Skyrim.

I do not see Dead Island as a bust its a fun game we have just not gotten back together to play it more since they fixed the coop code.

BF3 is not a bust!

I qualified it saying it was a bit of a bust for me.  I didn't implicate anyone else's opinion on it.

I agree with Jeff BF3 is so so for me, and MW3 is a bust but could be so much better if they just gave ability to rent ranked dedicated servers.   The game mods etc are fun.

Okay, so bottom line, not everyone was happy w/ Brink.  ;D

On a side note, and I may have to post this as a new thread, but I know most of you guys are pretty gung-ho on SWTOR, but I was a beta tester and wasn't really impressed.  In fact, their pre-release video trailers were actually a little deceptive as to the actual quality of the game.  The characters are like humanized versions of cartoon characters as far as their graphics go, and their interface was almost as if someone took WOW, crossed it with Fallen Earth, and turned it on its head.

If SWOTR was free to play, I would probably pay the initial $40 or $50 for the client and then play it online, but I won't drop $15 a month to waste my time w/ this game. A little disappointed.  :(

Have to disagree with you on SWTOR I think its a good game.   As for interface why change something that works.   WoW's interface is just perfect and other companies copy that.    Graphics are good, and you not going to see BF3 style graphics in an MMO the PC's, servers etc simply could not handle it.

Right now the people I know getting SWTOR are Denied, Ronster, Tiny_Elvis, Cyphis, Venus_Wong, Action, and myself.    There are others in Top Cats as well getting it.  I think we have like 15 people in our guild already before launch.

Maybe it was just the limited functionality of the beta version I tested, but it just didn't grab me, that's all.  Blame it on preference.  ;D

Yeah, the interface is like WoW, but backwards.  But so is every other MMORPG out there.  The thing I like about SWTOR is that it is heavily story based.  If you rush through and don't watch the video talk scenes, you miss half the game.  Also, group chatting in a sigle conversation is kind of cool.  you get group points for answering the same and it rolls to see who leads the conversation at that point.  I actually think that is pretty nifty.  It's like everyone gets their opinion and the loudest talker wins...kinda...LOL.

Now I will admit, playing the dark side is more fun than playing the light side.  Sorry Action.  But I did try the light side as well and there are some nice things about it.  But being a jedi Knight was not one of them.  Basically you are surrounded by a bunch of Paladins if you are an old D&D player you know how annoying they can be.   ;D

Graphics are better than WoW.  But umm, it's a video game, so all of them are cartoon like characters.  But it is better graphics than the cartoon show of Star Wars. 

My only complaint about SWTOR is the crafting system.  You have to send your companions out to get crafting materials and stuff, but you have to pay them to do it.  So each crafting "quest" you have to purchase.  They are definately going a different route on that one.  But I didn't play with it a ton, so I can't say a lot on it.

But I had a blast with the game.  And I will be one of the ones heavy into it.

Well there is not a dark/light "side" since you can go dark or light on either side. I do like the Smuggler class on the Republic though.  Have you tried him?

As for BF3, I still do not understand what you do not like about it.  You loved BF2 (and BF2142) and enjoyed BFBC2.  BF3 is very similar except much better graphics and game play. To me by far the best PC FPS on the market.  But, if you like to run around and shoot on your own like Blackops, no your not going to like BF3.  BF3 is very team or more specifically squad based and VERY realistic of a real battle. I just wonder if your video card is what is turning you off on the game.  I even have to play medium graphics on a GTX580 to get consistant 90-100FPS.  And if you go below lets say 50, you can get the one shot kill and not even know.  Though, with that said, the latest patch improved graphics and network lag quite a bit and I may try high or even ultra settings again.  Also there is actually a patch out today that improves even more.  And if you have a very high speed internet connection you can now tweak it.

I am not playing BF3 nor am I playing MW3.  Maybe i am just tired of the same games rehashed.  There needs to be something new out there for FPS'ers that doesn't remind me of the previous version.

The only game I am really playing right now is Skyrim. Fun game, but I miss playing and bad-mouthing off at others while playing.  I just need something more than what is out there right now.

The same exact reason I am not impressed w/ SWTOR. They weren't inventive. They weren't original. They weren't risky...except for the fact that they took a big risk designing such a mediocre second-rate game.  Everyone was just as gung-ho and pumped up about Start Trek Online and after the first three months it launched last Feb., it flopped.  And they are actually getting ready to move to the Free to Play model...at which time I will probably log on and play it  ;D. And as soon as SWOTR moves to the F2P model I will start playing that as well.  Star Trek's ground combat system makes much more sense, is more flexible, and easier to understand and use than my experience (granted beta test, but experience none-the-less) w/ SWOTR's. The bottom line, I'm just not into it. It didn't grab me.

I was going to hold off on sharing my thoughts about this whole thing, but since you guys continued to discuss it, I couldn't resist.  ;D