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How The Ark Became A Warzone In Brink

You can tell these guys are bad because they are wearing masks and sunglasses.

Aug. 10 2010

Posted by: Matt

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Brink

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@Ahmad_Metallic said:
" Borderlands much ? "
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@MrKlorox said:
" Every single time I see a piece of Brink media, I just can't get passed how terrible the humanoids look. It's like a bad trip that I cannot come down from. "
Coming from someone with your user icon, I would think you'd like bad trips.
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They actually think they have a good story... it's just multiplayer maps with end cutscenes.

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@Wandrecanada said:
" @Landon said:
" @Falconboom said:
" @BionicMonster:   Well there's PortalFallout 3 if you want to I guess. Oh and the pyro in TF2 may possibly but probably not be female And aren't there female spartans? So possibly Halo Reach, idk I don't play Halo. And of course the Siren from Borderlands.  There you go! "
MIrrors Edge Perfect Dark Metroid Prime "
Wow not a single mention of Lost Planet 2 where there are a multitude of female character skins (although not nearly enough). "
I wanted to give him examples of good games.
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Everyone in this game has a horse face.

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All the characters in this game look like Secundo from Beyond Good and Evil    
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Al Gore warned us this would happen.

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Argh spring?  Come on now!  I want it now. :)   
 
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I'm stoked for this game and I don't know why!

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Global warming? Really? I thought we had gotten over that stuff by now. Perhaps next we will have a game about the dread Pig Flu.

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This better have a demo before it comes out.

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@S0ndor said:
"  They're acting like they invented the wheel here. I mean come on. Hungry freedom fighters vs. oppressive security forces in a post apocalyptic setting. Holy shit could it be anymore fucking cliché?  "
Did you just...completely ignore the whole plotline part? It's Freedom Fighters vs. Peacekeepers. I.E. good guys against good guys. Neither group is automatically morally in the wrong, which is why there are two playable factions. If anything, it's more like MAG, but with ideologies for the factions.
 
But if people are making posts like this, I guess they're not doing a very good job painting the security forces as a viable moral choice. So I can't be condescending, even though I am being condescending, which means that somehow I'm morally in the wrong.
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I actually don't mind the art style, I think it fits the color pallet well.
 
As for the gameplay, I hope it can stand on its own and keep people from going to the usual" Sprint, Stop, aim, shoot" tactics.

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@S0ndor said:
"  They're acting like they invented the wheel here.  "
Your words, not theirs.  I think the ideology that motivated the designers feel it's interesting enough to hype the game.  There's nothing wrong with that.  I enjoyed the video just hear out what the developers have to say about their game  It's exciting to see that they're excited, you can assume they care about the final product.
 
Faction vs Faction isn't revolutionary, but it's still an interesting setting.  I mostly care about the feel and flow of the game, and based on previous tech demonstrations Brink looks like it flows very well.  I look forward to this release.
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Looks awfully empty for a place thats 1000% over populated.

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I don't mind the characters being ugly
if you're that into good looking characters, the train to Final Fantasy is right there waiting for you :/
 
long as the handling, shooting is good, and the weapons, class and maps are balanced
would you really be that irritated cause your character's face looking like horse?
 
and even if you are, there're still sunglasses, facepaint and masks to cover that sithface up, right?

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@PK_Koopa said:
" This interests me, but I have to agree with some of the comments here.  With 50,000 people on the Arc, how comes theres no females? "
That's because they made the choice early on to have a robust customization system in place. Female avatars would have cut the amount of customization in half. I can seem them adding females as part of an expansion for like 10$
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looks good

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Beard guy seems WAY into this.

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Not sure about this yet. Originally it was being promoted as something like a Mirror's Edge/shooter hybrid, but this video makes it look more like Halo multiplayer instead. Hmm.
 
Stylized art looks interesting, though.

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@example1013 said:
" @S0ndor said:
"  They're acting like they invented the wheel here. I mean come on. Hungry freedom fighters vs. oppressive security forces in a post apocalyptic setting. Holy shit could it be anymore fucking cliché?  "
Did you just...completely ignore the whole plotline part? It's Freedom Fighters vs. Peacekeepers. I.E. good guys against good guys. Neither group is automatically morally in the wrong, which is why there are two playable factions. If anything, it's more like MAG, but with ideologies for the factions.  But if people are making posts like this, I guess they're not doing a very good job painting the security forces as a viable moral choice. So I can't be condescending, even though I am being condescending, which means that somehow I'm morally in the wrong. "
I know, but there's nothing new about that. People always do things because they think they are right and good. People being evil just for the sake of being evil is something that only happens in fiction. The most recent example is SC2, where Raynor is described as a terrorist and the dominion army is seen as an evil oppressive force, but in the end they all turn out to be morally good. 
 
So my point is that this plot is as old as mankind itself.
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@Shisnopi said:
" @PK_Koopa said:
" This interests me, but I have to agree with some of the comments here.  With 50,000 people on the Arc, how comes theres no females? "
That's because they made the choice early on to have a robust customization system in place. Female avatars would have cut the amount of customization in half. I can seem them adding females as part of an expansion for like 10$ "
I'm pretty sure he's asking how they justify it in the fiction, dude.
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I like the look of this game so far. Ill be keeping an eye out.

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I'm really really hyped for Brink, just from the look it has and this S.M.A.R.T. feature they have

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@BionicMonster said:
" @Alphiehyr:  name 5 FPS games with female playable characters. "
I got a cheap answer:  Metroid Prime 1, 2 and 3 and No One Lives Forever 1 and 2 :D (bonus game: borderlands)
 
your point is very valid though, there barely are any so using the absence of a female character as a reason not to buy a game could leave you playing only 2-3 games a year^^
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Man... will this game ever come out? It may not even come out until a while into 2011. This game was scheuled for next month! My hopes are high, clearly.

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Need a QL of this to make any sort of decision. Looks okay, though.  I'm not too interested in the "story" since this is fundamentally just a competitive shooter.  Balance issues would concern me more.  No one would like some of the complaints directed at MAG to appear here, as well.

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SMALL HEADS!

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@Irish87 said:
" Global warming? Really? I thought we had gotten over that stuff by now. Perhaps next we will have a game about the dread Pig Flu. "
Ignorance is bliss.
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@Redbullet685 said:
" This better have a demo before it comes out. "
for sure
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@Branthog: What the huge customization and artistic style ain't enough?Besides they have proved numerous times it is not some tacked on canned animations, the flow of the movement stays fluid.
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@S0ndor: They already said it is not that.Each side thinks they are fighting for a right cause.And god your one of those annoying people that pull one detail from somebodies mouth and makes dumb assumptions.They don't think they made the wheel, they made the dynamic objective wheel, which they did.
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@Agent47: Everybody always thinks they are fighting for the right cause in these scenarios. Like I said 5 months ago, cliché. You're obviously very excited for the game, which is perhaps why you took one of my very old comments and made a dumb assumption about me. I don't care, enjoy the game when it comes out.