The End of Genre With Brink

.@Soap said:

" .... a lot of shameless lying in this video. "

.... a lot of shameless lying in this video.

ugly models, pretentious marketing

If this game ends up being as good as it can be, and as polished as it can be within the time constraints, it may be the game of this decade; and it's only year one!

" @bobber205 said:

" Game looks sooo shitty. "

and you base this on what? "

Dear Richard Ham: coke is bad for you. Those nosebleeds you get when they turn of the camera are not a coincidence.

Mixing of genres generally just means everything in the game will be watered down and mediocre...
 
Also wtf is with their art style, its just... weird.  Its neither realistic nor cartoony but an odd mix of both that is kinda creepy.

I feel like people are getting prissy about this game for completely the wrong reasons. 
 
Also, I finally understand the nerdy voices british comedians make when I first heard the Game Director speak.

Oh... and does anybody else get a strong feeling of TF2/Borderlands?

...Evolution begins? Well if the 'R' didn't show up, I would be scared. If Humans ever evolved into these guys... I would be first to get out a gun and point it at myself.

" @chickenpotpi:    Agree.  Interesting art design but it's just going to be another (forgettable) FPS game.    I'm so bored of these developers just putting out FPS after FPS. "

" Game looks sooo shitty. "

AHH!!! Strechy necks.

"Bla-bla-bla-blaaaa" This looks pretty generic.

I hope this game turns out well, but I doubt it.

Cant believe you can pre-order already

You sure that they don't work for Lion Head?

All of these fucking voice actors better not have British accents, because it's going to remind me of the stupid intensity of this Paul Wedgwood dude and it's going to piss me off.

nice horse faces. lol

Game looks sooo shitty.

The hype out of all proportions (as neck-head proportions) is actually making the game look worse in a first impression when compared with a more careful consideration. 
 
That or the weird graphics,  I guess they went for a team fortress style, and then something happened.
 
Or both. 
 
That hype would claim for dissapointment if it wasn't so straight and obvious that I think most of the people will be ignoring it. About bugs and clumsy controls, that's something that remains to be seen, my feeling is not good on this one, but who knows...

And what we'll get is just another average freaking shooter.

They have their heads so far up their asses about this game, they gave them longer necks to reach deeper.  I'll wait to see/play it.

You know what they say....the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

Ever since I played UT's Assault mode I've wanted more multiplayer games with actual missions that aren't "kill everyone on the other team." Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was a nice step with their multiple objectives that are determined by your class but I'm hoping this will push that further with narrative driven objectives.

The movement and movement control in this game is enough revolutionary already that it makes this game different from all the others. If it will work out in practice, we'll have to wait and see, but from the videos it looks absolutely awesome.  
 
The randomly generated mission objectives are also quite rare in any game to this date, I'm not talking about 4-5 static objectives which light up randomly, but true random objectives like, take out this and this person, heal this and this guy and similar (seen in the videos) - well I've yet to see that in one game aside Brink.  Again how this will turn out I don't know, but it may be nice to get something to do aside the main objectives of the mission.   
 
As for the looks of the game, it's called art style and art direction.  The looks remind me that this is a  arcade shooter and that's a good thing, cause I wont expect one-bullet kills. On the other hand when I play MoH, CoD or similar games I always bitch that I need 50 bullets to get a "frag", considering that this game looks and strives to be a realistic portrait of army warfare.  
 
In my book, if you strive for a realistic projection of your game, make it behave realistic, that's what I liked about Rainbow Six from Red Storm. It looked realistic (at that time) and it had close-to realistic ballistics.  If I play a Formula 1 game, it better be a simulation or I'll bitch, if I play Mario Kart I'd expect mindless arcade fun and wont complain about realism, but that's just me.

" Peter Molyneux, I've found you a new marketing team. "

I don't expect them to break the mold. Simple as that. All the same, I'm gonna go in and play this game expecting fun single and multiplayer experiences - that's all I want out of this. As long as they can give me that - we're cool. 
 
As far as the looks, I actually REALLY like the art design. It's unique, it leaves and impact on you because it's so memorable. Borderlands was similarly ugly as far as the males went, and I loved the art design in that too. Funny thing is, I didn't give a damn about Borderlands until they changed the art style and then all of a sudden it was something I wanted to play. If Brink was generic FPS realism #50 I probably wouldn't care about it either.

Splash Damage has excellent FPS pedigree, and this game looks good.  Hype or not, there is no need to be as skeptical as some of you are.  

I guess i'm in the minority here, but I have really dug the art style and look of this game.  Kind of reminds me of a Killzone-2 / Team Fortress 2 hybrid.  I love these kinds of FPS games, so I'm looking forward to this. 
 
Though like everyone else, when a developer starts making outrageous claims about how their game will change the universe, I do take it all with a grain of salt. 
 
Come to think of it, When I think back to most of the revolutionary games, (Z:OoT, Half-Life 1 for example)  I don't recall developers making rediculous claims of changing the gaming world.  And most games that have claimed they'd change the way we look at games usually have fallen quite flat. 
 
Though, admittedly, as time goes on, it will get harder and harder to create these crazy "new" gameplay advances.

sweet

Damn developers talking  about the awesomeness of their game, gets apparently never old.

Looks like the old Contra-Strike only in new dress.

So i get to do what I did in Borderlands one year ago? How is this "new"?

They're obviously very confident about their product but so much of what they said just seems to good to be true. Fingers crossed though!

I really dislike the character design. It's off-putting enough that i won't buy the game. Also no female characters is just weird.

I'm growing more and more interested by this every time a new video is put up. My hopes may be way off but the way they've been talking about the "SMART" system makes me think of Mirrors Edge. It looks too clunky in the videos so here's to hoping..

There are still the archetypes.. with their weapons.. so I wonder what "genre" breaking they actually provide..

When they showed a guy writing something down on a pad, I instantly thought: "Wow, this game must be really complicated". Weird huh? I mean, he could have been writing: "Physics engine proving too difficult to program. Switching to 1995 physics engine. Re: Why gibbing is better than ragdoll. Also, that vole is loose in the office, remind staff that 9-to-5 gumboot month is ongoing."

So .... you get "unique" missions that advance the story. What is the story? Who are we? Um. Medic number 1, 024? Don't get the explanation. Is each mission unique because others are trying to stop you, ala no A.I.? Just uber players that make it a reoccurring Legendary mode. lol. Sounds interesting - can't wait to see the half ass, pushed back result. Oh wait it already has been. BTW, where is WET for my PC Bethesda?  ;)

the loftier the claims, the bigger my doubt. usually works.

It's the end of video games!!!