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You probably missed this and might enjoy it: http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/36690-Watch-Ed-Stern-Discusses-Story-in-Games-at-Rezzed#post454140[/QUOTE]
Actually I already downloaded it when I read badman’s post, but didn’t found the time to watch it. So I’m watching it now; thnx for the reminder:wink:
Liked what Ed said at minute 36:55. People don’t need much to fall for something, just little hints here and there. You don’t have to go super complex, or ueber realistic. In that regard, DB’s maps and characters are already enough to tell a story for something, that is, after all, a hardcore mp-fps game. BUT on the other hand there’s the fan in me who feels, it would be a bit of a “waste” to leave something with that much dramatic potential pretty much untouched.
I’d like to know/see more of DB’s London, the mercs and the CDA and their agenda. But to please everyone, that’d have to be completely optional ofc(aside from new maps naturally). It would also be a cheap way to expand and establish DB as some kind of brand(i.e. like Mas Effect and it’s N7 line). SD could sell background story together with production art; maybe using some kind of inhouse reader-program, that is cloud based, so that stuff wouldn’t end up as torrent files. Maybe that stuff could also be unlockable. Hardcore fps guys prolly wouldn’t care, but they wouldn’t necessarily care for all the cosmetic stuff either.
As I’ve also mentined above, I wanted Brink to be my game, wich I would devote most of my mp-time to, and the growing Ark was a great way to keep me and other players interested for years to come. Now London is quite a bit bigger than the good ol’ Ark, but maps just don’t grow like plants, they take their time and effort to be done; and since the usual gamer isn’t very patient and other new stuff comes out, literally on a daily basis, there needs to be something players can identify themselfs with. To exaggerate things a bit; I think it’d be awesome, if DB would get to be some kind of lifestyle(at least in the virtual world). You know, something so well established like CSB[/B], WoW, Mass Effect, Starcraft, or real life sports.
You know peeps all over the world run around with shirts of their favorite sports teams, I’d like to see this happen with video games too, especially with e-sport games(though it might confuse/irritate some people when they see you running around with a shirt, that has “Dirty Bomb” written all over itB[/B]). A shirt, like from a football player, with the name and style of a particular merc team and the name of your favorite merc on the back, that’d be quite cool.
B[/B]CS(especially 1.6) might be something, that came completely without any secondary stuff* of any description, but this game is also a living fossil, and I have my doubts if something that pure would still work today.
*then again, CS itself was the “secondary stuff” to Half Life, though not really expanding on Gordon’s universe.
B[/B]I know, that SD is already working on such shirts, I just wanted to expand a little on the idea of e-sport shirts. I think it’s kinda important, that some of them are more decent than others, so you can really wear them in public, even at work and without having people think you still live in the basement of your parent’s house(especially if you are an old geezer like myself:wink:). Again, just little hints here and there. There’s a time for hoodies full of art and times for polo shirts with a decent game logo on the chest pocket. I’d buy both ofc.
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