The story isn't as involved as I'd hoped.


(Hubschrauber) #1

Look back on the Container City Gameplay. I really enjoyed the in game cutscene type deal where they were waiting to breach the container city. You know, when they were waiting for incoming fire before they opened fire. “Okay, THAT was incoming.”

I just thought that was awesome. They should have done this at parts throughout the whole game. I understand that this would become annoying online, but they could have then reworked it the way it is now for strictly online matches. The current story involvement and pre/post-game cutscenes would be great for online.

The single player just doesn’t feel very “story involved”. Kinda makes me feel disappointed, like they didn’t try as hard or like they just didn’t have time. Does anyone feel this way?

P.S. - What’s with your character just being kind of a background, anti-social character in the current cutscenes? Some cutscenes don’t even SHOW the character. Is he off having social anxiety attacks or something? Really makes you feel unimportant, when you’re supposed to be the hero!


(Dr.Ricktofen) #2

You are NOT supposed to be the hero in Brink. You are just anitger soldier, an uniqe soldier but a csoldier nonetheless.

And i was also saying i wanted the story to be like in that video.

Not sure why they cut it and just have these short cutscenes. Could have been ALOT better.


(JFarrell) #3

[QUOTE=Hubschrauber;303299]
P.S. - What’s with your character just being kind of a background, anti-social character in the current cutscenes? Some cutscenes don’t even SHOW the character. Is he off having social anxiety attacks or something? Really makes you feel unimportant, when you’re supposed to be the hero![/QUOTE]

On the contrary, SD stressed this point saying that being a hero would mean carrying a whole load on your back, while in Brink you’re just another fighter for either faction.


(system) #4

Brink has a story? Huh!


(Hubschrauber) #5

[QUOTE=Dr.Ricktofen;303308]You are NOT supposed to be the hero in Brink. You are just anitger soldier, an uniqe soldier but a csoldier nonetheless.

And i was also saying i wanted the story to be like in that video.

Not sure why they cut it and just have these short cutscenes. Could have been ALOT better.[/QUOTE]

Someone in this forum was saying that Wedgwood stated that “The weak bots on your time vs the strong bots on the other team is supposed to make it to where you have to fight harder and do more, making you feel like the hero.”, but I’m now thinking that was just a convenient excuse for ol’ Paul.

and the reason why I think they didn’t do the story like that has mostly to do with time constraints. They probably found a problem they hadn’t noticed before, realized they were gonna be pressed for time while fixing that issue, and had to make a cut somewhere so they chose the in-game story to be the cut. They could’ve easily delayed it, I sure wouldn’t have minded if I knew we were going to get a mess of problems on release.


(Dr.Ricktofen) #6

If they delayed it then Brink would get coverd up by the other games coming out soon.

I don’t belive that because Brink has a strong fan base and plenty of people would have bought it. I think releasing it early and not delaying it as they needed was a poor decision, i would have waited another month or so.

Now that they released it, with quite a few problens and not as amazing as we were all hoping for, made a number of people leave.