BRINK Interview w/ Lt. Lisa Foiles
Lt. Lisa Foiles Interviews Richard Ham, Creative Director from BRINK. Lisa had compared it to Waterworld, does the game deserve such a title or can Richard Redeem his own game!
Brink is an odd creature and deserves a short explanation before you pass judgement:
Brink is a first-person shooter built around its campaign story mode which is playable up to 8 players co-operative online, against bots, or in competitive multiplayer matches. Essentially blurring the lines between playing singleplayer and playing mulitplayer. In addition to “free-running mechanics” as seen in games like “Mirror’s Edge”, you play as a fully customizable character that can be upgraded with gear bought from experience points earned by completing various objectives throughout the campaign. After the campaign is over you can play through again in a completely different story of the opposing side in the civil war between BRINKS’s two factions, The “Resistance” and “Security”.
What do you guys think? Is BRINK a fresh take on how we should experience FPS’s? Do you think combining Free-Running with Shooter elements and customizable characters will be enough from Bethesda’s first shooter to grab your attention?
Joe and Lisa say Yay, Spoony says Nay. What do you think?
THREE WORDS team. fortress. two
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[...] too much here otherwise, just a couple of videos. The Angry Joe Show‘s “Lt. Lisa” snagged an interview at E3 with one of the creators of the upcoming video game Brink, and it sounds pretty [...]
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I’m very excited for this game
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Haha, Lisa seemed really into what he was saying. He was excited, she was excited, and I bet if she’d ask him to disclose some unreleased information he would have done it without much thought.
Bethesda games tend to be pretty good, but I bore of them quickly. Especially Fallout 3, which I was originally so excited for. So I’ll probably wait and see what friends think before hiring/purchasing it.
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Brink is definitely one I think is flying underneath the radar. It’s still quite a ways away, but I’m pretty stoked. Seems to be taking a lot of cues from Team Fortress, and you gotta love the customization.
Good interview, Lisa.
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His story made me think of Dougs “Surprise Hitler” from his Captain America review XD
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“HEIL HITLER!” *bang*
I pulled off something similar WAAAAY back when with the first Team Fortress for Quake. You remember that sort of thing
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Yaaa Joe’s boobs got a real interveiw…game looks awsome kinda like TF 2
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seemed starngely like the scar-h ( the gameplay shots.) but now im eexited because the developers exited.
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Actually, it was a slightly modified Vector submachine gun design. It looks like they changed the magazine placement into the grip.
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The vector is called the Kryss!!! God i hate all the mw2 noobs who think they know about guns. im not saying you are, im just saying i hate it when people call guns (especially that one) by their incorrect COD names. the gun was a Kross, which is clearly a Kryss with an o. they basically are (it seems) copying gun names and moving a letter around or changing it to a different one.
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I didn’t really care for this game, but the customization has changed my mind =) But really, a 2011 spring release? Last I heard the game was basically done and was suppose to be done by fall? Lame.
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Okay, here’s one for you. If this game is supposedly multiplayer AND single player, how does it end?
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That.. ladies and gentleman.. was an AWESOME interview.
I really like the game, an the dev talks as if it is the best thing happend to him an the videogames-era. Man can’t wait to play this one.
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i would normally be excited about a developer being excited.. but i got burned bad with borderlands so i’ll wait till its out and got info on it before i get excited
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Seems like the guy is enjoying the game very much, and thats a good sighn since he is the one who makes it. He also seem very excited about it, you know, REALY excited, not like other companies ,,Yea, were excited, blah blah blah” said in half-dead voice, here it SHOWS how much hes excited. If the creators are so happy with what they have created you know it has a little to none chance to screw up. Eather that or this guy is very good in persfasion. Eather way I’m VERY optimistic about this one.
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I just saw the episode of malcom in the middle Lisa was in saw her name in credits it was familar and now i know why
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i say, HELL YAY!!!
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What did someone just complain about it only having eight players? As a person with an interest in game design, I can tell you that for the type of game Brink is trying to be eight players is pretty freakin’ impressive. The way I see it is that from a design perspective the more players you have involved the more possibilities you have to account for-for instance in a purely single-player campaign you only have to account for the potential actions of the one player, you make it co-op now you have to make it work for two players, then so on and on. Now I’m not an MMO player so I haven’t really seen the ways those games manage to account for the actions of an entire community of players but I’d imagine a number of compromises have to be made here and there.
I’m really interested to see how Brink is going to work out and the anecdote given during the interview has me really intrigued. I’m also curious as to whether or not a purely single-player experience will hold up to what you’d get in multi-player.
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I finally remember where i know her from, she was on All That! Oh yeah, and good interview
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Only thing that sticks out to me with the character customization, was that there was no gender option. Why do the public relations folk always spout having amazing customization when you can’t even play as a female character? There are plenty of female gamers who enjoy shooters that this would be a great option for customization, but it’s hardly included for some reason.
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very interesting, i will definitely look into this one.
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Joe don’t give credit to publisher for games! They’re the ennemy, they’re the corporates, they’re the one that made Infinity Ward die! Instead give credit to the developpers, in this case Splash Damage, Bethesda makes good games like Fallout and The Elders Scrolls, but they aren’t the one making Brink, so they have no credit exept giving financial help to get even more money when the game will be released. Capitalism sucks, thats what the resistance is trying to show to us in Brink, no rich, no poor everyone equal that is communism.
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Comunism ain’t good,
just read a little history
but I agree with angry joe that corproate is bad
but without bethesdas help Splash damage could not make this game.
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For the Resistance! Equal water rations for everyone and no oppressive government!
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For those who wants to know more about the game visit http://www.brinkthegame.com they are realeasing the interviews they did with video game reviewers every weeks, they show every new map that they create, they show the character customizations, they have all the videos of their game ( of course ), they have a facebook and twitter page with the link on their website, etc. They’re really there to answer you’re question and it’s cool, finally a video compagny that listen to what the players have to say!
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Damn, Joe. In that drawing at the end of the video your neck is wider than your head. Holy shit.
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I’m happy you did that interview Joe, I asked it twice in your video’s comment and you did it
. Yes, I think a new era of FPS as come, an era that, again, gets the FPS genre even closer to reality. I was hoping since the first time I played a shooter that one day I would be able to do everything I can do in real life and this game makes a step forward to the future video games. I admire Splash Damage for their extraordinary initiative and I hope the SMART system will work like I think it will. Gamers deserve more than walking, sprinting, jumping and climbing over a little wall or a ladder, gamers deserve to to be able to move like in real life and to be able to do things that they wouldn’t do in real life like killing someone ( that’s what video games are made for doing whatever you wouldn’t do in real life ). This game will force every other FPS franchise ( Call Of Duty, Battlefield, etc. ) to innovate. We won’t be forced to buy the same games over and over with only optimized graphics. Brink will start a war in the video industry on who innovates the most and the one who will, will be the king of the video games. P.S.: Joe don’t forget to do a top 5 reasons why Brink will kick ass like I told you in my previous comment! P.P.S.: Brink was supposed to get released on Fall 2010, but was recently pushed back to spring 2011 and that made me ANGRY, but I thought about it and yes I’ll have to wait longer to play this game, but if they pushed it back that also means that they will put more work on the game making it even better so I feel less angry right now. Cya you’re awesome and I noticed that you were more angry in you’re interview with some producer at E3, awesome! And for everyone who thinks Spoony is cool, no he’s not! Join the Dark Side of the Force or be killed by Joe and his siths army with your ”cool” Spoony, you’ll also get cookies if you join us 
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Looks good. Disguising as your enemy isn’t entirely original though. Few games have done it, Team Fortress 2(great game) for example.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this one, the style of game and some good game modes(hopefully ctf will have some good maps) makes this seem very interesting.
Does anyone know if disguising in this game will allow you to disguise as classes, individual players or just a generic soldier with the enemies uniform?
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Why does Joe have the jaw-line of Robert Z’Dar in that drawing of Lisa and him saluting at the end? LOL
Very cool interview Lisa. The Pumpkinhead game ruined Spoony’s brain.
I for one am looking forward to this game.
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Because you touch yourself at night.
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While it is nice that they let the mentally challenged onto the internet, they really shouldn’t be allowed to post.
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How is this game going to work? “Blending single player and multiplayer”? Does that mean that the if you’re playing alone, you’ll basically be playing a multiplayer game with bots instead of people? If so, then Bethesda has already lost me. I play single player games to experience things that can only be done with scripted events, not because I want to hear an annoying twelve-year-old scream at me whenever I do anything.
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This!
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Brink seems like it could be a very successful game, but not one that I’m very likely to be interested in, personally. I don’t really have any opinion on the campaign/multipalyer hybrid design, other than that I feel like it won’t really blur the lines between single and multiplayer so much as make it feel like a multiplayer-only game similar to the PC exclusive titles in the Battlefield franchise, but with a story driving the action. Single player is there, but it’s just multiplayer with bots, so why bother with it unless you don’t like dying once in awhile.
As for the reason I’m not likely to play this game, it just doesn’t seem like the kind of gameplay I’m interested in. From what I’ve seen so far, the free-running and everything makes it feel like the evolution of run-and-gun bunny-hopping FPS gameplay. That style of gameplay does not appeal to me, hence why I can’t get into the competitive multiplayer in games like Halo or the more recent Call of Duty titles (Yes, I know bunny-hopping is absent from Call of Duty, but it’s still extremely run-and-gun oriented). I prefer my shooter gameplay to be more slow-moving and tactical. Rather than a team scattering immediately and sprinting around the map guns blazing, I prefer for the whole team to stick together, advance slowly, stay in cover, and have some type of strategy or plan of action. That’s just my personal preference though.
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Then buy Call Of Duty 2 or 5 and download the Realism Tactical Mod ( bullets kills you fast, it moves slowly, no run and gun allowed you have to use you’re iron sight, friendly-fire enabled and all the realism thing ) or if you feel like not paying for a game then download America’s Army 3 ( free game made in collaboration with the american army ) and be tactical in it too! Those are the best way to play as you described, I like both of the ideas since I play them when I get bored of run’n'gun and I go back to run’n'gun when I’m tired of tactical, it’s the circle of my video game experience. You could also play Operation Flashpoint or ArmA that are tactical games, but I never played those so I can’t tell you if they’re good.
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Like you said, the recent Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is actually a really good military shooter/simulation for slower paced tactical combat. It’s one of the more realistic games I’ve ever played. Though it is frustratingly difficult at times. Bullet wounds have to be healed before you bleed out, and in the midst of a frantic firefight it’s hard. Harder difficulties don’t change AI or anything, but rather simply remove more of the help the game gives you (like a flashing X when you shoot someone, or displays on your HUD)
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Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I’m definitely going to check those games out.
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Honestly I’m really psyched up for that game, It looks like it’s going to be really good and it will have far more customization options than say Modern Warfare.
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I’m waiting to see how the game turns out
PS. Also pretty cool story, it shows that devs are also people when they have stories like this one because I have quite few of them myself.
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Honestly I’m really psyched up for that game, It looks like it’s going to be really good and it will have far more customizastion options than say M
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For console its probably a bit different but not really on PC. Eight players? Seriously, only eight players for MP? Thats even worse than Modern Warfare 2!
Oh and Borderlands > Bulletstorm.
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It’s 8 v. 8. You can have 8 on your side, and 8 on theirs. In theory, you could play with 7 of your friends, against 8 bots, or 8 real individuals. So it’s not 8 total, but 8 per side.
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Did he say this experimental city was built in the year 2005? Oh yeah, we had those, I remember now.
I don’t know what to think about this game. The idea of singleplayer and mulitplayer being pretty much the same thing sounds interesting, but I get the feeling that playing this game solo will be like playing Battlefield 1942 on your own. Ability to customize your character is nothing special to me, sure it’s fun to change your shirt to look a bit different, but nobody’s going to look at your shoes, unless they’re bright yellow or pink. Customization is a nice addition to a game that is good without it.
I think in the end this will be just another shooter (I hope I’m wrong) , and I’m not saying that it won’t be fun to play. If I end up buying it, I will probably play as a short, light, flexible guy with a sniper rifle, that should help me get to the best sniping positions fast.
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Ok…I admit, I toyed with the idea of this game in my head for a while…but I thought Bulletstorm was going to be a better bet….now that I have seen your review, I think I have to re-evaluate my decision. Brink looks like a lot of fun, and I bet Joe is going to be getting it anyway. Here is hoping this turns out well.
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I was really looking forward to this game in September but now it’s been pushed back to Q1/2011. This game looks like it’ll fill that nice little spot in my gaming library between Borderlands and Modern Warfare. Modern-ish guns with customization options like silencers and scopes and clip sizes, while giving you that sort of Mad Max on a Floating City sort of feel.
I figure I’ll probably play Security forces, because I wanna play a cop, who stops people from committing crimes… with BULLETS! Hmm. Note to self: Build a Dirty Harry .44 when I get the game.
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I dunno, sounds really good. Hope it is amazing how it sounds. And that the body size changes will be fun and not annoying. As he said about being knocked down by strong winds if you choose agility… that worries me slightly, but I’m looking forward to see how its put together.
But he seemed very excited and I LOVE how he shared a person experience he had with the game.
Ill give it the benefit of doubt and say YAY
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He was joking! Your character wont be effect by winds if you choose the agile class that would be a really dumb design choice. LoL.
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okay, phew. Thank god.
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Getting to fly around would be pretty sweet though.
BTW: For the team clan, we’re going for Resistance, right?
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