New Brink Dev Dairy

One game I am very interested in playing myself this year is Brink. It just looks like a lot of love has and still is being put into the title which is great to see.

Senior Game Designer Ed Stern has wrote a brand new dev dairy on the Bethesda Blog were he talks about the games environment and it’s surroundings. One of my favourite parts is this:

Of course, one of the main stories the environment had to tell was who our factions are and what they are fighting about. We could have made it Hero Cops vs. Evil Terrorists, or Hero Freedom Fighters vs. Evil Stormtroopers, but it seemed much more interesting to let players make their own mind up about what’s taking place on the Ark. In the real world very few people agree entirely on what’s going on, who’s to blame and what should be done about it. Man is not a rational creature, but rationalizing. We come up with reasons why we’re right. So we decided to make the game world as various as the real world and let our factions be right (at least in their own opinion) and let the player decide what side they take

Source: Bethesda Blog