Brink Interview with Lead Designer Richard Ham

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo September 9th, 2009 at 8:28 PM

Our friends over at Colony of Gamers managed to steal Brink's Lead Designer, Richard Ham, for some candid questions about the upcoming 8 player co-op title. Richard was deeply involved with Fable 2 while at Lionhead, which are always responsible for a deep gameplay experience.

They CoG Boys chat about the lack of female characters, working with a smaller studio and the type of gameplay experience you can expect from Brink. With this and Borderlands there are some really solid Action/RPG Co-Op games coming soon.

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18 Total Reader Comments

mightbe at 03:54 PM on 9.9.2009

Anyone interested in the sexy voices herein will be glad to know that the first one talking is me and the other one questioning Mr. Ham is Jeremy.

smurphster at 04:00 PM on 9.9.2009

that interview started out kind of weird but very interesting. they sound like they're really into the game, that's good to hear.

roland at 04:14 PM on 9.9.2009

Okay, I can see some rational for their reasoning, but I still cry bs on cutting female player characters from the game. I'm probably a bit more sensitive to this because I live with two female gamers, but it's greatly appreciated when women can choose to play as their own sex, instead of being forced to play male characters.

smurphster at 04:21 PM on 9.9.2009

yeah, that seems kind of BS to me. i'd rather have fewer options for each gender than more options for one.

Mrxknown_JG at 04:40 PM on 9.9.2009

Uh...is this a good co-op game or will competitive MP be better than the co-op mode?

will disguise work in co-op?

BigBadBob113 at 04:41 PM on 9.9.2009

Yeah, that is silly. I dont understand why more games dont do this. I know a few women who play Resistance 2, but they cant play as female characters (at least in the co-op missions...they did eventually release DLC for female competitive mode players).

Sabre at 05:27 PM on 9.9.2009

Adding chicks is more then outfits. It needs new animations, models, sounds, ballence (it affects how easy a character is to see/hit.

In my more usual way. Stop complaining so you can get extra sex.

Also, what's wrong with touching wood?

What is this? Competative MP, they favoured online now the are pushing SP, what's going on?

Torg001 at 05:54 PM on 9.9.2009

The scenario he describes sounds like a Team Fortress fight to me. It will be interesting to hear about more features in the game.

SPBTooL at 06:28 PM on 9.9.2009

I've heard the same reason for only having one sex from another developer before.

I hope there is split screen.

Tasark at 09:42 PM on 9.9.2009

I call shenanigans on the female characters bit. come onnnn!

blakepro at 10:03 PM on 9.9.2009

Good interview!

Zonf86 at 11:40 PM on 9.9.2009

Split screen is something I am starting to want to see more and more in games. Just to be able to play with Biohzrd + Wife if anything else.

Etanos at 02:12 AM on 9.10.2009

Only so many games you can stuff a female character into when they feature armies or commando teams that would realisticly be mostly populated by males. On the other hand, if they all wore big, bulky police suits like on the picture, it wouldn't be too hard to tack on a female head onto it.

Syphous at 03:35 AM on 9.10.2009

I don't even care that they cut female characters, it's not like they would have changed the game at all.

mattism at 05:46 AM on 9.10.2009

Nice interview.

cave at 10:32 AM on 9.10.2009

Really good interview, I don't care about playing as a chick, but finding that he worked on the original Syphon Filter seriously made me a lot more interested. UK sounds like the spot for a game developer. The story rocked. Reminds me of the Elder Scrolls AI story of the paranoid King buying all the weapons.

Sabre at 10:49 AM on 9.10.2009

There was also the cases of NPCs buying all the shop stuff leaving the player with nothing, and people walking around with armoured hats on.

Psyclops at 01:24 PM on 9.10.2009

Resistance 2 was a game that I had some favorite co-op momments of all time. I don't expect this 8 player co-op to be AS good, but still excellent =">