So i was thinking, which story is canon to brink? You know how some games have a story but you can have choices? sometimes those choices don't affect the game to much, sometimes they affect it alot, such as altering the whole story, for example: In Star Wars: The force unlesahed 1 and 2 at the end you have a choice, the first one you can either kill mr.Darth vader or save the jedi guys being pwned by lightining force powa! if you choose to go after vader and kill him, in the end you get nearly killed and darth whats-his-face makes you into an assassin guy forced to do his bidding (i would like to have one of those), if you choose the 'good'/'light' choice to save the jedi you get killed but the jedi escape, which leads to them creating the rebellion.

Lucasarts declared the 'light'/'good' path canon, as in, it happened, and the dark/bad side choice did not happen even if you picked it, see what im getting at here?

As most of you know, both sides in Brink will have different storys that don't actually conflict with eachother, as in they are in a, different universe, you could say. As in, for example The resistance blow up the tower in the resistance story but in the security story it stays fine and the security blow up container city (as an example, not implying this actually happens).

So will there be a 'canon' story?

In my opinion, i do not think there will be a 'canon' story, and if there is no cannon story i think this will lead to a non direct sequel if there will be a sequel, as in there will not be Brink 2, instead something like bioshock infinite, as bioshock infinite does not have the same story 'universe' as bioshock 1 and 2.

If there is a canon story im betting on the resistance being canon.

What are your thoughts on this?

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Both and neither. They each are true in their own campaigns.

P.S.
It's "canon," not "cannon."

........shush......



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It is a first person shooter so the story is CANNON!

See what I did there...

Look! It's an owl! :spotted owl:

This. Whatever one you play is the canon one.

I will be playing through both

I'm guessing the endings will be non-conflicting enough that you can call BOTH canon.

Can't say 100% sure, because SD haven't told us the story, and probably won't, so we'll have to wait and see.

But that's my guess, and what I voted.

Yeah, that was stupid. This:

They may be using the "2 sides are fighting each other while a shadowy third party is the real enemy" plot device.

That's been discussed to no end. I honestly don't think SD will use it, but I would be a bit disappointed.

That's been discussed to no end. I honestly don't think SD will use it, but I would be a bit disappointed if they did.

They've managed to drop a few "subtle" hints that the Founders may be manipulating Security to an extent - but I'm pretty sure there's an undercurrent of a similar kind of deception in the Resistance with someone deceiving both sides - I doubt the forces at work on each side are going to be working together in any form of grand conspiracy though. Which will add a few extra options for interesting twists that will be less transparent and predictable.

I guess I agree that both campaigns are the canon one. But also both "What if"-Endings are the non-canon ones.


My second thought after "Is dis a wapunz sread?"

I was thinking that too about a year ago, that the founders were really controlling both sides in a effort to reduce the population back to 5,000 people or at least low enough that the ark can hold them all.


Also, the game will have voice recordings scatterd throught the levels, how do you guys think this will work? Will they tell the tale of a single person, like one man's life in container city while your playing as security, and vise verse on the resistance side? Or would it be something like bioshock? Or mabey it would lead to a larger story, i plan on finding all these voice recorders when brink is released, after spending days playing with character customozation and drolling over the game that is....

Funny how I can just recycle what I have in my copy-pasta:

Well that solves one problem, or two, because i saw a topic asking who chen is.....

Thanks

Yeah, that kind of story is predictable and I hope, not know, that SD would avoid doing that.

Other ideas that were probably thrown around during the story writing sessions

1. Aliens
2. The Ark is a truly a weapon
3. Predators
4. The Ark is some sort of testing facility or science experiment (which would be interesting... perhaps Aperture Science enjoys these things)
5. Aliens vs, The Predators

History is written by the victors.

I'd say each campaign is that sides view of the war, neither is really canon.

2 = The 'Halo' from the Halo series
4 = The 'vaults' from the fallout series

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Both. The world exists as you perceive it at any given time. If you think that what the Resistance is doing is the 100% truth, then they're 'canon'. If you prefer the Security's perspective, then they're 'canon'.

Please everyone knows Tapirs were behind it all. :spotted owl:

That's an actual intresting thought, Brink could be like a book, and when you play through the storys you are playing on how each side wrote their side of the story, like if a nation tried taking over the world and the other sides tried stopping them, that nation would write about how the other nations did wrong and were evil and such.

I know not what you mean good Dr. Rocktofen...

I'm curios to see what happens at the end of both campaigns. The one thing I am curious about is what is going on in the world outside of the Ark?

Will the outside world intervene? Would one country or futuristic alliance want it for its technology?

As long as the founders weren't aliens experimenting on humans for an ultimate weapon against the predators then the story should at least be decent.

You do know that the rest of the world was mostly or completely destroyed and coverd by a global flooding right? well, at least that is what the founders are saying, well the founders are saying they lost contact with the remaining land to be exact.

And no ships, planes etc. have been seen at all in about 20 years... That's a pretty big "nothing's moving" sign - unless there's some reason for people to avoid the Ark, or the area the Ark is in, due to some other reason.