Brink Has "102 Quadrillion" Unique Characters

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Brink Has "102 Quadrillion" Unique Characters

That's a lot of guys; we're gonna need a lot of guns ...

Bethesda's upcoming <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Brink-Xbox-360/dp/B002DC8GKE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304709113&sr=8-1>Brink has received a lot of promotion about how customizable its characters are. However, Bethesda wants you to know that the game's characters are really customizable. The company's revealed that the game's different attributes can result in 102 quadrillion unique characters.

Bethesda recently made a blog post explaining just what contributed to this absurdly high number:

? Voice Packs: 8
? Number of ways to die: 45
? Individual weapon sounds: 4,500
? Lines of Dialogue: 26,000
? Minutes of Music: 60
? Weapon attachment combinations (not counting for Resistance variations or pre-order content): 4,963
? Unique Security Characters (not counting minor tint variations or body types): 4,530,240
? Unique Security Characters (not counting minor tint variations but including body types):13,590,720
? Unique Security Characters (including minor tint variations, but not body types)15,775,119,360,000,000
? Unique Security Characters (including minor tint variations and body types) 47,325,358,080,000,000
? Unique Resistance Characters (not counting minor tint variations or body types): 4,530,240
? Unique Resistance Characters (not counting minor tint variations but including body types):13,590,720
? Unique Resistance Characters (including minor tint variations, but not body types): 18,307,441,152,000,000
? Unique Resistance Characters (including minor tint variations and body types): 54,922,323,456,000,000
? Total Unique Characters (including minor tint variations and body types): 102,247,681,536,000,000

Brink is due out in stores next week, so you'll get to check out the customizable character options pretty soon. Keep an eye out for our official review in the near future.

Source: Bethesda


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[Jonny49]

...wow.

Can't say they didn't put the effort in.

 

[voetballeeuw]

I'm definitely looking forward to this game. Damn the fact I have AP tests now, though.

 

[dancinginfernal]

And people still complain about the lack of female characters.

EDIT: OH GOD SO MANY PEOPLE QUOTING ME

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

I like Brink because of the movement system and the team based gameplay, but the fact that it's character customization is that huge makes it even better.

 

[Nimcha]

And yet, none of them can be female. I must admit that I find it a little annoying that they chose to spend all of that time on making your character as cusomizable as possible without adding an option for boobs.

 

[ryai458]

Umm hey Escapist Brink is being made by Splash Damage and published by Bethseda, also 4 more days.

 

[Palademon]

102 Quadrillion unique characters...
And everyone will use the same 4...

 

[WanderingFool]

And people still complain about the lack of female characters.

Until females are added, they will contiune to complain. But this is a mute point for this thread, so lets bask in the glory thaqt is... wait, thats an actual number!?

 

[awesomeClaw]

I know i might get hit with low content, but screw it, there is only one way to adequately describe this:

Holy shit.

 

[Baldry]

...I think that's the biggest number I've ever seen...

 

[Twilight_guy]

I think that number is misleading. I'm sure a few orders of magnitude could be shaved off that if we remove small coloring variations and scale shifts. I still think throwing in a female model and textures wouldn't have been that hard.

 

[Dango]

And yet, none of them can be female. I must admit that I find it a little annoying that they chose to spend all of that time on making your character as cusomizable as possible without adding an option for boobs.

You've probably heard this already, but adding a female option would include re-doing every single last part of the character customization system, and re-doing all of the animations.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Damn, that's more guns then Borderlands!

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I'm so glad that I preordered this game. I'm looking forward to stomping some Resistance into a fine red paste.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

102 quadrillion... I can't even count that high. And from all that stuff, only 50 styles will actually be used and copied.

 

[Tulks]

And yet, none of them can be female. I must admit that I find it a little annoying that they chose to spend all of that time on making your character as cusomizable as possible without adding an option for boobs.

You've probably heard this already, but adding a female option would include re-doing every single last part of the character customization system, and re-doing all of the animations.

They couldn't've planned for that from the beginning?