Bulletstorm Dev Explains the Art of the Exploding Red Barrel

[GeorgW]

It's nice that they're trying to be original, but just changing the paint job won't make it original. This just comes across as lazy and stupid IMO.

 

[King_Julian]

That article is all bs. red barrels are red because red a colour associated with DANGER!

Why make a barrel any other colour?

And another thing i dont get is that people ignored the green barrels? That has to be lies because if i was playing a new game and i saw a barrel that was green id be like wow i wonder what happens if i shoot it!

 

[teebeeohh]

don't use exploding barrels, make EVERYTHING explosive

 

[teh_Canape]

words and shit

you're right, but...

can't I play smartass at least once? =P

but yeah, I always noticed the green thing on them, rather than the actual barrels, for some reason

 

[Lucifer dern]

I got to say it, does anyone really care? I mean sure red exploding barrels are cleashey. but you know whats more cleashey, exploding barrels. The fact there red is just cos red equals danger...its like if they exploded and where green I'd expect them to be poison, its just the way colours read.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Nitro Boxes from Crash Bandicoot were scarier...and they were green

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Doom had green barrels.

My thoughts exactly. Or rather the barrels were of a metal colour but they were filled with green toxic waste that exploded when fired upon.

 

[USSR]

Crash Bandicoot games had green crates that exploded-

That is literally the first the that came to mind.
Glad to see someone remembers the nitro..

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Yeah, stupid clichés! Either do this:

don't use exploding barrels, make EVERYTHING explosive

OR

make the barrels grow legs & arms and then run at you with a knife!

 

[Dexiro]

You can have green exploding barrels, you just have to do it right! It worked for crash bandicoot.

I like the idea that different coloured barrels do different things though. Like red could be explosive, green could be toxic, orange could be napalm.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Silly developers. Barrel color doesn't matter. Quake 2 had gray barrels, we all expected them to explode.

Simple rule: Barrels explode, crates don't.

 

[Kojiro ftt]

"We made a stab at trying something different, instead of going with the cliché."

The ironic thing here is that we're talking about exploding barrels, itself a video game cliche (one of the oldest). If they really wanted to try something different, they would have barrels that don't explode. Or, heaven forbid, no barrels at all.

 

[Rad Party God]

Silly developers. Barrel color doesn't matter. Quake 2 had gray barrels, we all expected them to explode.

Simple rule: Barrels explode, crates don't.

In fact, Quake 2 also had explosive crates.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Silly developers. Barrel color doesn't matter. Quake 2 had gray barrels, we all expected them to explode.

Simple rule: Barrels explode, crates don't.

In fact, Quake 2 also had explosive crates.

You're right, the dark gray ones with yellow trim (iirc), completely forgot.

Well damn.... what the hell doesn't explode then.

 

[Bob_F_It]

Silly developers. Barrel color doesn't matter. Quake 2 had gray barrels, we all expected them to explode.

Simple rule: Barrels explode, crates don't.

In fact, Quake 2 also had explosive crates.

You're right, the dark gray ones with yellow trim (iirc), completely forgot.

Well damn.... what the hell doesn't explode then.

Brown barrels. The brown barrels in Half-Life 2 just bounce off what you throw them at, because they're filled with... poo?

But to address the topic, it's a wheel that wouldn't be appriciated if it were re-invented. Split/Second had the red barrels explode (more violently); it's what you expect.

 

[mjc0961]

words and shit

you're right, but...

can't I play smartass at least once? =P

but yeah, I always noticed the green thing on them, rather than the actual barrels, for some reason

Well it's a bit hard to tell if you're just playing smartass or not. Plus I've played Doom so much that my brain instantly goes "THAT'S NOT RIGHT" and feels the need to get things correct.

 

[LordMithril]

Sure other games have other exploding thingy's with other colors.
But If i check the vid's of Bulletstorm I see a very very fast paced action game.
If they make the barrels green I would probably miss half of them purely because I didn't get a good look.

All the games you guys mention are much slower paced.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

"We made a stab at trying something different, instead of going with the cliché."

The ironic thing here is that we're talking about exploding barrels, itself a video game cliche (one of the oldest). If they really wanted to try something different, they would have barrels that don't explode. Or, heaven forbid, no barrels at all.

Fortunately they don't want to try something new, they just want to distill blowing stuff up and shooting people into it's purest form, and I salute them!

 

[teh_Canape]

Well it's a bit hard to tell if you're just playing smartass or not. Plus I've played Doom so much that my brain instantly goes "THAT'S NOT RIGHT" and feels the need to get things correct.

I know, I was actually trying to play smartass while trying to sound serious, usually known as "trolling", but I'm not really fond of that word XD

and yeah, I know the feeling you're saying, which made to me a bit difficult my first time on Doom 3

yet I loved the fuck out of it ^-^

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Silly developers. Barrel color doesn't matter. Quake 2 had gray barrels, we all expected them to explode.

Simple rule: Barrels explode, crates don't.

In fact, Quake 2 also had explosive crates.

You're right, the dark gray ones with yellow trim (iirc), completely forgot.

Well damn.... what the hell doesn't explode then.

Brown barrels. The brown barrels in Half-Life 2 just bounce off what you throw them at, because they're filled with... poo?

But to address the topic, it's a wheel that wouldn't be appriciated if it were re-invented. Split/Second had the red barrels explode (more violently); it's what you expect.

Ugh... I HATED those barrels in HL2, they forced you to use them for all those lame ass physics "puzzles", and they'd be bouncing all over the place. Hated that damn game, gah.