Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

[Coldgrip]

Yeah, the lore book is no help there either. In the book, Holiday is listed as an assassin whose specialty is vehicle-based assassinations. What that means is anyone's guess and it ends up raising more questions like:

You know what? This could of been a cool idea. It sounds like something Suda51 or Platinum would make a game about or base a character around.

But considering it's John here, there was no chance of anything good being done with it.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

The more I hear about Rev60's lore, the more ridiculous the designs seem. It's trying so hard to be serious, but nothing about it makes sense, least of all ol' scrotehair.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I used this bloke's videos to go through and see exactly what the special edition adds that makes it worth five bucks. There are exactly two new scenes.
This one, where Holiday examines dead catgirls and asks Amelia about the station:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=_-SDo5B02NU;m=23;s=35
That one lasts about 3 minutes.

The second is this one where Amelia fights Crimson and we have the "hilarious" sexualised outfits joke.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=IimTXwaqk3U;m=30;s=57
That's roughly 2 minutes long.

Unless I missed anything, the DLC costs a dollar per minute of cutscene.

I know I'm late to the party, but: Dat. Neck.

That's some Ratboy Genuis shit right there.

Minuete briefly explains it during a dialogue option. If I can recall, it has something to do with her altered DNA, a genetic mutation, as part of a Chessboard experiment. I could be wrong, but that's all I can remember.

I'd be more interested in what that shit actually is suppoed to do. There is never a clear instance of her using to any effect. I assume it's supposed to giver her like super reflexes or something, but the moments where she uses it don't highlight that at all.

If I remember correctly, they did try to claim it was hard sci-fi.
Edit:
Okay, I didn't remember it quite right, but here's what I was referring to:

Spoiler: Dripping with science

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The idea behind it all isn't that bad, but the overall designs just suck ass.
The "HMS Dragondildo" looks idiotic with those tribals all over the hull and the ship's shape doesn't look stable (as in: it looks like it wants to snap in two at the "waist") and the engines are obviously air breathing (so what are they doing in a vacuum).
Similar with the ship in the beginning that Holiday jumps onto shortly before her dramatic face reveal... Yeah, by making it point it's supposed to look intimidating, but just like the HMS Dragon Dildo, it looks too cluttered. In the end, both designs lack a distinc silhouette, it#s just a jumbled mess of polygons sticking out in all directons.

What does Holiday riding a motorcycle say about her as a character?

She's an assassin and specialized in vehicular combat... whatever the fuck that means.
However the fuck that motorcycle helps her do that.
If it was a floating speeder like in Star Wars it might make sense, but it's just a gimmick that is never even used in any wa within the gameplay.
Even 3DO games like Batman or Demolition Man had segments where you drove a car and had to evade traffic... that would have been a huge opportunity for compelling gameplay. Hell, even a "fulfill QTE to evade something" during a cutscene would have been a step up.

But nope. No such gameplay in this "game".

Putting in the effort of making a Rev60-clone with actually good writing and fun gameplay would be too much of a hassle, but to think how much money Johnny Boy had at his disposal and he still didn't manage to churn out a game with -y'know- gameplay... when you take just a couple of aspects from Rev60 and invest 30 seconds of thought, you could actually make this game worthwhile.
For instance a driving sequence with the motorcycle or even a railshooter passage (would this work with touchscreen input on an Apple device? Assume so).

 

[AlanRickmanIsDead]

in the effort of making a Rev60-clone with actually good writing and fun gameplay would be too much of a hassle, but to think how much money Johnny Boy had at his disposal and he still didn't manage to churn out a game with -y'know- gameplay... when you take just a couple of aspects from Rev60 and invest 30 seconds of thought, you could actually make this game worthwhile.
For instance a driving sequence with the motorcycle or even a railshooter passage (would this work with touchscreen input on an Apple device? Assume so).

Fuck that, we need an official Deagle Nation game.
Only Jace can defeat John Walker Wu-Flynt, the gender pretender menace.

 

[Rou]

I know I'm late to the party, but: Dat. Neck.
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That's some Ratboy Genuis shit right there.

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I'd be more interested in what that shit actually is suppoed to do. There is never a clear instance of her using to any effect. I assume it's supposed to giver her like super reflexes or something, but the moments where she uses it don't highlight that at all.

The idea behind it all isn't that bad, but the overall designs just suck ass.
The "HMS Dragondildo" looks idiotic with those tribals all over the hull and the ship's shape doesn't look stable (as in: it looks like it wants to snap in two at the "waist") and the engines are obviously air breathing (so what are they doing in a vacuum).
Similar with the ship in the beginning that Holiday jumps onto shortly before her dramatic face reveal... Yeah, by making it point it's supposed to look intimidating, but just like the HMS Dragon Dildo, it looks too cluttered. In the end, both designs lack a distinc silhouette, it#s just a jumbled mess of polygons sticking out in all directons.

She's an assassin and specialized in vehicular combat... whatever the fuck that means.
However the fuck that motorcycle helps her do that.
If it was a floating speeder like in Star Wars it might make sense, but it's just a gimmick that is never even used in any wa within the gameplay.
Even 3DO games like Batman or Demolition Man had segments where you drove a car and had to evade traffic... that would have been a huge opportunity for compelling gameplay. Hell, even a "fulfill QTE to evade something" during a cutscene would have been a step up.

But nope. No such gameplay in this "game".

Putting in the effort of making a Rev60-clone with actually good writing and fun gameplay would be too much of a hassle, but to think how much money Johnny Boy had at his disposal and he still didn't manage to churn out a game with -y'know- gameplay... when you take just a couple of aspects from Rev60 and invest 30 seconds of thought, you could actually make this game worthwhile.
For instance a driving sequence with the motorcycle or even a railshooter passage (would this work with touchscreen input on an Apple device? Assume so).

 

[Count groudon]

Yeah, the lore book is no help there either. In the book, Holiday is listed as an assassin whose specialty is vehicle-based assassinations. What that means is anyone's guess and it ends up raising more questions like:

- Why did Holiday specialize in something so niche? Why not poison or a gun?

- Why did Holiday choose to focus on a motorcycle rather than a spaceship? Actually, if she's specialized in vehicle operations, why isn't she the pilot? Can she even pilot a ship or is it just motorcycles she knows anything about?

- Why is Holiday on the mission at all?

- What is the usefulness of an assassin who specializes vehicles? Seems like it's a lot harder to be covert with a vehicle than, say, a knife.

- Seriously, what does it even mean to specialize in vehicle assassinations? Does that mean she runs people over?

I think that couple minutes of thought is more than what Brianna gave to Holiday as a character in the entirety of Rev60's development cycle.

Another question I'd love to ask: If Holiday is supposed to be a widely-known assassain, why is everything about her so loud and obnoxious? When people usually think about assassains, they think of an intimidating professional killer that has very few obvious traceable characteristics, and goes out of their way to stay concealed and get shit done in the most discreet and efficient way possible. Holiday on the other hand makes zero attempts to keep things discreet, seems to go out of her way to make herself as noticeable as possible like wearing shockingly bright colors and giving herself a face tattoo, and prefers to move around on a motorcycle in a very cramped space and fights using only a dinky pistol and her bare hands.

Compare her to somebody like agent 47 or Zero from Borderlands, who are both characters that are easily recognizable as stone cold killers, and you'll notice there's really no similarities to any of them. My guess is Wu heard about assassains somewhere and thought it sounded cool so she decided to call one of her OCs an assassain to make her seem more interesting in place of giving her an actual personality.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Brianna chose a motorcycle because I'm pretty sure she's a Milla Jovovich fan (just like Rika) and saw the Resident Evil movies where they give the main character a motorcycle out of nowhere to let you know she's a bad ass. She's inspired by already lazy writing.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

Another question I'd love to ask: If Holiday is supposed to be a widely-known assassain, why is everything about her so loud and obnoxious? When people usually think about assassains, they think of an intimidating professional killer that has very few obvious traceable characteristics, and goes out of their way to stay concealed and get shit done in the most discreet and efficient way possible. Holiday on the other hand makes zero attempts to keep things discreet, seems to go out of her way to make herself as noticeable as possible like wearing shockingly bright colors and giving herself a face tattoo, and prefers to move around on a motorcycle in a very cramped space and fights using only a dinky pistol and her bare hands.

Compare her to somebody like agent 47 or Zero from Borderlands, who are both characters that are easily recognizable as stone cold killers, and you'll notice there's really no similarities to any of them. My guess is Wu heard about assassains somewhere and thought it sounded cool so she decided to call one of her OCs an assassain to make her seem more interesting in place of giving her an actual personality.

Because I hate myself, I reread the plot of this game. I now have even more questions but whatever, we're on a roll dissecting Holiday so let's stick with it.

There's a lot that can be asked of Holiday's characterization or lack thereof in the game, but I think the biggest question is this: why is Holiday on this mission? The mission is all about infiltration and hacking a base. That's not at all a part of the assassin MO of "find and eliminate a target". Wouldn't the entire mission be better handled by a spy? Or, if you are expecting as much resistance as they get, why not get some sort of supersoldier? What does Holiday bring to the table, especially since she never seems to use assassin skills (sorry Wu, being able to shoot a gun and do flippy kicks doesn't make your character an assassin). Other than Brianna thinking "assassin" sounds edgier than "spy", I don't see any reason why Holiday would be one.

 

[Count groudon]

Because I hate myself, I reread the plot of this game. I now have even more questions but whatever, we're on a roll dissecting Holiday so let's stick with it.

There's a lot that can be asked of Holiday's characterization or lack thereof in the game, but I think the biggest question is this: why is Holiday on this mission? The mission is all about infiltration and hacking a base. That's not at all a part of the assassin MO of "find and eliminate a target". Wouldn't the entire mission be better handled by a spy? Or, if you are expecting as much resistance as they get, why not get some sort of supersoldier? What does Holiday bring to the table, especially since she never seems to use assassin skills (sorry Wu, being able to shoot a gun and do flippy kicks doesn't make your character an assassin). Other than Brianna thinking "assassin" sounds edgier than "spy", I don't see any reason why Holiday would be one.

There's really no explanation for why any of the main 4 characters are on this mission. I mean Min seems somewhat dedicated to the cause but we have no idea why and she lacks any useful function beyond yelling at people about the mission, Amelia seems to be the one who cares the most about the other team members and she's supposed to be the techie one but there's no explanation for why she seems so fond of her bitchy teammates and while she's arguably the most competent member of the team aside from hacking into a few door locks she really doesn't seem to do much else, and finally Val is supposedly some badass cyborg ace pilot that's so skilled she can maneuver through just about anything but in game she never so much as touches the controls of any vehicle and the only time she's not wandering around staring into blank space like a spastic is when she's getting her shit handed to her on a silver platter by literally everything that sees her.


Wu goes on and on about them being so cool and amazing, but throughout the game they do literally nothing productive and mostly just fight with each other over the most insignificant shit while things fall apart around them. None of them have a functional purpose and there's literally no reason for them to be on this mission, and there's no reason to care about them other than the fact that John wants you to.

 

[The Flynt's Stones]

How was her childhood? Who were her parents? Why does she keep her hair like that? Why specialize in vehicular assassinations?

Childhood was troubled. Parents were tough conservative types that didn't support her, although they did give her $200,000 to go to vehicular assassin college for 20 years. Her hair is like that due to snide remarks by haters about 'ballbags' literally going over her head. Specialisation in vehicular assassinations because it's such a vague, made up, impossible to verify vocation that, unlike every other job John has claimed to have, which can be demonstrably obliterated in seconds, this one is more robust to scrutiny.

Oh, sorry, we were talking about Holiday. By the way, John deliberately had his scrotum and testicles surgically removed and his penis inverted.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Oh man, I had completely forgotten about this


People give her a lot of flak about this one, but I don't think it's really that big a deal. I mean, the Death Star was scientific nonsense on pretty much every single level, and it didn't take away from "Star Wars". It's just an excuse to give the heroes something urgent to do in space. If Rev60 actually had good writing or characters, it'd be fine - despite all the talk of nanotech, the game is not hard sci-fi in any way.

Lots of stuff in science fiction, especially in films, is scientific nonsense based on our current understanding of science. But audiences will suspend their disbelief because the film's universe is obviously populated by humans and aliens with knowledge far in advance of our own. Death Star? No problem for a Sith lord with a Ph.D. in physics.

It's another matter entirely when your entire plot is based on a violation of Newton's first law of motion, physics so basic that it's taught in middle school. When a story opens with "The space station, its maneuvering systems disabled, eventually drifted to a stop over China . . ." you know the writer is a lazy dumb-ass and that what follows is going to be USDA select-grade crap.

 

[Norvic]

If we're nitpicking the plot, why is it that none of them ever question that their mission is to stop N313 from "drifting" over China thus triggering a nuclear war, and the way that they're supposed to achieve this is by killing a bunch of Chinese guys and stealing one of their spaceships?

Doesn't America have any spaceships of their own and, if not, how the hell did they ever build the space station in the first place?

 

[kcbbq]

Lots of stuff in science fiction, especially in films, is scientific nonsense based on our current understanding of science. But audiences will suspend their disbelief because the film's universe is obviously populated by humans and aliens with knowledge far in advance of our own. Death Star? No problem for a Sith lord with a Ph.D. in physics.

The claim is hard science fiction, though. Different beast altogether. Most people are bored to tears by it. Think Dune, but even more dry to read.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

If we're nitpicking the plot, why is it that none of them ever question that their mission is to stop N313 from "drifting" over China thus triggering a nuclear war, and the way that they're supposed to achieve this is by killing a bunch of Chinese guys and stealing one of their spaceships?

Doesn't America have any spaceships of their own and, if not, how the hell did they ever build the space station in the first place?

I think Hat(s?) from KIA asked similar questions when he managed to stream Revolution 60 when it was on iOS and Brianna showed up in chat. She offered to do a Q&A type thing and she wouldn't directly answer anything regarding the specifics of the plot. She seems to think that asking for those details is a very male geek thing to do and has compared it to guys who feel the need to know how everything works in Star Trek.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Because I hate myself, I reread the plot of this game. I now have even more questions but whatever, we're on a roll dissecting Holiday so let's stick with it.

There's a lot that can be asked of Holiday's characterization or lack thereof in the game, but I think the biggest question is this: why is Holiday on this mission? The mission is all about infiltration and hacking a base. That's not at all a part of the assassin MO of "find and eliminate a target". Wouldn't the entire mission be better handled by a spy? Or, if you are expecting as much resistance as they get, why not get some sort of supersoldier? What does Holiday bring to the table, especially since she never seems to use assassin skills (sorry Wu, being able to shoot a gun and do flippy kicks doesn't make your character an assassin). Other than Brianna thinking "assassin" sounds edgier than "spy", I don't see any reason why Holiday would be one.

She had to kill some goons and get some vague data in order for Minuete's possé to steal a chinese Spaceship, I think.

If we're nitpicking the plot, why is it that none of them ever question that their mission is to stop N313 from "drifting" over China thus triggering a nuclear war, and the way that they're supposed to achieve this is by killing a bunch of Chinese guys and stealing one of their spaceships?

Doesn't America have any spaceships of their own and, if not, how the hell did they ever build the space station in the first place?

Without Trump, America will lose all ability to built their own spaceships and will have to resort to steal them from the Chinese.

There's an even better question:
How did Min know what the fuck the mission was about?

Here's how the game starts:
Bikebimbo steals some data and rides off on her Bike, the others infiltrate a Dragondildolaunchsite, shoot some random soldiers (no explanation why they are bad, in fact they seem to be the victims here). Bikebimbo shows up, redhead is reduced to a vegetable by liberal application of explosive devices to the cranium. The jagged piece of nonsense launches into space.
Bikebimbo is pissed and tells Bugbimbo to spill the beans concerning their mission. She reveals the transmission she received and . . .

It's unintelligble gibberish that the Stewardess has to clean up before you can even understand a single word.

How. In the fuck. Did Minuete figure out they have to go to space, let alone in a stolen chinese Shuttle towards Merry-go-round Station?

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

If we're nitpicking the plot, why is it that none of them ever question that their mission is to stop N313 from "drifting" over China thus triggering a nuclear war, and the way that they're supposed to achieve this is by killing a bunch of Chinese guys and stealing one of their spaceships?

Doesn't America have any spaceships of their own and, if not, how the hell did they ever build the space station in the first place?

An attempt at political drama, probably another MGS reference, but without the brainpower to even come close.

I'm not even saying MGS is good, I'm just saying she tried it.

 

[Norvic]

How. In the fuck. Did Minuete figure out they have to go to space, let alone in a stolen chinese Shuttle towards Merry-go-round Station?

Maybe that's just how every chessboard mission begins. "I can't make out a fucking word of this briefing. Ah, fuck it. Lets just go steal a spaceship and we'll figure the rest out as we go."

 

[GabeRegan]

All they had to do was have someone say: "The space station has been hijacked and moved into a geosynchronous orbit over China."

 

[Smutley]

Brianna chose a motorcycle because I'm pretty sure she's a Milla Jovovich fan (just like Rika) and saw the Resident Evil movies where they give the main character a motorcycle out of nowhere to let you know she's a bad ass. She's inspired by already lazy writing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3HzHvZIxbyg

The motorcycle antics in the laserdeath hallway combines two Milla Jovovich films in one: the laser scene from Resident Evil with the riding motocyrcles up walls and shit from Ultraviolet.

Wu is the epitome of the dumb thirsty male. It's all about his boner for Jovovich.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

I'm a little shocked she didn't try stealing something from the Underworld movies. Brianna loves those films too since they are also generic action films with a female protagonist so bland that Wu can easily imagine herself in the role.