World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 from Hardsuit Labs

[Nano]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

They look cool.

they have the same voice director as the original Bloodlines (somebody Tang?).

Margaret Tang. She also had the same role on Alpha Protocol and Mask of the Betrayer.

 

[Mr. Hiver]

Like the sexy vampire lady

Nothing especially sexy about her. The situation doesnt require any enhanced tones in the voice. Or any kind of extra expressions.
Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

 

[Zombra]

Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

Of course it did, because Source isn't photorealistic, but it was very expressive in its clunky way and had plenty of personality. Is that better or worse than a solid lump of wax whose lips don't even move?

 

[Delterius]

Like the sexy vampire lady

Nothing especially sexy about her. The situation doesnt require any enhanced tones in the voice. Or any kind of extra expressions.
Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

this is your brain on anime, porn and anime porn

janjetina and the pope shall pray for you

 

[HansDampf]

Brian Mitsoda on Twitch E3 broadcast:

The city looks good.

At 3:16:20, isn't that the Malkavian chick?

 

[Vibalist]

Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

Of course it did, because Source isn't photorealistic, but it was very expressive in its clunky way and had plenty of personality. Is that better or worse than a solid lump of wax whose lips don't even move?

+1. It's impressive how a buggy, 2004 source game didn't enter the uncanny valley once (at least not with its facial expressions, walking animations are a whole other thing), whereas many new games with supposedly photorealistic graphics look like Prosper's wet dream.

 

[Orma]

Some melee gameplay

 

[Mr. Hiver]

this is your brain on anime, porn and anime porn

janjetina and the pope shall pray for you

A female is giving you the first basic task in the opening of the game.

the codex: oooooohhh sexyyy laaydy. (besides, doesnt she look like that mass defect megan "journalist" something?)

no i dont mind character not having 35 different expressions for five seconds of dialogue.

 

[Starwars]

Tang being the voice director is really excellent news. Bloodlines is the best of the bunch but I think all of those 3 games (MotB and Alpha Protocol) had a certain presence in the voiceacting that most games simply do not. Not really familiar with whatever else she's done but those 3 games always stood out to me in a big way when it comes to VA.

 

[Vincente]

isn't that the Malkavian chick?

I think that's Dementation at work, used on you, so you see every ghoul (think the ghouls from Grout's Mansion with hockey masks and hospital overalls) as her.

 

[waterdeep]

Face it, this game won't hold a candle to the SOUL of the original game

 

[Nines_Anarch]

Just add the appropiate music and incline xd

 

[vota DC]

Lacroix saying "A bomb" with the same voice and tone of JC Denton would be funny.

But they cut clans and disciplines, much to the annoyance of people who want feature parity with its predecessor

They already promised the missing Gangrel and Nosferatu clans as free DLC, and I can't fight the feeling that third person view has something to do with this. Like how would Protean or Obfuscate look from first person view? Not like very much !

With only 2 disciplines instead of 3 for clan they can have the original Clans with more chance to have unique powers. They would be lazy and coward if they don't try. Seriously.
Malkavian dementation
Ventrue dominate
Bruja potence
Nosferatu obfuscate
Toreador presence
Tremere thaumaturgy
Gangrel protean

Then toreador and bruja share celerity, tremere and malkavian auspex, nosferatu and gangrel animalism.

I personally would prefer Nightmare from Requiem for Nosferatu, Obfuscate is not a good discipline for vidya (I don't particularly like Obfuscate in general, it tends to engender uncreativity in players).

After first game they should have both: they seem really invisible, also lore reasons require them to stay concealed more than any other clan and new technology doesn't forgive, spreading a Nosferatu photo on whatsapp could be very fast. While Malkavian need it less, you alert porn sites with a photo of Jeanette rather than vampire hunters.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Obfuscate doesn't work against cameras or other technological methods, it's jedi mind trick and not actual invisibility (or changing shape or the sort, it's all just a telepathic override on the senses of observers).

Honestly I think Nosferatu would just kill fledglings who use Obfuscate instead of learning to ninja shit properly.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

Chad Malkavian vs Virgin Ventrue

Where is this poll at?

 

[Saerain]

They were just Twitch chat polls in the PC Gamer stream last night.

 

[Vincente]

Blocks your path.

 

[Grimnir]

I know it's hard to judge by one video but still, where is that shine from the original?

All Unreal and Unity games look the same.

From a mod. The vanilla npcs have soulless dead eyes.

 

[CyberWhale]

Mitsoda should grow up and lose the gloves. The eye-glow mod looks neat, although Source was pretty much famous for having great facial animations (when the developers decided to put enough work into them, of course).

 

[Mr. Hiver]

Facial animations, as anything else, benefit from some constraints. Used appropriately and with measure they achieve better effect, very much like HL2 used them.

 

[Zombra]

Facial animations, as anything else, benefit from some constraints. Used appropriately and with measure they achieve better effect, very much like HL2 used them.

Agree ... but in Bloodlines, they were used in a way that was entirely appropriate for the intended atmosphere. You think they just forgot that they could have made the NPCs stand stiffly and expressionless like statues?

 

[Ibn Sina]

Wtf are those finishing moves... Does becoming a vampire also teaches you to become an ultra parkour/break dancer?

 

[Okagron]

Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

Having played the game this year i can say this is an huge crock of fucking bullshit. The only characters that even do the seductive eyebrow wiggling are the appropriate ones like Venus, VV and Jeanette. Therese Voerman doesn't even do it (or at least i didn't noticed), she always has a stern face of a someone doing business.

Show me examples of every character doing this, or else i'm gonna continue calling this bullshit.

 

[ZVERMIX]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

I'd like to think it's part of his rock/goth look to show us he's still as edgy and non-conformist as back in the day.
Most likely though, he's got psoriasis/eczema or severe allergies

 

[Background Character]

This all looks like shit

Please make the pain stop