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

[Rahdulan]

Non IGN shit



I have the original on STEAM, Should I play it or hold off on something else?

It looks like they're trying to imitate the body language during dialogs which made Bloodlines stand out, but they have a case of way more advanced technology and way less giving a fuck going on. Not impressed in that regard.

 

[Lord Andre]

The gameplay shown is slightly above hot garbage... day 1 purchase it is.



Also, Mitsoda looks like a socially inept manchild that they need to parade around for the name recognition. The fat chick is there as his handler and to answer questions in his stead when the up close human contact turns his speech pattern to gibberish.

 

[ZVERMIX]

Leaked image from the gameplay recording session:

 

[Mr. Hiver]

Wesp5

Ask them what the hell is with that neck.

 

[ArchAngel]

Wesp5

Ask them what the hell is with that neck.

They wanted to make something big on the chick but since this is 2019 they could not make big boobs like Bloodlines 1.

 

[Space Satan]

Peak gameplay

 

[Modron]

Has anyone asked the most important question? Will money return?

 

[Ismaul]

This talk with club owner doesn't make sense. She didn't tell you what kind of information you need to purchase from Slugg.

Yeah what the fuck is up with that?

Throw away writing, not even bothering to enter into specifics and worldbuild a little. There are many problems in the demo, but this might be the worst.

 

[Mr. Hiver]

They wanted to make something big on the chick but since this is 2019 they could not make big boobs like Bloodlines 1.

maybe... but i might figured it out.

There are snake vampires.

Followers of Set clan.

Their signature Discipline is Serpentis which allows them to take on aspects of snakes.

Thats a snake. And thats why she doesnt have much of facial animations.

 

[Wesp5]

This talk with club owner doesn't make sense. She didn't tell you what kind of information you need to purchase from Slugg.

Yeah what the fuck is up with that?

Throw away writing, not even bothering to enter into specifics and worldbuild a little. There are many problems in the demo, but this might be the worst.

Obviously you met her before and might know what she is after. Or at least Slugg might know if you tell him about her, that could still all make sense...

 

[luj1]

Don't lie, you were expecting far worse.

This attitude is the protogenic cause of all decline

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Wait, was that dude really playing this on a steering wheel? For me, the biggest problem with this demo was that the player kept lunging forward past/into the enemies. It was like he had no depth perception or no control of his speed. But I suspect that has more to do with the player than the game, especially if he was playing it on a steering wheel controller designed for a racing game (WTF is wrong with Paradox’s PR?).

Need to watch it again now that I’m fully awake, but I have to admit that when the footage started and you can hear Brian as the newscaster talking about female sex slaves being discovered in a sex dungeon, it warmed the cockles of my cold, dead heart.

 

[Raghar]

I also didn't get what all these HUD bars were about and will ask him about it!

Left, bloodpoints 5 of them.
Bottom frenzy level, aka how close you are to frenzy.
Yellow bar, concusion damage. Recovers when not damaged for a while.
Green bar, aggravated damage, knifes and stuff. If you run out of yellow bar, it might go to health damage. I didn't see him running out of yellow bar, thus who knows what are consequences.

 

[Mr. Hiver]

Wait, was that dude really playing this on a steering wheel?

Nah, its a sarcastic shop man.

 

[fantadomat]

Are people genuinely excited for this garbage? Hit detection does not exist, AI is braindead, the only good thing about this is how most places look nice.

Why don't you hate Vtmb 1 for these exact reasons? What , did that game have fantastic combat or something? And "garbage"? Passing verdict on this game based on 1 aspect of it and also the shittiest of them all, the combat?

Now to those in this thread. Just came here to read up on some news after a few days and I see people bitching about facial expressions, voice acting and combat, a few pages at least. What about skills, dialogue and dialogue options, reactivity, arsenal, immersive sim elements, stealth, level design hell anything else. This is supposed to be an RPG. I'm shocked you didn't complain about graphics.

I hate all vampire games equally, don't get me wrong. I never played the old Vampire games because I hated them when they released just as much. I'm just noting that this new one is completely broken, mechanically and engine-wise.

Choosing whether or not to play a game based purely on its theme is as bad as watching movies for the plot, or worse

I simply cannot stand vampires, I am sorry. I find them the most annoying thing ever, whether it's movies, games or fiction.

The fuck are you doing here then???

 

[J1M]

This talk with club owner doesn't make sense. She didn't tell you what kind of information you need to purchase from Slugg.

Yeah what the fuck is up with that?

Throw away writing, not even bothering to enter into specifics and worldbuild a little. There are many problems in the demo, but this might be the worst.

It could be intentional ambiguity because the game design didn't have the details fleshed out when the writing tasks were distributed.

The optimist might say that it is to introduce a sense of mystery.

 

[Quillon]

I simply cannot stand vampires, I am sorry. I find them the most annoying thing ever, whether it's movies, games or fiction.

How about Fampyrs?

 

[fantadomat]

Just watched the whole gameplay part and it looks like DSP or a journo trying to play the game. It have been some time since we had such a glorious gamez skills.


A big negatives are how shit the radio voice is and how shit the club music is. I am surprised that people don't talk about it. Also the level/mission design seems poor. The guy that you are searching for is just waiting for you at the entry point for arbitrary chase sequence .

 

[AwesomeButton]

and how shit the club music is

I thought that was just for realism.

 

[HansDampf]

I want edgy gothic metal.

 

[leino]

how shit the radio voice is.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

that ign footage was painful to sit through. i liked the lighting, but everything else, ui/hud/animations was simply a mess. the retard playing didn't help, either. do they have anyone working there that actually played anything but phone trash in their life?

A big negatives are how shit the radio voice is.

nigger are you serious.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

19 min gameplay w/o commentary:

 

[Zombra]

The problem is that combat in first person feels like a caveman smashing something with the same movements again and again, just like skyrim. theres a reason why melee combat is mostly played in third person even in the first bloodlines.

Go play Condemned: Criminal Intent. I'll wait.

 

[Zombra]

I know,I promise I will play it. Although I'm way past my vampire period.

You don't have to be "into" vampires at all to love Bloodlines.