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

[Zombra]

Also the game play feels like someone was playing with one hand only. The camera moves really slow for no reason.

Controller sensitivity appears to be set to minimum.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

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.

Zeno Clash and Chronicles of Riddick are also deece choices.

 

[agris]

dat quest compass in the vids



edit: i love how natural the NPCs look when just standing around

edit2: is there a version of the video that doesn't look like it was recorded in 16 bit color?

 

[Zombra]

I hand't watched anything about the game until E3, then a colleague from work who is a Vampire nut forced that video down my throat.

And then I guess he "forced" you to come into the thread and add your two cents, because however much you hate vampires, you sure love talking about them. Kinda like how I go drinking at gay clubs every night so I can tell everyone there I'm not gay.

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

If I can piggyback on this, you might mention to them that some players enjoy turning off things in the HUD. I don't need all that screen clutter.

 

[fantadomat]

how shit the radio voice is.

nigger are you serious.

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

 

[agris]

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

If I can piggyback on this, you might mention to them that some players enjoy turning off things in the HUD. I don't need all that screen clutter.

Seconded. I don't need constant POI indicators while I'm feeding on someone, quest status updates jumping into the upper right-hand side of the screen and staying there, and my currently selected weapon icon/diamond when i'm looking right at in the screen. it's a W3 mess in the video.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

that's brian mitsoda, who also did a lot of voicework for the first game, and his voice is fine. actually, the video would be much improved if instead of "playing" the game, the journalist would jsut stand around and listen to the radio.

 

[fantadomat]

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

that's brian mitsoda, who also did a lot of voicework for the first game, and his voice is fine. actually, the video would be much improved if instead of "playing" the game, the journalist would jsut stand around and listen to the radio.

Yeah,i remember him being the dude that lied about having a yacht....at least that voice. Still couldn't hold a candle to the Deb of night! Oh and i agree that it would have been an improvement if he just sat there. Doesn't mean that he is gud tho.

 

[agris]

ragdolling an npc onto a railing only to have them balance at their hip over it was p. good use of physics

 

[Zombra]

ragdolling an npc onto a raililing only to have them balance at their hip over it was p. good use of physics

Yeah, I thought that was great. I wondered if it was staged but realized that whole sequence was one long take, just a nice incidental display.

 

[Infinitron]

GameSpot's version of the gameplay footage:

 

[Egosphere]

I kinda like it. Looks like there are different ways to approach the quests and there are decent options in the dialogue. Combat looks poor, but I didn't play the first one for the combat either.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Can't believe it's come to asking these question about a game that's supposed to give you multiple approaches.
Is there any stealth in this? Lethal/NonletNon-options? Extra points for completing certain missions without being detected, like in Vtmb 1? Have they said anything? Is there a sneak feat/skill?

 

[undecaf]

The video was surprisingly decent.

I don't even mind the janky combat. I've always thought it kinda comes with the territory of making RPG's and is part of the gameplay flow and character progression. Most newer "RPG's" that have gone more fluid and shootery with their combat mechanics, have usually been worse games for it (and many other things).

 

[Lord Andre]

This one doesn't look like it's played by a complete retard. I can still smell the controller stench on it though. Degenerates.

 

[1451]

It's a reskin of their dead game Blacklight, what a joke.

 

[Jenkem]

just watched 15 minutes of gameplay.

it looks like absolute shit.

 

[Jenkem]

Why do they always let the most incompetent player in the world do these videos?

Because a competent player would confirm the gameplay is shit, while an incompetent player can fool people into thinking it's them, and not the game that is shitty.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Everything I see looks decent yet I can't get excited one bite.

Bloodlines was a product of its time, yet retarded publishers today still keep digging out those corpses.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

It's not as SJW as I feared but it just doesn't have the same edge Bloodlines did. It doesn't seem as clever or as atmospheric.

That unfortunately seems to be true, but taking the first part of your sentence into account, it still is better than expected, and thus, we can be relieved.

 

[leino]

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

think that's a tv, he voiced the newsreader in vtmb1 as well:

 

[Orma]

Hey people, I got some precisions from our team in LA about the setup of the press demo you've seen shared since this morning (full gameplay demo of ~20 min). Those demos are hands-off, it's a Paradox person playing the game, the journalist is making the decisions like choosing the thinblood discipline or dialog options, but not holding the pad (despite some claims I've seen that people actually played the game). I'll ask you to assume all lack of skills or bad melee gameplay is caused by our team on the floor of E3 being super exhausted :smile: On a more serious note, as soon as we have time to do and publish one, we'll have our own clean recording of the demo shared on the official accounts, and we promise it'll be played by someone who's good at punching people while remaining in front of them :wink:

Konbendith - PDX Community Lead

 

[jungl]

combat looks very janky this is indeed a bloodlines sequel but the combat looks slightly worse. They put too much effort in making it look cool with the first person view and short cinematics that play like skyrim finishers but its pointless with this amount of jank. It'll be nice if in options they let us see the combat floating numbers like the original and there mod to put in toggable 3D.

Combat scenarios pretty dumb this goes back with their questionable design decision trying make the player feel like a big bad vamp. You have multiple dudes armed with shotguns and assault rifles. Im sorry but a thin blood would get lit the fuck up.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

What a cancerous looking claustofuck of hud is that, it looks if was made with console/controller players in mind .
Elif looks like quality waifu material, not near Therese Voerman levels but decent. Club track looks gay but that is Seattle after all. Animation looks odd, even the fist game looked more fluid from what i remember, locking picking/puzzle is also lacking with a hold button for x amount of time "normie casual" approach to it.

 

[Lacrymas]

Ew, it looks modern.