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

Discussion in 'General RPG Discussion' started by vortex, Feb 11, 2019.

  1. Delterius Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    The rich do not exploit the poor, they are justly rewarded for providing society with crucial goods and services, as well as jobs. I mean, I hate Nines for being a class warrior and I figured that so would you. My apologies.
     
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  2. fantadomat Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck Edgy

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    Come on,most of the anarchists are a bunch of communist retards like 9 and damsel. Still they had an actual anarchists like Jack. I see nothing wrong with having political shit in the game as long as you have an option. If you want you could just ignore the fuckers for the whole game. Sure it have a lot of liberal themes but they are not annoying and hamfisted. This new game will be on a whole different level,it will be total political shitstorm.
     
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  3. Fedora Master Arcane Patron

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    You'd think a 80 year old vampire who had to fight every single night of his existence would grow out of communism, but...
     
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  4. DeepOcean Arcane

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    I'm more interested on what the characters do rather than generic elevator opinions they might have, Nines was an enemy of the prince because he was an anarch and he opposed the prince because on vampire society, the princes have random arbitrary powers like when Lacroix decided to murder your sire for breaking Camarilla rules. The fact that he hates capitalism has zero to do with the story of the game and is just one random opinion from him. If I had to watch Nines leading a worker rally or other bullshit like that as if he was a mortal and out of the kindness of his heart, I would vomit out of disgust. Nines is a vampire and he has interests of a vampire despite his opinions.

    Besides, the whole problem isn't what is inside the game but what is outside the game, when Bloodlines was released, there weren't communist hate mobs ruining careers because communism was wrongly represented and that offended them. I felt the anarchs were pretty cool, I disagree 100% will Nines bullshit but he is a real sounding character that I just disagree, he has his opinions but the game isn't getting out of its way to make you agree with him . What I fear is that this social media witch hunt and digital lynch mobs might force creators to make characters to sound phony to push some points of view on a forced positive light and that is different than just having a character that believes on communism, saying his opinions when you ask him.
     
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  5. santino27 Arcane Patron

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    It's also pretty common for the quality of a script to deteriorate in proportion to the number of writers that have worked on it and the number of studio notes incorporated into the revisions.

    Basically, for a larger writer room to work, you need a very strong head writer/show runner who insures that the resulting content both meets their quality standards and fits the theme/vision for the show.

    IMO, that's a lot harder to do with games, where there's so much more writing.
     
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  6. fantadomat Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck Edgy

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    I too dislike all the class whining shit,but it doesn't mean that the reach are reach because of justly rewarded and all that naive shit. It is natural for people to use the power that they have and be egoistic. Not every rich guy is an evul villein wanting to destroy everything for a tad bit more money,but many are.
     
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  7. fantadomat Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck Edgy

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    And you think a liberal writer will think that much about it,but...
     
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  8. Alienman Arcane Patron

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    Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2
    Going by this game... no :cool:
     
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  9. JBro Savant

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    REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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  10. Reinhardt Arcane

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    Damsel may be communist but she's still talking about vampires, not about mortal gay muslim trannies.
     
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  11. DeepOcean Arcane

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    There is the hypocrisy factor too, Jack was a cool looking vampire that was against the system and all that shit but when it counted, he was willing to sacrifice a peon (you) to achieve what he wanted as any elder would do.
     
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  12. Prime Junta Tinker Patron Vatnik

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    This thread went places.
     
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  13. Zer0wing Liturgist

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    C'mon, Damsel is typical 1960-70s american leftard, vampire or not.
     
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  14. Utgard-Loki Arcane

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    reminder that the plot of bloodlines is that a anarchist kills a bunch of sailors to play a prank on a run of the mill ventrue. so fucking woke.
     
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  15. DeepOcean Arcane

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    Besides she admits it didn't work out for mortals, what makes she saner than 99% of the communists.
     
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  16. Nines_Anarch Learned

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    This resumes 139 pages of Bullshit!

     
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  17. Reinhardt Arcane

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    Still don't remember her talking about sharing power with humans.
     
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  18. Delterius Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    that, my friendo, is the whole point

    if bloodlines had been released today, you'd have /pol/tards claiming at best that the game is good despite all the George Soros propaganda about how hierarchies are bad and the only good vampire faction are the communo friendly anarchs but that at least there are boobs

    of the three times in the entirety of bloodlines where someone almost gives enough of a shit to ask you about your character (VV, Venus and Beckett), the game lets you shit on republicans just for the sake of it twice -- you can't tell me there'd be a tentative twitter brigade about that in the heyday of gamergate and how coastal liberal elites are trying to tell people how to think

    could the desire to be political lead to shitty writing, yes of course and it very certainly will at least in part, which is why even Lacrymas' autism has its place. yet its no coincidence that this thread went to shit when a bunch of alts who either joined recently or seem to be exclusive posters of the GG thread started reacting to the 2 retarded things that the developers have said so far out of a bunch of praiseworthy bullet points that would have caused this forum to blow its collective load with expectation back in the dark ages of 2009

    so far we have non linear hub exploration, deus ex inspiration, conservation of character sheet mechanics, multiple ways to solve quests through violence and dialogue skills, a reactive troika character background scheme, rick schaffer's return as the composer and so on

    but instead of calling attention to these factors and trying to mine the previews for tidbits of info you've got almost exclusively bullshit about discord tranny mental issues by newfags and shitposters and incredibly long diatribes about how the slight inclusion of politics in anything ever leads to the death of entertainment

    except for the 6 or 7 times it happened in Bloodlines, I guess

    tl;dr /pol/tards are the new furries
     
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  19. pomenitul Savant

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    Why the fuck hasn't this thread been retardo'd yet?
     
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  20. JBro Savant

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    Nope. Maybe try reading instead of chimping out because people don't like this new mentally ill faction of insufferable leftists that are obsessed with trannies.
     
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  21. DeepOcean Arcane

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    Hope this is true but we don't know that yet until we get gameplay.
     
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  22. Alexios Savant Patron

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    SJWs have nothing to do with communism though. These people are and always have been dedicated neoliberals who are only "left" in their hatred of privileged white males. Sure there are teenage communists on Twitter who parrot this shit, but I wouldn't consider them to be communists anymore than I'd consider autistic faggots such as yourself to be on par with Orban and Bolsonaro.
     
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  23. Delterius Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    >Person complains about how you won't shut up about trannies.
    >Points out how much you don't like mentally ill trannies.
     
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  24. Zer0wing Liturgist

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    Neither do leftards.
     
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  25. Utgard-Loki Arcane

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    you would have a point if the camarilla ending wasn't the most sensible one. the ant people ending has you end up in eternal torpor at the bottom of the sea, the anarch ending is you being a good little pawn for the baron of downtown, and the independent ending is you getting blood hunted for all time by all the factions you just pissed off.
     
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