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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. Nano Prestigious Gentleman Arcane Patron

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    The character models look so artificial. I don't think uncanny valley is the type of horror the developers have in mind for this game.
     
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  2. ArchAngel Arcane

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    So many Edgy boys in this topic.. complaining about graphics or animations.. is this Reddit?
     
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  3. Vincente Learned

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  4. CyberModuled Learned

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    Clan, my bad. Too ticked off at this trailer to even think straight at this point. Have they even been doing anything since that E3 presentation and indefinite delay. It looks about as bad
     
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  5. Maculo Prophet

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    Not a fan of that trailer, because it seemed like a missed opportunity. I thought they had Rick Schafer back? Why not showcase his work again?

    I found one of the trailers for the first game. Interesting what they did or did not emphasize.
     
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  6. Sailor Woedica Cipher The Real Fangirl

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  7. Vincente Learned

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    It looks way more polished, like that street scene in 0:53 looks really good in my opinion. If E3 was closed alpha this would be closed beta I would say. Not the facial animations though. Like that woman in 1:01 looks so lifeless.
     
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  8. Wesp5 Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    Exactly. Just compare this to The Outer World and tell me that the female look wasn't an agenda there! Also how about all the wokeness and trigger warning fears now?
     
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  9. Jenkem Magister Patron

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    the jank in the trailer is a signal towards the quality of the game. the effort is going into the quality of the writing and quest designs, not the animation. if all you care about are graphics and polish, the cyberpoz thread is that way--->
     
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  10. vortex Fabulous Optimist

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    Animations and facials expression do satisfy me. This is wholesome improvement overall. Now they need to nail the gameplay and writing to make Vamily proud.
     
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  11. Infinitron I post news Patron

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    Grab the Codex by the pussy Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Kingmaker
    This reminds me a bit of how people reacted to the funny Wasteland E3 trailer last year.

    I like the website's new theme.

    These screenshots are new, I think?

    Strong Dishonored stealth vibes in that third one.

    There's also a new Community section with links to various social media, YouTubers and related stuff. Surprisingly no new unlockable rewards in the Account page, though.
     
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  12. vortex Fabulous Optimist

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    They need to make Ocean House Hotel really creepy with unexpected and hard encounters.
     
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  13. Serious_Business Best Poster on the Codex

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    Looking forward beating the shit out of some poor guy in an alley with a tire iron

    I don't know man, gotta be enthusiastic about something at the very least
     
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  14. normie Erudite Patron

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    Ocean House NG+ dungeon, farm poltergeists to unlock all the takedown animations and upgrade your karate kick
     
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  15. Alexios Savant Patron

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    Where do we see facial animations in this? The parts that show characters' faces look like clips from cutscenes or just cinematic footage shot for the sole purpose of this trailer. The only dialogue we have is from the last gameplay reveal, where it looked like Skyrim tier trash.
     
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  16. S.torch Learned

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    Where is this mythical creature of which you're talking about?
     
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    Who's this faggot? I already want to punch him
     
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  18. Semiurge Learned

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    That's Mitsoda as he'd like to see himself.
     
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  19. Child of Malkav Savant

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    I liked the trailer.
    Hm, makes me wonder: the guy in the beginning, dancing between the puppets, literally pulling their strings, is that a message? Maybe each puppet in that scene represents a main character in the game, leaders perhaps, and the fact they're shown as puppets with strings attached and the guy playing with a string. Maybe they're trying to tell us that he's manipulating all of them.
     
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  20. vortex Fabulous Optimist

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    I think they're not puppets but people he killed. He's psycho what he's done to them.
     
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  21. Semiurge Learned

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    If that's polished then I don't want to see what it looked like then. That new video is a time capsule of 2010.
     
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  22. GloomFrost Arbiter

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    New trailer got more dancing then DE. Is that some kind of World of Darkness lore thing or what??
     
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  23. Zyondyne Literate

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    I don't know if anyone cares, but I did a rework of the trailer using what I consider a more fitting song. The current one is just way too Fallout-ish and out of place for me.
    Started by simply adding the song to the background and then I did some additional montage/adding sound effects. Then I changed the order of some scenes. I spent more time than I'd ever admit on it to synchronize some musical sequences and lyrics with what happens on screen. Then I added some sound effects and other little touches. This is the final result.

    It's a Queen song that, in my humble opinion, really fits that "Malkavian theatrical madness" vibe of this trailer better than the original musical choice.


     
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  24. hello friend Arcane

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    Americans, please don't try to speak kraut, you always fuck it up
     
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  25. toro Arcane

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    This is Dark Souls The Outer Worlds of the vampire genre.
     
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