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

The new trailer looks like the second part of this one:



Btw those models and facial animations remind me of Tony Hawk's Underground (a PS2 game from 2003)...

Just a comparison

VtM B2 - 2020? (Cross-gen)


THU - 2003 (PS2)


Not that I don't like it. That was a fun game. It gave me nostalgic vibes.

Bloodlines 2 could be a great game if the story + writing + music + atmosphere are good. Not an easy task.
I really don't care about the graphics but those facial animations could use some improvements.

 

All of this is well-known, even the devs acknowledged these problems and promised* to fix them in the sequels. PoE2's loading times are even worse, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*haha

I wouldn't call it a good game, the atmosphere and story are what keeps it together. The combat is barely tolerable enough to keep you going to see how the characters are going to chew the scenery next.

 

Exactly.

 

Elif makes me feel things in my pants.

 

The screenplay was written by someone different. Dick absolutely hated it and felt that the movie went against the message he was trying to convey in the novel.

 

rpgcodex: where games suck if they have bad graphics

 

Making flowing hair look realistic in games is so hard, yet what have we here

 

For a bunch of overpaid lazy kwanzian diversity hires....yeah it is hard work. Devs in Evropa do take their job as an actual work and not waste canal for their butthurt feelz. In reality there is no hard or easy work,there is just work,you got paid to do a job,if you don't like it you fuck off. Maybe if they spend more time working on the game and not virtue signalling to the lunatics on twatter,they too would have made a good game. Also it not something new or unique,fuck even the old bloodlines does have moving hair.



Fuck,even in this pic it is behind her back,place where they could cut corners and not animate it,yet here it is.

 

But not as easier than a wooden wig that doesn't change shape .
Also here is two more for your butthurt infi:

 

Each tail on Jeanette's head is a single physical object, not exactly hard to do and B2 devs could do it that way easily too.

Also, discussing a fucking hair physics in a thread about BLOODLINES 2 aka The Game I Never Expected To Get Actually Made is fucking asinine

 

Are you trying to imply there's a reason it shouldn't be held to the most exacting standards possible?

 

move the goal post!?

 

Yeah but those blood vfx are FAR worse in comparison imo, than hair not being animated or even facial expressions.

 

Character hair is possibly the dumbest gripe to have about this game. Anything that looks better than Outer Worlds dyke hair should be seen as acceptable. Far more concerning should be that everything about this game suggests it's going to be a complete disaster, from the writing to the gameplay.

 

that post didn't belong in this thread, thank Infinitron

 

HairWorks looks pretty good.

It's a shame though that five years after it's out you still need a beefy GPU to run it without killing the frame rate. Or that hardly anyone supports it. Hair is hard.

 

an ad for nvidia hairworks

 

I remember when this video was around to show how great the cloth and hair simulation will be in a World of Darkness MMO. Those were the days.

 

Video posted on Mar 15, 2010

 

There was a time when game developers dared to dream great dreams. Dreams of interactive worlds, gorgeous scenery and cutting edge technology.

Nowadays, we get memory bloat and game developers who wouldn't how to code and only fair in the tool package they were using. Oh, and fat trannies screaming about what a great person they are for writing stuff just for YOOOOOOUUUUUU!!!!!

The dreams of yesteryear are now nothing but bloated corpses in the grey, stinking marshlands of ineptitude.

 

Problem is, thats all CCP is doing. Dreaming.

They made a smash-hit with EVE. But it came out in 2003. They have not managed to make anything else and ended up sitting on the WOD-IP for years. We got nothing out of that but dreamy techdemos.

Sure VTMB 2 might not set the world on fire, but at least we will probably be getting something.


Disclaimer: I love EVE and have been playing since 2007. My views of CCP might be tainted by that.

 

It is not just CCP. Westwood, Origins, Microprose, Infocom, even Bioware when they did BG. They all had great ideas. All killed by ineptitude epitomised by EA and Microshite.