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

[Wunderbar]

Mitsoda's the guy who wrote the terribly bland Dead State

fuck you

It has one of the largest cast of companions with actual dialogue in any RPG I can think of. All of them are unique, I don't remember any of them being poorly written.
There was nothing wrong with the writing in the game.

found Brian's codex account

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

hiya dicey let me spoonfeed your lazy ass.

thanks man

this was definitely a "saw too much" scenario though.

 

[Bad Sector]

could starbreeze become the new dev? they are also based in sweden like paradox and they have games like the darkness and riddick on their resume wihich are both immersive sim like first person games

Pretty much everyone who worked on those games, including Starbreeze's own founders, left the studio to form MachineGames. The current Starbreeze is just a name, no relation with the people who made the games.

 

[Semiurge]

I FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
THEY ARE REMOVING THE POZ.
THEY ARE EXPANDING THE GAMEPLAY.
THEY ARE TIGHTENING THE GRAPHICS.
AND WHEN THE RELEASE FINALLY ARRIVES THE CODEX NAYSAYERS WILL BE BLOWN THE FUCK OUT BY HOW THE GAME IS NOT ONLY BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL BUT ON PAR WITH DEUS EX OR SYSTEM SHOCK 2.

You've sniffed too much jenkem already.

A hierarchy works such that the one above is responsible for the subordinate's failure.

Aka "shit rolls uphill".

Killed by wokeness or mismanagement? *That* is the question!

There's absolutely zero chance that anything resembling creative can be conceived under such stiffling pressure from the top management. Every idea of the creatives had to go through a tight sieve of 21st century progressive moral standards, with the creatives having to make doubly sure there's no chance of anyone becoming offended.
You read about the allegedly sexist dialogue lips icons from the original, a clear indication of priorities. They believe that the only way this will be a commercial success is that they pander relentlessly to the V5 socialistically queer crowd. I quess that's only natural, since the average gamers aren't as vocal, a silent majority.

 

[Semiurge]

Is it also possible that these corporations believe that it's better to jump on the woke train sooner rather than later even if the based will laugh and ridicule, in case the "social revolution" actually happens? They are futureproofing themselves by licking the boots of their would-be conquerors? That's a scary, disgusting thought.

 

[sser]

by whom? Maxie?

No, Maxie's friend https://rpgcodex.net/forums/profile-posts/51226/

So Poland is where they're at?

 

[Fedora Master]

Is it also possible that these corporations believe that it's better to jump on the woke train sooner rather than later even if the based will laugh and ridicule, in case the "social revolution" actually happens? They are futureproofing themselves by licking the boots of their would-be conquerors? That's a scary, disgusting thought.

Paradox really has nothing to fear in that regard. They were woke before it became mandatory.

 

[Nano]

Cara Ellison has uploaded a graphical presentation on Instagram stories. You can read it with an account or story reader. Or just rely on these images:

Bitch, please.

 

[Wesp5]

On Mitsoda: (Since Wesp5 posted and others), it seems like Mitsoda's writing is pretty good, but I'm not so sure about him working with teams, that might be more the issue.

I can imagine this to be right and even in a good way. In a game like Bloodlines it's important that everything critical is written by one person only! Just remember the fiasko of the SW sequels where different people wrote stuff without caring about what the others wrote? Now compare that to e.g. Babylon 5 or the Marvel movies where obviously somebody planned everything and stuck with it. I never met Mitsoda myself, but what I have seen from the interviews I would guess he is not a "boss" kind of type. Like he does what he does best and the rest of the team must care about their own tasks.

 

[Fenix]

Off topic, but I am reminded of that retro space horror game Routine, where the developer went AWOL.

Oh yeah, I remember that game too ahah. Trailer was OK, then... SILENCE!

i read there was a leaker on here who predicted this. who

I got some info from Russian beta-tester, according to him it was a disaster. Hehe.

Elaborate pwease

Here you go.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Would have been better to give wesp and tessera a couple o' mil to spaff up the wall. Now that would have been a sight to see.

 

[Fenix]

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/vampire-the-masquerade-–-bloodlines-2-vaporware-vtmb-sequel-from-paradox-interactive.126124/page-440#post-7088802 is the summary.

This one https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...adox-interactive.126124/page-443#post-7096237 is more precise.

 

[Infinitron]

This is Paradox's chief business development officer. Absolutely brutal.

 

[Wesp5]

Would have been better to give wesp and tessera a couple o' mil to spaff up the wall. Now that would have been a *f*ight to see.

Fixed that for you .

 

[Trithne]

By not fucking announcing it before its ready.

 

[Testownia]

At this point I'm ready to give this game over to Ubisoft, out of all companies. At least THEY know how to successfully milk a franchise.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Hey guys what's happening?

 

[Bara]

Hey guys what's happening?

A lot of things. Joy, despair, relief, hate, and schadenfreude. But mostly laughter and dancing on top of graves.

 

[Tao]

It shouldn't come by surprise but is amazing the amount of people judging by the the comments on internet who had no idea this was a trainwreck. People who see Paradox's move like a bad omen sign instead of a real chance for a decent game.

 

[T.Ashpool]

it's only a real chance if paradox gives the new dev 3 more years and a good budget which i'm not sure is going to happen.
maybe they should have stayed in their lane from the beginning and made a world of darkness grand strategy game instead and a isometric wod rpg by harebrained schemes. the first would have even given them better opportunities for milking via dlc which i know paradox loves.

 

[Tao]

Hey guys what's happening?

Little poor workers getting dicked by big corpos as always

it's only a real chance if paradox gives the new dev 3 more years and a good budget which i'm not sure is going to happen.
maybe they should have stayed in their lane from the beginning and made a world of darkness grand strategy game instead and a isometric wod rpg by harebrained schemes. the first would have even given them better opportunities for milking via dlc which i know paradox loves.

Totally

 

[Storyfag]

If the sickening, sacriligeous christmas trailer ("come dance") was any indication of what the final game would be like, I'm glad this was canned.

oH No sACrILeGe In mY VaMPirE gAEm

 

[Avarize]

How's that Outshill lady taking these news? I want some more drama.

Says on her twitter she's going back to youtube. So unemployed.

 

[Storyfag]

Whoever said "non-consenting Kindred" was onto something, I think. In the latest version of VtM, vampires will be polite good bois who dindu nuffin and ask for consent. Didn't Lestat do that in Interview? That's homoerotic enough to be palatable to the woke.

What part of "vampires have to be invited in" did you not understand for 100 years?

Not in this setting tho. Well, outside of very rare cases.

 

[Thonius]

How's your preorder doing son?
:^)