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

[Silverfish]

Which one?

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Are Malkavians supposed to be necessarily schizophrenic or a variety of mental illnesses? I always thought it was the latter although schizophrenia is always most interesting.

This is my view, but most people who play Malkavians as ax-crazy pants-on-heads retards do it wrong. They also probably do that annoying as fuck "I'M SO RANDOM" shit excessively.

Malkavian madness is best manifested as something more subtle. Think of someone saying something that sounds very deep and profound but when you actually begin to think it through you realize it makes zero fucking sense and sounds insane.

 

[Zombra]

Are Malkavians supposed to be necessarily schizophrenic or a variety of mental illnesses? I always thought it was the latter although schizophrenia is always most interesting.

My only exposure to the game is from Bloodlines 1, but from that my impression was that it could really be anything. You had the Malk player character who was the goofball type; you had Tourette who was a split personality but otherwise normal (Jeanette was annoying and bitchy but not crazy); then there was Dr. Grout, the most rational character in the game, who heard voices. I don't think there's one "right" way to portray them, and I don't see any reason why there should be.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

Are Malkavians supposed to be necessarily schizophrenic or a variety of mental illnesses? I always thought it was the latter although schizophrenia is always most interesting.

This is my view, but most people who play Malkavians as ax-crazy pants-on-heads retards do it wrong. They also probably do that annoying as fuck "I'M SO RANDOM" shit excessively.

Malkavian madness is best manifested as something more subtle. Think of someone saying something that sounds very deep and profound but when you actually begin to think it through you realize it makes zero fucking sense and sounds insane.

The tragic and infamous Dr. Gout recordings exemplify this well. He recognizes that his descent into the abyss is characterized by grandiose language and fatalistic compulsions. His keen intelligence is perverted into an obsessive meticulousness over irrational compulsions, manifest in the physical contortion of his mansion. Too bad you don't get to meet him. Those recordings were great.

 

[True Ukrainian]

I was reading the codex VTM CYOA and the malk party member was rational at first glance, but once you really interacted with him it turned out that he believed that he was an actor in a film and that everything was scripted or staged. It was how the malk rationalized the existence of vampires and how his disciplines worked.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

The tragic and infamous Dr. Gout recordings exemplify this well. He recognizes that his descent into the abyss is characterized by grandiose language and fatalistic compulsions. His keen intelligence is perverted into an obsessive meticulousness over irrational compulsions, manifest in the physical manifestation of his mansion. Too bad you don't get to meet him. Those recordings were great.

Yeah, Dr. Gout is probably my favorite interpretation of Malkavian madness. It's both "toned down" but ultimately disturbing and is much more of an effective demonstration of a Malkavian than if you played the lunatic card in a way more generic fashion.

 

[Zombra]

[Dr. Grout's] recordings were great.

Best part of Bloodlines 1 imo.

 

[DAT]

BROS I JUST UNINSTALLED VTMB1

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NAH JK I NEVER INSTALLED THAT SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE

 

[Cael]

BROS I JUST UNINSTALLED VTMB1

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NAH JK I NEVER INSTALLED THAT SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE

 

[DAT]

BROS I JUST UNINSTALLED VTMB1

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NAH JK I NEVER INSTALLED THAT SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE

BRO U DON'T NEED TO REPLY JUST USE ONE OF THEM GHEY DOWNVOTE MEME ICONS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

 

[Bester]

It's like this guy registered back in 2012, got a few posts in to get his account confirmed, and then slept for 8 years just to post this dumb one liner.

 

[Longes]

From our torpor we rise.

 

[fantadomat]

From our torpor we rise.

Did you wet your dipper,old man?

 

[Semiurge]

Are Malkavians supposed to be necessarily schizophrenic or a variety of mental illnesses? I always thought it was the latter although schizophrenia is always most interesting.

This is my view, but most people who play Malkavians as ax-crazy pants-on-heads retards do it wrong. They also probably do that annoying as fuck "I'M SO RANDOM" shit excessively.

Malkavian madness is best manifested as something more subtle. Think of someone saying something that sounds very deep and profound but when you actually begin to think it through you realize it makes zero fucking sense and sounds insane.

The tragic and infamous Dr. Gout recordings exemplify this well. He recognizes that his descent into the abyss is characterized by grandiose language and fatalistic compulsions. His keen intelligence is perverted into an obsessive meticulousness over irrational compulsions, manifest in the physical contortion of his mansion. Too bad you don't get to meet him. Those recordings were great.

Decade after decade he bangs his head against a wall, expecting different results from the same methods of dissecting the "condition" that is vampirism. He's dilemma seems to be related to that of Beckett, he too is locked in a single perspective. I like that the irony of becoming like his subjects seems lost on him, the recordings
show how he begins to manifest the symptoms of schizophrenia to the letter, first the voices, then paranoia and isolation out of fear. Poetic justice for treating his victims in a particularly medieval fashion that was probably cruel even by the standards of his contemporaries.

 

[conan_edw]

 

[LESS T_T]

They started taking pre-orders in March, 2019. I thought, at that time, huh, they're gonna run pre-order for a year? And now it's going to be two years.

 

[Longes]

I laughed at Star Citizen people. Who's laughing now?

 

[thesheeep]

I laughed at Star Citizen people. Who's laughing now?

You can still laugh at Star Citizen people.
That's pretty hard to beat in terms of development time.

 

[True Ukrainian]

Definitely caught in development hell.

 

[Lambach]

Jenkem

YAAAAS KWEEN SLAY IT WITH THAT PREORDER GURRRRRRL

 

[Jenkem]

The game will be even better now with more time and polish.

Currency devalues over time, so this is money well spent.

 

[True Ukrainian]

I am willing to wait if it means the game won't ship with a bug that prevents me from completing it.

 

[Lambach]

Well, on the bright side, at least now they've got time to incorporate the recent Soy Revolution in Seattle into the game. Can't wait to participate in the struggles of the city's gender non-conforming Kindred as they bravely fight against the oppressive regime of Prince Tonald Drump von-OrangeNazi.

I am willing to wait if it means the game won't ship with a bug that prevents me from completing it.

That bug is called "the writing team" this time around, and there's no patching it.

 

[True Ukrainian]

All thin blooded are non gender conforming. Sex change is a level 1 thin blood alchemy discipline.

 

[Duraframe300]

Oh no, VTMB:2 has been delayed?



How will I ever cope....

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... with the fact that it hasn't been cancelled yet.