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

[Kalin]

shitsoda was only bringing this project down, their next big reveal of this game will show just how far they've come.

I thought shitposts were supposed to be at least entertaining sometimes. Please apply to Kruno for tutoring.

Shitsoda is a gud1 though

 

[Sarathiour]

Masquerade Violation

T'was a nosferatu plot all along.

 

[HansDampf]

Do these people completely lose themselves in the games, can't they tell the difference between reality and fiction?

They are only pretending for virtue points.

 

[Fedora Master]

As far as Brian goes, any low in life is just a precursor to a new (and better) high. I wish him the best.

It's been a 17 year long low, I hope he gets his time soon.

On a slightly more serious note, I decided to watch the Malkavian Clan Introduction as it featured Brian.



I have timestamped it for convenience but Brian's social anxiety comes off very obvious here which makes me feel more upset on his behalf. It really goes to show how much Brian poured into this project.

King of the Manbuns
Jesus Christ

 

[Roguey]

I have timestamped it for convenience but Brian's social anxiety comes off very obvious here which makes me feel more upset on his behalf. It really goes to show how much Brian poured into this project.

Brian's just bad around crowds. He seduced a married coworker away from her husband, so he's a smooth operator when he's with someone one-on-one.

 

[Avarize]

I have timestamped it for convenience but Brian's social anxiety comes off very obvious here which makes me feel more upset on his behalf. It really goes to show how much Brian poured into this project.

Brian's just bad around crowds. He seduced a married coworker away from her husband, so he's a smooth operator when he's with someone one-on-one.

Annie was married before? Sounds like Brian got what he was asking for then.

 

[Roguey]

Annie was married before? Sounds like Brian got what he was asking for then.

Since I got a citation needed, old news https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/dead-state-reanimated.95702/page-77#post-5444118

 

[Kalin]

Annie was always just Brian in drag (and his own schizophrenic experiences were actually the main inspiration for the Voerman "sisters" questline). Stalky here is probably talking about some other smutty office drama with an actual person but I don't stoop to such gutter trash gossip so I wouldn't know the details.

Edit: Yeah that fit

 

[Darkwind]

Masquerade Violation

So it isn't even a normal SJW social retard fatty. It is a chick w/ a dick who was 'creeped out' by the Romero cameo? Right... makes total sense now as he most -definitely- wouldn't have looked twice at this mentally ill person. You know right after that scene that it was so 'creeped out' by in the tweet it went and masturbated while furiously pegging itself.

 

[fantadomat]

I have timestamped it for convenience but Brian's social anxiety comes off very obvious here which makes me feel more upset on his behalf. It really goes to show how much Brian poured into this project.

Brian's just bad around crowds. He seduced a married coworker away from her husband, so he's a smooth operator when he's with someone one-on-one.

Maybe she was the one doing the seduction,wanting to ride that career stairway.

 

[Roguey]

Maybe she was the one doing the seduction,wanting to ride that career stairway.

Brian was on the road to nowhere after the Alpha Protocol debacle. She left with him.

 

[fantadomat]

Maybe she was the one doing the seduction,wanting to ride that career stairway.

Brian was on the road to nowhere after the Alpha Protocol debacle. She left with him.

Well that is in retrospect,at the moment it could have looked like he could get some weird big time joke or something. Man,women are weird that way.

 

[Häyhä]

Brian's just nervous because that other guy has a beehive on his head.

That's no moon, errr, I mean a beehive!

 

[Avarize]

Annie was married before? Sounds like Brian got what he was asking for then.

Since I got a citation needed, old news https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/dead-state-reanimated.95702/page-77#post-5444118

Checking her twitter it seems she is one of the people who thought Trump was trying to sabotage the elections because the Postal Service was moving some post boxes around. Quality woman, clearly.

 

[Tacgnol]

Annie was married before? Sounds like Brian got what he was asking for then.

Since I got a citation needed, old news https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/dead-state-reanimated.95702/page-77#post-5444118

Checking her twitter it seems she is one of the people who thought Trump was trying to sabotage the elections because the Postal Service was moving some post boxes around. Quality woman, clearly.

Annie has been pretty deep down the SJW rabbit hole for several years now. She used to post on here back in the day, and mostly seemed relatively sane.

 

[kangaxx]

Annie has been pretty deep down the SJW rabbit hole for several years now. She used to post on here back in the day, and mostly seemed relatively sane.

Probably just weak-minded and easily led rather than insane.

 

[Tacgnol]

Annie has been pretty deep down the SJW rabbit hole for several years now. She used to post on here back in the day, and mostly seemed relatively sane.

Probably just weak-minded and easily led rather than insane.

Maybe.

End result is the same though.

 

[Harthwain]

If the did nothing and just released this game, they would at least have made some money but now even the most optimistic uninformed idiot knows that this game's production is a complete shitshow. What the fuck were they thinking when they fired these people?

You people severely underestimate how uninformed that audience for even the supposedly prestigious games are. They'll see "Bloodlines 2" and they'll buy it. They might get scared away by negative reviews or word of mouth. Mitsoda being there or not doesn't affect them. They don't even know who is he.

I saw people questioning Bloodlines 2's direction and saying they are pulling preorders everywhere after this act (on reddit, paradox plaza, rock paper shotgun, etc.), so this is definitely making some waves.

 

[Longes]

I refunded my preorder. Not because I think Mitsoda is a holy writer meant to save Bloodlines. But because I think the project has been driven into the ground and whatever Paradox salvages will not be good.

 

[Semiurge]

Do these people completely lose themselves in the games, can't they tell the difference between reality and fiction?

They are only pretending for virtue points.

I believe no-one is as humane as they seem, and truly this is why these types don't seem trustworthy. It's all smiles and altruism on the surface, but still the beast lies within.

Do these people completely lose themselves in the games, can't they tell the difference between reality and fiction? So what if some writer injected himself into a game to stroke his ego (Romero was probably just a self-ironic joke), why should anyone be bothered by his dumb move, unless the writer in question
troubles them on a personal level?

I've often thought that someone should tell them that they are only games, nothing more. You can't save the world by eliminating unsavory characters from works of fiction, their presence does not normalize behaviour thought to be immoral, they exist as proxies so we can project our feelings into them. We need both heroes and villains because they both represent unanswered urges and driving forces in our minds. I bet that these trigger-flakes wouldn't agree that violent games normalize violence in real life, so how could sexist/racist characters do so? Anyone old enough to play "mature" games should already be somewhat immune to such influences so that they won't automatically ape everything they see, anyone with agency can and will question what is presented to them.

Players are retarded. I had something longer here, but I fucking deleted it, because "players are retarded" suffices.

I was very tired so I forgot about stereotypes, does their presence affect certain attitudes in real life? In my opinion, yes, but only for people whose only way of connecting with the world is entertainment. Still, I'm completely against censorship no matter what - stereotypes in fiction exist for a reason, and that reason is art mirroring real life. Whether it's a broken mirror, that is for everyone to decide for themselves.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

 

[Taxnomore]

Maybe Bloodlines 3 will be good.

 

[Eastwood]

 

[LESS T_T]

Interesting. VTMB2's Steam followers (data from SteamDB) were actually decreased with the news of Mitsoda.

Yeah, it's not a big number but this is the first time I see decreases in followers.

This did not happen with Total War: Troy's Epic exclusive announcement for example. (Unfortunately SteamDB doesn't have data before August last year so no data on the bigger Epic exclusives like The Outer Worlds.)

Wonder if Paradox is seeing more noticeable changes in wishlist count and pre-orders.

 

[Kruno]

Can we dragon shout in this game? Any RPG without a dragon shout is shit.