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

[Life of the Party]

Spoiler

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

From PCGamesN:

The back alley of a night club is my best bet to sate my hunger. The scene is like a debased Renaissance painting: I can see a man being beaten up, another is drunk, high, or both, and the other is creeping around mysteriously. But, here’s the twist, courtesy of the new ‘Resonance’ system. Now, human blood has distinct tastes that give you a temporary buff and act as secondary XP. In the case of the debauched scene I find myself in, the men fighting will give your rage, boosting your damage for a short time. Then, there’s the creepy man who, it turns out, is just horny – this will improve your skills at seduction.

sounds like they're hitting the right notes to me.

 

[Lacrymas]

For my game I actually intend to add handicap ramps to every building and platform I can. The world is too dangerous not to make it safer for the developmentally challenged characters.

I want to roleplay as a jar filled with jelly, are you going to make it accessible and inclusive for me?

 

[jf8350143]

Some of the people here are more obessed with politics than the so called SJWs.

Dozens of pages devoted to talking shit about this topic it's not even funny any more.

 

[FreeKaner]

I think what's going on here is that game """journalists""" are blowing up all this SJW talk as they ought to do. I am more concerned about them saying they want to make the game more accessible. 50-yo boomers aren't going to play this game regardless, why try so hard to appeal to a playerbase that just doesn't exist?

Regarding the SJW talk, to me all of what we have seen about it so far is just the """journalists""" own takes and perception than the reality of what is going on. VTM and vampire fantasy in general always had an appeal to underground and underclass parts of society, as well as outcasts and the "mafia" or "aristocrat" imagery of it. I am going to have see whether they properly represent the vampires as being damned creatures condemned to be predators rather than making them just a cool kids goth scene club, which it does draw influences from obviously.

 

[Jimmious]

Some of the people here are more obessed with politics than the so called SJWs.

Dozens of pages devoted to talking shit this topic it's not even funny any more.

Welcome to the Codex

 

[redactir]

I want to roleplay as a jar filled with jelly, are you going to make it accessible and inclusive for me?

In my game a human is less resistant to chaos and more resistant to order. That's as far as I go in that direction.

 

[Murk]

I have 0 faith that this game will be fun, even if we put the SJW shit aside. The rape of the past continues.

 

[hivemind]

Who cares whether Malkavians are a realistic and empathetic portrayal of real world mental illness? Who asks for that? Who expects that? They were fun! And that's what matters!

for you

maybe not so for other people

stop being such a special snowflake that cant handle things being different than you want them to be without throwing a tantrum

 

[HoboForEternity]

Some of the people here are more obessed with politics than the so called SJWs.

Dozens of pages devoted to talking shit about this topic it's not even funny any more.

it's the codex famous boogeyman. according to codex, SJWs are the root of everything bad in the world.

 

[Lacrymas]

I agree with the SJW bashing this time. This type of thing is reactionary, it's boring, it's conformist and it's not counter-culture. It isn't edgy or progressive. It's an enemy of mature storytelling and it pushes the discourse off-mark.

 

[Zombra]

Spoiler

Many things may be got wrong in this sequel, but jesus christ they're nailing the visual tone.

I never heard of Cara Ellison before yesterday ...

she complained about dick mods in skyrim

Did you read the same article I did? A woman talking about how she likes cocks is a bad thing to you people?

 

[razvedchiki]

experience has taught me to avoid pre release threads and the first 30 pages of new released game threads,after that the lvls of REEEEEEEEE have diminished in sane enough lvls for normie disscusions.
do the same Zombra.

 

[Neanderthal]

Can an attack helicopter be vampiric?

 

[LESS T_T]

Bloodlines 2 is number 3 on Steam global top sellers: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?filter=globaltopsellers

Also it is already on the first page of the top wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?filter=popularwishlist

I expect it will be at least on number 3 there too, next to The Outer Worlds.

And it has already over 18K followers (those who opt in for announcement notification) on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/dlc/532790/Vampire_The_Masquerade__Bloodlines_2/

(For comparison, TOW has 72,303 follwers.)

 

[hivemind]

Can an attack helicopter be vampiric?

cringe

 

[Egosphere]

Can an attack helicopter be vampiric?

Yes. You become the Apache clan.

 

[Dexter]

Games development[edit]
Ellison worked for Rockstar North as a QA tester on Grand Theft Auto IV until 2008.[3][15] In 2013, Ellison wrote the text-based interactive fiction game Sacrilege, which The New York Times described as a "raw exploration of female sexuality that also includes some astute observations about male desire".[16] Ellison also has collaborated with artist Howard Hardiman on Badger's Day Out, funded by a combination of a successful Kickstarter, with backing from the Arts Council England.

She was contracted by Arkane Studios as an external narrative consultant for the 2016 title Dishonored 2.[17][18]

In August 2015, she gave a keynote at Dare to Be Digital.[19]

She was a typical UK "games journalist" running in the RPS/EuroGamer/Guardian circles afaik starting off by writing an RPS column called S.EXE, and doing what "game journalists" generally do: http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=cara_ellison
Which in her case was e-begging on Patreon and shilling (or "pimping shit for free", as she calls it) for every friend and acquintance she ever made while pushing progressive politics, especially personalities like Christine Love, Porpentine, Anna Anthropy, Nina Freeman (at least three of which are "trans") and the likes by writing positive articles about them. In the case of Gone Homo for instance, she published 6 separate articles shilling for it in basically every publication she had access to since she was a buddy of the devs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. She did this just a few years before working as a writer on a game with one of said developers that had a progressive Who's Who working on and providing free PR for it, which ended up a prominent commercial failure: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...der-through-the-us.117796/page-2#post-5549549

I think her biggest achievement as a "games journalist" is still though how she started a moral panic and small-scale inquisition against the developers of Hotline Miami 2, which ended up cutting a scene from their game while desperately trying to defend themselves against the accusations, and due to that subsequently managing to get it banned in Australia as I previously said.

After that she somehow managed to get into the games industry in a writing capacity as a Narrative consultant, leveraging her English lit degree by writing a book called "A Year On The Couch With Game Developers". Where she also continues pushing progressive values, while being proud of "taking men's jobs from them" and singing the gospel of Anita Sarkeesian, for instance with Dishonored 2: http://archive.is/dBkH8

In any case, expect extremely friendly "coverage" of this project as we've seen so far, since these people definitely know how to support a comrade and return a favor.

 

[Goliath]

Who cares whether Malkavians are a realistic and empathetic portrayal of real world mental illness? Who asks for that? Who expects that? They were fun! And that's what matters!

for you

Not just for me, for the vast majority of people.

stop being such a special snowflake that cant handle things being different than you want them to be without throwing a tantrum

I am not "throwing a tantrum". I have never hysterically screamed in my life. Saying that you think something sucks is not "throwing a tantrum". So yea, I am not like those people like you try to imply.

Unlike SJWs I also do not expect someone else to do what I want. I mean if Paradox wants to make this shit, it's their money, I am just saying they won't get mine. Again, fundamental difference there. SJWs try to force others to make games according to their rules, because their authoritarians, I don't.

 

[frajaq]

Hopefully Fat Larry is back on the sequel

 

[Egosphere]

You cunts made me look up Cara Ellison, so here I am playing her free text game.

Powerful lore:

Spoiler

C&C:

Spoiler

ABORT THE DICKHEAD!

Aw fuck I failed the quest:

Spoiler

I am a shitty fuckqueen, apparently.

Has a very realistic portrayal of herself on her site:

Spoiler

REMEMBER THE 6 MILLION HIGHLANDERS, GOYIM

 

[Vidik]

Bloodlines deserve better than this.
I wish a sequel was never even possible, and it was stuck in IP ownership hell like say No One Lives Forever.
Avellone and Mitsoda won't make a difference and you all know it.

 

[Space Nugget]

Some of the people here are more obessed with politics than the so called SJWs.

Dozens of pages devoted to talking shit about this topic it's not even funny any more.

Some people on the Codex are SO OBSESSED with this, it's not even funny anymore.

rpg codex > not even funny anymore

 

[The Wall]

I think what's going on here is that game """journalists""" are blowing up all this SJW talk as they ought to do. I am more concerned about them saying they want to make the game more accessible. 50-yo boomers aren't going to play this game regardless, why try so hard to appeal to a playerbase that just doesn't exist?

Regarding the SJW talk, to me all of what we have seen about it so far is just the """journalists""" own takes and perception than the reality of what is going on. VTM and vampire fantasy in general always had an appeal to underground and underclass parts of society, as well as outcasts and the "mafia" or "aristocrat" imagery of it. I am going to have see whether they properly represent the vampires as being damned creatures condemned to be predators rather than making them just a cool kids goth scene club, which it does draw influences from obviously.

Hope you'll change your nick to ''Prophet of Dumpsterfire & Prestigious Bloodlines'' in one year time

Who cares whether Malkavians are a realistic and empathetic portrayal of real world mental illness? Who asks for that? Who expects that? They were fun! And that's what matters!

for you

maybe not so for other people

stop being such a special snowflake that cant handle things being different than you want them to be without throwing a tantrum

Can you as consistent, fair and honest person you are, arguing in good faith and yall, repost this in every future Kingdom Come, Dead or Alive any JRPG, any niche RPG or thread of any game that gets deemed PRRRROLEMATIC by SJW and Chinese government ethics commitee and issued ultimatum of change everything or we rape your house and burn your family? Thanks balanced frendo

Some of the people here are more obessed with politics than the so called SJWs.

Dozens of pages devoted to talking shit about this topic it's not even funny any more.

it's the codex famous boogeyman. according to codex, SJWs are the root of everything bad in the world.

They are favourite useless idiots, Corporate Overlord's goblins making their Master's dream of world where you can only dream dreams you can buy from Him TM & His Friends TM.

This company owes me exactly what I owe them: nothing. I'd like to talk about other things not real-life politics but so far I can talk only about what has been talked by devs. That and Skyrim dicks, and I prefer former

 

[Neanderthal]

Can an attack helicopter be vampiric?

cringe

Don't oppress me you shitlord!