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

[Deleted Member 16721]

Loved the Tender countdown music too. That was an amazing ambient electronic track. So far it's nailing the music and atmosphere big time.

 

[Nines_Anarch]

I AM SOLD. RIK SCHAFFER.
They sure know what they are doing with Bloodlines 2

 

[FreeKaner]

Yes I loved that stream music, anywhere I can find it? It was really good ambient music.

 

[Starwars]

Oh man, awesome that they got Rik Schaffer. Now we only need a licensed club track or two from Chiasm and it's all gewd.

 

[hexer]

Thanks RPG Watch for binging this to my attention, a forum that gives a shit about games.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!

 

[Raziel]

Yes I loved that stream music, anywhere I can find it? It was really good ambient music.

Main soundtrack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jrdj3ka1mgeezh/VTMB%20-%20Complete%20OST%20Revised.zip?dl=1

unused soundtrack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6e1fl2mmche0lf/Remaining%20unused%20VTMB%20tracks.zip?dl=1

I think the unused tracks were released just a few years ago by Rik Schaffer, and perhaps Wesp5 had something to do with it as well?

edit: woops misread what you wrote, whatever. enjoy the original ost

 

[conan_edw]

The countdown music sounded like it was derived from the original game which is assuring that he didn't lose it yet

 

[Orma]

The only potential problem here is the OST and music selection,

They played random trash on the livestream event and we haven't heard anything from the game itself yet

Thanks RPG Watch for bringing this to my attention, a forum that gives a shit about games.

Ok, perfect now

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

What makes me excited is how passionate and professional Hardsuit Labs is. They all seem very talented and are good devs, and they're all passionate about the project. That usually leads to great results, especially when the publisher is also very passionate. Passion projects turn into cult classics.

 

[FreeKaner]

All the display of awkward larp in marketing shows that they are dorkish nerds that care, which is always good news.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Yep. And they all mentioned how rare this was, that they reached out to Paradox and Paradox was all in from the start. We got very lucky it happened like that, and shows initiative and passion right from the start. So it has all the makings of being a classic game when it releases.

 

[GrainWetski]

Oh man, awesome that they got Rik Schaffer. Now we only need a licensed club track or two from Chiasm and it's all gewd.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Sounds like it would make a great club song in Bloodlines 2.

 

[d1r]

What makes me excited is how passionate and professional Hardsuit Labs is. They all seem very talented and are good devs, and they're all passionate about the project. That usually leads to great results, especially when the publisher is also very passionate. Passion projects turn into cult classics.

The trailer looked generic as fuck though. Could have been a "Vampyr" trailer as well, if I didnt know that a Bloodlines 2 was in the works.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

The trailer looked generic as fuck though. Could have been a "Vampyr" trailer as well, if I didnt know that a Bloodlines 2 was in the works.

The trailer was just okay, wasn't amazing but wasn't terrible either. I wouldn't worry about a trailer when Brian said the game feels just like Bloodlines when you play it.

 

[conan_edw]

Honestly I was going to say it's not like the first game trailer was good anyway but after rewatching it, it at least had some indications of what to expect.

 

[Space Satan]

this game will be Numenera once again....

 

[Perkel]

What makes me excited is how passionate and professional Hardsuit Labs is. They all seem very talented and are good devs, and they're all passionate about the project. That usually leads to great results, especially when the publisher is also very passionate. Passion projects turn into cult classics.

We'll see.
Underworld Ascendant also was "passion project" and we saw how it ended up.

That being said Dead State was good game so there is still hope.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Aaaa this game sounds like it's made for me!!!

So excited and so grateful to all of you for convincing me to play Bloodlines 1!!! Now I can legit act like that girl that totally played the original game before it was a big deal even if it was only a couple days before the announcement lol

 

[Konjad]

It seems too good to be true. Something somewhere must go completely wrong and botch the whole thing.

 

[Delterius]

It seems too good to be true. Something somewhere must go completely wrong and botch the whole thing.

Outer Worlds

 

[Doma]

I'm just hyped that they are making the game.

The teaser was not that good. If it did not have the name at the end, it could have been "Dishonored: Vampire Edition"

We need gameplay that shows the RPG parts.

Cool that they got the old gang back together as much as they could with the writer and composer. Guys at Obsidian being out of reach of course.

I like this and I think it will be fun to play.

 

[Zombra]

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:
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

Typical sleazy game journalist, got it.
Note my short answer there is not a dismissal ... seems like there was a lot of this.

while pushing progressive politics

I saw one mention of "I'd like more women to be in games, particularly women of color". Is this the sounding horn of white genocide? No, I get it, if pushing for non-white-male representation is a bad thing, I get why she is "problematic". Clearly she supports progressive politics (as does Mitsoda, quietly) and that will reflect in the writing.

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.

Well - as the article you linked says, she posted an article about how she felt. What the devs did from there was their own decision. She hardly led any kind of crusade to ruin them, and I don't see her discomfort with rape scenes as boding at all ill for Bloodlines 2. Personally I found the sexuality in Bloodlines welcoming and positive. Even Romero and the porn shop guy were sleazy but not rapey. From the penis article I don't get the impression that Ellison's sleaze-averse. In terms of sexual tone she's already a much better candidate than anyone else I could name offhand, even Mitsoda himself after he got married and dialed it back.

After that she somehow managed to get into the games industry in a writing capacity as a Narrative consultant through writing a book called "A Year On The Couch With Game Developers", leveraging her English major. 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

I'd hardly call "I don’t always see eye to eye with her" "singing the gospel".
That tweet was sexist as hell though.

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.

Shrug, I don't expect super harsh criticism of high-profile projects anyway. But I'll bear it in mind.

Thanks for the informative links, be sure to tag or quote me next time if you want to be sure I see them.

 

[Van-d-all]

this game will be Numenera once again....

This describes my feelings perfectly. It's not that they won't try, it's that their perception and thus recreation of VtmB will be massively different.

 

[Paul_cz]

Wow, Rik Schaffer composing for this again means that I really am all in, moment they announce Collector's it will be mine.
So far everything sounds great. Trailer was nice too. I want to meet that cleaved lady in game.