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

[Vincente]

Really a nice piece, captures the eerie and creepy feeling of WoD, on par with most of Rik's works, wouldn't be surprised if he himself made this one.

Damn.

 

[GrainWetski]

The "essence" of Bloodlines seems easier to replicate than Torment's or at least easier to figure out, also Numanuma had a different setting and a different story lead which in hindsight should have been red flags. Add to that that Torment's strength was the novelty or cliche-breaking if you will which made it so memorable, it is rather hard to replicate novelty. In Bloodlines, at least for me, the main strength came from the fact that it came closest (but not as close as it could) to Deus Ex in its genre hybrid style adding in decent writing and more cRPG elements. The devs seem to realize this strength which gives some hope, but they can still fuck up.

If it is a fuck up which of course it can be it shouldn't be as monumental as Numanuma was. There is hope for the gameplay, the storytelling though might suffer due to CURRENT YEAR issues. We will see how bad it is when the game comes out, I expect it will pollute some side quests. Battletech's hysteria over pronouns and SJW activism turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, a minor and irrelevant flaw when considering all the other issues with that game.

Devs focusing on pandering and virtue signalling is a huge red flag that they don't really care much about the actual game, so it really isn't a "tempest in a teapot".

The gameplay will be the generic console action game tripe that we've seen over and over in "RPGs" for the last decade or so. You should know what that entails by now. That's not to say the first one's combat was anything worth mentioning, but this'll be even more generic.

 

[fantadomat]

Really a nice piece, captures the eerie and creepy feeling of WoD, on par with most of Rik's works, wouldn't be surprised if he himself made this one.

Damn.

Fuck,this sounds like something composed by Yasuharu Takanashi,it really reminds me of Jigoku Shoujo 's sountrack.

 

[Lacrymas]

If they give us a stealth option, we can at least ignore the combat.

 

[Delterius]

If they give us a stealth option, we can at least ignore the combat.

Impossible. This is going to be a melee shooter game with no options.

 

[Prime Junta]

50yo boomers

boomers are 70yo fam

50yos are Gen-X

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I should know

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not quite there yet tho

 

[fantadomat]

If they give us a stealth option, we can at least ignore the combat.

But what if it is the only good thing about the game?

 

[Latelistener]

Should have at least used this for the trailer:



Unfortunately it seems like they have no fucking clue.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Vampire in Red Dead Redemption 2 too

Actually for those of You owning Xbox OX or PS4 there is real vampire in Red Dead Redemption 2 to find out [ you must first find some writings around Saint Denis ] here is a article:
https://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemption-2-vampire/ , im going to find dat friend tonigh on my xbox as addon finishin whole Bloodlines and Redemption titles once again.
As for RDR2 you gain cool weapon after deal with nosferatu there...

 

[Space Nugget]

If they give us a stealth option, we can at least ignore the combat.

Impossible. This is going to be a melee shooter game with no options.

"You can use your social skills like seduction or negotiation, or you can just be smart about [navigating] the environment, to go around combat," said Paradox lead producer Christian Schlutter.

 

[Delterius]

If they give us a stealth option, we can at least ignore the combat.

Impossible. This is going to be a melee shooter game with no options.

“You can use your social skills like seduction or negotiation, or you can just be smart about [navigating] the environment, to go around combat,” said Paradox lead producer Christian Schlutter.

Source: https://variety.com/2019/gaming/fea...odlines-2-builds-on-series-legacy-1203169976/

All lies. Don't be naive. Start extrapolating.

 

[FreeKaner]

50yo boomers

boomers are 70yo fam

50yos are Gen-X

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I should know

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not quite there yet tho

30-180 yo boomers.

 

[Storyfag]

To celebrate the announcement, I shall let you skanks in on a secret.

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I have exactly one tattoo.

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[Sykar]

The real question will be...

... will Wesp finally abandon modding Bloodlines and move on to the sequel?

You can ask Wesp5

He will continue working on it from his grave until the end of time.

 

[FreeKaner]

Fuck,this sounds like something composed by Yasuharu Takanashi,it really reminds me of Jigoku Shoujo 's sountrack.

It is because Japanese copy western music. More often not in synthetic, soulless ways.

 

[fantadomat]

Fuck,this sounds like something composed by Yasuharu Takanashi,it really reminds me of Jigoku Shoujo 's sountrack.

It is because Japanese copy western music. More often not in synthetic, soulless ways.

Do you even know what you are talking about? The jap shit came 14 years before that tender song.

 

[hexer]

To celebrate the announcement, I shall let you skanks in on a secret.

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I have exactly one tattoo.

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I have many tattoos. But they shall remain a secret.

 

[Prime Junta]

you know what i'm excited about?


port of vtm:b to the vtm:b2 engine

 

[FreeKaner]

Do you even know what you are talking about? The jap shit came 14 years before that tender song.

The entire video game culture of Japan is built on the Western one. Including its music which uses western scale, influences, traditions and cultural trends like this. It is not about tender or that Jap song in particular but how the whole Japanese video game industry is a frankenstein made of western influences with Japanese perspective. As to be both superficial and distilled for a Japanese audience.

It should come as no surprise really, an imitation cannot be as good as original, even when it is competent. At its best it is a successful rip-off and at its worst it is shallow derivation.

 

[fantadomat]

Hahahaha it seems the game will also be on epic,maybe that is why it is 2020 release on steam and gog. Did anyone post this?

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2/home

 

[ga♥]

I just don't understand why generate so much hype now, 1 FUCKING YEAR AWAY FROM RELEASE (1 year if optimistic, wouldn't be surprised if it gets 1 year and half, or oven two).

Also, are they planning to go on with the Tender ARG for the whole year?

 

[Space Nugget]

Hahahaha it seems the game will also be on epic,maybe that is why it is 2020 release on steam and gog. Did anyone post this?

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2/home

 

[Delterius]

Hahahaha it seems the game will also be on epic,maybe that is why it is 2020 release on steam and gog. Did anyone post this?

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2/home

for now

 

[vota DC]

If they give us a stealth option, we can at least ignore the combat.

In old game stealth was useless against bosses while was great against generic enemies and to avoid combat, in early game was vastly superior to fireweapons.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Another good game resurrected as an SJW abomination by a squad of weirdos? I wish I could get at least a little indignant by now.