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

[rusty_shackleford]

But who kept sending you chess emails?

Maybe the upcoming Bloodlines Prelude mod will explain that ...

Clearly it was the Malkavian Primogen. He even has chess themed floor tiles all over his mansion.

This painting always reminded me of Nicolas Cage. Who, in fact, would be perfect as Malkavian Primogen.

That's a painting of his wife, though.

e: The texture is named "malkwifepic_texture".

on this topic I remember there being a fan theory that his wife isn't actually his wife, nor was Alistair actually a doctor prior to being embraced.
IIRC, the theory is that Alistair was a patient who was insane, being embraced made him sane. The "wife" is actually Ginger Swan(note the date of death): https://vtmb.fandom.com/wiki/Ginger_Swan

 

[Lacrymas]

>When No Means Yes

RAAAAPE!!! CARA, FAST! GET THIS GAME FROM 15 YEARS AGO BANNED!!1!1!!!1!11!!1!!

 

[turkishronin]

Vampires are the most oppressed minority. They literally have no other way to secure their food other than forcefully taking it from their oppressors

 

[Stokowski]

... Cara will have a more-than-trivial influence.

I'm sure Cara Ellison's contribution will be magnificent.

 

[NatureOfMan]

Chris Avellone is going to work on it? Good, at least I know that if Paradox make him design a communist transgender pansexual amputee vampire, it's going to be decently written.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Chris Avellone is going to work on it? Good, at least I know that if Paradox make him design a communist transgender pansexual amputee vampire, it's going to be decently written.

And there won't be any content that may offend someone

 

[Vibalist]

Rik Schaffer apparantly returning as composer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/b48gr5/rik_schaffer_is_returning_as_the_main_composer/

 

[fantadomat]

Good news or worse news depending on your perspective: according to CAvellone, he, CEllison, and bmitsoda are the only writers on this.

He lived enough to become the villein then.

All the people who thought the likes of Tides of Numenera and Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Pillars of Eternity had too many writers will now have something with a unified vision

Have no idea what you are talking about. They had problem with the quantity of the writers and not how many they were. I haven't noticed anyone to go full butthurt over how many people were writing that shitty fanfic.

From the looks of it Avellone is the best one of them all. Ellison is sjw jizz writer while Mitsoda is overrated in way,haven't seen anything good outside of vampire. Also bloodlines was never about masterful writing,it was simplistic writing that clicked well with the setting and atmosphere of the game. It wasn't something remarkable. Anyway,lets hole that Avellone doesn't go full progressive by the end of this game.

 

[Lambach]

*all-time favorite game gets a sequel announced*



*Cara Ellison is the senior writer in charge of side quests*

Welp, into the "not even worth pirating" bin it goes. Thanks, Mitsoda, you fat cunt.

 

[Delterius]

character sheet confirmed?

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

All the people who thought the likes of Tides of Numenera and Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Pillars of Eternity had too many writers will now have something with a unified vision

Less writers is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for good writing

Even with his hamfsted agendas, Dead State still had better writing and feel more refreshing than T:ToN and D:OS2 combined.

 

[Roguey]

They had problem with the quantity of the writers and not how many they were. I haven't noticed anyone to go full butthurt over how many people were writing that shitty fanfic.

It's not a criticism I agree with, but I have seen it thrown around here numerous times.

 

[vortex]

I wish they spend more time improving the gameplay then have overbearing walls of texts and lore dump dialogue.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

It's not a criticism I agree with, but I have seen it thrown around here numerous times.

It is basic common sense. You hire a bunch of people with different sensibilities and abilities to flesh out the game world and the result will be a mess. Imagine how ridiculous it would be to suggest hiring a bunch of writers to make each character of a novel or a movie. It’s a bad idea that only took root in cRPGs.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

I wish they spend more time improving the gameplay then have overbearing walls of texts and lore dump dialogue.

Deluded. They will spend all their efforts in conveying political messages via characters, dialogues and quests. The moment to moment gameplay will be atrocious and the interactive gameplay barebones.

 

[Prime Junta]

It's not a criticism I agree with, but I have seen it thrown around here numerous times.

citation needed

There have been complaints of a lack of unified creative vision, lack of coordination, and lack of cross-writing-team criticism which are IMO all legit. Don’t remember a lot of criticism about having a big writing team as such.

 

[Delterius]

I wish they spend more time improving the gameplay then have overbearing walls of texts and lore dump dialogue.

Deluded. They will spend all their efforts in conveying political messages via characters, dialogues and quests. The moment to moment gameplay will be atrocious and the interactive gameplay barebones.

going by this thread there's already 10 sidequests dedicated to converting your character to gay islam while aiding the muller investigations and disabling a russian troll farm in seattle

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Good news or worse news depending on your perspective: according to CAvellone, he, CEllison, and bmitsoda are the only writers on this.

This seems hard to believe. There are always various "Additional Writer" credits on games of this size.

My guess is that Brian and Cara are just the only ones MCA interacts with. On the other hand, we know that Brian and Chris are both capable of being incredibly prolific. MCA is a machine and he’s been working on this part time for two years. And it sure sounds like Brian was capable of churning out lots of text, though those games often end up cancelled (I really want to see what he wrote for TORN).

Hey, Vault Dweller, can you share any enlightening stories about Comrade Mitsoda from when you worked with him on Dead State?

 

[Lacrymas]

It's not a criticism I agree with, but I have seen it thrown around here numerous times.

citation needed

There have been complaints of a lack of unified creative vision, lack of coordination, and lack of cross-writing-team criticism which are IMO all legit. Don’t remember a lot of criticism about having a big writing team as such.

I've been harping on about too many cooks in the kitchen, but not because there are too many, but because it more often than not results in a meandering narrative and no coherent direction. I cite my own experience in working on a single creative project with a lot of people (a soundtrack for a film).

 

[someone else]

Why no silly game name for this thread?

 

[ColonelTeacup]

Why no silly game name for this thread?

Silly names are for happy occasions, pupper.

 

[Lambach]

Why no silly game name for this thread?

The content in the thread is too depressing to give it a silly name.

 

[Nines_Anarch]

I hope they will bring back songs like these:

 

[DavidBVal]

Let's be positive.

They could have picked Arcanum instead.

 

[boobio]

btw that Rudi is in the Core Manual and the Anarch Manual... who says he'll be in Bloodlines2?

It bears repeating on every page: this is a scan of one of the PnP books. This thing will likely not be present in Bloodlines 2.

If I remember right this Gentleman Gamer dude was very antigamergate at the time it was going on in 2013 in some of his videos on shittube.