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

[Lacrymas]

"I use methamphetamines every day. I'm not an abuser, though"

Again, choose one.

 

[Tao]

*realistic light

Christ, that was an uplifting lunchtime viewing. Probably too sensitive/charged subject matter for a mainstream game to embrace, though.

You dont need to go to Seattle, you can just go to the game discord server to live the experience. What a shithole

BTW they said at discord that V5 and Bloodline2 were create hand to hand, taking and making ideas between each other...

 

[Delterius]

"I use methamphetamines every day. I'm not an abuser, though"

Again, choose one.

i use them to clean my windows

 

[Echo Mirage]

They don't have a meth problem they just like the way it smells/tastes.

 

[Delterius]

They don't have a meth problem they just like the way it smells/tastes.

i sometimes lick my windows

 

[Herumor]

TBH, for now it sounds like Batman: Arkham City, but with dialogues and RPG character progression

The only positive thing about that would be the verticallity introduced in the game. For all that I enjoyed Redemption and Bloodlines, they were very grounded games, in terms of movement in the game-world.

This was something I was hoping to see more of utilized in that World of Darkness MMO by CCP, but we all know how that one turned out.

 

[Lacrymas]

I never once thought while playing either Redemeption or Bloodlines "hmm, this needs more wall climbing".

 

[Chainsaw Gutsfuck]

Emphasis on fluid combat, using vampiric speed to slide in and out of melee range and slash people and execute them with melee weapons. You can get special cinematic finishers in combat when you execute people a la Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Counters are in. Guns exist and are treated as temporary opportunities, you pick em up, use it, then discard it and move on.

So it seems they are going for a more focused approach this time, replacing the melee\ranged routes we had in the first game with just melee. I guess that's better than trying to do everything and ending up with a bunch of half assed systems like in the original.

I am much more concerned with the decision to focus on melee, I hope the combat system isn't being modeled after the Assassin's Creed or Batman paradigm.

 

[Delterius]

I never once thought while playing either Redemeption or Bloodlines "hmm, this needs more wall climbing".

that is because you lack in creativity

replacing the melee\ranged routes we had in the first game with just melee

it seems that firearms is still a skill, at least about to BM's twitter

 

[rusty_shackleford]

TBH, for now it sounds like Batman: Arkham City, but with dialogues and RPG character progression

The only positive thing about that would be the verticallity introduced in the game. For all that I enjoyed Redemption and Bloodlines, they were very grounded games, in terms of movement in the game-world.

This was something I was hoping to see more of utilized in that World of Darkness MMO by CCP, but we all know how that one turned out.

Who thought that music choice was a good idea?

 

[Chainsaw Gutsfuck]

Delterius yeah but it says guns are treated as temporary opportunities

 

[alyvain]

I never once thought while playing either Redemeption or Bloodlines "hmm, this needs more wall climbing".

Would've been cool to show LaCroix your Malkavian dong from the outside of the building, but yeah.

 

[Lacrymas]

I never once thought while playing either Redemeption or Bloodlines "hmm, this needs more wall climbing".

that is because you lack in creativity

If by "creativity" you mean "whatever random unnecessary thing pops into your mind" then yeah, maybe.

 

[frajaq]

wall climbing is good actually

 

[Mastermind]

melee was clunky in the original but firearms felt fine later in the game. you just didn't get access to any decent ones until 2/3 of the way through.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I wanted to play VTM:Bloodlines again, but I realized I didn't have my CD with me anymore. So I went to see how much it was on Steam.

20 FREAKING DOLLARS!!!

So I cruised on over to GOG and it's ON SALE 75% OFF FOR $2.49!

And Redemption, for all its popamole-ness, is even less!

 

[Delterius]

I never once thought while playing either Redemeption or Bloodlines "hmm, this needs more wall climbing".

that is because you lack in creativity

If by "creativity" you mean "whatever random unnecessary thing pops into your mind" then yeah, maybe.

climbing is cool

 

[alyvain]

wall climbing is good actually

If we play Batman or Prince of Persia, then maybe.
What the actual fuck is vertical oriented anyway? Was Novigrad vertical-oriented for these people? I hardly see how wall climbing can benefit dialogue-heavy RPG except for occasional breaking into buildings with evil concierge. Are they planning to create fully decorated apartments in all Seattle skyscrapers for you to perv or get into? I don't think so.

Climbing the walls just seems like such an unnecessary thing to promote about the game. Of course I can be seriously wrong, because we still don't know shit about this game, but this thing kinda bugs me.

 

[FreeKaner]

melee was clunky in the original but firearms felt fine later in the game. you just didn't get access to any decent ones until 2/3 of the way through.

You get access to a shotgun towards end of act 1. Shotgun is all the firearms you need.

 

[Delterius]

RPG except for occasional breaking

there you go

 

[razvedchiki]

excloosive video from the game

 

[Zer0wing]

This was something I was hoping to see more of utilized in that World of Darkness MMO by CCP, but we all know how that one turned out.

>Muh CCP

That fucking comment section, idealist cencus.

 

[Herumor]

Who thought that music choice was a good idea?

Just a guess, but someone who watched Queen of the Damned and actually enjoyed it.

What the actual fuck is vertical oriented anyway?

At its most basic, it's being allowed to traverse up or down in a game in a way that's more than using just the stairs or simply traversing above ground level in a non-standard way. I suppose recent examples of this could be either Dying Light or the modern Deus Ex games. The video I had linked in my previous post had a small part where the player character was jumping across rooftops and then afterwards actually leaping off said rooftop to land on the ground. Obviously, this could be expanded upon way, way more when you account for various Discipline powers and how you might use them.

 

[Wesp5]

Compared to modern games little is repetivie in Bloodlines and all interior maps are unique. But there are a lot of issues like they not fitting in the building from the outside and similar!

All the apartments in Skyline have the same layout. The interiors in the hotel at least /feel/ pretty repetitive. Same for Bishop Vic's digs and most combat areas (the downtown parking garage, the Sabbat nest, the Giovanni basement maze etc).

But this only makes sense, because flats in an appartment house have the same layout, as would one expect in a parking garage or a hotel. On the other hand why would small stand alone houses in different areas have exactly the same layouts?

 

[Life of the Party]