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

[Monolith]

Wowowow, Vampire 2 + Brian Mitsoda! That woke me right out of my coffin. Made me look up from Battle Brothers for a sec.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Lacroix saying "A bomb" with the same voice and tone of JC Denton would be funny.

But they cut clans and disciplines, much to the annoyance of people who want feature parity with its predecessor

They already promised the missing Gangrel and Nosferatu clans as free DLC, and I can't fight the feeling that third person view has something to do with this. Like how would Protean or Obfuscate look from first person view? Not like very much !

With only 2 disciplines instead of 3 for clan they can have the original Clans with more chance to have unique powers. They would be lazy and coward if they don't try. Seriously.
Malkavian dementation
Ventrue dominate
Bruja potence
Nosferatu obfuscate
Toreador presence
Tremere thaumaturgy
Gangrel protean

Then toreador and bruja share celerity, tremere and malkavian auspex, nosferatu and gangrel animalism.

I personally would prefer Nightmare from Requiem for Nosferatu, Obfuscate is not a good discipline for vidya (I don't particularly like Obfuscate in general, it tends to engender uncreativity in players).

 

[Steezus]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

 

[Delterius]

I hope someone mods Brian's fingerless gloves into the game. +1 to Security.

 

[Infinitron]

There was a different, longer gameplay reel there. Starts here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/437563643?t=03h14m

 

[Delterius]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

he's allergic to normies

 

[Vincente]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

Spoiler

So he can do his cosplay, what else?

 

[BANANA CONDUCT]

I'm really liking the verticality. One of the things I enjoy most in this type of game is climbing into high places. I hope there's plenty of exploration to be done that way.
Shit, apparently you can even fly. Wonder how well they'll pull that off

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Yeah shame about the facial animations, it was a huge factor in the charm of the original. VO sounds wooden compared to the likes of Jack, Jeanette, Bertram, or VV too.

In the latest interview, Mitsoda says the voice actors are "the perfect cast," and "people are gonna be so psyched when they see the list of voice actors." Apparently, they have the same voice director as the original Bloodlines (somebody Tang?).

If you watch the extended gameplay footage, I think the few sequences where you see an NPC talking sound better than the voice over does in isolation. Like the sexy vampire lady who tells you to find Slug: her face is totally expressionless (hope this is a placeholder!), but the voice actress is doing a great job. Same for the Nosferatu in the sewers who tells you where to find Slug--his face is more expressive, too (though that's not saying much).

At first I found the voice of the guy who gives you your vampire orientation pretty off-putting, but then you see the character and it fits. He's a huge dork, so his lines are meant to be irritating. Shit like "welcome to the first day of the rest of your death" makes me want to punch that guy in the face and I think that's the point.

Even though there's a lot of jank in this footage, they're getting the atmosphere right.

 

[Nano]

Ok, what's up with Mitsoda's fingerless gloves? lol

They look cool.

they have the same voice director as the original Bloodlines (somebody Tang?).

Margaret Tang. She also had the same role on Alpha Protocol and Mask of the Betrayer.

 

[Mr. Hiver]

Like the sexy vampire lady

Nothing especially sexy about her. The situation doesnt require any enhanced tones in the voice. Or any kind of extra expressions.
Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

 

[Zombra]

Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

Of course it did, because Source isn't photorealistic, but it was very expressive in its clunky way and had plenty of personality. Is that better or worse than a solid lump of wax whose lips don't even move?

 

[Delterius]

Like the sexy vampire lady

Nothing especially sexy about her. The situation doesnt require any enhanced tones in the voice. Or any kind of extra expressions.
Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

this is your brain on anime, porn and anime porn

janjetina and the pope shall pray for you

 

[HansDampf]

Brian Mitsoda on Twitch E3 broadcast:

The city looks good.

At 3:16:20, isn't that the Malkavian chick?

 

[Vibalist]

Bloodlines had every NPc grimacing at you and wiggling their eyebrows suggestively and it looked fake as fuk.

Of course it did, because Source isn't photorealistic, but it was very expressive in its clunky way and had plenty of personality. Is that better or worse than a solid lump of wax whose lips don't even move?

+1. It's impressive how a buggy, 2004 source game didn't enter the uncanny valley once (at least not with its facial expressions, walking animations are a whole other thing), whereas many new games with supposedly photorealistic graphics look like Prosper's wet dream.

 

[Orma]

Some melee gameplay

 

[Mr. Hiver]

this is your brain on anime, porn and anime porn

janjetina and the pope shall pray for you

A female is giving you the first basic task in the opening of the game.

the codex: oooooohhh sexyyy laaydy. (besides, doesnt she look like that mass defect megan "journalist" something?)

no i dont mind character not having 35 different expressions for five seconds of dialogue.

 

[Starwars]

Tang being the voice director is really excellent news. Bloodlines is the best of the bunch but I think all of those 3 games (MotB and Alpha Protocol) had a certain presence in the voiceacting that most games simply do not. Not really familiar with whatever else she's done but those 3 games always stood out to me in a big way when it comes to VA.

 

[Vincente]

isn't that the Malkavian chick?

I think that's Dementation at work, used on you, so you see every ghoul (think the ghouls from Grout's Mansion with hockey masks and hospital overalls) as her.

 

[waterdeep]

Face it, this game won't hold a candle to the SOUL of the original game

 

[Nines_Anarch]

Just add the appropiate music and incline xd

 

[vota DC]

Lacroix saying "A bomb" with the same voice and tone of JC Denton would be funny.

But they cut clans and disciplines, much to the annoyance of people who want feature parity with its predecessor

They already promised the missing Gangrel and Nosferatu clans as free DLC, and I can't fight the feeling that third person view has something to do with this. Like how would Protean or Obfuscate look from first person view? Not like very much !

With only 2 disciplines instead of 3 for clan they can have the original Clans with more chance to have unique powers. They would be lazy and coward if they don't try. Seriously.
Malkavian dementation
Ventrue dominate
Bruja potence
Nosferatu obfuscate
Toreador presence
Tremere thaumaturgy
Gangrel protean

Then toreador and bruja share celerity, tremere and malkavian auspex, nosferatu and gangrel animalism.

I personally would prefer Nightmare from Requiem for Nosferatu, Obfuscate is not a good discipline for vidya (I don't particularly like Obfuscate in general, it tends to engender uncreativity in players).

After first game they should have both: they seem really invisible, also lore reasons require them to stay concealed more than any other clan and new technology doesn't forgive, spreading a Nosferatu photo on whatsapp could be very fast. While Malkavian need it less, you alert porn sites with a photo of Jeanette rather than vampire hunters.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Obfuscate doesn't work against cameras or other technological methods, it's jedi mind trick and not actual invisibility (or changing shape or the sort, it's all just a telepathic override on the senses of observers).

Honestly I think Nosferatu would just kill fledglings who use Obfuscate instead of learning to ninja shit properly.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

Chad Malkavian vs Virgin Ventrue

Where is this poll at?

 

[Saerain]

They were just Twitch chat polls in the PC Gamer stream last night.