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

[Quillon]

I simply cannot stand vampires, I am sorry. I find them the most annoying thing ever, whether it's movies, games or fiction.

How about Fampyrs?

 

[fantadomat]

Just watched the whole gameplay part and it looks like DSP or a journo trying to play the game. It have been some time since we had such a glorious gamez skills.


A big negatives are how shit the radio voice is and how shit the club music is. I am surprised that people don't talk about it. Also the level/mission design seems poor. The guy that you are searching for is just waiting for you at the entry point for arbitrary chase sequence .

 

[AwesomeButton]

and how shit the club music is

I thought that was just for realism.

 

[HansDampf]

I want edgy gothic metal.

 

[leino]

how shit the radio voice is.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

that ign footage was painful to sit through. i liked the lighting, but everything else, ui/hud/animations was simply a mess. the retard playing didn't help, either. do they have anyone working there that actually played anything but phone trash in their life?

A big negatives are how shit the radio voice is.

nigger are you serious.

 

[Morgoth]

19 min gameplay w/o commentary:

 

[Zombra]

The problem is that combat in first person feels like a caveman smashing something with the same movements again and again, just like skyrim. theres a reason why melee combat is mostly played in third person even in the first bloodlines.

Go play Condemned: Criminal Intent. I'll wait.

 

[Zombra]

I know,I promise I will play it. Although I'm way past my vampire period.

You don't have to be "into" vampires at all to love Bloodlines.

 

[Zombra]

Also the game play feels like someone was playing with one hand only. The camera moves really slow for no reason.

Controller sensitivity appears to be set to minimum.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

The problem is that combat in first person feels like a caveman smashing something with the same movements again and again, just like skyrim. theres a reason why melee combat is mostly played in third person even in the first bloodlines.

Go play Condemned: Criminal Intent. I'll wait.

Zeno Clash and Chronicles of Riddick are also deece choices.

 

[agris]

dat quest compass in the vids



edit: i love how natural the NPCs look when just standing around

edit2: is there a version of the video that doesn't look like it was recorded in 16 bit color?

 

[Zombra]

I hand't watched anything about the game until E3, then a colleague from work who is a Vampire nut forced that video down my throat.

And then I guess he "forced" you to come into the thread and add your two cents, because however much you hate vampires, you sure love talking about them. Kinda like how I go drinking at gay clubs every night so I can tell everyone there I'm not gay.

I also didn't get what all these HUD bars were about and will ask him about it!

If I can piggyback on this, you might mention to them that some players enjoy turning off things in the HUD. I don't need all that screen clutter.

 

[fantadomat]

how shit the radio voice is.

nigger are you serious.

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

 

[agris]

I also didn't get what all these HUD bars were about and will ask him about it!

If I can piggyback on this, you might mention to them that some players enjoy turning off things in the HUD. I don't need all that screen clutter.

Seconded. I don't need constant POI indicators while I'm feeding on someone, quest status updates jumping into the upper right-hand side of the screen and staying there, and my currently selected weapon icon/diamond when i'm looking right at in the screen. it's a W3 mess in the video.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

that's brian mitsoda, who also did a lot of voicework for the first game, and his voice is fine. actually, the video would be much improved if instead of "playing" the game, the journalist would jsut stand around and listen to the radio.

 

[fantadomat]

Just watch the first 30 seconds in Morgoth 's video and tell me that the new voice is gud!!!

that's brian mitsoda, who also did a lot of voicework for the first game, and his voice is fine. actually, the video would be much improved if instead of "playing" the game, the journalist would jsut stand around and listen to the radio.

Yeah,i remember him being the dude that lied about having a yacht....at least that voice. Still couldn't hold a candle to the Deb of night! Oh and i agree that it would have been an improvement if he just sat there. Doesn't mean that he is gud tho.

 

[agris]

ragdolling an npc onto a railing only to have them balance at their hip over it was p. good use of physics

 

[Zombra]

ragdolling an npc onto a raililing only to have them balance at their hip over it was p. good use of physics

Yeah, I thought that was great. I wondered if it was staged but realized that whole sequence was one long take, just a nice incidental display.

 

[Infinitron]

GameSpot's version of the gameplay footage:

 

[Egosphere]

I kinda like it. Looks like there are different ways to approach the quests and there are decent options in the dialogue. Combat looks poor, but I didn't play the first one for the combat either.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Can't believe it's come to asking these question about a game that's supposed to give you multiple approaches.
Is there any stealth in this? Lethal/NonletNon-options? Extra points for completing certain missions without being detected, like in Vtmb 1? Have they said anything? Is there a sneak feat/skill?

 

[undecaf]

The video was surprisingly decent.

I don't even mind the janky combat. I've always thought it kinda comes with the territory of making RPG's and is part of the gameplay flow and character progression. Most newer "RPG's" that have gone more fluid and shootery with their combat mechanics, have usually been worse games for it (and many other things).

 

[Lord Andre]

This one doesn't look like it's played by a complete retard. I can still smell the controller stench on it though. Degenerates.

 

[1451]

It's a reskin of their dead game Blacklight, what a joke.