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

[Fedora Master]

The absolute best we can hope for is a mechanically average game with a story that is only mildly woke. Like TOW. Forgotten about in 3 months. Like all those recent vampire/Lovecraft walking sims.

 

[Infinitron]

Wtf does a livestream at 23:00 PT? Well it's up on YouTube now:

 

[hivemind]

is this game gonna be good

i'm not reading your autistic back and forth over 300 pages just give me the qucik rundown of the current impressions

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Don't judge a book by its cover

I hate this saying. If you care so little about something you worked on for months if not years to give it a shitty cover then I'm going to judge you for it

 

[Roguey]

is this game gonna be good

i'm not reading your autistic back and forth over 300 pages just give me the qucik rundown of the current impressions

We haven't seen any new footage in a long time.

 

[Frozen]

That "woman" from the video looks like that crazy feminist lesbian comedian that should be in an institution.

 

[ColonelTeacup]

Lou Grand, buxom leader of the Pioneers:

Spoiler

DAMN SON

LoL you naive summer child,it is tranny/trap!

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[DalekFlay]

is this game gonna be good

i'm not reading your autistic back and forth over 300 pages just give me the qucik rundown of the current impressions

Good... bad... who knows. What I do know is it'll be worth playing, because so few of these types of games are made.

 

[Fedora Master]

is this game gonna be good

i'm not reading your autistic back and forth over 300 pages just give me the qucik rundown of the current impressions

Good... bad... who knows. What I do know is it'll be worth playing, because so few of these types of games are made.

That's like saying catching an Std is good because it's so rare.

 

[DalekFlay]

That's like saying catching an Std is good because it's so rare.

Codex lulz and all that, but I don't get the analogy. Deus Ex/Bloodlines/Prey style games are good things, STDs are not. If STDs were enjoyable then yeah, I'd take herpes over nothing. Can't always shoot for full blown AIDs.

 

[fantadomat]

Lou Grand, buxom leader of the Pioneers:

Spoiler

DAMN SON

LoL you naive summer child,it is tranny/trap!

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[Fedora Master]

That's like saying catching an Std is good because it's so rare.

Codex lulz and all that, but I don't get the analogy. Deus Ex/Bloodlines/Prey style games are good things, STDs are not. If STDs were enjoyable then yeah, I'd take herpes over nothing. Can't always shoot for full blown AIDs.

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

 

[GhostCow]

That's like saying catching an Std is good because it's so rare.

Codex lulz and all that, but I don't get the analogy. Deus Ex/Bloodlines/Prey style games are good things, STDs are not. If STDs were enjoyable then yeah, I'd take herpes over nothing. Can't always shoot for full blown AIDs.

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

There's plenty of gameplay here

My biggest complaint is the camera zooming out to third person at random times. I hate it so much.

 

[Fedora Master]

I see, I was behind with info then.

 

[user]

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

As I see it, these blood feelings bonuses or whatever they call them, hint to the latter unfortunately. Hopefully drinking blood will be more about your survival and less about having to get the right buff for a stat check.

 

[DalekFlay]

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

It can't possibly be worse than Deus Ex: Invisible War, and that game was worth playing (and even replaying) for the same "immersive sims are rare" reason.

 

[GhostCow]

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

It can't possibly be worse than Deus Ex: Invisible War, and that game was worth playing (and even replaying) for the same "immersive sims are rare" reason.

Funny you should mention that. I'm the one person who liked that game and I was just thinking a few minutes ago that when I finish my GMDX run I'll replay it and then write a post defending it. Or maybe I'll finally see how shit it is. Who knows.

 

[Zombra]

Recently visited Seattle. Not thinking about it, I just rewatched that gameplay from August. Was neat to see the King Street Station clocktower after I was just there a couple weeks ago

 

[Sarkile]

I was contemplating giving IW a replay recently myself. I kind of enjoyed it when I played it on release, but it was a really disappointing follow up to the original.

 

[GhostCow]

I was contemplating giving IW a replay recently myself. I kind of enjoyed it when I played it on release, but it was a really disappointing follow up to the original.

At the time I liked it more than the original for reasons that I can't remember now - thus the replay. Now that I'm playing GMDX I'm wondering how I ever liked it more. I don't know if the original seems better to me now that I'm older and know a lot more about government and politics or if it's just because GMDX makes it that much better. I hope replaying IW helps me remember.

 

[DalekFlay]

If you can get past IW's technical and scope shortcomings due to it being made for Xbox it has a lot of appealing stuff in it. Still the worst immersive sim ever made though.

 

[J1M]

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

It can't possibly be worse than Deus Ex: Invisible War, and that game was worth playing (and even replaying) for the same "immersive sims are rare" reason.

Funny you should mention that. I'm the one person who liked that game and I was just thinking a few minutes ago that when I finish my GMDX run I'll replay it and then write a post defending it. Or maybe I'll finally see how shit it is. Who knows.

See if you can beat my time of 44 minutes.
(One of the only things I applaud about that game is giving the player 3 upgrades at the start that they can put wherever they would like.)

 

[agris]

That's like saying catching an Std is good because it's so rare.

Codex lulz and all that, but I don't get the analogy. Deus Ex/Bloodlines/Prey style games are good things, STDs are not. If STDs were enjoyable then yeah, I'd take herpes over nothing. Can't always shoot for full blown AIDs.

But you're presupposing the game will be good purely because it belongs to a certain genre. Or claims to - We've not seen actual gameplay so it could be anything from a faithful recreation of Bloodlines 1 to a first person popamole to a walking sim with Stat checks.

Correction m’lady: we have seen gameplay. Including NPCs with strange rigor mortis.

edit: apparently mlady was already informed.

 

[Zer0wing]

If you can get past IW's technical and scope shortcomings due to it being made for Xbox it has a lot of appealing stuff in it. Still the worst immersive sim ever made though.

IW has no excuse to be like that because it is not the only game that came out on Xbox. Star Wars Republic Commando was an Xbox game and has great looking environment. Hell, backported Xbox HL2 looks okay. Practically any PC-Xbox game of that era looks and works better than IW.

 

[Delterius]

ng NPCs with strange rigor mortis.

Dun dun DUM