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

[HansDampf]

Can't tell if they're trying too hard to hit the same notes as the first game, or if it's just the fanservice-y trailers. Is that woman in the club their version of the flirty vampire waifu? Then they are setting themselves up to fail. They won't beat Tourette. And I still can't get over "Prince Cross". Next we'll meet the new Anarch leader Tens Fernandez, the Nosferatu Bernhart Zung, and comic relief character Officer Honk.
And the character/face models look really awkward.

 

[user]

Some models felt like they were made out of plastic, a lot of animations were awkward, blood vfx was terrible... Can get past all that if it turns out to be half the rpg Bloodlines was. Liked the vibe of the trailer and they don't seem to shy away from at least some degree of perversion and violence, which is good news for everyone here!

 

[moon knight]

Trailer was nice. This was never gonna have the 100 million AAA polish and expecting that is misguided. It will live or die by its writing, atmosphere and quest design.

The Witcher 2 looks much better and is 10 years older than this game

 

[Prime Junta]

Trailer was nice. This was never gonna have the 100 million AAA polish and expecting that is misguided. It will live or die by its writing, atmosphere and quest design.

The Witcher 2 looks much better and is 10 years older than this game

 

[Zer0wing]

The Witcher 2 looks much better and is 10 years older than this game

The lighting is pure ass in TW2. Your precious Triss model looks like shiny metal doll instead of real human.

 

[Roguey]

The trailer feels really fake, feels even less impressive than before. Only looking forward to the soundtrack at this point

The downgrade suggests this is real.

Spoiler

The Witcher 2 looks much better and is 10 years older than this game

Witcher 2 was made by some of the best artists in the biz and benefited from the cost of Polish labor.

Compare BL2 to uh... Alpha Protocol.

 

[moon knight]

The lighting is pure ass in TW2. Your precious Triss model looks like shiny metal doll instead of real human.

Spoiler

It still holds up. Because the overall graphic quality of a game is more of the sum of its parts. It's about artistic direction.

 

[Zer0wing]

The downgrade suggests this is real.

Or it was all CGI.

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah, the announcement trailer was a prerendered cinematic. It's like saying Witcher 3's downgrade was because it didn't look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs

Anyway, I'm waiting for the gameplay.

 

[Roguey]

Or it was all CGI.

It's all cg but I know what you mean.

 

[Technomancer]

Only looking forward to the soundtrack at this point

I have my doubts that Schaffer will replicate success of his past work. He said it himself, when he wrote soundtrack for bloodlines his life was in a black line and that influenced his work, infused with his emotions he made dark and moody themes.

Right now he is old, successful and content, I don't expect a man like that writing something like this:

 

[Ninjerk]

Wasn't the Bloodlines ST even more lifted than Fallout's?

 

[Wunderbar]

Ninjerk only main menu theme afaik.

 

[Zer0wing]

Wasn't the Bloodlines ST even more lifted than Fallout's?

Nothing can beat Fallout on that. Bloodlines just had a bunch of licensed music and main menu sounding like a Massive Attack rip-off but that's because Troika was unable to license the original track.

 

[Delterius]

Wasn't the Bloodlines ST even more lifted than Fallout's?

ppl don't really include the club themes (which i think are lifted) in the ost tbh

 

[agris]

Wasn't the Bloodlines ST even more lifted than Fallout's?

That’s a tall order, not sure how you could do that short if just renaming the ripped files.

 

[Ninjerk]

I could swear when I played it that there was a somewhat obscure YT video with side-by-side comparisons of the Bloodlines tracks in particular but I can't easily find it now.

 

[DeepOcean]

Yeah, the announcement trailer was a prerendered cinematic. It's like saying Witcher 3's downgrade was because it didn't look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs

Anyway, I'm waiting for the gameplay.

Witcher 3 downgrade still looked good, it wasnt as good but it was a good looking game, this is looking worse than Vampyr or Greedfall, the face of the Lex Luthor/Arthur Fleck insert is really shit, go on youtube and search for "Blender face modelling" and you will see stuff better than that.

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah, the announcement trailer was a prerendered cinematic. It's like saying Witcher 3's downgrade was because it didn't look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs

Anyway, I'm waiting for the gameplay.

Witcher 3 downgrade still looked good, it wasnt as good but it was a good looking game, this is looking worse than Vampyr or Greedfall, the face of the Lex Luthor/Arthur Fleck insert is really shit, go on youtube and search for "Blender face modelling" and you will see stuff better than that.

Well ironically this was the trailer they put together for the announcement that the game was going to be on NEXT-GEN consoles: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/07/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-coming-to-xbox-series-x/

The trailer just feels kind of rushed to me. The concept wasn't bad.

 

[Delterius]

Sailor Woedica 's new portrait announced.

 

[Lacrymas]

That's some of the worst hair I've ever seen in a game. It looks like it's made of wax but oily at the same time. Maybe varnished wood that has been stapled to the head.

 

[Zer0wing]

Well ironically this was the trailer they put together for the announcement that the game was going to be on NEXT-GEN consoles: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/07/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-coming-to-xbox-series-x/

It's a cross-gen title, so of course it's going to look like ass. They all look like ass, remember PS3-PS4 cross-gen titles? Or Rise of the Tomb Raider?

 

[Semiurge]

They want a power fantasy for women and minorities while most of us here want something prestigious and monocled.

Did anyone even think this wasn't made with the target group in mind - PnP players, mostly girls who follow the V5 rulebook:

Lest we forget. Even Damp is tailored with them in mind.

The lighting is pure ass in TW2. Your precious Triss model looks like shiny metal doll instead of real human.

There was dithering in the shadows, but that was a small bother when the game looked like this almost nine years ago:

 

[Paul_cz]

Witcher 2 was years ahead of its time, graphically. Great blend of high quality art and engine designed around high end PCs. Not constrained by lowest common denominator.

But Bloodlines 2 will look good too. Even if some of its aspects might not be completely 100% amazing.

 

[Ibn Sina]

Witcher 2 was great.. Bloodlines 2 on the other hand looks like a game that was amateurishly hastily cobbled together for an indie gaming jam. Their music taste also sucks donkey ass.