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

[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.

 

[Zer0wing]

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

It doesn't really look any better even with the best artists and lowest labor payment in the industry available for CD Projekt Red at that time, everything lacks in triangles despite rich geometry detail being the biggest shtick this game had, anisotropic filtering is nonexistent on your screenshots and overglow on the 2nd screenshot - holy shit, this OVERGLOW. Sorry but out of the box, UE4 still provides better, more precise lighting and character models aren't really any worse than 2011s game, sorry.

 

[Storyfag]

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.

I'm getting strong DA: Inquisition vibes.

 

[Semiurge]

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

It doesn't really look any better even with the best artists and lowest labor payment in the industry available for CD Projekt Red at that time, everything lacks in triangles despite rich geometry detail being the biggest shtick this game had, anisotropic filtering is nonexistent on your screenshots and overglow on the 2nd screenshot - holy shit, this OVERGLOW. Sorry but out of the box, UE4 still provides better, more precise lighting and character models aren't really any worse than 2011s game, sorry.

Unreal Engine 4 was still in development when Witcher 2 came out. Also, Epic already had "a bit" more experience with game engines by then.

 

[Roguey]

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.

Still better than the butch cuts of The Outer Worlds.

 

[Semiurge]

SA forum is discussing in their Bloodlines 2 thread how consent fits into the concept of embrace and "The Kiss", how players of Bloodlines 1 are surely freaked by keeping Heather as a pet and feeding off her, and one poster even un-ironically introduces him/herself as a Marxist, I kid you not. That place has become a completely different entity from what it was during the early years.

 

[Delterius]

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.

Tbh you asked for it.

 

[Infinitron]

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.

Still better than the butch cuts of The Outer Worlds.

I think this is why devs like those haircuts. I can imagine every character with luxuriously long hair (like Elif) requiring special effort to get working properly.

More Bloodlines 2 hair:

 

[vortex]

inb4 another hair drama thread

 

[Cael]

inb4 another hair drama thread

Dude, nevermind the hair. That lipstick...!

 

[Lacrymas]

I think this is why devs like those haircuts.

Yes, I suspect as much. I'm playing through Human Revolution right now and nobody has long hair. If it's long, it's in a bun. You can see how unnatural long hair looks in BL2.

 

[fantadomat]

Fuck the old Vampire had better animations than this shit. Tho it is not really fair since the old one is one of the grand daddies of face animation quality standard.

 

[Danikas]

This shit looks like something made in SFM