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

[Sarkile]

Wait didn't the world of darkness go to shit thanks to Gehenna shortly after Bloodlines? How is Damsel around? Thought the new Vampire P&P was a completely different world? Am I wrong?

Only people who are really gone are some of the older vampires who can't resist the call of Gehenna and the Sabbat who followed it willingly, trying to kill the eldest. Damsel is too young and an Anarch.

TBH we used to think Damsel was the bald brujah with bad makeup from earlier promo material so its a good thing she still looks like herself.

Yeah, they rebooted that bit of lore some time ago. I know it has already been discussed in-depth in this thread.

 

[Harthwain]

Future retribution/Retribution to cumcome rather. Sounds retarded when directly translated to english, I know. But 'nemesis' is a noun in russian. And sounds cringy as fuck - "будущая немезида". Ugh.

"Retribution is coming" sounds like the best translation. Unless it's supposed to be the Nemesis, the Greek goddess (as in: she is supposed to fulfill the role of Nemezis by dispensing retribution). In that case "Incoming Nemezis" (or "Nemezis is coming") is probably better, because it preserves the original meaning.

 

[Roguey]

TBH we used to think Damsel was the bald brujah with bad makeup from earlier promo material so its a good thing she still looks like herself.

An older and uglier version of herself, though I suppose it could have been even worse.

 

[Slaver1]

Small/medium groups of ideological extremists based out of certain large American cities have horrible track records of creating video games. Now imagine a similar budget in a based European country (or even Japan) made by an equivalent sized team who have more natural sensibilities and you end up with a much different proposition.

 

[Saerain]

Small/medium groups of ideological extremists based out of certain large American cities have horrible track records of creating video games. Now imagine a similar budget in a based European country (or even Japan) made by an equivalent sized team who have more natural sensibilities and you end up with a much different proposition.

CDPR, Bloober, Nine Dots, Ice-Pick Lodge, Piranha Bytes... even Spiders, Funcom, or Arkane. Yes, I do believe you have a point.

 

[S.torch]

she still looks like herself

She doesn't.

 

[Fedora Master]

Small/medium groups of ideological extremists based out of certain large American cities have horrible track records of creating video games. Now imagine a similar budget in a based European country (or even Japan) made by an equivalent sized team who have more natural sensibilities and you end up with a much different proposition.

>Japs
>"Natural sensibilities"

 

[Zombra]

she still looks like herself

She doesn't.

Correct - she doesn't look like a party balloon with googly eyes sharpied on any more. The graphics are higher fidelity, we're going to see wrinkles, faces with shapes besides "circle", noses with shapes besides "line", etc. You'll have to learn to live with it somehow.

 

[S.torch]

The graphics are higher fidelity

No, she is just ugly now. Just like every other character that has appeared.

 

[Infinitron]

Bad Sector's post is correct: It's a reasonable adaptation of Damsel's appearance to a more realistic, less stylized graphical style. Could they have made her hawter? Certainly. But the people who are saying "that looks nothing like Damsel wtf" are being silly.

 

[Semiurge]

TBH we used to think Damsel was the bald brujah with bad makeup from earlier promo material so its a good thing she still looks like herself.

An older and uglier version of herself, though I suppose it could have been even worse.

That's Trash, not Damsel.

 

[Nano]

It's a reasonable adaptation of Damsel's appearance to a more realistic, less stylized graphical style.

No, it isn't. There are middle-aged women who look younger than BL2 Damsel, never mind the fact that she's supposed to be college-aged.

 

[S.torch]

No, she is not "realistic".
No, she doesn't look like the old Damsel.

How many excuses some of you will make to try to hide the obvious? She was made uglier. That's it. Just like in many other games where devs go out of their way to make ugly characters, see Outer Worlds, recent Mortal Kombat and Resident Evill games. Developers themselves admited openly that they made their characters uglier on purpose.

Yet, some of you will insult our intelligence trying to hide the obvious behind petty excuses than don't hold themselves even for a second.

 

[Semiurge]

She was made uglier.

She was never meant to be a sexpot, like Tourette or VV.

 

[Delterius]

It's a reasonable adaptation of Damsel's appearance to a more realistic, less stylized graphical style.

No, it isn't. There are middle-aged women who look younger than BL2 Damsel, never mind the fact that she's supposed to college-aged.

we can't all be 10/10s like ur mom

ha ha ha

She was made uglier.

She was never meant to be a sexpot, like Tourette or VV.

i raise you a venus

 

[Saerain]

It's a reasonable adaptation of Damsel's appearance to a more realistic, less stylized graphical style.

No, it isn't. There are middle-aged women who look younger than BL2 Damsel, never mind the fact that she's supposed to college-aged.

Well, college-aged and dead.

I'm not gonna say she looks good, but I might question whether she, specifically, should. Not even Toreador master race.

 

[Delterius]

It's a reasonable adaptation of Damsel's appearance to a more realistic, less stylized graphical style.

No, it isn't. There are middle-aged women who look younger than BL2 Damsel, never mind the fact that she's supposed to college-aged.

Well, college-aged and dead.

I'm not gonna say she looks good, but I might question whether she, specifically, should. Not even Toreador master race.

actually, giving 3d women nose shaped noses is how one kills western civilization

its nearly as bad as a crime as raping 3d women but we aren't feminists tbh

 

[Infinitron]

Developers themselves admited openly that they made their characters uglier on purpose.

That may be true, but not sure it's correct in this particular case, a game where people have reacted to certain female characters like this:

DAMN SON

Like, there are "hotties" in this game. They're selling a figurine of one of them in the Collector's Edition! Maybe they're hot in a more realistic way, but it's not a drab ugly people game.

 

[Nano]

Well, college-aged and dead.

I'm not gonna say she looks good, but I might question whether she, specifically, should. Not even Toreador master race.

What are you even on about? This is the vampire genre, not zombies.

 

[Delterius]

elif is cute

 

[Delterius]

Well, college-aged and dead.

I'm not gonna say she looks good, but I might question whether she, specifically, should. Not even Toreador master race.

What are you even on about? This is the vampire genre, not zombies.

brujah without at least a thrice broken nose before undeath is unrealistic tbh

 

[ZagorTeNej]

She was made uglier.

She was never meant to be a sexpot, like Tourette or VV.

Yeah, but she was still a cute, cool looking college chick type you'd flirt with. She certainly wasn't plain unattractive like she is now.

This has nothing to with more realistic graphics approach or some other bullshit excuse either. It's not a deal breaker or anything but no need to pretend.

 

[Delterius]

but she was still a cute

the character everyone used to hate because of being to the left of napalming vietnamese farmers

This has nothing to with more realistic graphics

some noses have ridges you know

 

[Roguey]

That's Trash, not Damsel.

This one?

 

[Jason Liang]

You know Brujah have Presence. Damsel was just using awe in the first game.