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

[LESS T_T]

They started taking pre-orders in March, 2019. I thought, at that time, huh, they're gonna run pre-order for a year? And now it's going to be two years.

 

[Longes]

I laughed at Star Citizen people. Who's laughing now?

 

[thesheeep]

I laughed at Star Citizen people. Who's laughing now?

You can still laugh at Star Citizen people.
That's pretty hard to beat in terms of development time.

 

[True Ukrainian]

Definitely caught in development hell.

 

[Lambach]

Jenkem

YAAAAS KWEEN SLAY IT WITH THAT PREORDER GURRRRRRL

 

[Jenkem]

The game will be even better now with more time and polish.

Currency devalues over time, so this is money well spent.

 

[True Ukrainian]

I am willing to wait if it means the game won't ship with a bug that prevents me from completing it.

 

[Lambach]

Well, on the bright side, at least now they've got time to incorporate the recent Soy Revolution in Seattle into the game. Can't wait to participate in the struggles of the city's gender non-conforming Kindred as they bravely fight against the oppressive regime of Prince Tonald Drump von-OrangeNazi.

I am willing to wait if it means the game won't ship with a bug that prevents me from completing it.

That bug is called "the writing team" this time around, and there's no patching it.

 

[True Ukrainian]

All thin blooded are non gender conforming. Sex change is a level 1 thin blood alchemy discipline.

 

[Duraframe300]

Oh no, VTMB:2 has been delayed?



How will I ever cope....

Spoiler

... with the fact that it hasn't been cancelled yet.

 

[True Ukrainian]

If they wanted to be "topical" they could add Prince Tonald Drump and still make it interesting. Prince Tonald is a Ventrue, but a relatively young one and fallen out of favor with the Camarilla. The player can go the straight forward path and side with the Anarchs against him or investigate further.

Investigating further would reveal Prince Tonald has his own faction of supporters in the Cam, kind of like a secret society and you could join them to shore up his reign. Or you could reach out to the Cam and help them remove this upstart prince and install a proper ruler for Seattle, like Elder Bidet.

 

[just]

they really don't want to release it around the same time as cyberpunk

 

[Storyfag]

All thin blooded are non gender conforming. Sex change is a level 1 thin blood alchemy discipline.

Used to be possible only under level 2 Vicissitude. Pure decline.

 

[Hellion]

Only Chadisoft is brave enough to release Valchadla two days before Cybercuck.

 

[compvet24]

You can have all the time in the world, and you'll still spit on a plate and serve it your customers. Unless they've ditched certain members from their team, I don't imagine they'll be able to live up to that 'quality and ambition' that they are apparently holding themselves accountable to.

 

[prengle]

please delay it indefinitely.

 

[Namesake]

Covid is a plausible excuse to delay to 2021 if they have to. CK3 is coming out soon, a good game for lockdowns, so Paradox should do okay in the meantime.

Absolutely clairvoyant.

 

[Infinitron]

I was expecting a delay but that part about "other organizational changes that will help us achieve this goal" is interesting.

 

[Namesake]

https://careers.hardsuitlabs.com/jo...rce=jooble&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=jooble

Well? Who's going to take one for the team and save this game from catastrophe?

 

[Infinitron]

Clearly the Hardsuit Labs of 2019 was not really up to the task of making this game. Turns out it takes a lot of institutional knowledge to produce this sort of RPG. People make fun of Obsidian but what they do isn't easy (and it took them years to figure it out).

 

[Häyhä]

Currency devalues over time, so this is money well spent.

If you paid 60$ for the pre-order, that means you'll be actually paying more for the game when it ships compared to people who buy it for 60$ on release two years later.

 

[Cael]

Currency devalues over time, so this is money well spent.

If you paid 60$ for the pre-order, that means you'll be actually paying more for the game when it ships compared to people who buy it for 60$ on release two years later.

Net present value is something that eludes a lot of people.

 

[mk0]

I was expecting a delay but that part about "other organizational changes that will help us achieve this goal" is interesting.

Maybe they're going to relocate to a more peaceful and conservative part of the country?

 

[Volrath]

Clearly the Hardsuit Labs of 2019 was not really up to the task of producing this game. Turns out it takes a lot of institutional knowledge to produce this sort of RPG. People make fun of Obsidian but what they do isn't easy (and it took them years to figure it out).

What exactly has Obshitian "found out"?

 

[Quillon]

What exactly has Obshitian "found out"?

efficient formulaic content making, which became stale & shit with time