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

[Semiurge]

Made you look. There is no concrete evidence of this turd's progress. Now lock this thread down.

It is against Codex policy to lock threads, joindate:2020.

There's a whole subforum of locked threads here. This thread could easily take a little sabbatical in there, for about a year or for as long as is necessary.

 

[Roguey]

There's a whole subforum of locked threads here. This thread could easily take a little sabbathical in there, for about a year or for as long as is necessary.

Retardo'd threads don't come back and they're no longer available to the public.

 

[Semiurge]

There's a whole subforum of locked threads here. This thread could easily take a little sabbathical in there, for about a year or for as long as is necessary.

Retardo'd threads don't come back and they're no longer available to the public.

I'm sure there's no technical limitation keeping them there permanently, it's more a matter of will. Considering how this farce will end in a tragedy, retardo seems like the perfect resting place.

 

[sosmoflux]

This thread has stuck with me through some tough times. Don't you dare deprive us of its endless disappointment.

 

[Nano]

I'm sure there's no technical limitation keeping them there permanently, it's more a matter of will. Considering how this farce will end in a tragedy, retardo seems like the perfect resting place.

Who the hell shit in your cornflakes this morning?

 

[jakkis]

Sensible went from cannon fodder and mega-lo-mania to SWOS

 

[Semiurge]

This thread has stuck with me through some tough times. Don't you dare deprive us of its endless disappointment.

Don't give up hopw.

 

[Cross]

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Non-news teasing: the former Bioware guy hints at the secret project

CURRENT JOB: Principal Narrative Designer, TCR, on <REDACTED>

Judging from his Twitter feed, he's in favor of gender transitions for children and draconian censorship. Another quality hire. Though him being a writer on modern BioWare games should already have been disqualifying.

It just occurred to me that The Chinese Room is British. Apart from Deus Ex, it's hard to think of a game that feels more distinctly American than Bloodlines. So Paradox hired a British developer of walking simulators who have never made an actual game to produce a game steeped in American culture.

This game is going to be a disaster.

 

[Semiurge]

Made you look. There is no concrete evidence of this turd's progress. Now lock this thread down.

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Non-news teasing: the former Bioware guy hints at the secret project

CURRENT JOB: Principal Narrative Designer, TCR, on <REDACTED>

Judging from his Twitter feed, he's in favor of gender transitions for children and draconian censorship. Another quality hire. Though him being a writer on modern BioWare games should already have been disqualifying.

It just occurred to me that The Chinese Room is British. Apart from Deus Ex, it's hard to think of a game that feels more distinctly American than Bloodlines. So Paradox hired a British developer of walking simulators who have never made an actual game to produce a game steeped in American culture.

This game is going to be a disaster.

He uses the term >REDACTED<

 

[Tyranicon]

So Paradox hired a British developer of walking simulators who have never made an actual game to produce a game steeped in American culture.

I mean, it's set in Seattle, so it's more Canadian than it is American.

Although I do hope that they do what the Hitman devs do, and the "American" setting is some bastard child 1950's Euro perception of America. I love that shit.

He uses the term >REDACTED<

What is the connotation behind that term? I just thought it was from people who read SCP Foundation once upon a time, and other similiar fiction.

 

[Roguey]

Judging from his Twitter feed, he's in favor of gender transitions for children and draconian censorship. Another quality hire. Though him being a writer on modern BioWare games should already have been disqualifying.

All writers in the game industry are like this now. Going to be this way no matter what.

It just occurred to me that The Chinese Room is British. Apart from Deus Ex, it's hard to think of a game that feels more distinctly American than Bloodlines. So Paradox hired a British developer of walking simulators who have never made an actual game to produce a game steeped in American culture.

Eh, plenty of European devs make games that take place in the US. Coteries/Shadows of New York was done by Poles. Swansong was done by the French. The Americans had their chance and they botched it, too expensive.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

The entire world grows up watching American TV etc. at this point, so I'd agree that a British dev isn't necessarily a bad sign.

I'd be a lot more worried about their politics.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Retardo'd threads don't come back

Wrong.

 

[Roguey]

Updating you all that there will be no update yet:

Bloodlines won't be at this announcement show. We'll have more information to share at a later date however.

Given its alleged late-2023 release date, March is too early to nail the quarter. Could be Q3, more likely to be be Q4, could slip into Q1 2024.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

Updating you all that there will be no update yet:

Bloodlines won't be at this announcement show. We'll have more information to share at a later date however.

Given its alleged late-2023 release date, March is too early to nail the quarter. Could be Q3, more likely to be be Q4, could slip into Q1 2024.

Also, Harebrained confirmed to be showing up to this so that pretty much eliminates them as the Bloodlines 2 developer which is The Chinese Room.

 

[Roguey]

Also, Harebrained confirmed to be showing up to this so that pretty much eliminates them as the Bloodlines 2 developer which is The Chinese Room.

Harebrained is currently working on two projects. (though the other one is almost certainly not Bloodlines 2)

 

[user]

Maybe they finally realized that bloodlines will only truly shine as a strategy game and are keeping it as a last moment surprise.
I love speculating, so much hype around this, please keep this thread alive forever

 

[sosmoflux]

Do you think heads have cooled enough to get Mitsoda back?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Also, Harebrained confirmed to be showing up to this so that pretty much eliminates them as the Bloodlines 2 developer which is The Chinese Room.

Harebrained is currently working on two projects. (though the other one is almost certainly not Bloodlines 2)

Any chances for a new entry in the SRR series?

 

[Lambach]

Any chances for a new entry in the SRR series?

Haven't heard a single peep about it, it's like they forgot they own the IP. I haven't even seen a troll "Harebraibed developer here, dumping info on the new SR game" post on 4chan or something like that.

 

[Roguey]

Any chances for a new entry in the SRR series?

Haven't heard a single peep about it, it's like they forgot they own the IP. I haven't even seen a troll "Harebraibed developer here, dumping info on the new SR game" post on 4chan or something like that.

They don't own the IP and never did.

Yeah, Microsoft has owned Shadowrun since 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/2007031...ft.com/presspass/press/1999/jan99/fasapr.mspx

Microsoft owns Shadowrun and now also own multiple RPG studios. It seems unlikely that they would license out their IP to what is now a rival studio. Circumstances change.

Unless things have changed, the thing they're about to announce is an original IP. Their other game might be a licensed title, but it's more likely to be a World of Darkness game than a property owned by Microsoft (Shadowrun and Battletech).

 

[user]

Do you think heads have cooled enough to get Mitsoda back?

So you assume that they are not thinking with their ass in the first place, I find you highly optimistic

 

[J1M]

Made you look. There is no concrete evidence of this turd's progress. Now lock this thread down.

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Non-news teasing: the former Bioware guy hints at the secret project

CURRENT JOB: Principal Narrative Designer, TCR, on <REDACTED>

Judging from his Twitter feed, he's in favor of gender transitions for children and draconian censorship. Another quality hire. Though him being a writer on modern BioWare games should already have been disqualifying.

It just occurred to me that The Chinese Room is British. Apart from Deus Ex, it's hard to think of a game that feels more distinctly American than Bloodlines. So Paradox hired a British developer of walking simulators who have never made an actual game to produce a game steeped in American culture.

This game is going to be a disaster.

Sometimes an outsider's perspective is needed. AAA journos liked GTA's point of view on American culture, for example.

 

[cigaretteEnjoyer_despirit]

Made you look. There is no concrete evidence of this turd's progress. Now lock this thread down.

It is against Codex policy to lock threads, joindate:2020.

Non-news teasing: the former Bioware guy hints at the secret project

CURRENT JOB: Principal Narrative Designer, TCR, on <REDACTED>

Judging from his Twitter feed, he's in favor of gender transitions for children and draconian censorship. Another quality hire. Though him being a writer on modern BioWare games should already have been disqualifying.

It just occurred to me that The Chinese Room is British. Apart from Deus Ex, it's hard to think of a game that feels more distinctly American than Bloodlines. So Paradox hired a British developer of walking simulators who have never made an actual game to produce a game steeped in American culture.

This game is going to be a disaster.

A potential American writer would be just as far from the culture portrayed in Bloodlines as this Brit they went for. Honestly if they really wanted that, they would've hired someone from Central/Eastern Europe that still runs largely on this mythos, or maybe a media fetishist like Kojima.

 

[Roguey]

A potential American writer would be just as far from the culture portrayed in Bloodlines as this Brit they went for. Honestly if they really wanted that, they would've hired someone from Central/Eastern Europe that still runs largely on this mythos, or maybe a media fetishist like Kojima.

Arone's Canadian, though given that he's "principal" as opposed to lead that likely means he's doing the bulk of the writing determined by Dan Pinchbeck's guidelines (who would be too busy writing the original IP to write this himself).