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

[Storyfag]

Fuck the VtM: Redemption had better animations than this shit.

Improved

 

[fantadomat]

Fuck the VtM: Redemption had better animations than this shit.

Improved

I do agree with this fact.

 

[Lacrymas]

Redemption also has a better story and atmosphere.

 

[fantadomat]

Redemption also has a better story and atmosphere.

Yeah,it is a good game,tho the combat was a mess because of the AI just spamming retarded abilities and running out of blood.

 

[Danikas]

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

Which game has more prosperian vibe?

 

[fantadomat]

At least it will run on everyone's toaster.

 

[Cael]

This shit looks like something made in SFM

Dragon Age Origins had better graphics than that...

 

[fantadomat]

LoL lets be honest here,most of the game that came out in the last 20ish years have better face animations. Fuck even Knights of the Chalice has better faces. There is no need to come out and say how X game had a better faces. At least be original and say which game has worst faces than this one. I can't think of any...

 

[True Ukrainian]

In the book, Phillip K Dick doesn't say anything about Deckard being a Replicant. There are no hints either way, IIRC.

Ridley Scott is great at visuals but not too good at narrative. Deckard being a replicant ruins the whole point of the story, because it's about a human finding his humanity again thanks to not-humans. Anyway, Scott did say his intention was Deckard being a replicant but that you can take it however you want. The sequel doesn't say either way, and the director of that said it's up to the viewer.

Dick in an interview said that he always saw Deckard as human and wrote him that way.

 

[Zer0wing]

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.

Ah, so you're withdrawing your previous claim, finally. Case closed.

 

[Ninjerk]

In the book, Phillip K Dick doesn't say anything about Deckard being a Replicant. There are no hints either way, IIRC.

Ridley Scott is great at visuals but not too good at narrative. Deckard being a replicant ruins the whole point of the story, because it's about a human finding his humanity again thanks to not-humans. Anyway, Scott did say his intention was Deckard being a replicant but that you can take it however you want. The sequel doesn't say either way, and the director of that said it's up to the viewer.

Dick in an interview said that he always saw Deckard as human and wrote him that way.

Wasn't the screenplay written by William Burroughs or someone of that ilk? When I first read Dick's story (before watching Bladerunner, as I recall), I was surprised how different the book was from the movie.

 

[Harthwain]

Redemption also has a better story and atmosphere.

Yeah,it is a good game,tho the combat was a mess because of the AI just spamming retarded abilities and running out of blood.

Good story? Yes. Good game? Questionable.

Like you said - the combat was a mess and the whole system wasn't implemented in an interesting way either, and that despite combat being (on the mechanical level) the sole activity of the player (not counting a few C&Cs put here and there).

 

[Nines_Anarch]

Game looks very polished compared to last year. Still no release date though.

The new trailer looks like the second part of this one:



Btw those models and facial animations remind me of Tony Hawk's Underground (a PS2 game from 2003)...

Just a comparison

VtM B2 - 2020? (Cross-gen)

THU - 2003 (PS2)

Not that I don't like it. That was a fun game. It gave me nostalgic vibes.

Bloodlines 2 could be a great game if the story + writing + music + atmosphere are good. Not an easy task.
I really don't care about the graphics but those facial animations could use some improvements.

 

[Lacrymas]

Never noticed any of these.

All of this is well-known, even the devs acknowledged these problems and promised* to fix them in the sequels. PoE2's loading times are even worse, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*haha

Good story? Yes. Good game? Questionable.

Like you said - the combat was a mess and the whole system wasn't implemented in an interesting way either, and that despite combat being (on the mechanical level) the sole activity of the player (not counting a few C&Cs put here and there).

I wouldn't call it a good game, the atmosphere and story are what keeps it together. The combat is barely tolerable enough to keep you going to see how the characters are going to chew the scenery next.

 

[Harthwain]

I wouldn't call it a good game, the atmosphere and story are what keeps it together. The combat is barely tolerable enough to keep you going to see how the characters are going to chew the scenery next.

Exactly.

 

[Puukko]

Elif makes me feel things in my pants.

 

[True Ukrainian]

In the book, Phillip K Dick doesn't say anything about Deckard being a Replicant. There are no hints either way, IIRC.

Ridley Scott is great at visuals but not too good at narrative. Deckard being a replicant ruins the whole point of the story, because it's about a human finding his humanity again thanks to not-humans. Anyway, Scott did say his intention was Deckard being a replicant but that you can take it however you want. The sequel doesn't say either way, and the director of that said it's up to the viewer.

Dick in an interview said that he always saw Deckard as human and wrote him that way.

Wasn't the screenplay written by William Burroughs or someone of that ilk? When I first read Dick's story (before watching Bladerunner, as I recall), I was surprised how different the book was from the movie.

The screenplay was written by someone different. Dick absolutely hated it and felt that the movie went against the message he was trying to convey in the novel.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

rpgcodex: where games suck if they have bad graphics

 

[Semiurge]

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:

Making flowing hair look realistic in games is so hard, yet what have we here

 

[Infinitron]

Making flowing hair look realistic in games is so hard, yet what have we here

A game that was exceedingly hard to make.

 

[fantadomat]

Making flowing hair look realistic in games is so hard, yet what have we here

A game that was exceedingly hard to make.

For a bunch of overpaid lazy kwanzian diversity hires....yeah it is hard work. Devs in Evropa do take their job as an actual work and not waste canal for their butthurt feelz. In reality there is no hard or easy work,there is just work,you got paid to do a job,if you don't like it you fuck off. Maybe if they spend more time working on the game and not virtue signalling to the lunatics on twatter,they too would have made a good game. Also it not something new or unique,fuck even the old bloodlines does have moving hair.

Fuck,even in this pic it is behind her back,place where they could cut corners and not animate it,yet here it is.

 

[Infinitron]

I think pony tails and similar hairstyles that don't brush up against the character's body are also easier to do.

Anyway Bloodlines 2 does have moving hair, we were just talking about that one lady in the trailer that doesn't look good.

 

[fantadomat]

I think pony tails and similar hairstyles that don't brush up against the character's body are also easier to do.

But not as easier than a wooden wig that doesn't change shape .
Also here is two more for your butthurt infi:

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah, and those don't look too great. Also see my edit.

 

[Paul_cz]

Each tail on Jeanette's head is a single physical object, not exactly hard to do and B2 devs could do it that way easily too.

Also, discussing a fucking hair physics in a thread about BLOODLINES 2 aka The Game I Never Expected To Get Actually Made is fucking asinine