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

[Delterius]

Master's

FUCKING GEORGE SOROS

 

[Life of the Party]

Those are the clans, by the way. You can see some of the environments in the trailer.

The last one, the DLC one, can be seen at 1:12. That's Malcolm Chandler, right? So a Ventrue? Maybe Tremere? One would expect, all things considered, for the Ventrue to be more or less the antagonists of the game so it would make sense for their clan to be the 'bonus' one.

The second one is at 00:18. Nosferatu?

The third one might be at 00:34. Malkavian?

The fourth one at 00:46. Probably Toreador.

The first and the fifth look like Gangrel and Tremere.

 

[hivemind]

Don't oppress me you shitlord!

I will brutally oppress anyone repeating stale 2014 "jokes" from twitch chat.

Can you as consistent, fair and honest person you are, arguing in good faith and yall, repost this in every future Kingdom Come, Dead or Alive any JRPG, any niche RPG or thread of any game that gets deemed PRRRROLEMATIC by SJW and Chinese government ethics commitee and issued ultimatum of change everything or we rape your house and burn your family? Thanks balanced frendo

no
there are enough people doing that already

Again, fundamental difference there. SJWs try to force others to make games according to their rules, because their authoritarians, I don't.

because you are some random loser on the internet
don't act like your lack of "authoritarianism" is borne out of some moral magnanimosity when you have no avenue to force your views in the first place

 

[FreeKaner]

As a person who speaks a language that has no gender pronouns natively, I feel discriminated by being forced to adopt gender pronouns.

 

[Perkel]

You cunts made me look up Cara Ellison, so here I am playing her free text game.

Quota developer

 

[hexer]

You cunts made me look up Cara Ellison, so here I am playing her free text game.

She made a sex game?
That's... kinda hot for a nerdy girl.

 

[Egosphere]

You cunts made me look up Cara Ellison, so here I am playing her free text game.

Quota developer

Modren games are made by them

 

[The Wall]

Master's

FUCKING GEORGE SOROS

Blood daddy of Seattle Anarchs, keepin them on leash and speculator of Syrian children blood currency. All around good Kindred and respected secret member of Camarilla!

Responds directly to Prince

 

[user]

Some of the people here are more obessed with politics than the so called SJWs.

Dozens of pages devoted to talking shit about this topic it's not even funny any more.

Risking getting politically labeled, in this case imho, they are right. The developers went out of their way to take a stance. They seem set on censoring fiction, in order to avoid offending anyone. And that is the freakin WoD they want to censor - this does not compute when WoD's theme is about a powerful, manipulative, predatory and much of the time, abusive and cruel species. I mean, what result would anyone expect?
Also:

Spoiler

I'm not worried about politics.
Politics have been a part of games all the time.

I'm worried about a shift in writing from observation to representation.

The thing about politically or ideologically charged games during the 80s/90s/early 2000s was, that most of them were observative, while today most seem to be representative.
The problem with the latter is, that you are introducing an element into your narrative, that has to be depicted in a certain way to work out. More to the point, for a large portion of the crowd that wants to be represented, only positive reinforcement is actually representation, while negative (or even realistic) depiction is repression. Observative writing on the other hand is not committed to shedding a certain light on a matter. It's just incorporating topics with all their aspects as complete as possible.

That is the big issue with representation and most of political writing these days.
You can show, but you can't tell.

Or in codex terms: You can make Ultima 4, but you can't follow it up with Ultima 5, because realistically twisting that great idea you introduced at one point is an immediate offense to those that propagate it.


But will they fuck it up in VtMB2?

Spoiler

Probably

From PCGamesN:
sounds like they're hitting the right notes to me.

I don't know, I don't like the whole "you are what you eat" thing at all. I want to choose whoever I feel like (and not gimp myself in the process), not specific targets depending on the abilities I want.

 

[FreeKaner]

I have it on good authority that this sword will be the most powerful end game epic item good for beheading vampires and infidels not true to jyhad both.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

You guys are jumping to wild conclusions. I guarantee the game will be very dark, scary, morbid, have all the crazy edgy stuff from Bloodlines just done in a different way. It's a Bloodlines game, you think it's gonna be unicorns and rainbows? There will be massive depictions of gore, violence, abuse, and so on. Stop jumping to conclusions.

 

[Neanderthal]

Don't oppress me you shitlord!

I will brutally oppress anyone repeating stale 2014 "jokes" from twitch chat.

It's all very well you so brutally mocking me but I seriously believe that I was born an attack helicopter in a mans body and am currently having propellers afixed to my spine, I may never fly, I may never rain death down upon the masses, or do anything a real attack helicopter can, but I can mutilate myself and play let's pretend and your brutal oppression will not stop that shitlord.

Oh never mind I want to larp as a chest of drawers now.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

I have it on good authority that this sword will be the most powerful end game epic item good for beheading vampires and infidels not true to jyhad both.

That's a beautiful sword. What is it from?

 

[FreeKaner]

I have it on good authority that this sword will be the most powerful end game epic item good for beheading vampires and infidels not true to jyhad both.

That's a beautiful sword. What is it from?

Ottoman sword dated 18th century.

 

[just]

You guys are jumping to wild conclusions. I guarantee the game will be very dark, scary, morbid, have all the crazy edgy stuff from Bloodlines just done in a different way. It's a Bloodlines game, you think it's gonna be unicorns and rainbows? There will be massive depictions of gore, violence, abuse, and so on. Stop jumping to conclusions.

if genderfluid vampires scare you it will be a nightmare

 

[Delterius]

I don't know, I don't like the whole "you are what you eat" thing at all. I want to choose whoever I feel like (and not gimp myself in the process), not specific targets depending on the abilities I want.

Godddammit you people.

Its a clear feedback loop.

You play a toreador. You have social skills, in particular seduction. You eat from club blood dolls that are lusting for your alpha male cranium that you use to hide your sad looking shrivelled up penis. Their blood's pheronomones make you better at seduction. And so on.

 

[Orma]

Pre-Ordered the BLOOD MOON edition

see you in a year losers

 

[hivemind]

It's all very well you so brutally mocking me but I seriously believe that I was born an attack helicopter in a mans body and am currently having propellers afixed to my spine, I may never fly, I may never rain death down upon the masses, or do anything a real attack helicopter can, but I can mutilate myself and play let's pretend and your brutal oppression will not stop that shitlord.

Oh never mind I want to larp as a chest of drawers now.

Not only is the joke pathetic and tasteless(I will not get into why lest infinitron deletes the thread), it is most importantly unfunny. There is no suspension, no punchline, no wit. I understand that your persona on this forum is the lovable clueless boomer with a pint in hand and elf bones under your feet, but you are going too hard on the boomerdom right now.

 

[FreeKaner]

And here is the caster counter-part, +2 blood points and +3 intensity for disciplines.

 

[user]

I don't know, I don't like the whole "you are what you eat" thing at all. I want to choose whoever I feel like (and not gimp myself in the process), not specific targets depending on the abilities I want.

Godddammit you people.

Its a clear feedback loop.

You play a toreador. You have social skills, in particular seduction. You eat from club blood dolls that are lusting for your alpha male cranium that you use to hide your sad looking shrivelled up penis. Their blood's pheronomones make you better at seduction. And so on.

Oh, oh wait, I see it now!

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

And here is the caster counter-part, +2 blood points and +3 intensity for disciplines.

Oh God, that's beautiful. Would these be considered scimitars then?

 

[FreeKaner]

And here is the caster counter-part, +2 blood points and +3 intensity for disciplines.

Oh God, that's beautiful. Would these be considered scimitars then?

Descriptions like "scimitars" and such are just retroactive classifications. It's just a sword of middle-eastern origin, the ones I posted Ottoman Turkish style specifically, that last one ceremonial I think.

Curved swords in general spread from steppe cultures to both middle-east and europe but these type of decorated and inscripted ones specifically are more common in Turco-Persianate societies, like Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

They mentioned some of the humans are more ruthless than the vampires. I think it's safe to say we'll see some crazy edgy shit that's going to blow our minds. Part of Bloodlines aura is that it deals with very ruthless scenarios, and I believe we'll see just as much craziness from this game as we did from Bloodlines.

 

[Neanderthal]

It's all very well you so brutally mocking me but I seriously believe that I was born an attack helicopter in a mans body and am currently having propellers afixed to my spine, I may never fly, I may never rain death down upon the masses, or do anything a real attack helicopter can, but I can mutilate myself and play let's pretend and your brutal oppression will not stop that shitlord.

Oh never mind I want to larp as a chest of drawers now.

Not only is the joke pathetic and tasteless.

My speciality.

If I weren't a chest of drawers, sorry a vampiric chest of drawers.

 

[Delterius]

Thanks RPG Watch for bringing this to my attention, a forum that gives a shit about games.