World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 - VTMB sequel from The Chinese Room - coming early 2025

[Herumor]

extended gameplay video

30 seconds long instead of the usual 15.

 

[Roguey]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Next dev diary in two weeks, the gameplay video "coming later this month." I imagine much later and that's probably for the best.

 

[Tyranicon]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Next dev diary in two weeks, the gameplay video "coming later this month." I imagine much later and that's probably for the best.

I'm probably in that handful but these dev diary things never say anything interesting.

Paragraphs and paragraphs of text for what amounts to:

1. Branching narratives is muh hard
2. We're using third-party software because it's so hard
3. Branches are when thing different

Wait until they find out people have been tracking branching narratives on goddamn Word and using basic triggers/switches.

At least they did release a hyper-niche Unreal plugin that maybe some people will find useful.

 

[Herumor]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Honestly, these kinds of dev diaries seem more like they're looking for employment - like they're advertising themselves to potential employers: "See, this is what we do, so many sheets, so many things, pls hire".

It's like these people never made video games in their life before and have no idea what people who play them want to see in dev diaries. Or just plain outright don't care, but they have some kind of goalpost set by Paradox to fulfill and they just push out any sort of shit that meets the minimum criteria.

 

[Roguey]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Honestly, these kinds of dev diaries seem more like they're looking for employment - like they're advertising themselves to potential employers: "See, this is what we do, so many sheets, so many things, pls hire".

It's like these people never made video games in their life before and have no idea what people who play them want to see in dev diaries. Or just plain outright don't care, but they have some kind of goalpost set by Paradox to fulfill and they just push out any sort of shit that meets the minimum criteria.

Yeah, contrast these diaries with the ones done for the original game:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-1/1100-6076954/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-2/1100-6083943/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-3/1100-6085643/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-4/1100-6086694/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-5/1100-6091931/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-6/1100-6095133/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-designer-diary-7/1100-6100691/

Just so sad that even Troika's developer diaries were better-done than what Paradox/TCR is doing.

 

[Tyranicon]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Honestly, these kinds of dev diaries seem more like they're looking for employment - like they're advertising themselves to potential employers: "See, this is what we do, so many sheets, so many things, pls hire".

It's like these people never made video games in their life before and have no idea what people who play them want to see in dev diaries. Or just plain outright don't care, but they have some kind of goalpost set by Paradox to fulfill and they just push out any sort of shit that meets the minimum criteria.

Nobody who knows what they're doing will find these dev diaries impressive (so I guess, most of the industry at this point).

This is a pretty amateurish production all around.

And that's coming from me, of all people.

 

[The President]

I mean I’m no narrative guy, but do these people really need all these programs and other tools to write a story these days? I thought storytelling was a fairly straightforward endeavor, all these tools just seem like a substitute for originality and talent.

 

[Gargaune]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Branching narrative is complex. From each decision point the story can go many ways. Rather than write our own tech for this we decided to use Ink, an open source narrative scripting language created by Inkle studios. We needed to port this from C# to C++ to get it working with Unreal, but this was way quicker than writing our own narrative scripting system from scratch.

Meanwhile, in 2002...

 

[Shaja]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Next dev diary in two weeks, the gameplay video "coming later this month." I imagine much later and that's probably for the best.

I'm probably in that handful but these dev diary things never say anything interesting.

Paragraphs and paragraphs of text for what amounts to:

1. Branching narratives is muh hard
2. We're using third-party software because it's so hard
3. Branches are when thing different

Wait until they find out people have been tracking branching narratives on goddamn Word and using basic triggers/switches.

At least they did release a hyper-niche Unreal plugin that maybe some people will find useful.

When you have to connect with the "community", but at the same time you have nothing ready to show.

 

[RagingNomad]

New footages and moments. Finally we can see part of HUD.
55:20 start -

 

[Jenkem]

Man, this game is going to be INCREDIBLE

 

[Shaja]

 

[RagingNomad]

There is little HUD footage at 55:56-55:58

 

[Tyranicon]

This whole VtMB2 saga went from bad to worse. This thread is unadulterated cringe.

My expectations for the game's quality or even the possibility of its release is staked, dissolved and long forgotten.

I feel like I'm losing my mind that game development has declined to this low standard. In five years gaming will be dead and AI gods will be roaming the wasteland that is modern media.

 

[NecroLord]

This whole VtMB2 saga went from bad to worse. This thread is unadulterated cringe.

My expectations for the game's quality or even the possibility of its release is staked, dissolved and long forgotten.

I feel like I'm losing my mind that game development has declined to this low standard. In five years gaming will be dead and AI gods will be roaming the wasteland that is modern media.

We still have you...






Right?

 

[The President]

It’s very brief but it looked like 4 buttons on the bottom right and a health bar I’m presuming on the left. Not too clear though.

 

[Roguey]

For what it's worth, about a dozen people were happy about the Inkpot plugin back in October


They're just raising more awareness.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I found out that the game will use 3D graphics, things will be rendered, and the game will be ASUS compatible.

Chinese Room has never been a serious company.

 

[AdamReith]

They still need to go, any non zero probability that this game will get released is simply unacceptable.

 

[Semiurge]

So the compatible RoG™ laptop keyboard leds will flash red when you make a kill?

Instant buy.

 

[J1M]

New footages and moments. Finally we can see part of HUD.
55:20 start -

Played on a laptop.

 

[The Wall]

Dev diary on scripting, I suppose a handful of people might find it interesting https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/...e-bloodlines-2/news/mission-scripting-and-ink

Branching narrative is complex. From each decision point the story can go many ways. Rather than write our own tech for this we decided to use Ink, an open source narrative scripting language created by Inkle studios. We needed to port this from C# to C++ to get it working with Unreal, but this was way quicker than writing our own narrative scripting system from scratch.

Meanwhile, in 2002...

Game programmers from 10-20+ years ago shit in mouth of modern ones. Biggest bottleneck is programming. Modern devs are TERRRIBLE. Tim Cain can't stop talking about it in his videos. If you think about it, everything makes perfect sense. Why? WOKE

 

[Space Satan]

 

[Delterius]

This whole VtMB2 saga went from bad to worse.

i was gonna call it a rollercoaster of emotions but then i realized there were no highs

depression drop tower. kiling hope every step along the way.

 

[Semiurge]

I just came to the realisation that this model is actually using the male body type. There are no breasts, you can almost see a bulge and the thighs are muscular. The head is the same bulldyke model as before, so maybe the body type and hair color are the only things you can change. Before installing the potential cosmetics DLC, of course. I can't wait to enable the "gruff" male voice option with that head.