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

[La vie sexuelle]

He looks like he enjoys getting pegged, so it fits the Tremere.

It's that supposed to be the male version?

It's a female avatar....i think.

 

[The President]

That definitely looked like the female avatar to me.

 

[Tyranicon]

The reddit sub is straight trolling this game now :

 

[Alienman]

You will play a non-binary vampire and you will like it!

 

[NecroLord]

Vamphyre: The Masquerade.

 

[Semiurge]

The reddit sub is straight trolling this game now :

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Is that something or someone in particular?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Vamphyre: The Masquerade.

Vampire: The Curse of XheZhir

 

[Fargus]

Tremere... more like Trannyre

 

[Bulo]

Masquerade Violation is my favourite trans euphemism

 

[Child of Malkav]

Imagine you get a masquerade violation if you misgender some vampire and you get special vampire bigot hunters after you and when they catch you, get lectured on undead struggles, vampire patriarchy, how vitae is racist and why that is a good thing....Jesus Christ.

 

[Tyranicon]

The reddit sub is straight trolling this game now :

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Is that something or someone in particular?

Someone basically edited fem phyre to look like this:

 

[Harthwain]

Someone basically edited fem phyre to look like this:

Is this some kind of meme? I thought Phyre got turned into Michael Jackson.

 

[Caim]

Someone basically edited fem phyre to look like this:

Is this some kind of meme? I thought Phyre got turned into Michael Jackson.

Yeah, it's supposed to be an overly masculine face but it kinda falls flat.

 

[Skinwalker]

The Chinese Room has been shitting out dumbed-down sequels to better games, with most of the original's gameplay mechanics cut or greatly simplified, since almost its very beginning. (well, to be fair, machine for pigs is the only sequel that had done up until this dumpsterphyre. their other games are just shit all on their own.)

Those of us with brains knew exactly what kind of crap they would be squeezing out as "VTMB2".

It did not matter that they (supposedly) fired some of the old codemonkeys and hired a bunch of new ones. Lazily slapped together walking simulators is all they can ever do. And now they/them are hyper-woke, too.

This isn't rape, it's mutilation.

 

[Roguey]

Lazily slapped together walking simulators is all they can ever do.

Who is "they"? Not a single person who made the walking simulators even works at the company anymore. "The Chinese Room" is just a name.

 

[Skinwalker]

Lazily slapped together walking simulators is all they can ever do.

Who is "they"? Not a single person who made the walking simulators even works at the company anymore. "The Chinese Room" is just a name.

And yet, how remarkably consistent they are. Take a beloved game, cut most of its gameplay features, reduce to glorified walking simulator, and crap it out as a "sequel". Am I talking about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (you), or VTMB2?

Yes!

It's like the ship of Theseus paradox. All the parts have been replaced, but it's still the exact same garbage...

 

[Roguey]

And yet, how remarkably consistent they are. Take a beloved game, cut most of its gameplay features, reduce to glorified walking simulator, and crap it out as a "sequel". Am I talking about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (you), or VTMB2?

Yes!

It's like the ship of Theseus paradox. All the parts have been replaced, but it's still the exact same garbage...

It doesn't look like a walking simulator, it looks like a low-budget Dishonored clone.

 

[Skinwalker]

It doesn't look like a walking simulator, it looks like a low-budget Dishonored clone.

Dishonored had weapons, tools and (many) magic abilities.

 

[Roguey]

Dishonored had weapons, tools and (many) magic abilities.

"Low budget" is a very important modifier here.

 

[Skinwalker]

Dishonored had weapons, tools and (many) magic abilities.

"Low budget" is a very important modifier here.

So is "walking simulator" and "cut most of the original's gameplay mechanics".

 

[Cryomancer]

The androgyny of this dumpsterphyre is above JRPG tier.

 

[Roguey]

So is "walking simulator" and "cut most of the original's gameplay mechanics".

I don't think you understand what a walking simulator is. It's an interactive experience with no gameplay, just walking and interacting with objects.

 

[Skinwalker]

So is "walking simulator" and "cut most of the original's gameplay mechanics".

I don't think you understand what a walking simulator is. It's an interactive experience with no gameplay, just walking and interacting with objects.

So, exactly like VTMB2?

 

[Roguey]

So, exactly like VTMB2?

This is very clearly a stealth and brawling game.

 

[The President]

When you look at their current dev diary setup, it’ll be well into June before they’ll have to show anything at all. It’ll probably be much later than that even before you see more gameplay or any video.