Are there any choices/ different paths in 'Still Wakes the Deep'? I'm most worried about that aspect with regard to Bloodlines 2 (and the combat, but I guess 'Still Wakes the Deep' wouldn't be the best measure of that).
There are about 5 or 6 NPCs and one of them is called Finlay and kinda looks and sounds like a dude, but they call him her, so..no idea if it is some butch woman or trans or whatever. The game does not elaborate on that at all (which I prefer tbh). Still it did made me do a double take the first time I noticed that and took me out of the experience a bit.
Nosferatu was not only interesting to play in Bloodlines, but I never laughed harder in any game I have ever played. If you haven't played as a Nosferatu in Bloodlines, you haven't lived.
They have their fans, but Tim Cain said that not a single person in Activision's QA team played one.
They should hire heterosexuals to do their QA.
Haha wot? Isn't it their job to play them, especially lesser played aspects of the game? Bizzare.
I wouldn't have touched it with the standard-issue 10' pole when I was working. Better money and hours and way less bullshit in most other industries. Not sure if the latter has changed with DEI invading corporate culture everywhere.
They overlooked a game breaking bug that only happened for Nosferatu, so while they might have tested them some, obviously nobody in QA ever finished the whole game with them.
OH SWEET LORD JESUS! <drops dead>
These small, seemingly insignificant scenes together create the element that was the first Bloodlines was. This game was so cool not because it was about vampires, but because it said something about our world through vampires. Isn't it ironic that the old bar lady who thought she had seen it all dies after seeing the real monster, the one thing she couldn't predict? Life is full of things like this and that's why Vampire: the Bloodlines is a very life-like game. To create something like this you need life experience. Not literally, you're not a vampire, but it's about channeling experiences into fiction that bears the hallmarks of the experience itself.
If the narrative wasn't designed by this point, the wrong person was working on it.
People who have an ideology to push instead of a family to care for.
I just saw that played on cohh stream. Bunch of people with IQ 90 were running around and random character was screaming at main character how he should repair stuff while he's working hard by looking at random controls to find fault in electricity wiring. While third one played as a random monster and was running around and screamed "I'd get you for all two years when I was menially working while you two were killing your asses in the office." Or something like that.
If you have the skills to be a good video game developer, you can probably make 2x the money per hour by developing some accounting/warehouse/finance software, by yourself or as a hired worker.
Which is the better business model: negotiate a plan and get paid for it, then fulfill it; or work for 2-3 years on something, with zero income but payng full wages, and then release it to see if it sells? Because the former is advertising, the later is video games.
They did announce at least two from I remember. Paradox is also known for making tons of DLC for their products, but that’s for their in house studio games. Who knows what they’ll do with this as it’s a third party developer.
Nope. One of the reasons Bloodlines was cool was because it's about vampires. And I would say every single piece of fiction gains a few points if they include vampires too. Vampires are a cool archetype that borrow themselves for a different type of story from the ones we're so accustomed to see today. They're suited for a darker tone, reminiscences of the past, and the presence of strict hierarchies.
We haven't seen anything related to both of those.
