Damn, 1993.
I can understand these types of things in rather large settings, like the first Mass Effect, but for something like Bloodlines it's just not needed. You don't have to know everything, not everything needs to have an infodump dialogue or just straight up wiki pages pasted into some kind of in-game lexicon.
You don't need to, but you will.
TCR, it's in the dev reveal video.
On the contrary, I'd argue it's actually necessary this time. Vampire is full of little terms like Prince, Sheriff and so on. The player can probably assume what those mean. They can probably deduce that Camarilla stands for 'vampire government' and Anarch stands for 'people who want a different vampire government'. But then you've got Elysium, Thin-blooded, Kuei-jin, Harpy, Primogen, Hound, and it keeps going. So here's the problem. We're playing an Elder. We can't just be explained stuff outright. Having a Codex or hypertext would be a great help for the dialogue to flow better.
Perfect reasoning unfortunately the average player won't read any codex entries anyway.
They mostly used the loading screen as necessary lore feed, like a small paragraph on Tzimizce before King's Way, or the Embrace before the first cinematic.
Ryang Choi seems like a masculine name, doubt that's the woman in the trailer, also they already mentioned the new Prince's name in the liveplay.
I mean, that's pretty bad too. Codex entries should be utilitarian. Things shouldn't be so in media res I have to do homework to understand someone's motivations. At that point you should take the hypothetical rant, cut the shaff, and simply have the character act according to someone who lived the events of the rant. People will get the message.
You're right, my mistake.
I hope they'll allow you to boss people around in dialogue. It would be a unique change of pace. There was only one encounter like that in Swansong, playing as Caleb and interacting with a thin-blood, and it was probably one of the most memorable interactions in that game.Delterius said:
I love Delterius' idea of the player character explaining things throughout the game. Nice reversal of "you're a dumb schmuck who listens to NPCs tell you about the world".
That would actually solve the progression issue of the PC going from weak to godly in the span of a few nights. Could allow for some interesting reasons to integrate with both the Cam and the thinbloods, too.
