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

[Irxy]

Interesting that on boxes right there u can see Rostest's mark - organization of practical metrology and certification in the Russian Federation

There is a Russian text there as well - "мягко освежающая зубная паста", "a mildly refreshing toothpaste".
Guess vampires do need lots of those?

 

[RagingNomad]

Interesting that on boxes right there u can see Rostest's mark - organization of practical metrology and certification in the Russian Federation

There is a Russian text there as well - "мягко освежающая зубная паста", "a mildly refreshing toothpaste".
Guess vampires do need lots of those?

Точно, не заметил. Actually it makes sense. Must be, Vampires have bad smells from mouth

 

[Shin]

Has anyone on the Chinese Room (or Paradox for that matter) referenced Bloodlines at all and what made that game so special? All I'm seeing/reading/hearing so far is how its just another WoD game...

 

[Vincente]

Interesting that on boxes right there u can see Rostest's mark - organization of practical metrology and certification in the Russian Federation

There is a Russian text there as well - "мягко освежающая зубная паста", "a mildly refreshing toothpaste".
Guess vampires do need lots of those?

Точно, не заметил. Actually it makes sense. Must be, Vampires have bad smells from mouth

Smashed bathroom mirror, trash everywhere, possible evidence boxes on people and marked map (information), toothpaste... Makes me think that this is a Nosferatu haven and not particularly PC's.

 

[The Great Deceiver]

Plus Munch's Love and Pain (also know simply as Vampire):

 

[Vincente]

Plus Munch's Love and Pain (also know simply as Vampire):

Fun fact, this painting was also in The Asylum, near the Voerman Sisters' room!

 

[Roguey]

Has anyone on the Chinese Room (or Paradox for that matter) referenced Bloodlines at all and what made that game so special? All I'm seeing/reading/hearing so far is how its just another WoD game...

HSL did that and it didn't make what they were doing look any better.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Plus Munch's Love and Pain (also know simply as Vampire):

Nice. Very interesting...perspective he must have over there.

 

[Harthwain]

Interesting that on boxes right there u can see Rostest's mark - organization of practical metrology and certification in the Russian Federation

There is a Russian text there as well - "мягко освежающая зубная паста", "a mildly refreshing toothpaste".
Guess vampires do need lots of those?

Точно, не заметил. Actually it makes sense. Must be, Vampires have bad smells from mouth

Or simply put the box is a means of storage, not actually a package full of toothpaste. It is also a joke ("DEAD-a-med" instead of "blend-a-med").

 

[La vie sexuelle]

All screens looks like from one game :D

Visage and Outlast Trials look like stock lighting-Unreal games, but Ghost Watchers does not (unsurprised to see it's Unity). This is just another game with the Unreal Look.

These are games created by other people, it's understandable that there are minor differences between them. But the artistic direction and artistic sensitivity are similar.

"What sort of vampire are you, and how do you hunt?"

Am I reading too much into it to think "feeding" is going to be more important / developed as a mechanic, than in the original? I want to think "hunt" is more than just code for "combat".

One of the worst aspects about the original game was the extended periods of forced combat. I'm not surprised that they use a flashy topic like combat for trailers, but if one thing doesn't endure from the original, ideally it'd be those extended but extremely repetitive dungeons.

the developers look obese and slimy enough for me to trust them.

It is an obvious fact that good games was created by obese, filthy men. They are responsible for the biggest RPG hits.

There are more like that: obese blue-haired women create terrible games, Chads create bland corporate products, and obese men in white checkered shirts wrote all the classics of the genre that older users of this forum masturbate to.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Not sure where the myth of obese game developers originates from, though to be sure most game developers were clearly nerds:

 

[santino27]

The 80s were a different time. We stayed thin by snorting copious amounts of cocaine.

 

[NecroLord]

Plus Munch's Love and Pain (also know simply as Vampire):

Nice. Very interesting...perspective he must have over there.

 

[Wesp5]

Plus Munch's Love and Pain (also know simply as Vampire):

Nice. Very interesting...perspective he must have over there.

Do we know who did these paintings? Could it have been Leonard Boyarsky himself?

 

[NecroLord]

Plus Munch's Love and Pain (also know simply as Vampire):

Nice. Very interesting...perspective he must have over there.

Do we know who did these paintings? Could it have been Leonard Boyarsky himself?

I guess so.
I don't know whether or not Leonard spoke about it in that chat he had with fellow comrade Tim, but I think it was him.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Not sure where the myth of obese game developers originates from, though to be sure most game developers were clearly nerds:

Oh yes, I forgot about beards!

Besides, in my typology I had on mind a bit different personality:

 

[Semiurge]

Not sure where the myth of obese game developers originates from, though to be sure most game developers were clearly nerds:

The one with the 'stache looks like he did some fucking in his time.

 

[infidel]

Half an hour alone with an AI and here's what I'd like to see in a VTM game (obviously that'll never happen). A lot of Tzimisce but you get the point, if only someone actually bothered to make this. The skull looks like a neat Toreador creation, too, from Leopold of clan novel saga.

Spoiler

 

[Zombra]

Easy on the Botox there, lady.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

The one with the 'stache looks like he did some fucking in his time.

R.J. Mical was the designer of the Intuition GUI for the Commodore Amiga, among other work for it.

 

[Semiurge]

Half an hour alone with an AI and here's what I'd like to see in a VTM game (obviously that'll never happen). A lot of Tzimisce but you get the point, if only someone actually bothered to make this. The skull looks like a neat Toreador creation, too, from Leopold of clan novel saga.

Spoiler

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Using A.I is safer than taking acid to temporarily boost your creativity. A.I functions like an externalized subconscious mind, but without the touch of personal memories collected over time. It includes the collective subconsciousness instead.

 

[Cohesion]

Half an hour alone with an AI and here's what I'd like to see in a VTM game (obviously that'll never happen). A lot of Tzimisce but you get the point, if only someone actually bothered to make this. The skull looks like a neat Toreador creation, too, from Leopold of clan novel saga.

Spoiler

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Using A.I is safer than taking acid to temporarily boost your creativity. A.I functions like an externalized subconscious mind, but without the touch of personal memories collected over time.

Whoa, acid is dangerous now? How come? Tell that to Kirkbride/Shulgin et al.

 

[Jason Liang]

Looks like PI finally figured out how to hype Bloodlines 2

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Looks like PI finally figured out how to market Bloodlines 2

First Vampire the Bloodlines was punk and gothic. Its music, its band posters, its NPC, its general edge.

Second Vampire the Bloodlines sound sappy, oversensitive, and smell like therapy session. It still could be mediocre, even good on own terms, but never anything like first game.

It's not completely creators fault. Art mirrors life. Our lives, our times are like that.

 

[Roguey]

Bloodlines songs should sound like being strung out on depressants and this song fits the bill just fine. Haters are just stuck in the past.