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World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 - VTMB sequel from The Chinese Room - coming early 2025
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Is this real main menu song or fake?
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Real, but from the previous attempt at BL2. No telling whether TCR kept it.
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Snippet of VTMB2 from a new Chinese Room showreel:
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WOW!
You can see your character's hands!! While I press x to perform stealth kill!
GOTY incoming.
This was already in the first reveal trailer.
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So many people were worried when Mitsoda was lost, when it may in fact be losing Rik Schaffer that will be the real loss of HSL’s fuck up. I doubt his music is still in.
True, however those pieces he did reveal to have composed for BL2 were mostly rehashes of his BL1 tracks, so nothing groundbreaking at this point.
Nobody who abbreviates it as "Vampire the Bloodlines" is allowed to have an opinion on its moods and themes. That wasn't a typo, you did it 3 times.
He's gunning for one of the tags.
Imagine a Vampire game with large open-world city you could travel by motorcycles and cars, the radio blasting Billy Idol, Type O Negative or Sisters of Mercy etc. Damn!
Add "Twist of Cain" or "Deep" by Danzig and even most zoomers would have a boomer boner.
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It reminds me eerily of one of the Massive Attack songs from the Mezzanine album, Angel maybe?
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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.
I think what our fellow Dexer was trying to say here, is that the track shown isn't similar to those of the first Bloodlines. Now, 'depressive' is a mood and as such is subject from one person to another what songs they may find depressive.
Instead, more accurate would be to say that the song's genre isn't the same of the songs found in the first game, which most belong to metal, black metal, alternative rock, darkwave, goth and punk; with the particular flavour of the 2000s scene on top. Since the song posted sounds like none of this, saying that is different is just stating the obvious, not a hater's comment.
And putting that aside, depressive wasn't the mood of most vocal songs in original Bloodlines. If anything, most ranged from extremely aggressive...
...to whimsical and witchy...
...to dark and gothic.
But not depressive.
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Nigger, you have 401 people on ignore.
Go back to your Reddit goon cave.
Rik did a big mistake trying to do a 2.0 version of the original. Going that route was always going to have it be compared to the original which it couln't possibly live up to.
He should have just come up with a new theme from scratch.
To be fair, in BL it was press 'e' to perform stealth kill.
There is more to it. People often expect and enjoy musical links to a previous installment. Cue the unmistakable Witcher theme in every part. But there its just like 5 chords inserted into this and that song. Rik took entire song and tweaked them. That can also work, as in the case of Red Alert and its famous Hell March, but should be used sparingly.
Eh, it tends to fail more often than it works since it's clearly trying to bank in on nostalgia.
The game doesn't have the whole 90s industrial goth style so why drag a similar theme through it. Just make something that would fit for the modern adaptation.
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