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

[Vincente]

No way unless she was trying to pass as a man when the siring happened, like those women who fought in wars as men. There are historical examples.

Hey, thanks for the character idea.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

No way unless she was trying to pass as a man when the siring happened, like those women who fought in wars as men. There are historical examples.

Hey, thanks for the character idea.

You're welcome Jeanne D'arc

 

[jf8350143]

So they changed the main protagnist from a new born vampire(which you can createfrom stretch) without a clanyet to an elder vampire with preset personallity and full voice acting.

This decision just has "mainstream the shit out of this game or get fired* writes all over it.

 

[whydoibother]

No wait.... surely Chinese Room isn't that evil, that they'd make you play as a woman who's always identified as a man?

You can customize the main character, mr. Only Reads The Title Of The Article And Comments On It.

 

[Storyfag]

So they changed the main protagnist from a new born vampire(which you can createfrom stretch)

That'd be: scratch

Anyway, citation fucking needed. I am quite confident the HSL protag would have been very rigid in terms of lines too.

 

[sosmoflux]

Reception to this seems to be negative across all sites (even among their lib-left target market)

So what exactly did the mainstream not like about this?

tl;dr there are now rules about having a penis

I bet anything the Devs respond to this and ignore all other criticism.

 

[Zombra]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

 

[Semiurge]

No wait.... surely Chinese Room isn't that evil, that they'd make you play as a woman who's always identified as a man?

You can customize the main character, mr. Only Reads The Title Of The Article And Comments On It.

I hope so, but let's see how that post ages.

 

[Vincente]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up. Satanic black magic, sick shit.

 

[Morgoth]

I miss Hardsuit.

Why?

 

[Wesp5]

Over 90% of the dialogue choices in the original game had like 3 dialogue choices.

That is not exactly true. Only 4 answers could be displayed at the same time, but internally there were 9 lines possible depending on different conditions, with one reserved for the NPC. And quite often all of these lines were used which made adding new lines for the patch a problem.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

So they changed the main protagnist from a new born vampire(which you can createfrom stretch)

That'd be: scratch

Anyway, citation fucking needed. I am quite confident the HSL protag would have been very rigid in terms of lines too.

No he's right. Create is a hell of a stretch when you're working with a predefined loser.

 

[Storyfag]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up. Satanic black magic, sick shit.

Until the next daytime slumber, specifically.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up. Satanic black magic, sick shit.

Until the next daytime slumber, specifically.

So just skip the snooze?

 

[Storyfag]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up. Satanic black magic, sick shit.

Until the next daytime slumber, specifically.

So just skip the snooze?

Yes, that would prevent unconscious regeneration. But it'd also leave the vampire groggy and barely able to act, even once the Sun went down again.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up. Satanic black magic, sick shit.

Until the next daytime slumber, specifically.

So just skip the snooze?

Yes, that would prevent unconscious regeneration. But it'd also leave the vampire groggy and barely able to act, even once the Sun went down again.

 

[Bulo]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up.

What happens to the hair that's cut off?

 

[Roguey]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up. Satanic black magic, sick shit.

Until the next daytime slumber, specifically.

Like I said earlier, one can just handwave this away by assuming the character is cutting and styling their hair every time they wake up (scenes you don't actually see in-game, at least as far as the original Bloodlines goes).

Of course if Phyre wakes up looking like that, forget it. Lousy decision either way.

 

[Storyfag]

Vampires can't cut their hair?

You can, for like 12 hours. Then it just grows back up.

What happens to the hair that's cut off?

Depends on the age of the vampire. Likely turns to very fine dust.

 

[Vincente]

Newly made vampire endangering the Masquerade by selling copious amounts of hair to barbers and hair stylists around the city, causing Masquerade threat.

 

[Wesp5]

Maybe some of you lore gurus can help me out. I had the theory, and people on Reddit as well, that Phyre is indeed in Fabien's body which would explain the modern hair. But then I rewatched the video and Phyre clearly talks about the mark on her hand and that she was covered in Thinblood vitae and not that she is in another body. So this theory is out, but maybe a Thinblood alchemy experiment failed. Anybody know anything about this?

 

[just]

you can theorize all you want
in the end you'll play as zoomer lesbo

 

[sosmoflux]

I wonder what Brian thinks of all this

 

[Storyfag]

maybe a Thinblood alchemy experiment failed.

Either that, or one of the many, many rituals of any of the multiple strains of Blood Sorcery. These and Thinblood Alchemy are big boxes of toys that can be used to handwave away almost anything.

 

[Storyfag]

I wonder what Brian thinks of all this

"But do they still use "sex worker" for prostitutes?"