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

[Leorgrium]

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2




https://af.gog.com/game/vampire_the_masquerade_bloodlines_2?as=1649904300

Spoiler

YES!

 

[Herumor]

Oh wow, something actually happened. What's in September though? That Pdxcon thing?

 

[Leorgrium]

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-juneupdate

Dear Bloodlines fans,

It’s been quite a while between updates while we’ve had our heads down working on the game. We remain just as dedicated to delivering a great *Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines* game as we were when we announced, and are looking forward to showing you more in September this year.

We acknowledge it was a long time ago that many of you pre-ordered *Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2*. As development continues, we will be updating the game’s editions and bonus content, and we want to provide the best value to those of you who supported us via digital pre-order after all this time. We are thus offering refunds to anyone who has pre-ordered any edition of *Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2*. As part of this process, we are proactively refunding **all** pre-orders of physical products, including the Collector’s Edition. The digital versions of the First Blood Edition, Unsanctioned Edition and Blood Moon Edition remain, but can be refunded if you choose.

We’re excited to show you more and hope to have all of you with us in September when we reveal more. We know you are eager to see how the game is coming along so we’ve put together a fresh batch of screenshots to share with you.

 

[Zariusz]

What kind of negromancer keeps reanimating this... thing.

 

[Vincente]

 

[Child of Malkav]

What kind of negromancer keeps reanimating this... thing.

A persistent one. Or an intern practicing.

 

[StrongBelwas]

 

[Herumor]

Dear Bloodlines fans,

It’s been quite a while between updates while we’ve had our heads down working on the game. We remain just as dedicated to delivering a great *Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines* game as we were when we announced, and are looking forward to showing you more in September this year.

We acknowledge it was a long time ago that many of you pre-ordered *Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2*. As development continues, we will be updating the game’s editions and bonus content, and we want to provide the best value to those of you who supported us via digital pre-order after all this time. We are thus offering refunds to anyone who has pre-ordered any edition of *Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2*. As part of this process, we are proactively refunding **all** pre-orders of physical products, including the Collector’s Edition. The digital versions of the First Blood Edition, Unsanctioned Edition and Blood Moon Edition remain, but can be refunded if you choose.

We’re excited to show you more and hope to have all of you with us in September when we reveal more. We know you are eager to see how the game is coming along so we’ve put together a fresh batch of screenshots to share with you.

These screenshots look really bad compared to the HSL stuff. Are they really that early into development? Why even bother talking about it? Lighting looks really bad, hope they're not gonna be one of those games that tries to compensate for shitty visuals with raytracing features.

 

[sosmoflux]

Get that vapourware tag shit outta here doomer mods

 

[Cyberarmy]

Let's see if they could remain on the project till september first...

 

[RaggleFraggle]

I guess the latest modern graphics look almost photorealistic and all, but what's even the point? We know 99% of the budget went into graphics and the rest of it is gonna be a buggy sucky mess.

I wish more indie devs would do urban fantasy. (Western urban fantasy, before you start name dropping jrpgs.) I can't name any urban fantasy I'm looking forward to other than Moonfall and Nighthawks. Not just vampire protagonist games, but urban fantasy in general.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Not worth hype. Most devs nowdays don't know how to make a good RPGs, especialy when most avoid making content that most player won't see.

Gonna wait the certainly prestine and well worth the wait Review from The Codex.

 

[Roguey]

Terribly amused they're calling those "post-alpha" screenshots and not beta. They also missed gamescom by a little bit, oh well.

Also it's pretty funny how they know a lot of people were going to be so mad if they weren't at summer game fest so they headed them off by announcing that the proper announcement will be in September.

These screenshots look really bad compared to the HSL stuff. Are they really that early into development? Why even bother talking about it? Lighting looks really bad, hope they're not gonna be one of those games that tries to compensate for shitty visuals with raytracing features.

Announcement in September means they likely anticipate the release will be in December (maybe March at the latest). "Not impossible," he said. This is a low-budget rushjob, likely really hoping that Dan Pinchbeck's story and ideally-competent-but-not-remarkable gameplay will do all the heavy lifting.

 

[whydoibother]

These screenshots look really bad compared to the HSL stuff. Are they really that early into development? Why even bother talking about it? Lighting looks really bad, hope they're not gonna be one of those games that tries to compensate for shitty visuals with raytracing features.

M-maybe it l-looks better in m-motion.....

 

[FritzedProcess]

These screenshots look really bad compared to the HSL stuff. Are they really that early into development? Why even bother talking about it? Lighting looks really bad, hope they're not gonna be one of those games that tries to compensate for shitty visuals with raytracing features.

They look like pre-rendered backgrounds from a low-budget late 90s game, LOL.

 

[whydoibother]

These screenshots look really bad compared to the HSL stuff. Are they really that early into development? Why even bother talking about it? Lighting looks really bad, hope they're not gonna be one of those games that tries to compensate for shitty visuals with raytracing features.

They look like pre-rendered backgrounds from a low-budget late 90s game, LOL.

 

[Vincente]

They look like pre-rendered backgrounds from a low-budget late 90s game, LOL.

SOUL, it will be the Fallout 1 of this generation!

 

[Moink]

New preorder editions and refunds makes me think most of the old VTMB2 is gone.

 

[Vincente]

One of the screenshots is named Seattle, so maybe it's set in the same city.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

New preorder editions and refunds makes me think most of the old VTMB2 is gone.

Yeah that Tremere lady is gone. Bye bye Mitsoda.

 

[Roguey]

New preorder editions and refunds makes me think most of the old VTMB2 is gone.

They got rid of all the old screenshots on the Steam page and even got rid of the logo to get rid of the guy. They kept the setting and the basic premise, assume everything else is gone.

Goodbye and good riddance to Mr. Damp:

 

[Moink]

RIP big vampire tits 2019-2023, I hardly knew ye.

 

[NecroLord]

These screenshots look really bad compared to the HSL stuff. Are they really that early into development? Why even bother talking about it? Lighting looks really bad, hope they're not gonna be one of those games that tries to compensate for shitty visuals with raytracing features.

They look like pre-rendered backgrounds from a low-budget late 90s game, LOL.

Syberia 1 and 2 both looked pretty damn good.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

Looks like Elif has been cut too.

 

[whydoibother]

Looks like Elif has been cut too.

Presumably Paradox now has a warehouse full of tat for a non-existing game that they paid for.