Vampyr - vampire action-RPG from Life Is Strange devs

[Morgoth]

https://vampyr-game.com




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

Spoiler

http://www.videogamer.com/pc/vampyr/news/dontnod_reveals_horror_rpg_vampyr_2.html
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2015/01...ontnod-entertainment-set-after-world-war-one/

Focus Home Interactive and DONTNOD Studio have just revealed a new game called Vampyr, which will be an RPG. There’s very few details but our reporter at the reveal event, good ol’ Stefan, has stated the game is set just after World War One and players will take on the role of a doctor. He returns home while the Spanish Flu is going around, and is bitten by one of his patients. That bite transforms this doctor into a vampire.

Apparently the Y in the name relates to the choices in the game where the doctor faces moral quandaries as his doctor side tries to heal, while his vampire nature wants to kill and feed. The tag line for Vampyr is ‘Take blood. Save a life’. Choices won’t be clear cut within the game either, but there are very few details on that. Vampyr also sees DONTNOD trying to start up a second development team within the studio so more projects can be worked on. Vampyr is still in early development so no release date has yet been confirmed.

DONTNOD are currently in the process of releasing Life Is Strange.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Take blood save a life... Really? That's your tag line?

This will be hilariously bad.

 

[Taxnomore]

2dark4u

 

[a Goat]

We want Twillight audience!

 

[LESS T_T]

Looks like Focus Home is churning out action RPGs as always.

They also announced a sequel to Mars: War Logs.

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

‘Take blood. Save a life’

You mean "Take blood, savor the unlife", my meal was great, thank you.
Now fuck off, fledgling.

 

[abnaxus]

Apparently they have their own FocusNext event.

They also announced another Farming and Cycling Simulator.

They also announced a sequel to Mars: War Logs.

This stuff?

 

[LESS T_T]

This stuff?

Yep.

Spoiler

 

[naossano]

Remember Me has a nice production value, but won't leave a deep mark in memory...

 

[Luckra]

They'll need to step up their game on the gameplay department. Remember Me was an excellent visual piece with an interesting narrative but a very poor game.

 

[Baxander]

I want to like it....but...I don't know...

 

[cfisher2833]

Looks like Focus Home is churning out action RPGs as always.

They also announced a sequel to Mars: War Logs.

Didn't they publish Styx Master of Shadows? At least they got that going for them.

 

[Xathrodox86]

That's some edgy stuff right there. It could be fun tough. Then again, anythng that reminds me of WoD is fun, so...

 

[majestik12]

I am surpised that with the popularity of Twilight, True Blood, etc. we don't have nearly as many vampire games as there are zombie ones. As for this project, it will probably suck. Remember Me is pretty terrible.

 

[Morgoth]

The feeling I get with Spiders is that they're beating below their talent and that the contracted development time and budgets made available to them is seriously hurting their games' quality. Churning out every year some unmemorable akshun RPG with zero innovation or lasting appeal isn't a good business practice on the long run. Focus Home should take notice. Keep your client pool smaller, but double dev time.

 

[Morgoth]

I am surpised that with the popularity of Twilight, True Blood, etc. we don't have nearly as many vampire games as there are zombie ones. As for this project, it will probably suck. Remember Me is pretty terrible.

Perhaps, but a lot of blame for this has to go to Capcom, which insisted on dumbing down Dontnod's original concept (called Adrift) into this cheap beat'em up mess. No other publisher would pick it up, so it was making shit over starving.

Life is Strange looks kinda interesting, and the post-WW1 setting in Vampyr deserves some attention. Just don't expect a Troika/BIS/Obsidian-tier quality game.

 

[Turjan]

I'm not sure, there's nothing there that excites me about this, which has more to do with the (admittedly short) track record of the studio than the idea and setting behind the game. Those ideas certainly sound interesting, but they failed to properly explore these ideas in their last game.

I am surpised that with the popularity of Twilight, True Blood, etc. we don't have nearly as many vampire games as there are zombie ones. As for this project, it will probably suck. Remember Me is pretty terrible.

Oh, you can have "vampire" games that easily beat Rmember Me in the "terrible" department. Anyone remember this?



Even Remember Me doesn't manage to reach such levels of cringeworthy.

 

[laclongquan]

Post-WW1 setting alone is worthy to be noted in my little list.

As for quality, that can wait until release time~

 

[curry]

I'm interested as long as the vampires suck blood instead of dick

 

[JarlFrank]

Apparently the Y in the name relates to the choices in the game where the doctor faces moral quandaries as his doctor side tries to heal, while his vampire nature wants to kill and feed.

So what does the letter Y have to do with this? Does it represent choice because the letter Y looks like it's a splitting pathway?

That is some really silly symbolism there.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

There is a film made by Carl Theodor Dreyer titled "Vampyr Der Traum des Allan Grey". It is a very interesting look on vampires and worth watching. I do not know if someone from Focus watched it or their marketing department thought it would sound cool.

 

[kris]

I am surpised that with the popularity of Twilight, True Blood, etc. we don't have nearly as many vampire games as there are zombie ones. As for this project, it will probably suck. Remember Me is pretty terrible.

The ones that love Twillight isn't exactly core gamer demographics.

 

[Tigranes]

Apparently the Y in the name relates to the choices in the game where the doctor faces moral quandaries as his doctor side tries to heal, while his vampire nature wants to kill and feed.

Y, doctor, y?!!

 

[Sykar]

I'm interested as long as the vampires suck blood instead of dick

Or sparkle...

 

[vonAchdorf]

So what does the letter Y have to do with this? Does it represent choice because the letter Y looks like it's a splitting pathway?

That is some really silly symbolism there.

The first story featuring a "vampire" in the modern sense was called "The Vampyre" by John Polidori (wrongly attributed to Byron and featuring a byron'esque protagonist), though I don't know if they knew that or just picked the Y because it looked cooler and muh C&C.