Well, it was rebooted and changed developer.Fall 2024? LOL. Every game taking 10 years to make.
They are certainly unexpected choice for this kind of game as their portfolio consist of more or less "walking sim" games. Dear Esther, Everybody Gone To The Rapture and Amnesia 2, which is more complex, but not that much.I don't know enough about Chinese Room to be hyped or wary.
Isnt that what this series isGonna be a wanking sim
It had troubled development under the original devs, Hardsuit Labs, so the publisher (Paradox) removed them from the project, and it got rebooted by a different studio (The Chinese Room).Wait.... wtf?
Wasnt it already done and supposed to come out?!
There were gameplays and all
Though there seem to be 100 Vampire games by as many studios, the game that this a direct sequel to (at least in name) certainly was not.Isnt that what this series is
Gotta say, I prefer this direction. Every RPG leans on the player character being an undefined start up, and the sequence of world building and quest designs is usually way too predictable. Being an Elder shakes it up.PC Gamer has an interesting article on the development of the game here:
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been quietly rebuilt by Dear Esther developer The Chinese Room with 'different gameplay mechanics and RPG systems'
It using the same engine and from the screenshots much of the same models and textures.Looks better than the aborted attempt. We shall see.
Trailer from PAX West. Game is now in development by Chinese Room. Coming fall 2024.
The only thing I'll give Chinese Room is they can really tell a story, but if that's the case just give them writing duties while another developer does the actual gameplay.Chinese Room? Well, I guess I don’t have to pretend there’s a chance this could still live up to the legacy any more. Oh well.
Created by the walking sim developers. This will go well.
Their attempt to make their Amnesia fell flat. Half of its content got cut from the original Amnesia and it wasn't super scary. Not sure how they'll do this.
Granted, there was a company wipe where all staff were laid off and the company was bought by Sumo Digital so maybe this time around they got more specializations with new devs.
Paradox is still the publisher and they tend to lean very much to the left.What are the chances that the woke virus that had befallen this game dies with the shift to the new dev?