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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Re-Reveal Trailer
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Well, it was rebooted and changed developer.
Denton
Member
Chinese Room is certainly a choice.
Machine for Pigs was very weak.
But I am willing to give them benefit of the doubt.
Trailer is not great though - for Bloodlines, they should really know their target audience better - I don't care about some "cool" combat, show me RPG systems, dialogue, mood, atmosphere.
Machine for Pigs was very weak.
But I am willing to give them benefit of the doubt.
Trailer is not great though - for Bloodlines, they should really know their target audience better - I don't care about some "cool" combat, show me RPG systems, dialogue, mood, atmosphere.
ClanOfNone
Member
Safe bet it is this will be terrible and completely miss the mark on all the things that made the original so great.
JayK47
Member
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'
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been quietly rebuilt by Dear Esther developer The Chinese Room with 'different gameplay mechanics and RPG systems'
RagnarokIV
Member
Gonna be a wanking sim
Neon Xenon
Member
Just going off that trailer alone...I'm only cautious. VTMB2 has been such a mess internally up to this point. I want to see some gameplay later down the line towards release. I don't know enough about Chinese Room to be hyped or wary.
On the trailer itself, I'm getting bored of the breathy female vocals routine.
On the trailer itself, I'm getting bored of the breathy female vocals routine.
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.
Camreezie
Member
Isnt that what this series is
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
I've enjoyed both Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture a great deal so I trust that the talented folks at The Chinese Room studio will do a good job with this one. Also, apparently they have been hiring heavy over the past few years, picking up talent from BioWare, Rocksteady and other big studios. Oh and they've uploaded this video as well:
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
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).
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Sorcerer
Member
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.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
Here's the 5 screenshots provided by the developer to gaming outlets. Also, gameplay deep dive supposedly coming in January 2024 according to a PC Gamer interview with the devs.
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ProtoByte
Member
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.
Mozzarella
Member
Looks bad, i dont trust the developer to deliver on this IP.
WoD are making a mistake.
This game will most likely flop, i dont see anything impressive about it and these kind of trailers are supposed to be marketing genius that leads you to pre-order.
I just took a look a the developer history and that was enough to not get hyped.
I kinda wish a developer like CDPR could take their chance with a WoD game, this is their bread and butter, characters, atmosphere, art, music, side quests, compelling world, and with the combat experience of first person they gathered from CP a new VTMB game from them should be amazing.
They tend to do well with a source material project.
My only issue with CDPR handling an IP like this is they most likely will turn it into open world cringe, if it stays hub-based with their other quality it will 100% be a massive hit, but what a pleb like me knows.
WoD are making a mistake.
This game will most likely flop, i dont see anything impressive about it and these kind of trailers are supposed to be marketing genius that leads you to pre-order.
I just took a look a the developer history and that was enough to not get hyped.
I kinda wish a developer like CDPR could take their chance with a WoD game, this is their bread and butter, characters, atmosphere, art, music, side quests, compelling world, and with the combat experience of first person they gathered from CP a new VTMB game from them should be amazing.
They tend to do well with a source material project.
My only issue with CDPR handling an IP like this is they most likely will turn it into open world cringe, if it stays hub-based with their other quality it will 100% be a massive hit, but what a pleb like me knows.
balls of snow
Member
Looks better than the aborted attempt. We shall see.
element
Member
It using the same engine and from the screenshots much of the same models and textures.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Chinese Room doesn't have it in 'em. I guess even I am finally ready to write this one off.
sigmaZ
Member
Why do these companies keep making first person RPGs it's such a production waste and they rarely ever turn out right. I want to see my character in the world. No amount of Chinese Room magic is going make me feel like I'm actually in the game by making it first person.
Puscifer
Member
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.
Anywho, this game should officially not be anticipated by anyone since this announcement there's been too much drama behind the scenes and with such a drastic change in developers having hope it's just foolish.
thekillergreece
Member
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.
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.
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Pigs is more than 10 years ago. The game will see daylight now hopefully.
xrnzaaas
Member
Paradox is still the publisher and they tend to lean very much to the left.
The trailer was very poor, should've focused on atmosphere and not vampire combat.
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Hudo
Member
The Chinese Room are a really weird choice for this. Bloodlines was heavy with its RPG mechanics for a first-person action RPG. So not really a type of game The Chinese Room are known for. But maybe their pitch was so good that Paradox went with them anyway. From my limited perspective however, it seems like too big of a project for them.
You will start as an elder awakening from their torpo.
Your protagonist is an established character.
They have taken some aspects from the canned version. A few characters and level designs.
Story takes place during a massive snowstorm.
Ditchet UE4, runs on UE5.
They will reveal more clans in 2023.
Longer gameplay segment will be shown in January 2024.
You still need to keep up the Masquerade, or there will be consequences.
5th edition of the ruleset.
Your protagonist is an established character.
They have taken some aspects from the canned version. A few characters and level designs.
Story takes place during a massive snowstorm.
Ditchet UE4, runs on UE5.
They will reveal more clans in 2023.
Longer gameplay segment will be shown in January 2024.
You still need to keep up the Masquerade, or there will be consequences.
5th edition of the ruleset.
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Inspector Q
Member
The Cockatrice
Member
So it's a walking sim now huh?
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Bring back Avellone and Mitsoda you cunts.
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