Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Official 2023 Announcement Trailer
Godric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Short article with more information:
pcgamer.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-h…
TLDR: Dev is The Chinese Room, developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. They still won’t say what happened with Hardsuit Labs, the OG dev, and the mechanics and system will be totally different.
Instead of a thin-blood, you’re an Elder fresh from torpor.
I played the shit out of Blacklight: Retribution back in the day, and saw the whole transition from zombie studios to buildblock to hardsuit labs. The devs were really active on various forums, and all seemed like great people.
I've been waiting so long for them to release something new, but this sort of game was a complete departure from anything they worked on (as the main dev) in the past. I'm not shocked that it didn't worked out.
To be fair, an indie like Coffee Stain went from an absolute dumbass meme game like Goat Simulator to something crazy complex like Satisfactory.
You can't really judge what a young studio is capable of.
As for you not being a thinblood in this game, you're named as being a thorped elder waking up, so there could be RPG mechanics of you growing as you get stronger from waking up.
And they don't say which elder you are, so you could wake up as any type of elder, even a Nosferatu.
Coffee stain went from an absolute dumbass meme game like Goat Simulator
This is Sunctuary erasure.
I hope these new mechanics include a 3rd person option
escapesamsara@discuss.online 1 year ago
Welp, there goes the exploration of the world factor.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
Depends on how long the torpor lasted. If it was for a couple of centuries, a lot of has changed in 200 years. The player is going to have to find out the new political players, guns, vehicles, new clans, etc.
If the player was in torpor for a couple of decades, yeah the world exploration will be dull.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
True, it’ll make it more confusing for new people just now picking up the IP, and telling them to play a 20-year old game for context is a hard sell.
As someone who already played VTMB, I’m excited to be playing as an Elder for once instead of the standard fledgling.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
It’s at least a good explanation for why the PC will just obliterate everything else he sees like in the first one.
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No no see you just woke up from Torpor, so yeah you’re an elder, but also you’re super weak, and nobody knows who you are so you won’t get any respect until you’ve done some basic bitch errands. But EVENTUALLY, you’ll be powerful and respected.
Yeah this “Elder fresh from torpor” angle just completely killed my excitement, shit sounds so… bland now. So typical.