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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-has-been-delayed-again-this-time-until-the-first-half-of-2025

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  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m surprised it’s not cancelled yet.

    I think at this point its development is even more troubled than the original, which is kinda impressive in its own way.

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    • Corvid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is at least the second attempt to make VTMB2. The original version by Hardsuit Labs was entirely scrapped and restarted at The Chinese Room.

      I spoke to the new devs at PAX last year and they said they were only reusing a few assets from the Hardsuit Labs version and otherwise completely making a new game from scratch.

      This new version has only been publicly announced since late 2023, although it probably started development sometime in late 2021/early 2022.

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      • sanpo@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right, that’s why I’m not convinced this will ever actually release.

        Abandoning all previous work, and the fact that new devs don’t exactly have experience with this genre…
        I’m still gonna give it a try, but I’m not hopeful.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s such a terrible shame that we had Brian Mitsoda and Rik Schaffer back and actually working on a sequel and none of it will see the light of day. Say what you want about Mitsoda’s thin-blood protagonist idea (I’m not a fan) but watching the trailers of *that" version of the game you can at least see the lineage of the original.

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    • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s pretty close to a Duke Nukem Forever situation at this point.

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  • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Poor VTMB2 is cursed.

    Not to mention it will difficult for it compete with the sheer uniqueness of the original VTMB for its time.

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    • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its beyond difficult to compare to a team that had an entire conversation tree line with a stop sign.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The Stop Sign gets a lot of the attention, but the TV host was the highlight of the Malkavian run for me. When I heard

        Police say that vigilantism will not be tolerated, and that they know it was you.

        it stopped me in my tracks because I really didn’t expect it. And the conversation with the TV host is as funny as the stop sign I think.

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No you stop!

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  • deus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good. Let them cook.

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  • iconic_admin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hopefully they’re adding a third person perspective…

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  • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I cancelled my preorder years ago and don’t regret it one bit. The last 4 games I ever preordered: Shenmue 3, No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. Never again.

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  • Vesker@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow, this title can’t catch a break. Though given how little of the game the developers have shown off, this isn’t too surprising honestly. I just hope this delay will be good for the game.

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  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whelp this game is never gonna happen. Might as well move on.

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