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submitted 4 days ago by CharlesReed@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

A brand new trailer for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2! World of Darkness says that it will release in the first half of 2025. No specific date yet.

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To really hope this lives up to the first game.

Won't be an RPG. Was dead to me once they confirmed it won't be as open ended as the first game.

Oh. Seems pretty shitty to call it a sequel when it isn’t even the same genre. Sounds like something I will skip and I spend so much time on the first two vampire games.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 3 days ago

They threw out the original writer and composer, and seem to have changed most characters and the whole script. It also apparently plays more like Dishonored now.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 4 days ago

I have literally zero hopes. But then again all the things I wanted from the sequel are the things Paradox threw out when they handed the game over to The Chinese Room. And looking at the character changes in this trailer compared to the Hardsuit Labs trailers I can't say I'm hopeful things have changed for the better.

[-] DdCno1@beehaw.org 8 points 4 days ago

These are talented developers, but the things Paradox management have said and done (in general and in regards to this game) are hardly confidence-inspiring. They've already said that there won't be a part three (at least not with their help), at least heavily implied that they have no confidence in this game's success and stated that people should tamper their expectations.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 3 days ago

I'm sure they are and I'm sure they're doing their best, but such a huge part of why the original has become a cult classic was Brian Mitsoda's script. They had him on board and threw him out. I really wish I knew what was going on behind the scenes. Did he piss someone off? Was the functional parts of the game not... functioning? Or was the script really that bad? They seem to be keeping basically none of it, but the characters in the Chinese Room trailers have none of the charm of Hardsuit Labs trailers...

I think we'll get a mediocre Dishonored-like with a Vampire theme that is Bloodlines only in name, and fans will forever wonder about and mythologize that Hardsuit Labs version with Mitsoda and Rik Schaffer (which may well have sucked in reality).

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago

Fucking hell, what a title.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

😂 World of darkness titles tend to have godawfull names.

all their titles start with the name of the tabletop game its based on,
in this case its: "Vampire: The Masquerade"
the actual tille of the game starts at "Bloodlines".

thanks to that naming scheme all their titles are fucked before they even start

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