Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

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I don't know. Disco Elysium was made by the absolute most unironic political radicals you can find, and they managed to be mostly fair. You don't see that with their counterparts, naturally, and for good reason.

The sequel really doesn't look like anything though, I have no idea how it intends to live up to how good the first one is.

I just when games felt like they were made with care and love. Bloodlines has that feeling even though it is a buggy and unfinished mess. Nowadays most games may have fantastic first couple of levels but then quickly fall off hard. That wasn't how it used to be. Games like this one held the content quality levels up high almost the whole way through. It's this very care that I feel is lacking from the sequel from everything we've seen thus far. It feels like it's missing so much of what made classics like Bloodlines 1 so great.

Great song.

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I like them all
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Oh you meant the sequel. You can stay.

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dont be a cuck like this other faggot by giving activision money after killing trioka. go download it off of a gog release site

They shouldn't have called it Bloodlines 2. Give it a new Subtitle.

I don't know, I guess I'm just hopeful it might actually be worth playing even if it doesn't hold a candle compared to the original.

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Honestly I don't think we got the whole story there. It seems like Troika was really slow at achieving milestones because they were being seriously ambitious with their design and had huge problems with the Source engine. Activision even gave them more money and continually extended their deliverable dates.

The real stupidity by Activision was releasing it at the same time as Half-Life 2. As a teenager I really wanted to play it at release because the reviews were excellent and it was right up my alley but I couldn't afford both Half-Life 2 and VTMB at the same time.

Are you saying that WOD was ever anything other than nu age faggot ideology?

To be fair WoD has always been full of progressive bullshit its just reached idiotic hights now where you have to continuously show how virtuous you are because of social media.

It's probably gonna be another enemy runs at you, slap it untill it dies, cast a spell so it dies slightly faster game. Which means playing a weird builf is probably the best way to have fun. Like a stealth mage or something.

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I'm really worried about the soundtrack. There's no real contemporary equivalent to the licenced tracks they had back in 2004.

And then at the end of the game guns become viable and you just melt everything, yes?

I honestly doubt my ability to judge these things fairly. Like you played this game in your childhood, you didn't have the discerning mind of a redpilled adult you have now, surely there are issues with this game that you missed or didn't care about. Sure, you replayed it yesterday, but those issues didn't jump out at you because internally the matter is settled for you - you've declared it a good game back then, and you wouldn't care to reexamine it critically.

Now imagine if the sequel came out and it were of comparable quality to the original (fat chance, I know, but bear with me). You would then judge it impartially and adequately, and all the flaws that it might share with the original aren't gonna get a pass anymore, so in the end you're likely to call it shit.

I guess my point is that any game that comes out in the current year is bound to be shit, so your question is meaningless. Try to remember when the last time you enjoyed a modern game was.

You're getting older.

>dat view
Damn user i remember i used to just chill on top of the caved in roof of the creepy hotel and listen to the atmospheric music and I could see the lighthouse and lit-up ship in the distance. I knew it wasn't a real ship and just a 2d image painted on the skybox but seeing that lonely ship filled me with strange feels. It was awesome that you get to board it later in the game. Man that game was awesome.

>redpilled adult
No you're still a child if you're talking like that.

Actually I played VTMB quite a long time after its release and loved it. The combat is dogshit but its clever use of social elements, settings and atmosphere really built it up. I'd go looking for that in the sequel more than anything.

no
no

Except I didn't play it at launch (I was interested in it but never got around to playing it due to all the talk of bugs.) I eventually played through it in like 2013 and fell in love with it. It's not nostalgia, it's the real deal. Does it have faults, sure but none that would diminish the overall takeaway. I guess it really comes down to the classic SOUL vs SOULLESS debate. We'll find out soon enough if another series falls victim to the great husk as they always do.

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VTMB1
>Late 90s early 2000s Gothic vibe
>Music linked with that aesthetic
>Ocean House Hotel
>Grout's Mansion
>Meeting Nines at Grout's mansion and getting told to leave while you still can
>Gimble's Prostethics
>Investigating a snuff tape which leads to a porn ring.
>House made of flesh
>Enter the fucking Tzimische
>Malkavian's who are actually fun to play as and have interesting dialogue
>Dialogue example in VTMB1: "Oh and you're a goddamn Malkavian. You really are fucked"

VTMB2
>Centered around cashing in on the nostalgia of VTMB1
>Pre-order dlc comes with costumes and cosmetics from VTMB1
>Main theme is just a remix of the theme from VTMB1
>Opens with a courtroom scene just like VTMB1
>Some not all of the soundtrack is done by the original composer.
>The game from the time it was pitched has only been in development for a total of three years.
>Last Dev Diary in March is them explaining how they've only finished mo-cap yet it was originally supposed to release around now.
>Writers are now afraid to call people "ugly". In the World of DARKNESS we now have to be careful of calling people "ugly"
>Malkavian's will not be fun to play as they're too triggering now as most of the dev team are mentally ill.
>Side quests now focus on body issues and no not the type of quests that we had for the Nosferatu in VTMB1
>Side quests focus on thinbloods crying about "woah is me I'm a vampire now". You know well this won't be written i a way which is somewhat compelling.
>Dialogue example in VTMB 2 "Welcome to the first night of your undeath, having fun yet?" *lol*
>Club music so far has been shit.
Why should anyone get excited for this?