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Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: 2 [Gameplay Trailer]
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This trailer was a big turnoff for me. I thought this was a dialogue-heavy RPG kind of game and the trailer didn't indicate that at all? And the whole "serial killer poses bodies while dancing to a silly tune" was just dumb to me and really derivative of the Joker or something. I got no sense of what this game's unique personality is if it has one.
I mean people say this but ultimately in these games you do end up in combat a fair bit it's something that they need to show.
Nossies no longer being an immediate Masquerade violation doesn't rub with me. Nor fucking over the Tremere. Nor whatever they turned the Setites into. I'm just eeeeeeeh about many of the changes.
It should be massively dialogue heavy, much more than most RPGs out there these days. It's just not that kind of trailer. Watch the E3 2019 gameplay videos for a better look at it.
It should be noted that the majority of these scenes were made for this trailer. Especially the dancing bits. Thing is, it's just hard to advertise that sort of title in a 2 min video.
My mistake, I think it was E3 2019. There was also a demo during Gamescom 2019.
yo so of you have been around for a long time in this and other communities are we still going to do the same song & dance every time a mass consumption trailer for a niche product get released?
Guess what if you got a 2-minute spot to sell a product spending that 2 minutes on a create a character walking in a z from NPC to NPC on a mostly empty city street is not the best use of time or money, which they need if you want them to keep making these products
Guess what if you got a 2-minute spot to sell a product spending that 2 minutes on a create a character walking in a z from NPC to NPC on a mostly empty city street is not the best use of time or money, which they need if you want them to keep making these products
I wasn't expecting this but I'm excited.
I hope they go full on 0451 Immersive Sim on this. I want to loot every drawer and read every email, dammit.
I hope they go full on 0451 Immersive Sim on this. I want to loot every drawer and read every email, dammit.
Because dancing is an iconic part of the original.
This game is a love letter sequel to a cult classic. Expect a lot of in-joke references.
I can guarantee you that they won't do this. Even the original was very spartan on how much you could interact with the world.
The girl from the trailer's thumbnail. Go back and watch last year's video, she had a bad case of giraffe neck.
Obviously it's kind of contemporary vampire fiction and with the the sort of nightlife you could imagine when the franchise started clubbing, raves that sort of thing is basically interwoven into the DNA of the series.
I mean, you had independent kindred doing all kinds of nasty stuff in the first one.
The killer that disemboweled the thugs that had killed his daughter.
Father kranker from the cult that was spreading disease throughout the city
The canibal vampire in the ruined hospital
Let's not forget about creating your own little ghoul and fucking her over and her whole innocent life for lulz.
Yeah, after hearing so much about Bloodlines 1 being an immersive sim, I played the game and... it's not that much of an immersive sim at all? All of the diverging choices are pre-baked sequences made by the developers, there is barely any interaction with the world to allow you to do your own thing like in Deus Ex. It's a fantastic game, but it put far more cards into its story rather than allowing the player to freely interact with the game's systems to make their own way through the world.
That has always been the case with games that aren't combat focused in the traditional way. See Prey being marketed as an alien shooter or Hitman Blood Money trailers being gunfight heavy
Really wish they gave you more options to be nice to her and to
save her.
I wouldn't judge some of these character animations too harshly since they were created specifically for the trailer. It stuck out to me too, but it's fine for what it is.
You can save her without releasing her in the modded version of the game.
Animations looked... Really terrible? Like I don't usually care that much about animations - I'm one of those people that was never particularly bothered with NRS animations, but this looks really rough. Kind of surprised with the direction it's gone in? I've limited experience with the first game but it seems there's been a shift in art style
My thoughts exactly.
Now its a little early to tell but going by all the footage shown, they are missing the tone and the atmosphere has yet to hit the first bloodlines level.
The ost so far is a all over the place granted we haven't seen much and tbh the first VtMB was a perfect product of its time. I am very cautiously optimisitc about this game considering they went full fps this time around, which can be a hit or miss.
Not to mention folks bringing up bioshock and dishonored as comparisons is quite worrying as the game should be nothing like them. As mentioned the vampires shown are just plain jane look sans the main chic but hope there is more to it.
Also the first reveal CGI trailer hit the nail on the tone... hope its translates well to the full game
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Fulfill the meme, reinstall the first game and get back to us after making this post.
We're talking about keyframed animation using models intended for an RPG that will have the vast majority of it's facial animation made using procedural methods, aka, not the type of stuff you'd see in a game like Injustice. Graphics discussion should be relative.
Point of reference for games like this are titles like the Outer Worlds.
Looks pretty rad to me, but as my avatar may indicate, I'm the furthest thing from objective here. That little scene with the "puppets" is exactly the sort of thing a low humanity Kindred would do for amusement. As for the gameplay itself? I think it looks fine, but I don't feel the moment-to-moment gameplay in the first game was really all that great, so my expectations aren't very high. Mostly I'm just happy to see more being done with this amazing world, my favorite in all fiction.
How are you getting that the game is going "full fps"? Even the trailer in your quote basically showed tits and people getting murdered and Bloodlines 1 certainly wasn't a murder porn game lol. It would make 0 sense for them to revive a dead IP only to change the most beloved thing about it, AKA the narrative. Not to mention that prior to this trailer you can easily find a bunch of interviews where the people behind the game talk at length about the importance of building your character and how they're making sure the branching narrative is their #1 priority. They aren't making an fps.
EDIT: oops, you were talking about how the lack of a toggle between first/third person, my bad. Still the third person mode was basically only for combat which is definitely not Bloodlines 1's strong suit so I doubt there's anything to lose with them keeping it firmly in first person now.
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I'm pretty sure they're talking about the fact that you can't just with switch to third person when you want to, there are specific animations like scaling walls and I think some unique kill animations that switch to third person but otherwise you are in first person at all times.
*If I recall correctly*
But the first game would force you out of third person in specific situations so I can't say I personally care all that much.
They probably meant the fact that there's no third-person camera optoin anymore, aside from specific animations (dodging, mantling, some powers).
90% of the gameplay will be in first-preson. It's still very much an RPG though.
I'm replaying it right now you donkey.
I was mainly referring to these scenes in their 'gmod-ness'. Considering this character is feature prominently in promotional and box art... Also I never compared it to Injustice or the like? Notice how I said 'compared to the original 2004 game'? 16 years later, and this is what they've got to show for it?
