Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2

That sucks. I still see non voiced protagonist in a game full of voice acting as a weird decision in this day and age, feels like cutting corners to me. Which i guess it was one of the reasons going from his tweet.

Eh, there was exactly one remarkable thing about the first one (the first half was a decent adaptation of the tabletop and let you get by with few to no combat skills), and it was otherwise a very clunky game. A proof-of-concept that should be easy to improve upon, if you will. For a game by the actual developers of Bloodlines, we have The Outer Worlds.

Obviously I'd want a sequel to offer and even improve upon the one really good thing from the original, but I wouldn't overstate the first one's merits. My experience of it was that the first half was pretty cool, because I got to roleplay a type of protagonist unusual in CRPGs, but the second half was an absolutely atrocious, mostly linear series of dungeon runs that seemed to come from a completely different game. So for me, that second half is already the Bloodlines "franchise" at its absolute worst, and there is so much that could be improved about the first half (the gameplay and the writing, for starters) that I am reticent to call it amazing and pretend improving upon it would even be that hard. It is extremely risky to make a sequel to a cult classic, because some fans of the original will inevitably be harsh on it for failing to live up to the nostalgic fantasy in their heads. I feel like I can give this a fair shake, though.

Anybody see Razorfists video about this? Better than even chance we're getting politics rammed down our throats. Because everyone loves that.

Looks like Rik is back for the soundtrack!

www.pcgamer.com/bloodlines-composer-returned-for-bloodlines-2/

I am really exited over this. I will definitely follow it closely. Dunno if I should pre-order or not though

I have a policy when it comes to pre-orders and that is I wait until about a week prior to launch and if the game still has my interest at that time and I know I will be buying near launch I will pre-order for the cheesy bonuses.

Oh that's great! Currently I haven't had any embraces count even though I know people have pressed my link. But there were/are several wonky things with the accounts.

When I first made an account, I didn't get a confirmation email. Some people said there was an hour lag for many so I didn't think much of it and did the quests and sent the link to a friend. She made an account but nothing showed up in my "embraces". I requested another confirmation mail and then shut down the page. The confirmation email didn't arrive. So I left my phone and made an account through my desktop computer usi g the same email and password. The email came within 2 min but none of my progress had counted so I started over.

Today I noticed that the webpage on my phone doesn't acknowledge that I've found all the "blodpacks". So on my computer I have 160 blood points but on my phone I have 100 bp and when I click the final blodpack it gives me an error message - likely because I already "found" it on my computer.

On the subject of silent protagonist, in this case I prefer it. Voiced is fine for a more defined characters, like Geralt or Shephard, but for something like this (6 possible protagonists, 12 if you count male/female, and more on the way) I prefer a silent one.

About Rudi, I don't see how he's that much different from any other anarch? Like Nines dislikes wealthy/powerful people beause they affected him when he was alibe during the depression, Rudi dislikes those that discriminate against minorities beause what he experienced while alive. The blurb on his character might be a bit in-your-face but it's a text page of his personal info, what can you expect? If we meet him in the game I don't think he'll introduce himself with: "I'm black, gay, and fight for minorities." because people don't talk that way. They'll introduce him in a more organic way - if he's even in the game.

You have to logout/login to get the current status of the account. It doesn't appear to do live update and sometimes just use your computer cache it seems.

For the record, Rudi's page circulating around has nothing to do with Bloodlines 2. It's from one of the 5e table top manuals which is meant to describe NPCs and events for the storytellers (aka gamemasters). I doubt he's going to be in the game, his not America based.

Can't wait. I played the original so long ago and fell in love with the tabletop game even though I rarely had a group to play it with in my hometown.

Had very ambiguous feelings about the new 5E core book. The layout and writing generally feel sloppy, and annoyingly political at times. All the characters in the art look like models wearing silly ugly haute couture outfits rather than real clothes, even the Nosferatu, and everything about it just screams "sexy modern elegance" with very little of the cynicism and the brutality and ugliness that used to be a part of the setting. It had some great mechanical ideas too, but I hope the video game will dial it back a bit.

Also hope that a potential Malkavian character won't be as much of a nutcase as in the first game. It's fine to play a character who's a bit nutty and prophetic, but I want to play an actual person with those challenges rather than a one-dimensional ball of crazy.

I'll probably change my mind a dozen times over in the next year, but at the moment I'm building a dock-working Nossie huckster in anticipation.

I never said that neither did i implied it. What i said was that this seemed likely a move to reduce production cost which Brian reply seems to imply may have been one of the reasons.



That is a kind of exageration. If you start outside of any one of 6 clans with the possiblity to join one or more of them, or not join at all, then two voice actors (one male and another female) could do the voice acting. Voice modulation is a necessity in this type of profession and the range of it could be expanded via software to accomodate the diferences between the types of vampires.
But you are right on mentioning they likely don't have the budget to voice the main character on a RPG.