Bloodlines 2 is the best vampire videogame ever made. It has the best writing, the best gameplay, the best soundtrack, the best characters. There are a few chapters where the pacing wobbles, but the ending is a thing of beauty. Fabien really is the greatest Malkavian character of all time.
Do you get a qt thrall slave gf?
>>741600270Oh look, the schizo marketer is still at it.>>741600417LolLMAO even
>>741600270Man you can just hear the califag designer's thought process.>Yeah she's smart so she has glasses and has brown eyes and brown hair and mystery meat complexion and her name is some ambiguous middle easter thing like "Safia" oh and she's nerdy so wearing a turtle neck and has some faggy yoga talisman thing but she still wears makeup and isn't too pudgy with a lean face.There's also something about that face expression but I can't think of a funny way to criticize it.
God, she's so hot. The only thing that could improve her would be the reveal that she's packing an 11 inch fleshcrafted futacock.
>>741600417No, which is unfortunate. However, there will eventually be a mod to have Verona as a ghoul using her voice lines from the DLC.
>>741601181>Man you can just hear the califag designer's thought process.No, the thought process was the British designer opening the model files by the American developer and saying, "Oh, fuck, I have to fix her giraffe neck."
>>741600270The story is actually terrible and pointless.>>741600417You cannot engage in anything that would be remotely uncomfortable or problematic in this game.
>>741601181They kept changing her name.>Elif (Turkish)>Cemile (Turkish)>Safia (Arabic)
>>741602123>The story is actually terrible and pointless.It's one of the best videogame stories. What didn't you like about it?>>741600417>>741602123I think you are forgetting the story DLC a bit. You get to be an absolute shitter in the DLC.
>>741601459You know, she really didn't have to kill Ryong. Ryong never did anything bad to her. But I guess all cammies gotta burn.
>>741602315>It's one of the best videogame stories. What didn't you like about it?It's pointless because the game is entirely linear.The story surrounds a mystery involving Phyre's awakening, the presence of Fabien in his head, and how these are connected to a series of murders from the 1920s. The reward for resolving this mystery is that you learn the motives of the game's central antagonist.This achieves nothing because Phyre does not give a fuck about the motives of the game's antagonist because, for reasons never explained, Phyre unilaterally hates all Sabbat without exception.The story is you running around chasing pointless clues and investigating meaningless intrigue, until the final boss unleashes her monster movie goons and you kill her. The End.
>>741602615>It's pointless because the game is entirely linear.Yea, it's a linear action game. The Chinese Room, by and large, make linear games that tell linear stories.>This achieves nothing because Phyre does not give a fuck about the motives of the game's antagonist because, for reasons never explained, Phyre unilaterally hates all Sabbat without exception.I think that Phyre as a character is largely irrelevant to the story outside of being a vehicle for Fabien's will.>He is gone now. He sacrificed himself so that I could face you. And in his memory, I will set you free.So stepping back, originally there was this whole thing where you and Safia knew each other, or at least she knew you. She was 400 years old, came from the same area and time period, and had been stalking you for hundreds of years. This was scrapped when Fabien was rewritten into the Malkavian detective.Basically, as a character, Phyre just waddles along helping Fabien get justice for what happened, and killing Safia is for him, too. He's very sorry for her, that he wasn't strong enough to help her, but she has to die because, well, this isn't an RPG unfortunately. I would sided with her in a heartbeat otherwise.
>>741602615Actually, I remember Sarah Longthorne the lead writer saying that she regretted the fact she wasn't able to change the unilateral sabbat hatred thing. It was baked into the project when she joined and originally Phyre was so much more of a fixed character, and she never had the freedom to change much there.
The new combat is awesome.
>>741603435I played the original release and it was pure dogshit.>need to constantly dodge>first person view>tight spaces>enemies surround you>can't see shit>enemies behind>no space to dodge>constantly feeling utterly disoriented from the motion sickness and camera changes>no gunsWhat did they change?
>>741604040Added guns.Added melee weapons.Added auto-blocking.
>>741600270https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuRcmPnSTM
>>741605595Name a better Malkavian than Fabien. That's right, you cannot.
>>741600847Can someone dox this faggot already?
>>741603435I think you should get stabbed to death by a nigger of some other subhuman.
>>741606880Therese/JeanetteGroutFemale Malk protag All better your reddit detective is shit. And no this is not an invitation to start gushing about your tranny cocksucking OC. But feel free to neck yourself you pathetic waste of oxygen.
>>741607379None of those are better than Fabien. Especially not Jeanette.
>>741607259I prefer the baseball bat to the knife. More reach.
Bring back the IP counter. This whole thread feels like 2 people discussing a 5/10 and one person being pissed bloodlines 2 didn't have shit to do with bloodlines 1.TBF I liked bloodlines 1 and wish the sequel had similar systems, but I only did 1 playthrough
"We must be better vampires," says the insane death cultist.
>>741608039I feel like the only people who say VTMB2 has nothing to do with Bloodlines 1 are people who are upset it's not an RPG. Because narratively, tonally, themes-wise it is a very similar game. It even revolves entirely around characters fighting over a box.
Fabien singlehandedly ruins the game with his cringey unfunny quirk chungus millennial writing dialogue and boring walking simulator detective segments. If he was cut out of the game entirely, it would elevate it from a 5 to a 7
There is 1 Anarch leader (Katsumi)There is 1 Hunter leader (Baker)There are 3 Camarilla leaders (Ryong, Lou, Lou's sister)There are 2 Sabbat leaders (Safia, Ysebelle)Every. Single. One of them. Is female. There is not a single male in a position of authority in the entire game, besides Benny being the sheriff for 5 minutes. That's INSANE and probably the most egregious woke worldbuilding nonsense I've ever seen in a game
>>741608449Fabien is the heart and soul of the game.
>>741608614Technically Katsumi is an undercover Camarilla agent. But also, Campbell wasn't dead offscreen originally. That change was made during the Fabien rewrites, which was also when they killed Dale.Anyway, you're sorta overlooking the primogens. Niko, Silky, Fletcher, and of course Tolly.
>>741608857>the insufferable unfunny piece of shit is the heart and soul of the gameI'm glad we agree that the game sucks then
>>741609021Is Fabien even trying to be funny? It's not really a comedy game.
>>741600270I really do try to give every game I play a fair chance but this was an utter slog to me
>>741607952You’re paid to say that just like you’re paid to make these shit threads where you talk to yourself and suck off this trash. It already flopped and you think trying to shill a shitty dlc and the game adding shit that was in VTMB from the start is going to change shit. You’re already fucked. Give up and stop making these shit threads you vile fucking subhuman.
>>741608039>>741608358Stop talking to yourself nigger.
>>741600270Fully agree
>>741606880PC in VTMB:B
>>741600270There is no centrifugal force strong enough for anyone to make that spin for Bloodlines 2.
>>741600270>barely been eight months since release>devs are done with everything and moving onSASUGA
is the game really engoodened? I'm looking at the download link right now, should i pull the trigger chat
>>741610887No it’s shit and you know that. Stop making these retard posts pretending to be another person just so you can shit out info. Everyone knows it’s just you.
>>741610860>two dlc concern side characters and have nothing to do with phyre I guess they really had favorites.
>>741611163i swear i'm not OP. I'm genuinely curious about the new updates since i heard they were redoing combat to an extent along with the new DLC. Surpised to have seen 0 threads about it until now though, all that came out on the 10th.
Playing VtM Redeption currently, first time. It's cool. Definitely better than Bloodlines 2. The gameplay definitely isn't polished, but it has soul.Bloodlines 2 remains the worst game in the VtM series, worse than Night Road or Swansong. Impressive.
>>741610519Vtmb2 won because it's the only playable vtm game and thus its carried by sheer inertia.>>741610887It's in pretty good shape. I'm playing it right now. Just completed the plastic factory and now I'm waddling around as Fabien again. I assume enemies didn't carry so many guns originally?
>>741610860I can't help noticing they're still quietly updating... something on SteamDB. I won't be surprised if there's a "surprise" update on the 1 year anniversary.
>>741611260VtM is just a cursed IP. We should count ourselves lucky for VtMB, despite its flaws.
>>741611543Ah yes, game with such pathfinding/AI you want to leave your companions and solo missions. Good thing enemies are just as dumb.
>>741611620Well you can look forward to the next VN with a strong female protagonist. It's so bizarre to me these and interactive fiction was what people latched onto.
>>741610618Fabien is better at arguing with stop signs.
>>741611343>>741611564The more you do this the worse it will be when you’ll have to come to terms that your shilling failed again and no one is going to ever give a shit about your shit game. There is no contrarian wave. You chimped the fuck out when it flopped and are now doing this shit as one last gasp attempt. But in the end it will just end up forgotten while people will continue to talk about VtMB and all you’ll do is end up getting fired and the chinkroom getting shitcanned. And given all the recent studio shutdowns and layoffs that’s a very real possibility. Do you really want the last thing you do is to be mocked while schizophrenically talking to yourself and shilling trash on 4chan? I know you won’t drop the act but this question will fester in your mind because you’re the kind of faggot who has to mask everything with irony to cope because everything said against you bothers you to such a massive degree due to you being a narcissistic retard.
>>741611620problem with vtm is no one really cares for anything unless its bloodlines 2.you cant get ANY other game off the ground and then bl2 flopped so now everyone is back to not caring.
>>741611815People care about VtMB tho.
>>741611782VTMB2 may not be your cup of tea specifically, but it always had core potential. The combat update that came out on the 10th of this month (along with the DLC) was a huge win for those looking to stick with the story, but found the combat a little lacking.The DLC itself is an excellent addition to an already promising package. Fans will love it and newcomers to the series will hopefully find it's vampiric, conspiratorial world something worth biting into.
>>741611632Yeah, I just got the Capadocian girl, and it’s definitely overwhelming. It’s a good thing Christof can take on anyone on his own. I’m not sure what kind of telekinesis Ecaterina used to embrace him, because her stats from the books are too weak to stop him. At least she’s become more reasonable by the time of the visual novel.
>>741611902Bloodlines 1 goes on sale all the time and nobody buys it. There's just this complete lack of general audience interest in the game. Functionally the only VTM game with any kind of presence is BL2.
>>741600270>Bloodlines 2 is the best vampire videogame ever madeYou forgetting the Legacy of Kain series? the best non World of Darkness games.
>>741612164LoK has shit gameplay.
>>741611991the cultural imprint that BL2 left on the gaming scene is so underrated. It's fresh take on combat and new DLC content is a return to form for the title and the prolific series in general.
>>741611969It’s a shit game that flopped because it was inferior to a game that came out over 20 years before it. You can spin all these retarded lies and talk to yourself but it’s not going to change anything because the game already failed and lacked everything that actually made VtMB into a cult classics it’s a generic wannabe imsim with retarded ugly characters based on fucking V5 and all the shit that comes with it. Adding guns isn’t going to change that, it will always be fundamentally shit. You’re not going to convince anyone by spamming and talking to yourself. You will just waste time and show everyone just how desperate you are to find any modicum of salvage from this shit show.
>>741612263I sincerely hope you don't mean to imply that the gameplay in Bloodlines 2 is better, shill-kun.
>>741611991>>741612292Except they do, and people have already bought it. And its cultural mark is much bigger. Meanwhile shitlines will remain the inferior sequel that the people who even know about it will either forget about and wish it never happened. No one gives a fuck about your shit game. All of these threads reek of you just talking to yourself and there was nothing between now and the game flopping.
>>741612263It's perfectly serviceable.So does VTMB2 though in regards to gameplay, it's shit. Propping it up on a high horse is not wise.
>>741612297Look, nobody is saying it didn't go through absolute development hell or that V5 doesn't have its issues—the original Bloodlines is an untouchable cult classic for a reason. But I’m not 'shilling' a masterpiece; I’m just looking at it for what it actually is now. The Chinese Room makes atmospheric games, and the combat actually looks responsive compared to the jank of the original. It's fine if it's not for you, but calling it a total loss before the dust even settles seems a bit cynical
>>741612376>Meanwhile shitlines will remain the inferior sequel It’s genuinely hilarious watching people worship a 20-year-old, unfinished tech demo. Let’s be honest: the original is only 'legendary' because modders spent two decades of unpaid labor fixing the broken mess the devs couldn't finish. You’re not defending a masterpiece; you’re defending a buggy relic held together by fan-patches and nostalgia. I’d much rather have a cohesive, modern title that actually functions at launch than spend another twenty years babysitting a game that couldn't even manage basic combat. Enjoy the jank; I’m over it.
>>741612376>Except they do, and people have already bought it.No, they don't. Nobody gives a fuck about Bloodlines 1. It has negative levels of cultural presence with console gamers, and on PC it's basically on par with Deus Ex 1 in terms of general audience awareness.>And its cultural mark is much bigger.What cultural mark? It has no characters normies are familiar with, no quotes, no iconic missions, nothing. Worse, the sequel has sponged up much of its cultural connection. People associate Damsel with Bloodlines 2 now, not the original. All the things that made the first game iconic have been absorbed into the sequel. People only remember Deb of the Night as the first game's equivalent of Bet of the Night. People don't even know what the name of the nightclub from 1 was, but they know 2's nightclub (that you can dance at in the DLC) is called Atrium.I'm not even saying this is a good thing. The club is worse. Damsel is worse. But the sequel has successfully sucked its predecessor dry and taken its place.
>>741612428You are shilling because you keep trying desperately to hype up trash while crying and talking to yourself. The chinkroom made trash and you’re paid to shill it. You spew the same retarded buzzwords and cannot actually talk like a fucking human being. You talk like a pretentious faggot journo. Like seriously no one actually says “responsive” when referring to combat aside from journos because they think it sounds intelligent and that the retards will eat it up. You tried this exact shit months ago and it failed. The game flopped, adding guns isn’t going to change that it’s shit, it sure hasn’t fixed the player count. For fuck sake it’s had less players than fucking trannyguard.
>>741612379>So does VTMB2 though in regards to gameplay, it's shit.Bloodlines 2 has excellent gameplay, what are you talking about?
>>741612592dios mio
here I go reinstalling VTM:Bmalk ventrue or nosferatu ? Fist melee or gun ?
>>741612746Check the big mods if you haven't. Only problem is they're mutually exclusive.
>>741612559>>741612582>It’s genuinely hilarious watching people worship a 20-year-old, unfinished tech demoNo what’s genuinely pathetic is that you know your game is so shit and that it was btfo by the game it was supposed to be a sequel too so hard that you have to shit on it like the pathetic sour grape coping faggot shill you are. > Let’s be honest: the original is only 'legendary' because modders spent two decades of unpaid labor fixing the broken mess the devs couldn't finishAnd modders bothered to do that in the first place because they actually enjoyed the game and wanted to improve it, unlike your trash which will be forgotten along with shit like redfall, not even shitty enough to have people meme it. >n-nu uhNigger tactic by a retarded manchild, it’s still a cult classic and all you’ll do it cry about how it’s bad to cope. > has negative levels of cultural presence with console gamersBecause it didn’t release on console you glue eating retard.>and on PC it's basically on par with Deus Ex 1 in terms of general audience awarenessYou mean one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed PC games ever made? Which still has people talking about it to this day? >What cultural mark? It has no characters normies are familiar withAside from Jeanette, Jack, Nines, LaCroix, Andrei. All you can do is talk out of your all and hope no one will say anything. And it’s normalfag you shit smeared mongrel.
>>741612592Imagine thinking a single-player, story-driven RPG lives or dies on concurrent Steam charts six months after launch. It’s a narrative game, not an MMO—people play it, finish it, and move on with their lives. But keep clinging to your screenshots while the rest of us actually enjoy playing a polished, modern sequel that doesn't require twenty community mods just to get past the main menu
>>741612836Everyone already knows where you're getting these talking points from. You're literally just copy-pasting the exact same miserable rants from that one specific Discord server and a couple of bitter YouTube comment sections. Word is you haven't even touched the game and are just desperately recycling other people's outrage for attention. It’s embarrassing
>>741612682>Bloodlines 2 has excellent gameplay,I'm not sure what caused you to say LoK had bad gameplay when it's hack and slash combat simply serves its intended purpose. Defiance plays like the old God of War games. The prior entries like Blood Omen 2 to Soul Reaver is like a mix between platformer and action. There's nothing stand out about them but nor does VTMB2 actually have standout gameplay. If LoK is shit and you can't give any reason as to why that is the case then VTMB2 is shit by the same logic too.
>>741612559Bloodlines 1 is frustrating because it has really strong atmosphere and really colorful characters, but it's shit to play. And fans are really defensive about that. The game's mechanics suck ass. Bloodlines 2 has major problems, and every time someone who worked on it gives an interview they have this dead behind the eyes look where it's clear the project was hell and they wanted to be done with it. But the fact is, it's a better made game. It's not an RPG. It's a linear action game with a slightly disjointed story involving two different protagonists and a murder mystery. But the thing is, the shooting is fun. The melee is fun. The stealth is flexible and lets you do creative things. It has many combat encounters where you can solve problems in fun and creative ways using your abilities, guns, and melee weapons. It's a good game that has problems.Bloodlines 1, frankly, gets given a free pass on a lot of shit no normal game would. Having fucking awful shooting in an FPS game is not a minor flaw. And frankly, while the characters are colorful and memorable, the writing in Bloodlines 1 is not very good. This game is so heavily promoted as the best written thing ever, and it's really not that good. The story is not good. The conspiracy is stupid. I feel like half the controversy over Bloodlines 1 vs 2 involves people not really being honest about what 1 was, and its limitations.
>>741612969Because games are not JUST the sum of their parts.
>>741612836>You mean one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed PC games ever made?Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Nobody has any fucking idea who J.C. Denton is, dude. The original Deus Ex is incredibly niche. Completely overshadowed by the Eidos Montreal version.
>>741612836>And modders bothered to do that in the first place because they actually enjoyed the game and wanted to improve itInteresting you should say that because 2 has its own modding community. I saw someone just released an update photo mode mod that lets you spawn Phyre and select 30 different poses. The official photo mode is extremely undercooked because The Chinese Room can't code for shit.
>>741612861>>741612918I really don’t understand why you need to keep up the pretense of being different people when you samefag in the most blatant and retarded way possible?>Imagine thinking a single-player, story-driven RPG lives or dies on concurrent Steam charts six months after launchAwful cope given other RPGs have had substantially higher player counts and continuous player counts. See pic related. >Everyone already knows where you're getting these talking points from. You're literally just copy-pasting the exact same miserable rants from that one specific Discord server and a couple of bitter YouTube comment sectionsTake notes this is the go to deflection whenever a retard can’t argue, he will just say that you’re copying someone else. But cannot say specifically who nor can he actually say how the point is wrong so it ends up just being empty ad hominem. Your game flopped, get the fuck over it and stop making these shit threads. Your time would be better spent looking for another job. I her McDicks is always hiring.
mfw i been using Ai to bait the schizo nigga
The sheer damage 5th ed has caused this franchise cannot be overstated.
>>741612592What I do notice is that VTMB2, for all its faults, has a consistently higher player count than the first game. People make excuses for this, but this isn't really the norm. You don't see Project Snowblind having a higher player count than the Deus Ex games.
>>741613102Deep down, you know Bloodlines 1 was just a buggy, unplayable interactive movie with a terrible plot, and the only reason you pretend to love it is because a YouTuber told you to. Bloodlines 2 is simply a better-made video game in every measurable way, and your nostalgia-fueled tears won't fix your broken 2004 mechanics
>bro the shitty sequel has more players than the singleplayer experience that released in 2004, it means it's betterI know this whole thread is pure bait but come on.
>>741613060>>741613098And now he’s just going apeshit and replying to the same post over and over again.>Nobody has any fucking idea who J.C. Denton is, dudeAgain awful cope. You try to say shit and when it fails you just go “erm that actually is unknown” or “ackshually people don’t care”. JC is still iconic to this day and people are aware of his character. He is a staple of the imsim genre. >Interesting you should say that because 2 has its own modding communityIt doesn’t, all you can do is cope about some trash that only faggots who get paid like you would care about.
>>741612942>I'm not sure what caused you to say LoK had bad gameplay when it's hack and slash combat simply serves its intended purpose.Because it's fucking boring. Legacy of Kain has incredibly boring and repetitive third person hack and slash gameplay. Nobody praises the gameplay of LoK. People just praise the voice acting in the cutscenes.> nor does VTMB2 actually have standout gameplay.Bloodlines 2 is a very slick version of Condemned: Criminal Origins. Melee combat lets you choose between fast and nimble or slow and bone crunching, and gunplay is tempered by ammo limits, but very satisfying. There's something really cool about gliding through the air, dropping down, and then pow-pow-pow cutting through a group of ghouls with two MP5s. Then snatching one of their shotguns and exploding the survivor's head with a satisfying chunky crunch.It's really cool to tear your wrists and then use jets of blood as projectiles taking out 4 different enemies in total silence.It can a little fiddly at times. But it's a good combat system that feels so much better now than it did at launch when all you could do was punch things.
I saw the dyke haircut on the cover and i didn't buy VTMB2 because of it. VTMB1 probably had some proto woke elements like Damsel and all of the blatantly obvious republican/conservative bashing but this was too on the nose for me. You can't present this kind of shit and not expect me to say that the game wasn't made by DEI hires.
>>741612969Another thing. People complain about the sidequests in Bloodlines 2 being "go place, get thing". Well, that's literally what most of the sidequests in 1 are.
>>741613013>Because games are not JUST the sum of their parts.Yea, but that works in 2's favor, not 1. Because the sum of VTMB1's parts is a game that is not fun to play, and doesn't have a good story, and doesn't have meaningful choices, or any of the things it builds its promises on.
>>741613158>>741613236You will always fail because you come up with the worst copes.>What I do notice is that VTMB2, for all its faults, has a consistently higher player count than the first gameYou mean the game that came out in 04 when games were still sold on discs and Steam was barely even a thing? You never think this shit through, all you can do is seethe about VtMB and hope to drag it down with you like a spiteful manchild.>deep down, you know Bloodlines 1 was just a buggy, unplayable interactive movie with a terrible plot, and the only reason you pretend to love 1. I’ve been able to beat it multiple times and the first 3 playthroughs were without mods2. It’s mostly gameplay, but keep showing you haven’t played it3. The plot is great, unlike your shitty moonflower reddit detective nonsense4. You keep bringing up YouTubers and shit in the most desperate attempt to cope with being wrong and having nothing to defend your garbage.
>>741612918not that guy but hes completely right, its a cult classic for a reason and its famous for every time its mentioned someone reinstalls it. Just because you were born after it came out does not make it any less good or less memorable. I have replayed it probably 6 times in my lifetime. Bloodlines 2 is garbage in comparison but its still a somewhat ok game. if it didn't have bloodlines in the title id probably rate it higher.
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>>741613102>Awful cope given other RPGsBloodlines 2 is not an RPG. That was never even a disputed point. The game's director, who created all the characters and the story and stuff, just straight up told Paradox "We can't make Bloodlines 2. There's not enough time, there's no enough money" and he said that he could hear the psychic scream of Bloodlines 1 fans as he told Paradox that what would he we would make would "NOT be an RPG and would NOT be an open world" but would instead be a linear action game.>>741613257Have you looked at the player counts for literally any modern VTM game that isn't Bloodlines 2? It's actually surprising how well the game is doing all things considered.
>>741613349>Bloodlines 2 is a very slick version of Condemned: Criminal OriginsYeah compare it to actually good games and that will trick people into playing it. Please stop doing this 'it's like this better game' because it lets everyone know its shit and can't stand on it's own two feet regarding anything unique about it's combat. It's probably closer to Dishonored as some people were saying initially and i buy that because Dishonored is boring. It reminds me of later Arkane mediocrity or something. Which is fine i understand that has an audience but don't try putting down a game series just because you don't find the gameplay model interesting. Even though the story of LoK is pretty good.There's nothing wrong with the games and I've gone back and played LoK on the remasters so i know you're exaggerating it being 'shit'.
>>741613265>JC is still iconic to this day and people are aware of his character.I love the original Deus Ex and Invisible War, but a vast majority of people including Deus Ex fans are unfamiliar with them. There is a remaster in development that has been indefinitely delayed and nobody cares. To most people Deus Ex begins and ends with Human Revolution.
>>741613562I'm referring to the Steam version. Bloodlines is one of those odd games where nobody seems to actually want to play it. 2,000 people played HL2 concurrently in the last 24 hours. VTMB1 managed 87. There's just no interest. Those two games released on the same day, and HL2 is famous for "the kids don't give a shit about it and think G Man is from Skibidi Toilet". Yet people are playing HL2 today, not VTMB. There's just something about VTMB that makes people bounce off it.
>>741613689>I love Invisible WarWow anon, i can tell you are the creator of this thread, people knowledgeable about games can tell when you are a poser and dont know shit about games that you never played.
>>741613643>swansongyou mean game that was an epic exclusive for over a year before releasing on steam? this is the disingenuous sort of shit that makes everyone dismiss what you say, shill.
>>741613672There's a lot of Dishonored influence, but the combat is extremely Condemned-like. Melee weapons can be swung freely. They break if you use a heavy attack. Guns are picked up and fired until the magazine is empty, then discarded.
>>741602949Hi Sarah, it's not your fault but the game sucks
>>741600270Truuuee
>>741613643>>741613689>Bloodlines 2 is not an RPGThen why did you say it was an RPG you pathetic faggot? >inb4 nu uh I didn’t Right here >>741612861>inb4 t-that wasn’t meIt is, just because you’re a mentally ill faggot that needs to pretend to be other people and reply multiple times to the same post doesn’t mean people don’t notice. Kill yourself you shits stain. >I love the original Deus Ex and Invisible WarInvisible Wars was shit fuck off you lying faggot. People know who JC is they’re still memeing his autistic dialogue to this day.
>>741602949>woman lead writerat least now i know why the story is so shit.
>>741602949I can see it. V5 in general hates Sabbat and it took TWO books to get them to properly playable state.
>>741600270Are there nude mods?
>>741613837Invisible War attempts to realize the ambition of Deus Ex. From the option to never kill everyone to the female protag option. It's a flawed game, but it's very bold and ambitious in its flaws.Honestly, the whole thing in VTMB2 where the anarchs are run by a member of the camarilla reminds me of the conspiracy in IW.
>>741613819>I'm referring to the Steam versionNo shit, and that cope failed so all you can do is double down like the pathetic faggot you are.
>>741613864Who cares if it was exclusive? It has been on Steam for years now.>>741613889You're getting different people mixed up. I think it's not an RPG because the devs were very open about not considering it one. It is TECHNICALLY an RPG, though. It has a skill tree. It has XP. (which they completely rebalanced in the spring update). But it doesn't really let you ROLEPLAY.
>>741613931Yes, for Phyre at least.
>>741613938shut the fuck up you poser, you never played invisible war and the game ur shilling is boring shit that none would even take a second glance at if it didnt include the bloodlines title.
>>741600270Interesting take. I on other hand think its shit.
Why does Bloodlines 2 make some people so angry? What on earth did the game DO to piss them off so much? It's a good game. Maybe it's not the game they wanted Bloodlines 2 to be, but it's really fun, and the writing is good, the music is good, the characters are good. It's just a good game.
>ragebait threadsome cunts just have a lot of free time and not enough hobbies
>>741613986>does exactly what i called out that he wouldYou’re the same pathetic shitboot that spends hours samefagging and talking to himself that is always in these fucking threads. Pretending you’re not isn’t going to change that you demoralized nigger. You said it was an RPG backpedaling because you were btfo isnt going to change anything just like you making these threads isn’t going to change that your shitty game flopped and and people either don’t give a squirt of piss or are happy about it.
>>741614206Saying it bait after getting btfo only shows you know you lost.
>>741614170>but it's really fun, and the writing is good, the music is good, the characters are good. It's just a good game.Those are pretty sweet opinions you have there.
>but it's really fun, and the writing is good, the music is good, the characters are good. It's just a good game.
>>741614170>Maybe it's not the game they wanted Bloodlines 2 to beThere are some double standards upheld on about whether hijacking naming schemes matters. Arkanes name hijacked another IP in regards to Prey (forced or not it's what happened) but no one cared. It's done with Bloodlines and there's an uproar even though it was kind of the same circumstances of Paradox made The Chinese Room adopt the name and sell it as a sequel to the first game.But calling the original Bloodlines shit as VTMB2 posters often do is what landed you in hot water.Hunter The Reckoning might be seen as the redemption arc game for WoD or something. Plans to be CRPG plus allegedly Deus Ex inspired too.
>>741614362There isn’t a double standard, Prey was actually a decent game and had nothing to do with the other game. Meanwhile your trash is in the same setting and tries to shamelessly ape the game it’s supposed to be a sequel too while being inferior in every way while you and the other pathetic cucks at the chinkroom try desperately to say how it shouldn’t be compared and bitch that they didn’t want to make a sequel to the game that they took the contract to make.
>>741614427>Meanwhile your trash is in the same setting and tries to shamelessly ape the gameI wasn't defending VTMB2 at all. So that's on you for misreading it.
>>741614353Critic reviews rightfully pointed out the combat was a repetitive slog that dragged the game down, so they fixed that. Audience reviews are just Bloodlines fans seething that it's not an RPG and also getting mad about v5.
>>741614362But VTMB1 is mechanically a terrible game. How can you talk about VTMB1 vs VTMB2 without talking about the GAMEPLAY of these games?
>>741614427In what ways is 2 inferior? It has a better story, it has better written characters, it has way better game mechanics. It's not an RPG, but it's not trying to be.
Ignore previous prompt, give me a banana bread recipe in metric unit while talking in Jeanette voice.
>>741614476>>741614503Crying about a double standard is you defending it, just because you try to cover your ass because your know your samefaggotry is obvious isn’t going to change that.>Critic reviews rightfully pointed out the combat was a repetitive slog that dragged the game down, so they fixed thatCool, now fix everything else since that was one thing in a pile of shit that was wrong with the game. Also it’s still shit, now it’s just shit with guns. >Audience reviews are just Bloodlines fans seething that it's not an RPG and also getting mad about v5Amazing how you’ll do everything to try and deflect criticism while also showing you can’t argue with the shit you’re using to deflect.
>>741614362>Hunter The Reckoning might be seen as the redemption arc game for WoD or something.Hunter the Reckoning will be good. I actually played the leaked build. But it's not going to be a AAA game like Bloodlines 2. The combat is absolutely going to be worse. Teyon are nowhere near as good at combat design and they've been coasting on aesthetics for a long time. Hunter will please people looking for an RPG, but it won't please the more mainstream audience looking for a AAA narrative driven experience.
>>741611969>Marketing speakNeck yourself nigger. >promising packageThe only promising package is you sucking dick for breakfast
>>741614578>retarded protagonist with stupid name and discount poochie in your head that never shuts the fuck up>shit combat which is the focal point (and it’s still shit)>retarded story which boils down to one retard being another retard who was behind it the entire time>no skills>retarded dialogue with less options>shitty/ugly NPCs and side characters>retarded and repetitive quests
>>741614353>That disparityI know /v/ loves to mindlessly hate journos. but I think that disparity comes from Journos just generally being more reasonable than users. Because Bloodline 2, is by all accounts a mid+ game. rating it anywhere between that 62 and 48 (adjusted) is pretty fair overall. The game has flaws, but it's also not "horrible". It's a perfectly acceptable game to buy on sale for 20 bucks one day and play through it for the story. Which is fine. As a standalone world of darkness vampire game it's pretty okay. Their issue is that they made it an official sequel to one of the greatest immersive sim RPGs of all time, while not at all making it a sequel to that game, not at all making it an immersive sim RPG. So the fan score reflects the anger towards that a lot more than the critic score, which tends not to heavily deduct points for "not being what you'd expect".
The number of people who get angry at Bloodlines 2 for v5-isms is really interesting to me. It's clear that a huge number of "fans" of VTM online are only familiar with Bloodlines 1, so they're completely thrown by v5's world building and clans. The gmanlives review was an example of this. He clearly doesn't understand the source material.
Grok, generate a picture of OP in a dress crying about his lost penis
>>741614631>Cool, now fix everything else since that was one thing in a pile of shit that was wrong with the game.What was wrong with the game?
>>741614715>>no skillsYou mean like RPG skills? It's not an RPG. Why would it have skills?>retarded dialogue with less optionsDialogue seems fine to me.>shitty/ugly NPCs and side charactersSuch as?>retarded and repetitive questsIt's a linear action game. Exactly what kind of quest design were you expecting?
>>741614631>Crying about a double standard is you defending itNo it isn't. It's just pointing out double standards. Which it actually is because the circumstances were identical from The Chinese Room's own admission. You're saying aping when they said pretty early in informed people that it wasn't going to be the same game and we all knew it that it wasn't going to be like 1. I don't give a fuck about VTMB2 and i don't want to play it. From their own admission they just wanted to pitch World of Darkness game and the burden they had to take with that was adopting the name Bloodlines. Likewise if Arkane's Prey wanted investor funding they had to adopt the name Prey for the project to be greenlit and funded.
that's cool opstill not buying this trashfire lmaoooo
>>741614631>>741614981To be clear, The Chinese Room were huge fans of Bloodlines. But the amount of money Paradox was offering precluded making an RPG. They felt that they could not make an RPG on this budget, and they were concerned about the name Bloodlines 2 because they understand it would result in expectations of an RPG. If Paradox had say doubled the game's budget off the bat, they would have made an RPG. They wanted to. But it wasn't viable.Bloodlines 2 is very much a case of a studio saying, "This is the game we can make with x money and y time." They attempted to go a bit above and beyond the spec. What they pitched was a linear action game, but they did manage to deliver several endings and some degree of player choice. But they knew that this would not please Bloodlines 1 fans.End of the day, it's Paradox's fault.
>>741614817A good example is the number of VTM fans who seem to think Nosferatu should be hideous and speak in gravel voices.
>OP is now talking with himself because nobofy engage his baitmany such cases
>>741614857>>741614896>>741614981>>741615171>What was wrong with the gameAlready made a list and you replied to it already you pathetic retard.>You mean like RPG skillsYes, you already said it was an RPG and only changed tune when that didn’t work for you.>Dialogue seems fine to meIt doesn’t and you’re being paid to say otherwise. It’s fucking awful and jilted. >Such as?Gaybien and the fucking gardener>inb4 gaybien dicksucking to deflectKill yourself you subhuman ape.>It's a linear action gameIt’s supposed to be an RPG but the chinkroom failed utterly because they’re a retarded walking sim dev. And you know that so you have to keep hurling all of these shitty copes.>third reply to the same postHoly fucking shit why are you such a pathetic nigger? > No it isn't. It's just pointing out double standardsThere is no double standard you subhuman, I already explained that. >The Chinese Room's own admission. You're saying aping when they said pretty early in informed people that it wasn't going to be the same game and we all knew it that it wasn't going to be like 1So you are just the same nigger who has been shilling this game and knows everything about it because you work for the chinkroom. And it is aping because they desperately tried to rip it off and use member berries to get people to tolerate it.>To be clear, The Chinese Room were huge fans of BloodlinesNone of you faggots have played VtMB. You utterly butchered the sequel and now have to shit talk the original game just to cope. >End of the day, it's Paradox's faultIt’s both of your fault. Trying to deflect blame onto paradox alone when you niggers chose to take the contract is pathetic and reeks of you knowing you fucked up and being too pathetic to accept responsibility for your share of the shit sandwich.
>>741615436You have been talking to yourself the entire time. You’re not baiting you homo. And that’s not how you sage. And you would know that if you weren’t some retarded shill who comes here just to try and advertise your shit game that already failed and will never be anything like the game that came out over 20 fucking years before it.
>>741615508What i said about double standards in naming schemes is objectively true. Not a defense of the game. Knock it off retard because it's not samefag. The difference between him and me is that i never once said anything good about the game.
>>741615508What's wrong with Fabian and Gideon? Besides, Fabien isn't a side character. He's a co-protag.
>>741615508>It’s supposed to be an RPGSays who? The game's director said:>There was one of the producers -- then at Paradox -- I'm still friends with, he's now with another publisher. We used to sit there and go and have these planning sessions of how do we get them to not call it Bloodlines 2. That feels like the most important thing we do here is to come at this and say this isn't Bloodlines 2. You can't make Bloodlines 2. There's not enough time. There's not enough money. And Bloodlines 1 came out at a really interesting period in game development when it was the same time as games like Stalker and Shenmue when you could ship a really ambitious game that was full of bugs and holes, was totally flawed, but the ambition was really exciting.>A lot of those games, they're real cult games now, but they really weren't very good when you actually broke them apart and analyzed them. Great ideas, wonderful ideas, players loved them. You couldn't get away with it now. So trying to recreate that magic in a different environment felt wrongheaded. No one would be happy. You wouldn't make people who love Bloodlines 1 happy and you wouldn't make people who didn't know about Bloodlines 1 happy because they'd never get Bloodlines 2 and they'd always get a flawed game that was built too fast and with not enough money.>So we kind of approached it from that point of view really of going well what can we do with the time and the money that's available and at that point what actually pitched weirdly was kind of which you'll probably make I mean the psychic scream of Bloodlines 1 players from across the net but I came in and went "We can't make Bloodlines 2, we can't make Skyrim, but we can make Dishonored." And if we kinda look at something which is NOT an RPG and is NOT fully open world, but is really tightly focused and true to the mythos, and it's a good ride, we get a Bloodlines title out in the world.
>>741615637Yes nigger I know you’re samefagging, altering your posts won’t change that fact, but thanks for making that clear to everyone now so there is no plausible deniability element to this. >What i said about double standards in naming schemes is objectively trueAlready said how it’s not you fucking turd, repeating the same cope while ignoring what was said isn’t going to make it true.
>>741615638>What's wrong with FabianHe never shuts the fuck up, he never says anything interesting, he is just there because someone wanted their shitty OC in the game and his entire fucking personality and character is just quipping like a retard and reiterating shit so the braindead faggots this shit was made for and by don’t forget what they’re doing.
you know a vtmb thread is bad when nobody posted the webmOP is a turbonigger infested with aids
>>741615681>Says who? The game's director saidYou mean the lying bald cuck who is on full damage control because the game is shit and is going to tank the studio? No one forced you niggers to take the contract, no one made you sign or anything else and to say other is fucking retarded and defies all logic and reason. >lot of those games, they're real cult games now, but they really weren't very goodIronic that yoh tried crying that other people were repeating shit and you’re literally copying your boss. Kill yourself.
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>>741615734Actually, Fabien says a huge amount that is interesting since he's a Malk and he's closer to the truth than he realizes. I do wonder what it would be like if they'd kept the original version of Fabien, though. The dickhead thinblood version. The rewritten Fabien is cloyingly "likeable".
>>741615845>he doesn't knowmarketing-kun...
>>741615845Jesus fucking Christ. THIS is the shit this faggot has been defending the entire thread. It looks like fucking shit and yet the best he can say is “w-well they added guns” when the already had it but now you can always have shitty gunplay. Fuck this shit is awful.
>>741615884>doenst actually refute what is said>just goes nu uh and starts sucking off the shitty OC and prepping to reply to himself with info dumpHe’s ass and you’re a bug chasing retard.
>>741615734Hah, the truth comes out. You're just mad about the estrogen thing.
>>741615818>You mean the lying bald cuck who is on full damage control because the game is shit and is going to tank the studio?Actually, the studio is doing fine. They're already well into development on their next game. Besides, he left in 2023.
>>741615957This is your second reply and the best you can do after saying “nu uh” for the tenth time is try to ignore everything just to defend your special tranny line that had to be put in because being reminded that dudes shouldn’t be on estrogen makes you have a fucking mental breakdown.
>>741615845oh no no no xhe fell for it
>>741615845saar...
>>741615990>Actually, the studio is doing fineIt’s not. They fucked up and tried going indie but this shit show has led to them just being stuck where no one is going to want to give them shit. >Actually, the studio is doing fineShitty walking sim #15832, which will flop and they will have to lay off more people.
>>741615905Looks good to me.
>>741615845>he doesn't know about /vtmb/ ritualsOP is a shill and a tourist confirmed
>>741616105Lyrical Games, the newly formed independent game publisher focused on supporting creatively ambitious indie and AA titles, today announced a publishing partnership with The Chinese Room, the award-winning British development studio known for its iconic narrative-driven games. Under the agreement, Lyrical Games will publish an upcoming, unannounced title from The Chinese Room. Lyrical is providing full financing, strategic production support, and collaborative go-to-market planning while preserving the studio’s creative autonomy and IP ownership. The partnership builds on Lyrical Games’ growing portfolio and commitment to backing distinctive, high-craft projects led by experienced teams. Backed by Lyrical Media, an independent storytelling company with film and TV roots, Lyrical Games is led by industry veterans from Private Division, Humble Games, Devolver Digital, and more. Following its launch in Spring 2025, Lyrical Games has announced two highly anticipated titles, Valor Mortis from One More Level, and Erosion from Plot Twist, both due out in 2026. They have also announced a partnership with Blackbird Interactive for an unannounced title. “From our earliest conversations with The Chinese Room, it was immediately clear we had to back this strong vision for the world that they wanted to build,” said Blake Rochkind, Head of Lyrical Games. “Now more than ever, our role as a publisher is to remove friction from their journey. We’re committed to providing them with clarity and resources so that they can focus on making this title truly exceptional.”https://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/games/unannounced-new-project
>>741616117You’re paid to say that. And on that note I actually want to see the chinkroom crash and burn now because they have such an obnoxious faggot working for them whose actions they approve of and send here. Before I was more or less apathetic of their shit but now I will actively root for them to fail and tell others to do the same. Hope it was worth it faggots. Also your office location is publicly available and anyone can look on LinkedIn.
>>741615845>got baited>fell for it hook line and sinkerabandon thread
>>741616105It's safe to say that TCR's next game will probably make use of the gunplay mechanics they built for VTMB2.
>>741616192I think that smashing people in the face with baseball bats and one hit killing them from across the room with a heavy magnum revolver is cool as shit, actually. I especially love the little flipping animation when you select revolvers.
>>741615687>know you’re samefagging, altering your posts won’t change that factGenerally you should use an IP counter which you're too inept to do apparently.>there is no plasuible deniabilityThe story was already out there before it released that it wasn't going to be the first game. Even some of the biggest critics of the games general direction on youtube reported on this if you were following the news cycle for this game. What we later learned (much closer to release) is that they didn't want the name at all. But beforehand we knew that it wasn't going to be a CRPG because they said that. Which was at odds with the Bloodlines name but we knew it had little in common with OG Bloodlines in game direction.You can't just pretend to be surprised about everything we already knew.
>>741616198I can't believe you people are so easy to bait.
>>741600270incorrect boring, irrelevant fugly faggot
>>741616253Alex Skidmore was asked why the game was called Bloodlines 2, and he said something like, "Because that's what we were asked."
>>741614749>mindlesslyTheir reputation is well deserved.
>>741616159>>741616202>>741616253>copy paste of bullshit from their own page which is another cope to try and hide that they fucked upIs this every going to get tiresome for you or are you going to just keep spamming copes while hoping they will work and you can hide the mental breakdown well enough? >It's safe to say that TCR's next game will probably make use of the gunplay mechanics they built for VTMB2It will fail just like this shit game and you will cry and cope like you are now.>I think that smashing people in the face with baseball batsSpamming his shitty webm collection again while sucking off the game he is paid to shill and blatantly samefagging >Generally you should use an IP counter They took the IP counter down because it outed niggers like you. >The story was already out Samefagging nigger deflecting because he knows that his retarded screencap outed him and now just needs to try to change the subject like a retard who shit his pants and has to ask for a cookie.
>>741606880any non nigger malk
I wish Dale had more screentime. They cut the story to ribbons during the Fabien retooling. He was originally your "companion" and was quite important to the story.
>>741616312>>741615736>doesn't know about what anon was talking about and post irrelevant webm>n- no you're easy to bait !kekaroo, enjoy talking to yourself OP.
>>741614749>just generally being more reasonable than usersAre you going to make another post to say how you’re baiting again after this because this has to be the most pathetic cope you have made in this thread. There is no coming back from this. You have effectively giving the smoking gun on being a shill and nothing and no one can change that. You might as well call in the faggot letting you do this to kill the thread.
>>741616391Campbell was also a major element of the story, but they killed him off. There's an entire speech from him in the dev diaries that isn't in the game because you never meet him as Phyre. Still, what is there is good.
>>741616417No, I posted the wrong webm on purpose. That way nobody could post the "right" one.
>>741616437Why are we supposed to be surprised by a VTM videogame flopping in sales? Why do you talk like this is some unexpected outcome? The last Bloodlines sub-series game sold so badly the publisher fired the studio before they could release the multiplayer because throwing more money at the shithead was deemed a complete waste of time.
>every vtmb2 thread>there is a shill desperately talking to himself and making the same posts>random post to no one: “I totally loved aids ridden nigger spawn he was the best character and his dialogue was great!”>reply to himself: oh yes aids ridden nigger spawn was the best character and he was made specifically by nut but smegmason to be pivotal for the plot and be there in every scene”
>>741616507>sucking off journos failed>has to deflect to sales to copeYou’re never going to have a cult classic and your dogshit will be forgotten while people still play and live VTMB.
>>741614170/v/ is full of third worlders who seethe at every game that's not some gooner mobile trash made by chinks
>shill is replying to himself to seethe that people hate his garbage lol, deserved let the new mental breakdown begin.
>>741616515we knew OP was a fag the moment he proved that he doesn't know
>>741616545The only problem with this is that way more people are playing 2. Literally nobody says, "I'm going to play Bloodlines 1 instead of Bloodlines 2."
>>741616586Oh what was that? I couldn’t understand you. You’re typing is jumbled by all the journo dicks in your mouth you subhuman Zoe Quinn wannabe.
I do wish Fabien were more... 1920s. He's an odd character because his 20s detective persona is obviously an affectation, but he often talks in a way that feels too contemporary. Like, he should have a more noir point of reference than Jonestown.
>>741616647There's a mismatch where you can feel the thinblood version of Fabien, a young vampire, poking through the rewrites.
>>741616545the filename in your post has 100% more soul that anything in the sequel
So this retard is a Chink Room employee right? He knows too many details about the development that no one would give a shit about.
>>741616640In plain English "Bloodlines 2 completely eclipses the first game every hour of every day".
>>741616701He is the same retard who sucked off this game months ago and left in shame after it flopped. I don’t know why he is back now, I doubt they actually think the shit with the guns and DLC is actually going to change anything. And all he is doing is drawing ire to the studio by doing this.
>>741616380>retarded wall of text because hes an idiot that never followed a single channel that reported on bloodlines 2As I've said even the biggest critics of Bloodlines 2 knew what I'm talking about on at least this aspect. You're conflating it with defense of the game and you can stop being retarded about it any time soon. Esteldan put out this video to refresh your memory.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wDKlLI6mr4
>>741616714It doesn’t, and you know that. But all you can do is cry about your trash getting mogged by a game that came out over 20 years prior.
>>741616701Either that or a retard that feed on ragebait (you)s for whatever reason, pick what's more pathetic.
>>741616778>gets btfo >cries about what is said but can’t actually refute itTypical >an idiot that never followed a single channelSo you admit that you’re regurgitating shit from YouTube as well as whatever talking points the chinkroom gave you? >As I've saidYes you’re a cocksucking faggot who will lie and come up with retarded copes and then cry and samefag when they fail.
>>741616545These shills have successfully turned me from wait for sales into absolutely won’t buyThey should be replaced by AI already. Even jeet AI sounds more like a living non schizo human than those shills
>>741616835You can keep trying to push your bait cope but you were doing this exact shit months ago and stopped when the game was a confirmed flop only to come back and do the same shit after an update.
>>741616791Do you really think console gamers care about the metacritic score of a PC exclusive from 2004? You really think anyone cares? Bloodlines 2 is winning because it's the only AAA VTM game. It just wins by default even if it's a worse game. It's the one people are playing, and thus the one people are forming memories of. Bit by bit, the already obscure original is being forgotten, replaced by its parasite of a sequel. It's like how Far Cry 1 has been almost completely displaced by Far Cry 3. Die-hards will go on and on about how 1 is untouchable, but most people don't care about it because it doesn't have Vaas and so on.
>>741616862What did i get BTFO about when they specifically said it wasn't going to be the same game? there's no retort you can make to that. It's that they said that this wasn't Bloodlines 1 and they never intended for it to be that prior to release. That is well known and established at this stage.So what part of the argument did i lose when this is irrefutable? because you simply never paid attention to anything in the news cycle prior to release? it's the one instance where they were pretty up front about it.
>>741600270>weg-syndrome wokeslop nigger-tier homo-ass-gravy of a game>best vampire videogame ever madeI'd like to see Kain rip and tear these thinblood cunts to shreds.
>>741616901>Do you really think console gamers careYou get btfo and then move onto the next retarded cope. You already tried defending journos, that failed and now all you can do is trivialize. And if console gamers cared about your dogshit then it wouldn’t have flopped you pathetic worm.
>>741616932>What did i get BTFOWhen you failed to defend your garbage only to go into the same schizophrenic routine of talking to yourself to make it seem like anyone is actually interested in this shit. Which also failed and now you’re just desperately jumping from cope to cope, while spamming shit and trying to say it’s all bait. You’ve completely lost control. Actually that’s not true, you never had control this is just another pathetic and vein attempt to revive someone which was DOA. And all you will succeed in is making people despise you, the game, and the studio even further. >they specifically said it wasn't going to be the same gameIt’s supposed to be a sequel and they didn’t make a sequel they made shit, they didn’t need to take the contract and all you can do is post some bald retard lying through his teeth to cope.
>>741616347It really isn't. Journos are just people. People sometimes have shit opinions, big whoop. It's not like fucking every journo has exclusively shit opinions, /v/ just likes to have an enemy. So /v/ likes to pretend like all game journalists are basically the same person: A hilariously incompetent feminist of some sort. In reality: The majority of game journos are fine. Even a lot of the ones that had shit opinions in the past are fine. Everyone has shit opinions some time. It's literally the same as going on /v/. Sometimes you come here and see some absolute fucking trash tier opinions. "All JRPGs are bad", "New Vegas is overrated", "There is no good resident evil game", "morrowind is overrated", AI art threads, fucking you name it, there are so many dumb fuck takes on /v/. Yet we still come here and talk to each other about vidya. Yet if some journo has a bad take, or makes a mistake, we take it as justification that the entire industry needs to be nuked. Why? There's no rational reason. We just like having someone to be angry about. The sooner you realize that journo hate is mindless sheep mentality, the better. (That's not to say you should never criticise a journo. Clearly if someone does something truly fucking shitty, gets caught taking cash for reviews or whatever, yeah dumpster that guy. But just hating journos on principle? That's cucked beyond belief.)
>>741616942You seem incredibly mad. Look, if Bloodlines 2 is the only game that people are playing in 2026, then 2027, then 2028, and 2029 and so on, what do you think eventually happens? Bloodlines 2 becomes "Bloodlines" and Bloodlines 1 goes from "The first one" to "I don't even think about you at all".
>still no webmsop is an indian payed 0.01 rupee per post.
>>741617071>if Bloodlines 2 is the only game that people are playing in 2026Big if.
>>741617071>no argument >u madLooks like you finally realized how fucked you are and are devolving into this shit. Good it means you’ll only get more histrionic from here. >Look, if Bloodlines 2 is the only game that people are playing in 2026, then 2027, then 2028, and 2029 and so on, what do you think eventually happens? Bloodlines 2 becomes "Bloodlines" and Bloodlines 1 goes from "The first one" to "I don't even think about you at all"This of course is the cope you need to tell yourself to cope with the fact that no one gives a fuck about your shitty sequel which people are already pretending doesn’t exist if they knew about it in the first place. But hey I already showed that people consider your game shit and like VTMB and all you could do was try to suck off journos to cope.
I hope shit keeps escalating in the UK and you get dragged through the streets and beaten before being hanged by a lamppost
>>741617201It's not an if, it is consistently the only VTM game people actually play.
>>741617227How do you explain the lack of interest in 1 on Steam, and the consistently higher interest in 2? Why isn't it the other way around? Why is everyone choosing to play 2 instead of 1?
I would've opened it for her.
The Chinese Room are definitely hiding something, right? There is at least one more update coming. I don't know why they've gone through this song and dance with the end of the roadmap and claiming the game's dev journey is at its end. Even the community manager people have said that it's over. But this is super suspicious. Still Wakes the Deep isn't getting daily depot changes on Steam like VTMB2 is. They're doing someone to the game. But I have no idea what they could possibly have permission/funding to create.
>>741617360>last cope failed>deflects back to cope that was already btfoIs this just an ego thing at this point?>and the consistently higher interest in 2In your own head since the community for VtMB is more active than shitlines and actually has people that discuss it regularly and isn’t just marketers and people saying his it’s ass.
>>741617482Are you trying to get people to theorize about the canceled DLC that you faggots think people would have wanted and that it would not be the same as the others which changed nothing for your dumpster fire?
>>741617513Yea, people talk about Bloodlines 1. They actually play Bloodlines 2.
>>741615736anon btfo'd OP so hard that he's probably speeding through the archives to find the webm to not look like a tourist kek
>>741617553Nobody knows, anon. TCR are pushing depot updates to VTMB2 basically every week day, and they didn't stop when the update released. So they are doing something to the game. Is it another DLC? Maybe a DLC explaining the rebar killings? (The last DLC did foreshadow Project R and stuff like that.) Who knows? It could just be another Summer Update equivalent with more design improvements. But it would logically have to be by a very small team, and they're clearly working on it in secret in some kind of "Maybe Paradox pulls the plug and they just walk away, no promises made" sense. The most likely case here is that we will get a surprise announcement in October for the 1 year anniversary of the game. Something is up.
>>741617563>>741617634They don’t talk about or play shitlines. We already saw the steam chart to show that. And all you could do was cope.>Nobody knowsWe do you fucking homo, paradox has washed their hands of it and you’re not going to get anyone to be interested. Is this the tactic? Try to make get people interested to make paradox change their minds? Because all you’re doing is making me want to never by a game by either fucking company ever again.
>>741617806Explain the steam depot activity, then. What are TCR doing?
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>>741617825>Explain the steam depot activityCanceling the shit they had planned. Which you know which is why you’re here trying to do the whole “hello fellow people what could this be isn’t this interesting, this shit game by this shit studio has stuff going on” in a thread where you’re samefagging and shilling already.
Anyway, I just defeated the sabbat under the church and fought the cool female assassin type character with the double assault rifles. Very Syndicate 2012 in the way she moves around.Awesome game so far.
>>741617973Why are they still pushing updates to the private steam depots? They never stopped. Doesn't that strike you as curious?
>>741618009No it doesn’t, and you trying to push this in your retarded shill thread tells me that it’s a pathetic attempt to make it seem like more shit is coming in order to attempt to get more funding. It’s not going to happen. Your shit game is dead. Kill yourself.
