Our wife, Io.
Shame no one played Code Vein 2, Jose is a great wife, Holly is a great girlfriend, Liv is a supportive yandere and Lou has just as much character as Io
>>750900939New official Io art
>>750901030Shift does a good job at making all of the companion characters likable.
>>750901276Why is Bamco still tryng to milk a failed franchise?They would have sold PB0 numbers if they had made Scarlet Nexus 2 instead.
>>750901538CV2 apparently did well enough for Bamco to be confident in the series. They made a new website specifically for Code Vein, and they even started releasing more merchandise.
>>750901030Their fault for releasing an overpriced and unoptimized game.
>>750901692Marathon is still up; it doesn't mean it was successful.
>>750900939NTR bait
>>750901779Marathon is a live service game backed by Sony.
>>750900939Our tree.
>>750901909>Missing the point this hard
>>750902130They're not making anything new for Marathon. It's just contractual obligations. It and CV are very different.I was explaining why Bamco decided to do more with Code Vein.
>>750902203Except Code Vein 2 was a massive commercial failure. Marathon and Code Vein are exactly the same: a failed franchise its owner stubbornly stick to out of pride.
>>750901774It's optimized now and denuvo's out so you can play it
>>750902416What does Denuvo have to do with that other than optimization?
>>750902332If it was a massive commercial failure, why are they doing more with it?
>>750902501It's not overpriced if you pirate it. Then you can at least discuss it
>>750902574Because they're idiotic suits throwing good money after the bad, just like Sony with Marathon or Guerrilla with Horizon Hunters Gathering. Bamco themselves tried super hard fairly recently with Synduality, another failed IP.
>>750901030idk I loved the first game and the instant I saw the reveal for the 2nd I knew it was a flopit just looked like a massive downgrade visuallyshould've kept the edgy goth vampire theme
>>750902671All I want to discuss is how much I want to fuck Io.
>successful game with a beloved cast>throw it all away in the "sequel"but why
>>750900939cant believe they dropped this chick in the sequel.
>>750902985Even if the sequel kept the same characters ot would have flopped all the same. "Dark Souls but anime" sounded interesting 7 years ago; today not only people people are sick and tired of Soulslikes but CV wasn't considered a genuinely good game, being called in a mocking way "an anime character crestor with a Soulslike attached to it".
>>750903195>Even if the sequel kept the same characters ot would have flopped all the same.That does not make it a non retarded decision
Both games are great.
>>750901538SN sold even worse than CV. Besides CV is from Shift and SN was from the Tales of devs
>>750901423Why is she so pale?
>>750903637>SN sold even worse than CVIt sold as much as the first Code Vein and unlike Code Vein it was genuinely beloved by audiences and critics.
>>750903759they were both mediocre but CV sold twice as much as SN while being rated a bit lower
>>750903579Both games suck.
It's pretty telling how people's issues with CV2 are the lack of Io and the censorship and not all the massive amount of flaws and mistakes the game itself has. From an outsider (aka non-weeb perspective) I've seen CV2 listed on several Top Ten Worst Games of 2026 made by different journos and youtubers
>>750904906CV2 is one of the best Souls-likes, so I have no idea how.
>>750905810>CV2 is one of the best Souls-likesit's not even if you ignore some of the biggest flaws but it's overhated a lot. Anyone with more than two braincells doesn't give a fuck what journos and youtuber say. It was a given that an anime game with a loli that tops you and bathing scenes will get low ratings while on the other hand side you have immense screeching about panty censorship calling the game woke.
>one of the best Souls-likesI'd rather go play the original Lords of the Fallen.
>>750906302Eh, I do think it has the best build crafting out of all the Souls-likes, and that's what I like most out of this "genre". Some of the levels are also pretty nice to explore, and I liked a lot of the major bosses.>>750906346Goodness, anon, let's not go that far.
>>750905810>CV2 is one of the best Souls-likesGood bait. Almost had me
>>750906302>Anyone with more than two braincells doesn't give a fuck what journos and youtuber say.You only say that because it's a game you like. Had it been a game you hate you would post Metacritic scores and links to youtubers shitting on it, smugly presenting them as the ultimate objective evidence of how much the game sucks.
It's like you people forgot how much IronPinneaple hated the first Code Vein. Which would explain why Bamco decided to reviv3 the IP.
>>750906421build variety and major bosses are good yea but enemy variety sucks and some bosses you meet too many times as mini boss. Open World is 'ok' other than the corroded scar. The DLC has good areas even if it was mostly recycled.
>>750906763I know the game is mediocre despite liking it. If you need someone to think for you that gives premium shit like Dragon Age Veilguard a 10/10 then you should reconsider. Gaming journalism has been dead even before gamer gate
>>750901030I wanted a sequel, not a fucking restart.
>don't price your games reasonably>game doesn't sellWow, who could have seen this coming?
>>750900939Our wife, Pantsu.
>>750904906The stupid part is these idiots who cry it's not a direct sequel because of Io obviously didn't play the first game or they'd realize she became a fucking tree and wouldn't have been in a followup anyway.
>>750901030If only they didn't completely change the aesthetic of Code Vein 1.Also did that like... at all elaborate on the reveal at the end of CV1 that Code Vein shares the SAME FUCKING UNIVERSE AS GOD EATER?
Mia's pantsu.
>>750907494CV2 isn't a shitty RPG Maker game that could be sold at $10 and still make a profit.
>>750906720Elden ring asshole rimmer image right here. It even has the pretend to be humble placement and the random hatred for demon souls.
>>750909269CV2 isn't even a sequel to CV1 it's a fucking reboot.
>I just wanna play God Eatert. people that didn't buy GE3.
My wife, Joseé.
>>750901692That's just Bamco squeezing every drop they can.I saw it happen with the Takt Op gacha. Even after a quick Release into EOS they still milked merch and pachinko ads.
>>750910085We know CV2 bombed because Bandai Namco never celebrated any kind of selling milestones. No idea why people delude themselves into believing the games they liked secretly sold Elden Ring numbers even when they bombed spectacularly.The new Fatal Frame 2 remake, Code Vein 2, Ground Zero and right now Anomalith are some of my favorite games of 2026 and still I know they were massive, ginormous commercial failures and made my peace about it. But if you point it out other fans tell you you're a troll or a "hater" or any other shit.
>>750900939Time to penis.
I enjoyed all the new DLC content, though I wish we got a proper boss refight mode instead of a boss rush challenge.
>>750910651God, I love BIG tits.
Liv LOVE
>>750910543It certainly didn't make Elden Ring numbers, but I think it at least made back its money. Maybe Bamco is just happy since it's comparing it to Unknown 9 or whatever that was called.
>>750901884why are you brown?
>>750916454>but I think it at least made back its money.If it had made money Bandai Namco would have publicly announce it. Instead they were completely silent about the game. Ace Combat 8 is way more niche and still they were pretty happy to announce the game's 1 million sales milestone.
Whats the point giving you a cute girl sidekick if everytime you enters a new area she immediately fucks off until you finish that entire chapter
>>750900939Iobros... we lost...
>>750901030Reminder that 5-6 girls from CV1 made it onto the 2026 highest voted vidya girls chart, whereas only 1 girl from CV2 made it in. Funnily enough, one of them was invading executioner which isn't even a character but a boss. Just goes to show how special CV1 was compared to the sequel. Even a few scarlet nexus girls made it in, which is a much more obscure game than CV2
>>750919965I remember those threads
>>750920451>2026 highest voted vidya girls chartliterally who
I miss her...
>>750920451>scarlet nexusIt's not as obscure as you might think. There were plenty of threads on it back when it first launched. That being said, having characters from there on a top girls list is questionable unless it's a really big list. None of them do anything for me in particular that would put them anywhere near an all-time well known character like 2B or Tifa.
>>750917518"Made back its money" doesn't mean "Sold 1 million copies", anon...
