This game is apparently NOT dead!
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TLDR: Dev is The Chinese Room, developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. They still won’t say what happened with Hardsuit Labs, the OG dev, and the mechanics and system will be totally different.
Instead of a thin-blood (new, weak vampire), you’re an Elder (old, scary vampire) fresh from torpor (long VampNap).
Instead of a thin-blood, you’re an Elder fresh from torpor.
Welp, there goes the exploration of the world factor.
True, it’ll make it more confusing for new people just now picking up the IP, and telling them to play a 20-year old game for context is a hard sell.
As someone who already played VTMB, I’m excited to be playing as an Elder for once instead of the standard fledgling.
No no see you just woke up from Torpor, so yeah you’re an elder, but also you’re super weak, and nobody knows who you are so you won’t get any respect until you’ve done some basic bitch errands. But EVENTUALLY, you’ll be powerful and respected.
Yeah this “Elder fresh from torpor” angle just completely killed my excitement, shit sounds so… bland now. So typical.
I played the shit out of Blacklight: Retribution back in the day, and saw the whole transition from zombie studios to buildblock to hardsuit labs. The devs were really active on various forums, and all seemed like great people.
I’ve been waiting so long for them to release something new, but this sort of game was a complete departure from anything they worked on (as the main dev) in the past. I’m not shocked that it didn’t worked out.
To be fair, an indie like Coffee Stain went from an absolute dumbass meme game like Goat Simulator to something crazy complex like Satisfactory.
You can’t really judge what a young studio is capable of.
As for you not being a thinblood in this game, you’re named as being a thorped elder waking up, so there could be RPG mechanics of you growing as you get stronger from waking up.
And they don’t say which elder you are, so you could wake up as any type of elder, even a Nosferatu.
Coffee stain went from an absolute dumbass meme game like Goat Simulator
This is Sunctuary erasure.
I hope these new mechanics include a 3rd person option
I should be happy it’s getting a sequel, but all I can muster is a terrified oh no.
As much as I would love for this to be a hit, my skepticism is through the roof.
Mom come pick me up. I’m scared.
I actually had this game pre-ordered a long while back but with the huge upheaval around the developer I canceled it. I haven’t played any other games by this developer but I like the concept art. Still, I remain ever apprehensive.
This games development reminds me of Duke Nukem forever. Hope it has a happier ending than that did.
Dead Island 2 did decently well
I forgot that game existed
I don’t have a good feeling about this game.
I loved vtmb enough to overlook the late game and I’m very nervous about the tumultuous history of this game. But here’s hoping.
I really hope they have Malkavian (clan of madmen and prophets) with unique content as a starting option, I would love to run through the game for the first time not 100% sure what’s real.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2: The Bloodening (The Michael Scott Story Starring Michael Scott, With Dwight Schrute)
A mainstream fairly well funded sequel to a cult classic owned by a company that has yet to develop anything even close to the same quality as a janky pre-release third-party source game that has switched developers at least once now?
…I’m sure it will be fine, it’s not like there’s at least two other examples of that exact scenario failing miserably.
Yay!
The Chinese room
Boo
Huh why?
They don’t have a history of developing system heavy games / immersive sims.
They seem to specialize in very linear narrative experience that are extremely light on gameplay systems. Walking sims is what people like to describe them as.
Are you expecting VTM to be a sim?
Immersive Sim, which is distinct but often kind of vague in its definition, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_sim.
The first game is considered one.
Because they are a one trick pony and not a very good trick (walking sim)?
Could they actually pull it off? Idk maybe.
A “trick” many of us enjoy. They have people who have developed other things too.
Please don’t suck.
But if you’re a vampire that’s kinda a requirement, at least usually.
For real. This looks really good.
They’ve resumed development on this? Huh, that’s interesting. At this point this game has gone through dev hell so I hope it turns out alright.
Wasnt this announced already? With a trailer too?
Yeah in 2019. But the game got a new developer.
Yep, but then it entered dev hell for a few years.
