honestly they should have just cancelled it rather than pass it around to different studios with shaky track records
Wasn’t the studios fault
They fought to change the name since the beginning because they knew it would be impossible to deliver a real sequel and while this name might get initial sales it would cause blowback killing the game almost immediately…
Which is exactly what happened.
Like, they’d have loved to make Masquerade 2, but they weren’t given the time or funds to make it.
The worst part is that this failure will probably kill any chance of The Chinese Room getting to actually take a proper swing at this, from scratch, with time and a real budget. It really feels like if they were allowed to do that they would hit it out of the park. Bloodlines 2 is a much better game than the review scores suggest, mostly weighed down by the expectations people put in the Bloodlines name.
What a shambles
If you don’t plan on making a successor that plays and contains the features the userbase would expect, don’t name it like it’s a sequel.
They ruined the name of a perfectly good franchise just to attract the fanbase, nobody wins and everyone is angry.
Paradox really needs a management shakeup.
Publishers are a key ingredient in the recipe for trash games. Buying IP and telling some dev team that is doing it for the paycheck to slap something together is not making a game, it’s parasitism.
I love VtM:B but I never had high hopes for this one. Direct sequels made by unrelated developers rarely work out.
Can’t wait for the next sequel that will be some kind of live-service multiplayer game with lots of cosmetic DLC.
Tried and failed already, but paradox can probally find more ways to fail.
Dang, they’re a joke.
Weird that they want to expand out of the strategy game genre by turning a love RPG into a basic action adventure game.
Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games
They’re fucking up left and right.
When they announced the pre-order bonus, it seems clear that this might not be a good day one purchase. Will probably give it a look some time, but i should replay Troikas version first.
I already completely forgot this had come out
What? VTM2 came out?
When?
I legitimately did not know it was released.
Is that part of why its flopping?
Or is the gameplay bugged to fuck/story shit/etc?
Don’t get too exited. Maybe in a year or two all the bad has been patched out and it might become an actually good game.
Yep. I’m waiting at least 2 years.
Yeah, that seems par for the course with current Paradox games the past few years…
Cities Skylines is 2 years old and still shit, too… Hell paradox is even going so far as to change the dev company working on it at the start of next year. Which is doing wonders for peoples hope for the future of the game /s
I really hope that they go the CDPR route
NeverKnowsBest made a video about it, which I think is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWuokRjedOA
He also pins the blame squarely on Paradox.
