Guys its getting harder and harder every year to still hope this turns out okay
Mobile game studio has trouble with a bleeding edge (heh) blockbuster AAA RPG, I’m sure this will be a BG3-tier banger.
The funny part is I’m also unironically hoping it’s good 🤡
How are they a mobile studio?
Worse, they’re a walking sim developer.
My favourite, luckily.
They could be your favourite football team, too, that still doesn’t fill me with confidence on their level of preparation for this.
Bloodlines was an extremely ambitious mix of immersive sim and RPG, in the same vein as early Deus Ex, TCR’s most gameplay heavy game has an ineffective monster that takes several seconds to kill you and myst style puzzles.
There’s a mismatch in milieus here.
Luckily they have a hundred employees and are under Sumo, so lots of resources and people experienced in creating lots of types of games.
I’m gonna be real, as just a casual follower of this game, I kinda assumed it already came out a while ago and was just so meh nobody talked about it. I’m shocked it’s still not out yet
Don’t be, this game won’t quietly peep its way into obscurity, it will be an uproarious fart all the way across the halls of the internet.
If it even does, it will come out and literally nobody will like it because a) it has an impossibly high bar to clear even in the hands of competent devs and b) it’s been made by walking sim developers as their first attempt at a real game with gameplay beyond simple puzzles.
I will literally slice off my own asscheeks, cure them into honey glazed ham, and serve them on rye if it comes out as anything resembling the success of the first.
Is there a preferred metric to measure this by? I didn’t play the first one, but Wikipedia says “polarizing but ultimately positive,” and there’s an 80/100 metacritic score, for whatever that’s worth.
Your word picture is just so funny that I want to root for the game’s success just to be the person that quotes this comment and @s you, even if I tend to agree with your assessment.
Is there a preferred metric to measure this by?
For the sake of my asscheeks’ preservation, I’d say “if in ~20 years (that’s how long it’s been, god I feel old) it’s regarded with the same high praise and fondness as Bloodlines.”
Preferred by me of course.
But honestly, I’m definitely going to at least pirate and play it, and I’m a man of principle, so I’ll own it if i think I was wrong.
Your word picture is just so funny that I want to root for the game’s success just to be the person that quotes this comment and @s you, even if I tend to agree with your assessment.
Nobody ever spares a thought for my asscheeks! Everyone just wants to see me fail! Assless and suffering! But I’ll show you!
Are you going to open a food cart for your ass bacon?
How big do you think my ass is?!
For a brief moment, you’ll shine brightly.
I’m excited to see it have less content than the original even with this absurd amount of delays.
You’re thinking about it wrong. How much content it has is not the problem. The problem is we’ve seen gameplay and it looks nothing like its predecessor.
Hasn’t it been bought and sold a bunch now? I want to say this is like the 4 dev or something to take it over.
Paradox Interactive has too much money into Bloodlines 2 to let it die. But we all know this is dead. Even if it comes out.
I wrote this game off years ago. As far as I’m concerned, even if they ever release something, it doesn’t exist.
Well, my expectations for this game were already on the floor. Guess it’s time to put them in the basement. I mean I want a good sequel to Bloodlines, but that’s looking less and less likely.
I thought it is already out.
Well, rather this than a bad release
c h i n e s e r o o m
If you want some Vampire to tide you over in the meantime, https://ttrpg.network/c/vamp_tm
