There's a 2 hour gameplay video by theradbrad showing the beginning of the game and while it's not the immersive sim that the original was, I already know Bloodlines 2 will be my game of the year. It looks like an incredibly fun action rpg.

Suck is what you want a vampire game to do, surely? 🧛

Go in with the lowest of expectations and hope to be pleasantly proven wrong.

I really hope they do justice to the property, the first game was great.

The review does sound pretty dope tho, like a mixture of dishonored, disco elysium and enhanced telltale-game. like you i will keep my expectations low, but what i read in the hands-on review sounded better than expected from a game that has been through dev-hell and back.

I don't have much faith in this for a LOT of reasons, but that aspect isn't necessarily bad.

Bloodlines 1 was... interesting. The problem is that the coolest clan to play as was Malk but Malk also only really "worked" as a second or even third playthrough when you can understand all the fourth wall breakages. In a world where the budget of the game would line it up with (let's say) a 60 USD price point but it was actually 50+DLC=60?

That actually seems perfect to me. The people with a lot of faith/hype pay full price. The rest of us get the game at a discount and then buy the DLC on sale in a few months.

That said? I am not familiar with Lasombra but Toreador are basically the charisma clan and... most CRPGs are best played as a charisma/diplomacy build anyway. So... yeah. Feels kind of bad?

Like, I will always think locking NG+ behind DLC (hi Sega/RGG) is a ridiculously shit feeling thing to do. But also? It sort of makes sense that the people who would even care about NG+ are the ones who are really into the game.

But I think a better example is how a lot of ARPGs will wait for the DLC to add the advanced classes that either require a lot more piano playing or who are just a radically different design philosophy (often minion masters) that the game just wasn't actually built around.

Which I think gets back to Day One DLC always feeling bad but actually making a lot of sense if you understand the game dev lifecycle. Like, I'll never like it but I also acknowledge there isn't a lot of value in "We finished up the DLC during QA but aren't going to sell it for a month so that people don't get pisssy"

It's almost certainly going to be complete shit (if you are looking for a roleplaying game with strong world building and well written characters).

A mediocre action-RPG with a VTM theme. And Paradox are going to release a whole bunch of pricey DLCs while abandoning the core game and ignoring critical bugs.

I used to buy Paradox games 10+ years ago, by this point they are a European EA.

I truly hope the delays was due to the fact that they “give a fuck about their game”.. But, I won’t believe it until I see it..

I'll wait until it's actually out to pass final judgment, but I'm still a little disappointed at the pivot from Thinblood to Elder. I thought the idea of playing a Thinblood was really cool.

Sorry, who are they? I can find a vampire named Fabien outside of VtM, and I can find one named Fennorian, but I can't find anywhere that the two co-exist.

Eh, that date is close enough that I fully believe it.

What I don't believe is that the quality of the game will be as high as fans were hoping for, way back in early 2019 when it was first officially announced (with a release date then claimed for 2020).