Deus Ex with Vampires is four months from release. Regardless of how well it sells or how critically acclaimed it is, The Chinese Room will likely be dissolved after its release, with a skeleton team being used to finish up the DLC and fix bugs. Parent company Sumo Digital isn't interested in making their own games anymore. They want to exclusively work on contract/outsource support dev for other studios.

this game is just gonna be a downgrade in every conceivable way

>>713671843
I can only imagine the shills spamming the same copes about how everyone is just blinded by nostalgia or some other gay shit.

>>713672257
jeanette showing the condom means she's down bad for you after opening it

>>713671043 (OP)
modern vampire is shit, and I know that TCR can't pull off a miracle

the trailer with the stupid fucking voice speaking to you 24/7 confirmed that for me. if you're trying to write something impactful, i.e. not slop, you need to give the player some time in silence to digest things they've said or done. if I'm in a creepy warehouse, I don't need my wacky sidekick going, "Oi Fyre™, ain't this warehouse a bit creepy?"

imagine the Ocean House Hotel except joss whedon is quipping into your ear every half second. holy shit i'd rather kill myself.

>>713671843
We haven't actually seen TCR's version of Damsel. She's confirmed to be in the game, though. I wonder if they'll bring back her old actress.

>>713673038
she looks uggo in this version
they better update her when they release it

>>713672717
>the trailer with the stupid fucking voice speaking to you 24/7 confirmed that for me. if you're trying to write something impactful, i.e. not slop, you need to give the player some time in silence to digest things they've said or done. if I'm in a creepy warehouse, I don't need my wacky sidekick going, "Oi Fyre™, ain't this warehouse a bit creepy?"
Eh, Fabien underwent an extensive rewrite, so it's hard to tell what he's like now. The marketing has been a train wreck because it's so confusing and there are now layers of contradictory marketing material that no longer represents the game that, I must emphasize, is coming in 4 months. It's done. It has an ERSB rating. The lead writer left the studio a week ago. Something like 3/4 of the co-writers have left, too.

>>713673227
I'm praying for a miracle but I know intellectually that it's going to be a complete disappointment like every other "never ever" that's released this decade.

The setting was woke before that word even existed. A vampire masquerade game made in the year 2025, is going to be one of the worst games ever made.
I have less than zero hope it's going to be good in any aspect. 0/10 in story, art direction, writing, gameplay, performance and everything else.

>>713673173
She looks strange because of her paleness in vtmb2 because none of the other npcs were as pale as her, even though they should be

The game's villain has been kept under wraps. There's no pictures of him. In the Hardsuit version he was Mr Damp, the Malkavian. Now TCR's version has an individual known as "The Gardener", who is also a Malkavian. There might be some connection to the Volunteer Park Conservatory. But it would be too obvious if "The Gardener" were literally an unassuming guy working as a gardener, right?

>>713673173
I know this word is being thrown out a lot, but she genuinely looks like a tranny in that pic.

Does the game have older women?

>>713672640
>having to wear a condom to fuck an infertile vampire

There was some concept art for Damsel in one of the dev diaries, so presumably they completely scrapped the weird looking Hardsuit model. Strange that they're so hellbent on keeping her final game look under wraps, though. (In keeping with all the other baffling marketing decisions that I've given up on trying to understand.)

>>713674248
this, it's over

>>713671043 (OP)
>no option to fuck a Ventrue vamp girl as Gangrel to have her feel disgusted in bed post sex

>>713674498
is that guy in the back crying? he should be

>>713673431
In the context of VTMB, I think a lot of criticisms of "woke" beyond dumb shit are just people upset about the feeling that the setting has been sanitized to cater to the tabletop audience not wanting to be uncomfortable. It's not sleazy anymore.

>paradox
it's going to be shit

>>713674275
>Does the game have older women?

>>713674752
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZjUiKeXeOc

The human biker character gives off a certain... MTF trans energy. But it could just be TCR's art direction.

>>713674752
>>713674834
Fucking disgusting. That body does not fit that face.

>>713674905
It's due to the shoulders and head shape.
Look at that biker, for example.

>>713674491
Knowing Jeanette you'd still probably catch something.

These are the Camarilla characters we know about. We have no idea if Elif's character model was reused. If so, she's an unannounced character. But the entire cast has been rewritten from the ground up. They're completely new characters who just look like the old ones. Lou is an exception, but she has a new actress, her surname is different, and they changed her clan, and also her role in the story is different and her personality is completely different and so on.

>>713674930
That's the point. Why do you think men are so willing to fuck her?

>>713674275
>>713674752
I’ll never understand what hagfags see in old women

>>713675317
ugly women shouldn't be in my bideo games unless they're grandmas

>>713675221
Samuel (Hardsuit) becoming Tolly (TCR) is another example of the ground-up rewrite. Samuel was a very professional, serious Nosferatu. Tolly is something else entirely.
https://youtu.be/TVZ5oQLtXw8?si=m7QSX7WRLSZITPg1&t=288
https://youtu.be/B4ZRkrmtu2U?si=fheG_swKtvoLWoQZ&t=26

>>713674752
I’m a hagfag and I would every day

Wanna see an example of TCR reusing a chunk of level design from Hardsuit's game?
9:31 in this video.
https://youtu.be/TVZ5oQLtXw8?si=jGr96eD-LIgOZXbJ&t=571
Opening of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRqWPYYIUbU
The homeless encampment is a bit different, but overall very similar to the Hardsuit one. (It's being viewed from the opposite side.)

Is the game going to be good?

>>713676721
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyDNs8ZzHI

I hope they reference the early 2010's vampire craze, hopefully this in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfg3BcW-w4E

>>713675442
attainability

This game looks like absolute shit. At least these walking simulator guys actually tried to work on the game.

Vampyr is more of a bloodlines sequel than everything they've shown.

>>713673431
Us Twilight chads don't have to worry about going woke, switch over to the superior vampire franchise

>>713675442
it's a primal urge to be with someone like your mom

>>713677147
I feel like a lot of people who say this haven't read the gazillion dev diaries. Turns out shunting all info to diaries nobody reads and paywalled PC Gamer hands-ons is maybe not the best strategy.

>>713677164
As someone who was there for that bullshit, shut the fuck up.

What's your dream thing you want in the sequel for VTMB

>>713674491
She wants to enjoy some later

>>713672717
Silence frightens dullards because they don’t like being alone with themselves.

>>713678103
Bare vampire tummies.
Tremere GF.

Reminder that mod support has never been confirmed for TCR's version. Paradox are likely aware of the demand for it, but don't count on it.

>>713679263
I was thinking Ventrue gf
you convince her to be w you while in a clan she looks down on and you change her snobby mindset through out the game

>>713673173
did they have to pronounce her nose so much?

>>713674716
Johan will win.

Mouse and keyboard has a different UI layout to consoles, which is encouraging for the quality of the PC port.

paradox should have just cut their losses. i wonder if they'll just sell white wolf itself and move on.

>>713679469
modding support is probably pointless for what will inevitably be some 20 hour linear play it once and forgot it even existed game.

>>713672717
>you need to give the player some time in silence to digest things they've said or done.
man i'm sick of this shit, its even worse in newer games that have any sort of puzzle. even way back to uncharted 4 the brother character would never shut the fuck up if you even tried to look around.

>>713682832
The original is a linear play it once kind of game, though, and it has mods.

>>713683490
which ones you recommend foo?

>>713671043 (OP)
>Deus Ex with Vampires

Insult to Deus Ex to compare this trash to it. It has looked like dogshit in every iteration we have seen, despite undergoing a dozen rewrites and passing through two different developer teams. There's something ethereally disgusting about the visuals of this game, it's genuinely depressing how they managed to get the worst of both worlds of realistic and stylized. And god, the "gameplay", if you can call it that is as if someone boiled down everything bad about modern first person action combat into one system.

Disgusting.

>>713671043 (OP)
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