Thread 720530749

It looks/sounds/plays/feels very good.
https://youtu.be/3hP7dCvHpKo?si=NrhmSTdSelkJCtLk

>>720530749 (OP)
It does not.

Reminder that AI waifus canonically exist in the VTM universe.

>>720530749 (OP)
Who fucking gives a shit

>>720530795
>>720531601
Why does this game in particular attract such coping and seething? I can't remember the last time I saw such an obvious shoe-in for GOTY lists have people so desperate to live in denial.

What exactly are Lou's "particular tastes"?

All the clans have different melee attack animations

>>720530795
How does it feel being developmentally challenged, deaf, and blind?

>>720532204
We've known this for like nine months. I can't believe people are just discovering it now.

there are multiple ironic shills for this game?

I love how everyone who plays it stops mid-stream to talk about:
>How amazing the voice acting is.
>How amazing the combat is.
>How atmospheric it is.
>How it wasn't what they expected going in.

>>720532274
Well I just discovered it now, deal with it
https://player.vimeo.com/video/1051169795

>>720532672
It's okay. I just think the game is an interesting example of how you can't lead a horse to water marketing-wise.

4-ish days until the big DLC announcement.

I still haven't even played masquerade.

>>720533327
try it this halloween season

>>720530749 (OP)
What is with the narrow field of view?

>>720530749 (OP)
Fuck off

Could you just buy a fucking ad already.
This blatant shilling is not even entertaining.

WHy is ThE FiElD of VieW sO nArRoW?

>>720533636
This is his ad, these threads function as ads. Why do you think so much shilling happens here? Hiro gets paid to let this shit happen.

>>720530749 (OP)
>dude with a bat dashes outside his fov
>loses the bat dude because he can't turn the camera quick enough
console players lmao

>>720533636
Everyone here blocks ads, shilling is much more effective

>>720533327
masquerade is just the name of the setting

>>720531787
Because VTMB 1 is a beloved cult classic, and The Chinese Room are fucking terrible devs who have never made a good game and only know how to make gay walking simulators with """deep""" stories that are actually the most basic shit you've ever heard in your life

Why ask retarded questions with obvious answers?

>>720533719
no problem. In MP games they have fast snap to heads no matter I'f they lose someone or not. Very generous from devs to retards

>>720530749 (OP)
can't take it seriously b/c it takes places in Seattle
>t. lives in Seattle

>>720531787
>obvious shoe-in for GOTY

>>720533935
like seriously why the fuck is it snowing

>>720532346
There are multiple UNIRONIC shills for this game, it's been happening on this board ever since they announced a release date.
They think it's not obvious that this game was hated on here fo the last few years, but as soon as the release date is announced (and marketing budgets get increased to pay for things like advertising and shills) then all of a sudden a small group of people come out the woodwork to try and deflect any criticism and say how excited they are, and then once the game releases and it's a piece of shit these people will disappear, because they aren;t real, they are just paid to lie about excitement to try and sway public opinion.

they think they are subtle, but it's anything but

>>720533838
So in other words they're afraid that The Chinese Room's version of Bloodlines is going to completely overshadow the version they like. So they're lashing out. That makes a lot of sense. Basically, the more obvious it becomes that Bloodines 2 is going to be one of the best RPGs ever made, the more they feel a sense of despair and anger.

>>720534048
you already got called out here >>720534021

no one is falling for your bullshit

>>720533995
Yea, GOTY is a pipe dream. RPG of the year, action game over the year, best writing, and best acting seem pretty viable though.

>>720534021
>They think it's not obvious that this game was hated on here fo the last few years
It's not really obvious because I can't help noticing the haters have completely run out of talking points as more and more of the game has been shown to the public. They're so desperate and afraid now.

>>720534048
It's Silent Hill 2 Remake all over again.

>>720534021
i thought it was just one guy

removing unique poster count was the worst thing that's happened yet

I have no interest in this game at all

>>720534323
WoD isn't for everyone. There's a reason it is completely overshadowed by stuff like the Underworld movie franchise.

>>720534263
People like this and their companies hired for shilling obviously pay the board, so it was for their sake.

>>720534220
No, there's at least 5-10 shills and anti-shills. The anti-shills are a bit more insufferable because in addition to being paste eating morons they don't bother to watch or read or really put any thought into anything. They're just screeching into the void. I prefer when anti-shills have good talking points. If you're gonna anti-shill the new Bloodlines you'd shit on it for being so similar to the original game. It has all the same problems the original game did, including the wank-filled portrayal of the anarchs. But you have to understand these people don't like being reminded that BL2 is very similar to the first game. In fact they'll deny it (and refuse to elaborate).

Anyway, the threads are still fun.

>>720531978
Poo in Lou

>I AM HAVING A BLAST, ONLY POORS AND HATERS DON'T LIKE THIS GAME, TRUST ME SAAAAAAAAAAAARS
>BLOOOOODY BENCHOID STOP NOOOOOOTICING
>SAAAAAAAAARS PLEASE DON'T IGNORE MY SHILL THREAD, SAAAAAARS I NEED TO GET MORE RUPEEES, SAAAAAARS
>NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
>WHY DID YOU REDEEEEEEEEM IT SAAAAAAAAAAARS, WHY YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME
>BITCH BLOODY BASTARD

>>720534729
>half
Stupid nigger

This shit is so ass...

>>720534729
It's going to be a Vampyr-tier mediocre game that has nothing to do with VTMB save for its name

>>720534901
Explain to me (and please tell me you've actually watched the extensive gameplay footage) how this game has "nothing to do with VTMB".

If we create a scale of VTM games like Swansong, Night Road, New York, and VTMB1, where does VTMB2 sit on this scale? What exactly IS VTMB. And you can't say stat sheets because Swansong has those. What is the fundamental pillar that makes Bloodlines different to Swansong that VTMB2 is falling on the wrong side of?

>>720534901
They could have settled for flopping quietly like that godawful Werewolf game, but they pig-headedly choose "Bloodlines Two" as their hill to die on and the Chinese Room will not survive this.

This is exactly like when that tiny German 2D point-and-click game studio that made Deponia made Gollum and the studio was beheaded and pushed into a shallow grave. Any survivor at the Chinese Room will be out of work before Christmas and lucky to find a job making mobile clash of clans type shit.

>>720534793
>>720534901
>>720535120
SEE I DONT FUCKIG KNOW MAN THE THREAD STARTS AND ITS JUST LIKE ITS GOOD ITS GOOD AND THEN YOU KEEP READING AND THEN ITS LIKE ITS BAD ITS BAD

>>720534725
Paradox gave access to several youtubers and journalists who were allowed to post uncut footage, and who were allowed to criticize Paradox's DLC practices on air. All of these people said that it's a very good game. Where on earth are any of you people getting the notion this is going to be anything other than a super well received action RPG? Like, what is with this cope? Why are so many people acting so delusional about this? I saw someone straw clutching a RockPaperShotgun article that specifically stopped mid-article to admit that the roleplay aspects were not actually bad at all. It's just that the first 2 hours didn't have as many far-reaching choices as they'd hoped to see (they were talking about the Benny choice without saying it).

>>720534014
>decided to read about the city climate
>16 cm/6.3 inches per year of snow
>less than 5 snowy days per year
Wew. What a great attention to details from the devs

>>720535246
I have my own eyes, you malingering shill.

>>720535201
This is absolutely nothing like Gollum. Gollum was published by Nacon, the publisher of VTM Swansong, which I'm willing to bet you never played.

You know your studio is desperate if you tell your interns to do viral marketing on this trashfire of a board.

>>720535516
Why the fuck would anyone "play" a visual novel for trannies, you psychotic freak?
Anyway enjoy your studio closing.

>>720534014
>>720535369
>like seriously why the fuck is it snowing
Because:
>Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
>And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
>Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
>From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
>For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
>Nameless here for evermore.
Long story short, the blizzard is supernatural. It may also line up with the blizzard Seattle experienced in 1923.

>>720535604
Swansong isn't a visual novel. (Again, obvious you never played it.)

>>720530795
FPBP

>>720535832
Wow, this looks so damn good...

>>720535532
Just like Elden Ring, E33, Silksong and EGS

>>720535832
Most people never played it because it looked like SHIT.

>>720534729
>>720535207
almost everyone agrees that it will be irredeemable dogshit, the only people saying otherwise are 2 guys that are unironically paid shills, and maybe some ragebaiters who join in sometimes

>>720536081
Nah, it looks fantastic to anyone with working eyes and ears. It's just a seething, desperate hatedom rapidly losing ground as each new trailer releases.

>>720531978
I play for she, unironically. I don't wanna play the first game

>>720536120
But what is up with the field of view?

>>720530749 (OP)
Neat action game featuring vampires.
Not an RPG and an imitation of VtM.

>>720536120
How much is Paradox paying you to shill on 4chan during the weekend?

>>720534263
They need to implement randomized unique IDs like other boards have. Would make it simple to point out shills, spammers, and schizos.

>>720530749 (OP)
It's the fucking writing. It has slop writing to it where everybody talks all the time in such an unrealistic way. Just compare it to the first one. There everyone spoke in a way that was realistic to their characters. You didn't have characters pretending to be drama queens. It was short and to the point. Not this drawn out way it's here.

>>720536591
careful now they're gonna post the same 10 cherry picked VTMB dialogue images from the same shared discord server or whatever

>>720530749 (OP)
>si=NrhmSTdSelkJCtLk
isn't this part a tracking thing so they can see how many people clicked this link in particular?

>>720536782
Yes.

>>720534729
Look at the trailer and decide for yourself froggo

>>720530749 (OP)
Absolutely horrible.

>>720536591
>There everyone spoke in a way that was realistic to their characters.
Almost everyone spoke the same. Absolutely nobody in VTMB1 talked like an actual person, particularly not a person who was hundreds of years old. Take Jeanette. Nothing about her gave any indication she had the beliefs or psychology of someone hundreds of years old.

>>720536782
Youtube adds it when you select the share link button.

>>720536591
That's a lot of words with no examples.
>everybody talks all the time in such an unrealistic way.
Such as?
>Just compare it to the first one.
Yea, tell us.
>There everyone spoke in a way that was realistic to their characters.
Literally the first NPC you interact with is John DiMaggio as a cartoon pirate.
>You didn't have characters pretending to be drama queens.
Wait, I was wrong. The first NPC you interact with is LaCroix being an enormous drama queen.
>It was short and to the point.
Really? Because I remember every single conversation in VTMB1 being an infodump. This was (behind the scenes) something that derailed Bloodlines 2. Mitsoda kept writing meandering conversations that didn't go anywhere and didn't contribute to the plot in any meaningful way.

>>720537107
>Take Jeanette. Nothing about her gave any indication she had the beliefs or psychology of someone hundreds of years old.
Yeah, but she is fucking crazy and her lies constantly to you. I never heard someone speak in vtmb where my mind thought "this writing feels forced"

The new one has borderline borderlands writing. All the long sighs, drawn out conversations, the random talking as you are just walking the street.

>>720537368
>I never heard someone speak in vtmb where my mind thought "this writing feels forced"
All of the writing was immensely forced. Every character was a one dimensional stereotype.

>>720537368
>The new one has borderline borderlands writing. All the long sighs, drawn out conversations, the random talking as you are just walking the street.
What do you mean "borderlands writing"? Are you saying naturalistic dialogue and conversation trees deeper than a puddle are borderlands dialogue? Are you saying NPCs talking to themselves, others, and you, as you wander around the city is Borderlands? What?

>>720537416
How so? Smiling Jack seems at first like some random rebel, while actually it turns out he's been using everyone like a pawn. Lacroix tries to appear all powerful and collected, yet the further you go the more desperation you can hear from him. Jeanette and Therese first appear as two people till you learn it's same person with huge mental problems. Youngbloods quest starts out as a joke about weak vampires, till it turns into a story about youthful stupidity and love. I genuinely think VTMB writing is one of the best there is in games. I wouldn't ever call it bad.

>>720537464
literally at 1:18:27
>Could you tell them what happened last night
>With pleasure...
>Huh yeah, he does this
Literally marvel slop. I can imaginie a werewolf being behind you in a cutscene and one of the dialog options being "Uh, he's behind me, isn't he?"

>>720537653
That's the plot of the game. I'm talking about their dialogue. Their writing. We don't judge the writing of VTMB2 on Safia turning out to be an Elder or whatever who is pretending to be a nerdy scientist. That's the plot of the game. We judge the writing of the characters on their depth, their flavour, their general writing quality. I'm sure there's some huge, mindblowing twist with Fabien, but we judge the writing and performance of the character as he's presented to us (which is very good).

VTMB1 has colourful characters, and memorable performances, but the writing is very one-note. Every character talks like they were born in the 1980s, not like they're vampires who are many decades/centuries old. VTMB1's writing is very cartoonish. It's not bad, it's just... it's sorta like how a lot of people love Dragon Age Origins, but the writing is very 'teenager's first fantasy game".

>>720534021
Their shilling is obvious because even normies gave up on this game.

One more shilling, why not?

>>720537806
I'm not seeing the connection to Marvel or Borderlands. The world's gayest vampire starts doing theatrics, and the delusional Malkavian says, "Yea, he does this..."

The character Tolly is, as is typical of VTM characters, concealing something behind the ostentatious faggotry, but none of the dialogue is "Marvel". Nobody in Marvel films talks like this.

>>720537910
I think you are delusional. And if not all the drawn sights characters make is enough to convince you, nothing will.

>>720534668
>I prefer when anti-shills have good talking points. I
There are no "anti-shills" because no one genuinely hates this game, it's too niche. What you call anti-shills are just disappointed fans who wanted it to turn out good

>>720537818
>Every character talks like they were born in the 1980s, not like they're vampires who are many decades/centuries old
Maybe that's because they all LIVED (spent their undeath) through the 80s? You'd have vampires be static and unchangeable entities instead of the cursed humans that they are.

>>720537948
>And if not all the drawn sights characters make
Explain.

>>720537957
This. But the interns will ignore that truth nuke.

>>720537981
The difference is that VTMB2 bothers to write its vampires as having distinctly difference voices, different ideologies, split between old and new. Of course it is a bit forced, but you see this with Ryong and Lou. Lou just wants to go back to the 1920s, and Ryong is an impotent wannabe reformer with big ideas that Lou thinks are idiotic. One of VTMB1's broad writing issues is that it never really addressed the politics of immortality. Damsel for example, never really addresses the fact that she's stuck as a 90s era commie stereotype. It will be interesting to see how 2 handles her.

>>720537957
>There are no "anti-shills" because no one genuinely hates this game, it's too niche.
It has something like 180,000 followers on Steam. It's the 15th most wishlisted game on the platform. That is not niche.

>>720538118
Lou should just put her fangs on my cock and start suckning

>>720538159
Now how many of these normalfags genuinely played VTM for longer than one evening

Hey, Paradox/TCR shill, comment on the masterful, world-building writing present in this shot.

>>720538212
This.

>>720538159
Well that sounds unnatural because VTMB has always had a fraction of the fanbase, say, Deus Ex has. Did these poeple even play the original

>>720538240
Curious if the coffee shop menu was the same in HSL's game.

Bloodlines 1 is still mediocre and unfinished, no amount of fan patches will fix it

>>720538310
Of course not lol. Just a bunch of normie parasites who want to be "epic gamer fans of a classic nostalgic nerdy franchise".

>>720538392
You haven't played it

>>720538240
I love when bars have these stupid drink names in real life
>One shot of cumshot pissslut whore please!
Makes me feel like some retarded gay pornstar.

>>720538426
It has to be a consequence of the development being so long and having so many trailers throughout the years.