Thread 722960402

Bloodlines 2 is the kind of game that has strip clubs closely modeled after famous Seattle locations, but you can't go inside them. It's not hyper-sanitized like Mass Effect Andromeda or Dragon Age Inquisition/Veilguard where they got rid of all the strip clubs and brothels, but it still has a vague air of PG-13-ification, if that makes sense.

oh so it will be starfield stripclubs, good to know

>>722960402 (OP)
I see. That's a bummer.

It also has sex shops and peep shows and stuff, but (unless maybe there's a quest related to one) you can't go inside them. They're just sleazy backdrops.

>>722960501
Are there actual places with sex shops lined up like this? When I was growing we had one sex shop on the corner, it was actually pretty big and it was a block away from the supermarket, cafe, thrift store, pet store, etc lol.

Also, prostitutes talk a lot about sucking people off, but you never actually see anyone getting sucked off.

>>722960663
Such places exist, but Seattle doesn't really have them. The closest would be Aurora Avenue, but that's a lot more low key.

Oh so it will do what 99% of other games do. Every building having an interior is not a reasonable expectation.

Seeing Fledgling cited as an inspiration, but that book is literally just page after page of "loli vampire fucks truckers and molests women, but intersectionally feminist".

>>722961072
The idea is that VTMB2 is vaguely awkwardly splitting the difference. It doesn't want to sell out and have this clean, sanitized world. (Think the Saints Row reboot.) But it also doesn't want to be as sleazy as the original VTMB. So it tries to have those elements but not as overt.)

Truth be told, it's probably a lot more sexual than the Hardsuit version was because that version was so paranoid about being disrespectful to women.

>>722960402 (OP)
>>722960501
they probably didn't have time to implement more interior designs because paradox just want to push it out the door as quickly as possible now after spending 8 years worth of development money on it but that is a waste when it already has an M rating hopefully we do get a Sin Bin style quest
>>722960663
only in major cities but nowadays the advertising is more subtle they don't have big signs like that anymore because angry puritans don't want their families to be exposed to it

Okay but none of this matters if the protagonist is still a gender ambiguous twink faggot no one wants to play as.

Caine killing Abel is a totally normal thing for a church to be hyperfixated on, honest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZV_stoD20

>>722961026
are you familiar with lake city? or the vagrants and their non-consensual peep shows

Looks cool.

>>722962552
The game can't make up its mind whether you're gender ambiguous or not.

>>722960402 (OP)
Why bother playing if I can't be a Malkavian that says the N-word all the time? Pass, probably woke. Vampires are probably gonna free palestine or something.

>>722960501
>le sex
Back to Read it with you

>>722961236
>loli vampire fucks truckers and molests women
Huh? What the fuck, I love modern literature now??
>She's a niglet
Nevermind, it's shit. Fuck nepobaby-infested modern publishing

whats the haps man

>>722961236
>fringe
more like CRINGE, what a fucking shit show

>>722967195
>>722961236
What the fuck? So aside from newer best seller spotsbeing taken over mostly by smut for femoids now we have this trash being seen as classics worth emulating by these "people"?
Is literature cooked?

>>722967195
>>722970147
Fledgling is a hugely controversial book, and I'm kinda surprised to See TCR openly acknowledging it as an influence. Author was pretty famous. But she died before she could write the sequels to Fledgling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

>>722960930
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE VAMPIRES SUCK GET IT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>722971186
No, it has nothing to do with vampires. Basically, prostitutes are upset at the snowstorm because nobody wants to get sucked off in the freezing cold, it's hard to walk in the snow in heels, and so on.

>>722971285
Is this bait?

>>722971067
>hugely controversial
For a ripoff of Let the Right One In, I guess. I don't recall there being any controversy about the matter.

>>722968394
Fringe was great until the alternate universe became a major plot point instead of window dressing.

>>722971317
It's a huge plot point in the game that Seattle has been paralyzed by a freak snowstorm likely of supernatural origin. All the roads are closed. All flights are grounded.

>>722971529
Anon, the joke is that no one wants to get sucked off because if you get sucked off by a vampire you tend to die. It's a pun. You're the worst shill in the history of shills, I swear.

>>722971446
There wasn’t any controversy, just like how 80% of /v/ are Twitter takes and website headlines trying to convince people working 60-hour weeks and can’t keep a pulse on everything going on that Ubisoft really was working on a game where a nigger kills Klansmen or that Japan loves the latest Ghost.

>>722961236
>>722971067
TCR is actually kinda based if you see the rest of the list but whoever is running the xitter handle is a huge fag tho

>>722967195
>>722971446
Do you one better.
>trap vampire who was castrated thousands of years ago in a pagan vampire ritual feeds on pedophiles and grooms a young boy with a piss ball to be the replacement feeder against the backdrop of the butthole of sweden during the time of perpetual night and nothing bad happens but everything bad happens

>>722971516
Fringe looked interesting in s1, before they tried to go anywhere with the story, that's about it. The last season is a parody. Reminds me of LOST, which was made by people from the same coterie.

>>722970147
Hey, The City and The City is pretty cool.

>>722971446
Let the Right One In was first published in English two years after Fledgling. They're also somewhat different stories. I don't think the books are really comparable at all. I'd wager very few people in this thread have read Fledgling. This is the tamer stuff.

>>722971823
Exactly. S1 Bad Robot anything is great, then the Jew writers fuck off and leave everyone else holding the bag to take the blame when they’re forced to open the mystery box and wrap up loose ends.

What do yous guys do up there all day anyway when it's raining all the damn time?

>>722971883
The mystery box was always filled with liquid diarrhea.

>>722971875
>this prose

>>722971875
The underage orgy in It has more bite than this. If the dead writer had made a vampire loli that drains pedophiles by performing oral sex on them and sucking their vitae out of their dicks then maybe you’d have something to spook us with.

>>722971924
Bitch about ICE on bluesky.

>>722972000
Octavia Butler always had a very clinical writing style. I remember reading Bloodchild years back. >Octavia Butler's short story "Bloodchild" is about a human male, Gan, who is chosen by an alien race called the Tlic to be implanted with their larvae. This implantation is a part of a symbiotic relationship where humans, as hosts, ensure the survival of the Tlic in exchange for protection and extended lifespans from consuming Tlic eggs. The story explores themes of love, power, interdependence, and male pregnancy.

>>722971960
I think Fledgling, like some of Butler's other books, tries to convey the mechanics of an alien intelligence through odd, sometimes simplistic thought processes.

>>722971875
This was written by a mentally challenged person.

>>722972130
>alien race is an anagram of clit
I hate women so much it’s unreal.

>>722972191
>alien
>odd
>often simplistic (ftfy)
Checks out.

Some other inspirations.

>>722972350
Okay they definitely got grok to give them a hand by listing pretentious titles to wow normalfags.

>>722962445
>they probably didn't have time
are you for real?

>>722960663
Paris Pigalle was shocking to me

>>722972472
Nah, it lines up with the originally stated influences:
>The inspirations were clear for me: dark US dramas like Succession, The Sopranos, The Wire, House of Cards. Anchor the gothic in the contemporary. Know that monsters exist in boardrooms and bars everywhere. Know that we live in a world that pretends it’s slick and sophisticated but where we’re still beating each other to death with the jawbones of asses. Know that you could get knifed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but you’re as likely to die from the poison dumped into your water in the pursuit of profit. Know that immortality is a curse as well as a blessing and that too much power strips humanity away like acid. One of my favourite lines from a novel comes from William Gibson’s Count Zero:
>“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
https://www.danpinchbeck.co.uk/vampire

>>722972437
I do appreciate how the one shill they can afford is just grinding out the mandated posts, though.

>>722960402 (OP)
>it's not hyper-sanitized like Mass Effect Andromeda or Dragon Age Inquisition/Veilguard
Bioware is not a really good comparison nobody expects much out of them in this department besides cheesy romance sex scenes. I think the better comparison is VTMB where expectations actually lie for this game, and where you can go into strip clubs and sex shops.

>>722960402 (OP)
the most obvious shill campaign ever.

>>722972736
It's not as bad as others. At least now it isn't, at the start it was pretty awful. I haven't seen a shill thread about this turd in quite a bit, I think parajew has written it off as a flop already and it's just a sunk cost/tax break scam now.

>>722972643
>I think the better comparison is VTMB where expectations actually lie for this game
Not really, because VTMB1 is set in 2004, so a game set in 2024 was naturally gonna be quite different. Nobody was expecting 2004-style sleaze.

>>722972472
Someone is using TCR's page to share his personal shit taste.

>>722972803
fuck off its daily.

did b1 have stats to level up with perks and such?
heard that b2 is just pick and class and go, no rpg elements at all

>>722972989
It had feats and feat adjustments to match the P&P rules as closely as possible in a video game system.

>>722960402 (OP)
>Bloodlines 2 is the kind of game that has strip clubs closely modeled after famous Seattle locations, but you can't go inside them.
Well yeah, they don't have the kind of money that Take Two Interactive uses to bribe the ratings boards to get away with blatantly AO content.

>>722972472
>A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
>screenshot from tgtbtu
not a big deal but if you're gonna be a pretentious faggot and write a (year) to show how sophisticated you are might as well get it right

>>722973531
Is this the current party line at Paradox?

>>722960402 (OP)
hey thats on 1st and pike. they dress up in cosplay during sakuracon ricks was better

>>722972989
It has ability trees and giving you +10XP every time you shank someone.

>>722960402 (OP)
even if the game's gonna be a woke trash i want to play it because winter Seattle

>>722975316
Winter seattle sucks cock

>>722975587
it does not have to be seattle in particular, just an open world winter city
and don't tell me bout division, i don't like it

>>722975716
This d00d wants Vampire the Masquerade: Skyrim.

>>722975834
>dawnguard

>>722976005
THAT’S DIFFERENT

>>722962770
This is a bit of a cringe trailer

>>722976376
Lasombra are inherently cringe.

>>722977178
Conquistadores aren’t cringe. Qué comentario más gilipollas.

>>722961236
>The City and The City
LMAO NO IT DOESN'T YOUR INSPIRATION, STFU

Niggers trying to act like they making second Disco Elysium, the nerve, they never even opened the book

>>722977531
Bloodlines 2 is about a murder investigation that takes place in parallel timelines. Fabien's memories are faulty and unreliable and possibly dangerous to take at face value. He is investigating a murder in the 1920s. Phyre is investigating a parallel murder with the same MO in the modern day, relying on advice from Fabien to find the killer. I can see how The City and the City could be an influence there.

I want to have sex with Outstar.

>>722960402 (OP)
>>722960501
Modern devs are such pussies.

>>722977520

Yeah but these are based on the camarilla lasombra who are neutered. They're not the awesome sabbat lasombra who are basically horror movie vampires

>>722978209
That is copied from the game Still Life (2005), so congrats on further cementing how uninspired this game is, shill.

>>722971529
>Seattle has been paralyzed by a freak snowstorm likely of supernatural origin.
OH NO they're remaking Redfall!

>>722960402 (OP)
>but you can't go inside them
Well it's trash on principle alone. That's not me complaining from the 'gooner' perspective. But rather they don't intend to preserve Bloodlines atmosphere and general seediness. It's not supposed to be sanitised. They missed the damn point.

>>722978308
Not a bad game to draw inspiration from, honestly.

>>722978396
*steal from

>>722960402 (OP)
HOLY FUCKING KINO BLOODLINES IS FIRE FULL HYPE BROTHERS

>actual shill thread?
>in my vagina?

>>722960402 (OP)
strip clubs suck

>>722978760
so do vampires

>>722960402 (OP)
Bloodlines 2 is the kind of game that is gonna be great

>>722979964
True it will be the Battleborn of our times.

>>722960930
Outstar used to be hot. Like in a hate-fuckeable way.

>>722980278
That is a boy. You are a gay.

>>722960402 (OP)
If this game is bad im going to an hero

>>722980591
can I have your iPod

I didn't need more reasons NOT to play this but thanks

And for the people who don’t have the graphics hardware to handle an AAA game in 2025, we have another product for them, it’s called Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 1.

>>722960402 (OP)
>>722960501
>>722960930
This looks really fucking comfy bros, ngl.
I'm expecting it to be jank or disappointing in some way, but winter modern-gothic aesthetic is kino.

>>722982507
nice filename, shill

>>722982571
take your fucking meds

>>722982598
It’s almost 3PM in Delhi right now.

>>722982690
You poorfag coomer faggots are completely destroying this board and everything else. Not everyone is a "shill" just because you can't afford anything, or because you're too much of a depressed freak that you can't care about anything anymore.
Everyone is out to get you bro, every thread is a shill thread, except for your cheap, worthless gooner slop.

>>722982795
>>722980940

>>722982795
my mom gave me money, do I have to be poor still?

>>722982864
>too stupid and too paranoid schizoid
>to understand insult humor
He's talking about you, and you took the bait and you're seething because you're a poorfag. Learn how to spend your money and stop shitting up every thread.

>>722982795
>y-you don't want to consume this shitty corporate product?! UR POOR!!!!!
Indian normalfags should stay away. Anyone here who will want to actually check out this turd will most likely pirate.

>>722982972
k

>>722960402 (OP)
I vaguely remember a strip club in ME2 where there were naked Asari women dancing but idk if I am imagining that

>>722982973
You have more in common with dalit street trash than anyone else in the world, more than you could ever possibly comprehend.
Yeah I must be "indian" because I like video games, buy video games and play video games.

>>722983121
Yeah, you are indian because you got utterly mindbroken after getting a shill in a daily marketing thread for this corporate slop and scream that people should buy this garbage instead of pirating like any inteligent white man should.

>>722983176
You're worthless poorfag gooner trash.
You're fucking subhuman, you're not "intelligent".

The entire turdworld "pirates" because they can't afford anything, "white man".

The Trophy list is up. Some major, major spoilers here, although none except Campbell being alive are shockers.
https://www.powerpyx.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-trophy-list-revealed/

who asked

>>722983087
There were no naked Asari dancers in ME2. There is a nightclub in VTMB2, but it's not that sleazy.

>>722983121
>buy video games
no

>>722983475
There's no ending where Ryong is in charge of the city. That does not bode well for her.

>>722983751
YOU ARE POUR FAH IF YOU ARE NOT BUYING

>>722983475
So Phyre can embrace someone. No idea who, though. Also, Phyre can end the game with an "agreeable companion".

>>722983424
>music, movies, tv shows, anime, manga, comics, audiobooks
>"yeah don't pay for that shit bro, here's where you can get all of it for free"
>games
>"IF YOU PIRATE YOU ARE FUCKING POOR AND BROWN REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Lmao

>>722978209
who the fuck was killed to get an elder up and running investigating a murder?

>>722984037
Youre just a sheriff who happens to be an elder so don’t overthink it

>>722960402 (OP)
I was going to pirate it but the anon who has been shilling this for the past two months in the most blatant grating manner possible as convinced me not even to waste my time pirating. I think I will just boot the first game again and have another playthrough for Halloween

>>722960501
SEXOOO

>>722971656
>if you see the rest of the list
post it

>>722960663
They used to be more common, but they cleaned up a lot of those areas since normal people usually had to drive through with their kids. Times Square in NYC was a big porno/stripclub/hooker spot until Disney bought a lot of the buildings.

Game looks cozy

>>722983475
>https://www.powerpyx.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-trophy-list-revealed/
Huh, I thought that the science chick would be the big bad, but it's the toreador bitch instead.

>>722991162
*comfy

Will it have New Game+ to do every clan?

>>722972895
>the world is going to be lame and boring because it’s based on the modern day instead of the better past
have you considered that this is the source of modern culture woes

>>722991780
>https://www.powerpyx.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-trophy-list-revealed/

5 endings doesn't sound bad

>>722991780
Ysabella isn't the one behind everything. There's a twist villain.

>>722991780
>>722992330
Defeating Ysabella with your powers suppressed reminds me of that Deus Ex Human Revolution boss.

>>722983475
>she's in
It's over, Damselbros. I'm so sorry

I can't wait to see nu-Damsel.

The snowstorm looks comfy, but Is the game itself any good?

>>722960930
Hey now, you're not going to see her doing that on stream!

I would be a lot more hyped if my character wasn’t voiced and constantly referred to with a stupid name. Like, “Phyre”? Really? That’s retarded.

>can end with Tolly, Lou, Phyre, or Kasumi in charge, with other ending where the glowies attack and take over
>can sire a childe
>can get some sort of companion
>can romance vampires and feed on them
>you fight the gardener, Ysabella, and Campbell
Really the only interesting trophies that stand out. Every else is power combos

>>722993035
The Campbell one is weird because it's possible that it takes place in a flashback. I suspect that Fabien sacrificed himself in order to sic Phyre on Campbell.

The exact trophy is:
What’s in the Box?
Destroy Prince Campbell by using Phyre against him.

>>722993035
Maybe Safia = The Gardener

>>722992935
>Phyre
Out of all the pozz and design retardation, this is the most baffling shit to me. It makes literally zero sense evennif you take the shill's explanation into an account. It's extremely lame and gay and also nonsensical.

>>722992935
>>722993736
It's a ruse cruise. It's not supposed to make sense.

>Phyre?
The Prince of Seattle.
>Lou?
My bottom bitch.
>Tolly, Safia, and Ryong?
A steaming pile of ash in the corner.
>Damsel?
Sent back to LA so she doesn't have to be in this game.

>>722993938
>The Prince of Seattle
That's a really shitty prize

>>722993736
Aren’t I supposed to be an elder vampire? Why do I have a name that a shitty hair metal band would use?

>>722961236
>>722972426
>>722972472

Pretentious dipshits

So what’s the plot. Campbell, Ysabella, and The Gardener conspire together?

>>722971285
Are the devs aware that cars exist?

>not a single trophy mentioning Safia
Would be funny if she doesn't matter after the "leaks" that she's totally the final boss

>>722994398
From the trailer:
>"The city flowered in fire and in fire she will end."
>"It bought you here my Phyre. My fire."
I can't believe that people are actually filtered by the incredibly obvious and unsubtle twist that you're a manufactured Elder. You're vampire Adam Jensen. You have no clan curse. You are the fire that will burn Seattle, or at least that was the plan.

>>722994559
The whole point of the leak is that Safia is a different vampire. There's a fairly short list of vampires she could be. My money is on Lou's mysteriously absent sister, or someone connected to her.

>>722994570
Protag was stated to be embraced in 1600s Ottoroach Empire and is an Armenian for some reason. They existed for ~300 under their actual normal name, but for some reason decided to call themselves Fire after waking up after a nap?

>>722994570
>a manufactured elder
Fucking how. There’s nothing like this in the lore.

>>722994689
Watch it be VTMB2's version of "Would you kindly..."

>>722994691
That guy is just larping as a marketeer. Don't listen to him.

>>722994570
Stfu, vampire dad! I was a Janissary!

>>722994570
>It bought you here my Phyre. My fire
Someone actually got paid real money to write this. It this isn't the definition of "grim" I don't know what is.

>>722994854
Whatever you do, do NOT watch anything written by JJ Abrams.

>>722994691
Think about it for a minute. Have you seen a single shred of evidence that this character is the legendary "Nomad"? The whole thing stinks. Even the Lasombra trainer chick thinks that something doesn't add up. "With your big bad elder reputation and your stupid fucking name."

On the other side of the coin you have Fabien, or as Pandora calls him, "Lord Fabien". What if, just hear me out, someone played a little game, and Fabien is an older vampire pretending to be an eccentric younger vampire, and Phyre is a relatively young but strong vampire that has been conditioned into thinking he or she is this legendary Nomad?

>>722960402 (OP)
Mass Effect: Andromeda had tits 'n ass, though?

>>722995064
Andromeda got rid of strip clubs and brothels. It's a noticeable shift. All BioWare games after about 2010 got weird sanitized.

>>722960402 (OP)
Hell yeah, this city had brothels before it had much of anything else. If they don't have the secret vampire society in the pioneer square underground though I'll be beyond disappointed. Just pretend tourists aren't down there poking around every single day

>>722994689
>Armenian for some reason
It’s so they can make your voice have an annoying vaguely ethnic accent. Thanks BioWare director!

>>722972426
so its at the point where these retards just proudly display the shit they rip off for their 'creativity'

>>722994691
You get a vampire. You use magic to alter her memories and personality. You sacrifice an elder to her. Like, maybe, a Malkavian elder named Fabien that has been larping as a police detective because he's fucking nuts. Said vampire is now incredibly strong and has absorbed the soul of this elder, and goes on a rampage and massacres the prince of the city (which was the point of this gambit). But Who Censored Roger Rabbit-style, the players in this conspiracy have gotten a little muddled about what the plan actually was. The mastermind (Fabien) has forgotten that HE was the one behind Campbell's assassination.

That's just a theory, though.

>>722995287
Being a Turk would have achieved that as well and made more sense, since Turks hate Armenians and wouldn't employ one in court.

>>722994997
That sounds like a retarded twist written for the sake of having a twist.

>>722995395
It would fit The Chinese Room's MO. See Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and its central twist that YOU built the Machine for Pigs.

Playable Tzimisce when. :/
>inb4 it's a Camarilla game

>>722995702
I will only play a Tzimisce if I can turn women into toilets.

>>722995786
Turn?

>>722995650
Gee maybe hiring this company was a big mistake, huh?

>>722960501
How are porn stores and cinemas still a thing, my dads work was next to an old porn shop and he told me he and his employees eventually realized it was just gay hookup place for closeted dudes. Place eventually got demolished and become a club. I have no idea how this places stay in business.

>>722995786
Women?

>>722994997
These snow particles look so bad on a static image lol

you will never understand how a good game is made
never

>Marketer thread
Not to worry, everyone will pirate.

>>722996029
The Machine for Pigs writer was replaced by the Amnesia Rebirth writer. Dunno how much the story changed, but I did find myself thinking those weird female cultists who can teleport give me Empress Tihana from Rebirth. There's also these pale ghoul creatures with no eyes that serve the cult.

>>722996470
These are not scary at all.

>>722996470
I LITERALLY shit my pants looking at this still image, only a BASED GAMER could play this!

>>722996518
>>722996603
They're not supposed to be scary. They're supposed to make you horny.

I’m gonna get shit for this but Owlcat should’ve made this game instead. Imagine the Osiris team working on an IP people actually care about.

>>722996919
Shut your goofy ass up, retard.

>>722996834
A fully clothed female with a mask is supposed to make me horny?
>>722996919
Nah, you're right. I'd want Owlcat too, or Larian or InXile

>>722996919
Did a single person want Bloodlines 2 to be a CRPG? The original was the furthest thing from a CRPG.

wow
actual tranny thread holy shit

>>722997015
>A fully clothed female with a mask is supposed to make me horny?
Yes. The combination of the eyes being covered (possibly she has no eyes) and the ponytail evokes a kind of modified ponygirl aesthetic.

>>722991162
>>722991856
kys shill

>>722997103
>modified ponygirl aesthetic.
you modified your cock off your body

>>722997103
a what? Are you a muslim or something, does hair make you horny.

>>722997285
BDSM thing. Anyone with eyes can see that the eyeless female cultists who teleport around to dodge bullets like that Skrillex boss fight in Syndicate 2012 are someone's fetish writ large.

what clan are you going for your first playthrough
i'll go lasombra although i'm not too happy about roleplaying antagonistically for my first go
banu would be ideal but alas they're muslim

>>722997493
She's wearing a full set of loose bodied clothes. Where's the latex and leather. Y'know, actual BDSM gear and style?

>>722972000
That terrifying! I'm scared stiff!

>>722971446
>>722971810
I now recall some hazy memories of watching an english movie version of it ages ago when I was younger. I mostly just remember the morse code knocking, the random faberge egg, and thinking >giwtwm about the kid getting groomed by the cute vampire girl (I don't recall if it was a trap in the movie version or if I only thought that until the plot was revealed)
I guess I'll give the book a shot once I'm finished with Journey to the West. Hopefully it's better than other m*dern literature.

>>722997549
There's another variation of the fetish you may be more familiar with.

>>722983121
Not buying your slop.

>>722997643
All Miraluka's are blind and they cover their eyes as part of their culture. That's not a fetish.

>>722997913
It absolutely is

>DUDE THE JOKE IS SEX LMAO
Fuck off, hope this turd flops and kills your studio.

Why does everyone in Seattle know about this so-called Nomad.

>>722997015
>A fully clothed female with a mask is supposed to make me horny?
Is this a trick question, gayboy?

>>722998120
There are usually like 20-25 vampires in a city of millions, everyone knows everyone, even if someone is from the other side of the globe

>>722997913
I can't believe I have to explain this to you that creating hot women that have no eyes is very much a fetish.
>It is good that you have never wondered what lay beneath her robes, if her alabaster skin was as white and unblemished as her face. Or if perhaps she bore the scars of slavery... and if that would stir you more. Perhaps her deferent tone would change once you held her by the throat, and showed her how far a Jedi can fall.
The weird masked/hooded women in VTMB2 are someone's fetish. They represent submission and a kind of sublime mutilation. Very Tzimisce.

>>722998321
Interesting shilling strategy. Did the head honchos approve of you using sexual objectification to attract potential consumers?

>>722998556
Lou having big tits and a hot, rebellious little Asian childe that will do what she's fucking told or there will be consequences didn't tip you off?

>>722997023
Isn't Paradox making a proper VtM CRPG anyway?

>>722998914
Where did you hear that?

>>722960402 (OP)
I've seen enough gameplay to be entirely uninterested in this so some aesthetic choices are irrelevant

>>722980278
goddamn would i love to go balls deep

>>722998994
Yea, the Bloodlines formula isn't for everyone.

>>722999130
what does "the Bloodlines formula" have to do with a game that plays nothing like Bloodlines? How can there be a "Bloodlines formula" when there's only been one Bloodlines game that follows that "formula?"

>>722998969
no were really, but there was that Game Jam game from a couple of years ago that is apparently going to be turned into a full game

>>722993035
So how much do you actually play as Phyre compared to other characters? I keep reading posts saying you need to jump around all the time and barely play Phyre.

>>722999318
You have "detective" segments as fabian from time to time, who knows how often though

>>722996167
they aren't, for the most part

>>722996167
Popular in Asian countries still. In the West they're all almost dead except for stores here and there in the US and Netherlands.

>>722996167
Sex shops are a thriving business, never actually saw a porn store that was selling dvds or whatever

>>722994997
>We removed character sheet, stats, inventory, lock picking, hacking, persuasion, and holding guns, because you are an elder
>the plot twist is that you aren't an elder

>>722962770
>nnoooo the churches should be boring and sterile like in real life, I don't want vampire imagery in a vampire game I'm going insaaanneeee

>>722997137
kys retarded schizo

>>722999389
It depends on how often and how long. It could be half the game or just 30 minutes all combined, who knows.

>>722997023
I would. But that’s not even what I meant, reread my post. Owlcat is making a high budget action RPG. I wish that team was working on something else instead.

>>722962770
Can't help but notice that the Lasombra trailer has much more views than the average clan trailer.

>>722997023
>The original was the furthest thing from a CRPG.
wut
do you know the company that made the original

>>722996251
That's mainly yt compression artifacts

>>722980278
2 decades ago

>>722960930
12 year old boys shouldn't be playing games like that

>>722980278
she is going through a rapid polish Olga transformation

>>723000006
The Expanse looks so much better than the gay sausagefest shit their B-team is doing with Dark Heresy. Insane. DEI is a hell of a drug.

>>723000214
it's going to be a broken unfinished pile of shit just like all their other games

>>722971875
this is worse than my teenage fanfics

>>723000335
>like all their other games
That's every modern game from any developer

>>723000505
Owlcat is in a league of their own for unfinished broken piles of shit

>>723000640
At least they fix them... eventually... two or more years down the line

>>723000214
did a bot make this post

>>723000074
Its recent close to release and it has a special ability shown (ie Priest role) in more detail than some others. Also, I'm trying to figure out who exactly you play. Some trailers suggest you're a thinblood, the Malkavian one suggeests 2 people (not sure if two people in head or two actual people), and some others suggest you're an Elder ? Does it vary by clan or...?

>>723002172
You're mixing up info from the previous devs it seems. It's a mess. In the old game by another studio you would play as a thinblood. New studio scrapped that idea and now you play as an elder with another malkavian in your head.

>>722971317
no, it's a G*rman

>>722962770
>your big bad Elder reputation, and your stupid fucking name?
Lmao. I guess they saw everyone shitting on phyres dumbass name and integrated it

>>722997624
The film cut out a ton of context, as is often the case. If you only watched the American version, it's even more heavily censored. The book is an acid trip into how skull-fuckingly awful Sweden is/was.

>>723002172
You're an Elder who just woke up from Torpor or whatever and have some other personality in your brain. Unclear if the personality is the actual elder, or you diab'd them, or what.
Clan choice seems to only affect dialogue/powers like the first game.

Also, so far Lasombra is the only trailer with powers that actually make you look as strong as an Elder should be. Like the Brujah one is just punching people really hard, when a Brujah elder should be able to knock down buildings if they wanted to

It's gonna be great

>>723003504
Lasombra powers much like Tremere ones aren't vampiric so they look apart from the rest.

>>722999318
The detective stuff was added in 2024, so it will be comparatively tiny compared to the actual game.

>>723003504
>>723004534
I wish you had shadow tentacles....

>>722999318
>>723004886
I hate that kind of thing, takes me out of the experience.

>>722997023
>The original was the furthest thing from a CRPG
no, it wasn't a crpg but if anything it was as close as you get to a crpg while still being an "action" rpg

>>722996919
>Owlcat
jesus christ, fuck no, all their games fucking suck balls, I don't get why /v/ pretends they are good

>>722960402 (OP)
Is sex good or bad now? I cant even tell anymore

>>723006186
you're a troon

>>723005742
It’s interesting how the PC can’t hold weapons and uses telekinesis and TCR is ripping off several other stories but they lack any and all technological skill to copy Darkness 2’s gameplay.

>>723006217
It's safe sex. Not even the text is titillating. The picture just shows a vague humanoid form with an undressed torso, no bare legs, wearing a siren costume instead. It's safe sex.

>>723006269
I tried playing a game and it's some kind of dumb dungeon crawler, you can't even interact with 99% of the NPCs and the companions are cringier than reddit fanfic characters

>>723006217
heteronormative sex is bad, queer sex is good, hope this helps

>>723006373
Nice of you to explain that you're wholly retarded.

>>723006297
They didnt want to make Lasombra too cool.

>>723006690
owlcrap sucks

>>723006297
Video game devs don’t play video games and don’t know what that is

>>722996919
>Owlcat
HAHAHAHA fuck no.
Kill yourselves Owlcucks

What needs to happen for Nosferatu/Gangrel to be playable, /v/?

>>723006297
It's more Dishonored 2 than Darkness

So if you were a real actual fan and not a grifter pretending to be mad to other homos online you would know the first game only has one strip club you can enter and it only has two unimportant side quests.
No one cares. VTM:B was awful and the new game looks bad too, but stop pretending. Ditch this performance shit and get help.

>>723008090
The shill is back.

>>723007881
That the game is a resounding success and exceeds paradox's sales expectations. This will not happen.

>game releases
>critical/financial success
>we get a VTMB3
fuck... if only...

>>722971875
Yeah that is super tame and it reads like rotting ass. Fuck this gay shit. Back to my japanimes.

>>723008189
>one strip club
Forgetting the sin bin, nigger? That's two in the game--with dances.
Play the game before you start spouting shit you have no idea about.

>>723008341
>Phyre the Tremere
>Fabien The Malkavian

>>723008320
That's a porno rental store with rooms where women dance behind glass. That's not a strip club. Seriously, get help.

>>723008320
kek get his ass

>>723008320
The Sin Bin has a strip booth but is promarily a sex shop.

>>723008412
sorry but it's Phyre the Lasombra

What's his clan, /v/?

>>723008602
textbook ventrue

>>723008602
He looks like Gangrel

>>723008237
By who?

Hey shill, do you know if you have to learn the first ability in the "Tree" to learn the others? I.e. do I have to have the toreador smooch in order to get his blink? I don't want to be kissing dudes

>>722960402 (OP)
Not even pirating

>>723014685
This is an unofficial patch add-on

>>722960402 (OP)
>but it still has a vague air of PG-13-ification
Wow so mature, I'll definitely buy it now!

>>723014897
It was in the game files, the original developers made it.

>>723008320
It's a porno shop with illegal prostitutes in the back. Shut up retard

>>722996251
>snow particles

Games based on Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Boston etc all suck ass because the devs are turbo political troons. The last good ones were GTASA and VTM Bloodlines, and thats because they were written created and released before troonshit slop was a thing.

>>723014685
thats so inappropiate for a game to show wtf. poor girl

>>722960402 (OP)
the first game was awful, and this one will be too. when a game twists itself to fit the devs' political agenda, it’s done. genuinely, besides the santa monica hype at first, the moment from downtown onwards it’s total garbage until the end. nothing redeeming there, just retards like Gmanlives hyping its political slant, then tossing in “amazing ambiance, great writing ya ya” to seem legit and unbiased.
they took vampires and made it about communism somehow.

>>722982507
From what reviews say the world is really nice and the story is good, but there's zero going on in the gameplay department and the world is just a backdrop.

>>722991162
>Follow Fabien's scent
Do I have to?

>>722978368
>mfw these places are going to be lost to history
>never again referenced or replicated
do you think there's an internet historian or similar that keeps footages of these places somewhere like jewtube or something?

>>723016480
In 200 years we will have digital archaeologists and historians going through computer games on old hardware and arguing about emulation on an academic level. I can't wait.

>>723014997
Fuck off Wesp.

>>722961236
>Fringe
Explain

what even is the gameplay? didnt they get rid of all the rpg mechanics and... combat? is it just talking?

>>723018723
Most of the game is smacking people around with your fists, disciplines, and telekinetic objects.

Toreador abilities look kind of lame here. What is the theme?

>>723018723
They removed melee weapons and instead gave each Clan an exclusive unarmed fighting style.

>>723019271
Being a seducer. You get to smooch guys on the lips. It sucks

>>723020821
Toreador abilities are.....Toreador?
Damn. Faggot shit for the faggot clan.

>>723020319
Wait, they don't all have different animations, do they?

>>723021006
They do

>>723016480
i keep them in my brain

>>723021006
Check the trailers
Brujah and Ventrue have different boxing stances, Banu Haqim fights with claws and Tremere might be using Blood Sorcery during combat.

They cut out mechanical complexity and added aesthetics to compensate.

>>723020821
What's the difference betwen it and Venture other than it's actually garbage since Ventrue's version is objectively better.

>>723020952
Not all Toreador are faggots. I shit on VV every time but Isaac is a cool guy and I take Ash being melancholy as an interesting trait as opposed to just a faggot being depressive.
>>723021521
>>723021269
There's barely any fighting in the trailer. Ventrue only have their abilities shown, the Brujah punching quickly is a discipline, and so is Tremere attacking with blood.
Would be neat, though, I suppose.

>>723021958
None, really. Only you might want to play a character who's not necessarily interested in all the politics and as far as I can tell Toreadors are the only ones who fit that role. Maybe Banu as well but who wants to play an ay-rab.

>>723021497
sexy ass

>>723024021
Back when asses were allowed to be sexy

>>723015137
>we will never experience 4k res, 8k textures, 1mil polygons (and smooth 24fps) of this in the modern age

>>722960930
It snows in seattle?

>>723026437
That's cocaine, anon.

/v/ has to make an impossible choice.

>Become prince (gay)
>Put a woman in charge (gay)
>Put the raging queer in charge (less gay)
>Let the government spooks kill everyone (based and trad)

>>723026491
It cocaines in seattle?

>>723027452
Absolutely

>>723026437
Not normally, but there have been freak snowfalls in the past.

>>722960930
Eugh this pointless slut again, I hated her when she was shilling for the dead project, too.

>>722972350
>>722972426
>>722972472
'Inspiration' doesn't matter because these california faggot types always take the absolute worst shit from the sources they are 'inspired' by.
Case in point: Look at literally every horror movie that is a 'love letter to the slashers we grew up with'. Final Girls; the various remakes of Evil Dead; TCM; Fear Street trilogy; Scream (TV series); Scream 5 and 6; etc...
They always talk about how much they love Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween or whatever and then remove the sleaze and sexualization because 'actually we need to do better'. They fundamentally miss what made their inspirations beloved and instead take surface level lip service by regurgitating famous shots or quotes to make retards jizz their pants because they understood a reference.
The 'inspiration' of Fistful of Dollars is going to be a guy who doesn't talk much and wears a hat. That's it.

>>723028330
No, the fistful of dollars commection is the camarilla/anarch power struggle where the mysterious stranger turns up and can, if they so wish, play one side against another.

>>723028330
They're British though.

>>722972191
>>722972130
>>722971875
>Buttlikeummm
>le women power fantasy of males getting impregnated for once
Bitches have until science actually catches up to this and then they're toast because who needs them. Writing their own tragic future. LMAO.

I am so, so ready.

>Bri'ish teeth
>so no ready