Thread 723832183

Now that the sun has set, was the wait worth it?

I'm waiting for the synthethic man video to find out

>>723832452
what the fuck do you think hes going to say? You can predict that guys opinions before they leave his mouth

Here hold on ....

....
....

I just watched his review in my mind. It's shit and woke. Surprise.

>bro it was so fun having a schizo voice in your head in cyberpunk, lets do it
terrible game

BLEEEEEEH!

Nope, literal shills are making reviews on Steam for it just like you are here.

>>723832183 (OP)
It dropped the ball. Not like it was gonna ever surpass the original but it is just disappointing with how it turned out.

Shouldn’t have had the bloodlines 2 part in the name too.

>>723832183 (OP)
Apparently it's simply just meh, which is arguably the worst outcome, because even shitting on it here on /v/ will become boring rather quick.

>>723833867
I would say its more about shitting on the retard that has been shilling it. Realistically no one would have given a shit about this game if he wasn't making daily threads for months sucking it off.

It's alright. The hub world (can't even really call it open world) is pretty shit though and so are the side quests. But the story is good and the combat/stealth is ok. Final verdict will be determined if any of my choices in the game will matter by the end.

>>723832183 (OP)
>Woke shit
>worth it
lmao

>>723834220
>his own bussiness
GOOOOOOODS

>>723833867
Oh fuck, I hadn't considered this option, I was ready for the memes for so long. Hopefully there's still high quality memery for this slow motion crash.

>>723832183 (OP)
he won

I'm having a blast.

Played like 90 minutes so far, it seems fine

>>723832183 (OP)
Weren't expectations for this game rock bottom anyway? I don't think anyone thought this would come out good or in any way live up to the first game.

>>723833867
lolsure

What if we gave your flashback ... a flashback! Genius!

>>723836724
The copes were
>it will be a bad VtMB but a good vampire game
>just change your expectations
>turn your brain off and just enjoy it for what it is
There are very clearly people coping hard about this game. You will see them acting very "diplomatic" and using very specific and careful language and wording when talking about it. Its the kind of talk that makes it clear they want to say its shit but something is holding them back.

do i ever get fabien out of my head or did they really just do forspoken bracelet 2

>>723836886
Surely the varied gameplay from seeing such different time periods makes it all worth it

>>723833867
from my hour and a half, it's much worse than just "meh"
it's not particularly broken, but it does so little that i'd consider this game embarrassing for a $20 title from a virgin indie studio

there's hunting for graffitis to get XP
there's an unsatisfying and barebones first person unarmed combat system
and there's an objective marker for the next conversation

that's the game
there's quite literally nothing else

>>723836969
there are no sidequests or persistent NPCs you can go talk to?

>>723834220
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIN

>>723837074
I talked to some dude who was apparently a "streetwalker", the only dialogue options were "I can be your friend" (apparently a seduction line?), some other shit, and "you can't keep up with my wits"
There was no option to just end the conversation
I picked the last option, the dude screamed and ran away shouting how he doesn't wanna die

Any idea what's causing this? Basic Unofficial Patch 11.5, not Plus. Windows during cutscene with Sheriff weren't see-through too.

>someone tried to make a general on /vg/
>it's completely dead

>>723837216
Oh also I ran after him and my 300+ year Elder sprinting couldn't keep up with him

Not even reddit is liking this game.

>>723837247
Windows 11

>>723832183 (OP)
Have to mentally replace "Banu Hackwwhatever" with Assamite every time in my mind but otherwise it's ok

>400 year old elder has to deliver packages and clean street graffiti
>also gets mogged by random anarch ghouls
Truly the game of games.

>>723837363
I'm on 10 though.

>>723834220
Wait a minute I don't have that prompt on the bed wtf

>>723837449
Then you need to upgrade to W11

>>723834220
KEK so VALID

DOES THE CLAN ACTUALLY MATTER FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT YOUR INITIAL DISCIPLINES?

>>723837490
No, it's a Cyberpunk situation where you may get a dialogue here about it and there but that's it. Even worse than Cyberpunk apparently because there are no alternate ways to complete quests based on your clan or otherwise.

what wait
what wait bitch
more like weight
your weight you fat bitch

>>723832452
I already know its shit but ill watch the Synth and Mandalore videos

i hate the chinese room so fucking much. fucking faggot dogshit studio. why the fuck did they let these fucking hacks make a sequel to one of the most iconic video games of the 2000s?

I played it for a while. Met the fat bitch and pissed her off by asking too many questions. I doubt that will have any actual consequences.

>>723832183 (OP)
>~12 hour game
>~6 hours as Phyre
>~6 hours as Fabien
>DLC with ~3 hours as Benny
>DLC with ~3 hours as Ysabela
>Playing as your protagonist unironically has less content than playing as other characters
What did they mean by this?

>>723836950
God modern discourse is so gay
>Any argument that agrees with your view is shills pretending to be antishillsh but actually just acting as controlled opposition because nobody can dislike the game just a bit.
>You don't even understand what you claim to like about the game, and what you dislike is a compromise between your contrarianness and a youtuber-give opinion.
Like fuck off. Yeah it's obviously not a source engine 3 vr game with mould-breaking mechanics, based-edgy humour and hot lolis (though you do get a cute painting)

>>723832183 (OP)
Too shit to be good, too mediocre to be memorable.
Into the trash it goes and forgotten by next week.
It's just a more expensive VN with even less choice and RP.

>>723837729
Mandy already gave his opinion on this game at the end of the Callisto Protocol DLC video that came out today...he did a video on the DLC instead of doing a video on Bloodlines 2, which is rather damning.

>>723837490
Different clans have different feeling combat in terms of animation, melee reach, stuff like that.

>>723837490
Yes, it costs a lot more to buy shit if it's not a clan skill. There's also clan afinities

>>723837939
Who the fuck cares.

>>723838052
Bravo TCR. Bravo.

>>723832183 (OP)
slop

>>723838024
Huh? If that's the only unique thing doesn't it mean it's best to choose the clan with strongest unarmed attack?

>>723832183 (OP)
>was the wait worth it?
I'm pretty sure literally everyone knew it wasn't before it was even out.

>>723832183 (OP)
Look at her go!

Ice cream? I love ice cream!

>>723838052
We are so fucking back

First hideout is comfy. A bit unlit but it could have been a lot worse.
And really that's the game. I'm just glad they didn't release it 3 years ago and had some time to reverse whatever disgusting shit some of the earlier woketards had in mind. I can't imagine how much worse it would have been give that you still have to look away every now and then.
Oh but the voice in your head is not too bad. He's... like a 90s sierra point and click protagonist but less funny.

What pisses me most off is that the glossary opens when you examine something. Like holy shit, this can't even be real.

>>723834220
>what gender your mother was before we met was her business

>>723832452
Came here to post this.

>>723838378
I really dislike his fucking voice and his voice acting.

>>723838378
Hardsuit Labs version was actually sexier albeit.

>>723838530
Lou's tits were noticeably bigger in Hardsuit's version too.

>>723838467
Hide month.
Wide month.
Tide month.
Side month.
Ride month.
Aide month.
Clyde month.

>>723838530
Oh I didn't mean the original version.
I mean the middle version which my instinct tells me would have been worse

>>723832183 (OP)
It's sloppa.

This game has that mystical "the more you lower your graphic settings, the worse it runs" shit...

>>723832183 (OP)
its such abysmal shit, even the best Tzimisce could not fix.

hello is this the transgender support club

>>723838378
>First hideout is comfy. A bit unlit but it could have been a lot worse.
I thought it sucked. Had nothing to do in it other than play the jukebox.. It was just an area like any other in the game.

>shill had thread killed again right as he was getting called out for samefagging
Yeah you did that before.

>>723838703
It's the resolution scaling slider I think, it tends to change itself randomly when changing other settings. From my experience.

>>723838052
I seriously thought this .webm was sped up intentionally to make the animation look jittery.

But it's really this bad. This is the actual game cutscene unedited.

>No blast posting
>No return to form posting

Hopeless

the anti-shill schizo is funny

>>723837418
>Have to mentally replace "Banu Hackwwhatever" with Assamite every time in my mind but otherwise it's ok
Assamites had a bit of a purge when one of their Methuselahs woke back up, which prompted the name change.

If it's so much worse than Bloodlines, why is the sequel doing so much better?

>>723838824
Here it is with audio, and yes that is the actual voice.
https://files.catbox.moe/aky76o.mp4

>>723838839
Maybe it's for the best.
We'll continue to have normal vtmb threads and occasional mentions of the sequel. Just for a laugh

>>723838875
the pc setup gives away that this is, in fact, a man

Vampire girlfriends suck

Nothing makes me feel like an Elder Vampire quite like needing to suck the blood of three different people so that I can do a cool little head slash

>Restart checkpoint
>It keeps all my collectibles, experience and found/used items
It isn't 2013 anymore, man. Just let us manual save.

>>723838839
They played their hand already with that >>723833104

How's the character creator and customization system?

>>723838789
Do you know at around 500 replies threads stop getting bumped, right? I don't even know what I'm looking at

>>723833104
Meds

>>723838875
>>723838926
>crying about anti-shills despite everyone hating shills
>still talking to himself to make it look like people agree with him
Such a pathetic existence you lead.

How's the performance for you guys?

>>723838378
the voice is so fucking annoying, he justs gives you info you are not supposed to know and you dont find it out yourself its just given to you from the voice. why the fuck did they add a disembodied voice that is not your own? feels like someone watched expanse and wanted to put it in the game. and the voice actor sounds like a fag then you have to deal with the camp nosferatu its just horrible

>>723838789
anon there is a bump limit you know

>>723839014
Barebones and see this >>723837939
You play your character less than other characters. It's ridiculous.

Besides it being a croptop, I don't hate the lasombra outfit
Also
>the skill tree is just the basic clan skills and nothing else
That really fucking sucks shit
The lasombra skills are all ass as fuck (I think, I haven't tried them yet obviously), banu haqim has 1 offensive move

>>723839059
just admit that you posted a man posing as a woman. it was easy to tell anyway

>>723839014
Kinda odd, you can change your hair/piercings/face accessories at any time.

>>723839018
>he says despite the fact that his other threads nearly reach 600 replies
Sad.
>I don't even know what I'm looking at
You did the last time it was posted, you just seethed about it.

>>723839091
Good. Set everything to high except textures to ultra and reflections + shadows to medium. 60 fps at 1080p on my 7 year old PC

>>723838972
Manual saving and quick saving is just another technology we lost to time.

This game really needs UI options, its ubisoft tier bad with stupid shit all over the screen.
It needs an option to turn off or fade out 90% of the shit on the screen.

>>723838789
>most retarded nigger alive doesn't know threads get archived
>>723839091
Playing on high/medium and it chokes a bit sometimes, but I have a 3060 or something not some 5000 series gamernigger rig

>>723839157
You did that here>>723838875

>>723839180
>>he says despite the fact that his other threads nearly reach 600 replies
What? What are you even saying? Posts that go past the bump limit get deleted naturally, what are you even talking about?
>You did the last time it was posted, you just seethed about it.
What?

Never played the original. But is it very narrative heavy with minimal combat? I like the setting. Thinking of getting it but Sacred 2 Remaster and Atelier Ryza Trilogy is coming out early next month.

>>723839146
I picked Lasombra because it seems like it has the best branching out. You can get your pick of the litter of the Venture skills for relatively cheap plus that one Brujah skill that shatters shit.

You do miss out on Celerity, though, which is a shame, but so does Ventrue.

Also, remember, you can only have 4 skills equipped at a time anyways kek

>>723838895
>all time peak 14 years ago
maybe thats the answer

>>723839091
I'm on a 3060 and don't have issues. But I'm at 1080p and only bump textures up, everything else mostly medium cuz I don't care to smear my vision with retarded effects. But good fps

>>723838807
Well when I booted the game up just now, everything was on ultra even though it wasn't before. I'm using dlss so the res scaling should be disabled.. but who knows. maybe I just need to restart the game.

>>723839091
im playing at high settings 1080p with a 3070 and It mostly stays around 70 when exploring the city. But every few seconds it drops like 5-8 frames for a split second so it doesnt feel that smooth.

>>723839309
>Also, remember, you can only have 4 skills equipped at a time anyways kek
Eugh
>>723839254
It's an immersive sim, it's like playing deus ex
As much or as little combat as you'd like, with cool ass sidequests and neat writing in general yeah
That's why this linear ass sequel is a big disappointment, mostly
Solve things as you will

wow almost everything about this looks half-baked to terrible, like some janky indie game.

>>723838052
Great Video Game Crash 2.0 when?

>>723839254
it has combat but the best parts are all narrative
last half is filled with shitty combat, you can skip it with plus patch or just filling up your combat stats

The performance is the worst part.

>>723839371
It makes the game feel really janky, I have it too
Moving around feels like I'm waiting for it to choke up

>>723839410
Well minimal combat is kinda lame. I'd like it if it's like Fallout or Witcher at least

>>723836724
>Weren't expectations for this game rock bottom anyway? I don't think anyone thought this would come out good or in any way live up to the first game.
I feel like if this game was just titled "Vampire the Masquerade: Seattle By Night" it would be getting a better reception.

>>723839091
Runs terribly. I can run better looking games with 3x the FPS. Disgusting optimization.

>>723839492
I thought the sewer level was pretty cool...
It was scary

>>723839237
why are acting schizophrenic all of a sudden

Is Yuki in the game?
I always thought she had the most potential to expand on it Bloodlines ever got a sequel

Alright someone versed in v5, can you explain to me the retarded changes? Why are the Giovanni called Hecata now? Why are the Assamites called Banu Haqim? Why are the Setites called Ministry? where they all deemed problematic or something?

What the fuck are you even supposed to do with the shotgun fatties on hard? They don't flinch and can take your healthbar down before you dps theirs. Just save your blood pips for abilities or run around like a headless chicken with telekinesis?

the whores on the street look like the ginger ones from bloodlines which i thought was neat, the smoke they breath out looks super weird.....then i realised they have no cigs in their hands just a glowing ember then breath out gas like some pokemon

>>723839229
>>723839253
>still seething this hard over image
Funny how you a totally random retard is this mad about it.
>What? What are you even saying? Posts that go past the bump limit get deleted naturally
No, not especially in shill threads.But I see you have to pretend to be retarded after you have been outed yet again like in this thread that was at page 10 for half a fucking hour.
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/723686525/#723696474

>>723839632
>where they all deemed problematic or something?
Yes, unironically.

>>723839619
>Is Yuki in the game?
Yuki would be in her 40s by now, and most demon hunters don't live that long. Hell, even Karl only made it to 40 before Lotharius got a hold of him.

>>723839619
>Is Yuki in the game?
Only returning character is damsel for an overglorified cameo

>>723839643
i think you are supposed to cc them, i use my "fear" move on them and just whack them as they run or reset them and sneak attack them

>>723839632
Because they used the antidilluvian awakening as an opportunity to solve the thing of there being 5-6 different necromancy bloodlines, they're all under the same umbrella of hecata the clan of death in a post-giovanni world
The banu haqim thing I don't remember it might be because of it being problematic or something
The ministry deal is just a rebranding so they're not just "the egypt vampire guys" but the "religious swindler" guys
>>723839762
Kys

>>723839091
6800xt everything set on ultra, 1440p with fsr set on quality so around 1080p in real resolution I think. Haven't seen it dip below 60 fps yet, indoors it can be over 100. Looks okay I guess, anti-soul gas is everywhere and the snowy weather is just an excuse for the shitass draw distance.

>>723839772
>>723839774
Shame

>>723834220
WE
MUST
BE
BETTER
VAMPIRE

>>723838052
The laugh I made at the vortexing of her onto him became louder as they bit each other. Who at the Chinese Room approved this animation because good god.

>>723839632
>Why are the Giovanni called Hecata now?
Because the Cappadocians came back from the dead, so the Giovanni + Returned Cappadocians are collectively called Hecata.
>Why are the Assamites called Banu Haqim?
Ur-Shulgi woke up and was not happy to find out Islam had supplanted veneration of Haqim, their Antediluvian. Banu Haqim is Arabic for "Children of Haqim."
>Why are the Setites called Ministry?
They've rebranded in an attempt to cozy up to the Camarilla. They're still degenerates.

>>723839898
wtf my 6850 xt runs the game at like 20 fps. WHAT THE FUCK?!

>>723839930
who says that?

>>723832183 (OP)
Ok so I've been monitoring the situation for a bit and it seems that the game has flopped bigly, perhaps even hugely.

>>723839834
>Kys
Fuck you faggot. Your entire post was confirming what I posted. Dumb fuck.

>>723839946
>so the Giovanni + Returned Cappadocians are collectively called Hecata
All the offshoots too, now just them

>>723839963
6850xt is not a thing.

I pirated it.

So far the characters are pretty good, the combat sucks, the stealth is okay, there's not a lot of feedback from the abilities, and collecting different types of blood is difficult because the stealth system sucks.

Tremere magic is odd, no blood-bolts, which sucks ass.

Combat is bad.

RPG components have been nerfed into the ground.

Safia a cute.

>>723840027
>retarded tranny niggerbabble
Kys

>>723839946
>Ur-Shulgi woke up and was not happy to find out Islam had supplanted veneration of Haqim, their Antediluvian. Banu Haqim is Arabic for "Children of Haqim."
I actually dont hate that. thanks loremaster

>>723839905
>is outed yet again
>no argument or denial
>just has to cope and pretend he doesn't care
I'll wait for the reply where you samefag and try to say how its wrong and crazy with nothing to back it up but salt and tears, like usual.

>can't crouch under here
Why is this a place then, retarded devs
What's with the weirdass snow wall

>>723840082
If the combat had a fucking block it'd be so much more fun, why did they do it this way

>>723839963
>>723840058
Oh did you mean the laptop gpu?
>he fell for the gaming laptop meme
Yeah no shit it runs like ass.

>>723840082
>Safia a cute.
The entire story of the game is about her cucking you for Harvey Weinstein.

>>723839745
>>Posts that go past the bump limit get deleted naturally
>No, not especially in shill threads.
what does this mean

>>723840250
He doesn't speak english and he's having a meltdown because the thread got archived at a time he didn't like

>>723838895
You're comparing a game that just came out today by it's current players vs a game that came out in 2004. Do you not understand how time works?
>in before durr muh all-time peak before streaming was a thing

and now there's a nosferatu troon

so has anyone found a way to fight the fat guys with guns on hard without having blood abilities up? it seems like there just aren't enough combat mechanics to do anything to them

>>723840250
Called it >>723840191
>show thread that proves they don't get deleted
>has to continue to play dumb and cry to cope
Looks like you're backed into a corner yet again.

>>723838903
>>723838052
oh my god

>standing looking at an air conditioner
>cop spawns and starts shooting me

>>723839643
Use your abilities, find shit to throw at them to get a few hits in, don't get hit. Items highlighted in blue are heavy hitters/guns/explosions. I think the combat is pretty fun, its a pain for how long its going to be to unlock cooler shit and the blood type grind is..a choice.
Just been playing it like CP77 where you go for style, you're already OP as fuck from the second you start the game may as well abuse it.
First boss fight was fun

Is the voice in your head voiced by a youtuber? He sounds like a youtuber. Also this >>723832601

>>723840357
>do i pass?

>>723840341
you pitiful shill stop pretending you’re innocent

>>723840341
>WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO
>he says replying to the post he knows is meant for him since he replied to it
This shit you do to play dumb is always retarded since you out yourself through actions alone and then when I explain it to you like you're a retard you seethe.

>>723840242
Aw. Oh well.

>>723840194
Yeah block, or like. Weapons. Or cool powers that you could use in combat or blood missiles or anything at all like in the original VTMB.

-----

Honestly, I'm probably gonna finish it? I dunno. It's not sucking me in like the first one did BUT I am also cognizant of my biases and the fact that nostalgia goggles are a thing. But nah, it's not great. It's not even an Invisible War situation where the game is fine on its own merit and just sucks compared to the original. It's just not very good.

>>723840451
he's a super flambuoyant gay faggot but i guess that wasn't gay enough so they made him identify as a woman too

>>723840403
>threads getting past the bump limit is the shill's doing!

>>723840360
Have you found out how you will pay rent after getting laid off?

>fabien section
>all the dialogue is normal
>no voices in my head
Why did they even make him a malk. 5e vtm is so gay.

Why the fuck does this game run like shit? It's not nearly pretty enough to stutter this badly.

>>723839146
you'll get the cool outfit and all lasombra skills soon and you don't have to go up the other skill trees, you can pick any abilities even the higher ones from the other trees

>>723839619
WEABOOOOOO

>>723840465
>>723840551
I'm in your walls

>>723840357
Isn't he just really camp gay?

>>723840691
It runs on unreal and your PC is old. Next question.

>>723839632
>v5
Swedish LARPers gave tumblrinas a free hand over the IP, who are years behind the times.

>>723839918
>this nigger actually enjoyed chinatown and its shit characters
Damn you must love this game.

>>723840676
i'm assuming there's going to be some kind of twist there at least
because if his only problem is that he thinks he's Philip Marlowe that'd be super gay

the game just made me realize that what made VTMB1 so special was basically a lightning in the bottle phenomenon. Perfect time, perfect setting- something you can't replicate. VTMB2 is kind of insufferable for me. I've only played a couple of hours but yeah the atmosphere and the writing just isn't it.

>>723832183 (OP)
We all knew this game was going to be shit years ago, I don't know why we need to pretend that we waited until today to form our opinions.

>shill threads
No such thing, it's just a resetroon that always posts about whatever game is the current "culture war" shit.

>the malk detective deludes himself into being a noir detective
>but instead of actually talking like some 1950s noir detective he's talking like a quirky chungus redditor
Howe can you fuck this up?

>>723840759
literally refers to himself as a woman

>>723840836
Is that it? Isn't he from the 1920s? Wearing a fedora and talking like that should just be normal to him.

>>723840745
Yeah?
She was cool and as a kid I autistically headcanoned that my character fucked off after the game and went on hunting adventures with her

>>723840918
didn't old school gays use to do that before trannies were invented?

>>723840873
I expected it to be shit , but now i'm finally able to expirience it first hand.

>>723837973
Its really simple, Anon. Anything that shows browns, feminists, faggots or leftism in a positive light is for browns, feminists, faggots or leftists. Actual human beings don't want to touch it, so if you want to make sales, don't include these things in your games.

>>723840869
For me the worst part is how it kinda runs like shit, and the UE5 nigger engine making me use the batman vision all the time to see if I'm missing something because everything looks like everything else
They really make just walking around kind of bothersome to me

>>723840939
>I autistically headcanoned that my character fucked off after the game and went on hunting adventures with her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BagUP2X9cUw

>>723840910
Fuck they should've just made him talk like Max Payne, could've hired the VA too. Or maybe that'd be too much on the nose.

>>723840634
>>723840758
>point out how posts don't get deleted like he said
>he says that i said it was his fault
Nice slip, retard.
>I'm in your walls
No, but you are in this thread and all the others since you are a paid shill. Which you cannot refute so instead you just seethe and cry.

>>723840936
i don't know
i've just quit when his section came up so i don't know what his malfunction is
if he even has one

>>723840910
A noir detective would be problematic chud.

>>723841086
huh?

>>723840910
>>but instead of actually talking like some 1950s noir detective he's talking like a quirky chungus redditor
Yeah it's kind of weird but I'm trying to rationalize it to him being a malkavian
Some of his dialog is neat to alright but then he goes "ermm what the science??" and... yeah

>>723840179
You're very welcome. I like how they handled a lot of the lore for V5. Some people really dislike it, but it's a lot better than the asspull reboot that was Vampire the Requiem. It's a shame White Wolf is kept on such a tight leash by Paradox after that Vampires-Killed-Gays-In-Chechnya controversy.

>>723840996
i'm not the faggot expert but the game came out in 2025
if an obviously male character says he's a woman it's because the devs want to stick it to the chuds

>>723840910
>>723841103
>>723841169
He comments that men should be able to take estrogen if that's what they're into. It's so weird.

>>723840910
>>the malk detective deludes himself into being a noir detective
Isn't he an actual detective in the 20's? The only quirky malk characteristic of his beyond the yapping is the fact that he talks with evidence and the victims.

>>723837484
I think that's on the second or third night, but pretty much everything points to it being a tranny even on the first night. There's also a black note book which says something along the lines of "smells as if it was carried close to a body that used a lot of perfume but didn't wash."

>>723841082
>Or maybe that'd be too much on the nose.
Literally nothing could be more on the nose than having that guy play literal actual Alex Casey in Alan Wake 2.

>>723840836
If it was the VN trilogy's D'Angelo leveraging his LARPing into some politicking I might have accepted it, but these devs are just retarded.

>>723839632
>where they all deemed problematic or something?
Yes. Also all their powers got nerfed to oblivion and the Ravnos were outright retconned out of existence.

>vampire detective game
>is not about pic related

>>723840996
sort of, and really feminine gays still will if they are around women.
Does the guy talk with that gay affect?

is the fit girl packing?

>>723841149
>huh?

>>723832601
NPCs have no inner monologue, so the concept of hearing a voice in their head fascinates them.

>>723841378
Need another dose of crypto miners?

>>723841334
tbf Max Payne is not a noir guy, but an 80s hardboiled type...while Alex is more Twin Peaks without being a weirdo type.

brehs...the performance...

>>723841367
New York is a tough setting to get right after the Sabbat were run out of town. Plus New York was home to the final act of Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption just before the Week of Nightmares.

>>723832183 (OP)
the combat looks bad and teh animations a bit AA garbage but the atmosphere is good. I like how the sound effects and music are reminiscent of the old game.
IF this games is successful they should remake the old game and fix the garbage after the sewers.

>>723841378
It's on gog to, anon

>>723841367
Those visual novels were trash and only faggots thought they were good.

>>723841169
when he said
>Joseph H. Christ
i thought that was really weird

couldn't tell if that's how noir detectives are supposed to talk or if the writers are just gigga redditors who write CE and BCE

>>723841484
i want a small one though

>>723841169
He fucking talks like Ned Flanders.

>howdily doodily my fellow vampirinos

>>723841367
>more v5 garbage

>>723841489
>>Joseph H. Christ
This one was ok, it's stupid, but something you could probably have found in the original. Some of the other shit is gay though.

>>723841378
anon the scene release is 20 gb
why would you need a repack

>>723841486
Nigga...i don't know how to tell you this but Vampire: The Masquerade is for faggots.

>>723841489
>couldn't tell if that's how noir detectives are supposed to talk or if the writers are just gigga redditors who write CE and BCE
Some people have weird spins on using Christ's name as a curse. I've heard people say "Jesus Mary and Joseph" instead too.

>>723839772
>Yuki would be in her 40s by now
Asians don't age until they're at least 60

>>723840194
It's a snow drift. Depending on this composition of the snow it can often hold its form even with the door opening. Not weird.

>>723840910
James Spader should've voiced him. His silhouette even looks like Reddington.

>>723840910
Is because Malks can't be crazy anymore. Just like nossies can't be ugly

>>723841595
jesus christ!

>>723839963
>WHAT THE FUCK?!
UE5

>>723841605
Nigga...i don't know how to tell you this but World of Darkness is for faggots.

I've been out of the piracy game for a while...but i don't think i'm gonna pay 35 bucks for a 12 hour game...

>>723840357
He took too much estrogen pills

>>723841210
Fags are no better than troons. Anyway it's a fucking nos so who cares. Accurate representation.

>>723838052
>there are trannies on this board who paid money for this

>>723841605
>>723841731
Niggas...i don't know how to tell you this but ttrpgs are for faggots.

>>723841565
all new WoD content is v5

>>723841093
He talks to dead people.

>>723840357
He took too many estrogen pills

>>723841367
It's too on rails to be a real detective game. It's decent neo-urban-noir and has a good true ending, but it's basically
>act like an asshole to be a real lasombra
The game fucking nails it in the artistic direction and especially the soundtrack, I will admit.
Whatever happened to that edgelord mod for shadows that would have you commit genocide or some shit?

>>723841832
truth

>>723841371
>>723840996
>didn't old school gays use to do that

Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o

>>723841883
maybe that's why everything is trash...

>>723841617
Yea because using the Lords name in vain is a sin. Most Christians have similar sounding variations to prevent that.

>>723838270
i noticed this too, it's incredible goofy
also i'm getting used to it but the narrow FOV is puke inducing

>>723838824
This looks like someone made them move like claymation character models

>>723832183 (OP)
I knew it’s RPG in name only but I didn’t expect it to be Dishonored with dialog options holy fuck

>>723838052
AI generated cutscene?

>>723838598
Lou's bloodbags still are big enough but, yeah, they seemed larger in the Hardsuit version. They were definitely larger in that first trailer.

FoV change? Hello?

i wish my apt was as nice as the santa monica one

Holy shit this sucks lmao

>>723842020
No, the writing would be better if it was AI

>>723841993
>Dishonored
Not even close. The level design is nowhere near sufficient.

Almost 30k people boughted it.

>>723839093
meanwhile the actual in-game "clues" you find in the world are just jokes and memes that have nothing to do with the story or each other

>>723842058
Her top is kinda hollow if you look at where her tit connects with the clothing in the game. They 100% downscaled her tity

>>723841523
to match your penis?

Is the entire game going to be on rails? I don't know why they bothered with the entire city and movement shit if this is the case.

>>723832183 (OP)
Yes. Game of the decade
literally 11/10

>>723842110
It's hard not to with a title that literally is labeled as a sequel to the legendary original game. It's too bad it wasn't able to live up to it.

>>723841993
if only
movement sucks
there's no stealth ai
combat sucks
level design sucks

>>723842210
>Is the entire game going to be on rails?
Yes. It's also shorter than an average penis.

>>723842210
looks like it

Sexo

>>723842375
faggot

wait there's no weapons? what the hell

>>723842375
Is it a male?

Combat with that FOV limitation is genuinely vomit inducing.

>>723834220
>remember problematic old writing thing? Well new thing isn't, that's so valid!
I'm so fucking tired of this shit

>>723842375
David Bowie?

>>723841956
Yes!
The original creators of the setting are long gone and these new people are critical roll retards making a safe and bland version of a setting that went out of its way to make you uncomfortable.

>>723842421
This has been known for a long fucking time - weapons are temporary power-ups, that you can't take with you.
I wasn't aware even Melee was temporary, though LOL

>>723842421
We don't have the technology.

>>723840910
You need empathy to be able to write characters who are not your literal self, which leftists lack.

>>723838052
Did the homeworld 3 devs make this?

>>723842210
It's really strange isn't it? They give you bigger cities/hubs to explore, parkour and generally have your supernatural fun navigating them compared to VTMB1 (which had nothing of those).

And yet on the other hand they railroad and handhold you storywise and with markers and stuff, making the whole experience...smaller.

>>723832183 (OP)
7 hours into the game, my complaints so far:
>too many Swedish voice actors on the radio
>the humor feels safe compared to 1
>entering the shadow realm as Lasombra and trying to trap an enemy in there with the Arms of Ahriman ability does not actually work. The enemy returns to the normal world with you, but temporarily stunned.

>>723832183 (OP)
Feels like every single dev was more afraid of female breasts and masculine/feminine features than anything else. Its like HR catladies were there designing the artstyle and writing

What's the deal with being an Elder but every niggerfaggot in this game acting arrogant towards you? You received more respect in Bloodlines 1 despite being some high generation nobody.

>>723842375
Chad

>>723840424
Welcome to America

>>723834220
Shit like this tells me the devs actively disliked VTMB1

>>723842421
Were there weapons in Dear Esther, Amnesia Machine for Pigs or Still Wake the Deep? The devs never worked on gameplay focused game, only walking sims

i just realized i maxed out my clan tree in like 2 hours of gameplay and now there's not really any use for xp anymore because the combat is not interesting or hard enough to justify branching into other clans

>>723842636
Of course they hated it. You could choose to be based as hell in VTMB1

>>723842581
I mean it's ridiculous making them an Elder in the first place since that means you could dominate every Vampire in the new world with ease.

>>723842664
how would i know? those games sound gay

The voice acting is seriously so bad. I'd rather play muted

>>723842581
It's the Skyrim-Dragonborn thing all over again. Westerners don't know how to make good RPG vidya anymore.

>>723842554
>bigger cities/hubs to explore, parkour and generally
Nothing of that is relevant in an RPG.
>supernatural fun navigating them compared to VTMB1
That was better used when you could use disciplines in dialogue like in the first game.

>>723842710
i cannot figure out what the fuck accent ryong is supposed to have or if the VA just has a speech impediment

>>723842664
Maybe we're the pig...

ONLY SIX SONGS BY RIK SCHAFFER IN GAME. WHAT!!!!!!

my verdict: 6/10
just as bad as the new "silent hill"

>>723840691
Lou's stupid fucking hotel is the bane of my undead existence.
>32GB RAM
>12GB VRAM
>I can leave it about two or three times per OOM crash to desktop in the doorway

>>723842375
slim women with short hair and black makeup my beloveds

>>723841367
Shadows is good because the main characters like Julia and her gf were obviously based on real people the writers knew, while the secondary characters were more like stylized archetypes, so the story had a good mix of realistic personalities interacting with fantastical ones in interesting ways.

>>723842842
British putting on an American accent

I had genuinely low expectations. Like realistic low expectations. Like I literally just wanted to have some fun with the setting and that's it. But this, holy shit.

I told you guys months ago. You're waiting for the wrong vampire game, don't do this to yourselves shit was obvious. I kind of understand where you're coming from but come on.

>>723842375
>>723842937
forgot the pic

>>723842842
They sound like redditor manchildren to me as an european. They're trying to copy 90s hollywood cinema but it isn't fucking working.

>>723842210
technically yesno. after you become sheriff, looks like there's options of quests and some crappy side quests.

>>723832183 (OP)
>was the wait worth it?
Nope, it's shit. A boring 10 hr long detective walking sim with trash dialogue and none of the charm of the original

>>723840691
It's UE5 and using at the very least lumen + possibly nanite. Those absolutely demolish performance. UE5 is also not very good at open world and handling lots of NPCs which this game kind of has. It's not the worst UE5 game I've played but performance is awful for how mediocre it looks

>>723840691
get unreal'd

depth punk must be turning in their grave right now

The only way to fix this shit-ass game would be to put the protagonist of Werewolf The Apocalypse into it and have him disembowel all the blood-sucking faggots

Which clan is the most fun?

>>723843002
It will be infinitely better but protagonist being a daywalker is a huge redflag for me that this is just going to be a vampire flavored witcher at best.

>>723843081
who?

>>723842581
You unironically get shanked to death by a faggot nosferatu that should be infitely weaker than you, as a game over for breaking Masquerade. Zero respect to Phyre as a "super powerful elder" it's fucking comical.

>>723843097
You can go into any skill tree you want so I doubt it'll matter, yours are just cheaper
I picked lasombra and my line shadow skill seems kinda faggy

>>723839963
I run it on a 4060 and it stutters every now and then like GTA IV used to back in the day.
The optimization for this piece of shit doesn't exist, glad I pirated it.

>>723843097
The uninstall wizards.

>>723843176
Why do people keep saying that it's him doing it?

>>723843002
>>723843164
>Entire game revolves around a time limit
Fucking stupid, I don't care. They fucked their game from the start with such a retarded gimmick.

>>723843097
>>723843184
Stop talking to yourself, no one is going to buy your fucking game. Its dogshit and everyone knows it now.

>>723832183 (OP)
I hate the shill brigade, but I love talking with you schizos so I'll let it slide. Anyway
>Wait worth it?
No lol

>>723843184
I also picked Lasombra but I hardly find use for the Enter Oblivion ability.

>just became sheriff and the world opened up
>my clan discipline tree is already maxed out
The fuck do I level now? I don't really want any of the sidegrades.

>>723843239
Because it is

>>723843250
>random melty
Uh oh
>>723843276
I don't have that yet but I imagine it's for when you're outnumbered or something? If that even happens, that is.

Ok movement is kinda fun so I can at least run trough the relatively beautiful looking city right? Ah not really since there is this gay masquerade shit.

>>723843258
What schizos? So far pretty much everything people have said about this game and the fags that suck it off has been true. You even acknowledge there are shills here.

>tfw this or EU5.
In the end Paradox gets my shekels anyway...

>>723843297
No you didn't get or answer my question, why do people keep saying it? Where in the game does it tell you that / what shows that it's him? I'm like an hour in or something

>>723843343
>beautiful looking city
It's Seattle...

>>723843350
why the fuck would you buy eu5 on launch

>>723843243
Stop being pussy, it will only progress when you take decision/quests so actual baby mode. Because of people like you we wont know innovation like dead rising 1.

It's another Saints Row 2022 situation. A lot of shills and coping troons saying "nuh uh the game is very good" right until the moment where the studio fucking closes or at the very least has major financial problems due to dogshit sales.

>>723843403
Because i'm a fucking retard...

I like how phyre talks but his name is so fucking retarded
Should've pronounced it as 'pyre' not 'pfire'

>>723843309
>random
>reddit baby talk word
You do this every thread
>post reply to no one asking engagement bait question
>reply to self answering question

>>723843420
meds

>>723832183 (OP)
I’m still waiting for YouTube personalities and /v/ to give me the official safe consensus opinion

I'm gonna fucking lose it
STOP STUTTERING

>>723843457
>random insane maniac melty
Uh oh!

>>723843436
>I like retarded bleh bleh bleh accent
You really can't be subtle to save your life.

>>723843243
The time limit has to do with quest progression, not actual IRL or in-game time, as far as I've read. It's supposed to add to its replayability by making each choice of questing more "heavy" and impactful. So it's a lot more forgiving than just having some in-game timer or something.
Who the fuck would do that in this day and age in an open world game anyway lol.

bleh

>>723843309
I just wish I could actually trap people in there with the shadow tendril ability, but that does not work sadly.

>>723843458
this is not a pharmacy saar

>>723843436
I kinda like how he talks too. Game would be legitimately fun as a power trip simulator where you big dick everywhere. But you feel too cucked in this game and everyone immediately has his feefees hurt the moment you speak with some authority.

I decided to buy and try it out. If it's truly terrible, I'll inform my friends who are also White Wolf fans. It's a shame, as we all liked the fun CYOA books released over the years.

>>723843497
>I'm gonna fucking lose it
STOP STUTTERING
Unironic schizo behavior.
>NOOOOO YOURE CRAZY STOP RECOGNIZING PATTERNS
Every time.

>>723843527
if you want to have a laugh, go over to reddit
these basement dwelling niggas are justifying this $60 pile of dogshit with muh vibe

a better man would support the developers

>>723843561
Yeah you can see the glimpse of an old timer in your guy but people go "what the science???" at everything you say
I told voiceguy in my head to stop playing the fool because I was roleplaying and he went "ermm awkward!" and the game told me he was offended

>>723843608
You know what? I think I'm going to buy it too. Gonna buy each one of my friends a copy too.

>>723843625
The subreddit has been overrun with shills. They even had to replace the mods.

>2x damage mod
>4x leveling mod
>stealth mod

Yup, it's gaming time.

>>723843616
>Unironic schizo behavior.
Wanting the game to stop stuttering on medium settings is not schizo, thank you
>>723843523
I picked lasombra because I foolishly assumed the measly 5-6 skills shown wouldn't be ALL of them
I expected to do some cool shit with shadows at least, not just trap guys or throw them into some dark dimension with me

>>723843608
I just pirated it, I was also really curious about it because I love vampires but I'm not giving This Machine makes Pigs studio my money

>>723843436
he talks like a bad wernor herzog impression

>>723834220
No fucking way.

>>723843350
This is a no-brainer. If you have to give up your shekels get EU5, which actually has hype around it, though preferably you'd pirate it on launch.

>>723843852
I don't know who that is but I like that kind of accent and old timey talk
I stand up and clap like an american landing in a plane when games have it

>>723843643
Fucking kek

>SIX (6) songs by Rik Schaffer
>Three of them are reused from the unused vtmb1 tracks that were released on youtube anyway
I fucking hate Parakikes. Fuck TCR. They bring back Schaffer as fan compensation but barely use him. You can tell they loathe that they had to do it as they vastly prefer their own "composers". Fucking niggers.

>>723843729
>even had to replace the mods.
Kek, their sub had a hostile takeover?

>>723843436
If this game were titled "Vampire the Masquerade: Wildphyre" it would be just corny enough to work as a gag.

Estrogen was already literally everywhere randomly in the first game. Vampires are legitimately the tranniest subject known to mankind.

Ok now that I'm stuttering less the moving around bit is kinda fun (when there aren't people around to increase your wanted level)

>>723843234
hehe

>>723844018
Vamphyre the Masquerade: Trannylines

>>723844018
Should've been "Vampire the Masquerade: Phyre Phestival"

>>723832452
even GManlives admitted it sucks, and he unironically shills the bottom of the barrel nuGames for the modern audience

at that point you know the game is cooked

>>723844017
the mod for 12 years stepped down "voluntarily" purely by chance

>>723838895
Nobody plays bloodlines 1 in Steam you idiot.
Even today its the broken copy, everyone gets theirs from gog.

To whoever else pirated / bought this here does your guy hold up his hands differently than mine
I've taken up this stance only after picking lasombra so I wonder if it's clan specific

>>723843350
Pathetic.

Any of our ol' niggahs in the game? Jack? Beckett?

>>723844212
Yeah each clan has a specific melee combat animation and stance

>>723843002
But what's the problem? I'll just buy both games.

>>723832452
fpbp and same

>>723844204
the steam version just needs the unofficial patch which you'd be using anyway

>>723843760
>Wanting the game to stop stuttering
You didnt say that, You just typed in all caps "STOP STUTTERING" randomly with no context like a spreg.
>ignores second part of post because he has nothing.

>keep pressing right mouse button to try and block enemies because this game's melee combat reminds me a lot about some other punchy game I've played that I can't remember
Not having a block is truly baffling

>>723844281
Huh that's neat

>>723833104
>unmissable on a pizza for me personally

ok
either he's this pretentious pseud fagboy like the type who says "I buy video games for the worlds" after gushing over SW:Outhouse and thinks he just said something profound

or

he eats pizza with raw tomato slices as a topping (vegan? vegetarian?)

either way this type of faggotry deserves the death penalty. holy shit i got brain damage and i just started reading this. Thanks anon

>>723844314
Yes and it still doesn't have it.
GoG version comes prepatched with the basic fixes and is what people buy.

>>723844380
>multiple people complaining about the game stuttering
>huh what could this mean...!
Legitimately insane HRT-fueled troonrage

>>723832183 (OP)
progressivesissies...

>>723832452
nobody watches your videos, stop posting.
you're so insignificant that i don't even remember why you got shit on recently.

>>723843002
Game?

>>723844281
>>723844494
>they can make clan specific combat animations but god forbid you want to be cool and use weapons or guns
You can't make this up

>>723844715
Dawnwalker, made by Witcher devs who left CDPR. It'll probably at least have fun gameplay compared to this but frankly the way the industry is expecting any decent writing is foolish

>>723844553
nobody uses gog my sister

>>723844238
No and Jack is dead in this timeline.

>>723843002
that game looks like shit

>Pirate on gog
>play 3 hours
>uninstall
Holy shit Santa Monica alone had more to do then the entire fucking city in this game. The city is dead there is no side content. No RPG mechanics at all. I feel bad for people who paid for this and have to pretend to like it to feel like they got their moneys worth.

>>723844595
lil unc its not even the weekend, by friday night we bussin this to 95% positive fr

>>723844238
Nines is mentioned
Damsel appears

>>723844587
>multiple people complaining about the game stuttering
Where? And you didn't respond to any of them you just cried "STOP STUTTERING" randomly while replying to me you deranged faggot.
>Legitimately insane HRT-fueled troonrage
The game you are shilling literally defends dudes taking estrogen, fuck off.

>>723844802
Trailer looks cool.
>expecting any decent writing is foolish
True, but a man can dream. Them being former CDPR means there's a chance, even if it's incredibly faint.

>>723844717
Yeah the game has some weird choices...
>>723844839
I'm just playing it like a random vampire game desu, like I played vampyr or something
It's definetly no VTMB

>>723843002
>game is set during daytime
>it's an eurojank witcherclone
>main character (the one you posted) has a trans haircut
VTMB2 could be a million times worse than it already is and it would still be better a better vampire game than the trash you're peddling

>>723834220
>Pronoun: Was

you love to see it!

>>723844901
>where?
Meds, and not the hormone ones

>>723844839
i was kind of astonished once it "opened up" and the first two sidequests i accepted were to continue finding the collectibles i had already found and kill a random lady on a roof. there is zero reason for this to be open world.

>Vampire the outening 2: Blackbulls
What did xey mean by this

>>723843243
Games with a time limit are kino when done well, Dead Rising 1 is a great example of this.

>>723834220
his not her chudbros its over that is as anti woke as you can get its over

>Bigger hub
>But better mobility
>and also map markers and guided paths to your destination
All these ultimately lend to a forgettable game world, that people aren't going to remember. I can navigate Santa Monica through memory, because I was stuck walking the streets like any other pedestrian, and this lends to a stronger impression of the zone; had I been able to just jump across rooftops, and glide everywhere while following directional guidance, I wouldn't have internalized the layout, observed the detail put into the world, and gotten a chance to soak in the atmosphere - little lines uttered by NPCs as I pushed past them are going to be with me forever, but I won't be hearing hobos mutter about crab nipples when I'm jumping from roof top to roof top, and the tops of buildings generally aren't too exciting to observe. It feels like any effort put on detailing the streets will be wasted, as players just jump all over the place like spastics.

>>723843419
> it will only progress when you take decision/quests
Damn, that's a little disappointing. Better than nothing though, hopefully they add a mode post-launch where the clock is always ticking.

>>723845078
>All these ultimately lend to a forgettable game world
The "everything looks the same" UE5 hyperrealism doesn't help

>>723844804
Anyone who plays old games gets their games from gog-games.to

>>723845010
So again you decided to sperg out about that to me and not one of the people that mention it?
>Meds, and not the hormone ones
Men aren't supposed to take estrogen. But Gaybian seems to disagree. Think for once in your life.

>>723834329
>tfw made the screenshot multiple times
Looking back, those threads were categorically preferable to the single TCR marketer / delusional shill making all of the threads the last several days.

Ofcourse this game is dogshit have you guys not seen the demo?? The dialogue was like it was made for teenagers and troons. This game was made specifically for gay people pretty sure.

>>723845215
>y-you YOU!! you just proved me wrong!? AAAACKK *schizoidal ramblings*
I won and yet you lost

>>723845295
>y-you YOU!! you just proved me wrong!
I asked where, I didn't say it didn't happen. But in reality this is a cope so you can deflect from the fact that you are sperging out and said it randomly like an unhinged retard. Keep coping faggot.

Female MC is so fucky ugly
Male MC is a little better but still ugly

>Cant choose nosferatu
>Make MC as ugly as a nosferatu
What did they mean by this

The worst part of these UE5 games aside from the pooformance is how they all have the exact same UI. Nobody even bothers to try designing unique ones.

>enter bar
>vampires (or are they ghouls I don't even know, voice guy talked about anarchs out of nowhere so idk) just randomly try killing me on sight
Some real real annoying and lame choices in this game

I'm angry that there is no option to be a priest in one of the choices for how your mortal life was as Lasombra

>>723845272
Shut the fuck up nigger. I waited for a vampire game too long so I had to at least pirate it and see for myself how bad it is.

>>723832183 (OP)
No, it's barely a 'vtmb' game. Chinese Room went entirely through the motions to rush this out the door while adding a very cringe and pretentious tone on top of it

>>723845502
Ok I just saw it said ghoul in the subtitles I'm retarded

Game was made for people on the right desu

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>can take damage while biting people in combat
Pointless as fuck then

>>723845502
Yeah they just start attacking you immediately. No dialogue or anything. This is not an rpg.

>full blown rpg is smaller in size compared to simple boomer shooter
>meanwhile ninja gaiden 4 is 50+ gb
explain this logic

>>723845638
I genuinely believe this was one of the more sensible gameplay choices since it just makes sense.

>>723834220
Can gay faggots accept that society accepted them already and for once cut it out with the conspicuous faggotry? It’s obnoxious

>>723845452
>Male MC is a little better but still ugly
Nah, he's cute

>>723845502
>enter bar
>just randomly try killing me on sight

We fallout 4 now

>>723845758
That's fair in the making sense aspect but it feels kind of bad since it's so common in vampire games to execute people by biting them
I kind of changed my mind after the current encounter I just did where I did a lot of dropkicking and slidekicking and running to keep people knocked down, playing more hit and run feels better and lets you feed on people "safer"
I'm getting the hang of the combat and it's pretty alright

>>723841993
Please don't compare Dishonored to this, at least that was more a spiritual successor to Thief

>>723845526
You could play the oblivion remaster as a vampire . That was kinda fun

>>723834220
>Caine: GOOOOOOOODDDDD! LET ME TAKE MY ESTROGEN PILLS AND MY APOLOGY IS YOURS!

>>723845754
>willingly installing malware and crypto miners just to save 3 gigs of disk space
do turdworlders really

>>723845818
Trannies are pretty much seperate from fags at this point. They latched onto them to get by but after the fags got what they wanted the troons kept pushing.

>>723845754
japs can't code

the aesthetic of this game ain't half bad. it's one of the better, more vibrant UE5 games. but the character animations in general kind of ruin it. fabien's voice actor fucking sucks ass too

>be Lasombra
>"wakie wakie 400 year old dude btw you're cammie now :)"
>made sheriff on the second night and now keep prattling on about the importance of the Masquerade to NPCs
I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed. There's almost zero clan reactivity.

>fabien
Genuinely name a more homosexual name. You can't.

>>723845979
forgot image

>>723845979
>fabien
can this game be any more gay?

>>723845965
>oh my cheese and crackers is that *GULP* a t-torrent?... *pees pants a little*
lol

>>723845965
look at the resolution private niggers are playing at >>723844212 definitely a brazilian on a laptop from 2014 lol

>>723845979
Theyre shit, just like the game as a whole.

Can you even fuck Lou?

>>723846090
i pee my pants a little bit too, bro

>>723846029
Might as well allow you to play as a Tzimisce, being buddy buddy with the Tremere.
They don't care.

>>723846045
>>723846089
LOL

>>723846098
The game runs like shit so I turned everything down to medium, sorry that it makes you bleed down there babe

>>723846089
He is discount Johnny Silverhand in your head and you play as him for part of the game. Also he says this >>723834220

>>723846090
wut

>>723846058
I wonder why this screen is not a higher quality render and uses the in game model which looks pretty bad so up close despite being static.

>>723846116
Now that's not very progressive, Anon.

>>723845502
>need another fix
Kek, they want to milk you dry is why. Still a bit retarded yeah but well that's bloodlines 2 for you
>>723845598
tbf people on the right at least sometimes have a moment of seriousness and generally try to engage in the story a bit before they start throwing cars at NPCs they find annoying
>t. plays with people on the right

>>723846194
>>723846153
nevermind i thought you were calling the gog torrent malware, i didn't realize the other guy posted some repack, my mistake

>>723845912
>Thief Ded
>Dishonored Ded
>We'll never get imsim stealth kino like that again or if anything until a few years down the line
Suffering

>>723845598
>Goes berserk on purpose
That guy plays Dark Ages: Vampire

The weirdest thing to me is not being able to rotate your guy in the wardrobe menu
That's legitimately insane

The combat is so fucking ass that I was tired of it 2 hours into the game. Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to base everything around mindlessly spamming mouse1 constantly?

>>723846193
>>723846058
>When the game and the DLC comes out you'll have a longer playtime as story NPCs than you will the PC
Amazing

>>723846195
Because you can customize the hair on eye color so it has to reflect that. You can't possibly expect them to have a higher res model just for these dialogues?

>>723845754
16K textures of 150 different panties in uncompressed format

>>723845754
>>full blown rpg
There's barely any RPG in VTMB2.

>>723846401
You can barely see shit from that perspective though. It's a nitpick but the close up model just looks like shit in that screen.

Is he in the new game?

>>723832183 (OP)
Funny, I wasn't expecting anything good and got exactly what I expected. It's nice to get what you expect just once.
It's so good...
I should do this more often in future releases!

It really does feel like the emphasis on flashy disciplines, and all these advanced movement choices were focused more on the perception of what a 'vampire' is supposed to be, opposed to a creature of the night navigating their loss of humanity, and trying to maintain a guise of being human. I guess playing as an older vampire is to blame for that? Fyre already had that character arc and accept what they are, so they're is well beyond that point in their life; as such, the game focuses on a power fantasy instead. Playing as an elder was probably a mistake, and failure to move away from that design could be blamed.
Unfortunately, however, riding on the coattails of Bloodlines comes with expectations, and VTMB2 feels like a dumb action game with minimal decision making meant to appeal to stupid people who want to go "WHOAH I PUNCHED A GUY A LOT, REALLY FAST, JUST LIKE IN THE JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURES LOL *toggles detective vision to get a path to my next objective, mashes through dialogue*"

>>723846532
Nothing from 1 is in

I think I would have at least finished it if I didn't read the information that you don't play the entire game with your character. I feel like this is an unforgivable sin for this kind of game to switch protagonists.

>>723834220
Tell me how this affects you personally?

>>723846532
Wouldn't he be retired or dead by now?

>woman with some weirdass marker on her
>press E to talk
>does some generic aieee i'm scared thing and starts running away
What

Genuine question but why shouldn't writers be hanged in the streets at this point? What do writers even do? Why can't just the idea guy write the entire story and dialog? How hard can it be?

the worst thing about Bloodlines 2 is the first game doesn't go on sale $5 anymore but $10 ever since they announced VTMB 2

Ok the markers are for people with one of the 3 bloodtypes... weird

>>723846620
Damsel has a cameo and that's it

>>723838294
>webm
God damn, now that is one I thought I'd never see again. Time really is a flat circle.

>>723832452
hes fucking retard and barely even white. and you dont need hes opinion to know its shit

>>723839963
if you're on a laptop then I bet your cpu is choking on itself because of overheating, which in turns kill your fps

>>723846796
In my first 15 minutes of playing, I pressed E to talk to someone, they ran away screaming, ran to a policeman, I got the "masquerade broken" shit and started fleeing. I turn into an empty corner and sit there waiting for it to expire. Then suddenly an animation plays where I got stabbed in the back and I essentially get a "game over" screen.

What the fuck is this absolutely artificial bullshit? I was sitting in a corner, with my back towards a wall and no one was around me.

>>723845490
someone should bring back the riddick cube menu

hows the pc performance?

>>723846796
a minigame where you drink certain peoples blood and get points. I uninstalled before I could use them but I think they can eventually be used to help you buy powers from other clans for less skill points.

>>723847173
Absolutely horrible. I have a 7800X3D + 4090 and even with DLSS + 2x FrameGen, I was getting drops into 60-70 FPS.

>>723846659
>Several sessions in, the ST of your group takes away your character sheet, and gives you a pre-genned character, and they make you do a bunch of flashback content
This is, of course, after they
>Highly limited what clans you can pick
>Picked out a name for you
>Made being an elder a immutable part of your character's backstory
This game is a fucking nightmare abortion of a TTRPG adaption, sharing a title with a revered video game that emphasized story, player choice, and immersion. Literally the only GOOD thing VTMB2 did, was the aesthetic customization, which was a step up from a limited selection of player models from the first game.

>>723846796
>walk up to an NPC
>press E to talk
>got dialogue options, something like "you look fun" and "I'm too smart for you"
Huh?

>>723846893
Yea you'd think the game would explain this to you. A simple text explanation would've been fine.

>>723847173
the default "ultra" setting sets the resolution scale to 71%

>>723840823
Chinatown was just rushed. What is there though is good.

>>723847296
>>723847327
so, business as usual
still wakes the deep runs pretty choppy too

>guy starts moaning with a woman's voice
Funny bug at least

>>723847321
>>got dialogue options, something like "you look fun" and "I'm too smart for you"
I didn't for that one, is what was strange about that.
I think you're meant to match what they say first so they can follow you, this faggot hit on me so I hit back and he followed me into an alley so I could get his blood. (People have special bloodtypes that help learn different disciplines, as per V5)

>>723846796
It's the weirdest shit ever
I wordlessly press E on an NPC and they're all like "hell yeah bby gonna fuck you all night" and proceed to follow me across the city until I feed on them, which results in "AIEEE SOMEBODY HELP ME" and a panic run.
It's like they wanted to have an actual feeding system at first but managed to only reach pre-alpha with a wall of #TODO and just pushed it to 1.0 because lol lmao

>>723846951
Where?

>but of conciousness? never
Literally happened in lore THOUGH (it was between clan founders but still)
Cool case of unreliable narrator because of the information that the characters have, if it was intentional

>>723832183 (OP)
>Once I heard it took place in Seattle I knew this game was going to be woke trash.

>>723847882
>until I feed on them, which results in "AIEEE SOMEBODY HELP ME" and a panic run.
you're supposed to watch the animation to the end, this time they don't die if you don't quit prematurely. i did the same thing the first few times.

>>723848109
>>723847882
You also get less points if you quit early btw
it's 100 if you do the whole animation

>>723847982
I believe he was implying that it should be impossible for a higher generation to invade a low generation trough diablerie because directly after this you have the option to say that Fabien must be something special.

>steak up on a guy
>can KILL or FEED
>huh I guess feed is like a knock out?
>bites and snaps the guy's neck in one swift motion
I guess not.

>>723832452
I don't understand how you can watch this retard, even out of irony. I'm literally losing my IQ points just from hearing his voice cadence.

remember to turn off telemetry

>>723832183 (OP)
It's so fucking shit bro.
It's a linear action game, not a RPG in any way.
Doesn't hit the atmosphere, the characters, the music, it's nothing like VTMB, I don't even think any dialogue choice matters, you just get prompt in the corner of the screen telling you how the NPC feels about it like in a telltale game.
My dudes, this shit is not even worth $5, pirate it. Game shouldn't even been part of the Bloodlines series.
Cyberpunk 2077 remains the only VTMB-like game.

>>723832183 (OP)
uhm shill you can stop and no

>>723847982
Why'd you make your guy look like emo Nicholas Cage

played for about 4 hours, there's fucking nothing to the game. The parkour is shit you just hold space bar for everything. No puzzles, no rpg at all, only combat. And the combat is super basic. Story I saw was so, so but there was no real hook to keep me going. Glad I pirated it.

>>723848352
400 year old vampires are lucky to have 4 humanity.

>>723848352
if they're a random civilian you succ them and they stand there dazed. if they're an enemy you succ and snap.

>>723846796
>>723847124
peak Chinese Room slop

>if you violate the masquerade a magical hunter teleports behind you and instakills you and there's nothing you can do about it
LMAO, glad I didn't buy this pile of shit

I don't even know what to say to a "person" who actually thought this would be good. Are there people who still think Elder Scrolls 6 will be good too?

>>723848881
Why can't I leave them alive? Wasn't this supposed to be a dishonored-like?

>>723848778
I think he looks neat!

it's 5/10 at best. The best thing about the game is its soundtrack, I'm glad they ditched Schafer's work because it wouldn't be fitting what TCR was going for. I just wish the game wasn't this mediocre.

They definitely got an ultimatum from Paradox to release this shit.

>flashback within a flashback
What the FUCK were they thinking with this fabien story?

>>723849071
he's a malkavian so he's messed up, it makes perfect sense

>>723849071
Obviously got inspired by Cyberpunk.

>>723849040
>The best thing about the game is its soundtrack
The tune that plays during these >>723846058 is so bad I can't stand it.

>>723834220
I knew the TCR hated that from the first game and well the first game overall

So did TCR just forget about humanity and the beast? You can massacre innocents with no penalty kek

>>723849220
I was fine with playing as fabien as a story part but it was already a flashback then he sees a dead body and im suddenly in a new flashback. They should have just split these parts up

>>723849257
You can use telekinesis in front of them too right. Not a rpg they don't care.

>>723849071
>flashback within a flashback
This: >>723849201
Even if it's just bad writing thematically it's a happy accident.

>>723849257
Bold of you to assume they ever knew in the first place.

>>723849257
Some older vampires follow Paths or Roads to keep their Beast in check, which is why Tzimisce don't degenerate into wights doing what they do. Granted that's a bit before Phyre's time but the Road of Humanity is not universal.

I don't even have any words for this game. Anything I would say would not do justice to how bad it really is. And we are still in the honeymoon phase as well.

Do the *character liked that* dialogue choices matter in the slightest?

>>723848406
I didn't know who that was and I've tried to watch this channel just now (felt like I'm in need of vidya youtube slop).

He's like a parody that Neogaf retards would try to make fun of back when Gamergate was relevant. Literally a strawman.

Also, the video I've watched begins with him declaring that he's about to deliver some "complain kino, like my fans have started to refer to my videos". And then instead of shitting on the game, he begs for subscriptions because youtube algorithm or whatever.

I'm so fucking happy I'm not slow enough to watch this shit.

(I'm slow enough to occasionally watch Mandalore though, but I'm not proud of it)

Did they call the fella phyre just so they could give nicknames like "little flame" like the black chick did, I wonder
Also I like the small clan 'reactivity' here and there, it's cute

>>723849201
i don't think that's what they intended. didn't they say him being a malk just something they tacked on near the end of development, originally malks were planned for dlc content or something

>>723849946
>didn't they say him being a malk
no retard, fabien's story was supposed to be a stand alone DLC which is also why malks aren't choosable in the main game, it makes more sense to write a separate story for them. the fact that he's in phyre's head at all is the change from the 2023 plans

>>723849934
Fuck off shill, go talk to yourself on reddit.

>>723843056
>UE5 is also not very good at open world and handling lots of NPCs

The next CP2077 game is going to be a nuclear shistorm shit since they switched to UE5 for it, lol

>>723840194
>Euro plate in the US.

>>723850180
>t. AAACK!!

>>723850352
>tranny quoting himself after the game flops and he gets laid off.

>"Woah... that just happened!"
This wasn't worth the time I spent torrenting it.

>>723849946
Fabian becoming a Malk is what caused the delay
>Interviewer: How did you come up with this idea of a vampire stuck in the head of another? They are very different, too, because Phyre is ancient and originally from the old world, and of course, Fabian is local, not to mention that he's a detective interested in the workings of the mind, whereas Phyre is much more physical.
>Ian Thomas: It started before I joined the company, actually. The idea always was that Phyre would have somebody in their head, but originally, that somebody was written as a very different character, somebody who was still called Fabian but was very different. He was much more modern and much younger than he ended up being. When we tested that, and we tried to make that work, it wasn't working. The two characters were too similar in a bunch of ways, weirdly enough, because the younger vampire was quite upset about everything that was happening, and then Phyre isn't exactly cheerful, either.
>And so people found that that pairing wasn't really fun to spend time with. So we did quite a big change later on, we had a lot of extra story we wanted to tell and we also wanted to introduce the Malkavian clan. Suddenly we went, what if the Malkavian was the character in Phyre's head? Suddenly, it really started to work, and we found that having the old vampire who has maybe lost their humanity to quite a big extent and doesn't connect to the humans, along with Fabian, who's fascinated by humans and is really interested in how the world works, it was a really nice pairing, and that just worked for us, along with a really good voice actor. Suddenly, Fabian was brought to life and they went okay, this is the right way to go. It's quite a late change and also a brave change, I think, from Paradox's case, because they said, yes, you're right. We do need to make this change, let's take the time to do it.

>>723850427
>he says, as he adds an "I laughed so I'M NOT MAD OKAY??" through tears

>>723850559
>Jey Hicks: I think it was definitely a worthwhile decision to delay the game and make sure that people actually relate and enjoy the characters. We didn't want Fabian to be just another voice in your head sort of character.
>Interviewer: It wasn't playable before, I take it?
>Jey Hicks: Exactly, that's exactly so. That took at least a year.
>Ian Thomas: Two years, really, to incorporate that change. But it was so we'd get a much bigger game as well, and it's given us more playstyles, because you get to do the detective. And it's brought in Malkavian, and we like Malkavian.

>>723850596
>projection
You can't help yourself can you?

>>723850737
>projection, he says through tears at a post with no projection in it

>Voice actors suck ass
>Main character especially since he sounds like he's one second away from saying "I vant to zuck your blood"
>Voice in your head never shuts up and talks like a redditor despite supposedly being a detective from the 1920's
>Weird pink/red/purple essence(?) thing that isn't explained
>Combat is incredibly simplistic
>Masquerade violation is just a bar that fills up and drains
>Every character is annoying
Literally the only positive thing I can say about it so far is that I like that you can stay laying on your back on the ground after a slide. My expectations were low, but goddamn

>>723850827
>continues to make hyper specific statements about what he thinks i am doing
Yeah you are definitely projecting. I mean, you even brought up crying out of nowhere, are you really crying over being called out online?

>>723850945
>i-if I keep posting t-the images of people laughing they'll think I'm not crying and shitting myself ugh!!!
You lost btw

>>723850979
>stopped trying to deny that it was projection
>just goes back to crying and projecting
>y-you lost
lol, cry more shill. Maybe go dilate.

>literally marvel/forspoken tier quips from a voice in your head that wont shut up
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???

Hymen