11mo ago

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025

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11mo ago

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025

www.ign.com /articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-delayed-again-this-time-to-the-first-half-of-2025

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Guys its getting harder and harder every year to still hope this turns out okay
- Mobile game studio has trouble with a bleeding edge (heh) blockbuster AAA RPG, I’m sure this will be a BG3-tier banger.
  The funny part is I’m also unironically hoping it’s good 🤡
  
  How are they a mobile studio?
Maybe the real Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 was the friends we bit along the way.
With no Brian Mitsoda and no Rik Schaffer I have a hard time seeing this ever being a true sequel, no matter how much extra dev time they get.
Duke Nukem Forever vibes
I'm gonna be real, as just a casual follower of this game, I kinda assumed it already came out a while ago and was just so meh nobody talked about it. I'm shocked it's still not out yet
- Don't be, this game won't quietly peep its way into obscurity, it will be an uproarious fart all the way across the halls of the internet.
  If it even does, it will come out and literally nobody will like it because a) it has an impossibly high bar to clear even in the hands of competent devs and b) it's been made by walking sim developers as their first attempt at a real game with gameplay beyond simple puzzles.
  I will literally slice off my own asscheeks, cure them into honey glazed ham, and serve them on rye if it comes out as anything resembling the success of the first.
  
  Is there a preferred metric to measure this by? I didn't play the first one, but Wikipedia says "polarizing but ultimately positive," and there's an 80/100 metacritic score, for whatever that's worth.
  Your word picture is just so funny that I want to root for the game's success just to be the person that quotes this comment and @s you, even if I tend to agree with your assessment.
I’m excited to see it have less content than the original even with this absurd amount of delays.
- You're thinking about it wrong. How much content it has is not the problem. The problem is we've seen gameplay and it looks nothing like its predecessor.
- Hasn't it been bought and sold a bunch now? I want to say this is like the 4 dev or something to take it over.
Paradox Interactive has too much money into Bloodlines 2 to let it die. But we all know this is dead. Even if it comes out.
- Paradox didn't spend $18 million dollars making a dick and boob slider in Crusader Kings 3 for just one game. Let them cook.
I wrote this game off years ago. As far as I'm concerned, even if they ever release something, it doesn't exist.
Well, my expectations for this game were already on the floor. Guess it's time to put them in the basement. I mean I want a good sequel to Bloodlines, but that's looking less and less likely.
I thought it is already out.
Well, rather this than a bad release
c h i n e s e r o o m
If you want some Vampire to tide you over in the meantime, https://ttrpg.network/c/vamp_tm

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