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This game is apparently NOT dead!

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

Short article with more information:

https://www.pcgamer.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-has-been-quietly-rebuilt-by-dear-esther-developer-the-chinese-room-with-different-gameplay-mechanics-and-rpg-systems/

TLDR: Dev is The Chinese Room, developer of Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. They still won't say what happened with Hardsuit Labs, the OG dev, and the mechanics and system will be totally different.

Instead of a thin-blood (new, weak vampire), you're an Elder (old, scary vampire) fresh from torpor (long VampNap).

[–] escapesamsara@discuss.online 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Instead of a thin-blood, you’re an Elder fresh from torpor.

Welp, there goes the exploration of the world factor.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 2 years ago

Depends on how long the torpor lasted. If it was for a couple of centuries, a lot of has changed in 200 years. The player is going to have to find out the new political players, guns, vehicles, new clans, etc.

If the player was in torpor for a couple of decades, yeah the world exploration will be dull.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True, it'll make it more confusing for new people just now picking up the IP, and telling them to play a 20-year old game for context is a hard sell.

As someone who already played VTMB, I'm excited to be playing as an Elder for once instead of the standard fledgling.

It's at least a good explanation for why the PC will just obliterate everything else he sees like in the first one.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No no see you just woke up from Torpor, so yeah you're an elder, but also you're super weak, and nobody knows who you are so you won't get any respect until you've done some basic bitch errands. But EVENTUALLY, you'll be powerful and respected.

Yeah this "Elder fresh from torpor" angle just completely killed my excitement, shit sounds so... bland now. So typical.

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