Bloodlines 2!!
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Woke up to this:
Objectively there's not much there, just a moody voiceover and footage that's not taken from gameplay. What's more, the combat was the worst part by far of the original Bloodlines, so a video filled with chasing down people in a warehouse is a weird way of announcing this.
But I'm so hyped.
I mean, I'm a huge Vampire: the Masquerade fan, and I loved the original Bloodlines. I remember the Ocean House Hotel, and how it made a predator of the night feel like a child hiding from the monster under the bed. I remember picking a side in the factional battles among the vampires of Southern California. I remember that the entire plot is Prince LaCroix's attempt to dispose of a troublesome fledgling after being forced to spare the PC due to his weak grip on power, and having the PC not only survive every suicide mission but actually accomplish them with flying colors. I remember the thin-blooded vampires on Santa Monica beach, who barely understood what they were, standing around a single oildrum fire. I remember the extra elements of the World of Darkness thrown in, like the Shih demon hunter apprentice tracking down a Rokea wereshark with the PC's help.
I remember Caine, progenitor of the Kindred, working as a cab driver in LA.
None of that is the action or the combat powers. They've got Brian Mitsoda, a designer on the original Bloodlines, so they know how important the writing was and how it led to devoted fans spending a decade and a half patching Bloodlines to fix up the problems caused by it being released too early. Though maybe that's the reason other than it being easier to make that they made an action trailer--it shows the improvement in the part of the game that most need improvement. And hopefully they won't have the development or technical trouble the original Bloodlines had.
I don't usually get into following game dev, not since I stopped playing World of Warcraft and following the patches and expansions, but I suspect I'll be checking in on this.
Objectively there's not much there, just a moody voiceover and footage that's not taken from gameplay. What's more, the combat was the worst part by far of the original Bloodlines, so a video filled with chasing down people in a warehouse is a weird way of announcing this.
But I'm so hyped.
I mean, I'm a huge Vampire: the Masquerade fan, and I loved the original Bloodlines. I remember the Ocean House Hotel, and how it made a predator of the night feel like a child hiding from the monster under the bed. I remember picking a side in the factional battles among the vampires of Southern California. I remember that the entire plot is Prince LaCroix's attempt to dispose of a troublesome fledgling after being forced to spare the PC due to his weak grip on power, and having the PC not only survive every suicide mission but actually accomplish them with flying colors. I remember the thin-blooded vampires on Santa Monica beach, who barely understood what they were, standing around a single oildrum fire. I remember the extra elements of the World of Darkness thrown in, like the Shih demon hunter apprentice tracking down a Rokea wereshark with the PC's help.
I remember Caine, progenitor of the Kindred, working as a cab driver in LA.
None of that is the action or the combat powers. They've got Brian Mitsoda, a designer on the original Bloodlines, so they know how important the writing was and how it led to devoted fans spending a decade and a half patching Bloodlines to fix up the problems caused by it being released too early. Though maybe that's the reason other than it being easier to make that they made an action trailer--it shows the improvement in the part of the game that most need improvement. And hopefully they won't have the development or technical trouble the original Bloodlines had.
I don't usually get into following game dev, not since I stopped playing World of Warcraft and following the patches and expansions, but I suspect I'll be checking in on this.
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