Look to the Left
Back from the Void
- Location
- OH CANADA!!!
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2
- Thread starter GilliamYaeger
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Hykal94
Orange Estus Kitteh
- Location
- Firelink Shrine
Considering Avellone is the writer and he facepalmed at Obsidian on Twitter, I think we safely say this won't be the case.
- Location
- DFW
maybe? considering how closely integrated pretty much every paradox game is with steam workshops i'm going to say that unless epic can build up their own version of that in the time this likely won't happen.
Also you can get Jeanette's outfit in the special edition preorder to continue her megapush despite barely being relevant for most of the first game.
LordInsane
Loyalist to the Alvarian Merchant's Guild
- Location
- Bohuslän, Occupied Norway
Paradox has been experimenting with their own launcher. Of course, it currently has an extremely limited selection of games and relies on Steam integration to tell it what Paradox games you have. But between that and Paradox having their own storefront, full EGS exclusivity seems unlikely (what the writer says has no bearing on it, of course. No say in the matter, no more than TOW's writers).
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galahad
Seeker of Truths
- Location
- Searching for a better world
I played with Toreador for first run and did not regret it. The game is very combat heavy in its later half. The Toreadors get a bullet time ability thats really OP and also very fun to play with.
- Location
- Georgia, US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yeah, that's why I like Tremere as a social run. You can just throw a few dots into blood magic and worry about literally nothing. Allowing you to use the full breadth of social ability without worrying about being underspecced for the inevitable combat section.
That, and blood magic is a cool broken mess. So that's even more reason to play as Tremere
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
Tremere.
There is nothing quite like making your enemies literally explode.
- Location
- Australia
Time to dust off the Ventrue haute couture and go stalking high society again.
VoidZero
Passing Flan 布丁魔王
- Location
- Anywhere but RL
I did, it was a game with good intentions but a very rocky start. The final end product is good but the reputation damage was done. The story is sort of ok, not atrocious nor is it a selling point.
Reveen
Castro-Trudeauist
Honestly the only things that the writing needs to do in order to get a thumbs up from me is to have tons of weird and interesting characters to talk to and have fewer... uh... let's call them 90's-isms. Like, no more inscrutable Asian people for one.
Because honestly the original didn't really have much of a story so much as a long series of errands people send you on until the game ends. With the intersting part being the characters and the scenarios you're involved in.
Because honestly the original didn't really have much of a story so much as a long series of errands people send you on until the game ends. With the intersting part being the characters and the scenarios you're involved in.
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The fact that it takes place in the same city, and the plot involves the shitstorm that happened as a result of the first game's plot.
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
I'm pretty sure neither of those are true, considering it takes place in Seattle rather than LA and the plot is about a mass embrace of thinbloods rather than a coffin stuffed with C4.
Hmm?
.....There are definitely shots of the exact same locations that were in Bloodlines, and I meant more the political shitstorm IE the heads of multiple factions getting offed and the upheaval that followed.
LordInsane
Loyalist to the Alvarian Merchant's Guild
- Location
- Bohuslän, Occupied Norway
Given it definitely takes place in Seattle (it is on the store page and everything), the seemingly same locations may simply be reminiscent or not be a part of gameplay to any real degree (say, in-engine cinematics). But as to other arguments for calling it Bloodlines 2, it has the same lead writer, seems generally closer to Bloodlines than to Redemption, and will have returning characters (a few, but that still sounds like more than two).
Maybe, I'm seeing a lot of shots that look like 1:1 reproductions of the original Bloodlines, or that look like older/damaged versions of the same.
Reveen
Castro-Trudeauist
Eh? You only bump off LaCroix and possibly the leader of the Chinese Vampires Who Aren't Considered Real Vampires For Some Likely Kinda Racist Reason. The former of which was a douchebag social climber who didn't have that much power in the area and the latter were interlopers.
As far as we know ending the game all the other vampire leaders, Isaac Abrams, Velvet, Therese and/or Jeannette, Gary, Nines, are all right where you left them. None of them were really clearly affiliated with the Cammies in the first place.
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Exactly, the Prince bit the big one and then the Anarchs took over, and they took over the entire state.
IIRC this was the straw that broke the camels back and set off a whole load of Anarch revolts, and open Sabbat attacks.
The Camarilla is currently in a really bad way.
Also the Chinese Vampires aren't considered "Real" Vampires because while they are Vampires they aren't Kindred/Cainnites.
Although the Settites are debatably in that same Vampire-but-not-Cainnite category.
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Reveen
Castro-Trudeauist
They didn't really take over anything. All the Anarchs were already leaders of their own little communities. It was the Camarilla that was trying to move in and pressure all the local leaders to sign up via LaCroix.
I don't know if you're also referring to some RPG materiel because I don't know that lore, but in the game it's pretty clear that LaCroix was trying to get LA under his thumb.
LA wasn't controlled by any one faction, at least on paper, but was actually a powderkeg.
Even though the Anarchs were effectively in control already the leader of one of the other factions getting offed in a very public fashion was enough to set everything off and the Anarchs took advantage of that to officially gain control.
Which IIRC led to open revolts in other states.
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LordInsane
Loyalist to the Alvarian Merchant's Guild
- Location
- Bohuslän, Occupied Norway
As I understand it, the Kuei-Jin are really closer to incarnated Wraiths with some vampire trappings (that they partly end up discarding as they grow in spiritual enlightenment) than the thoroughly blood-centred walking corpses that are the Cainites. The Setites, even with their quirks, are closer to the Cainites.
- Location
- Georgia, US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Bloodlines 2 is a direct sequel set fifteen years after the first, it has the same head writer and will feature returning characters.
So it's not just another game set in the VtM world, it's specifically meant to be connected to the first. To some degree at least.
Considering that this is a sequel they kind of have to use Masquerade.
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