#Bloodlines 2

[renaultmograine]

As someone who has been actively following Bloodlines 2 news and learned of when Paradox fired the original team, scraped their story entirely, gave the project to a walking simulator dev which has visual bugs in many of the promotionals they are actively putting out for the game, giving it the Fallout 4 approach to dialogue, and even Paradox Interactive has gone "If this game does well, god willing, someone other than the Chinese Room will make it,"

No.

Bloodlines 2 is going to fail by necessity because it's going to be painfully 2020s in design rather than the early 2000s the original one was. Y2K goth was so intrinsic to the original Bloodlines design and meanwhile Bloodlines 2 looks damn near exactly like Cyberpunk 2077, there's just less people walking around with visors for eyes. This is once again a bland soulless sequel that lacks the spirit of the original.

[blighted-elf]

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Pax West 2023 trailer "Coming Fall 2024"

[vamp-orwave]

Post-alpha screenshots from the latest news update for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

[harrowedworld]

🎉🩸 To Celebrate Harrowed World’s 6th Anniversary I will be revealing shadowy secrets about the setting and vampire games! 🎉🩸

For each like on this post, I shall reveal one answer.

💀 Be it forbidden lore, the twisted fate of those who walk the eternal night, or a small peek into the deranged mind behind it all…

[pretend-pretend-vampire]

I'm gonna diablerise vtmb2

[cryptbabe]

POV: You are out on a cigarette break and run into that strange, new board member, who only is there a night.

[tremere-suggest]

We got a first look at a Tremere character for Bloodlines 2! Considering she has a Turkish name I wonder if they merged any of Elif's story or role into her. She looks very different that's for sure and I like the researcher archetype for a Tremere!

From the Dev Diary:

“That’s… fascinating. Uh. You wouldn’t mind if I take a closer look? Fourteenth century, I’m almost sure… and look at these markings! Hermetic in nature, obviously! Could you just let me… oops! Sorry. I’ll clean that up.”

Safia Ulusoy

Safia is the eager enthusiast, her attention caught by theories, facts, and the fascination of learning from both the old and the new. If the Court has questions, she is the one to find answers; her skill with thaumaturgy and her dogged research techniques have proven her worth to Seattle, no matter the current standing of her clan. Recently, she’s been investigating the city’s growing thin-blood population, a particular concern to the Court. However, her focus does tend to distract her from the more mundane world. You’ll probably find her in her lab or lost in a pile of books at the Wake the Dead coffee-bar.

[paint-lady]

[claretnight]

IT'S OFFICIAL VTMB 2 COMING TO FALL 2024!!!

Bloodlines 2 - Official Announcement Trailer

[filmmyheart]

Everytime i read something about vtmb2:

[birf]

looking back at the very first bloodlines 2 announcement trailer and how I was a bit skeptical of it all but still really excited about it and thought it actually looked so good (like my only complaint at the time was the 1st person but I hate that in any game) but oH how far we’ve fallen…

[bar-guest]

Not to be a low-key hater but the extended gameplay trailer to Bloodlines 2 dropped so I am once again thinking about this game against my will I guess.

Have a theory about where they are going with this Phyre & Fabien thing and I hope it's wrong, but it's also the only thing that makes sense lore-wise as I see it.

So, as there can't be any Cobweb shenanigans, the whole "being stuck with another vamp in your head" thing has to be because of diablerie right? After all, sometimes even if the diablerist succeeds, the victim's will is strong enough to prevail past the amaranth and become a permanent companion inside their attacker's head, tormenting and manipulating them on the daily. Most recognizable case of this happening is the Mithras & Monty Coven situationship. The difference (?...) between those is that Mithras isn't a fucking Thin Blood, he's a Vent methuselah.

Your consciousness surviving past diablerie isn't that much of a widespread occurrence that, worst-case scenario, every lick can count on happening though. Probably the most prolific diablerists these nights, Helena and Agata Starek, aren't known to be tortured by dozens upon dozens of voices, even though they ate countless neonates. So, why is Fabien still here?

I think the only sensible answer is that Fabien is the Elder and Phyre a former Thin Blood who assumed his clan after diablerizing him (as that's how diablerie works for Duskborn). It is then consistent with the nonexistent character creation with the simultaneous ability to choose from one of the 4 clans - you can't change how you look, but you can decide who to eat. Since this is an RPG, some mechanical character progression will need to exist, and this is as good of an explanation as any on why an Elder doesn't have their in-clan disciplines on level 4-5. This mark garbage may be their brilliant idea on how to externalize (idk why, I'm just rambling) the black veins that cling onto a diablerist's soul. It also finally explains a supposed Elder having a modern haircut lol.

And again, I hope I'm wrong. Because if it turns out we're playing a former TB, people will be mad. A subset of players will absolutely be not normal over playing as an usurper "failed abortion". And then there would be the issue of further pissing on what we could have had with Hardsuit's vision. Also, it's simply an annoying gotcha twist, but I seriously don't see a different way about it.

[blighted-elf]

New Bloodlines 2 news in September!!

[vamp-orwave]

First look at an unknown kindred's haven in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2

From Dev Diary #3

[harrowedworld]

Robert Eggers, you've done it again!

🩸 Modern Gothic Vampire RPG!

🩸 Unleash Your Inner Vampire with detailed character creation system!

🩸 Feed on human victims and employ supernatural powers!

'Harrowed World: Portents In Red' is available to wishlist now!

[meatcrimes]

if i had a nickel for every critically acclaimed game with a hyped up and ever-delayed sequel that was dug out of development hell by The Chinese Room, i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.