*snorts* Well, by now all they'd have to do is wait.By this logic Israel should strive to carry out genocide against the Germans.
*snorts* Well, by now all they'd have to do is wait.By this logic Israel should strive to carry out genocide against the Germans.
Different developing studios mostly.I do love how one of the stock characters for the new VTM is literally some sort of gay social justice advocate vampire dude, and then they have this trailer with the main focus being on a lady running around wearing 2/3 of her shirt, a lacy bra, and thigh high hooker boots. That's a really weird kind of mixed image to be putting out.
The original was good in it's writing, but I think folks may well remember it through very rose colored glasses. The gameplay was borderling even for the time and the game was INSANELY buggy, even WITH massive community patches to fix the game. I've still never completed a playthrough of it due to those game breaking bugs popping up every time I try and play it. And graphically, let's be honest, it wasn't very good even at the time. Don't get me wrong, it's a fun diversion from the other RPGs of the era, but in actual executed quality, it was pretty bad.Game will probably not be as good as the original but I'll try it.
As for politics, see Damsel saying communism will work for vampires, Nines citing the Depression and Skelter Vietnam for why they are Anarchs and LaCroix being a former aristocrat in an imperialistic army. Pretty clear implications for all of this. No escaping politics, which is good. It would ruin the entire franchise for me if it was just "another vampire game." I like it because it has something to say.
The original was good in it's writing, but I think folks may well remember it through very rose colored glasses. The gameplay was borderling even for the time and the game was INSANELY buggy, even WITH massive community patches to fix the game. I've still never completed a playthrough of it due to those game breaking bugs popping up every time I try and play it. And graphically, let's be honest, it wasn't very good even at the time. Don't get me wrong, it's a fun diversion from the other RPGs of the era, but in actual executed quality, it was pretty bad.
That said, a lot is going to depend on how the politics are played. Communism doesn't work for humans, explicitly BECAUSE of human flaws and the economic realities of scarcity. Those problems don't go away because they're supernatural bloodsuckers, and in many ways Vampires are meant to be representative of humans who are ruled even more by their base instincts... add on the supernatural aspects of things like how older vampires are just more powerful than younger ones, and it's kinda ridiculous to make the claim that Communism would work for Vampires.
My point is not to say Damsel was right, it was just to say it was an opinion in the game because the game is intensely political in a very real way.
Skelter brings up how it absolutely sucks to be a Kindred because, in addition to the general problems of being undead, you also, as you noted, are weaker than elders. The elder vampires who just can't comprehend how the world has changed, who are manipulating the young and ruining their (un)lives for petty, selfish reasons.
It's not even subtext, it's just plain text. The World of Darkness has always worn its politics on its sleeve.
The Anarchs aren't the good guys, of course. There are no good guys in WoD, any more then there are heroes in 40K. But that doesn't prevent you from having substantive political commentary.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will now not release in 2021 as planned. Paradox said it has signed a new developer to pick up development duties, but it sounds like the wait for the game could be a long one.
Fuck these incompetent idiots.
So, woke narrative and setting. Fired main narrative designers and creators. A studio out of its depth, and a publisher apparently slow on the uptake. Wow, can't wait to see the train wreck that'll be the final product.
Given that the publisher -from what I understand- is a subsidiary of Perfect World Entertainment (known to be one of the top ten assholes in the F2P market) and just how shit the videogame industry is (as in 'it's rhyming with the Studio System Era of Hollywood' bad)...So, woke narrative and setting. Fired main narrative designers and creators. A studio out of its depth, and a publisher apparently slow on the uptake. Wow, can't wait to see the train wreck that'll be the final product.
Given that the publisher -from what I understand- is a subsidiary of Perfect World Entertainment (known to be one of the top ten assholes in the F2P market) and just how shit the videogame industry is (as in 'it's rhyming with the Studio System Era of Hollywood' bad)...
The funny thing about that, this is from what I've learned from Blacklight Retribution devs. One of the companies that are working on the game is a subsidiary of PWE. They hired Hardsuit Labs (owners of Blacklight) to work on the game but -from what we've been told- one of the stipulations of that contract is 'shut down everything related to Blacklight Retribution'...Again: what?
The Publisher is Paradox, which isn't even a subsidiary of another company, let alone a Chinese one.
The funny thing about that, this is from what I've learned from Blacklight Retribution devs.
One of the companies that are working on the game is a subsidiary of PWE.
They hired Hardsuit Labs (owners of Blacklight) to work on the game but -from what we've been told- one of the stipulations of that contract is 'shut down everything related to Blacklight Retribution'...
This is absolutely depressing. Whoever is behind this new VTM deserves to be fired and then taken out back and given a summary kick to the jaw.