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Agent_Karyo, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025
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Poor VTMB2 is cursed.

Not to mention it will difficult for it compete with the sheer uniqueness of the original VTMB for its time.

Coskii,
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Its beyond difficult to compare to a team that had an entire conversation tree line with a stop sign.

DmMacniel,
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No you stop!

Coelacanth,
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The Stop Sign gets a lot of the attention, but the TV host was the highlight of the Malkavian run for me. When I heard

Police say that vigilantism will not be tolerated, and that they know it was you.

it stopped me in my tracks because I really didn’t expect it. And the conversation with the TV host is as funny as the stop sign I think.

Coskii,
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I’d be down to listen to the ‘Deb of Night’ anytime.

Coelacanth,
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sanpo, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025

I’m surprised it’s not cancelled yet.

I think at this point its development is even more troubled than the original, which is kinda impressive in its own way.

Hubi,
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It’s pretty close to a Duke Nukem Forever situation at this point.

Corvid,

This is at least the second attempt to make VTMB2. The original version by Hardsuit Labs was entirely scrapped and restarted at The Chinese Room.

I spoke to the new devs at PAX last year and they said they were only reusing assets from the Hardsuit Labs version and otherwise completely making a new game from scratch.

This new version has only been publicly announced since late 2023, although it probably started development sometime in late 2021/early 2022.

sanpo,

Right, that’s why I’m not convinced this will ever actually release.

Abandoning all previous work, and the fact that new devs don’t exactly have experience with this genre…
I’m still gonna give it a try, but I’m not hopeful.

Coelacanth, (edited )
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It’s such a terrible shame that we had Brian Mitsoda and Rik Schaffer back and actually working on a sequel and none of it will see the light of day. Say what you want about Mitsoda’s thin-blood protagonist idea (I’m not a fan) but watching the trailers of https://youtu.be/6PM0vb8UCzM" version of the game you can at least see the lineage of the original.

iconic_admin, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025

Hopefully they’re adding a third person perspective…

deus, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025

Good. Let them cook.

off_brand_, do gaming w All five of you will get a free buggy when you next boot up Starfield

It’s for me that car is for me

kbal, do gaming w All five of you will get a free buggy when you next boot up Starfield
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Thanks, but I'll wait for the Skyrim mod version.

ByteOnBikes, do gaming w All five of you will get a free buggy when you next boot up Starfield

While you were over there playing your folklore Monkey game, doing your Fortnite dances, and trying to be Elden Lord, I was here studying the blade enjoying Starfield loading screens.

Mikelius, do games w After three hours of Bloober's Silent Hill 2, it's unclear who is remaking who

I was super excited for this game until I heard about the free cam… Really hoping it’s something that can be turned off. A core piece of the original horror was hearing something coming but not being able to see it.

Katana314,

I don’t know if I can agree - there’s enough friction just in being able to explore the world from workings like that, I don’t blame them for changing it. At best it can feel cheap. There’s still plenty of ways to apply vulnerability of the unseen.

ZephyrXero, do games w After three hours of Bloober's Silent Hill 2, it's unclear who is remaking who

Did an AI write this? Completely mixing up history and the present in the same sentence

Developed well over two decades ago, the original Silent Hill 2 is the magnum opus of Polish horror stalwarts Bloober Team. Running on then-innovative “Unreal Engine 5” technology created by Jazz Jackrabbit publishers Epic MegaGames, it’s a wonderful abyss of a game that remains perfectly playable today,

Archelon,

Later in the article:

I’m writing about the Silent Hill 2 Remake in this scrambled, back-to-front, obnoxious way partly to piss off whoever edits this (to be 100% clear, Team Silent are the creators of the original Silent Hill 2, which Bloober are remaking), and partly to make a point about remakes: that they tacitly or openly position the original game as an “obsolete” museum piece in need of replacement, dismissing the old artistic choices as primitive and incomplete, re-defining the old creative parameters as constraints that need to be lifted. It’s all in the service of the market’s cannibalistic mania for the new, its structural need to ceaselessly bury “the past”, often by directly obstructing non-commercial preservation efforts, and sell you Progress that starts to wither and fade the second you peel away the cellophane.

ZephyrXero,

This is a news article, not an art project. Really poor decision for the writer

LyD,

This is RPS’s style, you don’t have to like it but it definitely fits in.

SpaceNoodle, do games w After three hours of Bloober's Silent Hill 2, it's unclear who is remaking who

*whom

Carighan,
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‘Who’ is for subject and ‘whom’ is for object, right?

SpaceNoodle,

Correct.

CookieOfFortune, do games w Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"

As long as they allow different types of play and have quality of life changes. Also improve the interface and performance on PC.

assassin_aragorn, do games w Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"

Good! Elden Ring felt too large at times, especially some DLC areas. Where I had the most fun was contained dungeons and castles. I think that’s really where their level design shines best.

yesman, do games w Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"

I’m glad to hear.

Elden Ring’s open world is good, but not their wheelhouse. They certainly embarrassed EA, but I don’t think they’re competitive with Rockstar.

micka190,

Same. Elden Ring’s biggest weakness is its open world, in my opinion. It makes the first playthrough great, but it makes subsequent playthroughs a chore. Especially when you’re aware that 90% of dungeons/side areas have completely worthless gear and runes. Your subsequent runs just end up being you riding Torrent for long stretches of time from point A to point B.

yesman,

My disappointment isn’t with the enemy variety or gear drops. It’s with the dead world. My first hours in the game I saw a wolf walk through a herd of deer both ignoring each other. When you’ve just come off RDR2, seeing wildlife as decorations running 2 scripts that both depend on player interaction is lame.

Even FarCry3 had emergent game-play through enemy/wildlife AI.

eutsgueden,

True other games have had that, but it really wasn’t a goal for Elden Ring and I don’t think it really hinders it. The immersion into a real world was clearly a tentpole design decision for Rockstar in RDR2, but not Fromsoft. Which is fine for you to miss in Elden Ring, I just think we gotta manage expectations sometimes where not every game can have every thing.

Brosplosion,

This is why playing a randomizer is so damn fun. Every cave/catacomb/ruin can have “the” item! Makes exploration fun again.

RightHandOfIkaros,

They embarrassed EA, but more importantly Ubisoft. Open world games are pretty much all Ubisoft is known for these days.

I certainly think they can compete with Rockstar. Elden Ring is just a different genre from RDD or GTA. Had Elden Ring not been so difficult and had all the normie garbage like quest markers and other hand holders, it likely could have outsold GTA. But because From makes hard games (even though Elden Ring is their easiest game) and because they didn’t hold the players hand, people passed on some sales.

kromem, do games w Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"

The DLC is really the right balance for FromSoft.

The zones in the base game are slightly too big.

In the DLC, it’s still open world and extremely flexible in how you explore it, but there’s less wasted space.

It’s very tightly knit and the pacing is better as a result.

It’s like Elden Ring was watching masters of their craft cut their teeth on something new, and then the DLC was them applying everything they learned in that process.

Can’t wait for their next game in that same vein (especially not held back by last gen consoles).

magic_lobster_party, do games w Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"

I hope we will see more smaller scale games from them in the future. Elden Ring is fantastic, but I want them to make another take on Sekiro’s combat.

overload,

Sekiro 2 would be amazing. I’ve always felt we were robbed of dlc for that game and hadn’t had enough after ng3+

magic_lobster_party,

I think it’s unlikely we’re going to get Sekiro 2 because the franchise is under Activision. If anything, we’ll probably get a spiritual successor under Namco.

overload,

Mmmnnn yeah probably… Lies of P is the closest game I’ve found to Sekiro.

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