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wew lads, remember to tip your cab driver

i just hope it's good and not super fucking cringy like the World of Darkness books have become

i really hope during character creation the narrator doesn't turn to face the screen and tell me if i'm a white person who votes republican to stop playing their game and get a refund and then donate it to The Society of Cutting off Children's Dicks and Filling them Up With Chinese Horsepiss

I'm more interested in why people on 4chins were going >paradox, as if it was a bad thing.

Paradox has been producing lower and lower quality for years now
If the trend continues, this will be at best okay, and at worst Bioware style Dragon age 2 levels of bad

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Then at worst your expectations are met and at best you get to enjoy something decent

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More of this when

Malkavians were the best race

XSI wrote:Paradox has been producing lower and lower quality for years now

Are they producing low quality games? The last games they produced and released were HoI4 and Stellaris, which were pretty ok. Imperator is not out yet. They are publishing more games, like Battletech which was pretty ok too. Bloodlines 2 won't be developed by Paradox either I think, only published. The developer is literally who though. I had to look up Hardsuit Games, and they made Blacklight and Chivalry. Chivalry is good, but the apparent lack of single player making experience seems worrying.

Shadowflame909 wrote:Malkavians were the best race

Chad Toreador vs virgin Malkavian.

Even if paradox made an amazing game I still think people would be pissed off, there are too many expectations with this game and at best i'd expect to see "Lives up to the first bloodlines" because people are fucking idiots with cult classic games and they worship them like the perfect game given to us by a higher power

Rik Schaffer is apparently back as a composer.

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Lumbermancer wrote:Rik Schaffer is apparently back as a composer.

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oh man, he told everyone he could never make the bloodlines soundtrack again cuz he was in some Deep Shit when he made it

dude's gonna go off the rails living in filth and drugs to get the sound just right

Out of rehab already.

Lumbermancer wrote:I'm more interested in why people on 4chins were going >paradox, as if it was a bad thing.

Because the expectation (further evidenced by the already announced Season Pass DLC setup) is that they'll go the same route they've gone with most of their games and drip feed DLC for five years until you've paid 500 bucks for the game ala EU4 or HoI.

cedarbridge wrote:

Lumbermancer wrote:I'm more interested in why people on 4chins were going >paradox, as if it was a bad thing.

Because the expectation (further evidenced by the already announced Season Pass DLC setup) is that they'll go the same route they've gone with most of their games and drip feed DLC for five years until you've paid 500 bucks for the game ala EU4 or HoI.

yarr, matey... arrrg...

"Season Pass"ification apart, I'm already concerned that the game has barely been announced and the narrative designer is already giving interviews about how great it was to have the ability to use the game's story to soapbox about politics though. I'm getting deja vu.

That tends to be a bad sign

i'm excited about vtmb2 until it proves to be shit(and it will, nuwhitewolf+paradox is almost assuredly a bad combination.)

hope for the best expect the worst etc

Way to fucking ruin my hype lads...

Super Aggro Crag wrote:i just hope it's good and not super fucking cringy like the World of Darkness books have become

i really hope during character creation the narrator doesn't turn to face the screen and tell me if i'm a white person who votes republican to stop playing their game and get a refund and then donate it to The Society of Cutting off Children's Dicks and Filling them Up With Chinese Horsepiss

Someone was telling me that apparently the character creator has two stages.
You pick your human character looks and then later on you pick your vampire looks, complete with gender bending.

Lumbermancer wrote:

Shadowflame909 wrote:Malkavians were the best race

Chad Toreador vs virgin Malkavian.

Damn.

This just reminds me I played the original Bloodlines as boring fuck normie Toredors instead of special Malkavians.

unless you're a tizzie genderbending should be out of the question

Kraso wrote:unless you're a tizzie genderbending should be out of the question

what if you're a nosferatu and your curse gives you boobs

We've so far been told at the very least that all characters are "thin-bloods" meaning they're super late generation vampires with extremely weak forms of the Curse. The only way for a thin-blood to become a full vampire is to diablerize (drain all of the blood from) another vampire (obviously frowned upon universally by vampire-kind. I have a feeling that the story is going to entirely gloss over that last part and have the NPCs treat you like one of the gang without a second thought about how you got to where you are.

Presented without comment.

Also:
I remember playing the first game knowing absolutely nothing about the game or the lore at all and just so happened to roll Malkavian. Oh boy, was that a fucking ride.

I had a theory about the first one. You're 8th gen im the first game. You have way too many blood points for a thinblood.

ThanatosRa wrote:I had a theory about the first one. You're 8th gen im the first game. You have way too many blood points for a thinblood.

Entirely possible. Its very obvious that the player isn't a thin blood in the first game because 1) you manifest kindred features immediately after embrace 2) you don't have to diablerize anyone to gain those features.

Super Aggro Crag wrote:

Kraso wrote:unless you're a tizzie genderbending should be out of the question

what if you're a nosferatu and your curse gives you boobs

web client ruins copypasta formatting but one of the discords I'm in was shitposting about the character archetypes we might see

i just got the mental image of an overly edgy Antifa Brujah
and it's so perfect
>Antifa Brujah and Alt-Right Brujah having a shitflinging match as all the older vampires just watch like
"Why did we sire these morons."
"Why."

mall katana weeb toreador

>Hentai doujin artist Toreador

>FURRY VAMPIRE IN THEIR FURSUIT THE ENTIRE GAME
NOBODY BLINKS AT IT AND THEY CAN FINALLY GO AROUND DURING THE DAY!
"Jesus Christ, why do you smell so awful!?" "I'm a musky husky"

dril malk

Dril malk is redundant. I choose to believe he's been hiding in plain sight all along.

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Looks alright.

i wanna be a nosferat

Vampire lore is known for its strict conservative themes and Christian family values, how dare they introduce stuff like *gasp* homosexuality, mental illness and disrespect for authority.

go woke go broke, boycott them now

Grazyn wrote:Vampire lore is known for its strict conservative themes and Christian family values, how dare they introduce stuff like *gasp* homosexuality, mental illness and disrespect for authority.

go woke go broke, boycott them now

Tae fuck are you on about your marinara swilling guinea?

malkevin has mental illness

Im not contesting that but what prompted that statement

i think some people were offended or something

Weird

Super Aggro Crag wrote:

Grazyn wrote:Vampire lore is known for its strict conservative themes and Christian family values, how dare they introduce stuff like *gasp* homosexuality, mental illness and disrespect for authority.

go woke go broke, boycott them now

Tae fuck are you on about your marinara swilling guinea?

terranaut wrote:Presented without comment.

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I'm not seeing the outrage other than ResetEra morons acting surprised that mental illness is represented with some nuance in the setting.

Lumbermancer wrote:malkevin has mental illness

uhhhhh

you heard me

also i'm really curious if any of those people actually played the first game, and what was their reaction to the portrayal of malkevin there

Lumbermancer wrote:also i'm really curious if any of those people actually played the first game, and what was their reaction to the portrayal of malkevin there

Malks were pretty well handled in the first game. They were "demented" but it was handled well within the setting context of being an entire kindred bloodline of perpetually interconnected telepaths with glimpses of possible future events. You'd be pretty weird if you had the Internet literally shouting into your skull at all times too.

I'm still not sure if you're doing a freudian slip and misspelling Malkavians or taking the piss out of me, although I'm sure it's the latter.

Obviously I found the Malkavians craziness to be interesting to the point that when I had to arse grab a character name for a UO shard around the time I played VtMB I chose a slightly corrupted name based off theirs.

when are you guys gonna take the nosferatupill

Nossies and Malks best clans

I misspelled, wanted to edit, but kept it and now Malkevins are canon in my mind.

cedarbridge wrote:Malks were pretty well handled in the first game. They were "demented" but it was handled well within the setting context of being an entire kindred bloodline of perpetually interconnected telepaths with glimpses of possible future events. You'd be pretty weird if you had the Internet literally shouting into your skull at all times too.

I never played Malkevins, only superior clans like Ventrue, Toreador and Nosferatu, so my only reference to Malkevins dementia were always the pictures with meme dialogue options and the hallucinations.

Lumbermancer wrote:I never played Malkevins, only superior clans like Ventrue, Toreador and Nosferatu, so my only reference to Malkevins dementia were always the pictures with meme dialogue options and the hallucinations.

The "meme dialogue" is a product of what I mentioned. They're constantly bombarded with a ton of information that they don't personally possess but which may or not be true/useful/relevant to their circumstances. Its the reason your malkavian characters in BL1 could recognize certain NPCs before being introduced to them or know things about the plot that only really make sense when the player realizes later that you were speaking in prophetic riddles.

The thinblood oracle girl might have malkavian sire, she warns you of dinosaur

cedarbridge wrote:The "meme dialogue" is a product of what I mentioned. They're constantly bombarded with a ton of information that they don't personally possess but which may or not be true/useful/relevant to their circumstances. Its the reason your malkavian characters in BL1 could recognize certain NPCs before being introduced to them or know things about the plot that only really make sense when the player realizes later that you were speaking in prophetic riddles.

What I'm saying is if I was more social-minded individual, and knew jack shit of wod lore, I would find such portrayal of mental illness insensitive. And now Paradox says they gonna be sensitive about it, so what does it mean? It implies it will be different from the original.

Lumbermancer wrote:

cedarbridge wrote:The "meme dialogue" is a product of what I mentioned. They're constantly bombarded with a ton of information that they don't personally possess but which may or not be true/useful/relevant to their circumstances. Its the reason your malkavian characters in BL1 could recognize certain NPCs before being introduced to them or know things about the plot that only really make sense when the player realizes later that you were speaking in prophetic riddles.

What I'm saying is if I was more social-minded individual, and knew jack shit of wod lore, I would find such portrayal of mental illness insensitive. And now Paradox says they gonna be sensitive about it, so what does it mean? It implies it will be different from the original.

They'll probably just water them down to being weird precog/telepaths or something.

But that's boring
The apparent insanity, even if it skirts the line of being lolsorandumb, makes it fun