• Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Supposedly the first studio failed to make a fun game and they had to restart with The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Still Wakes the Deep).

      I think they are on track with it, but we got to wait longer.

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        2 months ago

        Don’t get your hopes up. The Chinese room version looks to be a straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

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          2 months ago

          I’m also quite disappointed at the change from playing a thinblood to an Elder kindred. I thought the idea of exploring thinblood lore could be really interesting and it would be much more interesting to roleplay someone who starts the game mostly human, compared to a completely inhuman monster right from the start.

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          2 months ago

          Also like, the whole selling point initially for making a Bloodlines 2 was getting Brian Mitsoda back to write the script. But they’ve thrown it out to make their own story and it will be like BG3 in that sense - a sequel in name only but no actual connection to the original game(s).

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          2 months ago

          straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

          This does not sound good. VTMB is not supposed to be linear, you want to explore a living world.

          I haven’t been following the release trailers or previous, just saw some concept art from both the first studio that failed and The Chinese Room.

          At least now I can manage my expectations.