This game is apparently NOT dead!
Short article with more information:
TLDR: Dev is The Chinese Room, developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. They still won’t say what happened with Hardsuit Labs, the OG dev, and the mechanics and system will be totally different.
Instead of a thin-blood (new, weak vampire), you’re an Elder (old, scary vampire) fresh from torpor (long VampNap).
As much as I would love for this to be a hit, my skepticism is through the roof.
I should be happy it’s getting a sequel, but all I can muster is a terrified oh no.
This games development reminds me of Duke Nukem forever. Hope it has a happier ending than that did.
Dead Island 2 did decently well
I forgot that game existed
Yay!
The Chinese room
Boo
Huh why?
They don’t have a history of developing system heavy games / immersive sims.
They seem to specialize in very linear narrative experience that are extremely light on gameplay systems. Walking sims is what people like to describe them as.
Are you expecting VTM to be a sim?
Immersive Sim, which is distinct but often kind of vague in its definition, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_sim.
The first game is considered one.
Because they are a one trick pony and not a very good trick (walking sim)?
Could they actually pull it off? Idk maybe.
A “trick” many of us enjoy. They have people who have developed other things too.
I don’t have a good feeling about this game.
I really hope they have Malkavian (clan of madmen and prophets) with unique content as a starting option, I would love to run through the game for the first time not 100% sure what’s real.
I loved vtmb enough to overlook the late game and I’m very nervous about the tumultuous history of this game. But here’s hoping.
Wasnt this announced already? With a trailer too?
Yeah in 2019. But the game got a new developer.
Yep, but then it entered dev hell for a few years.
They’ve resumed development on this? Huh, that’s interesting. At this point this game has gone through dev hell so I hope it turns out alright.
