"Dead State is a survival-based RPG that also just happens to have zombies. The zombie apocalypse setting makes the survival aspect more accessible and plays up the horror angle a bit more...Unlike a lot of zombie games, we’re not throwing in zombies because they’re popular, but because we want to make a game that accurately represents what people like about the zombie genre – the long-term survival aspect."
Studio narrative designer Cara Ellison and narrative lead Brian Mitsoda explain how you can work your way through the dialogue in the upcoming sequel.
Messy characters make for a bloody game set in modern-day Seattle.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will last 25 to 30 hours in one playthrough, according to the developers, who also hyped the VO cast as 'ridiculously good' and 'one of the best casts of all time'.
It's insane just how much I'm looking forward to this. Adore Vamp: Bloodlines, so a second immediately jumps to one of my most anticipated games around.
If it's anything like the first, hopefully every clan will have some unique stuff to each playthrough
Agreed. And I know a lot of people aren't fans of DLC, at least the ones that are overpriced and/or seem to be ripped from the main game to then be sold as new, however, we do have more content to look forward to with VTMB 2 if for some reason 25-30 hrs isn't enough -
'Strange beings have ventured into Seattle, and threaten the Masquerade. Expand your Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 story into the Season of the Wolf.
The Season of the Wolf includes:
• Two Story Packs which will take you deeper into the underbelly of Seattle and introduce some of the more fantastical denizens from the World of Darkness.
• One major Expansion in which the vampires' greatest enemy enters Seattle.'
I'm guessing the 2 story packs will be on the shorter side, maybe 2 hours a piece, if it expands the main story/chars, 4 hours of quality content sounds good to me. The larger expansion called 'Season of the Wolf' I'm guessing will offer a lot more content hence it being called an expansion (well, we can hope). If that 25-30 hour window is accurate, knowing the way that I play games, that could easily become 40-45 hours for one playthrough. Add in multiple endings, branching dialogue and quests and VTMB 2 sounds like it will offer a lot of replay value.
I really hope they stay true to the original vision and don't water the game down in favor of making it easier and more "modern".
I'm not expecting much of this game. The lead writer said they're trying to "broaden" it, from the "masculine power fantasy" of the original. Seems to be completely infected with feminist nonsense. Under the direction of Paradox, I think we can expect more of things like this: https://img.fireden.net/tg/...
Time will tell. If it strays too far from the original then the players will hate it and the sales will tank.
I don’t understand what they mean by”male power fantasy”. Its a vampire power fantasy.
It’s probably just PR talk to get “those” sites off their backs.
If it’s going to be a better game of VTM itself then hell yes it needs to cater to more character types and scenarios. That’s not feminist nonsense, it’s just a really broad RP game/setting with a long standing tradition of catering to a very diverse player base.
Bloodlines is great but we can do a lot more now.
