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minor technical issues

"The problem with the performance mode though, is that even on PS5 Pro the 60 FPS limit is rarely kept and VRR busting drops are frequent throughout the game – especially during encounters with multiple enemies in Bloodline 2's frosty open world. Throw in some sizable, nearly a second long stutters, the occasional crash which whisks your back to the PS5's front end"

Sure minor ones.

 

[Komatsu]

As someone who consumed A LOT of White Wolf material in the 1990s, I decided to not purchase the game the moment they went along with Chris Avellone's bullshit cancellation

 

[Mozzarella]

Knew it from the start that this game will flop and be terrible.

 

[Flabagast]

Review from RPS

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 review

Chinese Room and Paradox deliver an entertaining, flawed vampire brawler wrapped in a compelling mystery. Just don't mistake this for its cult hit predecessor.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

They quite liked it, as long as you know what you're in for. Basically a light ARPG, with bad sidequests but interesting main storyline and atmosphere

 

[falconhoof]

 

[MMaRsu]

lol. As expected. Fuck this fake ass Bloodlines 2. A sequel in name only.

 

[MMaRsu]

Review from RPS

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 review

Chinese Room and Paradox deliver an entertaining, flawed vampire brawler wrapped in a compelling mystery. Just don't mistake this for its cult hit predecessor.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

They quite liked it, as long as you know what you're in for. Basically a light ARPG, with bad sidequests but interesting main storyline and atmosphere

RPS is fucking ass bro.

Cyberpunk 2077's in-game context doesn't matter if its marketing contributes to transphobia right now

During this week's E3, Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red released a new CG trailer starring Keanu Reeves, showed…

www.rockpapershotgun.com

JK Rowling not "directly involved" with Hogwarts Legacy, Warner Bros. assert

Hogwarts Legacy isn't "a new story from J.K. Rowling", but WB won't disclose if the transphobic author is receiving royalties from the Potter RPG.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

An attempt to pull "death of the artist" on an author who is very much alive and profiting from the world she's created.


Honestly, I don't see why we need a new wizarding RPG. Pottergame already exists, y'all.

Bruh

Just delete this shit ass website

Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme

Following the Republican victory in the US 2024 elections, several US companies have experimented with "pivoting away" …

www.rockpapershotgun.com

HI GUYS LET ME EDUCATE YOU ON DEI

All of which betrays an elementary or perhaps, wilful misunderstanding of what DEI is supposed to achieve. Central to the case for DEI training is that discrimination can be intangible unless it's aimed at you. As such, hiring or working strategies that try to reward the "best candidate" without reflection risk shoring up the systemic advantages that make it easier for some applicants to succeed. Tyminski's promise to hire based "solely on talent and merit", for example, overlooks that "talent" and "merit" are concepts cultivated by humans whose sense of fairness is shaped by their circumstances.

 

[Wildebeest]

I agree with all the sage commentators saying the only problem is this game being called Bloodlines. If this game was called "Vampire the Masquerade: Absolute disgrace of a game, worse than a cup full of sick" it would be easily worth a 10/10.

 

[falconhoof]

RPS is fucking ass bro.

Cyberpunk 2077's in-game context doesn't matter if its marketing contributes to transphobia right now

During this week's E3, Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red released a new CG trailer starring Keanu Reeves, showed…

www.rockpapershotgun.com

JK Rowling not "directly involved" with Hogwarts Legacy, Warner Bros. assert

Hogwarts Legacy isn't "a new story from J.K. Rowling", but WB won't disclose if the transphobic author is receiving royalties from the Potter RPG.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

Bruh

Just delete this shit ass website

Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme

Following the Republican victory in the US 2024 elections, several US companies have experimented with "pivoting away" …

www.rockpapershotgun.com

HI GUYS LET ME EDUCATE YOU ON DEI

Thread 'Is nose ring theory true?'

Saturday at 1:51 AM

We humans are judgmental. That isn't a good thing either!

But man has this one proved true over the last decade.

Apparently there is a theory about people with "nose rings" and just hearing this blew my mind... yesss So true.

Glad to see what was just an internal thought years ago becoming sort of commonly recognized, at least, judging by the views a video about nose rings gets lol

• Singular7
• Replies: 79
• Forum: Off-Topic Discussion

 

[MMaRsu]

Thread 'Is nose ring theory true?'

Saturday at 1:51 AM

We humans are judgmental. That isn't a good thing either!

But man has this one proved true over the last decade.

Apparently there is a theory about people with "nose rings" and just hearing this blew my mind... yesss So true.

Glad to see what was just an internal thought years ago becoming sort of commonly recognized, at least, judging by the views a video about nose rings gets lol

• Singular7
• Replies: 79
• Forum: Off-Topic Discussion

Pretty sure thats a dude.

I dont care about some stupid ass theory about women who wear noserings. What a dumb notion.

"Lib women"

Man Im so glad I dont live in the USA. Although Netherlands is getting more retarded each year too

 

[Plague Doctor]

My favorite dumb as fuck take I have seen here and elsewhere on the net has been, "It's unfair or we shouldn't compaire it to VTM: Bloodlines 1"

My brother in Christ.... the devs named the fucking game VTM: Bloodlines 2. Marketed as being the sequel to the fucking first game. What the fuck are you smoking to even suggest it is "unfair to compare it to it." They, the developers, wanted you to buy the game under the premise it is a sequel and comparible, if not better, than the first game.

So yeah.... yeah we can compare the two games.

This take is glorious at being so fucking overtly deflective and retarded at doing so.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Should of called it VtM: Nomad because that's what it actually is.

 

[Flabagast]

My favorite dumb as fuck take I have heard has been, "It's unfair or we shouldn't compaire it to VTM: Bloodlines 1"

My brother in Christ.... the devs named the fucking game VTM: Bloodlines 2. Marketed as being the sequel to the fucking first game. What the fuck are you smoking to even suggest it is "unfair to compare it to it."

This take is fucking glorious at being so fucking deflective and retarded at doing so.

I think you are right, but at the sames time we can have measured opinions.

The game looks like a really disappointing follow up to BL1, that's for certain, but at the same time it could still be a worthwhile experience in its own right

 

[JayK47]

Steam reviews are pounding this game. Most of the negative reviews are mad that the game development didn't go as they had hoped. Some of them even pre-ordered the game 5 years ago. I do not get people who pre-order a game like this, that is years out yet, then are surprised it is nothing like some trailer. I am guessing the reviews will improve once the initial pre-order gamers have finished venting and the game gets a few patches.

 

[ZehDon]

Landing way worse than I expected, honestly. I didn't expect it to live up to the original - but I expected they'd at least try. Some of the takes are rough.

 

[Solarstrike]

 

[Comandr]

I've never played the first one, but this one looks like shit. Just looking at the steam page was enough for me to pass. The finger gun attack? Oof. A middle schooler might think this was the sickest shit ever but I just find it incredibly cringy.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

Can you visit a strip club?

If not, I thought Woke loved sex workers? Why is a strip club bad?

 

[adamsapple]

Can you visit a strip club?

If not, I thought Woke loved sex workers? Why is a strip club bad?

The fact that you capitalized Woke is the icing on top of this bizarre post.

 

[Durin]

Not shocked the game turned out to be shallow drivel, that's literally the entire catalog of The Chinese Room.

All they've made is bad walking sims with pretentious writing that thinks it has something to say, except this game they actually had to make game mechanics, and picked the worse genre because people expected an RPG.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Having over 20k people in peak is still a better result than I expected, but I think with a game like this PC is by far the dominant platform so I wouldn't compare it to numbers of some other recent releases like SHf.

That's probably it for now. Huge fans of the first game already have it, a "normal" player won't think about picking it up after seeing the percentages. Paradox will now have to wait for bumps once the game starts to appear on sale.

 

[SJRB]

I watched a livestream and it looks pretty neat at times, the vibes in the snowy neon lit city are immaculate and traversal looks awesome. Combat looks a bit clunky and pretty much all dialogue looks cringe as fuck.

Having a main character called "Phyre" is just… wtf.

Either way, I'm definitely picking this up when the price drops a bit. There's plenty of 6/10 games I had a great time with.

 

[Toots]

PlayStation Universe - John-Paul Jones - 7.5 / 10

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 might not be the sequel that folk from 2004 wanted for their game, but it is the game we've got. Though largely sparse open world and technical issues are hardly encouraging, the beautifully evocative interior environments, surprisingly engaging traversal and combat mechanics, together with its neatly unconventional 'buddy movie' conceit which sees two vampires attempting to inhabit the same body and each with their own motivations, makes Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 a good deal more intriguing than I originally expected it to be.

I did not believe him when he was in zeppelin, why should i start believing him now ?

Better than nothing.

But so much worse than what could have been.
Still will get the game as soon as it's 30$ or less.

 

[RafterXL]

My favorite dumb as fuck take I have seen here and elsewhere on the net has been, "It's unfair or we shouldn't compaire it to VTM: Bloodlines 1"

My brother in Christ.... the devs named the fucking game VTM: Bloodlines 2. Marketed as being the sequel to the fucking first game. What the fuck are you smoking to even suggest it is "unfair to compare it to it." They, the developers, wanted you to buy the game under the premise it is a sequel and comparible, if not better, than the first game.

So yeah.... yeah we can compare the two games.

This take is glorious at being so fucking overtly deflective and retarded at doing so.

It's 100% retarded. Do these people not realize the ONLY reason it's selling and got to 27k CCUs on Steam is because of the name? If all of their marketing is based on reaping the benefits of the first game, then they damn sure are going to get compared to the first game. But they knew this already. If they named it something else no one would even give a damn about the game and it wouldn't have charted on Steam at all. So they kept the name, knowing that people would buy it from name alone and they'd make more money than they should have.

Not shocked the game turned out to be shallow drivel, that's literally the entire catalog of The Chinese Room.

All they've made is bad walking sims with pretentious writing that thinks it has something to say, except this game they actually had to make game mechanics, and picked the worse genre because people expected an RPG.

And that's what this game is. It's a shitty linear walking simulator, with tacked on half-assed repetitive combat and cringe dialogue.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

The fact that you capitalized Woke is the icing on top of this bizarre post.

The first's vibe was night out on the seedy sign of town, hence why being able to visit a strip club as part of the locales fit.

If they're too lame not to include that they missed the point.