Pdx to publish Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 in 2020

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Habbaku

#31
April 26, 2019, 10:53:22 AM
If I can't take over the local city council via mind control, what use is the game?
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jimmy olsen

#32
April 30, 2019, 12:23:16 AM
I imagine that once you diablerize your way to full vampire status you will have access to more powers.
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garbon

#33
August 20, 2020, 02:34:11 AM
So off the back of the release being delayed...

https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/19/21376269/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-writer-director-fired-hardsuit-labs-paradox-interactive

QuoteLead writer and director fired from Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2

The publisher and developer of Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 have fired the game's creative director and lead writer, and it doesn't sound like it was an amicable departure.

Paradox Interactive and Hardsuit Labs announced the dismissals in a blog post on Wednesday, saying that Brian Mitsoda, who was also lead writer of the original 2004 game, and director Ka'ai Cluney "are no longer part of the team at Hardsuit Labs."

"This was a joint decision made by the leadership of Hardsuit Labs and Paradox Interactive," the statement said.

Mitsoda, in a statement to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, called the changes an unpleasant surprise. "That this came as a shock to me is underselling it," Mitsoda said, noting his five years of work on the game. "I'm incredibly disappointed and frustrated to say that this is where it ends for me on the project."

"I was not part of the conversations that led to the decision to delay production," Mitsoda said. He was fired July 16. "To my knowledge, there were no delays caused by the Bloodlines 2 narrative development."

Hardsuit Labs announced on Aug. 11 that Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 was delayed into 2021. The studio said it needed more time to complete a stable and polished product. Bloodlines 2 will launch on PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One, with versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X also in development.

Polygon reached out to a Paradox Interactive representative to ask for further comment on why Mitsoda and Cluney were dismissed. The publisher declined to comment.

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Josquius

#34
August 20, 2020, 03:37:40 AM
Doesn't bode well
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viper37

#35
August 20, 2020, 11:05:14 AM
I guess there were budget overruns and Paradox didn't held confidence in them to reign in the expenses.
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Caliga

#36
August 20, 2020, 11:07:55 AM
Not surprising.  It seems like this is a cursed IP to work on, between this, the problems with Bloodlines, Kindred: The Embraced's main character being killed in a motorcycle accident, etc.  :(
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Valmy

#37
August 20, 2020, 11:10:01 AM
Well this game does violate the masquerade. The Ventrue are probably behind this.
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Caliga

#38
August 20, 2020, 11:12:03 AM
 :lol:
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Habbaku

#39
August 20, 2020, 12:27:44 PM
Quote from: viper37 on August 20, 2020, 11:05:14 AM
I guess there were budget overruns and Paradox didn't held confidence in them to reign in the expenses.

I would like to reign in expenses one day. King of Mammon.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Habbaku

#40
August 20, 2020, 12:28:26 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 20, 2020, 11:10:01 AM
Well this game does violate the masquerade. The Ventrue are probably behind this.

"Creative differences" and the like strikes me more as a Toreador thing.  :hmm:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

PDH

#41
August 20, 2020, 02:23:32 PM
There were creative differences between me and the ex-wife...
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Caliga

#42
August 21, 2020, 07:59:13 AM
Was your ex-wife a Toreador.
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celedhring

#43
August 21, 2020, 12:26:40 PM
Did you see yourself as alive while she saw you dead?

grumbler

#44
August 27, 2020, 07:20:51 AM
Quote from: celedhring on August 21, 2020, 12:26:40 PM
Did you see yourself as alive while she saw you dead?

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