Lexx 2,388 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I wouldn't call most of Bethshoft's quests captivating either ... 1 Quote "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to post Share on other sites
melkathi 3,272 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I can see where people could say Obsidian would be a good fit. With FONV they have proven they can work within the constraints of another developer's buggy mess. Of course they also showed that none of that mess will be cleared up, simply worked with. 1 Quote Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to post Share on other sites
uuuhhii 194 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 bloodlines 2 seems to have graphic way too fancy than any obsidian game wonder if they can handle it without some additional support Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chilloutman 1,615 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I mean they currently works on Outer World and that new FP RPG which should be close to what bloodlines should have been Quote I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene" Link to post Share on other sites
Oner 1,175 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 2 hours ago, melkathi said: Of course they also showed that none of that mess will be cleared up, simply worked with. From what I've heard about the Creation Engine after the FO76 fiasco(s), I don't think anyone could clear it up at this point, even if they had years instead of months. Quote Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to post Share on other sites
Zoraptor 3,618 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 7 hours ago, uuuhhii said: bloodlines 2 seems to have graphic way too fancy than any obsidian game wonder if they can handle it without some additional support It's likely that whatever significant work Bloodlines 2 requires to get ready the graphics would be salvageable/ reusable so long as the delay isn't too long. End of the day even modern graphics are also pretty easy for even relatively unskilled people to understand, whereas something like undocumented code can be very difficult to decipher, so there shouldn't be any hidden difficulties either. Graphics should require the least work, probably level building next least and it's likely to be bugs and stability, gameplay, storyline and getting it out the door as a finished product which would be the big troubles. If graphics and level design require lots of work either the game is highly unfinished or development has effectively been rebooted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blodhemn 135 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Safe to say Hardsuit didn't have near the breadth of talent of Troika working on the game. Five years of development and nothing but excuses. Can't even buy a video card to hypothetically play the disappointing heap anyway. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Irving Beet 1 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 I love this game. has anyone tried the tabletop version of the game? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
melkathi 3,272 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 I have played various WoD settings and games. I have a Brujha deck for the card game somewhere around here as well. More of a Changeling fan though than Vampire. Quote Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to post Share on other sites
Azdeus 1,856 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 3 hours ago, melkathi said: I have played various WoD settings and games. I have a Brujha deck for the card game somewhere around here as well. More of a Changeling fan though than Vampire. I played the old Vampire, Werewolf, Demon and Hunter and the new Vampire three times. We had Changeling in our collection but we never played it to my great dismay. I really liked that premise. Quote Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to post Share on other sites
melkathi 3,272 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Yeah, I played quite a bit of Hunter. Made a character for Demon but that is as far as I got with that. Never got into Werewolf. I think it is the setting that most suffered from players and storytellers who didn't understand the point of WOD (obviously, whatever makes you have fun) and simply got turned into a lulz I can beat up anything. Quote Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to post Share on other sites
Azdeus 1,856 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 The Demon campaign went MDK-lulz since we had a few younger "kids" that we introduced to our group through that game, they mostly did their best in killing each other and thing often went haywire from there. The vast, vast majority of the sessions we had was in Vampire, and while I forgot to mention it in my previous post we also played some Mummy, which definetly was my favourite of the ones we played. Quote Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to post Share on other sites
Oner 1,175 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 On 3/1/2021 at 10:51 AM, Irving Beet said: I love this game. has anyone tried the tabletop version of the game? I've played some Dark Ages back when it came out, but we never got far into it before it got interrupted. Quote Giveaway list:Â https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to post Share on other sites
Keyrock 9,148 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I kind of think the new developer might be better off just starting from scratch. Trying to cobble together something from existing work, probably from multiple sources at this point, and new work is likely to produce an incoherent mess, especially for a narrative-driven game. I'm writing this project off as dead in my mind. On the off chance that it releases and isn't a dumpster fire that will be a pleasant surprise. 3 Quote I wonder if there is beer on the sun Link to post Share on other sites
Blodhemn 135 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 They'd be better off cutting their losses and handing the game over to WESP. Would much rather the game cancelled, and Brian allowed to carry over the script, and he and some modders use Source and the original source material in LA and relocate the setting back to the original. That'd be amazing - keep the UI and everything - just import the new characters/plot for the ultimate Bloodlines 1 add-on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raithe 21,338 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 (edited) On 3/1/2021 at 9:51 AM, Irving Beet said: I love this game. has anyone tried the tabletop version of the game? I've done a batch. I've got a massive stack of the books from all the WoD lines. It can depend if you can get your mind around the massive amound of teenage metaphor of angst that a lot of them run with. There are different aspects depending on if you're going Vampire the Masquerade vs Vampire the Dark Ages, or Mage the Ascension. Then again, Wraith the Oblivion was one of the most utterly depressing gaming systems I've ever encountered. I personally loved a lot of the ideas in Demon the Fallen, but I never found a gaming group wanting to play in it. Did play in a campaign that actually started in The Dark Ages with neonates, and we ended up going through the centuries until it became Vampire the Masquerade in the modern age. Edited March 3 by Raithe 1 Quote "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to post Share on other sites
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