I know what will save our game that's been in development hell for like 6 years

once leftists have run off all the normal people the organization becomes incapable of making anything of value

VTMB was a great game but if we really sit down and look at the current fanbase of VTM it's almost certainly 100% woketard libs.

YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Many such cases

this will sell our new IP from an unknown studio!

she's still in the game

The devs at White Wolf certainly were.

Anyone have the screenshot explaining how White Wolf woked so hard they caused an international incident?

What were they thinking? If you don't want her to be sexy then cover her face at least.

I hate this industry so fucking much

Did they shrink her tits?

Probably, yeah

These people would make a succubus at the very least frumpy if not actively ugly. Not to do a thing or tell anything about her character but as a reflex

More blemishes to fend off the dread gaze of males.

Vampires are already a perversion of humanity, having them be trans and gay somewhat fits.

This board's noisy minority chronically judges books by covers, or prerendered trailer screenshots more often than not

here's your map bro

bisexual

Cant tell if Yesler and James St or Olive Way and Stewart St.

tfw pre-ordered years ago

AAAAAAA I'M RETARDED

This. I don't believe a single retard on this board has read a dev log, let alone this game's which had explicitly outlined choice of gender

What's it like being a retard?

which had explicitly outlined choice of gender

and?

You can still cancel bro

Lmao

I'm suddenly appreciating CP2077 a lot more.

Is that supposed to be the male version?

No the female one...

Wow... exactly the aesthetic I think of when I think VTM.

the rpg for sure, but vidya only recently became as pozzed as rpgs and fantasy literature

Grrrr, why don't the immortal beings who are bored of life adhere to reatrictive human social constructs like gender presentation! Who ever heard of vampires so ambivalent to our relatively fleeting cultural impositions!

they cut all the best girls

Instead of a uniquely made character where you are a thinblood who diablerized a vampire and you get to manipulate disciplines around from your thinblood abilities to your clan, you now play as a fixed le ancient sleeping vampire character that has a fixed story and is voice acted.

This is going to bomb, isn't it...

you seem to think non-binary existed before obama

My issue with this cover is a design one, as in it's dark, muddy and boring with nothing to catch the eye. You can barely see what's in it if you're not looking as a fullsize version of it. If this is in a lineup with other titles, your eyes will slide right off it to the next game without absorbing any information in the image. The character itself looks like a background NPC that would be waiting for the bus on the street where the more interesting main character is doing things, before getting launched into the stratosphere with 10 others like her by a stray AI ambulance. It's completely the fault of the designer here too, since plenty of other games have grim, boring nobodies on their covers and still manage to make it at least semi-interesting to look at. Fix the colors, the contrast, the lighting, the zoom level, add some personality, fucking SOMEthing. There's just nothing here.

You mean Rudi?

why don't they just advertise male Phyre instead, he looks way better

People who don't dress themselves according to their genitals have always existed, by many names. Vampires don't exist at all. So it's people trying to enforce dress codes on someone else's completely fictional creation. Absurd.

I've only played the game is all the vtm lore this fucking gay or is this a new addition?

They literally have a whole system to attempt to appear like they’re human and adhere to the social constructs of human society. The punishment for breaking it for two of the major factions is execution and the ones that don’t care about it are literal psychotic vampire supremacist. It’s in the name of the series for fuck sake.

of course he does.

That doesn't look half bad

Possibly the worst monkey paw I’ve ever experienced. I wished for a sequel to VtMB for years, and this is what we’re getting. It’s so bad I’d honestly hoped they’d cancelled it altogether. Feels fucking atrocious.

The protagonist is literally from the 17th century and are now waking up from an over century long sleep in the modern them adhering to dress codes and gender conventions would make more sense actually.

Just give up on this and play CK3 World of Darkness by far the best V:TM game.

People who don't dress themselves according to their genitals have always existed, by many names. Vampires don't exist at all. So it's people trying to enforce dress codes on someone else's completely fictional creation. Absurd.

It's the newest edition of the tabletop game that pretty much killed the franchise

No, though it might have been the same book if that one also has the forward telling people guilty of wrongthink not to play it

Obviously not. Old VTM was darker and noir, where being a vampire was more of a curse than a gift, where your existence is lonely, and you have an unending hunger/thirst you can't seem to quench. VTMB was the revised version. And the v5 is the tranny shit.

shes in a WoD internet show made by bara loving gay men

Why is it called V5 and what happened to V3 and 4?

This piece of shit has been on my steam wishlist since 2019

You know, I kind admire this level of conviction. They are willing to risk financial ruin to spread their message, no matter what. I have never seen any other religious organization or group burn cash in this manner.

I just want my game bro...please white wolf sama...I just want my game.

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH! ITS THE ONLY REASON I PLAY WoD!

There is VTM 1, VTM 2, VTM Revised, VTM 20th Anniversary, and because it's the 5th iteration they just called their new made dogshit v5.

This is supposed to be an Elder Vampire BTW.

pic.
It was the same book.

guns are temporary “buffs” and not actual items or equipment

She looks like that one vegan cat.

I don't see it...

So I can spend some blood(?) to get a gun? Retarded. The game sure has changed.

Me to bro. I was so desperate I turned to chat gpt and grok for my fix of vampire baddies.

I'm not proud of this. I am simply saying its hard out here for a fellow chocolate brother from a different mother.

People liked vtmb because of how much of an rpg it is. You have a rich character sheet and get to have really different rp experiences based on their clan.
So you can automatically tell that this new game instantly goes against the spirit of the original from the get go since it forces you to play a specific faggot with a specific faggot look and fag background.

That speed!

To be fair! If you're an elder. Why the fuck do you need a gun?

I am unashamed

Thanks

It really is beautiful, isn't it?

JUST KEEP PAINTING THAT MAP RETARD

Steam AI says its similar to shadows of war and cyberpunk 2077.

I'm intrigued, but I'm not sold.

If it's a good game then I don't really give a shit, that's the problem with so many of these games the past 10 years or so, they are just mediocre or outright terrible and then on top of that you have journalists calling you a racist chud for not liking them, that's only going to push people further to the right. If they are good games less people would give a flying shit but here we are.

100% this girl uses a rolled-up sock to stuff into her underwear.

Yeah, one of the big problems with the first game was that the characters were just too fucking sexy and cool.
Well done developers for changing that.

it did something even worse, being an unfinished piece of shit rpg book

Thats a man

She's just like me!??

game about a bunch of manipulative fags with special powers that make them stronger than the majority of humans and also fucking immortal

only exist by parasitizing the population so they can go on forever being leeches and infighting

rightly get called monsters for this, cry that they have to pretend to not be useless fucked up predators so they don't get treated mean

"no, we are the oppressed ones and it's the other parties that are the bourgeois"

I can see why vampire lore appeals to them.

it should be illegal to give an IP this big to any studio who hasn't produced at least one critically hailed Triple A hit. a law like that would kill so many dogshit licensed games. this is like letting a bunch of randoms develop Half-Life 3 or the next Elder Scrolls.

We should've been happy with nothing. Now I only feel disappointment

brother it's a tiny, irrelevant IP

What the fuck is this fragmented sentence bullshit? Learn English retard.

your pp is tiny and irrelevant

yeah, just like VTM

It's definitely not a normie brand.
But then Elden Ring is weird as fuck and sold millions.
But the new one will be full of homos, troons, and blatant anti-white politics so its gonna be DOD. The audience for that is ... well... Dustborn audience sized.

This is why you'll never get to fuck a brujah. Why you will never get to be with a woman of the night.
Die alone, with an untouched pp.

Not being able to play in 3rd person is lame. First-person melee combat is terrible to play.

Remove Malkavian and Toreador

Don't include cool shit like Nosferatu

Add lolwat random shitty Banu Haqim instead

Are they trying to appeal to the le stealth assassin AssCreed faggots??

Nosferatu and Gangrel*

THE MODS WILL FIX THE GAME RIGHT? SOMEONE WILL PATCH TZIMSICE R-RIGHT?

Tracing images takes a lot of time and effort anon.
They are still being caught tracing, across multiple books too.

Is this just a thread where everyone's crying that white wolf treats their fans like shit?

No I suppose I wouldn't fuck a prostitute

they removed weapons and added a mechanic to use telekinesis in order to grab an enemy weapon and fire it against them for as long as there are bullets in the clip

I am very dissapointed.

No.

nobody actually cares about the game because it's bad

youtu.be/a2cXtEoGx7E

Male Phyre voice is kind of cool.

It only looks like shit, that doesn't mean it is shit.

Banu Haqim

The fuck is that

Muslim vampires who are basically rules lawyers. No fun allowed kind of dudes.

I meant to ask this when Rudi was brought up, but are Vampire vampires weak to all religious iconography, none, or only Christian?

Hey this is how I know they're making it an accurate sequel. It's just as unfinished as the first! Hyukhyuk

WTF WHY DO THEY KEEP PUSHING THE FEMALE WHEN HE EXISTS???

Male Phyre voice

I thought that was Fabian aka not-Johnny Silverhand

There's no social capital in it

Umm it's body type A not female

Banu Haqim are the clan of vampire assassins that do a lot of diablerizing as payment when you want their deeds.

They are weak to true faith. Doesn't matter which.
You literally have to believe in God (any god), so hard that you basically look at the vampire and say 'na you're fake and gay and my god says you're a bitch and don't exist.'

And then you win. That's basically like level 4 true faith.

They use to be called Assamites (Children of the Haqim). They are the Middle Eastern clan, and

The most loyal of the Assamites believe that other vampires are a plague that needs to be exterminated

gross, it's just like the new Deus Ex games or Assassin's creed.

AAA slop.

i think it's one of the great tabletop settings, and that Bloodlines is a peerless cult classic. maybe it doesn't make Pokémon money, but it should still be treated with more reverance than getting lobbed to devs with no resume.

There never was one in HSL. There is one in TCR, named Safia.

That's just Fabian.

I still don't understand why TCR of all studios. How?? Who approached who in this instance, how would Paradox even know of a small studio known for walking sims and why would TCR be comfortable taking over a full fledged RPG?

me on the right

I have never seen any other religious organization or group burn cash in this manner.

You should look up Harold Camping.

They're talking about Elif from the HSL version

I'm aware. She's not brown.

I just want Antribu mod to get updates so I can play my samedi again…

Light brown? Elif is a Turkish/Arab name and she doesn't really look white.

First person? I remember playing the first one in third person…….and quitting at the ocean hotel

spoiler

it was scary to be fair

That’s what made it so amazing, your a badass bloodsucking mother fucker, and just one punny ghost sends you running with your tail between your leg… go play or watch a playthrough of the Wraith VR game… it’s like if someone made the beach house into a entire game and it’s terrifying.

Truth is I am so eager to playing a new Vampire themed RPG that I will end up playing even if it sucks on various areas... I mean, I liked Vampyr and judging most people's view on it it was a pretty shitty vampire game.

Hoping they can get the world right and the quests at least.

Breaking the masquerade's rules is just a "Wanted level", GTA-style.

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So how are they going to explain him living that long? Either he wis and independent ghoul which the Inquisition will not be down with or a vampire himself which they will be even less down with.

Vampyr cons were that it made you fight against the controls + all the tedious backtracking.

They remind me of that vampire unit they created to fight Blade in BLADE II.

Astarion at home

this is gaming in 2025

He's clearly not part of the Inquisition.

They said he was a part of the Order of Saint Leopold.

At least one good thing to look forward to.

was != is
And that's an in-universe bit of speculation.

Is he doing new tracks, or are these the ones made for the HSL version?

The ones from the HSL version it seems.

The writers aren’t smart enough to write something like that and not have him be in the order. He will end up being the super secret ghoul/vamp hunter that no one says anything about.

The tremere one looks so fucking bad on female Phyre...

TCR approached paradox. Who the fuck knows why or how.

Those are at least functional games.

Um there are multiple female models to pick from, right?

Paradox was desperate. These are the only people who would take it.

No.

this pic

SEXY MILF

Garou claws typed that post

Assamite was too "racist" for the newer writers, So they made it lame and gay.

Do you have ANY faith in this game?

That's just placeholder box art, at least I sure fucking hope it is. The Hardsuit Labs version at least looked cool and inviting in its own way, but right now its just some nameless bloke on the cover.

This is like the 5th AAA RPG where the protag has someone else talking in their head. What the fuck is going on? Are all RPG developers advocating schizos now?

looks like LaCroix with poofier hair

No. This is a celebration. It's the new Duke Nukem forever. The game is CURSED BY CAINE. Even DNF didnt refund all preorders like this game did.

refunded all preorders

outfits

hair

Is the "female" model salvageable with these I wonder? There are obviously zero tits and ass.

No, it is not. It is much darker, as someone else remarked it’s very noir. Kindred are depicted as being an echo of their former selves, cursed by the sins of their progenitor. Certainly there were characters that were a kind of caricature like Rudi, like some crazy hobo fighting against the machine. But they were depicted much as a figure you’d expect to look at home in the music video for “Do the Evolution.”

depicted as being an echo of their former selves

I think I miss the diablerist thin blood thing from the HSL version. Shitty Swansong didn't use thinbloods either I don't think.

Diablerie is supposed to be a big fucking deal that marks you KOS for like a thousand+ years, but it's still really fucking cool and could have worked, kinda. I have 0 hope for the story making any fucking sense now though after 3 rewrites.

Wait you have a tiny pp? Lmao

Garou

HEAVY PETTING

Maybe they're trying to ape Disco Elysium and are doing it in the shittiest, laziest way possible?
Actually, was DE even successful enough to warrant mainstream imitators?

And it was always pretty accurate.

There are bunch of clones already released and upcoming, why not. Slay the Princess was also "inspired" by DE's voices. It seems to be a leftist cultural thing.

this makes me support the Trump tariffs. whatever money goes around in the industry, this egregious War on Aesthetics, needs to be taken away. all incentive for shareholders and rich AAA CEO's who got finance degrees and hate gamers need to get rugpulled. id rather play short pixelated indie games because they Respect Aesthetics

Perhaps it all stems from the popularity of Fable, or maybe something else, but I think it's just a popular narrative crutch to explain away in-game hints and tips.

How do you think video games are affected by tariffs? Physical copies manufactured abroad? Hardware devs need to buy (from abroad) increasing costs?

i see stock markets plunging as a good thing. i want less money wasted on stupid shit. too much money is invested into the gaming industry to make it like hollywood and then its all about giving ROI to shareholders via ESG funds and selling RDR2slop to retarded console normies who lap up the marketing instead of designing a proper game. i want games with far lower budgets, so they dont spend all the money on ray tracing garbage and face capture of real live actors while giving us moviegames with zero gameplay. Make Games Great Again

indie scene has already humiliated the gaming industry with Schedule 1, gaming industry crash is coming but the release of GTA VI will be the tipping point for that.

I suppose it's an angle. You may as well type "I want the AAA industry to collapse", because they'd sooner go bankrupt then get rid of the useless managerial class.

if stonks and economy crash maybe the propagandists will pull out of gaming. just a thought. indie reigns supreme though

what annoys me most of this game is the forced background of not only starting as a vamp, but being some centuries old vampire. Why the fuck do they think I want to play someone elses save? Even the original knew to start it right before you got sired.

seedy, hedonistic degenerate dystopic society filled with bizarre oddballs

does it not make complete sense for it to have dykes and trannies and shit?

propagandists will pull out of gaming

Lmao. Not unless it UTTERLY collapses which it fucking won't.

People who don't dress themselves according to their genitals have always existed, by many names.

false

wtf

It looks like shit. Male protag is enough of a pretty boy though, because of course.

lol

man that sucks, i think layers of fear had some controversy about how much it copied but i thought it was an alright game

but i liked Dear Esther so maybe i'm just a retard who likes incoherent babbling in my ear while i look at nice/horrific scenes

bruh this is gonna be the sequel to dark not bloodlines or vampyr

spanish inquisitor

they are gonna dunk on him so bad

because it doesn't have to be the protagonist, but the NPCs that are that.

They are willing to risk financial ruin to spread their message

They get more money for pushing it.

current fanbase of VTM it's almost certainly 100% woketard libs.

This has always been 100% the case bro ever since the 90's. VTM was the TTRPG for edgelords and wannabe goths. Basically the fucking nerds of nerds playing dressup back then and its still the case.

santiago

he's going to be a dark and mysterious spaniard with a thin mustache or goatee

wearing a dapper suit that accentuates his broad and muscular frame

you can embrace him, ghoul him or at the very least romance him

yes, that's how we get the cat lady audience schlicking their beans

When you manage to remove thrl) punk, goth, horror and seduction from vampires in one swoop. It impressive how utterly toothless this is.

let's re-educate the chuds

by taking one of their favorite things

and removing everything they like

surely they'll show up just for the IP

and this time, THIS TIME, it'll be different

they'll finally learn to stop being so heckin

TRAAAAANSPHOOOOBIC

oh and racist or sexist or whatever

Vampire: "Please, they're gonna kill me if I tell you."

Phyre: "Hmm... that's suspicious."

Fabian: "He's hiding something!"

Dialogue options:

>Interrogate him.

>Politely ask him what he's talking about.

>Threaten him.

They would have a much easier time Trojaning their repulsive ideology if they didn't also make everything LOOK repulsive as well. Thank God for the male gaze.