Vampire: The Masquerade Sequel! Bloodlines!

DOOManiac

<div class="IPBDescription">HAPPY DAY! :D :D :D</div>I cried <b>w00t</b> when I read this on Gamespot:

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->We have the first details from Activision on the company's upcoming role-playing game, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Bloodlines will combine first-person action with role-playing elements, and it is being developed by Troika Games, the studio that was responsible for the 2001 RPG Arcanum, and which was also founded by RPG veterans Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson, who helped create the Fallout role-playing game series. The game will be powered by Valve Software's Source engine, which is also being used by Valve to develop Half-Life 2. According to Valve Software cofounder Gabe Newell, "With Vampire, Troika is proving [that the] Source [engine] can reach beyond the world of FPS games. The character system, rendering abilities, and contextual AI features of Source, combined with the veteran RPG design talent at Troika, is a great representation of the innovation we hope to enable with this technology." <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Read more <a href='http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/vtmb/news_6026275.html' target='_blank'>here</a>.

I'm very happy about this. I know a lot of people flat out didn't like the last Vampire game, but in my opinion it is the best RPG I've ever played. I absolutely LOVE that game. And now we get a new one! On the HL2 engine! With FPS elements! :D And from the guys who made Fallout! :D :D :D

loofbote

omg pwn <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
/me dies

UZi

The game was fuggin TIGHT!!!

Too bad its mutli was as bad as diablo minus the actual quests.

you can't do **** with 4 players and one map...it suxors

UZi

Naw **** that I want a Hellsing game. Wouldn't it be tight to progress through the game whe'll using certain cast members.



STEEL THREADS!!!!!!

roachems

i'm not much of a rpg fan

i played diablo 2 for a while, until i realized that the game kinda sucks.....

Injury

Does this mean I can make Father D? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

pardzh

<i>YES</i>

I absolutely <i>love</i> the World of Darkness universe and everything that goes with it. I read the books, play RP MUD's on it, bought the game, everything except actually play the PnP roleplaying games.

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Can't wait!

redeemed_darkness

*me jumps up and down in joy*

Nemesis_Zero

I'm still waiting for a Mage game, but until then, I'll be happy to play the Bruhja a little longer <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Shockeh

Mage = Bleh.

Vampire is still the only White Wolf game that actually is fun, and isn't a carbon copy of one of the others.

Oh, and why would you CHOOSE to be a Brujah Nem?

Dirty_Harry_Potter

prefer malkavians <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

what i though was bad about the vampire game was that it was too different from the original Pen and paper game (it didn't use the 1-5 skill lvls, but a 1-100 system...). and the multiplayer system s*****, only 4 players <i>including</i> the storyteller...and only 2 maps with quests included in the game. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Cowswin

Comparing Diablo 2 to RPGs will get you killed in some areas of the US. In my opinion, it's a hell of a lot more like an action game than anything else. Like Quake but with a top down view.

Nemesis_Zero

<!--QuoteBegin--Shockwave+May 6 2003, 02:30 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shockwave @ May 6 2003, 02:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh, and why would you CHOOSE to be a Brujah Nem? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because I'm a bitter, bitter bastage.

I'll have to admit that I did as of yet not play White Wolf games (my group is hooked to SR and Cthulhu), I'm just interested in Mages background, which is easily the most interesting 'contemporary magic' scenario I've come across yet.

As for the 'copy' stuff, they all play in the same world. Drastic changes to the rules in one of them would break that. Get over it, pick the part you like, and ignore the rest.
Although I'll have to admit that I'm just about fed up with the 'clans' each and everything is subdivided in. Classes are a relic of the past (and D&D).

Marik_Steele

Woah, woah, wait a second here. Sequel to Vampire? HL2 engine? An RPG being worked on by people who did <i>Fallout</i>?

Jeebus, why haven't I heard of this yet? I've been spending too much time lamenting how horrible Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel seems to be so far, and not enough time seeing where the real designers of real Fallout series games actually went.

Thanks for the news!

pardzh

<!--QuoteBegin--Shockwave+May 6 2003, 02:30 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shockwave @ May 6 2003, 02:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Vampire is still the only White Wolf game that actually is fun, and isn't a carbon copy of one of the others.
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WW:TA isn't bad at all.

Gee, so many people on here play or are interested in WoD, I never knew. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dirty_Harry_Potter

i got some Vampire books(core book, Story tellers handbook malkavian clanbook ed 2 and 3.), never really played it though, only 1 quickie,
i also have a bunch of Shadowrun books - core book(cut all paged out and put them in a folder), Cannon Companien, Man and Machine, Magic in the Shadows, Corperate download, Matrix and SR companien all 3rd ed. - also made some reference sheets for SR at <a href='http://www.rpghoard.com' target='_blank'>RPGhoard</a>

moultano

Open your eyes . . . and awaken!

DOOManiac

<!--QuoteBegin--Marik_Steele+May 6 2003, 11:23 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ May 6 2003, 11:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Woah, woah, wait a second here. Sequel to Vampire? HL2 engine? An RPG being worked on by people who did <i>Fallout</i>?

Jeebus, why haven't I heard of this yet? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No one had heard of it. Its one of those pre-E3 announcements that always happens this time of year. Doesn't mean any work is done on the game past planning stages or anything though. :P But we can hope there is! :)