Yeah mark me down as well for first run being me choosing whatever feels best for my roleplay up to that moment.
I definitely intend this to be a game I play through more than once so after the first go, then I can start debating with myself about which clan to look at next.
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To be fair, I will probably do that for my first run (as that's how I preferred to do things in nWoD games anyway), but I will probably avoid Malkavian stuff.
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Malk as first run. Doing it second would just result in me analyzing the world to see what is Malk crazy and what is Malk insight. I'd like that to happen after, on reflection of the game.
And this is why having Mitsoda aboard makes all of the difference:
"This links to the million dollar question, which is “Will playing as a Malkavian be a different experience with unique dialogue?” and yes, yes it will, in a similar way to the original Bloodlines. “Because it is the expectation,” said Mitsoda, “We cannot deviate from the expectation of what the Malkavian experience is.”"
I think they're going to do things at least a little differently because everyone is aware that the early 2000s depiction of mental illness in Bloodlines is... not great.
The prior quote makes me happy because it's "Of course we're going to have Malks, and of course it has its own dialogue". That's the first thing on the chopping floor for a "good enough" kind of sequel.
Tl;dr for the rest is that they wont be as zany, they're doing lots of research, and Mitsoda is unhappy with how mental illness is generally portrayed in media.
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The reveal trailer made it sound like a Malkavian player character will deal with paranoid schizophrenia which can be a really unsettling thing to be around. It's certainly one way to make the clan weakness actually unpleasant if they pull it off.
The reveal trailer made it sound like a Malkavian player character will deal with paranoid schizophrenia which can be a really unsettling thing to be around. It's certainly one way to make the clan weakness actually unpleasant if they pull it off.
Much like any story that uses an unreliable narrator which is what malkavians always struck me as ( they will tell you what’s going to happen it’s just jumbled and it lacking the context to immediately decipher it as ) it all comes down to the writing . If the writing is engaging you will be in a state where you are confused but you are super interested in the plot and attempting to make sense of it . If it’s bad you come to the conclusion that making sense of it doesn’t matter because you don’t care about the plot to begin with and go play something better.
One of the things that sold me on the first game from previews which wasn't actually in it was the idea that Malkavians would be constantly hearing whispers with everything from puzzle hints to urgent instructions to kill. There's honestly a ton of ways to do this but many of them are in questionable taste.
For Switch and PC. Which is, like, the most unlikely platform pairing for a Western dev. I'm actually wondering why it's not also coming to the Xbox One and PS4.
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I don't think we discussed in here how the Malk they used for the Malk trailer looks to be the same character they have been using on the other promo stuff. The long haired fellow reaching his hand out.
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Unfortunate that the sequel to the game with the best facial animation in the history of videogames appears to have basically the worst facial animation in the history of videogames (so far, at least).
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Yeah I mean I'm holding out hope it gets better. But, nobody has surpassed the original game in many years, and in fact it's very hard to get close (most games don't do great - it's such a tough job) so if I had to bet, I'd guess that faces are not going to be a highlight of this one, unfortunately. Still, I might be wrong! I'd love it if it turns out I am.
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Q1 next year? Fuck I hope that's more February than March (without killing their employees, of course). I want time to savor this before Cyberpunk comes out.
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That's a good point. How fun!
I'm gonna try to do this, but then I'll stop the game when I have to make a choice and still deliberate for a few hours.
I definitely intend this to be a game I play through more than once so after the first go, then I can start debating with myself about which clan to look at next.
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But also what clan I go with may change what Thinblood power I'd want.
Hrmm.
Run 1) Tremere
Run 2) Malkavian
"This links to the million dollar question, which is “Will playing as a Malkavian be a different experience with unique dialogue?” and yes, yes it will, in a similar way to the original Bloodlines. “Because it is the expectation,” said Mitsoda, “We cannot deviate from the expectation of what the Malkavian experience is.”"
The full article with quotes is pretty great, and they're clearly taking a different path.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/29/malkavians-confirmed-for-bloodlines-2-we-talked-to-brian-mitsoda-on-the-new-clan-reveal/
The prior quote makes me happy because it's "Of course we're going to have Malks, and of course it has its own dialogue". That's the first thing on the chopping floor for a "good enough" kind of sequel.
Tl;dr for the rest is that they wont be as zany, they're doing lots of research, and Mitsoda is unhappy with how mental illness is generally portrayed in media.
But what if you will only ever play once?
The decision becomes that much more difficult.
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Much like any story that uses an unreliable narrator which is what malkavians always struck me as ( they will tell you what’s going to happen it’s just jumbled and it lacking the context to immediately decipher it as ) it all comes down to the writing . If the writing is engaging you will be in a state where you are confused but you are super interested in the plot and attempting to make sense of it . If it’s bad you come to the conclusion that making sense of it doesn’t matter because you don’t care about the plot to begin with and go play something better.
I agree completely. How do you feel about Ventrue? I hate them.
Was a goody two shoes though, so I never frenzied and then have to clean up after myself.
Also I loved the trailer for that clan.
Still, I'm interested in learning more.
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Fuck that's gonna be a good couple of months.
No kidding right.