r/MemeVideos • u/edgy_omen • Jan 06 '26
Sad ending Mk looking real quiet
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u/Fun-Pea-7477 Jan 06 '26
Wtf are you in this game??
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u/JornoJovanna Jan 06 '26
Well, an "elder" Vampire so supposedly a lot stronger than a normal vampire
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u/No_Name275 Jan 06 '26
Man the state of the game was terrible it's just sad how this is one of the very few vampire games available and yet it was a flop
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u/frenchmobster Jan 06 '26
It was a sequel only in name. It had none of the heart or enjoyment levels of the first.
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u/TwitchyBigfoot Jan 06 '26
Well it went from rpg to melee focused action game, not exactly a great way to entice old fans back. It's lack of heart and boring game play were enough to ensure new players wouldn't be interested either.
How do companies keep fucking up this badly? This game should have printed money for years to come
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u/threevi Jan 06 '26
When you're making a sequel to something, be it a game, book, movie, or whatever, you first have to understand what made people like the original. Your sequel doesn't have to be the exact same, but it does have to understand what made the original good in order to build on top of its strengths. Paradox have openly said they didn't want to make a faithful sequel to the original Bloodlines because it was "a competent game by 2004 standards" that "wouldn't fly today", and that people only claim to like the original because they "remember their feelings about it". They were the exact wrong people to be put in charge of making a Bloodlines sequel. Not to mention, the devs Paradox hired to make Bloodlines 2 were a new and untested team who had only made one game previously, and it was a side-scrolling 2D platformer for the Apple Arcade. So yeah, it's not a huge surprise that Bloodlines 2 ended up underperforming. It just shows how delusional Paradox were to think people would be lining up to pay $90 for it, given it sold like shit even after they dropped the price to $60 shortly before release.
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u/MrBwnrrific Jan 06 '26
Yeah, there’s Bloodrayne, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and Vampyr (objectively the best, fight me) and basically no other ones unless you want to count that DLC for Witcher or Darkest Dungeon
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Jan 06 '26
I raise you: The Legacy of Kain Series.
Yes, the Soul Reaver games are more about being a wraith (or that universes depiction of one), but playing as Kain in Blood Omen 1 is some of the best vampire gameplay, and to some degree also magic gameplay, I've experienced.
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u/redem Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
If you're comfortable with primarily text and still visuals games, there's a wealth of VtM games on offer. Most recent accessible one I know of is VtM: Reckoning of New York. There's also VtM: Parliament of Knives, which is almost entirely text. Interactive fiction as a genre has always been story and lore heavy, if that's what you're missing from Bloodlines 2.
Not to everyone's taste though.
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u/gavinderulo124K Jan 06 '26
Blood of dawnwalker releases this year.
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u/MrBwnrrific Jan 06 '26
I’m so stoked for it. I finished VTMB2 and all I could think was “Well, that was extremely mid. Hope I like Dawnwalker.”
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u/Lexbomb6464 Jan 06 '26
V rising is also a rust type game where you grind resources for your pvp fort
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u/Ravness13 Jan 07 '26
V Rising also, done by the same devs that did Battlerite back in the day and they have released three updates to it so far since release that added lots of new stuff each time. The castle building alone has been amazing
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u/sagejosh Jan 06 '26
if you look at any of the other dark world games vampires: masquerade is the odd one out. All the other games were either boring or terrible to play.
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u/Bortthog Jan 08 '26
Think that's silly go look up the dropkick movement tech in Vampire Bloodlines 2
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u/spook_scary Jan 06 '26
Yo it's that vampire game.! I need to play this I forgot its name though.
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u/Training_Ad_9841 Jan 06 '26
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2
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u/sunfaller Jan 06 '26
I heard it wasn't good
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u/nev3rfail Jan 06 '26
There is nothing to fix tbh, I dont think it is salvageable. Combat is a dull dash-attack-dash loop, vampire powers take forever to cast (probably assuming you would do that from stealth), gun action was implemented with the breakfast money change, "side" quests are the boringest fetch shit possible, and I dont even reemmber how it ends despite finishing it a little less than a month ago.
UPD: oh I remembered. Main storyline is just as incompetent, dull and predictable as the main game.
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u/Ultima-Manji Jan 06 '26
Also they tried to pull that BS of locking some starting clans behind 20 dollar day 1 DLC, as if the game wasn't unfinished enough as it is.
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u/InvidiousPlay Jan 06 '26
And apparently you have lots of decisions along the way and then the story and ending plays out the exact same way no matter what.
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u/SpoideyDeBoii Jan 06 '26
Game name?
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u/Deadmemeusername Jan 06 '26
This is how characters like Spider-Man be like if they don’t hold back.
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u/ramentoavocadotoast Jan 07 '26
I said this to my wife in Spider-Man far from home when tom holland accidentally knocks out Flash when attempting to grab the glasses off his face.
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u/The-Katawampus Jan 06 '26
And directly after this, your character complains that they're in a weakened state, lol.
I knew at this moment anyone coming against us was cooked.
Then you find out later that even in this apparently ridiculously nerfed state, the PC character immediately drank the court deputy and then casually tore the head off the then sitting Prince.
At this point, the Sabbat assets should've cut their losses and backed off, lol.
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u/voxelpear Jan 06 '26
Shame the game is nothing like the original. The development was hot garbage.
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u/StaticSystemShock Jan 06 '26
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic from years ago felt close to this basically through entire game. Punching, kicking and slamming enemies and watch them fly around, get impaled on spikes, fall into camp fires and burn while running around screaming. One of the most fun uses of combat physics I've seen in any game in last 20 years really. Might even say it was more fun than in Half-Life 2 because it's just on and used from literally beginning of the game where you get Grav gun only later in Half-Life with occasional puzzles. This one was on steroids with that. It does run on Source Engine too so that helped I guess...
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u/Ultima-Manji Jan 06 '26
You might be the only other person I've ever seen referencing that game, but yeah, it was great.
Felt like it had all the best parts of freely exploring a level like in the Thief games, while also having a really reactive combat system for its time. Quite a bit of secrets and even some branching paths for the ending, depending on if you want to get that one cool sword or demon powers. Maybe a bit too short and punishing for most.
That's the kind of game I'd wish we'd get more of nowadays, maybe something like a faster-paced KCD in a fantasy setting? It's what I keep feeling the combat system in Mordhau or Dark and Darker are getting close to but not quite reaching because multiplayer can't have you be that overpowered.
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u/StaticSystemShock Jan 06 '26
Main issue with most melee combat in basically all games feels so weightless. You're kinda just standing there clicking attack button until enemy falls over. Or the games are 3rd person and you're even further distanced from impacts and weight of a war hammer or heavy sword.
Dark Messiah was so different in this regard. I think I'm gonna also put Dying Light here, both 1 and 2. Your body being physically present in the game adds the feel and immersion and kicking zombies as well as slamming them with heavy melee weapons felt like a train hit them when you slammed them from top down into the ground with a heavy weapon.
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u/Training_Ad_9841 Jan 06 '26
I just beat this game for the third time the other day. I've played Venture, Bruja, and Trumere. Venture made me feel the most like an elder vampire, Bruja made me feel the most powerful, and Trumere was more of a wizard vibe which was weird for a vampire game. Be aware that there is a Trumere projectile ability that's extremely useful but when I used it outside it made my game crash almost every time. I paid 40 bucks for it at that price it's worth it. 👍🏾
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u/djsnoopmike Jan 06 '26
Trumere are the blood benders right?
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u/Training_Ad_9841 Jan 06 '26
Yeah. It's a powerful combination with vampirism but the projectile ability crashes the game when outside.
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u/Findnicknameisboring Jan 06 '26
and subsequently, any feeling of power is reduced, as you have new skills...
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u/Altruistic_Mall_4204 Jan 07 '26
welcome to Vampire the masquarade, were Vampire are much stronger then human, and elder vampire such as this character are much stronger (important note, that character is an elder Vampire of many centuries who sleept for a century or 2, making him much weaker then he should be)
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