So, VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE: BLOODLINES 2 really is moving forward…

…and all we have to worry about is the minor detail that games that go through this kind of development hell don’t so much have two strikes against them as they’ve been hit twice with a baseball bat. I’m not saying that VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE: BLOODLINES 2 is fated to suck, only that it’s a pretty good bet that it will. It’s also already annoyed me, because apparently there will not be a Toreador option. How am I to do my Humanity 10, Perky Goth Queen of the Repentant Damned playthrough if I can’t play a Toreador?

…Look, for the amount of money I spent on preordering, if I want to play this game like I was Twilight Freaking Sparkle then that’s what I’m gonna do.

The “I will believe it when I see more of it” VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – BLOODLINES 2 trailer.

Supposedly VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – BLOODLINES 2 is back, and will premiere in 2024. Anybody believe that? Anybody think that having an entirely new studio take over isn’t a bad sign? In other words: anybody else feeling cynical, on this fine Saturday night?

…Well, what the heck. I already paid for it. Clearly I was allowing myself a certain amount of hope anyway.

The new “Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2” trailer.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 looks good, although that guy at the start is precisely the sort of person that my Humanity 10 Toreador would stake on sight and then claim she was just cynically enforcing the Masquerade. I’m just a big ol’ softy, me*. Seven months to go before I can play it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6dTGZ11v7U

Moe Lane

*Unless you’re Society of Leopold. I was catching myself getting very intense when it came to those SOBs and their crossbows.