https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-has-been-delayed-again-this-time-until-the-first-half-of-2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 was first scheduled for release in 2020, but it continues to be delayed, and delayed, and delayed.
I'm surprised it's not cancelled yet.
I think at this point its development is even more troubled than the original, which is kinda impressive in its own way.
This is at least the second attempt to make VTMB2. The original version by Hardsuit Labs was entirely scrapped and restarted at The Chinese Room.
I spoke to the new devs at PAX last year and they said they were only reusing assets from the Hardsuit Labs version and otherwise completely making a new game from scratch.
This new version has only been publicly announced since late 2023, although it probably started development sometime in late 2021/early 2022.
Right, that's why I'm not convinced this will ever actually release.
Abandoning all previous work, and the fact that new devs don't exactly have experience with this genre...
I'm still gonna give it a try, but I'm not hopeful.
It's such a terrible shame that we had Brian Mitsoda and Rik Schaffer back and actually working on a sequel and none of it will see the light of day. Say what you want about Mitsoda's thin-blood protagonist idea (I'm not a fan) but watching the trailers of that" version of the game you can at least see the lineage of the original.
Poor VTMB2 is cursed.
Not to mention it will difficult for it compete with the sheer uniqueness of the original VTMB for its time.
Its beyond difficult to compare to a team that had an entire conversation tree line with a stop sign.
The Stop Sign gets a lot of the attention, but the TV host was the highlight of the Malkavian run for me. When I heard
Police say that vigilantism will not be tolerated, and that they know it was you.
it stopped me in my tracks because I really didn't expect it. And the conversation with the TV host is as funny as the stop sign I think.
I cancelled my preorder years ago and don't regret it one bit. The last 4 games I ever preordered: Shenmue 3, No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. Never again.
Wow, this title can't catch a break. Though given how little of the game the developers have shown off, this isn't too surprising honestly. I just hope this delay will be good for the game.