no character creation? wtf

[RobeRonin]

just a example of how games used to be better lol

[potato]

no, you play phyre from fyre festival

[AC Denton]

Yes there is no character creation.
This game seems to be Bloodlines in name only. They should have called it something else, "rebirth" or something. It looks good on its own without using a name it'll never live up to.

[RobeRonin]

Originally posted by potato:

no, you play phyre from phyre festival

wow so forced into a female protagonist role lol what a shame been wanting a sequel to vtm for a long long time but im not buying this!

[RobeRonin]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Yes there is no character creation.
This game seems to be Bloodlines in name only. They should have called it something else, "rebirth" or something. It looks good on its own withing using a name it'll never live up to.

crazy time we live in!

[Gesuma]

Nope... you are not forced to play female - there is a male version as well.
We do seem to have less customisation than what kids a used to these days. They have not revealed how much we can change visually and all we have seen is the female MC with different colour nails, hair and eyes. Cloth can be changed in game an apparently changes some of the dialog that happens in the game.
So far we have seen no sign of abilities or other types of stats for our character. Only vampire powers (with those we got about 6 for each clan and can gain additional vamp power from other clans to mix into it) and it looks like we can only have 4 activated powers available as we play.
There seem to be no inventory and no weapons for our character, so only vampire powers and unarmed fighting.

[RobeRonin]

Originally posted by Gesuma:

Nope... you are not forced to play female - there is a male version as well.
We do seem to have less customisation than what kids a used to these days. They have not revealed how much we can change visually and all we have seen is the female MC with different colour nails, hair and eyes. Cloth can be changed in game an apparently changes some of the dialog that happens in the game.
So far we have seen no sign of abilities or other types of stats for our character. Only vampire powers (with those we got about 6 for each clan and can gain additional vamp power from other clans to mix into it) and it looks like we can only have 4 activated powers available as we play.
There seem to be no inventory and no weapons for our character, so only vampire powers and unarmed fighting.

then what kids are used to these days ? nah the whole point of the post was that games in this modern era have far less options and yer the whole strong part of vampire the masquerade was dialog and making your own character through RPG mechanics !

[Coffee Break Hero]

in the future we will only have 1 option because there's only 1 correct thought to think on everything and that's cocain

[Abaddon]

Way to go Rockso

Originally posted by Coffee Break Hero:

in the future we will only have 1 option because there's only 1 correct thought to think on everything and that's cocain

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by RobeRonin:

Originally posted by potato:

no, you play phyre from phyre festival

wow so forced into a female protagonist role lol what a shame been wanting a sequel to vtm for a long long time but im not buying this!

No, there is a male option.

Based on what we've seen though there is no difference between the two.

[RobeRonin]

Originally posted by W.R. Winter:

Originally posted by RobeRonin:

then what kids are used to these days ? nah the whole point of the post was that games in this modern era have far less options and yer the whole strong part of vampire the masquerade was dialog and making your own character through RPG mechanics !

nah bro, go back to the original cRPGs. those had no character customization whatsoever. kids these days are just spoiled by the Black Deserts and the Code Veins, ok?
/s

this is not true not only are all the games you mentioned CRPG and not just RPG`s even that bracket had many games that allow character customisation ie fallout ! the fact is the best part about this particular franchise and game known as vampire the masquerade had horrible combat and pretty bad over all game design however writing dialog and outcomes was top notch along with voice acting ! and all of this influenced heavily vy character creation and choices easily being the best parts and making the identity of this franchise on computer now you can tell 2 seconds of watching game play the focus is not on RPG and narrative but trying to make some fancy game play with horrible narrative and dialog lo alongside o character options basically the complete opposite of what made the original good!

[Baphomeat]

Originally posted by Gesuma:

We do seem to have less customisation than what kids a used to these days.

What are you one about?
Oblivion had more customization than this game.
Dark Sun for DOS had more customization.
M.U.D.s have more customization than this game.

This isn't 'what a kids used to' this is 'what elders are used too'... Newer games have jack for customization while older games even games that ran on PCs prior to them being Windows or Mac... had more indepth customization...

Gumby a game on a floppy disk had more in the way of customization...

NOTE: The rest of this is more to add to the topic at hand not really in reference to the quote above.

You get a choice of 4 clans (Tremere, Ventrue, Banu, Brujah).... out of the 13 core clans... we are missing the options of Losombra, Hecata, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Ravnos, Salubri, Toreador, and Tzimisce.

NOW let's say they needed one that fit with the Cairo narative... well even then we're missing a few options... Anpu was a prominent vampire in ancient times (Gangrel), The Methuselah Ramessu were Ravnos, even the Nosferatu were there in ancient times. You also have to take into account that even the Hecata were active there in the form of the Cappadocians. Don't forget that there was the group allied with the Camarilla called Ashirra who were made up of Brujah, Banu, Losmbra, and Banu.

Let's see groups so far who were active in Egypt around the time Phyre would have been there ore prior to them... Losombra, Hecata, Gangrel, Ravnos, Nosferatu, Banu, Brujah. Want to know what options are on the final list that don't have much historical precedence? Tremere and Ventrue.

NOW that said... I think all clans should be available mainly because they could all have easily been operating in the region I just don't have any knowledge of Tremere, Ventrue, Malkavian, Toreador, Salubri or Tzimisce being there off the top of my head... but they all COULD have been there.... so to limit the options for the sequel is asinine.

[warb]

There are 14 character models across 7 clans in the original. The 4 clans in this game share the same 2 generic/boring models.

You were a blank slate in the Original. You're Phyre the Vampire in this one, with a voice in your head for quips and exposition.

[RobeRonin]

Originally posted by warb:

There are 14 character models across 7 clans in the original. The 4 clans in this game share the same 2 generic/boring models.

You were a blank slate in the Original. You're Phyre the Vampire in this one, with a voice in your head for quips and exposition.

yer how horrible!

[Yak Black]

No character creation and you have to play as the most non-threatening, conformist edgelord PHampire ever. Oh well plenty of other games to play instead.

[warb]

Originally posted by Sparhawk122:

Boring modern gaming following the woke trends.

What's so woke about being forced to play as same white male and white female across all clans when there were 3(?) black character option in the original?