First off just wanna say I have played through VTM:B I think six times in total, sadly I don’t think I ever played the Unofficial patch. It’s truly one of my favorite RPGs of all time. It’s a great game.

That said I have genuinely little faith in the sequel. I don’t even think I’m being cynical about big box AAA RPGs and all that jazz, I just don’t think this specific project is going to meet expectations. It has had a long and weird development and not in “they overcame impossible odds” sorts of endearing way. Just plain production and development issues.

I think the heat scars of development hell will leave this game creatively all over the place. They lost key staff at the old studio, the old studio had organization switch ups, switched publishers, lost key staff again, and then the game then switched developers. I’m not saying a good game can’t come out of this sort of development, but I don’t think a cohesive creative vision can. This especially concerning for me as this is a game were tone and mood are paramount to the fantasy fun factor.

I think a great VTM:B style is needed now more than ever and I think most players would really dig it. I especially think younger katz will really like how WoD games are all about forging new understandings self/identity with weird makeshift families will raging against existing often unjust hierarchies. However, I feel like the news surrounding this project since its announcement make me feel like were going to get a “just release something” sort of title. Any MEGACORP AAA publisher like Paradox probably wants this mess offer their books. Again I’m not trying to be cynical or salty.