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[–] Corvid@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.