At this point they’ve had time to basically go through a full development cycle post Hardsuit Labs firing, haven’t they? I think the game will be fine, it just won’t be the Bloodlines 2 we were initially promised - or wanted. As far as I know they more or less threw out 90% of the previous project, kept some assets and had The Chinese Room make a new game.
Damn, I didn’t realize the team that started with Dear Esther ended up on Bloodlines 2.
I have faith in that team, but at the same time, its… generally an ominous portent when any game’s development has a team of idiot corpo mismanagers driving the whole process.
And yes, for clarity, if its needed, Paradox is a fucking awful publisher, they don’t know how to make a ‘strategy’ game that involves any strategy other than ‘cheese the AI’, the ‘strategy’ they know is ‘keep stringing along neurotic obsessives with an endless flood of pricey dlcs and false promises.’
As usual I won’t read shit about it, pirate it when it’s out. And if it doesn’t suck (no pun intended) I’ll buy.
I’m fairly optimistic with this one though. The expectations surely are high, but it would be a horrible shame to fuck this great series up.
Especially considering it’s kinda niche customer-base. It’s not the next multiplayer war-game or FIFA.
I thought it was dumb enough when Age of Empires jumped on the bandwagon. But they managed to find something even less in-keeping with the original game’s themes…
it’ll be some kind of a miracle if the game ends up being even decent after all the tumultuous dev-hell it went through…
But I sure hope it’ll be good.
At this point they’ve had time to basically go through a full development cycle post Hardsuit Labs firing, haven’t they? I think the game will be fine, it just won’t be the Bloodlines 2 we were initially promised - or wanted. As far as I know they more or less threw out 90% of the previous project, kept some assets and had The Chinese Room make a new game.
Damn, I didn’t realize the team that started with Dear Esther ended up on Bloodlines 2.
I have faith in that team, but at the same time, its… generally an ominous portent when any game’s development has a team of idiot corpo mismanagers driving the whole process.
And yes, for clarity, if its needed, Paradox is a fucking awful publisher, they don’t know how to make a ‘strategy’ game that involves any strategy other than ‘cheese the AI’, the ‘strategy’ they know is ‘keep stringing along neurotic obsessives with an endless flood of pricey dlcs and false promises.’
The System Shock remake was really good, and that went through dev hell also, so it’s completely possible.
Yes, but the publisher (ie, corporate slave drivers) on that wasn’t Paradox.
As usual I won’t read shit about it, pirate it when it’s out. And if it doesn’t suck (no pun intended) I’ll buy. I’m fairly optimistic with this one though. The expectations surely are high, but it would be a horrible shame to fuck this great series up. Especially considering it’s kinda niche customer-base. It’s not the next multiplayer war-game or FIFA.
Remember when World of Darkness jumped on the battle royale bandwagon?
Yes. With great regret I remember this 😔
I thought it was dumb enough when Age of Empires jumped on the bandwagon. But they managed to find something even less in-keeping with the original game’s themes…