Luckily they dont really need to. Its the same as with Baldur's Gate III. ... yes, there will ALLWAYS (and i mean it litteraly) be someone claiming that this game is not worthy sucessor of that legacy.
The question is: Since its impossible ... was it even a goal?
But if you decide it is impossible to do a sequel and won’t even attempt it, why are you using the IP
I didnt mean its impossible to do "a sequel" ... That IS certainly possible as it was countless times prooved in game industry.
What i said its imposisble to do "worthy sucessor of the legacy" for EVERYONE. What i meaned (even tho maybe i didnt say it properly) is that you can never create the same game second time ... you still can create great game from same setting tho, just as good as the first one, hells ... it may in some ways be even better than original one, but it will be different, and that is what some people will be upset about ... THAT is inevidable.
Its like evolution ... It have to try new things, otherwise it stagnate and disappear ... sometimes it takes wrong turn, and sooner or later it extinct anyway ... sometimes it takes right turn, and it will direct course for next few generations ...
To me ... (feel free to replace "Bloodlines 2" with "Baldur's Gate III" ... and "Bloodlines" with "Baldur's Gate I & II.") People who are expecting Bloodlines 2 to be just like Bloodlines with different story, are destined to be disapointed ... bcs there will allways be *something* (and it will differ for each player) that will feel different than Bloodlines and that *something* will change things for them ... Its like ... i dunno ... > play Warcraft III., play World of Warcraft, or watching Warcraft movie ... > play Bloodlines, play Bloodhunt, and play Shadows of New York ... > play Metal Gear Solid, play MGR: Revengeance, and play MGS:V Phantom Pain ... > play Fallout, play Fallout: New Vegas, and play Fallout 76 ... Every single time entirely different experience, all that ties them together is that each series come from same universe. Some of those games aged like vine ... and their sequels were really great games, even tho they didnt provide "the same experience" ... since *THAT* is impossible to achieve. Other of those games aged like milk ... and that is okey, evolution have to sometimes take wrong turn, in order to find out it was wrong turn.
From all games i ever played ... Sequel that felt closest to its Predecessor ... was SW:KotOR II. It was created by same team, that started working on it litteraly just as they finished first game ... and still, the combat felt different, there was much more options, crafting and upgrading system for gear was updated, influence over your companions was added, it looked much better (duh) ... So many differences. Most of them was good ... so i didnt mind them at all, but they were without question there ... funily enough, im kinda unable to enjoy KotOR as much since i played II., bcs i miss all those improvements.
//Edit: (i didnt mean to post it yet. )
Originally Posted by Wormerine
The only reason Bloodlines2 has my attention is because Bloodlines1.
Simmilar here ... Bloodlines was my first step into World of Darkness ... as i bet it was for many other people.
But quite honestly the more i played it (i have most likely 100+ playthroughs done, all clans, both genders, multiple unofficial dlcs) and more importantly the more i learned about the world ... the more i see how much wasted potential was there.
So i dont really want Bloodlines 2 to be another Bloodlines ... I hope there for good evolution, as it was between Witcher and Witcher III. (i didnt play killer of kings) :3
Originally Posted by Wormerine
As such I expect for the game to live up to the expectation at least to some extend
That is the trick isnt it? "to some extend" ... Problem is that everyone will have that extended differently.
Originally Posted by Wormerine
(like for example modern Deus Exs aren’t immersive sims I wish they were, but still clearly riff on DE1).
I never played Deus Ex.
Originally Posted by Wormerine
I think it would be better for everyone, if publishers stopped abusing IPs.
And i dont think they do ... i mean abusing them ... Even tho some probably do ... but i really want to believe that most of them dont.
They simply keep building on something that as previously builded ... sometimes its just as good, even tho different ... sometimes its worse ... and sometimes its even better ... but its never, ever, the same.
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I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings. Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are!
