David Gaider is confident that The Chinese Room will be a big success, similar to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur’s Gate 3.
David Gaider, the creator of Dragon Age, is a big fan of the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines and recently spoke to PCGamesN about what he hopes to see from the sequel. The game’s messiness becomes a joyful, controlled chaos as players juggle bodies, rip throats, and use vampire abilities to send mortals and vampires alike into a blood-soaked frenzy. Gaider believes it’s going to be bold, and he’s hopeful it’ll be successful, drawing parallels to two very successful games.
“The hope is that we’ll get a new Vampire game similar to Expedition 33 or Baldur’s Gate 3. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a full-fledged RPG that doesn’t have to be fantasy or sci-fi, but actually leans into the role-playing systems of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines? If you played the tabletop version, it didn’t focus much on combat. It focused on the characters and their relationships, and how your various powers could completely change the gameplay… I wish someone would just take that to its logical conclusion and give us the game it deserves to be,” said Gaider.
It sounds like Gaider wants the future Bloodlines game to lean much more heavily on the meaty political role-playing of the original tabletop games. It’s uncertain if that’s what we’ll get, but the game still looks promising, even though it has faced multiple delays. It’s also worth remembering that before The Chinese Room took over, Hardsuit Labs was working on the game before Paradox took the project away from them.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is currently scheduled to release in October for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. Hardsuit Labs originally planned versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but those ports have been canceled. Maybe that’s for the best.
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