Bloodlines 2 in particular has long travelled under a cloud of bats.
“This is the sequel you have been waiting for,” he said at the time.
“It is going to be Bloodlines, as you remember it.
I liked what I saw of it myself at the company’s PDXCON expo.
But then camedelays,Mitsoda’s abrupt firing, achange of studioin 2021 that led tolayoffs, andmore delays.
So how confident are Paradox that Bloodlines 2 will stick the landing, at this point?
“We’ve announced again a delay, into the first half of next year.
I would stand by that.
I’m pretty confident that that’s going to work.
I’ve seen the game now.
The Chinese Room is really invested in it.
They’re taking a lot of initiatives.
“So it’s going to be an action-RPG in the World Of Darkness.
Those gifted with preternatural vision may detect a careful qualification there.
“It’s about setting the right expectations,” he said.
It’s not the open sim it maybe shouldn’t be compared to.
Again, we want people to understand what they’re getting into.”
So which aspects of the original Bloodlines does Lilja think people are mythologising?
Sadly, he didn’t go into much detail.
But I think people, they remember their feelings about it.
“We really don’t want that.”
“We do expect it to recover its investment,” Lilja said, somewhat to my surprise.
“But also saying that, it has changed studios, been in production a long time.
My expectation is we will release a good game.”
