EG feature about it: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-03-22-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-is-a-darkly-fascinating-immersive-sim

Seems they're trying to stay fairly true to original.

EDIT: Seems Chris Avelone is working on it too...which is always a good thing.

Great news! Really enjoyed the original although it was very buggy and flawed in many ways. What it had was depth, atmosphere and fantastic writing. A game that was perhaps overly ambitious but masterful in what it did well. Hopefully this sequel gets the time and resources the original deserved.

Slightly off-topic, but I hope White Wolf will someday balance out their different rulesets in the World of Darkness Universe to allow crossplay between the different factions. Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Hunter, Changeling... Now that would be a superb game if you could choose from any of those.

Consoles too? Finally, a chance to try this series out.

You just know this is the kind of game Epic is checking into moneyhatting at this very moment.

Just to add to this, Vampire: the Masquerade is part of a larger Tabletop RPG Universe called World of Darkness, which includes Vampires, Werewolfes, Magi, Hunters, Mummies, Changelings, Spectres..., each with their own rulebooks and endgame. Sadly, since they are not balanced to each other, you can't really mix the the different parts together.

As for the lore, Vampires are also called Cainites, as they are supposedly descendants of the biblical Cain. Siring a Vampire rises the generation, the higher the generation, the thinner the vampiric blood and the weaker the powers are. The 13 Vampires that existed before the deluge are the basis of the vampire clans, as each one descends of one of them. But the clans hate each other with a passion and are in a neverending Jihad, Clan against Clan, Elders against younglings.

Each vampire clan has it's own set of powers (called disciplines) and weaknesses.

Hint: Play redemption first, as it will explain you everything step by step, both from a medieval and from a modern perspective. And the story is great!

With Paradox Interactive? They ditched their own store (GamersGate) to go all in into Steam, then opened up to other platforms a couple years ago. Considering the crowd of gamers who normally play Paradox titles and how much they tend to listen to them, that would be hugely counterproductive for them, unless their gamers would say to do so.

All those fan patches fixed most of the problems

I guess I'm not that generally bothered with bugs, unless they are game breakers. VtMB had one game breaking bug, you couldn't progress unless you patched it, so that is all i really remember. But then again, back in days, I've played Gothic 3 without any patches...twice. :P

The same here I found it was one of those games where my enjoyment of it overrode the bugs,and anyway the community eventually made it even better.