girls don't want vtmb2 with a preset voiced protagonist. they want remastered vtmb with a full character creator, the homophobia and racism and xenophobia removed, AND the ability to kiss a nosferatu sloppy style
A more in-depth interview with Paradox Interactive VP of World of Darkness Sean Greaney, as well as Alex Skidmore, creative director of Bloodlines 2!
Still set in Seattle, now during a holiday snowstorm
The most shocking thing here is we play an Elder. In v5! An elder!!!
who attracts SI attention oh dear
The article author speculates we will have something like The Dark Urge in Baldur's Gate 3, which encourages the player to pick up their pre-nap time personality and goals.
In Bloodlines 1 you were a new vampire in a city with a large Anarch presence where the Camarilla don’t have complete dominance. For Bloodlines 2 we have flipped this on its head. You play Phyre, an Elder vampire (~400 years old) in a city where Camarilla has been dominant for decades, and any hint of Anarch sympathy is squashed.
Phyre's number 1 loyalty is to herself, but she is wise enough to respect the power of the Camarilla and, more importantly, the Masquerade. Within the story Phyre earns a seat at the top-table of the Camarilla as the court's Sheriff, giving her the court's protection but also a powerful authority within Seattle's vampire society.
This is an RPG, of course, so you can roleplay Sheriff in multiple ways, maybe you are a loyal Sheriff of the Camarilla, or an Anarch sympathiser working from within to undermine the court, or maybe you're a self-centred Elder vampire playing the different factions off each other to your advantage.
"a voiced protagonist is more immersive" i do not play vtmb to be immersed. i play vtmb to have 5 different ways to tell a vampire elder he's ugly and then smack him with a severed arm
With VTMB2 coming out, we will get more marketing promo materials, and with every marketing promo, we learn more about the game, and if we learn about the game, we may learn if Beckett is in it.