Bloodlines is supposed to be about modern vampires, in the modern world.
The Devs really want this game to be A VAMPIRE GAME, so no Guns, you need to do stuff and do stuff that a Elder vampire would. I think that's super silly, vampires use Guns and weapons despite being super powerful beings , at end of the day , a shotgun blast to your face still a shotgun blast.
That's what made VTMB so interesting. It was a mixture of the mundane and the vampire mumbo jumbo. Some people took it seriously as a means to gain power (Nines and LaCroix), others went along with it (Strauss), some got caught up in crackpot theories (Skelter and Copper), and the one that knew the most didn't show his hand (Jack). But for the most part people were the same people they were when they "received the embrace" only now they were Vampires and they ran businesses, hung out, and carried on only with slight modifications to their former selves (except the Sabbat, but whatever.) Some had the same regional dialect from wherever they were from, but for the most part had the local dialect. LaCroix was in the French army, but he didn't speak with an outrageous French accent. Same with Jack, and others. E didn't start talking out his ass once he realized he was a vampire, and neither did whatshername his girlfriend. Julius didn't even lose his stutter, that poor slob!
What they didn't do? They didn't have video game names (Phyre, Ysabella, Willem), speak in a melodramatic manner ("You are called
The Slayer" or "I am known as many things to many people"), and talk with a Transylvanian dialect just because their now a vampire. Is Phyre an Egyptian name? No. Then why the fuck... ah, I'll stop. This game is way too rooted in video game reality, not reality reality.
Note: You know, they could still pull something out along the lines of the original. Suppose the did dialog like this:
Guy:
"How does anyone find anything in a mess like this?"
Research check (passed):
"Perhaps to him this is an orderly chaos. Nosferatu trade in secrets. This is merely another way to hide them."
Research check (failed): Keeps her mouth shut.
*music plays*
Knowledge check (passed): I recognize this song from before we turned into a vampire!
Knowledge check (passed): Keeps her mouth shut.
Woman check (passed): "We may be near the end of our search" and "William knows something. We have to find him."
Woman check (failed): Keeps her mouth shut.
