{"id":1437295,"date":"2025-12-24T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oeANsCnzrCjRNv6LUE8p76"},"modified":"2025-12-24T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:00:18","slug":"if-you-thought-bloodlines-2-lacked-bite-remember-that-the-witcher-3s-director-left-cd-projekt-to-make-a-vampire-rpg-and-its-out-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/if-you-thought-bloodlines-2-lacked-bite-remember-that-the-witcher-3s-director-left-cd-projekt-to-make-a-vampire-rpg-and-its-out-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3’s director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it’s out next year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2025 finally brought us Vampire: The Masquerade\u2014Bloodlines 2<\/a>, but whether you liked or loathed The Chinese Room’s follow-up to Troika’s wildly ambitious and deeply flawed RPG, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t the follow-up most fans expected.<\/p>\n

On a personal level, what I wanted from Bloodlines 2 was basically ‘Bloodlines 1, but fixed’, an RPG that took all the wild, unconstrained ambition of the original and brought it up to modern standards with a new story and exploratory space on top. Yet while Bloodlines 2 had its merits\u2014like its brilliant Malkavian detective companion Fabien\u2014it was mechanically much simpler than Troika’s game, while also lacking meaningful side-quests and any real sense of character progression.<\/p>\n

But if, like me, you’re worried that we might never see a truly great vampire RPG, hold that thought. Next year, Rebel Wolves is due to release The Blood of Dawnwalker<\/a>, and it might just be the vampire RPG we’ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, The Blood of Dawnwalker is being made by Rebel Wolves, a Polish studio founded by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. If you’re not familiar with Tomaszkiewicz’s name, he was director of a little game called The Witcher 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And get this, Tomaszkiewicz left the studio to make Dawnwalker because he believed it too ambitious to make there: “We had crazy ideas,” he told PC Gamer back in January<\/a>. ” We knew that, you know, if we wanted to make them, we needed to open our own studio, because it would be hard to convince any big company\u2014you know, with non-IP\u2014to change, and do something new, and do something crazy. Actually, it\u2019s risky, because we\u2019re doing some solutions which are new.”<\/p>\n

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