the bethesda emotion tooltip on the top right side, do you know how you can tell if a character is pissed at your ass in bloodlines 1? THEY LOOK ANGRY meanwhile bloodlines 2 has this text shit but can hardly do facial emotions and gets blown the fuck out by a source game from the neolithic era.
They don't even sound or act angry either, that's why you need the tooltip. I'll be told the character is offended, amused, or intimidated and they'll never change their cadence. Safia is embarrassed? She's always embarrassed, even when she's angry. I swear, everyone in this game has one voice and never deviates from it no matter the emotional context, there is no emotional range so far.
I have the first 'important choice' in the game with the Anarch's leader rocking up and telling me I either hand over Benny (the only character I like so far and I'm pretty sure I'm never gonna see him again now that his five minutes of screentime are over with) to her instead of the Prince, or she and her... two guys are gonna kill me after I just wasted an entire warehouse of them (and a bunch of police officers by complete accident). She stresses how important it is for me to get in good with the Anarchs, and that pissing them off will have consequences even if I survive these impossible odds.
I'm playing a Cammy loyalist even if I don't like anybody in this game, so I tell her to fuck off. And so... she immediately stands down, shrugs off me fucking her over and just tells us to go 'cus she doesn't really care. And I'm just gonna guess that if I went with her plan, the Prince would have pretty much the same reaction and this wouldn't stop her from making me the Sheriff at all.
As an aside: I find it hilarious that afterwards we start stressing how we're not trying to start anything with the Anarchs and that any ones who have attacked us are rogue splinter factions and whatever, when I just wiped out a bunch of the 'good' Anarchs instead of even attempting to call up the leader and tell her the situation with Benny.
Same thing happened to me! I was so mad, I wasted five minutes trying to find the solution myself first. There's a FUCKING DOOR MARKED STAIRS in the room.
Later, when tracking down Benny we get to his shop but find the door locked. We have to find another way in. I go up on the roof and see a bunch of skylights and assume we can just bust through some of them. This actually is the solution, but I spent five minutes fucking about because you need to use a specific one and God help you if your cursor and position is even slightly off or that interact option will not fucking show up.
What was even the point of this? "Okay, so for this mission, we're gonna have the door locked. And thus, the Player will be forced to go up a little and use a different door."
What made me laugh the hardest in my first hour, was the realization that there's generic male prostitute NPCs. I was a little bewildered when the first normal-looking homeless guy said "need a date?" But when it happened the second time, I realized that these fucking devs probably honestly think male prostitution legitimate sex work works the same and is as common as females. I didn't even pick up on the fact that the couples making out were prostitute NPCs, like someone mentioned above. These people have so obviously never interacted with any seedy aspect of the world in their lives, lol.
The feed mechanic here feels like it was tacked on because they realized that their big open world is empty as shit. They play up in marketing how dressing right and being the right type for targets will be important, but it literally just boils down to 'As long as you don't look homeless'.
You want pink blood? You talk to the person, they immediately ask you to lead them to a back alley to
suck fuck with no lead up (I'm not talking about prostitutes, just random business people).
You want blue blood? You talk to the person, they immediately assume you're trying to kill them and decide to run to somewhere with no witnesses so you can eat them, crying for police the entire way with no one caring.
You want red blood? You talk to the person, they are struck with a murderous rage and decide they will chase you to the ends of the earth to try and kill you. This is the only one that requires any sort of thought, both because you have to actually know a spot where you can eat them, and you have to avoid them scaring cops who'll immediately kill them.
