What type of game would you like to see CDPR make?
RPG, strategy or something else?
Only rule, it can't be a Witcher or Cyberpunk game of any kind.
A point'n click?
Vampire RPG
Or... I'll repeat myself...
Square Enix won't do anything good with it, so CDPR, if you read this, take some Cyberpunk's 2077 money you'll get from the sale, buy "Legacy of Kain's" licence from them and do a game out of it, it has so much lore and potential, you could turn it into the perfect RPG, in a setting including vampire, occultism and dark/goth athmosphere, I have so many fond memories of the original (from Blood Omen up to Soul Reaver Defiance), and trust me, many gamers will throw their money at you for it, yeah, like a bunch of hysterics groupies (and I'll probably be at the front line, tossing wet panties all around! \o/).
It's one of the most underrated and impressive game licence ever, filled with lore and details, with a lot still unused to this day.
A vampire game set in the future. I know Bloodlines The Masquerade 2 will be out soon, but honestly, a level of storytelling from CDPR could be a great game. The vampire mythos is a game genre that hasn't been touched since Vampyr (which is an amazing game) and combined with futuristic elements could create an amazing new type of game. We always see the vampires in the past or present, why can't we see them in a futuristic society and how the cultural repercussions would make to said society and how would the humans live?
Best period would be middle age (Aka Vampire : Dark Age), modern/future is already taken by Vampire the Mascarade.
Also, I did run both Vampire game (Mascarade and Dark Age) on Pnp, Dark Age sounds way funnier, more freedom.
The mascarade is about vampire NOT WANTING humans to know about them, for a few good reasons:
- Vampire are parasites, they need blood (human blood, animal blood isn't as effective on them), so the more vampire there are, the less "prey" comes around.
- The mascarade is needed, Vampires are like 2% of the population, so if humans would be aware they'd exist... I guess they'd swap every light bulb by UV one, and vampires would get pretty much fucked, you get the idea...
The mascarade is there because in the Dark Age they did so many craps, they basicaly sent the inquisition on themselves (having to put the mascarade so it doesn't happens again).
Vampire in a futuristic setting would work just the same, not many thing you can do when you're dead and have all the eternity for you (unless you're killed on the way, happens quite more often you'd think it does). They can't have cybernetic since their bodies are dead, not much they can do, they can't really dominate the world (either it would create too much vampire, either it would just be a stagnant world, with human farms, not very thrilling)
But yeah, as said, if we'd have to get a Vampire game, I'd rather have a new Legacy of Kain, a good RPG with a moody athmosphere, lots of occult nods, a very deep lore and an unique licence that still have it's followers today.
That way, it'd still be "away" from Vampire the mascarade game (which is already in a present/future game).
We could imagine starting the game as a Vampire hunter, a Vampire or a Soul Reaver, add the spectral realm, the magick, etc...
Lots of things to make nowadays with everything that licence had, it's also realy rooted in fantasy, which grants the Dev a looooots of freedom (where Vampire are very basic and realistic in themselves, here you could go in so many different dirrection without being to worried about hardcore realism)
