The first game was also extremely political. VtM had always had commentary on IRL politics alongside Vampire Politics, its just ig they would have been able to write a compelling story with those commentaries and themes. They did a decent job in VtMB, but with the swap of writers, you go from someone who is gonna insert more political commentaries, but is proven to write good stories around political topics anyways to someone who is gonna insert more political commentaries, but doesn't know how to write that well and unlike VtMB's writers, will push back agaisnt the most stupid things Paradox wants to insert. Yeah I've kept track of the game for years. The Old writers making it more political, I could grit and bear since the story would probably also be good. The New writers making it more political, well they wouldn't be V3/V20 writers, they'd be V5 Writers. And V5 is already showing the level of IRL political writing of people who have never honestly considered a political...