Most of what is useful in B2 comes from its readme file anyway
And from the website. It had the potential to be a really cool game, and I still like what was done in the retail game. I do think the story in B2 would have come out better in the gameplay if Monolith had opted for the Jedi Knight, Kingpin, or Half-Life approach to gameplay and level design. But then, Half-Life was a major factor in the rushing of Blood 2's and SHOGO's development.
Ophelia should never have had a British accent, now that she has one however, she wouldn't sound right without it.
You're right. When I got around to playing Blood 2, I was confused as to why she did have a British accent. I was more confused as to why, a century after her death, she welcomes Caleb with silly sexual innuendo. I would think that their meeting after many years would be somewhat mixed and intense. But back on point, I imagined her to have a Texan or Midwestern mountain accent. A woman who sounds like she belongs in the world of
Jeremiah Johnson or
McCabe & Mrs. Miller. There are a few John Wayne films which featured some extremely crazy Western accented women who I think would nicely with Ophelia. When one looks at those few sentences in Blood 1's story in the manual, about her blaming her husband for leaving the Cabal rather than blame the Cabal itself for her husband's and (most of all) her son's death, you know that you've got the beginnings of a really complex and messed up character. Just add the being defiled and crucified by stone gargoyle for no reason, then having her body hanged for years and then burnt to ashes, and then finally brought back to life again into the deep future only to meet an undead old boyfriend who eats peoples hearts and has made her another intended target of the Cabal.... That could explain why the B2 site's summary of Ophelia suggested that she's grown to despise Caleb despite their lethal attraction for another.
There is no good reason to ignore b2's 'fleshing out' of the b2 universe, it's just something a pack o' developers working on a would get away with cleanly if they did so is all I'm saying.
I don't think that B2's story should be ignored. As a cockeyed optimist that I am, I still like to think that B2 deserves to be remade and having a sequel to it. I still like the idea of B2 being remade by the Transfusion (even if it is not likely to happen) in the Dark Places or Q3 engine like they planned. I'm still a bit of acolyte for B2R, but that's another story. Back in the early 2000s, when I heard that B2 was flawed never got to play it (and new only from the Planet Blood walkthrough), I was brainstorming a remake of B2 in Unreal 2 engine (which I also never played, but saw the review and screenshots for it). When I revisited games like
Jedi Knight and
Mysteries of the Sith, I was playing around with the idea of doing a B2-styled mod using JK's design as a template. Note, that I have no experience as a modder whatsoever, and can't program at all. I can only dream elaborate game concepts, and imagine how the game would look and feel.
Which reminds of something back from way, way back. When I was a young fat elementary schooler, and I was playing Blood's shareware for awhile but never the full game (or B2), I was conceiving of a Blood 3 that would serve as a sequel to B2. It would still be set in the future, but it would be set mainly in locales which still haven't progressed too much, in parts of Texas and the Midwest. The plot was that Caleb and Ophelia were wandering together on some long journey on their own, while Ishmael and Gabriel would keep their hold of the Cabal whilst they were away. Ophelia was to wear a gunslinger's hat and trench coat like Caleb, for some reason. While wandering through small towns, cheap motels, trailer parks, and the remains of old Western towns, both both Caleb and Ophelia are attacked randomly by packs of new enemies. I designed some of them in miniature modeling clay form back then, but I destroyed them. They consisted of a hunchback albino zombie in overalls hold a huge pick ax, a typical white blanket ghost with bleeding guts inside, a poltergeist fused with robotic technology, conventional red demons (I think), and traditional robed cultists. I think I had the idea that they would make their way into a huge city scape like
Blade Runner or
Akira, and that they would go against Cultists trained like Special Ops assassins or SWAT teams. The Cultists in the city would've dressed up like GI Joe futurist soldiers, and most of them would have been lurking on super high scaffoldings and rooftops waiting to take you out from a distance. I don't where the plot was supposed to go, but looking back, I think I might have some idea. The monsters and cultists who attacked Caleb and Ophelia were the result of something from Tchernobog's dimension was opening portals into the very regions where the 16th Incarnation of Tchernobog lurked and schemed, and the onslaught of Cultists who are antagonistic to Caleb are the result of either a rival cult to the Cabal, or the Cabal being taken away from Caleb by someone he was close to. Perhaps something could be made of this, I'm not sure.
The idea of
Blood 3 being set between B1 and 2 came around high school and early college, and the idea was for Caleb to globe-hop to ancient places in Europe, Asia, and North America to unhinge the plans of the Cabal some more, to learn the secrets of the Cabal's past, and probably even find a way to control Tchernobog's divine essence within him. It was to have Caleb encountering his alter ego from a far off time, a Crusader who was as also a Chosen of the Cabal. also betrayed, and also undead. He too was intended by Tchernobog to fight the Cabal, and become a powerful sacrifice for Tchernobog to use, but the Crusader never went through with it for some reason. I wanted the climax to take in Jerusalem, or at least a shadow dimension of Jerusalem full of all the warped souls of all the killers and victims of the Crusades.
I could give a little inkling of how the gameplay would have been like. A rapid and ferocious monster is mauling Caleb in dark abandoned old fashioned wood house, and Caleb shuts the door on him in a shed. Caleb waits for the monster to attack the door, but the monster is silent. He's not gone, he's just... waiting. Caleb slowly wraps his wounded hand with bandages he found in the shack. He hears other noises and he loads his shotgun. What he thinks is the creature who attacked him at the door tries to break through the window. He opens the door and backs out to fight it, but the monster who was outside is still there. The idea was to have the monsters be very resourceful and patient with how they tried to take you out. But there are ways to outsmart them. You could mimic a female/male monster (depending on their sex and preference) before they saw you, and they would go through the door with a horny dance, and then Caleb with them from behind and say "You're all alike! You're just monsters! Better to break my heart before breaking mine! Heh heh..." Another trick: in a library, Caleb could pick out any book, and read them dramatically. He could be reading Lovecraft, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, or Gone with the Wind, and all the monsters lurking would come up and sit in front of him while he read. If you were thinking ahead, remote detonators would all be laid where the monsters would intend to sit, and after you finish your dramatic reading, they all clap, and then Caleb detonates the detonators before the monsters realize that Caleb was the prey they were looking for.
I intended Caleb to fight demonic bears in the wild midwestern mountains, use a Ninja sword while visiting Japan's Cabal branch cult, and even used a medieval crusader's sword while fighting against hordes of crusader zombies. A lot of ideas were going about then.
), and I was pleased overall by the responses I got on how to approach a BLOOD 3. 
So there should be sequences similar to that. If the Arctic portion of BLOOD 1 is recreated for BLOOD 3, I think surrounding water should be miles deep, and have schools of Gillbeasts wandering aimlessly on the bottom, occasionally coming up in small packs for Caleb.
