The official Bloodlines 2 theme song is giving me a minor existential crisis over how old the first game is, and how much older I am now

pcgamer.com:

Paradox Interactive has revealed the official theme song for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, a dark, moody piece called Midnight that's really quite good. Also, I don't think I like it. Let me explain.

Written by Michel Zitron, Paulina Palmgren, and Jarly, Midnight is an interesting tune: Slow, electronic, forcibly gloomy. In many ways, that makes it at least potentially a good fit for Bloodlines 2. We don't know much about the game at this point, but we can be reasonably sure that it's not going to be a lighthearted, uplifting romp.

Here's my issue with the song. The theme from the original Bloodlines, performed by Ministry, is one of the greats. As a big Bloodlines fan I may be biased, but I'd say it's as much a genuinely iconic piece of game music as anything else out there. It doesn't so much set a mood as make a statement: Hang on to something heavy, because you're in for a ride. (And you should probably be a little worried about what's going to happen.) 

Next to that, Midnight comes off as too restrained and cautious.

Dare to compare:

To my ears, there really is no comparison. This is Bloodlines—it's basically the videogame equivalent of Bela Lugosi's Dead, except that Bloodlines was commissioned specifically for the game rather than being merely a sharp bit of licensing. (I'd go so far as to say Ministry took great inspiration from that Bauhaus classic—I hear more than a little Bela Lugosi in Bloodlines.) You can see an aspect of that in the comments on YouTube as well. The reaction to Midnight is very positive overall, but more than a few people say that it's not really quite what they're looking for in a new Bloodlines game.

But a bit of introspection forces me to acknowledge that the real problem here