Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines

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Has anyone else played this yet? I finally picked up a used copy thru Amazon a few weeks ago and I must say that I'm loving the game. It's an RPG in first-person mode, like Deus Ex or Star Wars: KotOR. They did put a few too many action elements in it, but the dialogue and characters alone make up for all of that.

the main problem is that they licensed what was essentially an un-optimized Source engine, completed programming the game, and then(according to rumors) weren't budgeted the extra cash to put it thru its full QA measures, thanks to Activision.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

This is a good example:

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This is like the first PC game where I've ever made extensive use of the screenshot key, too.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

http://img175.exs.cx/img175/6103/bodymassage3uy.th.jpg

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

damn thumbnail. oh well. you get the idea.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

The game is pretty hip about its music, too. They use flyers for real bands(Ghoultown, etc), and include about 10 songs in the game. Daniel Ash, Ministry, Genitorturers, & several more.

Grey Delisle does the voice of the slutty vamp chick(seen on the box cover) and who your character(male or female(i think)) can sleep with at some point in the game. She put out her own gothy alt-country album on Sugar Hill, and has another on the way.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g249/g24960bm0s5.jpg

She's ALSO married to Murray from the Old 97's.

Another fun bit is the fact that at least two Futurama voice actors are in the game.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

yeah. BENDER BABY.

this bastard kills my laptop, so i've deleted it, but when i've got a manly machine again, watch out.

the haunted mansion level is genuinely creepy.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

i finally got the two major weapons, the katana & the auto-shotgun. it took me a bit to realize that you can change the firing mode, too.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/28/news_6117482.html

aw fuck. it seems that Troika, the company that made the game, might be shutting its doors soon. I'd heard about this elsewhere, too.

― kingfish muffminer 2049er (Kingfish), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

finally beat this. I really enjoyed the game, despite the graphical errors i would get from time to time(from the Source engine, probly).

i'm playing thru it again, this time as the Malk clan(the batshit crazy one). apparently, at some point, you character interacts with a stop sign, and the tv(which begins to tell you jokes).

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Finally about to get into this. I know there are some fan patches out there - the main ones seem to be the "True" patch and the Patches Scrolls one (which is still getting updates!). Mainly I just want to play the game as bug free as possible without extra stuff added by modders, but I understand both patches can do this? Anyone have an idea which way I should go, starting the game completely fresh?

― Nhex, Saturday, 3 October 2009 08:21 (fifteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Wacthed a documentary about Worlds Of Darkness/Vampire/White Wolf, I really didn't have any knowledge about how huge a phenomenon it was and Tim Bradstreet being an important part. I could have done without all the little filmic bits and since it was from 6 or so years ago, I don't know how things stand now. Maybe I'll search soon.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 February 2021 19:34 (four years ago)

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