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Originally Posted by Seltzer
I played a quarter of the way through Bloodlines maybe 5 years ago until I encountered a game stopping bug and forgot about it but I've been playing through it recently and just completed it yesterday. It's a great game if a bit unstable and I really hope that people's cursory judgement of it isn't tainted by Twilight.
Finished this not too long ago as well... much shorter than the original.
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If their opinion of
Vampire: The Masquerade is tainted by Twilight then Stephanie Myers deserves to have her knee caps blown out, her thumbs cut off, and her big toes severed so doctors couldn't attach her big toes to replace her thumbs. In fact every actor in the series should suffer the same fate.
I bought it off Steam last year but I had to download an unofficial patch to get it to run properly because it was the last game developed by Troika and I don't think it sold enough for Activision to give a sh
it. Never beat it though, made it close to the end with my Gangrel but I couldn't kill Ming Xiao because I decided to go the neutral path because aligning yourself with anybody will always lead to your death in the World of Darkness.
The gameplay was quite adequate but melee weapons and fists were severely favored over guns, meaning unless you put at least 4 dots into your firearms skill you couldn't be guaranteed to shoot straight. The stealth aspect worked pretty well and there was always plenty of ways to go about completing a mission which was cool because it provided a lot of replay value. The game did a great job at depicting a World of Darkness setting where everything was similar to it's real life counterpart, but things were a lot more run down and decrepit which was something the TV show
Kindred: The Embraced failed so hard on.
Overall the game had so many positive elements in it's favor that it's kind of sad that the game didn't sell that well and the bugs never got fixed. It provided people who aren't familiar with table top RPG's a watered down experience of what many people have been enjoying for over 10 years and even brought some of the main characters from the mythos into play, like the Gangrel archeologist Beckett or the Brujah legends Smiling Jack and Nines Rodriguez.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is easily the best buggy game to ever come out, and one of the best PC Role-Playing games to come out in the last 10 years.