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[William Broom]

Anybody else played this? I just recently bought it off Steam for $10 (it was half price for Halloween) and so far it's amazing - probably going to go on my top ten favourite games ever. The story, atmosphere, voice acting, and choices are what make it stand out. I think the reason it wasn't a bit hit was because of its glitches, but with the unofficial patch they're almost all gone.

[Don Andy]

I liked the game by itself, but back then when it was released I was really, REALLY hoping they'd do a multiplayer modus similar to the one in Masquerade Redemption. That was simply the best thing about the old Masquerade game.

I never finished Bloodlines due to being a Lasombra and thus being mercilessily slaughtered in a bossfight. But someday I will finish it :D
The ghost mansion made me crap my pants.

[TeeGee]

Yeah, I loved Bloodlines. I finished it three times already - with Ventrue, Malcavian and Tremere. Tried a Nosferatu then, but got bored of the constant need of sneaking. Malcavian dialogues and Dementation lines are awesome. Also, walking through the city in pimp clothes, with a huge rainbow-hued tophat, and axe.

It's a very good game, imho. Very moody, fun, with diverse quests and good dialogues/voices. Wait till you see the later city locations - their modern gothic atmosphere would make the Batman feel jealous .
For me it's like the Black Isle/Interplay RPGs of old, but with all the joys of modern games. It resembles the original Fallouts in many ways too. Which is not that surprising as it was made by the makers of Arcanum, which was made by the makers of the original Fallout . It's a bit on the easy side, though.

I've found the stories of its buggyness to be exaggerated. There was one crash bug, but it's fixed in one of the patches and I had no other problems through my many hours of playing.

 

[battlerager]

I finished it once as one of those sexappeal/superior talking guys.  :D

Good game.

[deadeye]

It's a pretty decent game.  I enjoyed it quite a bit for the first two thirds or so, but then for some reason it started to drag.  I never did finish it.  I have trouble sticking with games all the way through in general though.

And I never could pass the damned (spoiler) .  That shit is hard.

[Hideous]

If my older computer can handle it, I'll definitely get the game.

[Melly]

Mmm... I'll have to check this one out. Used to be a big fan of Vampire.

[shinygerbil]

I enjoyed the tabletop game, but for some reason I didn't enjoy the PC game. I found the dialogue and cutscenes to be a little weak, actually :< but I had recently played such games as Half-Life 2 and Bioshock, so I was maybe expecting something a little more next-gen :D

I will give it another shot, I have this nagging feeling that I was being way unfair on the game. After all, my housemates enjoyed it too, and they tend not to like that sort of stuff!

[Cheater‽]

I played it, it was cool except for the random 30 second pauses that drove me to forsake it from my hard drive.

[lordmetroid]

Only Vampire the Masquerade I have played has been the original LARP :D
Though I can't say how the video game is, it is an awesome LARP.

[policedanceclub]

Oh man, I've heard some messed up stories about vampire larps.

 

[shinygerbil]

larp?!

I never knew it was a larp. I always though it was just a roleplay game. You know, with dice and stuff

[policedanceclub]

It is.
But there is also some sort of a larp version of it

[dither]

I received this game as a Christmas gift (oh, the irony) a few years ago. It was a bit too much for my computer to handle, but I tried it out for a little while. The open-endedness appealed to me. It's similar to Deus Ex in that respect.

Unfortunately for me, the first-person perspective tends to give me headaches, and I become disoriented while playing these games, so I can never stick with them for too long.

[deadeye]

larp?!

Yep.  Years ago my roommates were talked into going to one by some friends of theirs and they dragged me along with them.

It was one of the silliest things I've ever experienced.  Imagine all of the goofy larping stereotypes you've ever seen, and multiply it by all the goofy goth stereotypes you've ever seen.  And this coming from someone who at the time was an unabashed goth and wore makeup to go clubbing, etc.

A couple of highlights:
There was a large open room with a bunch of 2x4 boards laid out on the floor.  I walked in with my roommates and stepped over one of the boards.  Some random larper looked at me and said "Oh wow, that must have hurt.  I'll bet you broke your nose or something."  "What?"  "You just walked through a wall."

Later on I went outside for a cigarette, just to get away from everyone.  As turned a corner, some dude who had been hiding behind the corner screamed "CELERITY!" at me and grabbed my by the throat.

Wheee.

[Ivan]

I thought the game was pretty good, but it always seemed grossly unfinished. Like it was one of those games that was probably originally designed to be a lot more detailed than it turned out to be in the end. All in all, not bad though.

[Don Andy]

Larps will become a new trend once science gets off its lazy ass and finally invents holodecks.

[Gravious]

Bloodlines is AWESOME, one of my fav games EVAR

Honestly, so much interesting story, i ate up every crumb.

Why are there not more proper vampire rpgs?  Legacy of Kain was another slice of awesome...

[deadeye]

Why are there not more proper vampire rpgs?  Legacy of Kain was another slice of awesome...

The only one I've played is Soul Reaver, and that wasn't very RPGish.  More like a platformer, or a cross between Tomb Raider and a very linear Ocarina of Time.  Were the other ones (aside from the obvious Blood Omen) different or something?

[Inane]

None of 'em were really RPGish, unless you view RPGs as games with massive amount of backstory and (internal) dialogue, which, uh, I guess is a pretty common viewpoint :D

Anyway, I need to play Bloodlinesss; I played both the other Troika games, and enjoyed both. Arcanum was just wonderful, probably the, uh, fourth best western RPG in existence (Fallout 1 and 2 and Planescape obviously higher), besides the HUGE game imbalances, like being able to make rings that give you +2 to dexterity in the first town, which pretty much doubled my amount of action points :D That combined with an electrical sword and a shitload of molotov cocktails made me the most awesome half-orc scientist to eva live.