Your opinion on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

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Yes, but a great film.

edit: I can hardly do it justice, but the geode analogy for creative pursuit is, in the film, rather touching.

"Bloodlines" is a great game, the last one on PC with "New Vegas" I genuinely enjoyed without being bored until the end (but then I still have to play "Mask of the Betrayer"). This thread should belong to "RPG Gaming" but then: who cares?

Edit: forgot about "Gothic II". But then I still prefer "Bloodlines" & "New Vegas" to "Gothic II". High hopes for "Wasteland 2". End of my absolutely uninteresting soap-box rant.

Talking about Masquerade games, it seems to me that "Redemption" is getting a lot of love around here. I just have a blurry memory of a really tedious ARPG but then I never went past the Middle-Ages. What's so great about it? Is it getting better the further you play it?

I've also been intrigued, and my dim memory of it runs in the same fashion. The few times I've heard of it on the codex it has not been favorably spoken of.

Redemptionites, enlighten.

Redemption has tons of very, very boring clicky combat. Otherwise, the setting is great, the style is great, the music is great and the story is enjoyable...

What unsubstantiated bullshit.

Correct. Redemption: Terrible combat, excellent setting, great mood, good storyline with a few interesting twists along the way.

From what I understand, it suffered greatly from being caught up in Diablo Fever at the end of development and had the devs try making a basically story-driven adventure game into an enjoyable hack and slash. They failed miserably.

Redemption is a game that is worth playing in the extreme, but I have never been able to convince myself to replay it. Which is a shame, because it is truly unique.

And I used to blame myself for being popamole!

Fucking fag!

LOLWUT

Redemption combat is bad, but personally I found it slightly less bad than bloodlines, probably due to the variety of weapons, abilities and party, even though it lacks the fun stealthy elements and is more clicky/clusterfucky.

Last pc rpg that was worth playing.

What does Knights of the Chalice have to do with Vampire?

Redemption. Played it a few weeks ago. Slogging through a hundred Cappodicians in the monastery then a hundred Noseferatu in the sewers then making my way through a hundred Tremere was boring and nonsensical. Felt like there was a well-done story underneath somewhere but it's all drowned out by shitty real time combat (Bloodline's fps style works better than this over-the-shoulder monstrosity).

Might have been a good game if it weren't for the Diablo-itis of the time.

I thought you were a BG2 fan.

Enjoyed it, especially the "serial killer" photographer in first part, and generally the first area. Started to get redundant in a few zones, mostly compelling, give it 95% on my review.

Also, HL2 engine stinks for RPGs. Areas are too teensy-weensy with loading screens!

DOWN with loading screens in ALL games!

I'd rather have the super-primitive BaK graphics with no loading screens than have advanced graphics with a loading screen for each room.

Seriously though, Crysis produces huge maps with next to zero loading times in one single go, and that too while keeping indoor and outdoor areas in one single seamless flow. If a far more advanced graphical technology can be optimized to handle that, why not the HL2 engine? No...friggin'...excuse.

It's because it's hard as fuck (especially if the original engine didn't plan for that)

but i too would welcome GTA : Bloodlines.

Would have KILLED to have an open-world in the Crysis engine.

Still wondering why they didn't license it for Skyrim, or the next Elder Scrolls/Fallout series of games???

I guess reason is that crysis engine is mainly for pc.Plus bethesda has its own engine and it sells well enough to not warrant a change