Preview GamesRadar takes a look at Vampire: The Masqurade -- Bloodlines

[Spazmo]

Tags: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

<a href="http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk">GamesRadar</a> have put up a <a href="http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/previews/default.asp?subsectionid=176&articleid=65764&pagetype=2">preview</a> of <a href="http://www.troikagames.com">Troika</a>'s <b>Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines</b>, article courtesy of <b>PC Gamer UK</b>.
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<blockquote>Of course, conversation is only one of the routes you can choose - everything from quiet stealth to extreme violence to more esoteric vampire disciplines are available to the clever player. The most dramatic way you get to define your character is through selection of a clan - the Bloodlines referred to in the title. From the seven choices, you might select a feral Gangrel, who can tap the powers of animals and summoning beasts, or the shadow-dwelling monstrous Nosferatu, to name but two. The wide range of player options at any step means that problems will have multiple solutions, allowing characters to express themselves in a variety of ways. A guard blocking your way into a house? Depending on your talents you could try diplomacy, sneaking, taking over his mind, scaring him half to death, sucking his blood or simply killing him with your shotgun. There's something for everyone, it seems.</blockquote>
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I think it's a shame that no RPG developer has truly tried to properly simulate the complex dichotomy of wit and blade embodied by the ancient art of Insult Swordfighting. That'd be a cool variant character.
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[EEVIAC]

I remember reading a Charles Bukowski book where he was musing on how to pick up women - I think he referred to it as verbal jousting, perhaps the diametric opposite to insult swordfighting. You say a line, then she says a line, and then there exists a perfect reply, a parry to her line, which will continue the conversation. Each successful parry accumulates and adds to your final modifier. A mistimed parry leads to death.

I immeadiately thought to myself that he'd just described a Troika/Monkey Island dialogue tree.

 

[Psilon]

So what're the proper cues for using these lines from my Hungarian phrasebook?
"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I am no longer infected."
"My hovercraft is full of eels."
"Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait 'til lunchtime."

And no, I will not buy this record; it is scratched.

 

[DrattedTin]

Hahhahaha, I love that skit.