Revisiting VtM: Bloodlines

[Lokhir]

Jeanette Voerman is the only interesting NPC in the game (and sadly she has only 15 mins of dialog max total).

Jeanetter and Therese were taken from Millicent and Therese in the 1975 made-for-TV movie "Trilogy of Terror":

Millicent, a prudish brunette, is consumed by hatred for her twin sister Therese, a seductive and mean-spirited blonde. Millicent confronts Thomas, Therese's lover, and reveals Therese told her all about an unspecified immoral event that happened during Thomas and Therese's sexual relationship. She explains that Therese does not care for Thomas and is only trying to corrupt him with her evil. Millicent confides in her friend and family therapist, Dr. Ramsey, that her sister engaged in sex with their father, poisoned their mother, and is holding her captive inside the family mansion, while gloating to Millicent about her deeds. Ramsey visits the mansion to speak with Therese, who comes on to Ramsey and furiously throws him out of the house when he refuses her advances.

Millicent writes a letter to Dr. Ramsey, explaining that she has determined that Therese is evil and that she will stop her even if that means losing her own life, and plans to use a voodoo doll to kill her. When Dr. Ramsey enters the house, he finds Therese dead on her bedroom floor with the doll next to her and no apparent cause of death. Dr. Ramsey removes Therese's blonde wig to reveal Millicent's dark hair, and also reveals that "Therese" and "Millicent" are the same person; Therese suffered from multiple personality disorder brought on by her having slept with her father and subsequently killed her mother. "Millicent" was an alternative personality with a repressed sexuality to cope with the horror of her actions. The recent death of her father unhinged her further, and the "murder" was actually suicide.

I've read about it some more online when you told me, interesting stuff, I didn't know they were based off a real movie. Although then there a few differences, Therese is supposed to be the seductive one, but here she's cold and serious where Jeanette literally doesn't mind laying with you after 10 mins of dialog even though she doesn't know you (and doesn't even bother trying to know you because of the lack of vision of writers honestly, wish the game had more options for your character background).

 

[RaggleFraggle]

Jeanette Voerman is the only interesting NPC in the game (and sadly she has only 15 mins of dialog max total).

Jeanetter and Therese were taken from Millicent and Therese in the 1975 made-for-TV movie "Trilogy of Terror":

Millicent, a prudish brunette, is consumed by hatred for her twin sister Therese, a seductive and mean-spirited blonde. Millicent confronts Thomas, Therese's lover, and reveals Therese told her all about an unspecified immoral event that happened during Thomas and Therese's sexual relationship. She explains that Therese does not care for Thomas and is only trying to corrupt him with her evil. Millicent confides in her friend and family therapist, Dr. Ramsey, that her sister engaged in sex with their father, poisoned their mother, and is holding her captive inside the family mansion, while gloating to Millicent about her deeds. Ramsey visits the mansion to speak with Therese, who comes on to Ramsey and furiously throws him out of the house when he refuses her advances.

Millicent writes a letter to Dr. Ramsey, explaining that she has determined that Therese is evil and that she will stop her even if that means losing her own life, and plans to use a voodoo doll to kill her. When Dr. Ramsey enters the house, he finds Therese dead on her bedroom floor with the doll next to her and no apparent cause of death. Dr. Ramsey removes Therese's blonde wig to reveal Millicent's dark hair, and also reveals that "Therese" and "Millicent" are the same person; Therese suffered from multiple personality disorder brought on by her having slept with her father and subsequently killed her mother. "Millicent" was an alternative personality with a repressed sexuality to cope with the horror of her actions. The recent death of her father unhinged her further, and the "murder" was actually suicide.

I've read about it some more online when you told me, interesting stuff, I didn't know they were based off a real movie. Although then there a few differences, Therese is supposed to be the seductive one, but here she's cold and serious where Jeanette literally doesn't mind laying with you after 10 mins of dialog even though she doesn't know you (and doesn't even bother trying to know you because of the lack of vision of writers honestly, wish the game had more options for your character background).

That’s how Easter egg references work. It’s subtle enough that only horror film buffs would notice

 

[Demo.Graph]

Jeanette Voerman is the only interesting NPC in the game

You could've posted this, and more, in cosplay thread.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

I would love an original vampire-themed crpg with a Jeanette-esque major NPC/love interest who sticks around for the entire plot.

 

[ColaWerewolf]

I would love an original vampire-themed crpg with a Jeanette-esque major NPC/love interest who sticks around for the entire plot.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

I would love an original vampire-themed crpg with a Jeanette-esque major NPC/love interest who sticks around for the entire plot.

Let me be more specific: one set on Earth in modern(ish) times.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Let me be more specific: one set on Earth in modern(ish) times.

There was some missed opportunity for that with a vamp chick in SRR HK. Gave me cut companion vibes, but dunno.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

Let me be more specific: one set on Earth in modern(ish) times.

There was some missed opportunity for that with a vamp chick in SRR HK. Gave me cut companion vibes, but dunno.

Urban fantasy is hugely under represented in video games. In prose it is oversaturated, but everything is romance now. Bloodlines’ concurrent player count peaked in 2013. You’d think after a decade there would be more imitators from inspired indie devs.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Urban fantasy is hugely under represented in video games. In prose it is oversaturated, but everything is romance now. Bloodlines’ concurrent player count peaked in 2013. You’d think after a decade there would be more imitators from inspired indie devs.

I guess it's harder to pull off properly. People scrutinize generic fantasy settings (or space fantasy ones for that matter) less than urban fantasy ones.

 

[Modron]

Bloodlines’ concurrent player count peaked in 2013. You’d think after a decade there would be more imitators from inspired indie devs.

The data points before 2012 are largely nonexistant and highly incomplete: https://steamdb.info/app/2600/charts/#max