You already had me at backstab. Downloading the demo now.
Yeah, you can backstab just about any "ally" in this game. Throwback to when my character suddenly abandoned his girlfriend and the entire plot to fight in a holy war.
It's a spell and a prophecy. Game devs beware.
Yea but how many people were diverse BIPOCs?
Unfortunately this has little appeal to the kind of person who doesn't like lying or duplicity and only wants to fulfill tasks with honesty and integrity (me and other spergs).
if it's a "choice of" joint, it's faggotry
Well, there might be a few niggers, but it's a text game so you don't have to stare at them unlike in modern RPGs. Besides, you can kill off most of the non-white characters. Romance is also very unobtrusive. So much so that I barely knew of its existence until I decided to seek it out after several playthroughs.
Not unless you're really obsessed with the IP. It doesn't do anything remarkable, large sections of it are forgettable, and the game feels sluggish. The main villain is the best part of the game, but he doesn't have enough screen time and the consequences to his actions aren't felt.
One of the shittiest games I've played in recent years. Possibly the shittiest.
Bro, do you even VtM?
I played Bloodlines, a game made by role playing gamers who didn't really care all that much about Vampire the Masquerade and just made a regular RPG in the setting.
That is the best sales pitch ever.
To be fair, Bloodlines also features a lot of vtm subterfuge and manipulation. It's just that, since you play a fledgling, they're ok with just commanding you to do something directly without the smoke and mirrors. But even then,
If you liked Night Road, you may be happy to know that the author is working on another WoD IF novel: Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names.
If you play as malkavian you can also backstab your imaginary friend.
The difference is that it's other people doing those things to you. You're a gofer, not a player.
This new cope is so weird. I blame BG3
I think it's worth a playthrough. It has interesting main characters that are well written. There are choices that affect what happens. Characters can die. The plot is more classic to the Vampire setting unlike Bloodlines. There are mysteries. There is an interesting system of resources and upgrades that also affect gameplay. Only you have to realize that this is not an action game. It is a quest designed for pixel-hunting.
V5 is a great system. It has a lot of interesting narrative elements that are incorporated directly into the gameplay. You may not like the modern setting or story events, but otherwise the game is interesting and not inferior to the classics. The disciplines have been sorted and cleaned up. Added a little more balance to abilities. Added resonance as well as types of hunting, making the game more vampiric. Dice throws have been made easier. Battles are more dynamic. Players need to spend less time counting. A lot of things are made more intuitive.
You can play a straight-shooter in Parliament and never lie or betray anyone (until after they've betrayed you and you're reasonably justified to cut ties with them). Or even just accept that they're using you and come to terms with it anyway. Almost everyone around you is an asshole, but you can point that out to them.
Bloodlines has more of the "trash deep lore of VtM" than every single other VtM game out right now (who usually just focus on their compartmentalized local issues).Grunker said:
None of the other VtM games get more dank with it than Bloodlines does.
