Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines thread (Possible spoilers inside)

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I'm a male Toreador.
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[Mouzafphaerre]

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Completed the Santa Monica parkour along with the side quests!

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I was expecting more than a pitch black screen from getting laid with the Bitch Queen.

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[Vladimir]

How does it compare to Redemption?

[Kekvit Irae]

Redemption = Crappy Diablo reject.
Bloodlines = Awesome FPS with true Vampire character sheets and stats.

There is no comparison.

[TevashSzat]

I played through as a ventrue and then a tremere.

First time around, I found it very hard as a ventrue since I messed up my character development and missed alot of xp from quests completed in a different way. As a result, some areas were really frustrating. I remember just spending hours trying to get through the Society of Leopold.

Second time, I found out how imbalanced tremeres are. Their special discipline simply rock. Blood strike does a ton of damage and returns blood. Purge just basically means everyone arounds you stops doing things for 5-6 seconds. Shield + armor meant you literally would not take damage from maybe 40% of the enemies and boil is just sick.

Was going to play as malkavian for the interesting stuff, but I got bored of the game by then from playing it through twice in 2 weeks.

Greatest parts of the game: Haunted Hotel and Grout's Mansion (the recordings were fantastic) Worst part: the warrens on the way to the nosferatu hideout. Hated that part so much.

Regarding the cabdriver,

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if you look through the soundfiles, you'll find a folder marked caine. If you listen to the files, you'll see that those are the cabdriver files.

[OverKnight]

All this talk has made me dust off the game and play it again.

I installed the "True Patch", i.e. the one that fixes bugs and adds some dialogue but doesn't mess with gameplay.

It's been interesting, I'd forgotten how fun the game was, despite a few graphical and game play hiccups. I've noticed some of the additions, but they seem to integrate well.

I've also made an effort to kill less kine this time around. I actually made it through the Museum and Traffik missions without killing anyone, which I thought beforehand was impossible without obfuscate. The extra experience for doing so was a nice bonus. Though I really hate those security cameras.

I wish there were more CRPGs out there like this one. I guess I'll have to wait for Mass Effect for the PC to come out in a couple of months.

[Vladimir]

Diablo huh? Interesting.