Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

This game runs the Source engine, and you can really tell. It's janky, walls are more suggestions than actual hard barriers, the combat is stilted and awkward, the screen bumps every time you walk over a barrier or a curb, and it feels like the whole thing is held together with duct tape. But I couldn't put it down. I really did felt like a vampire living in the World of Darkness. The jank, the dated graphics, the oddness, all cook together to create the sense that you're in a world you don't belong in. The writing is top-notch and the ideas are original and creative. So while it is a VERY linear game, it doesn't play like one. VTMB is just as good as people say it is. It was so far ahead of its time that even twenty years later, it still feels like a game that could have come out last month. There is nothing else like it.

** Warning: This game gets very racist, also, BUY IT ON GOG; if you want to use the steam version you need to download the unofficial patch in order to make it work, GOG version comes with it by default. ** Very good game, I love the environments and the music adds to them very well, combat is definitely dated but still fun, the story and worldbuilding are very immersive. I'm in love with the hot vampire communist. Might be a little janky, it's a very old game, so be patient with it 10/10 -a real vampire

in another effort to review every video game that has helped distract me from the crushing weight of my own mortality and the unavoidable horrors of the human condition: i'd give this game a [b] 10/10 [/b] with the footnote: [i] nobody understands you like i do, i can fix you [/i]

Pain in the ass, got it running on proton with RPM Steam client, but it crashes with flatpak. For a 20-year-old game that doesn't even run on Windows out-of-the-box it should have a lower discount price than -50%.

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This is probably the greatest Western RPG ever made. Sure, Fallout: New Vegas might have better combat, and KOTOR might have a stronger main story, but Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines has something neither of them can match: the writing. No other game I've played comes close to the quality of the dialogue and characters. Every person you meet, even the NPCs you only talk to once, has a distinct personality, memorable mannerisms, and feels like a real person rather than a quest dispenser. The world feels alive in a way few RPGs ever achieve. The variety offered by the different clans and disciplines adds an incredible amount of replayability. A Malkavian playthrough feels completely different from a Tremere or Toreador run, and discovering how the game reacts to your character is half the fun. Most of my playtime isn't even reflected on Steam because I spent years launching the game through the Unofficial Patch before Steam started tracking it properly. I genuinely hope this game receives a remaster one day and becomes more accessible to modern audiences. Once you've experienced the dialogue, atmosphere, and characters in Bloodlines, most other RPGs end up living in its shadow. And remember... Don't open it.

Разговоры про танцы с бубном слегка преувеличены: патч накатывается в два клика с помощью установщика. Озвучка/перевод так же. Все это находится по первому же запросу в поисковике. Вы вообще пробовали в арканум поиграть в 2026? Вот там да, танцы.