Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

One of the best RPGs out there in terms of lore, content, plot, and characters.

(gameplay spoilers) VtMB is clearly the shining star of Vampire games, and completely leans into it's greatest strength: playing as a hardcore vampire in a grungy world. There is nothing quite like opening this game and roaming the world while hiding in the shadows, or talking crazy, or operating as a seemingly normal person, the many gameplay styles VtMB offers really allows the player to get into their idea of how a vampire should operate. It's classical RPG style leveling system is also great, allowing a lot of control over what you want your character to do, and the many interesting characters, dialogue options, computers and locks forces you to choose what you want your character to focus on, and encourages playing again to revisit something you may not have been able to access. However, VtMB falls apart in its final sections, with it's unbalanced combat skills making some builds that have been viable so far borderline impossible, and completely blocking off any non combat builds from being able to complete the game. Tie that in with it's sloppy and boring combat mechanics and the game forces you to go through many long, tiresome sections of repetitive battles before you can get to the parts that are actually enjoyable. And this is without mentioning any of the bugs, which are mostly remedied by the unofficial patch, but still show up to cause problems (some of which are admittedly hilarious). Conclusion: VtMB is a great RPG that is well worth playing, especially if you like vampires, but is definitely weighed down by its sloppy combat, often confusing and unintuitive puzzles, and buggy gameplay. 8/10

I'd rather download a fan made patch and embrace all the early 2000's jank than ever touch Bloodlines 2. I'm totally new to the masquerade series and had this game gifted by a mate. I'm only a few missions in and currently doing a malkavian run. I like the idea of playing a psychotic, cladly dressed goth who has voices in her head. I also like the fact that malkavians have their own unique dialogue options and choices, though that being said every clan has a certain uniqueness and qualities to them which makes Bloodlines 1 highly replayable. I have many more hours to play but just from the few opening missions alone I can already tell I'm in for a good time. The verdict is a yes from me. Sidenote: WTF were the dev team who developed Bloodlines 2 smoking?! I find it genuinely disgraceful that a game from 2004 easily blows it away because when compared to this it definitely doesn't take a genius to figure out they weren't even trying whatsoever. Bloodlines 1 is king, no debate.

One of the greatest RPG's I've ever had the privilege of playing.

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The first half of the main story is really interesting story wise and dialogue is great. The 2nd half is endless fetch quest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ where you spend multiple real life hours doing boring quests to curry favor with lame npcs in order to get information you need to get a little bit closer to a MacGuffin with little to no say in the matter. The dialogue, setting and graphics hold up honestly really well but the combat is so terribly unfun. melee and ranged are both clunky and unintuitive. Oh and even with the mandatory patch that you have to download to make the game work at all around 10 hours into a save your game will sporadically get dementia and forget which assets are supposed to be where and spawn random objects all over the place which can force a save and reset to continue playing. The game is worth experiancing once or twice but anyone that tells you this game is a "Masterpiece" is touched in the head

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This game is a masterpiece, buggy and borderline unplayable in its current state, but a masterpiece nevertheless. Shout out to Wesp5 for helping thousands of people enjoy the vibrant characters, setting, and story. Definitely recommend if you're a fan of Bioshock and Fallout 3/NV.