Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines..

Well I had this game for the longest time, but lost it during a move from an old house. I only got 20 minutes in, so not really enough to jusge the game. I have looked up and down for my original copy, but after a week of hunting for it I am tired of looking. I just came across it on steam for $20. Is it worth that price, it looks like a good game, but looks can be deceving.

Hmmm sounds like I need to re-buy this. The graphics also look like they held up nicely, though it is the source engine right?millerlight89

good game

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]Hmmm sounds like I need to re-buy this. The graphics also look like they held up nicely, though it is the source engine right?Treflis

Yep. There are a few graphical bugs, mostly later in the game (like characters getting stuck with their bodies half-way out of the ground), but they certainly aren't game-breaking. I played the Steam version a couple of years ago and had a blast with it. I don't think you'll be disappointed. The game is unique and definitely has its own feel to it.

[QUOTE="Treflis"][QUOTE="millerlight89"]Hmmm sounds like I need to re-buy this. The graphics also look like they held up nicely, though it is the source engine right?StrawberryHill

Yep. There are a few graphical bugs, mostly later in the game (like characters getting stuck with their bodies half-way out of the ground), but they certainly aren't game-breaking. I played the Steam version a couple of years ago and had a blast with it. I don't think you'll be disappointed. The game is unique and definitely has its own feel to it.

forget about Invisible War.... Bloodlines is the true spiritual successor to Deus Ex 8)

forget about Invisible War.... Bloodlines is the true spiritual successor to Deus Ex 8)

JackBurton

If only i had not played the game to death, thats

what i would be doing right now ^ ^

Man, dont forget to visit planet vampire, get the official and

unofficial patches installed.

This game is a little old, so I'm of the thought that it won't run on Win 7 64-bit, amirite?

forget about Invisible War.... Bloodlines is the true spiritual successor to Deus Ex 8)

JackBurton

It's a good game but make sure the unofficial patches work with Steam version first.

forget about Invisible War.... Bloodlines is the true spiritual successor to Deus Ex 8)

JackBurton

forget about Invisible War.... Bloodlines is the true spiritual successor to Deus Ex 8)

JackBurton

The unofficial patches should work with the steam version of the game, atleast Wesps does. (version 6.9 currently).

Quite funny how someone said that it feels more like the real sucessor to Deus ex, If you swapped the vampire theme out with cyberpunk, then I would not be able to see the difference either, It really is THAT good.

It is in my top 5 rpgs ever, and it is just so well made, the characters, the world, the missions, everything about that game is just incredible.

The only problem I have with the game (a small problem at that), is that the last third of the game degenerates into too much combat, not gamebreaking, but if the last third could follow the 2 first parts of the game in execution, oh man that would be amazing.

Oh and for Daken: The reason why the poster said it reminded him of Deus ex (way more then IW ever will), and I agree, is that the gameworld is far more complex, with FAR more options to solve a mission, the overall world is fleshed out way more then IW was, and it has the same odd noir feel that Deus ex had, And often has a similar structure to it.

To me VTm:B feels more like Deus ex, then Bioshock feels like ss2. (not saying much, as I still fail to see how bioshock in any way should be the spirital sucessor to SS2, when they have absolutely nothing in commen with one another).

The unofficial patches should work with the steam version of the game, atleast Wesps does. (version 6.9 currently).

Quite funny how someone said that it feels more like the real sucessor to Deus ex, If you swapped the vampire theme out with cyberpunk, then I would not be able to see the difference either, It really is THAT good.

It is in my top 5 rpgs ever, and it is just so well made, the characters, the world, the missions, everything about that game is just incredible.

The only problem I have with the game (a small problem at that), is that the last third of the game degenerates into too much combat, not gamebreaking, but if the last third could follow the 2 first parts of the game in execution, oh man that would be amazing.

Maddie_Larkin

A thread is a thread related to the game. I didnt care if you where the TC, its the content of other users that made me rspond. If you wanna ignore threads thats ok. But first i want an explanation to see how its so similar to deux ex since i have dropped the game and i am looking for an excuse to replay it.

dakan45

What game would you say Vampire: TMB was most similar to?

Millerlight 89 what OS are you using and did you get from Sream? I'm still wanting to get this game but it was incompatible with Vista x64 last I looked.

Millerlight 89 what OS are you using and did you get from Sream? I'm still wanting to get this game but it was incompatible with Vista x64 last I looked.

Rickylee

oy miller, did you remember the community patches? :3 one way or another you might need them ^^ (and its always nice to have firearms being a viable option).

Hmm... I hope you post an update when youre done with the game :P

oy miller, did you remember the community patches? :3 one way or another you might need them ^^ (and its always nice to have firearms being a viable option).

Hmm... I hope you post an update when youre done with the game :P

Maddie_Larkin

oy miller, did you remember the community patches? :3 one way or another you might need them ^^ (and its always nice to have firearms being a viable option).

Hmm... I hope you post an update when youre done with the game :P

Maddie_Larkin

There ya go guys ^^

and yeah the community patches reballances combat alltogether, and brings in a few new weapns aswell, If I remember correctly.

They will make firearms quite effective ;)

http://www.patches-scrolls.de/vampire_bloodlines.php

I do reccoment starting a new game when patched tho... it does alter a great deal of things with the game, and more often then not, there is going to get bugs if using a savegame from before the patching.

For Daken: Well, the 44 nearly almost kills in 2 hots, the USAS kills in 1 usually, the sniper does too, and the DE (cant remember if that was even in the game at first, is pretty bloody lethal, I always favored the aug tho, its a monster if youre firearms skill is high enough ^^

But take them for a test drive and come to your own conclutions, me saying things does not make universal truth

just the latest patch should be fine, as far as I know, it has all the previous changes aswell as the official 1.2 in it.

That game plus Deus Ex and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey make up my top 3 favourites. Shame they haven't tried to do something similar, only with more polish. Just about every RPG released in the past five years was vastly inferior.

Just do what the rest of us did. LOL jk jk:D

Ok in my professional opinion this game is not for everyone, sure it is kinda cool and the voice acting is some of the best ever made. But there's just something about it that didn't hook me. I played about 2 hours, did a bunch of quests and then just stopped playing. I must say I am not really an rpg type of gamer though so that might have something to do with it. It's one of those games where you run here run there run here run there bla bla bla. There is some thinking involved which was nice and you actually can change the story a little bit based on your decisions. It just wasn't for me, I don't like these types of games where you load up your quest journal and start running around trying to check them off.

So do Mods/Community patches work on the steam release? I played a few years ago but that was with the retail version. Also, about the Wesp patch. Which one is that? dlindenb2000

Yes, the Unofficial Patch works with Steam version - manually direct files to

C: Program Files/Valve/Steam/SteamApps/common/Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Last I played there was a big fight between two patchers. One was just trying to fix the game, and one was trying to improve it beyond simple fixes. dlindenb2000

"Standard Version" of (Wesp's) patch fixes the game; "Plus Version" includes add'l gameplay tweaks. I recommend using Plus version.

Yes I got it off Steam, it would not run ar first it would keep giving me a Memory error. I just set it up to run in compatibility mode for XP (service Pack 3) and it runs perfect thus far, no crashes. Also, I am using Windows 7 64 bit.millerlight89

I've been intending to get the game for some time, maybe now that i don't have much to play i'll finally get it. Its one of the few post-2000 games people always talk about that i havent played, and i intend to change that.