Has anyone played The new Vampire Bloodlines Game

[LordRaven]

I was thinking about picking Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines up but I do not know if it is any good. I never played the first one because when it came out my computer could not play it. Since then I have a new and recently upgraded puter and I can handle just about any game around so I have a chance to play all of those games that will never grace a console. If anyone has played it I would appreciate the skinny.

[NeverwinterKnight]

theres a bunch of threads in here about this game. you might want to check those, since a lot of people have given their impressions of the game in those threads.

 

but quick summary from my point of view: fantastic promise, fell short by bugs and seeming shoddy programming by troika.

[LordRaven]

theres a bunch of threads in here about this game.  you might want to check those, since a lot of people have given their impressions of the game in those threads.

 

but quick summary from my point of view: fantastic promise, fell short by bugs and seeming shoddy programming by troika.

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Thanks. I ddi not see any threads on this so sorry for cluttering the board.

[NeverwinterKnight]

Thanks. I ddi not see any threads on this so sorry for cluttering the board.

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not really meant it as you cluttering the boards. just that people have already given their views so you might not get many replies.

[LordRaven]

Thanks. I ddi not see any threads on this so sorry for cluttering the board.

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not really meant it as you cluttering the boards. just that people have already given their views so you might not get many replies.

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Np Thanks for the info.

[Child of Flame]

Thanks. I ddi not see any threads on this so sorry for cluttering the board.

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not really meant it as you cluttering the boards. just that people have already given their views so you might not get many replies.

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Np Thanks for the info.

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Fairly buggy game, with some pretty massive memory leaks. Only problems I really had with it though, was the memory leaks, and those only started to be noticable when I'd been playing for several hours, sometimes as much as six. I never hit any of the game stopping bugs, but there's at least one I've heard about. People complain about the combat in the game, but to be honest, I like the combat in Bloodlines better than that in Fallout (is it just me, or is the cursor in that game really freaking annoying, perhaps if they'd specified with some sort of grid how far you could move per action points a la Shining Force).

 

Problems aside, I enjoyed this game more than any RPG in my collection aside from Torment. It's better than Baldur's Gate IMO. I think most the posters on the board who specify that as the be all and end all of RPGs are letting nostalgia cloud their vision.

 

Summary: It's an awesome game, and if your computer can run Half Life 2 (also Source Engine) you should be able to run Bloodlines.

 

My specs are AMD Athlon 2500+ CPU, ATI Radeon 9600XT, and 1 Gigabyte of PC4000 Mushkin Ram.

[Eclecticist]

I disagree with Servant of Eru on so many levels.

 

*head explodes*

[Llyranor]

Seeing how Troika is dying or dead, wait a bit. The price should be dropping fairly quickly.

[Child of Flame]

I disagree with Servant of Eru on so many levels.

 

*head explodes*

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I said Torment was better.

 

Fallout's fun, but the cursor's buggin the hell out of me. I hate the way you have to right click to switch between the two (wouldn't having it change when you move it over an action item been just as effective), and I hate the way you have to move it, then let it sit in one place to see how many action points it's gonna take to move to a certain distance. The first point's extremely annoying when going through doors, and that whole bit's just poorly thought out from what I've seen so far. Baldur's Gate...well, while it might have been original when it was made, it isn't now. I'll still eventually get the sequel and the expansions just for the sake of saying I've played them, but there've been better RPGs since. Sorry guys, but nostalgia kills reason and taste.

 

The only one I've played so far that seems to have stood the test of time thus far is Torment. The quality of the graphics given their age amazes me, and the story is just so good, the graphics could be pixelated blocks and I'd still play it. Torment looks better than NWN IMHO.