I'm off work being all sick (boo) and so can't play my loverly xbox (communal room = can't hog the couch), so I decided to break out the ol' lappy, and replay Bloodlines again, to cheer myself up. I forget how much I enjoy this game - bugs and all! The story kicks ass, and its just fun to play. Plus, bits of it still creep me out mightily. Not to mention the replay value in the Malkavian and Nosferatu clans....

Damn the gods that let Troika crash, or else we might have a bit more awesomeness by now. Anyway, I got to wondering a couple of things: firstly, anyone else notice all the crazy that happens in game. Think I missed it on other play throughs, but now I'm seeing a wolf running about the hills at the Santa Monica Pier, and then later in Downtown LA, I swear a Bruhja vamp ran past with acceleration when I was walking along a street (masquerade violation, much?) but when I tried to follow him down the ally he ran down, he was gone but I heard screaming. I wan't even on a quest at the time. Weird times, man. I'm thinking it must be more than a game bug, cos its just too darn random. lol

Secondly, wouldn't it kick a little bit of butt if a TV show or movie happened? The mythology is so rich and the characters are just plain cool. ('Kindred' doesn't count because it was just pathetically awful and missed the point and is now dead). So my other though is ..... casting? Any thoughts?

:)

(here's to secretly praying someone magically resserects the francise one day....)

I have an old copy of this i stole from a friend. Does it work on vista?

"I have an old copy of this i stole from a friend. Does it work on vista?"

"(here's to secretly praying someone magically resserects the francise one day....)"

"I have an old copy of this i stole from a friend. Does it work on vista?"

I totally dug this game when it came out (played as a few different clans), but I kind of doubt we'll see another one like this. Whatever setting this game is based on (can't remember what White Wolf calls it...might just have been "Masquerade") is no longer used, as they moved on to something else, which I think is called "The Requiem".  I suppose that doesn't kill the chance of another game just based around Requiem, but this game was buggy and unsuccessful enough that I doubt we'd see another. Damn shame. 

"AlwaysCrashing said:

"I have an old copy of this i stole from a friend. Does it work on vista?"

Yes, but be sure to patch it after install or else face the bug of doom. :)"

" (can't remember what White Wolf calls it...might just have been "Masquerade") "

"I totally dug this game when it came out (played as a few different clans), but I kind of doubt we'll see another one like this. Whatever setting this game is based on (can't remember what White Wolf calls it...might just have been "Masquerade") is no longer used, as they moved on to something else, which I think is called "The Requiem".  I suppose that doesn't kill the chance of another game just based around Requiem, but this game was buggy and unsuccessful enough that I doubt we'd see another. Damn shame. 

I also feel like the nation is kind of saturated on Vampire-based stuff lately, with all the TV shows and movies. Though Masquerade is a lot deeper than those simply because it's based off a pen and paper RPG, I don't think the public is quite ready or willing for it. 

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trying to find a new copy, not easy... and the game aint even that friggin old

"trying to find a new copy, not easy... and the game aint even that friggin old"

There was actually a TV show based off of the White Wolf game (at least they said it was, and they called some people by their clans). I think it had like three episodes on the Sci-fi channel or something. I remember watching the pilot... it wasn't very good. It was like a soap opera.

"There was actually a TV show based off of the White Wolf game (at least they said it was, and they called some people by their clans). I think it had like three episodes on the Sci-fi channel or something. I remember watching the pilot... it wasn't very good. It was like a soap opera."

I'm not going to lie, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is one of the most underrated games that I have ever played. It's a kickass RPG and simply a kickass game, in general. Kudos for getting into it!

You can still get it on Steam.

And yeah, great game... especially as Malkavian. :D

"You can still get it on Steam.

And yeah, great game... especially as Malkavian. :D"

You know, I just tried to reinstall this game today because I wanted to really sit down and play all the way through it. I had gotten to the second location and after forgetting to back-up my save, I haven't gotten back into it (totally sidetracked by other games). Now that I've got a lot of free time and another week before work starts, and my copy of Far Cry 2 arrives,  I feel compelled to finish this.

But god, I hate Steam. I backed up the damn game, but Steam refuses to install from that and instead wants to re-download the whole game. POS. So getting back into the world of vampire politics has to wait until tomorrow.

Glad to see other people recognize this game as being absolutely brilliant.

I love the dialogue options in the game, especially for Malkavians.  I play it at least twice a year because it is still awesome.  A very unique game to say the least.

I absolutely love this game. It would be nice to see some more rpgs based on the World of Darkness.