Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

The software is simpl too old to be compatible with modern machines and systems, and GOG has made it where it cannot be moded so it's functionally unplayable. You can get through the ttorial, maybe, but very early in the game you will encounter something that crashes it 100% of the time and thus no way to play further.

great game would recommend why is there a minimum of 30 characters for reviews

I remember playing this back in the day but game cant run on modern specs well it lags

If I had played this when I was 16, I would have absolutely eaten this up and probably made it a big part of my personality for a long, long time. Playing it for the first time as an adult, I can still admire the confident worldbuilding, incredibly charismatic writing, and impeccable early-2000s silliness while also conceding that holy moly, this game constantly feels like it is falling apart as you are playing. Every technical aspect of it feels like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces only technically fit together but you've got to really wedge them in there in order to make it work. Quests break, A.I. is not, and the balance between the different playstyles is all over the place. Knowing a bit about the game's development history and the situation with the source engine, it's probably difficult to say where the devs' intentionally stops and the kind of busted version of the source engine begins, and the game is obviously fully playable from start to finish. But either way, it did result in a game that, for me, was on average pretty unpleasant to play for a lot of the time. The story, though, the character, the world: Fantastic, and in a different timeline, potentially formative.

By all means get it! It has amazingly well written and acted out dialogues, it gives you the freedom of playing it however you want, and it has unique atmosphere. Even though it starts getting linear after the first district, the game is one hell of a fantastic RPG ride!