Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

This is a classic with deeply immersive, well written story that spans centuries and presents a stark entertaining difference between VtM in the dark ages and the modern world. I highly recommend adding the Age of Redemption to upscale your game to higher resolutions (and add a more options to your gameplay)-- and then go nuts. It is deeply atmospheric and charming for those that appreciate the occult or VtM.

So after all these years the graphics of course look like garbage, but still the game manages to keep you excited long enough to finish it, even though it's not exactly short. Let me walk you through this: Players who played this game at the time when it was first published spent more time finding bug fixes, than actually playing the game - we still played it. The first version had no saving outside the hideout, so players spent a considerable amount of time running back and forth, just for saving - we still played it. When the players died - and the players died often - they reawakened at the hideoud, not seldomly quite far from where they died, having to run all the way back to that boss they were fighting - only to die again - we still played it. The dungeons were partly so messed up, that players got stuck and couldn't break lose without losing a considerable amount of playtime since their last save. Also after finishing a dungeon, you usually have to walk back through all its' levels to get back to the overworld - WE STILL PLAYED IT! So the fact that so many people played it from start to finish often times more than just once, despite the myriads of frustrating flaws it had, ought to tell you how good a game this is. Surely today the graphics look like garbage alright, but in turn you don't have to cope with all the bugs and best of all: you can save anywhere anytime. It's a vampire story, but not one for the little girls. instead it's very coherent and deals with a lot of ethical and moral aspects of being something like a vamipire with all the potential consequences in a relatively adult manner. So while it doesn't always take itself too seriously it's made in a believable fashion, which definitely makes it an enjoyable RPG even with the outdated graphics.

I remember this game fondly as it was my introduction into the World of Darkness 20 years ago. Sadly, it's aged like milk. The XP system is confusing at best (the system used in Bloodlines made it much more understandable, much more similar to the TTRPG), and because of various bugs even with the 1.1 patch pre-installed, having your frenzy meter go all the way up in less than a second is not an uncommon occurrence. The storyline is cool (but having your main character speak in 'thee's and 'thou's throughout the entire thing gets a little annoying) and the music is dope. If you can live with some frustrating bugs I say go for it, but otherwise you're better off playing Bloodlines to scratch your World of Darkness itch.

Harsh gameplay, but the more you play the more it becomes enjoyable.

Old mechanics but nice history, i had some problems to chose the screem size