Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

In the beginning it shows promise (assuming you're using community patches like the ones that come with the GOG edition here). Wow! So many different dialogue trees and level triggers in the missions. So much freedom to play the character you want. Then you hit the Warrens. Er, OK... Maybe that was just a brief faltering. It'll be back to itself in no time. Backtracking, backtracking, backtracking... Oh that's weird, I guess the hub is just cut down to Steve Blum doing an accent at me... Then WHAM! Two end dungeons and bosses that aren't even worthy of being called amateurish. I am 0% surprised Troika went out of business after this. The end sequence can only be described as absurd. This is not game design. This is not what a good RPG, imm sim or FPS look like, and it's certainly not what a good brawler looks like. It's not what anything good looks like. Good on you guys for enjoying it but this thing is simply bad. Amazingly bad: 1. Half the game is backtracking and fetch quests 2. Combat is terrible and unwieldy no matter your stats 3. Character progression is almost entirely numeric and not interesting 4. Everyone gets locked in to (an almost impossible, think Sekiro hard) combat ending 5. Characters exist only to give one quest and maybe make a reappearance later for, what... closure? 6. Bugs, even with years of fan cleanup The whole game is set up to annoy you. You guys are certainly showcasing your, er, mental fortitude by rating it this highly. I'm giving it a low 2/5, just because I was entertained in the beginning. God (or Caine? I guess?) help you guys if the sequel comes out after 100 years and is even close to this one in quality. Because I'm guessing more layoffs will follow.

this game is bad and frustating quest log is two vague how could just have a map with a waypoint on where you need to go instead of wadering around aimlessly combat is mid at best

Even with the Unofficial Patch, this game feels like an amateur early alpha. I know it's from another time, but this isn't worth it unless you have some sort of nostalgia or a retro-gaming fetish.

It was amazing in every single way as long as it lasted but then missions started to bug and I can't turn them in. So long... I know people love this game and I can already see why, but when a game breaks like that it annoys me more than it pleases me so for me it has to be rated bellow average as it is.

This it.