Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

For new players such as me I got lost a lot, but then again a lot of areas that the quests listed were easy to get to so it wasn't all bad. Also, and I know people won't like my viewpoint, and that's ok. But this game got tedious and boring real fast, at least it did for me. However, I did like most of the story, music, npcs, and locations. But this comes at a cost of most of the quests consisting of fetch quests and somewhat passable gameplay, although, the compat in this game does show it's age. So since it's an older game I can give it some leeway for that. On top of all this I was often frustrated going through long sections of levels and backtracking, because the game does not help you one bit. I know someone is gonna say, "You need a game to hold your hand, haha, little baby." Yes I understand your viewpoint, but at the very least they could have added a hint on where certain things are (Yes I know they gave you hints, but not always when a quest updates), or they could have added a minimap system back in 2004. This was possible on Postal 2 (2003), so I would think it would be possible to add it. Besides all that there are enjoyable moments, but this is far from a perfect game in my opinion.

I played for about two hours and it was ok, I guess. aside from the jank extremely goofy animations. It only autosaves very sporadically, and I lost very close to an hour of progress because the elevator in the tutorial decided I wasn't moving fast enough to get out when it opened. So it closed. No ability to open back up the door on the panel. No ability to go back up and try again. It refused to open. Well, I refuse to replay that hour. Refund requested. I would think this much vaunted unofficial patch would get things like that. What a waste.

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This game is virtually unplayable. I've heard people say it changed gaming, what games like this made people ok with clunky messes? Okay, cool. I used to think "man, I wish I'd have played that as a teen." Now I'm glad I didn't, I would have been way more angry about how broken this feels.

The game will let you play as a vampire in a vampire clan and it desperately tries to please everyone so it is a dark game at one moment only to be very cringy the next one. There are plenty of non-essential dialogues which you won't care about at all if are not crazy about vampires. It is a well produced game but I guess it is really just for people who love anything with vampires. Casual players will be quickly bored.