Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

Kinda, undeniably unique game, theres nothing like this out there afaik. Has lots replayability.

Playing in 20 years after release I was surprised how much this held up. Atmosphere, music and some of the social aspects are extremely great, you even have solid dialogue animations for most NPCs. The first third of playing this game I was floored and surprised that there have been very limited spiritual successors... Then you get into level 3/5 of the Hollywood Sewers and its still going. Combat is bad and most of the boss battles are as well. Starts to show issues at around the half-way point and the last few hours are just dungeon after dungeon with little to no respect for the levels you put into social skills or your decisions that were so rewarding in the first parts of the game. Some characters are great, others just jiggle at you in a pandering way that shows its age slightly. Overall I still liked this game with its warts and I am starting to think that the upcoming sequel cant tarnish this game as much as it did itself. Even just ending slides would have improved quite a bit on this. Its on sale often enough that if you have a fairly quiet week you can beat the game in about 25 hours and have fun during most of it. If nothing else it will make you look for a World of Darkness tabletop group to join as the setting is extremely rich.

For a game in the early 2000's, this one is pretty good. I have to admit there would be no way I would've played this as a kid--much too young at the time, so glad I can come back and play this now. Especially since GOG's version comes with the patch that literally makes it playable, I recommend getting it from GOG for that exact reason. Still has some audio clipping and issues here and there, but still very worth your time if you're a fan of VtM at all!

Everytime you mention it someone re-installs it

Shows signs of it's age in a big way, if i hadn't been around for the source engine when i was a kid idk if i could abide the idiosincracies