Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

The best cRPG ever!

This game may be my favourite RPG of all time. This includes the Fallout-series and Skyrim. A Must Play!

Where to even begin with this game? I guess listing all of the potentially bad things is as good a place as any. For starters the game is a buggy mess, even with the unofficial patches which come preinstalled with the GOG version you can still find new and creative ways to crash your game, get yourself stuck, softlock the game and a whole host of other such fun activities. The combat is also lackluster, both the melee combat and gunplay feel underwhelming and more often than not unsatisfying. Enemies get knocked into invincibility frames all of the time and you can get stunlocked by a few enemies pretty easily. Alright, enough negativity, now for the good, the reason I gave the game 5/5 stars. It's simple, really and I can sum it up into one nebulous word: heart. The game has heart. None of the shortcomings matter when you can feel the effort put into the bits of the game that really matter: the story and roleplaying. Honestly, I can't think of a game with more roleplaying options than VtMB. There's so much here and two people can have two drastically different experiences with the story based on their clan, stats and dialogue choices. You can, in every aspect of the game, play it just the way you want it to. The plot is also pretty good filled to the brim with interesting characters and side-stories, dark secrets to uncover and absolutely stellar writing. The one negative thing I can say about the plot is that I don't like how the ending you get is purely dependent on a choice you make before the end and not on your actions up until then. And as much as I harped on the combat being lackluster I feel like it's worth mentioning that using your vampiric abilities feels great and at later levels you truly get to feel like a predator in the night toying with your pray. In conclusion, this game is a true diamond in the rough. If you can look past all of its shortcomings you will find a bright gem of a game and I simply can't recommend it enough.

Always amazing, greatly patched, still a wonderful game to play or to discover for the very first time. "Vampire Bloodlines" : everytime someone will mention it, someone else will reinstall it. Don't think : buy it, play it and dream about it

The game is relevant today! The game is worthy of a remaster on a modern game engine.