Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines is, was, and shall be an amazing game (so long as it is/was/will be used with the unofficial patch). It defined some of the best gaming experiences in my teenage years, and is definitely worth purchasing. There is however a potential problem in the gog.com release. The unofficial patches "Basic" version is included from the moment of the game being installed, according to gog.com. This may render it incompatible with some of the best community content that this game has (And believe me, it has a lot... on top of this, the majority of the full-game mods add amazing things to the game, acting almost like an expansion pack to the Unofficial Patch Plus). If there isn't already a way to install the game with only the final Troika-Created Official Patch installed on top of it (not the unofficial patch) a lot of those mods (Such as Clan Quest Mod, The Final Nights, and Camerilla Edition) may be subject to extremely severe and possibly crash-inducing or game-breaking bugs due to leftover files from the Basic Patch included in this release- If they install at all. Furthermore, this may prevent you from installing the newer releases of the unofficial patch until gog.com updates the files on their end- Instructions on it say that you have to apply each version to a clean install of VTMB, making updates require a reinstall for the core game in the steam version. Hopefully I am writing this in vain and there's already a version downloadable on gog.com that does not include the unofficial patch in any capacity, since access to the best content on planet vampire (which kept operating thanks to a very dedicated moderator nabbing the IGN version before it disappeared and hosting the files on a server at his expense) depends on having a clean copy patched only to the last official, dev-created patch. I don't think this is the case, though, and the "Final Nights" Author has been warning people to avoid this release if they plan on using his mod.
Why_third?_I_personally_prefer_Daggerfall_and_system_shock_to_this, which_in_no_way_makes_any_of_them_really_better. Please_Sign_up_bethesda_softworks_so_you_can_benefit from_daggerfall's_free_release_and_arena's_free_release, and_convince_EA_to_let_you_release_system_shock_with_it's_various_mods_availuable_through_a_config_exe and_doxbox_1.74_or_higher.
