Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

yes

this is just soo good. dont care about some grapihc glitches

Great classic, still holds up quite good.

so ive nto been playing this game long.... the onyl thing i can think to say is that ti needs a minimap and proper quest markers..... ive had to look up where im supposed to go more then once..... but other that that its been a fun game so far!

If I had played this when I was 16, I would have absolutely eaten this up and probably made it a big part of my personality for a long, long time. Playing it for the first time as an adult, I can still admire the confident worldbuilding, incredibly charismatic writing, and impeccable early-2000s silliness while also conceding that holy moly, this game constantly feels like it is falling apart as you are playing. Every technical aspect of it feels like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces only technically fit together but you've got to really wedge them in there in order to make it work. Quests break, A.I. is not, and the balance between the different playstyles is all over the place. Knowing a bit about the game's development history and the situation with the source engine, it's probably difficult to say where the devs' intentionally stops and the kind of busted version of the source engine begins, and the game is obviously fully playable from start to finish. But either way, it did result in a game that, for me, was on average pretty unpleasant to play for a lot of the time. The story, though, the character, the world: Fantastic, and in a different timeline, potentially formative.