Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Justified in that the humans don't actually know the issues in Kindred society.Actor Allusion: When you get the briefcase for Fat Larry, he examines its contents and calls them "Beautiful." Larry is voiced by Phil Lamarr, who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction, and was connected to the briefcase arc of that movie.Thankfully, stealth and social based builds usually accrue more skill points to be spent on combat skills in preparation for those last missions. Many sidequests meet this description too. Action-Based Mission: The end of the game is a string of really strong bosses one after another, which disappointed players who were playing stealthy or using social skills.The innuendo comes, sure enough, if you're playing Malkavian: The only option you have, really, is to accept the task (like you'd refuse to do it if you were trying to escape homicidal Sabbat nutjobs and had a lockpick handy, anyway). Accidental Innuendo: The first task you must perform in the game that requires your skills is lockpicking a door to an office.Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Instead of requiring to you regularly drop everything and seek refuge from daylight in your haven, the game world is cast in permanent night while the occasional bit of dialogue suggests the passing of time and days happens off-screen. ![]() There are also a few plot points down there. Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Nosferatu use them in lieu of sidewalks and taxicabs.We never learn the details of this sinister deal, or with whom it was made. Aborted Arc: In Alistair Grout's final audio recording, he mentions having struck what he fears to be a "Faustian bargain" to ensure his safety, but his corpse is supposedly discovered in the very next room.With the creature too tough for most vampires to dare challenge, the complex has been left derelict and most of the local mortals believe it to be haunted Abrams wants the place up and running again, and tasks you with evicting the gargoyle - either by killing it in a tricky boss battle or by talking it into working for Abrams. In Hollywood, Isaac Abrams' Asian Theater has been taken over by a Tremere Gargoyle.Later in the game, you can end up planting hidden cameras in the Nocturne on behalf of the Nosferatu hacker Mitnick. The Nocturne Theater in Downtown Los Angeles appears functional enough, but it's actually an official meeting ground for the local vampires and the decidedly unsympathetic Prince Sebastian LaCroix in the game's introduction, he has your sire executed on stage and is only prevented from doing the same to you because of public outcry.Not entirely abandoned, as some unfortunate ghost hunters find out. Abandoned Hospital: The decrepit building in the Downtown area.So much so that the games community is still active to this day, and is always embracing new players who display an interest in the game. ĭespite the Obvious Beta aspects, many consider the game to be an incredibly fun, deeply rewarding experience that any fan of PC-RPG's like Deus Ex would enjoy. Luckily, a small dedicated modding community around the game has fixed most of these over the years through Unofficial Patches. Thanks to a very Troubled Production, the game had the makings of an Obvious Beta when it was released, suffering from numerous critical bugs and other problems, and although quite a few were fixed by patches, Troika went under shortly after the release, resulting in many of them remaining unaddressed (though some employees did stay on, unpaid, to put out a single official patch to squash some of them). They become embroiled in local vampire politics and meet a wide cast of characters in their quest to track down an ancient sarcophagus.īloodlines was also the first game to make use of the licensed Source engine from Valve Software and was technically the first Source engine game completed, but part of their licensing agreement prohibited the game from being released before Half-Life 2. ![]() After their sire gets offed for Embracing a mortal without the permission of LaCroix, the newly instated Camarilla Prince of Los Angeles, the PC finds themselves trying to prove their worth by becoming LaCroix's errand runner. and it would seem an illicitly-Embraced one, as well. In the Anarch-controlled city of Los Angeles, the player character is a newly-Embraced vampire. The game takes place in the Old World of Darkness. A World of Darkness MMO was being developed by Crowd Control Productions based on the Old World of Darkness which was to start out exclusively focused on Vampire: The Masquerade, but this was, sadly, eventually cancelled. An FPS/RPG hybrid, many consider it the worthiest successor to Deus Ex. It was released on November 16th, 2004, the same day as Half-Life 2. Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines is the final game made by Troika Games, composed of the Black Isle exiles responsible for Fallout and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura.
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