Vampire BloodLine = Deus Ex 1
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adrockthekid
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Deus Ex had functional combat. Vampire's is freaking broken. So is the stealth. Blech.
Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!!
The mission with Prothese maker is one of the best quests in a role playing game,i was so fucking scared going down when i realized the truth.........
The mission with Prothese maker is one of the best quests in a role playing game,i was so fucking scared going down when i realized the truth.........
God damn is this game buggy, crashes to desktop, computer freezings (happens more than CTD!), and yet I CAN'T STOP PLAYING.
And I think the combat and stealth are both pretty decent, the implementation of both is pretty simple, but it's fun, and it works the way you expect.
I'm playing a 'I buy everything at hot topic' tool
so my combat stats are pretty crap, and that means boss fights are spent mostly hitting and running and relying on blood packs. Of course since all my social skills are high and I'm doing as many sidequests as I can, I tend to be rolling in the money anyway.
And I think the combat and stealth are both pretty decent, the implementation of both is pretty simple, but it's fun, and it works the way you expect.
I'm playing a 'I buy everything at hot topic' tool
so my combat stats are pretty crap, and that means boss fights are spent mostly hitting and running and relying on blood packs. Of course since all my social skills are high and I'm doing as many sidequests as I can, I tend to be rolling in the money anyway.Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
It was good except for last battles,where you had to spent like half hour doing nothing but killing enemy minions.
And all the endings are pretty disapointing although humorous and surprising.
Overall a good game,i would give it a 85
And all the endings are pretty disapointing although humorous and surprising.
Overall a good game,i would give it a 85
ArcadeStickMonk
Member
I loved playing through this game, "enthralling" is the word I would use. But then, it may have been evident that I enjoy a good vampire cock tease.
The stand out points were the conversations and the side quests. I wouldn't use the term interaction, because there is little to do with the various characters you meet besides speak to them, but the overall quality of the voice acting and visual emoting of the NPCs was top notch. In one instance I was called on to end a poor thin blood's life, and his pleas were enough to disuade me from my usual bloodthirsty ways; I found it very impressive.
Nearly all of the side quests can be boiled down to go-fetch fare, which is what we're used to, but so many of these quest just seemed to come about more... organically, if you'll forgive the usage. From who I had to talk to to get the quest, to how they spoke to me, to how I pieced the clues together in completing the quest it simply felt more real and immersive to me than a similar quest handed out in Morrowind or Invisible War.
I also had some serious problems with the game, and bish is right when he calls for the patch.
For starters, the combat is absolutely unfufilling, save for katana stealth kills. It is White Wolf, so one could expect the guns to all suck, but damn do they ever suck. Museum security gaurds taking three shotgun blasts, can you dig it? Melee fares much better, but shoddy hit detection prevents anything from ever gaining a visceral quality, except the Bloodrayne style combat feeding.
Also, several of the core quests were poorly balanced and on more than one occasion I was stuck from simply not having access to the correct dialouge options to move forward (I went for Seduction instead of Persuasion if you couldn't guess) In short, the quests have nowhere near the multiple paths and options of Deus Ex.
The first hub and its side quests were awesome, and so was the third and fourth, but the core quest quality takes a dive in the latter third, boiling down to one mass murder after another.
I experienced a few crashes, but not many. This is a Source game, so all the Half-Life 2 audio skipping and access issues are there to some degree. Load times could have been shorter, but there are some very big maps and hubs to explore. Performance was only ever bad in the large hub areas, which aren't supposed to be combat zones anyway.
My biggest tech issue was one level requiring the next map to be loaded manually via the console or else it would crash. Seems to be widespread.
If I didn't enjoy talking to the NPCs and doing to side quests so much, then the game wouldn't have rated so high by me. This is definitely a game in which you cannot see everything the first time. This game is flawed, and certainly in need of some hand holding, but there is some genuine gaming gold in here, and spots of brilliance that I think are modest milestones in the evolution of the genre.
The stand out points were the conversations and the side quests. I wouldn't use the term interaction, because there is little to do with the various characters you meet besides speak to them, but the overall quality of the voice acting and visual emoting of the NPCs was top notch. In one instance I was called on to end a poor thin blood's life, and his pleas were enough to disuade me from my usual bloodthirsty ways; I found it very impressive.
Nearly all of the side quests can be boiled down to go-fetch fare, which is what we're used to, but so many of these quest just seemed to come about more... organically, if you'll forgive the usage. From who I had to talk to to get the quest, to how they spoke to me, to how I pieced the clues together in completing the quest it simply felt more real and immersive to me than a similar quest handed out in Morrowind or Invisible War.
I also had some serious problems with the game, and bish is right when he calls for the patch.
For starters, the combat is absolutely unfufilling, save for katana stealth kills. It is White Wolf, so one could expect the guns to all suck, but damn do they ever suck. Museum security gaurds taking three shotgun blasts, can you dig it? Melee fares much better, but shoddy hit detection prevents anything from ever gaining a visceral quality, except the Bloodrayne style combat feeding.
Also, several of the core quests were poorly balanced and on more than one occasion I was stuck from simply not having access to the correct dialouge options to move forward (I went for Seduction instead of Persuasion if you couldn't guess) In short, the quests have nowhere near the multiple paths and options of Deus Ex.
The first hub and its side quests were awesome, and so was the third and fourth, but the core quest quality takes a dive in the latter third, boiling down to one mass murder after another.
I experienced a few crashes, but not many. This is a Source game, so all the Half-Life 2 audio skipping and access issues are there to some degree. Load times could have been shorter, but there are some very big maps and hubs to explore. Performance was only ever bad in the large hub areas, which aren't supposed to be combat zones anyway.
My biggest tech issue was one level requiring the next map to be loaded manually via the console or else it would crash. Seems to be widespread.
If I didn't enjoy talking to the NPCs and doing to side quests so much, then the game wouldn't have rated so high by me. This is definitely a game in which you cannot see everything the first time. This game is flawed, and certainly in need of some hand holding, but there is some genuine gaming gold in here, and spots of brilliance that I think are modest milestones in the evolution of the genre.
Oh, and they also find a use for "Who wants a body massage?"
ArcadeStickMonk
Member
Azih said:
melted my undead heart
Well, yeah.Gattsu25 said:
johnjohnson
Member
This one uses the Source Engine, right? And another one: I absolutely hate vampires (the "species"). Could I enjoy this game regardless of this?
