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It’s pretty good, no more broken than the latest fan patch. The thing about the fan patch is that beyond a certain point, almost all of the changes are very minor and cosmetic. Moving prop objects around levels, etc.
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Average Bear posted:Wait wtf is this Camerilla edition stuff? Don't install it or really any of the extras, just go with the 9.4 plus mod. The Camarilla mod is a revamp of a bunch of stuff like clan powers/weaknesses among other things.
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Gyshall posted:Besides forcing 8x AA pet pcgamingwiki, any other solid graphics upgrades these days? Reshade is fully compatible, if you're into playing with shaders. There's a ton to mess with. I've also created a preset of my own that you could use if you don't wan't to tweak things yourself but you still want a small bump up in graphics. No promises it'll look good on your monitor, but it's mostly slight color correction and a touch of static distant blur & bloom. Just create a text file named "VtMB-ReShade.ini" where your game exe is and paste this into it then load the preset in Reshade using the ingame menu. Be sure to download the shaders listed next to "Techniques" when installing Reshade else they won't be there to load obvs. code:    This loving hotel.
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Upmarket Mango posted:
I'm hoping they'll find a way to play into the supernatural elements again, ghosts, zombies, places that'll give a good scare. That sense of dread the Ocean House hotel gave really grounds the player into understanding that they aren't the most powerful creature in the world, they are but a fledgling. You don't really experience that feeling for the rest of the game, the few times where you understand your weaknesses are Prince LaCroix dominating you if you refuse to do a mission, and the werewolf near the end of the game. The Gargoyle, Hammerhead, and Sewer Boss can all be gamified in comparison.
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Mar 25, 2019 04:36
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I really enjoyed all those elements, too. Bloodlines did a good job of making the supernatural in the oWod feel diverse and lived-in, rather than just name checking and cheap cameos of other white wolf properties.
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I'm personally disappointed there was no way to get turned into a lawn chair.
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Mar 25, 2019 05:23
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Just saw interview with the vampire. Good movie, but are the books good too
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Average Bear posted:Just saw interview with the vampire. Good movie, but are the books good too Considering the low bar that is set by vampire books and trashy fiction then sure, I guess. But no, they're not really "good" . Just read Carmilla and Dracula and remember that everything is a sex metaphor. Have you ever watched Blacula? Its and interesting Blaxploitation film. I actually wrote an undergrad paper on it... for a class called Vampire Stories lol DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 25, 2019 07:43
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Blade is twenty years old, 90's as gently caress, and owns. Watch Blade.
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Mar 25, 2019 10:47
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Watch bram stokers dracula
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Blade is cool as hell. Interview with the Vampire is one of those weird films that seems like it just shouldn't work , but they somehow pull everything together and it's fascinating. My recommendation is What We Do in the Shadows, it's a mockumentary about New Zealand vampire society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2w3H_oLSIU It even got picked up as a tv series that premiers next week. Ghetto Prince fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Average Bear posted:Wait wtf is this Camerilla edition stuff? You know, just in case the sewers weren't frustrating enough.
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Honestly, the thing that saddens me on replay is alot of sequences just don't have the same impact. The first time, blind, in Ocean Hotel, or the prosthetics place, I was crawling along all anxious and unsure. Replay is basically dashing around hitting the event triggers to get back to the game. No real solution to that, but Bloodlines is definitely one of those games I wish I could play again for the first time.
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Fintilgin posted:Honestly, the thing that saddens me on replay is alot of sequences just don't have the same impact. The first time, blind, in Ocean Hotel, or the prosthetics place, I was crawling along all anxious and unsure. The lesson here is don't watch any gameplay clips for 2. That's definitely my plan. Buy it day 1 without looking at reviews or having seen any footage. Sure, there's a risk of getting burnt, but also not knowing anything has the possibility of actually allowing things to surprise you. I do exactly the same thing with films I'm interested in, it's just that the upfront investment if it's terrible is lower. (Or at least I try to, self control and all that.) CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Fintilgin posted:Honestly, the thing that saddens me on replay is alot of sequences just don't have the same impact. The first time, blind, in Ocean Hotel, or the prosthetics place, I was crawling along all anxious and unsure. in addition to that, I'm also on a playthrough and I find myself not building a character per se, but building a reward keychain tool. As in, I know quests in this area require 6 persuasion, so that's the next goal. Oh and hacking 4 here. ignore dexterity, but pump lockpicking. Dump the rest into stealth at first, combat later. It's similar to how fallout new vegas characters always end up with high speech/science/repair/lockpicking, because that's how the min-max cookie crumbles. Conversely, for all its flaws, alpha protocol separate player stats from player actions relatively successfully. Your choices and options were influenced but separate from your character's stats (ie if you hack a computer you gain background info that opens dialogue options). I guess it's part of being an older game but still makes me ponder what would be a good way to alter that.
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The problem is that choosing between Skill A and Skill B is almost never a choice between equally appealing rewards. And in fairness, as the number of different skills and skill checks goes up it's virtually impossible to keep all that poo poo remotely balanced. Also players are always going to be attracted to getting into locked places and passing speech checks in your RPG. So people are always going to zero in on those unless you create multiple equally good ways of getting into poo poo and unlocking things in dialog. Which just makes things more complicated and harder to balance anyway.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Oh yeah, most oWoD fiction is trash. The Demon trilogy was greta (Greg Stolze so of course) and the Mummy Trilogy was... alright? It had a Beckett cameo if anything. I can't think of good Vampire novels, and I read the entire Clan Novel Saga. Haven't read them, but I think Brian Hodge did some nWoD fiction. He's a very good non-licensed fiction horror writer, so they might be good. I remember reading the Greg Stolze Fire in the Blood etc nWoD books when I was desperate to find some non-awful WoD fiction and thinking they were legitimately decent horror novels, not just decent-for-licensed-fiction.
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Ghetto Prince posted:Blade is cool as hell. Interview with the Vampire is one of those weird films that seems like it just shouldn't work , but they somehow pull everything together and it's fascinating. I feel like What We Do in the Shadows pretty much perfectly captures what low standing failure vampires must be like in WoD. Right down to having a horrific Nosferatu roommate in your basement that no one really wants to deal with
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Along with the loneliness of the one good player constantly trying to keep the other idiots from loving everything up.
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Dracula was Tzimisce apparently, so I'd say Vladislav would be one too. Ventrue isn't a great fit for him.
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Old Clan Tzimisce are an entire bloodline of Eastern European feudal lords with Dominate replacing Vicissitude, for that extra hypnotic gaze goodness. Of course, Dracula's in the strange position of having inspired a couple of clans by himself (Ventrue, Gangrel, Tzimisce, plus Malkavian if you count Renfield), so when they made his sheet they gave him a respectable number of Disciplines: White Wolf Wikia posted:Clan: Tzimisce
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there is some way to play tabletop rpgs online? i think we could play some world of darkness or something like that
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DoctorGonzo posted:there is some way to play tabletop rpgs online? i think we could play some world of darkness or something like that Tabletop simulator, Discord with a dice roller, Skype, Roll20 or whatever its called, Fantasy Grounds, etc. Plenty of ways to do it.
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alas poor julius. he didn't make it.
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DoctorGonzo posted:we could set up something if people are interested I'd be super interested. I've never played something like that before, but I'd be willing and able to do it regularly.
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a7m2 posted:I'd be super interested. I've never played something like that before, but I'd be willing and able to do it regularly. Same. I've only done it online the once before, though I used to play some WHFR with my friends years ago.
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You guys know there’s a whole subforum dedicated to online games? Invite only, sorry
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Nah you can just walk in there. They might be able to give you advice for better Dracula operations too.
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Kurtofan posted:Watch bram stokers dracula Alernatively, read the book (or listen to the Audible version, that's got Tim Curry). There hasn't been a good adaptation of the book yet, and the book is still the best vampire book I've read. Second place is my guilty pleasure "The Last Vampire" series (renamed Thirst for some reason) by Christopher Pike.
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I love that the sequel is set in Seattle; Vampire LARPs were huge here in the late 90s when I was a moody teen. "Kesper North" was a name I liked the sound of that I cadged from a Tanith Lee novel to use for a Tremere character that I recycled for EVE Online. (Not the only thing I recycled; Vampire politicking was a great prep course for EVE politicking.)
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PureRok posted:Alernatively, read the book (or listen to the Audible version, that's got Tim Curry). There hasn't been a good adaptation of the book yet, and the book is still the best vampire book I've read. Second place is my guilty pleasure "The Last Vampire" series (renamed Thirst for some reason) by Christopher Pike. If we're just throwing out vampire fiction recommendations, I really like the Passage by Justin Cronin. I've been meaning to get to the Historian, which is apparently DraculaXThe Da Vinci Code. Sounds suitably trashy enough to be enjoyable.
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The best hosed up vampire story is Octavia Butler's Fledgling, which goes out of its way to paint the POV as a loving monster and also has that good fun Vampire Politicking going on around the halfway mark.
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Mar 25, 2019 20:42
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PureRok posted:Alernatively, read the book (or listen to the Audible version, that's got Tim Curry). There hasn't been a good adaptation of the book yet, and the book is still the best vampire book I've read. Second place is my guilty pleasure "The Last Vampire" series (renamed Thirst for some reason) by Christopher Pike. There's been a 2010 comic book release that's highly faithful if you just want visuals. On that note, Mike Mignola apparently worked on Bram Stoker's Dracula and did a comics adaptation as well. It's loving Mignola, so it's gorgeous, made me appreciate the movie somewhat more.
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While we're on the topic of WoD/Vampire media in general, I kind of wonder if Geek & Sundry's L.A. By Night Actual Play Series is gonna be canon at all? Jason Carl from White Wolf is the storyteller for that, and I think he's at least marginally involved in 2? Would be interesting, especially since season 2 of that was basically my inoffical bloodlines sequel until we got an offical one.
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Swedracula rattled his saber about integrating LARP across the world and creating a grand old living metaplot (extreme reliance on metaplot being a thing that plagued oWoD, and a thing much remembered and longed for by grogs) back when Paradox’s acquisition of the IP was first announced but it only served as an omen of his fundamental idiocy, like a kid springing for SLR in a gaming rig. It may yet factor into the game, but Bloodlines 1 carved out a space largely outside of metaplot and was all the richer for it. I doubt Mitsoda is high on the notion, but who knows.
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It's intended to be canon, there's been some minor references in official materials. Erika Ishii was at the announcement as well.
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