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Everyone should play through Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines at least twice. Once as a general playthrough, another as a Malkavian. VTMB is basically a western style RPG where stats and picking a class actually changes a lot about the game. The basic breakdown of the game is that you are a brand new vampire in LA. You get sent on bitch missions by the Camarila, a group of vamps who's entire purpose is to make sure that a random vampire doesn't gently caress up and have human's discover they exist. They are also pretty corrupt so you have several choices later in the game as to which of the factions you want to side with. The general plot is almost like a mystery story has you try and find out what's really going on and who is lying about whatever. In fact, most of the side mission tend to have you solving little mini-mysteries, like why the homeless population has a mysterious blood-born disease, or who went on a rampage and slaughtered some dudes on a pier. Apparently the game is based off a table-top game and sticks with the source material pretty faithfully. For example, the Masquerade refers to the fact that you can't go making it obvious you're a vampire. If a regular human sees you sprinting down the street faster than a car, they'll freak out and call the cops. You get 5 chances. As you blow your cover more and more, you start attracting vampire hunters and after the fifth fuckup its game over. It's one of the rare games where picking a class actually changes the game a lot. For example, your class pretty much defines how most characters will react to you. For example, play as a pretty boy ventrue and those anarchists down the street won't care to much for you at first. Play as a ugly rear end Nosferatu and you can't even travel outside the sewers without racking up masquerade violations.Play as the spell casting Tremere and get special treatment from fellow Tremere's as you learn blood secrets. It's apparently like Dues Ex only without the poo poo UI. It even has FPS elements where switching to a gun puts you in FPS mode and it plays just like a shooter (but everyone knows guns are for wussies, go melee baby). Stats are all important and there's a gently caress ton of them. Instead of leveling up you just get some experience points after solving a quest to spend however you want. There's even cool skills like computer hacking and lockpicking. The Malkavian class is so cool it gets its own section. You generally only play one on your second playthrough. Malkavians are crazy rear end bonkers insane. You get wacky dialogue choices, can see past the plot, hear random whispers, and have vibrant conversations with stop signs. As an added bonus almost every NPC in the game goes "oh poo poo a loving Malkavian" when you meet them because it means they get to figure out that you mean Therese when you say you are looking for the obsidian daughter of Janus. The game is easily my favorite RPG ever and as a bonus for horror fans it contains a section so loving terrifying it puts modern horror games to shame.
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