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Welcome to the WoD/Bloodlines Vampire Video Games Megathread! Feel free to talk about any vampire-esque videogame that suits your fancy: V Rising? Do it. - Vampire Survivors? Post away! - Bloodlines 1? We love first-timers! - Mage? Not vampires. Looking for the World of Darkness mega-thread? Check it out here. ------------------------------------------- V Rising ------------------------------------------- Vampire Survivors -------------------------------------------  Never played the original Vampire: Bloodlines? Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines was one of the first Source engine titles to be released in 2004. While extremely buggy, it had one of the most fun stories attached to an action-rpg world and offered plenty of replayability in the form of vampire races with different power subsets. -You can buy it on GoG here, Or you can buy it on Steam here. -If you install it from Steam, you'll need to install the Unofficial Patch found here. If you haven't played before, stick with the base patch, veteran players should consider the +Patch which fixes a lot of exploits and changes some things up. -Upmarket Mango has provided a good post on how to improve lighting to make the game feel more moody and less like a Source engine game. -Struggling with quests? Want to min-max your character? Just taking the tour? The guides at gamefaq are literally the best options that also cover the +Patch. ------------------------------------------- Depreciated because it never happened:  Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines2 takes place in the World of Darkness Universe originally created as a tabletop adventure game and has since permeated multiple platforms. Tetrabor fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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Feb 12, 2019 19:04
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I'm really excited about this, but I'm also worried that it will turn out to be an Isometric RPG instead of a FPS rpg.
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Feb 12, 2019 19:11
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Yeah I'd rather not have it look like Tyranny or PoE. I'd be a lot happier with a 3rd person or FPS RPG. One of the biggest strengths I've seen in the game was how well the facial animations were done and how unique everyone looked. Voice acting is still superb too. LaCroix and Jack come to mind. I'd be scared of all that being lost in an isometric game. That said, I've been begging for a sequel ever since i first played this in 2014. I don't know how much im cursing the outcome if i'm begging for a sequel and choosing how its done.
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Feb 12, 2019 19:37
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It will be extremely hard for anyone to match Bloodlines, so I'm rather sceptical.
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Feb 12, 2019 20:01
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I'm really excited about this, but I'm also worried that it will turn out to be an Isometric RPG instead of a FPS rpg. As much as I want the FPS rpg, I don’t see it coming out of Paradox Interactive. It’ll most likely be isometric...but still awesome, maybe.
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Feb 12, 2019 20:01
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Let's see if this materializes before Werewolf: The Apocolypse either develops or just cancels.
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Feb 12, 2019 20:10
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Harebrained Schemes developing it or bust. Also its going to probably be isometric and I'm totally cool with it. Making it an immersive sim RPG like the original would probably be too expensive and immersive sims just don't sell unfortunately, even if I love them with all my heart. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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Feb 12, 2019 20:28
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Roman Reigns posted:As much as I want the FPS rpg, I don’t see it coming out of Paradox Interactive. It’ll most likely be isometric...but still awesome, maybe. I'm hoping they'll at least go for an over-the-shoulder approach, but there's no telling what way they're going with this just yet. Hopefully the ARG will provide some clues soon. Edit: It's also worth noting that this could be a direct sequel, one of the ARG images is a fake conversation between two users on the 'Tender' app:  For those who don't remember, Knox is one of the ghouls you meet early on that tricks you into doing a quest for him and his master (Bertram.) Tetrabor fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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Feb 13, 2019 01:40
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Saw this linked the other day via RPS. Ran through it, vaguely interesting - but shallow so far. I'm looking forward to the next stages - a new vampire game could do really really well I mean, so long as they're not going on about gay purges in chechnya or some poo poo.
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Feb 13, 2019 01:53
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Accordion Man posted:Harebrained Schemes developing it or bust. FPS sims may be popular enough with the Bethesda games making them popular.
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Feb 13, 2019 03:36
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:FPS sims may be popular enough with the Bethesda games making them popular.
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Feb 13, 2019 18:39
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Whalley posted:Last rumor I heard was that the Elder Scrolls 6 engine is going to be brand new, so if this VTM remake (if it's a thing at all) is real it better use the TES6 engine before all bugs have been ironed out otherwise it ain't gunna feel like VTM. They'd have to license that engine out from Bethesda though, and I don't think it'd be that useful since VTM is more focused on city-life instead of sweeping vistas. If the sequel doesn't use its own engine, then I fully expect them to use Unreal if it's an FPS/TPS. Isometric or topdown would probably use Unity or Lumberyard or one of their previously used engines.
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Feb 13, 2019 19:08
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I'm interested, but I kinda hope it doesn't tie back into VTM:B directly. It would be weird seeing those characters again with different writers and actors (or the same actors but fifteen years older). If this is set in the old WoD, it would be kinda cool if they did it as a 90s period piece like the new Resident Evil 2 remake, but probably not given the ARG stuff.
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Feb 14, 2019 01:19
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I look forward to seeing Swedracula's vision of the World of Darkness brought to digital life! I know Paradox stepped in back in November, though I admit I haven't kept up to date after that
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Feb 14, 2019 01:25
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Oh fantastic, I have a good excuse to reinstall
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Feb 14, 2019 01:31
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So is this likely taking place in the most recent version of vampire?
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Feb 14, 2019 01:35
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Crabtree posted:So is this likely taking place in the most recent version of vampire?
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Feb 14, 2019 02:32
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For those of you not following the arg, it references two of the locations from the game, Knox is trying to figure out a secret and travels through Hollywood Boulevard (The third area of the game.) Then heads to Griffith Observatory (Where the trap is sprung and you have to fight a werewolf, eventually pincering it with the observatory doors.) Sounds more and more like a sequel, or the arg creators really loved the original game.
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Feb 14, 2019 04:10
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An alternate possibility for the Tender stuff is that it's marketing for a V5 book that merges Bloodlines stuff into the tabletop canon. Paradox has been mostly focused on the tabletop stuff with White Wolf, especially since that one mobile game blew up in their faces (because they hired a huge piece of poo poo to write it, and he proceeded to make a side character into a literal walking attack on a game designer he doesn't like).
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Feb 14, 2019 04:13
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Man, is everyone who wrote for White wolf from mid 00s to recently a shithead?
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Feb 14, 2019 09:48
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Chuck Wendig's cool, Patrick O'Duffey, Rose Bailey, just off the top of my head.
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Feb 14, 2019 18:22
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The app updated its quests for valentine day. There's 3 new quests, asking what you did for valentines day, how you felt about valentines day and one that asks you to "reflect on your life" for one minute, while sad music plays and it streams past people holding their heads in their hands in despair. They've upgraded the amount of "people near you" spots from one (previously; "there are 5 people sick near you") to 3 ("6 People in Stockholm are very hungry, meet them" and "3 people near you are alone, meet them" )
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Feb 14, 2019 23:59
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Crabtree posted:Man, is everyone who wrote for White wolf from mid 00s to recently a shithead? As far as I can tell they started recruiting from a pool that consisted exclusively of vampire larpers and that's been downhill ever since.
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Feb 15, 2019 00:14
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So since this talks about a Project Chimera (and werewolves had a vampire-chimeric hybrid that often went horrifically wrong) could this actually be a Werewolf arg and people are just hoping for the game that everyone actually wants?
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Feb 16, 2019 22:19
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Archonex posted:So since this talks about a Project Chimera (and werewolves had a vampire-chimeric hybrid that often went horrifically wrong) could this actually be a Werewolf arg and people are just hoping for the game that everyone actually wants? Someone familiar with the new print materials was saying that Tender is an app that the Nosferatu hackers had developed to link vamps to willing 'donors.' For those playing the arg, you might have gotten your first 'match' yesterday, mine had me hunt down Euro art related questions in order to unlock a convo with the user, except I have to wait until they're online to do so.  Tetrabor fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Feb 16, 2019 22:48
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I recall reading something that WoD was corporate nuked by Paradox cause everyone was a Nazi or something? That seems bad imo
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Feb 17, 2019 03:06
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I recall reading something that WoD was corporate nuked by Paradox cause everyone was a Nazi or something? White Wolf's last hurrah was releasing a Vampire: The Requiem splatbook that chronicled the Masquerade in Chechnya, which included a whole bunch of gems like the country being run by a Muslim vampire mafia and public LGBTQ persecution merely being a ploy of various vampire groups. It was probably the most tone deaf thing they'd released since the Roma splatbook for old Vampire and it convinced Paradox to finally reel them in.
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Feb 17, 2019 03:26
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Vermain posted:White Wolf's last hurrah was releasing a Vampire: The Requiem splatbook that chronicled the Masquerade in Chechnya, which included a whole bunch of gems like the country being run by a Muslim vampire mafia and public LGBTQ persecution merely being a ploy of various vampire groups. It was probably the most tone deaf thing they'd released since the Roma splatbook for old Vampire and it convinced Paradox to finally reel them in. Not Requiem but Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition, AKA V5. It was a section in the Camarilla sourcebook, and it literally caused an international incident and put people in danger. Maybe the biggest single fuckup in the history of TTRPG.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:00
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:FPS sims may be popular enough with the Bethesda games making them popular. Basically every game Arkane has made besides Dishonored 1 has done terribly though.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:01
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Pope Guilty posted:Not Requiem but Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition, AKA V5. It was a section in the Camarilla sourcebook, and it literally caused an international incident and put people in danger. Christ, they were still releasing splats for that? I actually had no idea.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:18
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Pylons posted:Basically every game Arkane has made besides Dishonored 1 has done terribly though. It's crazy though their games are so good.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:27
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Vermain posted:Christ, they were still releasing splats for that? I actually had no idea. V:tM ended in 2003 with Gehenna, and then in 2011 Onyx Path released V:tM 20th edition (V20). When Paradox bought White Wolf off CCP (the makers of EVE Online) in 2015, they created a subsidiary called White Wolf (which is also referred to as Parawolf) being run by a big shithead who wanted to make V5. There was questionable poo poo from the start with V5, and the Camarilla book basically killed V5 (for now) and Parawolf, which was absorbed into Paradox. Paradox as far as I'm aware don't intend to produce any books and are looking to license the IP to somebody to make books.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:53
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I recall reading something that WoD was corporate nuked by Paradox cause everyone was a Nazi or something? tithin posted:I mean, so long as they're not going on about gay purges in chechnya or some poo poo. Refer attach
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Feb 17, 2019 05:06
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Pope Guilty posted:V:tM ended in 2003 with Gehenna, and then in 2011 Onyx Path released V:tM 20th edition (V20). When Paradox bought White Wolf off CCP (the makers of EVE Online) in 2015, they created a subsidiary called White Wolf (which is also referred to as Parawolf) being run by a big shithead who wanted to make V5. There was questionable poo poo from the start with V5, and the Camarilla book basically killed V5 (for now) and Parawolf, which was absorbed into Paradox. Paradox as far as I'm aware don't intend to produce any books and are looking to license the IP to somebody to make books. Is there any good, comprehensive read about all this stuff? I know Parawolf was absolute trash (but is less trash now?), but frequently hear dark murmurings about Onyx Path and sometimes the authors of the old White Wolf stuff like Mark Rein-Hagen. It's always insinuations and implications, though, so I never know what to make of it.
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Feb 17, 2019 05:07
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I don't know of a big single source, unfortunately.
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Feb 17, 2019 05:11
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I think cyberpunk is going to scratch my VtM:Bloodlines itch but I'm cautiously optimistic that this will be good. Maybe just desperately hopeful. 
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Feb 17, 2019 06:10
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Game's starting to move - I got an out of game email with a link to a webpage that looks vaguely like a wordpress blog about conspiracies, centered around Tender. https://www.trustnomore.com/2019/02/15/tender-its-spreading-influence/
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Feb 17, 2019 23:36
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tithin posted:Game's starting to move - I got an out of game email with a link to a webpage that looks vaguely like a wordpress blog about conspiracies, centered around Tender. Edit: Nevermind, one of the arg tracking websites has updated their Tender quest list. That being said, I haven't received any emails from the TMZ portion of the arg like you did. The website's headline photo appears to be an in-engine rendering:  It's also labeled tender-newyork.jpg, which could be because that's where the event is taking place, or that's where the next game will take place. Tetrabor fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Feb 18, 2019 |
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Feb 18, 2019 00:17
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Turns out, its just going to be a LARP guide for V5.
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Feb 18, 2019 00:32
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Tetrabor posted:
Following the Rabbit hole, one of the links on TNM says that Tender has a live event on 23/2 in new york for which TNM wants to stack the deck and have people show up with hunting gear including night vision goggles. There's a web form to complete it - it also lists online options. Going through gamedetectives Wiki, there's a lot of stuff that I've not seen, this has been going on for at least a month - they had an in person event last month with a locked suitcase that had some tender CEO's redacted email. I anticipate we'll maybe have a "conversation" with DeepSapphire4 today or tommorow, and she'll "invite" us to an in person event on the 23rd, and if we can't make it, she'll invite us to a livestream.
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Feb 18, 2019 01:06
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