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CatchrNdRy posted:I've never played unpatched but as is my understanding it not only makes the game just playable, but a classic we are still talking about over 6 years later. And it accesses previously unused content and addresses balance issues. It may not be the best game mechanics wise, but some of the best game dialogue, voice acting and it just...personifies the feeling of being awake at 4AM. I'm.. not trying to be sold on the game, I'll download the patch if I play the game again, I'm just curious if I'll have to suffer through 10fps again.
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Lavender Philtrum posted:I'm.. not trying to be sold on the game, I'll download the patch if I play the game again, I'm just curious if I'll have to suffer through 10fps again. I had tons of really bad fps issues when I last played. Turns out my old graphics drivers were not uninstalled correctly so I uninstalled my new ones, used driver sweeper and then reinstalled them and it worked like a charm. The odd part was every other game worked perfectly but somehow Bloodlines picked up on some old poo poo leftover from an incomplete driver uninstall and that made it play hosed up. I have lot of stories like that about this game. There are so many bugs and quirks that getting it to work on two different systems is never quite the same...
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Jul 19, 2011 04:37
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6 years later and I still haven't found it cheaper than $20. I want to play, but not $20 want to play.
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Jul 19, 2011 04:44
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It's totally worth that $20, even now.
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Jul 19, 2011 06:48
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invalid posted:6 years later and I still haven't found it cheaper than $20. I want to play, but not $20 want to play. This is literally one of the best games ever made, $20 is nothing for it.
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Jul 19, 2011 14:50
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invalid posted:6 years later and I still haven't found it cheaper than $20. I want to play, but not $20 want to play. It goes on sale on Direct2Drive pretty regularly, and just went on sale on Steam.
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Jul 19, 2011 14:53
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This game is still worth full price, it's that loving good. Be a man! Do the right thing!
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Jul 19, 2011 15:14
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Echoing that. It's worth $50 today. If you have never played it and are a western RPG fan you owe it to yourself to get this game (patch it up ohgod) and play the poo poo out of it.
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Jul 20, 2011 00:04
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Gyshall posted:This is literally one of the best games ever made, $20 is nothing for it. Whilst simultaneously being one of the worst games ever made, at least from how it was when it shipped. Then again, i don't regret the full price retail i paid for it when it was released and i don't regret the £10 i spent buying it again when i fancied playing it while a friend borrowed it. Still one of my favourite games ever.
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Jul 20, 2011 00:08
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Odd posted:melee will get you through bosses no problem although i don't think ANY boss gives two craps about obfuscate. Feel free to correct though! I THINK Wesp removes Bishop Vick's immunity to Obfuscate, but I could be mistaken.
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Jul 20, 2011 04:35
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invalid posted:6 years later and I still haven't found it cheaper than $20. I want to play, but not $20 want to play. I bought it brand new and then bought it again on Steam in December, it's that good. Buy it!
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Jul 20, 2011 04:51
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Ok, you guys sucked me in. I've got the latest Wesp patch and the game sitting here, and now I'm sitting in Santa Monica as a Ventrue but can't help but second guessing every decision I've made with the character. I was going to an intimidation dominate aristocratic type, but feeding has been especially a pain in the rear end early on.
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Jul 22, 2011 16:28
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invalid posted:Ok, you guys sucked me in. I've got the latest Wesp patch and the game sitting here, and now I'm sitting in Santa Monica as a Ventrue but can't help but second guessing every decision I've made with the character. I was going to an intimidation dominate aristocratic type, but feeding has been especially a pain in the rear end early on. Ventrue might be a... pain... in the sewers a ways in the future. You can probably get a faux-aristocratic intimidate type with a Toreador. Or a Tremere, who actually have Dominate and could very, very possibly come from aristocratic stock. I wouldn't second guess your decisions too much either way. Just enjoy your first playthrough of an amazing game.
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Jul 22, 2011 19:17
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You know, it's been too long since I last played this. I think I'll go Malk and use the Clan patch, throw any decent looking reskins at it to change the experience even further (a lot of the generic NPC reskins not included in the latest Clan patch look pretty great). It's a god drat crime that no further WoD games have been made.
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Jul 22, 2011 20:14
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Pope Guilty posted:I THINK Wesp removes Bishop Vick's immunity to Obfuscate, but I could be mistaken. No, you're right. I just forgot. I wouldn't bet on the bosses after him though
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Jul 22, 2011 23:02
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invalid posted:Ok, you guys sucked me in. I've got the latest Wesp patch and the game sitting here, and now I'm sitting in Santa Monica as a Ventrue but can't help but second guessing every decision I've made with the character. I was going to an intimidation dominate aristocratic type, but feeding has been especially a pain in the rear end early on.
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Jul 22, 2011 23:05
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Boss immunity to obfuscate is why stealth is important even if you are a malk or a nos. The best way to kill the kuejin lady is to sneak through the portal at the end and slouch on over behind her, then shoot her until she dies. She won't even notice you are there or even get a healthbar over her head until she suddenly falls over dead. I hate that fight otherwise.
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Jul 23, 2011 15:25
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Can you feed on any non-human bosses? I can't remember. Edit: Humanoid non-humans I mean, obviously. Like the fleshcrafter and the non-frog form of the kuei-jin mistress. Satanos fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jul 23, 2011 |
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Jul 23, 2011 17:37
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Satanos posted:Can you feed on any non-human bosses? I can't remember. Nope. Sadly you can only feed on the gigantic Tzimisce guy in Redemption. (and it's pretty hilarious)
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Jul 24, 2011 03:24
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Re-rolled a Toreador, and man, you guys weren't joking about how awesome Celerity can be. I liked Dominate but it took so much drat blood to use the good stuff like Suicide, but with Celerity you can do a flying ninja feed to make up for what you used. Loving it.
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Jul 24, 2011 03:39
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invalid posted:Re-rolled a Toreador, and man, you guys weren't joking about how awesome Celerity can be. I liked Dominate but it took so much drat blood to use the good stuff like Suicide, but with Celerity you can do a flying ninja feed to make up for what you used. Loving it. You should have been using Fortitude. Then you literally become bulletproof and can just stroll up to guys, fill up while their buddies' bullets bounce off of you, and then continue kicking rear end.
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Jul 24, 2011 04:08
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I was for tough fights, but it was hard to resist playing a sneakier type that had people insta-die with just a look from far away. Fun, but made the game harder, and right now I'm blowing through it much easier.
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Jul 24, 2011 04:12
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You know what the best part of Malk runs is in this game? Not just the future sight, but specifically the part in the end game where your character suddenly recognises Cain and freaks the gently caress out in the cab. And screw anyone who says it's not actually Cain.
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Jul 24, 2011 12:26
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I started a new game recently, as Gangrel. Started okay, doing good... then I got pwned by Mr. freaking Gimball. I AM SHAME. Also, is Camarilla-mode Animalism worth much? The level 5 power looks good, but...
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Jul 25, 2011 16:41
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Liesmith posted:Boss immunity to obfuscate is why stealth is important even if you are a malk or a nos. The best way to kill the kuejin lady is to sneak through the portal at the end and slouch on over behind her, then shoot her until she dies. She won't even notice you are there or even get a healthbar over her head until she suddenly falls over dead. I hate that fight otherwise. Wow, I had no idea. Totally doing this for my next run through. That fight is the worst part of the game for me. Even the sewers and the dull endless office portion at the end are much more bearable than that fight. Do any of the later patches make that more reasonable? I don't think I've patched ever since I got the game a few years back. Once I got it working I was kind of afraid of screwing with it any more.
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LaserShark posted:I started a new game recently, as Gangrel. Started okay, doing good... then I got pwned by Mr. freaking Gimball. Keep your Protean to 4. The fifth level transforms you into a cool-looking thing, but every third brawl attack has you doing this twirling around move first that doesn't add to your damage and serves no purpose but to let things hit you while you're wasting time twirling around. Pope Guilty fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jul 25, 2011 |
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Jul 25, 2011 20:47
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Pope Guilty posted:Keep your Protean to 4. The fifth level transforms you into a cool-looking thing, but every third brawl attack has you doing this twirling around move first that doesn't add to your damage and serves no purpose but to let things hit you while you're wasting time twirling around. Not to mention how buggy it is / was, i distinctly remember getting stuck in my warform, completely unable to change back. Totally ruined my gangrel playthrough.
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Jul 26, 2011 09:23
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I remember I really liked this game before, then it lost me on that horribly long and boring sewer section. I assume the patch takes care of that?
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Mrens posted:I remember I really liked this game before, then it lost me on that horribly long and boring sewer section. I assume the patch takes care of that? There's nothing that can really be done to fix that. I just no clip through it.
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Mrens posted:I remember I really liked this game before, then it lost me on that horribly long and boring sewer section. I assume the patch takes care of that? How could it possibly fix it? It's a sewer level. Just noclip through it
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Tewratomeh posted:On an unrelated note, maybe I'm alone here but I think a Malkavian run would be fine for a first-timer. The point of a Malkavian is that all the stuff they spew makes no sense to them. If you've already played the game, you would know exactly what you were off-handedly referring to. I think it's better to play Malkavian and then later on think back to what your character said and how it relates to the game. I think the impact's greater then. When I first got the game, I ran through the little quiz and it picked Malkavian for me so I ran with it. I didn't know what I was saying half the time. You can kind of make sense of the conversation options after a little while, but the whole Malkavian insight really only shines on a second playthrough. The first time you play, you don't know what's going on, and if you try a Malk run, you really don't know what's going on.
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I just wanted to add that I'm in Chinatown now with my first playthrough, and I have to say that this is one of the more enjoyable games I've played for a while. Thanks for steering me right! I'm already looking forward to my next run, the obligitory Malkavian one. I wanted to do that first since I used to play pen and paper a long time back and they were always my favorite clan, but I'm glad I waited as suggested.
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Jul 26, 2011 20:24
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Pope Guilty posted:Keep your Protean to 4. The fifth level transforms you into a cool-looking thing, but every third brawl attack has you doing this twirling around move first that doesn't add to your damage and serves no purpose but to let things hit you while you're wasting time twirling around. Okay, good to know. But... Animalism? Any good?
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Jul 26, 2011 20:29
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Why not just open the console, type 'giftxp 500' and try it out yourself?
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LaserShark posted:Okay, good to know. But... Animalism? Any good? Animalism is the single most powerful Discipline in the game. It's hilariously overpowered.
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Oberleutnant posted:Why not just open the console, type 'giftxp 500' and try it out yourself? Or do the XP cheat when rolling your character, and get to experience Wesp's ~hillarious~ 4th-wall shattering dialogue that's only for cheaters!
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Jul 26, 2011 21:01
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Kerbtree posted:Or do the XP cheat when rolling your character, and get to experience Wesp's ~hillarious~ 4th-wall shattering dialogue that's only for cheaters! That's not Wesp's, Troika put that in.
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Fuzz posted:That's not Wesp's, Troika put that in. I'd have been really impressed by Wesp had he managed to synthesize the voice acting, given that its a spoken line.
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Jul 26, 2011 21:15
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Kerbtree posted:Or do the XP cheat when rolling your character, and get to experience Wesp's ~hillarious~ 4th-wall shattering dialogue that's only for cheaters! Can you spoil this? I don't have the game installed anymore, but I'm curious.
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Fuzz posted:That's not Wesp's, Troika put that in. Sorry, I did it back in ye day when there was no community patch, and that didn't happen. Chinaman7000 posted:Can you spoil this? I don't have the game installed anymore, but I'm curious. I can't remember the exact text and don't have VTMB installed right now, but the gist of it is Jack being turned into the Patch Author's Sockpuppet and you get some load of guff smug guff about how you're cheating because you're really pathetic, or something. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jul 26, 2011 |
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