The year of 2004 was a banner year for PC gamers, if those gamers liked first person shooters, strategy games or massively multiplayer titles. Even adventure fans had a number of games from The Adventure Company and Myst IV last year. The stand-alone RPG, however, has suffered somewhat with a drought of quality titles. One RPG game that bucked this trend was Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines which despite its flaws was certainly the best PC stand alone RPG that was released in the past year.