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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| VtM: Bloodlines - Review @ ToTheGame |
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The latest site to <a href="http://www.tothegame.com/review.asp?id=84" target="_blank">review</a> Vampire: Bloodlines is ToTheGame. They praise the RPG aspects but describe the combat as "messy", resulting in a score of 8/10:<blockquote><em>Though not every person might be keen on the role playing aspect of the title, other players might not fancy the first person shooting aspect. Troika Games hopes to create a perfect harmony for gamers and give them the best of both worlds. What is undeniable is that the RPG portion of Bloodlines is what really makes this title enjoyable. This is why I whole heartily believe that Bloodlines is an RPG first and foremost while the other facets of the title fade during the of the game.
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Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:14 pm |
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This game is no shooter. It's not an RPG/Shooter-Hybrid
I repeat: This is no shooter, every reviewer who's complaining about the "shooter-aspect" of the game is an amateur. |
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Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:23 pm |
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No, this is just a plain, dull rpg-stylish game. I thought I would love it, since both Morrowind (action/RPG, with emphazis on PRG) and Vamp-Redemption are two of my favorite games ever, but this is unengaging and restricting and boring and only singleplayer and...well, Ill stop, because I still have respect for Troika (after all, they did Arcanum, and had it not been for Atari Im sure "Temple..." would have been awesome). |
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Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:29 pm |
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Peoples standards must be going through the roof if they can fault the rpgness of VtMB. Redemption was so linear it is hard to call it an rpg, and when did morrowind get multiplayer?
The world is going crazy when LotR 3rd age is consitently getting 90's and As when it is crap, but VtmB is averaging about 80.
"unengaging and restricting and boring" oh like your favorite games Morrowind and Redemption? "... and only singleplayer" oh like Morrwind?
What was unengaging about bloodlines? The top notch, flecthed out NPCs, story, and atmosphere? What was restrictive about it? In what way is it boring? Compare the VtmB boring to Morrowinds repetitive, enengaging world boring and Redemptions linear, undynamic world boring.
I know, they should have made combat 75% easier and added 5,000,000 enemies around every turn like DS, Diablo, NWN, KoToR, BG, IWD, PST, Morrowind, VtMRedemption etc, etc and then it wouldn't have been boring right? Because mindlessing hacking away at enless mobs of enemies is uberriffic fun and not boring at all. Mindless hacking creates its own cool atmosphere and makes games engaging, unrestricting and fun. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. |
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Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:16 pm |
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Amen to that.
Fuck the stupid hack-n-slashing, 4 wheel-driving, Republican voting, "Action" loving TARDS who seem to have taken over this planet. Fuck them all. |
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Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:53 pm |
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roqua1
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Amen guy, rpgdot isn't a hootin'-hollerin' swear site. I can't stand hack-n-slash (I posted the post above yours), and I am annoying most of the time, but I don't see how calling people with different tastes "tards" can advance your cause. Or seeing as how you seem to dislike republicans, I'll assume your a memebr of the partry of 'tolerance"-the democrat party. In which case maybe you should practice some. There is a big difference between annoying and attacking. |
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Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:29 am |
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DzD
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Joined: 12 Mar 2002
Posts: 7140
Location: Sweden |
Atmoshpere... I usually only have time to play in the middle of the night, and my constantly cracking window shutting hard when the wind hits it, while my radiator makes funny noises and my second computer turns itself off and on for no apparent reason, and... I think I'm beginning to see stuff in the shadows, and I have little voices in my head as the malkavians... I think I'm getting scared of the dark as well. That's not good either since it's dark here 18 hours of the day, and when it's not dark it's cloudy.
I think I need to go switch pants yet again.
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Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:42 am |
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quote:
Originally posted by Anonymous
Amen to that.
Fuck the stupid hack-n-slashing, 4 wheel-driving, Republican voting, "Action" loving TARDS who seem to have taken over this planet. Fuck them all.
Hehe, thats funny, because I was just filing people who enjoy this title in that simple-minded category. I just hate the way the overcommercialisation of the gameindustry the last couple of years (especially since the arrival of the xbox) and the subsequent search for the lowest common denominator among the gamers (which is usually violence and sex) has stupidified and simplified the rpg-genre in particular in every turn of the way.
Morrowind was a similarly simplified rpg, with the sad uncomplicated interface that the xbox has driven developers to adopt, thinking that anybody who can master an interface of Baldurs Gates standard must be an MIT-graduate and thus not a large enough marketgroup. As a gamer you constantly have to sell yourself short these days, because almost all developers assume the mediangamer is a retard. Anyway, on the subject of Morrowind, it did have much more magics, and it was openended and yet coherent in such a brilliant way it had me playing for months.
As for Redemption, the single-player had a story that was both outstanding and gripping, and contrary to this LA bullshit, it was epic. And despite the aged gameengine, the ambience and the details of the four cities was amazing, and huge in scale. Compare that to the pathetically small maps of Bloodlines - geez. But it wasnt so much the single-player game that was the most compelling aspect of redemption, it was the potential of the multiplayer. You could host ACTUAL pen and paper roleplayinggames with it. Genious! |
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