Linkara Reviews VtM- Bloodlines

[Sykar]

The guy is about as funny and witty as sliced toast.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

You're giving me bad flashbacks to my days when I watched TGWTG alot.

Dark times, man. Dark times.

 

[index.php]

 

[Maculo]

I just read the ED page, this is almost unreal.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

So-so, I do not remember the review perfectly, but I think his review lacks the perspective of multiple playthroughs, and so he missed some of the story and game-play nuances. Specifically, I do not remember him going into how quests can have multiple resolutions or how particular clans can mix up playthroughs (Nosferatu, Malkavian, Tremere).

That's bullshit. It's only flavor crap. The only difference is that Nosferatu can't go outside without using obscure spell. Malkavians have fancy dialogues which doesn't change anything at all. Tremere are the exact fucking thing as the rest save a few comments about you being a little piece of shit from 2 people.

The alternative ways of completing quests concerns something like 5 quests in act 1 and there's barely any consequences beyond the quest itself. And 2 of these are just flavor alternatives. After that most quests just give you less xp if you fuck up and get spotted.

Spoiler

Don't open it.

It's not like the ending was bad but they could have been more subtle about this thing. Because there was no fucking doubt in my mind that this was a bad thing.

 

[Maculo]

I think flavor is an accurate way to describe it, but I do not see that as a bad thing from a role-play perspective. I think the flavor between clans and quest resolutions is enough to mix up subsequent playthroughs. This is purely my opinion, and I easily can see how someone would expect or want more out of it. Also, if I remember correctly, Tremere get a unique hideout and item from the Tremere figurehead.

With regards to the story:

Spoiler

The "don't open it" line was thrown in the player's face, but that only made my curiosity stronger on the first playthough. By the end of it all, I had a good laugh and I thought it was well-played.

Also, I enjoyed the fan-theory about the emails. Specifically, the emails about chess being from Grout (the psychologist that Nines was framed for killing), and that he was using you as a pawn or at least alluding to your status as a pawn in a bigger game.

The game was far from perfect, but I still think it is unique.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Would be weird considering he was unfamiliar with technology and completely isolated. From the start your friends are listed by the woman on the beach, and the guy sending them calls himself your friend. Which just links it all to the same man.

 

[Maculo]

Spoiler

I thought he was Malkavian, which received visions or whispers with information, in the same way he knew what Lacroix was planning.

Also, for the theory to work, he has to be hiding elsewhere with a computer and internet. I think the crux of the theory is that as a Malkavian, Grout knew that Lacroix was going to pin his death on Nines with the player's help, and so he planned to fake his death.

It's a fun theory, but far from bullet proof.

 

[Whisky]

Everyone who watches TGWTG shit should be banned for being underage.

 

[Notorious]

Why the fuck is this shit on GRPG discussion? Is this bullshit drama what the codex dissolved into?

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Spoiler

I thought he was Malkavian, which received visions or whispers with information, in the same way he knew what Lacroix was planning.

Also, for the theory to work, he has to be hiding elsewhere with a computer and internet. I think the crux of the theory is that as a Malkavian, Grout knew that Lacroix was going to pin his death on Nines with the player's help, and so he planned to fake his death.

It's a fun theory, but far from bullet proof.

Yes he did receive those. But yes he would need to be both familiar with the tech, being extremely old fashioned as you can see while hanging around his place, and not be completely isolated. When you enter his room you see ... and not a single computer in sight which makes sense considering he lost it and wanted to hide.

 

[Immortal]

I would rate the review a 3/10. Dude obviously has no taste in games at all, but at least he read the wiki and gamefaqs to prepare for it.

*Hit Play*

Fedora

*Stop Video*

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Jesus, that 4chan story made me cringe hard. Who the fuck talks like that IRL? I thought it was just a character for the cameras, like the AVGN.

Why the fuck is this shit on GRPG discussion? Is this bullshit drama what the codex dissolved into?

Shitty as it may be, it's a VTMB review. ┐(ツ)┌

 

[Kattze]

Everyone who watches TGWTG shit should be banned for being underage.

This is one of the employees of channel awesome aka sequel site to tgwtg

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayamanda

 

[Cadmus]

Everyone who watches TGWTG shit should be banned for being underage.

This is one of the employees of channel awesome aka sequel site to tgwtg

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayamanda

this looks like a trap. is it a dude?
it must be

 

[Kattze]

Everyone who watches TGWTG shit should be banned for being underage.

This is one of the employees of channel awesome aka sequel site to tgwtg

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayamanda

this looks like a trap. is it a dude?
it must be

Dunno mang, u tell me

 

[Cadmus]

hmm the face looks like a dude, everything else looks fake, no cameltoe on display....probably a dude

 

[Angthoron]

hmm the face looks like a dude, everything else looks fake, no cameltoe on display....probably a dude

It's someone that works on the same network as that feminist womyn that went turbo on Spoony for sex stuff. Whaddya think?

Ok, ok. I'll add a quest compass in this spoiler, just in case.

Spoiler

 

[Jools]

Ok, I actually tried watching the video from the OP. Couldn't get past the 5 minutes mark: horrible voice and what kind of accent/intonation is he trying to pull? Plus what's with the cameos from those freaks? And then he starts talking about some crap about the game's engine and the issue it caused... anyway, wasn't it made on the then-recently-released Source engine?

 

[Angthoron]

Ok, I actually tried watching the video from the OP. Couldn't get past the 5 minutes mark: horrible voice and what kind of accent/intonation is he trying to pull? Plus what's with the cameos from those freaks? And then he starts talking about some crap about the game's engine and the issue it caused... anyway, wasn't it made on the then-recently-released Source engine?

Yes, but it was rushed because Sierra wanted to launch VtMB on the same day with Half-Life 2 in a braindead effort to have two cutting-edge games out in the same quarter/whatever/blah, so Troika had to work fast and hard, and couldn't update the engine versions quite as quickly and readily as HL2 for obvious reasons.

So that part is actually correct.

 

[Phage]

At most, two posts about the accuracy of the review or game itself and twice the number of posts about the author's state of mind and libido. Codex. Codex never changes.

Let me ask a more pointed question: how accurate do you feel the review was of the game?

Stop being a sheep-cuck and form your own opinions after playing the game. In the time it'd take you to watch this awful "review" you could have finished the tutorial of the game. If you're worried about whether or not you should buy the game, just fucking pirate it since all the money goes to Activision and they legally cannot make a sequel to the game.

 

[thesheeep]

I think it was a fine review, considering the circumstances.
He is obviously is not a gamer, thus sucking quite a bit. But he gets his facts straight.

He is also pretty fair on the sexist parts of the game.

 

[Jackalope]

Watched two or three of Linkara's videos a while back. Never found the guy funny, and always skipped the boring LARP-ing stuff. Eventually I found the best way to learn something about comics is not listening to some fedora-wearing dweeb's silly opinions and boring monologes. I'm not surprised to see he still has no sense of humor or anything interesting to say.

As for Vampire: the Mascarade... It's a good game, I played some of it ages ago and had fun. I seem to recall there were some nice fan-made paches that fixed some errors and added some extra stuff.
It's a first person RPG, and that wasn't my favorite genre at the time, so I didn't finish it. I should.

 

[Lord Carlos Wafflebum]

Someone should just recreate VtMB in Gamebryo. 10/10 GOTY.

 

[Lhynn]

Im fucking triggered every time an asshole brings up sexuality in games. I dont give a fuck, no self respecting gamer gives a fuck, only cucks and weak girls do.