I've been interested in that game for a while now, but things I hear about the game (buggy, patch raising the spec requirement to sky high etc...) make me want to hold back at the same time.

Could anyone give me an info (and possible insight) into it?

I personally don't like the game. Yes it's very very buggy. Specs were already very high for the first part. But what I really hate about the game is that it's a wannabe vampire game. There are no vampire-like powers for example. All you really do is shoot. There is no superhuman strength, jump or speed. I would really like to see those things in the game.

But don't let my post stop you. I say borrow the game and if you like it, buy it. If not then don't.

Eh? Are you sure you talk about the correct game, Xen?

There are plenty of vampire-like powers in VtM:Bloodline including superhuman strength (Potence) and speed (Celerity). There are also several melee weapons including swords.

Anyway D*Ranged, the spec requirements are fairly high and you do well to get the patch to avoid the worst bugs. It's overall a decent game.

I'd say yes. Best RPG game in 2004 IMHO.
There's a ton of powers and abilities, so I dunno how Xen managed not to see them. My favorite character type is a melee fighter, Xen must have played a shooter without using any vampire skills. Somehow...

Nothing beats a Malkavian dressed up as a pimp and swinging a sword. The Cat-in-the-hat-styled hat makes him even more crazy-looking. :D

This game is awesome, the story and ambience is goof, but the game is extremly buggy, so you NEED the patch.

It has very high requirements. You won't play this on an average computer. At least not with maxed settings...

There are power, from the very start. The tutorial teach you how to use your vampire's starting powers based on his clan.

The special effects of using Celerity rule. There, snothing like activating superspeed and cutting everyone to piece with a sword before they can even move to step.

Well, obviously I can't play this on maxed settings (A laptop with Radeon 9700 128 MB), the game's buggy so I need the patch, and clans with celerity are cool.

I have:
Pentium Centrino 1.8G with 80GB HDD, but it's a laptop. FOrget about it?

Probably so. I found the game to be fun, and with EXCELLENT ambiance in some areas, the hotel scared the bejesus out of me. The plot is pretty cool as well.

I played with a 1.8 ghz laptop with a 32mb g4mx

it was slow especially in the city but i ran it.

I thought it was very good about an 8 of 10.

there is a gratuitous shooter part of the game that sort of seems out of place.

but theres one part the haunted hotel thats worth the price of admission its excellent.

the voice acting is excellent maybe the best ever in a computer game.

[ 04-27-2005, 09:48 PM: Message edited by: the mighty stamar ]

It's an awesome game in terms of mood and atmosphere, and it had a fantastic premise and is set in a great game world, but I found it just too hard to play on my 1.5Ghz P4 with 700MB RAM. I had to turn down a lot of the eye candy, and load times for area transitions for me was taking up to 4+ minutes. And when I fought lots of opponents it slowed to a crawl (even on Celerity). And yes, it has HEAPS of bugs. I stopped playing it when KOTOR 2 came out, it was just not smooth enough for me.

If you can see through all that it is a great game.