#Vampire the masquerade humanity Patch#

Cara also talks about how vampires have been hot, sulky boys since their inception, and how BloodlinesвЂ™ successful sexual, and sexy, tone makes it stand out from other games, even years later. Vampires are, obviously, all about sex, because theyвЂ™re all about blood, and thatвЂ™s associated with sex and power in lots of ways. It feels sleek and sinuous, slippery as an oiled cat. weird for women.) Stealth makes a strange bedfellow for combat in the Half Life 2 engine, and much of Bloodlines looks gangly and ungraceful. DonвЂ™t turn around too fast, ladies! (In Cara EllisonвЂ™s S.EXE articles covering Bloodlines she mentioned that playing Bloodlines can be. Some of them, the female Malkavian in particular, have massive pornstar tits subject to the hilarious whims of the game physics.

Character models stand awkwardly bow-legged, stalking the streets like theyвЂ™re at a Tory party conference.

#Vampire the masquerade humanity Patch#

Though the fan patch adds a lot, and fixes the bugs that riddled the first game like worms in a seabiscuit, it canвЂ™t fix everything. On the face of it, Bloodlines doesnвЂ™t sound like a game that should rank in anyoneвЂ™s favourites. And with all the rumours about Bloodlines 2 that are swirling around, IвЂ™ve begun to examine why I love Bloodlines so much, when itвЂ™s a buggy, unfinished, undercooked spongecake of an action RPG that collapses in its third act. If youвЂ™re something else it can be something else. If youвЂ™re a straight man Bloodlines can be a liquid sex-and-power fantasy pumped, undiluted, into your veins (ahaha). What we formed into is a different matter, of course.

ItвЂ™s a clunky, unfinished mess of an action RPG that runs better today than it did on release in 2005 only by the grace of a community made patch, but somehow it was formative for a lot of people who ended up at RPS. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has been written about a lot on this site (far more than one would expect from a game with both a colon and a hyphen in the title, which should be made a crime).