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Sep 22, 2010 06:44


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contrasoma September 22 2010, 16:28:47 UTC
Hah! I'm glad yr listening so I don't have do. Fun stuff.

BTW, thanks for the Bloodlines rec. Loving it! About 4/5s of the way through as a Toreador and just started another game as a Malk. The dialog and story options are great! Next thing you know I'm gonna want to dig my old Love Sucks shirt out of mothballs.

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pope_guilty September 22 2010, 19:16:00 UTC
I will cheerfully describe Bloodlines as my favorite game ever- I love the FPS/RPG blend, and it absolutely perfectly captures the source material. Glad you're liking it. :D

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 19:30:50 UTC
Okay, so if I've been running my Toreador as a persuade/melee character and plan on running the Malk as a stealth one, which clan should I go with on a third go-through? Tremere?

Also, I wish I could get the bonus content to work. Do you know if wesp's patch works with the Steam version of the game? I'd almost be up for paying for it twice.

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pope_guilty September 22 2010, 20:01:26 UTC
Tremere is hideously broken because Blood Strike, the first level of Thaumaturgy, is hideously broken.

And yes, Wesp's patch works with Steam.

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 20:42:02 UTC
Hm, maybe I'll go with Nosferatu then. As much as I liked all of the human interaction, I pretty much never had to worry about Masquerade violations, and that might be a fun challenge.

I'll keep an eye open for a sale on the Steam version, then. Not sure I want to drop $20 for a third go through, but maybe another $10...

While we're talking broken but lovable games, did you ever play this? Well worth the purchase if only for the spot-on rendering of the escape-from-Dunwich-hotel sequence (the only well-paced bit of plotting ever done by HPL).

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pope_guilty September 22 2010, 20:44:53 UTC
Nosferatu are fucking ridiculous with melee because high-level obfuscate gives you bonuses for hitting people while obfuscated and that combines with Potence in amazing ways- like, 200 damage hits.

I was deeply disappointed with Dark Corners of the Earth; I thought it was very poorly designed.

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 21:09:29 UTC
Dang. Alright, I'll go with Noseferatu next time. Would've been cool if they'd included Samedi if only so I could rock the same Swans T I own.

I'd been looking forward to Dark Corners for years when it was released, so I couldn't help but be disappointed in some ways. The mechanics were sloppy, but I liked the idea of splinting particular body parts (hadn't played Deus Ex at that point - sue me), and I was very happy with the atmosphere.

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 23:12:45 UTC
Oh yeah, one more cool thing about V:Bloodlines - it set me on a total Collide kick, and I realised that I only had hard copies of a couple of their CDs. $100 later, I have the remainder of their discography (as well as the two Secret Project maxis) en route. :P

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pope_guilty September 22 2010, 23:15:13 UTC
Your wallet falls before my might!

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 23:17:12 UTC
I hate living with known lacunae in my collection.

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 19:31:47 UTC
...Also, is it ever worth running a character with totally jacked up ranged combat stats? Guns seem far too inaccurate to ever justify the XP expenditure.

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pope_guilty September 22 2010, 20:01:45 UTC
Guns are terrible at the beginning of the game but awesome later on.

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contrasoma September 22 2010, 20:42:47 UTC
A'ight, I'll start giving my Malk points in them now and storing ammo for later.

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