driver on 5/2/2010 at 07:37
It's an ok game that quickly goes bad at about the halfway point when you get to present day. It's nowhere near as involving as Bloodlines but I thought the writing was quite good and the characters well rounded. At that price it's certainly worth a punt just as long as your expectations aren't too high.
Something which I think this thread is remedying.
Quote Posted by Phatose
Despite Troika's uselessness at bug fixing, an obviously bugged dialogue is pretty clearly a bug.
Troika didn't make V:TMR.
DDL on 5/2/2010 at 09:23
Aside from the aforementioned feed/awaken bug, there's also the fact that you really only ever need two skills: feed and celerity (sprint to dude, drain to death, sprint to next dude, rinse repeat: the constant feeding offsets any damage you might take from..anyone, basically).
And that even in the modern setting, you're still better off with a bigass sword than you are with any guns at all.
But it's a hoot anyway. Plus some of the best voice-overacting ever.
Minor spoiler:And it actually features a daylight level, which is ace.
Andarthiel on 5/2/2010 at 09:33
Quote Posted by DDL
But it's a hoot anyway. Plus some of the best voice-overacting ever.
Minor spoiler:
And it actually features a daylight level, which is ace.True
Hehe, I remember that level. It was a Cathedral or something, I died so many times on that one because of that damned sunlight.
Mr. K. on 5/2/2010 at 09:40
I remember playing it and enjoying it quite a bit some years ago, the medieval times were pretty cool!
WingedKagouti on 5/2/2010 at 09:41
Quote Posted by DDL
And that even in the modern setting, you're still better off with a bigass sword than you are with any guns at all.
Which is fairly close to the pnp version.
Kuuso on 5/2/2010 at 12:50
I've completed Redemption, but I've never managed to complete Bloodlines. heh
Phatose on 5/2/2010 at 14:12
Quote Posted by driver
Troika didn't make V:TMR.
No, they made bloodlines.
ZergMasterBaiter on 5/2/2010 at 14:38
I remember watching a friend play it back when it came out. I was like WOW! The graphics were pretty advanced for its time. If only it had awesome rpg gameplay to match, would have been way up there with Fallout, Bioware games. But seriously, I would just stick with Bloodlines, try some new mod or something. There are plenty of better games on gog.com to spend those $6 on.
Nameless Voice on 5/2/2010 at 15:27
Quote Posted by DDL
And that even in the modern setting, you're still better off with a bigass sword than you are with any guns at all.
Is that also any different from Bloodlines? Apart, maybe, from the flamethrower, with its chance of setting yourself on fire if you're clumsy.
DDL on 5/2/2010 at 16:24
You have a point...though as I recall you don't get a decent sword until relatively far in to bloodlines, and there are still points at which sittin' and snipin' are perfectly valid approaches. Whereas in redemption you..start with a sword, and really just never need to change, except to "a better sword". (also, having a fixed brujah character possibly aids this)
I think it just surprised me at the time, and the memory stuck.
"YAY! I CAN USE GUNS NOW!"
*tries*
"Oh..ok, back to the sword then."
