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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines | Team Jacob and Team Edward Eaten by Tzimisces
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I got a similar vibe from him, it was like he really wanted to be a down to earth man-of-the-people style dude, but couldn't get over being a bit of a smug self-satisfied douchebag.
My game breaking had nothing to do with that though. The bug I got isn't fixed by the fan patch, and reinstalling and copying my saves fixed it. There are plenty of other good reasons not to use the fan patch, such as the fact that it's fucking stupid. There was recently a discussion on the fan patch forum thread as to whether or not the reference to "rockerfeller" in the money description should be changed because "that's when you have like 5000 dollars and rockerfeller is much richer than that".
Buncha fucking rocket scientists.
The writers didn't "want" you to like Nines. The way he came off to you is how he was written. You could come out of the last round thinking "Those Anarchs are awesome! Down with the man!" or you could come out thinking "Nines is naive, Damsel is an idiot and Skelter is a conspiracy theorist (who turns out to be riiiiiight)". The anarchs are more sympathetic than LaCroix certainly, but they aren't the "right" option any more than Strauss is. Nines is perhaps more likeable than most characters because he saves your life, twice, but the game still portrays his struggle as somewhat naive and gives you the option to tell him such. Note that he's not on Rosa's list of people you can trust.
Your logic is unassailable, not to mention fucking stupid.
Also Fallout New Vegas. And Mass Effect 2.
Which patch is the one that switches some of the item rewards/locations around? I seem to remember that one making (at least some) sense.
Also, is it possible to get a rundown of the official and unofficial patches, and what they do?
Personally I always liked the Anarchs in general. If you don't let Damsel piss you off and keep your responses to her civil, she quits screaming at you and is much easier to tolerate (although she's still one of the more obnoxious characters in the game). The same goes for Skelter - don't get in a big-dick contest with him and he warms up to you as well. And of course I couldn't help but like Jack - yeah, he's manipulating you through the whole game, but he's such a badass while he does it you can't help but respect him a little bit.
And no, he doesn't extend this courtesy to you, but let's be fair, you're a very young vampire he barely knows that's had somebody wanting them dead since the night you got vamped. Jack's several hundred years old, so I'd say it takes a lot more than what you've done over the course of six months or so to earn his respect. Plus, unlike LaCroix, Jack really only manipulates you if you let him do it, going to the Last Round and asking him for advice, and most of the shit he tells you while manipulating you (such as that LaCroix wants the Sarcophagus for diablerie purposes) turn out to be right anyway.
Nines did strike me as a little naive and his "fight the power" shtick got tiresome really quickly. But the bottom line for me, when it comes to the ending, is usually this. Nines saved my life twice, while nobody else in the game ever lifted the finger to help me. I owe him one. Also, by the end of the game I've made enemies of a lot of dangerous people - the Giovanni, Kuei-Jin and the Sabbat - and if I'm going to live very long after the end of the game I'm going to need some allies, even if they are a little obnoxious or naive.
For what it's worth, though, my actual sympathies lie more with guys like Strauss and Bertram. They seemed to have a much more realistic outlook toward how to run undead society and the WoD doesn't seem to be a place kind to idealism. But I have a hard time liking or supporting the Camarilla when my introduction to them was nearly my own execution for something I couldn't even help.
When you're dealing with Nines, though, for some reason the game makes you say some really dumb shit that anybody with common sense would know not to say. I know I was a young vampire, and OOC I knew nothing about the WoD before I played through Bloodlines, but I'd already figured out that Nines wasn't exactly a "prince" and was more of an informal leader, and obviously wouldn't take kindly to being called one. But the game makes you do it anyway, even if you're trying to be as open-minded and polite as possible.
The only free training I can remember is asking about the history of LA (he gives you an unarmed point for that IIRC), which I didn't think pissed him off too much. I know there's the option to get a firearm point from him later in the game but I can't remember what brings that one up at all.
Also, I really like VV.
So... Strauss isn't pulling LaCroix's strings any more than any other Primogen might (well... maybe more than Grout), but he does have far more independent power and influence than he lets on. After all, if you side with him in the end, he takes the position of Prince with such confidence that he probably expects the rest of the Primogen won't oppose this promotion he just gave himself.
It's the first game I remember telling me off for cheating
The only reason I'm not sure if it's fan patch or not, is because last time I played the game I must've done the cheats after the tutorial.
Makes me wonder if there's any other stuff in this game I've missed
(Oh and it's from giving yourself max stats, just doing giftxp doesn't trigger it)
PlayStation Network ID : Hitsuraptor
Origin ID : Hitsu3165
Awesome isn't it? It's in the vanilla version I believe
That's about all we really know.
I did my first playthough years ago as a Malkav, but I'll be damned if that isn't what I want to do again.
Are there any other interesting builds that might be fun, or a off the wall malkav build?
They're all fun in general. If you want something with a little bit of it's own plot like the Malk had, go with Tremere. Otherwise, I had an absolute blast with my Ventrue
At least the everyone wanting to have sex with you part.
It doesn't do that to me any more (jesus the first time when I read all the newspapers and diaries and stuff D:) I just dread having to run through it and not be able to progress with the game until I do. I usually just charge headlong through the place with my sound turned off.
Also, I'm afraid the Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows has inured me to less effective haunted houses...
What has he made that was any good? Fallout 2? Feargus and co did quite a lot of the dialogue. MCA came up with the LOLTRIBALS and New Reno, and some weapon descriptions.
Honestly, though, we angry nerds give Beth a bad rep, MW's initial design was damn good for somebody whose only previous RPG credits said "coffee bitch", shame that technological limitations brought on by the XBox ruined it. And that a small but incredibly vocal(Summer once banned a guy for having fifty accounts) couldn't find Caius.
That's from the fanpatch.
And I simply could not avoid this exchange:
You wouldn't happen to be able to post the list in spoilers, would you?
This is definitely the game that makes me most want to be a complete asshole to everyone. The only problem is it's also the game with some of the most likable characters, and I'm too much of a softie to use the best smartass options on those guys.
Probably not hard to figure out who these are, but...
Okay, two then.
I was skimming over Aistan's LP, and I never did the Cathayan quest.
Where in the hospital is that?