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Well I know that some people bought the game over the weekend so I thought maybe now there's enough people playing the game here to warrant a topic to discuss it??

I just made it to Chinatown, the fourth city. Not to go too far into spoilers, but the warrens section was pretty bad. Way too much combat in a maze of sewers. Hopefully the game goes back to its original quality, as I was enjoying a lot until that part.

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Warrens is universally regarded as the worst part of the game, yes

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Is that the part with the flesh thingies?

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Yes, a ton of these little flesh monsters with like, fat guys that shoot at you and big spider monsters. It was strange, there were so many of those spider guys and I just ran away from them. Was I supposed to do that, or should I have been strong enough to take them all on?

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it depends on your build

i remember running out of ammo trying to kill them all on my first playthrough as a toreador who focused on melee weapons for combat

needless to say i died way too many times trying to slice them up since they dealt incredible damage and i barely put any points into the firearms skill so it took a while to take them down that way

but even on my following playthroughs where i focused on ranged combat and had an easier time, i hated going through the warrens

fortunately it gets better again after that

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I have an unarmed-focused Toreador, so I didn't stand a chance fighting them. The only reason I beat the first mandatory one is because there's a platform at the top of the room that the monster can't get on so I could just pluck away at it with what guns I had for awhile.

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one last pity bump

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I haven't made much progress since the weekend. I've just arrived Downtown. Think I'm gonna play this some more this weekend.

I wish I paid more attention when character creating. I don't want to be a gangrel!


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So are there any more areas beyond Chinatown? Someone was talking about Malibu, which sounded like it could be a hub. Anyway, the Fu Syndicate and the Giovanni Mansion areas were really interesting and fun.

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Just the first two towns, Chinatown and Hollywood. And the Society of Leopold

Speaking of Chinatown, I've always thought Mr. Ox was supposed to be Leland Gaunt from Needful Things. He runs a knick knack store, goes on about taking people's souls, makes you do fatal pranks for his knick knacks, and you can't kill him, he'll just laugh at you and disappear. It's totally him

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Is there any reason to go back to old quest givers, like Jennette and VV? I should I be checkning in on them to see if they have more stuff, or is once their quest line done they're done?

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Also, if you guys like the story in this, check out the first V:tM game. Really good story, but the gameplay is, well, pretty ancient.

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Jeanette doesn't do much of anything (except sleep with you, if you were evil and gave her the necklace). I think VV has a few quests

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It's kinda weird how Jeanette is not really that important considering she's on the box (or least on the Steam cover or whatever).

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GANON1025 posted...
It's kinda weird how Jeanette is not really that important considering she's on the box (or least on the Steam cover or whatever).

Sex sells. Also, great game. Hope you patched it, cause on it's own it's kind of a buggy mess.

Also, now that Aecioo mentions it, I really should play Requiem.

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I did find the patch, and I had no idea there were any other VTM games.

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Aecioo posted...
Also, if you guys like the story in this, check out the first V:tM game. Really good story, but the gameplay is, well, pretty ancient.

I hated the gameplay of the first so much. It was awkward and clunky.

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Stealth in this game is sort of broken. I had this sidequest with a series of stealth missions, and even though I hardly have any points in stealth but I can pretty much walk right behind people without them noticing me.

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Yeah some vampire hunters these Leopold guys are. I'm like crouching right in front of them and they can't even see me. heh

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places have light values which determine how well you can be seen, as you probably already know

they just don't crank up the actual in-game shadows or darken the in-game lights appropriately!

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Sure, but I didn't expect that as long as you aren't in direct light you are invisible to people.

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That werewolf encounter awesome, and kinda tense too. Now it really fells like I've crossed the point of no return into the endgame, I just wish I had gotten a little more warning about it.

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did you kill the werewolf like a real manly vampire or did you run out the timer like a toreador pansy

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I tried to attack it but I was doing zero damage.

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we all tried that!

there is a way to kill it but i'll let you figure it out yourself if you ever play through the game again (which you should totally do)

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I love how that thing can plow right through walls, so there's no real hiding from it

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I plan on playing again as Malkavian.

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The timing was annoying, but man killing a werewolf is satisfying.

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I didn't think werewolves were going to be so huge. I thought I fought a werewolf at the end of the serial killer sidequest, but I must have been way off.

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I think it was a vampire from that clan with better Animalism.

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Yeah, that guy's a Gangrel

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well I guess the sabbat and kuei-jin have one thing in common: they are both completely blind to toreadors in bright white coats.

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Yeah I guess so. I also thought at one point that werewolf was slang for vampires who could transform into wolves like Beckett so I've been way off.

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He's also a Gangrel. That's what they do

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Well I know that NOW, I thought Gangrels had control over the Beast Within or whatever or maybe they still do I don't know.

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I also like how almost all of the major characters have a ghoul, but it's usually not terribly obvious. LaCroix's ghoul is Mercurio. Bertram Tung's ghoul is that annoying guy who bothers you outside the blood bank. Therese/Jeanette's ghoul is Vandal in the blood bank. Issac in Hollywood's ghoul is Romero the zombie hunter

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My poor ghoul :( :(

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Ahh, the end game.

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LaCroix's ghoul is Mercurio

Who is this again?

Therese/Jeanette's ghoul is Vandal in the blood bank

What?? How do you figure that out?

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Mercurio's the "man on the couch" who got shot and needed "medicine"

he sells you weapons if you don't rat him out to LaCroix

and you need only talk to Vandal a couple of times in the clinic to figure out he's Therese/Jeanette's ghoul

if you managed to hack into Therese's computer, you'd also get confirmation!

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Oh yeah that guy. I totally ratted him out.

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Well vampires transforming into slug monsters is the second-most unbelievable thing in this game, the first being the Warrens being so unbelievably bad.

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technically, she's not a vampire

and you just missed out on the best weapons by ratting Mercurio out!

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