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). It 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. Past and present. What we formed into is a different matter, of course.
If you re a straight man Bloodlines can be a liquid sex-and-power fantasy pumped, undiluted, into your veins (ahaha). If you re something else it can be something else. And with all the rumours about Bloodlines 2 that are swirling around, I ve begun to examine why I love Bloodlines so much, when it s a buggy, unfinished, undercooked spongecake of an action RPG that collapses in its third act.