Game is bad (Console Review)

[Raven Ranks]

This game has been on console over a year. Next to no updates. Story is bland. Powers are useless. The game does not live up to what this legendary series deserves and the developers know it. That's exactly why it's $20 on Series X right now (which does not include the last gen version).

This game is a cash grab and has been since day one. No talent writing. Bad game design. Terrible dialogue. Choices that don't matter. Just bad. Please do some research and watch some videos before wasting your money. This is not what you think it is.

As to it being "woke", that's not even close to the issue here. Developers are claiming the game is being poorly rated based on "diversity", using it as an excuse. That is the least of the problems this product has.

[GrandMajora]

Not surprising, this whole damn IP is cursed.

Troika captured lightning in a bottle when they made Bloodlines, and everybody else who's tried a crack at it since then has failed miserably.

[MTL5]

Originally posted by Woke Or Not:

Choices that don't matter.

I don't know about the rest of your post, but you could not be more wrong if you tried. VtM: Swansong is basically the textbook example of how to make a game where your choices really do matter. Basically everything you do in Swansong has some kind of impact. I'm not sure why you'd make such an obviously false claim.

Originally posted by Woke Or Not:

This game has been on console over a year. Next to no updates.

They did patch the console versions to be mostly the same as the PC version a few weeks ago. It took them long enough. The console versions were in horrible shape for a long time. I remember the PS4 version at launch crashed on boot for some reason. PC was clearly the priority.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by MTL5:

Originally posted by Woke Or Not:

Choices that don't matter.

I don't know about the rest of your post, but you could not be more wrong if you tried. VtM: Swansong is basically the textbook example of how to make a game where your choices really do matter. Basically everything you do in Swansong has some kind of impact. I'm not sure why you'd make such an obviously false claim.

Yeah, at least in Swansong, there are several different points in the game where you can screw up and die.

Not like Coteries of New York, where the only time your character is ever in any kind of actual danger is during the opening courtroom scene. After that, you and the story are railroaded for success.