Do you need to play the first two? (and other questions)

[oontabob]

I saw that this game was on sale on Steam and that someone made a complete English mod for it. To understand the story, do you need to play the first two?

Does this game have save anywhere? (I dislike save points)

[Plasquar]

This game has "save anywhere", yes.
About the first two games...

Short answer: Yes, you need to play them.

Long answer: While it's not 100% necessary you really should.
I had several friends playing this game including 2 of them which never played the first two.
It was quite hard for them to understand several parts of the game because you learn a lot about the bad guys in the first games, a lot about the vampire lore of VD in general and a lot about the characters you're playing/facing as well.
Without that knowledge you probably going to have a bad time.

[oontabob]

Originally posted by Plasquar:

This game has "save anywhere", yes.
About the first two games...

Short answer: Yes, you need to play them.

Long answer: While it's not 100% necessary you really should.
I had several friends playing this game including 2 of them which never played the first two.
It was quite hard for them to understand several parts of the game because you learn a lot about the bad guys in the first games, a lot about the vampire lore of VD in general and a lot about the characters you're playing/facing as well.
Without that knowledge you probably going to have a bad time.

I've started the first one and I'm quite enjoying it. Any idea how long each one is?

[Plasquar]

It always depens on how much you actually explore the world maps of both games.
There is a lot to find.

But I'd say it takes around 15-20 hours to beat VD 1 and 50-60 hours to beat VD 2.

[Zero]

where can i find the first 2? I looked up vampires dawn and didnt find anything. What are they called?

[Valnars Zimmer Katze]

Originally posted by Zero:

where can i find the first 2? I looked up vampires dawn and didnt find anything. What are they called?

You can download them on the official website:
https://vampiresdawn.de/downloads/

[Israly]

i downloaded the ones posted by kj150 in the thread below this one, i think it has some improvements.

[oontabob]

Originally posted by Valnars Zimmer Katze:

Originally posted by Zero:

where can i find the first 2? I looked up vampires dawn and didnt find anything. What are they called?

You can download them on the official website:
https://vampiresdawn.de/downloads/

Than

Originally posted by Plasquar:

It always depens on how much you actually explore the world maps of both games.
There is a lot to find.

But I'd say it takes around 15-20 hours to beat VD 1 and 50-60 hours to beat VD 2.

thanks for all the responses! I started playing the first one but ran into something where the screen just goes black and while it's clearly still playing, it won't let me get past. i had to do the same scene a few times and it wouldn't let me past. So now I'm just watching a let's play of it. Hopefully the second will be playable for me or I can find a summary video or something.

[kj150]

Originally posted by oontabob:

thanks for all the responses! I started playing the first one but ran into something where the screen just goes black and while it's clearly still playing, it won't let me get past. i had to do the same scene a few times and it wouldn't let me past. So now I'm just watching a let's play of it. Hopefully the second will be playable for me or I can find a summary video or something.

Can you tell me where and how that problem occurred? If it's a bug in the English translation, I would like to fix it.