Why is this game good?

[No Soy Pls]

Please elaborate. Coz tags like Masterpiece shouldn't be thrown out lightly.

[la_nague]

good story, best atmosphere, perfect music, many different classes, many possibilities to solve a quest, interesting NPCs, play stealthy like deus ex or melee like skyrim or use guns like a shooter or play a mage.

[Atermi]

It is good because it is one of the last classic true-RPGs of the Golden age (1998-2004?).

It has a really great RPG system, tons of perfectly written dialogues for almost every race (4 totally different dialogue sets for 7 races), so each gameplay will be unique. Dialogues really matter (think Fallout or Torment or Baldur's Gate).
Plus the game appeals to the cult following the World of Darknes pen and paper system.

It has a nice plot, good quests, a lot of great characters, wonderful music (goth, EBM, dark-electro, dark-ambient, rock), great exloration, great approach to missions (think Deus Ex), had a great visuals for its time, and is overall a masterpiece, as people wrote.

[Sir Moustachington]

The only downside is that this game is buggy as hell. Unofficial patches solve this problem, but still...

[Demodulated]

It's one of the best RPGs ever made. It really is a role playing game with its dialogue and skill trees - not just good/evil with spec points for combat. Incredibly good dialogue and tone. One of the best games ever, truly.

[Crzy1]

Eh, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a masterpiece. A diamond in the rough more suits my feelings towards it. But it's good because it creates a fairly believeable world and gets the atmosphere just right. It's a dark, gloomy world and you're surrounded on all sides by characters who could be friends or enemies, sounds pretty cliche but they do a good job with all the main players in the story.

What's not good, in my opinion, is the combat. The game relies heavily on combat and it's clunky at best. There are some interesting abilities that really make you feel like the apex predator that a vampire should be, but a lot about it feels weak. The game isn't all about combat, but the combat portion compared to the story and character elements feels a bit like filler to me.

I'd say if you like fairly open-ended RPGs, you should give it a go. It's far from a sandbox, but you've got almost limitless control of how you want to interact with the world and how you want the world to react to your character.

It's a game that's got great aspects and not so great ones to go along with them. I could easily recommend it to anyone for $5, it's got a lot of content and some great characters. And you just can't beat the atmosphere. Thinking about it, I may just fire it up and try to get lost in it like I did almost a decade ago.

[That Giant]

the ost dude!

[Deathykins]

One of the best stories in RPG history, some of the best gameplay, incredible dialogue, tons of choices that actually matter, freedom to make the kind of character you actually want to play. It is THE best RPG ever made in mine, and many others opinions.

[Deus Sinistro]

PLAY AS A MALKAVIAN....

[Darkspiret]

bad out of the way first--its janky as hell. animations dont look quite right, combat isnt as balanced as it could be, cutscenes/cuts may not sync exactely right ect. it has a rough feel to it.

that said its setting is great, its writing is great, voice acting is great, music is great, combat while janky offers a good amount of options in how to build and play your character. Missions all tend to be unique and interesting and dont lead to the normal repetition of mosr rpg's. The whole thing just has a feel to it that you dont get with most games, expecialy nowadays and especially for vampire games.

its rough, but as said theres a diamond here.

[hardwiredsin]

Publicado originalmente por Sir Moustachington The III:

The only downside is that this game is buggy as hell. Unofficial patches solve this problem, but still...

I got through the game on release day just fine without any patches...it isn't THAT bad and you can finish the game and have tons of fun with no patches at all...the unofficial patches are just icing on the cake.

[Bongo]

At one time in the past i would have said it's the best game ever made but now it just feels too old. definitly was a masterpiece in it's time, imo. and the bugs never seemed that bad, lots of minor bugs but i can't remember anything gamebreaking.

[No Soy Pls]

Thanks a lot guys. It sounds pretty good so I'm gonna buy it.

[St34khouse]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/02/11/forever-young-the-tragedy-of-bloodlines/

That covers most of my reasons why it's so great. Easily one of my TOP 3 games of all time. Already played through as Toreador and Tremere, will definitely complete it on Nosferatu and a pure melee character at some point. And at last, as Malk ofc.

I have the ingame radio show "the deb of night" on CD for my car stereo and lonely nights on the highway, almost everything about the game is THAT good.

[Psychonaut]

Because the game is a masterpiece