GameXplain: "I spent the past weekend playing the excessively punctuated Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines because a friend gifted it to me with enthusiastic recommendations. Now, understand: vampires aren’t normally my thing. Anne Rice never made it onto my bookshelf, and the only part of True Blood that I really like is the opening. I have nothing against the supernatural; if they were just immortal, smooth-talking people who wanted to bring the cape back in style, I’d have no problems with them. It’s just that they’re so sad about it. So, I went into Vampire: The Masquerade expecting a lot of emo characters whining about the burdens of immortality and how they long -- oh, how they long! -- to see the sun again."
Vampire games are making a comeback of late, and gamers hoping this is a new trend should look back at the 7 best vampire games ever made.
What is a list? A miserable little pile of scribbles.
A Best Vampire Game list and no Bloodborne. A bold choice, indeed.
IMO, I wouldn't consider bloodborne a vampire game. Long story short, It's more about the side effects of the blood experiment and the influence of the red moon, than actually being a vampire.
Yes, Bloodborne is about Vampires. It's not just the undertones, or the imagery or the obvious parallels, it's pretty much everything and then some. Here's the thing, Bram Stoker's Dracula is also not a Vampire novel. Why? Because technically Vampires from folklore were something else.
But based on our updated view of what Vampires are, informed in one way or another by Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu The Vamprye, and many other stories, and combined with From Software's own interpretation, we can say with confidence that Bloodborne IS a Vampire story. Sure, there are other elements, but the central narrative is pretty much Vampires. Which would make it THE Vampire game. I mean, Cainhurst Castle. Anyways, that's how I see it.
But to each their and we'll agree to disagree.
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No Blood Omen? Even today it's one of my favourite vampire games. We could really do with a release on modern platforms.
I really enjoyed Vampyr. The combat is a little clunky and could use some work. However, the story, characters, dialog. setting, and pretty much everything else in the game is great.
The legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, with Microsoft countering one of the FTC's latest moves and the Judge delaying a relevant ruling.
Look, to be honest the FTC should just stop.
MS has A/B and nothing has really changed yet...if you are worried about 5-10 years from now...just drop it cause the future is unpredictable.
Take this week's news, that 4 Xbox exclusive are going Multiplatform.
The FTC and the lawyers behind the "Gamers' lawsuit" against Microsoft over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard are denouncing the recent layoffs within the respective legal battles.
I remember the ridge racer loading screens. Good times
Great game, just a shame the released game wasn't finished and Troika closed down.
I must have tried 8000 times to get into bloodlines. It's a shame because it looked like a stellar game... it's just something about it didn't click with me.
Oh well. And I think developers should actually make loading screens useful. I'm tired of reading tips like "aim for the head", "press space to enter cover", "you can aim by holding the RMB" and so on.
I want actual tips that read like, "this end boss is a bitch but the chaingun stuns him so he can't return fire". Or "there's a hidden rocket launcher under the crate just before you enter this room". I know they'd ruin the game but I'm so pedantic when someone tells me they're offering me a tip I expect it to be an actual tip, and not something painfully obvious. Maybe they should just wire themselves into something like didyouknowfact.com or sickipedia.org and give us little bits of miscellaneous trivia or jokes to read and laugh at.