This may come as an absolute shock to you, but Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is my favourite game, my favourite story, my favourite setting, and filled with my all-time favourite NPC’s. Okay, so maybe not that much of a shock if you’ve been following my Facebook page and been nauseatingly inundated with news of Bloodlines 2.
Sorry not sorry, guys.
I want to say that, if you’re exhausted by my fangirling you ought to drop out of reading this right now. But how could you be tired of it? BLOODLINES 2 IS FINALLY HAPPENING! IT’S HAPPENING NEXT YEAR! THEY SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN, THEY-
*throat clear*
If you, as a lover of vampires, have not yet played this 2004 Activision release, then I have only this to say. Play it. Do it now. Go to Steam. Buy the game (it’s old, ergo pretty cheap), play the game. Realise how much you have missed out on in your life and continue on as a renewed and better-rounded, vampire-adoring individual.
That which is the Awesome
Let me highlight some of the excitement in store for you: weresharks, blood on the walls, dingy hospitals, terrifying haunted houses, long, long, frustrating hours of being stuck in the same place trying to figure out what the game wants from you, ZOMBIES! Glitches that LITERALLY require you to patch the game before you can actually play it to the end, and angry cops with ouchy boomsticks.
But don’t let that scare you off. Because, much like baby poop that seeps out of a diaper and gets into the carpets, these glitches are counterbalanced by sweet baby smiles that make you want to cuddle them, poop and all. The baby being the game, I mean. Not an actual glitchy baby… Because that sounds like something to see the doctor about.
Bloodlines 2
So, as you may have noticed, I had a minor meltdown when the news reached me that there would not be a Bloodlines 2. Which is why I am completely crazy lately about the news of this game’s 2020 release.
The little we know about Bloodlines 2 thus far is primarily regarding the playable clans. It seems to be basically walking in the footsteps of its predecessor, and while that may seem a bit derivative, there’s still plenty of room for growth. Nevermind the fact that, if other crazies are anything like me, we all just want to go back there.
There is, of course, the challenge of suspecting that nothing will ever live up to the life-changing experience that was the original.
There is, of course, a very simple answer to this dilemma. Whenever we’re afraid of what might be, just remember, at least there will be a something!
