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As do I...assuming that Bloodlines 2 finishes its emergence from Development Hell, that is. :)

Yes. But still without an MXO emulator, alas. At least City of Heroes/City of Villains got one.

That's from the vanilla game, no mods. I never cuss or insult LaCroix (or anyone else) like that because every one of my Neonates is too classy to do that. 8) On a related note, I should probably play through with a Brujah one of these days....

All that's missing is a cackling witch on a broom hovering outside one of the windows after the sales office goes aerial. :D

No worries! I'm glad that I'm finally getting around to Storytelling a tabletop Wraith: The Oblivion campaign; I just couldn't stay away from the Classic World of Darkness forever! :)

As am I! And I really should try that 'War Games' mod that just came out; maybe it'll soothe the pangs of watching Bloodlines 2 turn into a complete chum bucket after all these years in Development Hell, eh? 🤔

If we ever do get a Bloodlines 2, it's going to have some _very_ large shoes to fill, endings included!

I can get behind that. If we can't get a sequel, a remake or a reboot would do nicely; just take Bloodlines, give it a facelift and some new features (more Clans, more Abilities, extra Disciplines, whatever) and presto! Another hit! Why not, right? :)

As soon as I can figure out how to get it to run on Linux, I'm hoping to resume my current Ventrue playthrough. Fingers crossed! 😎 The soundtrack has one or two duds (like the aural sandpaper that is 'Lecher Bitch' at the Last Round), but the rest of it is pure gold. Even the ambience from just roaming around the city is very fitting for the mood!

Over a decade later, and people are _still_ making mods for NOLF2? I need to look into this! 😯

Which attack? He swoops down, he throws things at you (like cars or people) and he screams a sonic scream which can also destroy the spotlights.

@@BloodyBay my issue was with swoop attack, at least the first swoop attack that happens when i get first get thrown out of window on the platform. no matter the build or stats, it's one shot. best strategy for me was, to not bother trying to shoot him or tank his attack but to as soon as i get thrown there, go for spotlights to bring him down, and then i use flamethrower on sheriff.

No, they just bind the protagonist to the outside. If only Troika had added some chains or ropes around the protagonist and the Sarcophagus as well. But since you mention it, at this point in the game, Ming Xiao had custody of both the Sarcophagus and its key. So why _wouldn't_ she feel the urge to open the Sarcophagus and see what all the fuss was about? 🤔

That all depends on the player, honestly. Even a vampire with top marks in Intelligence and Wits is _still_ going to make the worst possible decisions if the player controlling that vampire is dumber than a soup sandwich. ...it's either that or willfulness and deliberate intention. I certainly wouldn't have been dumb enough to join Ming Xiao and get the god-awful Kuei Jin ending if I were doing an earnest playthrough; I only did that for completion's sake, for uploading that video to UA-cam (so that other people could watch it and spare themselves the trouble of finding that ending for themselves) and just to see exactly what would happen if I did that. 🤔

@@BloodyBay Yeah, fair enough.

Ask the player behind the PC why do they make dumb choices then.

That would make more sense, I have to agree. Fight Ming Xiao _and_ all of these goons for the Final Boss fight; winner take all. After that, just grab a hand truck, come back with the Ankaran Sarcophagus (which she already has the key to) and let _her_ open the Sarcophagus to see what's inside. 😉

Indeed it is! I just started playing Bloodlines again, and this time I installed the Clan Quest Mod. I'm trying a Ventrue this time. It should be quite the challenge! I should record my progress and reinvigorate this account with a new series of Bloodlines playthrough videos. 🤔

Imagine harboring so much spite for the Kindred - your own kind - that you'll take sides with their declared mortal enemies, whether from thinking that you'll be spared and come out okay somehow, or from not even caring whether you survive or not. "Hey, new kid! Beware the Kuei Kin!" "I don't care, Nines Rodriguez. I hate you more!" "Neonate! Beware the Kuei Jin!" "I don't care, Regent Strauss. I hate you more!" "Incidentally, friend, you should beware the Kuei Jin." "I don't care, Beckett. I hate you more!" It _is_ pretty insane to pick Ming Xiao's side, all considered. But I did it (and made this video) so that nobody else has to. ;)

@@BloodyBay Exactly. Frankly, even a player who has come to dislike the manipulations and condescension of every faction and elder vampire (which... is understandable) is unlikely to pick Ming Xiao's side out of spite, since she is herself pretty unpleasant to interact with. I played through the whole game about ten times now, and I only picked this ending once, as a way to "punish" a Nosferatu character which I had played as a total bastard.

@@HerculeDevantrien Ah, if video game characters were sapient and self-aware. "My Creator! I did everything that you commanded! Why are you allowing this evil Chinese woman and her lackeys to sink me to the ocean floor? *Why have you forsaken me?!?"* 😆

@@BloodyBay As the Malkavian puts it when told they shouldn't keep on with their quest: "I don't want to, but try telling the guy playing me that!"

@@HerculeDevantrien The Malkavian is full of hints! The last ride in the taxi with Caine has the best insights yet. ☺ I'll have to avoid mentioning VV's real name (Sarah, IIRC) whenever I play a Malk in the future, though. There's no need to hurt poor VV by ripping the scars off of old wounds like that.

No surprise there. 5th Edition Vampire, 5th Edition Hunter...5th Edition fucks _everything_ up! I can't wait to see the crater that 5th Edition Demon leaves behind.

@@BloodyBay I've pretty much abandoned World of Darkness at this point. Or at least anything associated with 5th edition. I've still got my Vampire and Changeling 20th anniversary books, though. Oh gods, I can imagine what 5th edition Changeling is going to turn into... woke, leftist politics as far as the eye can see, I guarantee it.

@@Nyrufa At least nobody can take away our 2nd Edition and 3rd/Revised Edition books. I'm not giving up _those_ games just yet!

Ah, yes...the manic laugh of a man realizing that he's the butt of the most lethal joke ever and there's nothing he can do about it! :D It would be nice to see Smiling Jack come back in the sequel...IF it ever gets out of Development Hell, that is. Damsel's in, but she looks so much rougher and more haggard than Bloodlines here depicted her.

@@BloodyBay Nice to see you're still alive

@@b3nl555 Thank you. It's nice to _be_ alive. 🙂 I've been wanting to do with my UA-cam channel since the Coronapocalypse, but unfortunately, I'm on HughesNet now; it's almost impossible to upload a video without the connection dying halfway through. 😒

The combat system alone was one of a kind! You didn't throw just one attack animation a round; it was always a combination of punches, kicks, blocks, dodges and a grab or two. "Gun Fu" with the various firearms at close quarters was just as dynamic: flips, rolls, feints, shots, behind-the-back shots and more! And the better you were at one of the martial arts or firearms Skills, the more you could do in combat and the fancier your attacks and defenses became. Even after playing MxO for a year or two, MxO's combat never grew stale! I'd love to see a reboot too.

@@BloodyBay I’ve been training kung fu for about 8 years now, and I’ve just about perfected the machine gun fist! I was in Iraq when it shutdown. I tried hounding Sony to release the coding. Sadly to no avail.

...including the ninja women? 😁

Kitana 🥋 (me). Pistol also can be.

White Wolf recently gave us a Werewolf video game and a Wraith video game. So it may just be a matter of time before 'Kindred of the East' gets its day in the digital arena too.

​@@BloodyBayOne year late, but that's highly unlikely, the Kuei Jin in today's world would be seen as problematic. Considering that they removed the whole "cool arab assassin" aesthetic from the Assamite (oh sorry, "Banu Haquim") and that they removed any trace of cultural origin from the werewolves' tribes, having a type of supernatural that is based completely on asian mythology may be considered offensive by some non-asian snowflake on twitter, and we don't want that, do we? Oh, also since vtmb 2 is most likely going to flop hard we won't see any other WoD videogames for a loooong time.

I agree! If I protected Zhao from all those Tong goons shooting up that warehouse and kept Zhao _and_ myself alive, then mopping up five or six Kuei Jin goons with assault rifles couldn't be much harder.

That's correct. As long as you don't do anything to alienate LaCroix, you can be of any Clan and still have access to this ending. (And yes, that's my old Tremere, Circe Jones.) :)

@@BloodyBay It would seem miss Jones made some poor life choices, heh heh. Thanks for the reply man! Don't feel this would be right for my Malkavian cheerleader but I'm glad to know I can do it with any of them.

​@@kingbrennus1580 I was able to reach all five of the endings (or eight if you include the "sub-endings" where you open the Sarcophagus and blow yourself up) with Miss Jones by not alienating anyone and manually Saving my game before getting into the taxi with Caine. Canonically, I went with the Camarilla ending first because it seemed like the way that a Tremere would roll...plus, I really like Strauss. :-) But that first requisite is the most important. If you tick Nines and the Anarchs off (by preaching that the Camarilla is better than them every chance you get), you lose access to the Anarchs ending. If you insult or alienate Ming Xiao, you lose access to the Kuei Jin ending (which, admittedly, isn't a bad thing). Ticking off LaCroix by constantly challenging his authority will cut you off from the LaCroix ending here (again, not such a bad thing) and alienating Strauss (which you can easily do just by telling Isaac Abrams that Strauss is the one who created the Gargoyle) will cut you off from the Camarilla ending. The Lone Wolf ending is the only one which you can't lose access to. So while a good many Bloodlines players see that ending as the best one (because you flip Nines the bird and otherwise act like a defiant ass), I see that ending as the one you get when you're a loser who's about as socially deft as a cactus butt plug. So I avoid it. >:)

@@BloodyBay Since I'm doing a Malkavian right now, I think I'm gonna aim for the dancing werewolf ending if possible, otherwise lone wolf would be fine for her, kek.

@@kingbrennus1580 I should aim for that Dancing Werewolf ending myself. Thank you for reminding me that it exists! 😄

Maximilian Strauss is your ticket to reaching the Camarilla ending (in another one of my videos), and as long as you don't do anything to alienate Strauss or turn him against you, he'll be there to help you remove LaCroix from power in that ending. We don't know who will be taking LaCroix's place as Prince of Los Angeles, but removing LaCroix from power is a good first step.

Some people are too dangerous to forgive; Sebastian LaCroix would be one of them. But at least you get to reconcile with that smooth talker before Jack's bomb removes you and LaCroix from the board together.

LaCroix does have his charms, it's true. But I couldn't really get behind him after he worked with Ming Xiao to frame Nines for Grout's Final Death, and calling the Blood Hunt on me myself just to keep me quiet only cemented my rebellion against him. But at least he's suave and elegant enough that I always avoid cussing him out in the dialogue options. Class begets class. ;)

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Ooh, that's not good. What kind of graphics card are you using, and how's your microprocessor?

Windows 10 has many problems with running games, unfortunately, especially games that are more than a few years old. That's why my gaming rig still runs Windows 7. I wish I could help you fix the problem. Have you tried running NOLF2 under DosBox?

...and even more atmospheric if the Sarcophagus doesn't explode. Nothing but rain, and no fireball to detract from it. Beautiful, isn't it? ^_^

I don't think it's Matrix Code; it doesn't have all the odd squiggly characters, nor does it "rain" like Matrix Code does. I think it's just a representation of Link's tracer program trying to locate your new Redpill character and zoom in.

So is my account. 16 years going on 17! I should probably do something with this account again, instead of letting it collect dust.

The frame rate's a bit more than that. Also, check the date. FRAPS was _cutting edge_ recording software back then!

@@BloodyBay 5 fps?

@@BloodyBay you are still alive after 13 years?

He does? I *wish* that he would pull a knife on me, but Bishop Vick always sticks with his shotgun. Are you running any mods, by chance?

@@BloodyBay nah no mods and he uses he's shotgun far away and knife up close. This was a while ago though and I've killed him now, just kept trying over and over and eventually won.

@@blueninjanoname7338 When I beat Bishop Vick with my Nosferatu some years back, I alternated between stalling him with Animalism > Nightwisp Ravens and charging into melee with him while he was swatting at the birds. (As usual, pressing Down while attacking with Brawl or Melee will do a leaping attack which is useful for closing into hand-to-hand quickly; with certain weapons (like fists, knives or swords), this leaping attack will also knock your enemy down or back if it connects.) How did you do it?

@@BloodyBay I havent played it for a while but I think I just kept spamming the buffs and just kept on at him until he died.

@@blueninjanoname7338 Then if it worked, it worked. The proof in the pudding and all, right? 🙂