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A shame that this game didn’t really come together, the Banu Haqim are my favorite clan and I love me some good stealth games, I really think that VR was the wrong medium for it. This seems like the kind of game that’s ripe for another studio to make one of those “sequels” like Helldivers 2. Same premise and everything, just very different in the actual gameplay. Also big thanks for the shoutout Will!
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World of Darkness and Shadowrun along with Battletech and Warhammer: 40,000 makes up the quartet of fantasy settings where I never once played the TTRPG but will go out of my way collect every videogame and book I comes across. Which is not that hard for the first 3. That is also why I love this channel, there are so many dedicated to 40K but much too few talking about World of Darkness, Shadowrun, and the older D&D games.
@@WilliamSRDI already know more Warhammer lore than I know my family's history, and have a bunch of subscriptions to Warhammer lore channels. Your World of Darkness work has been very refreshing. I could always use more Battletech. Tex from Black Pants Legion is my only sub there
Awww man, I like the world of darkness stuff. I really like how they mash the different aspects of the universe together and you're coverage of it is always so entertaining. Hope the views pick up so you can do Wod month again
Thanks for the extra background. I really enjoyed this game, I even ended up 100%ing the achievements for it. After a certain point you can go back and replay missions with all the abilities and weapons you've unlocked.
I love the hecata in concept but i hate the hecata in execution tbf. One of my fav elements of VtM both in terms of lore and mechanics is the bane each clan and bloodline suffers. Now with the creation of Hecata all of the clans and bloodlines within are basically just Giovanni-lite. They're all associated with this mafia-style necro-family and have a painful bite. The Cappadocians are no longer slowly decaying obvious corpses. The Harbringers are no longer basically walking corpses with cool masks. The Nagaraja are no longer mandatory cannibals. The Samedi are no longer decomposing walking dead. The Lamia are no longer spreading disease and plague. The Rossellini no longer have basically permanent Wraith deathvision. You can *sort of* recreate it with the flaw system but that would require you to abandon more specific personal flaws, have you still suffer the giovanni bane... and it remains something unique to your character rather than the experience of say Nagaraja broadly that you're eating people because its explicitly said those old banes are gone.
One of the (many) main flaws of V:TM 5E is that they did their best to make everything as homogenized, pasteurized and neutered as possible. They even apologize for having HORROR in a HORROR game.
@@AngelCakes1997 The lamia had plague bite that spread disease. The painful kiss is something they cursed the Giovanni with after they diablarized the leader. So that's unique The Cappadocian, Samedi and Harbringer bane isn't exactly similar. Cappadocians are creepy obvious predators that decay with time. Not a full disgusting walking corpse bane. Harbringers are the end point of a decayed Cappadocian. Sure the Harbinger and Samedi bane works similarly mechanically but they're aesthetically very different same way the Harbinger and Nosferatu bane is different. You can argue the Samedi and Harbinger banes are similar but not the Cappadocian one. So there's really only 2 banes that are similar mechanically (But not in terms of RP) So I really disagree with that. Esp since this is a roleplay game where these details matters a lot.
I saw another comment on this, but the core of Cain’s curse is that he must kill forever and watch as his children repeat the same horrible cycle of slaughtering their own brothers and sisters. Just to make sure he couldn’t take the easy way out he was given immortality and the power he wanted but all he has now is an eternal, hollow existence. The sevenfold curse on anyone who harms him was just an additional way to prevent others from ending him. … is what a Christian vampire will tell you. The core there is damnation. However, if you play Redemption you can have a fascinating conversation with the rabbi who throws out the possibilities of being a demon and damnation entirely. His teaching is that all things have a place in the world and the greater plan / purpose. That vampires are another creation of god, no more evil than any other, and that finding your own purpose is your struggle.
@@Halovex say the people who fucked up their one job so badly Humanity had the biggest case of intergenerational trauma in all of history. Both are wrong, since I am a Mage and I say so.
The thing is, it’s also tied to making more progeny, and the paranoia that comes from that. Cain felt regret, loneliness, and fear when he killed Abel, he wasn’t going to go back and like, butcher Adam and Eve, who would be under gods gaze (and the Elohim, and the niburu running around in the way). He was to wander, wanted companionship, his own destiny, and all that is now warped Also it’s arguable if all the powers came from god, or from Lilith messing around with his curse, too. A bit of demon the fallen melting into vtm here but yea….
@@ErikWarhammer It is likely a mix of both, similar to WH40K. Instead of outright retcons or explicitly stating which version is true, some stories devolved into myth and legend. A good way to illustrate the long stretches of time. The further you go back, the more cryptic sources become, and the more you need to rely on interpretation. 5000 year old lore shouldn't be as clear as recent events, even if some characters were around back then. Even if they get up and start explaining, can you really trust they are giving an accurate account? It's a good position to be in for a setting with ancient vampires, where even accurate information on their origins is a valuable commodity.
My favorite stealth game, I think, will almost always be Tenchu: Stealth Assassins. Mastering your skills so that you could make it through each level undetected, and, as a personal challenge of my own, with only the strictly necessary kills, was tremendously satisfying.
Is it just me, or does it (superficially) have more in common with Thief than Dishonored or AC? Love that general "history but X is fucked up/different" thing they all have going.
World of Darkness videos are my favourite, but the rest are really engaging. As for generally filling out the comments a bit more - my favourite stealth game varies between Thief Deadly Shadows or Dishonored
I have never, and likely will never, played a ttrpg. Or any form of role playing game that wasn't a video game. For some reason I am absolutely fascinated with the lore behind almost any and all of them, and especially Vampire the masquerade and the rest of the world of darkness. So although I have also enjoyed the DnD stuff, and will likely enjoy any brand or world you wish to cover, I hope the world of darkness stuff continues!
VtM is like one of my favorite settings. I don't play VR because it gives me nausea but I very nearly bought a VR set just for this. I guess I'm glad I didn't.
Another great video! As a longtime Giovanni enjoyer I do think the lore for the Hecata is neat, though I think the fact they got rid of individual bloodlines means that all of the unique fun parts of each clan involved are downplayed. Hecata feels better as a faction of many clans and bloodlines than a bunch of very separate clans who somehow got magically mashed together into a clan. I prefer V20 over the newest stuff just because mechanically I think some anti-RP choices were made here and there.
Not sure why Hecata weren't modeled of the Camarilla and Sabbat. Well I guess it was in an effort to consolidate and reduce the number of vampire clans.
Vampire TM tend to avoid having clean cut "heroic" endings, but good VTM stories still have something being accomplished. In Bloodlines you don't actually save the world from an antediluvian but you survive vampire politics, make your mark on LA and get your revenge on a certain napoleonic era asshole. You don't come out of that story wondering if the protagonist might have just stayed home.
I reckon ym favourite stealth game might be...I'm not sure to be honest, I really liked the Alien storyline in Alien Vs Predator (2010). I just love Xenomorphs honestly
I would greatly have preferred this game if it had not been VR. First person start is ok but not my favorite. This person would have been more ideal for me. Fun story and I wish they would do similar thematically focused games for other WoD IPs.
The last VtM chronicle I played in was V20 and consisted of a Banu Haqim played by a Muslim Swede, a Tremere played by a Greek, a Toreador mortician played by a Viennese, my Lasombra Antitribu cam girl (I'm American) and another American whom I forget their PCs' clan, run by a Romanian DM in her fictional city along the Baltic. Discord's a wonderful tool for running games.
Might sound cynical but I have to wonder if interest in World of Darkness depends on how long it's been since the last Hunter: The Parenting these days.
I don't think it's my favorite stealth game, and I only ever played a demo, but Blinx 2 had a campaign where you could play as the antagonist faction and for some reason it lives rent free in my head. On a related note, it is awesome that WoD games are being adapted into interesting (if flawed) games and I would LOVE to see a AA experimental title released for $30...
These world of darkness videos rock. WoD has one of the coolest worlds in fiction. I'm sad that it's not a bigger property right now. Will you cover the crusader kings 3 Princes of darkness mod?
"Hollow justice" is a perennial favorite of mine, it reminds me of some classic stories where the main characters acts virtuous, but the reward is just misery. It's often an element of crime stories, where the PI or investigator ends up tearing up families or local communities, bringing the pain to the surface, and no one thanks them for it, no one appreciates it, and in some sense, maybe most people are worse off for it. But the other side is the sense that the main character was the only one who championed the cause that everyone else were prepared to ignore or forget. The homeless person, the orphan, the sex worker, the abused child, the foreigner, etc. etc. The main character doesn' play by polite society's expectations: everyone deserves justice, even if very little good ultimately comes from it. (This, as you point out, wasn't quite that, unfortunately.)
A Necromunda game is next?!? Oh you're gonna spoil me Will. Necromunda has basically been my obsession as of late, so I'll be happy to comment chime in when it drops on anything neat or noteworthy then.
With how many secret societies and hiding in the dark that is in the... world of darkness, I'm surprise we don't see more games (in vampire, at least) that are part of the stealth genre.
While VR games obviously need to be made (especially good ones) to advance the tech, I really would've preferred something like this being more widely available. I even would've accepted this IP reskinning Assassin's Creed 2 for 40 or 60 bucks--Vampire really deserves more than it's getting.
These VR games. Always look so janky, like the slightest head motion will totally change your view orientation. Which is the opposite of IRL, where your brain tries to stabilize the image it receives.
Ahh one game that this remind me is call Dark were you play with a guy call Eric. I know it was not the best game but I think that game is a clearly in the WoD even if there is not mention of clans and things
So you're telling me this game with the same first person perspective as dishonored, where you sneak up behind guards and have near identical silent takedown choke that takes a few seconds to complete, that uses a short range teleport almost identical to the ICONIC dishonored short range teleport dash ALL in a setting with a somewhat similar visual design and color pallatte AS Dishonored. Oh, but its Italy so its assassins creed, got it
Since I liked both the physical Mordheim Tabletop game back in 2000 and started playing the Mordheim Videogame rather late in 2022 I am really looking forward to your opinion on Necromunda. I liked the 1990ies Tabletop game also, but never got around to playing the videogame.
My favorite stealth game has always been Metal Gear Solid (Either the PS1 original or the Twin Snakes remake) Its cheesier than spray can cheese but I still love it. Shame that Konami's corporate leadership Doesn't see the value in the franchises they own or the devs that made them a once beloved household name.
One of the clan's main weaknesses was its steadfast refusal to engage in magical warfare. And they could have! You don't survive as an undead assassin without making some allies. That's how they kept getting cursed.
The Banu Hakim is one of the Clans that never, at least for me, clicked with the rest of the Clans. To me certain Clans represented and expanded certain vanpiric archetypes. Brujah, Gangrel, Toreador, Venture have very broad appeal and feel really flexible roleplay wise. Lasombra, Malkavian, Thremere are much tighter archetype and limited roleplay options. They are the advanced option so to speak. Baru Hakim, Giovanni, Followers of Set are what i see as "gimmic" classes. Very limited archetype and often limited roleplay. They kinda feel like NPC Clans. Again that is my personal feel. I am sure that someone outthere had incredible sessions playing a very interesting and 3 dimensional Giovanni. But if you want the very flushed out backstory you inevitably end up with Clans like that. You can't rework them too much without making the fans mad. VtR had very interesting idea with having only 5 Clans that covered the major vampiric archetypes and the more gimmicky options comming in with very specialized bloodlines. That how you could have a Venture Vampire from the Malkav Bloodline. The problem there was moving away from expansive backstory toward flexible, but rather thin lore. It asked the fans to replace years of backstory they have internalised with well very little. Personally i liked it, but i understand why people buckled.
I ask this of alot of people. How do you roleplay in a "fun' way similar to videogames? Fight monsters, get treasure, improve yourself(your character). Its been years since but I found a rare sight around 5years ago. It was a group that had a Vampire the Masquerade rpg book. I asked if I could watch and if I could see the rulebook. I had heard of it, but never read it. It was surprising how little there was for actual rules. Like I couldnt find much in the way Clan Tremere Spells. I looked up how to make a vampire stronger and I could out it was only through Diablerie, which is forbidden. Then I also found out that you get stronger #1 regaining power to use abilities eventually required you KILL humans and #2 eventually you would enter Torpor. So as a vampire you would have to break the rules, be murderous, and eventually lose control of your character. No Vampire Superheroes allowed.
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A shame that this game didn’t really come together, the Banu Haqim are my favorite clan and I love me some good stealth games, I really think that VR was the wrong medium for it.
This seems like the kind of game that’s ripe for another studio to make one of those “sequels” like Helldivers 2. Same premise and everything, just very different in the actual gameplay.
Also big thanks for the shoutout Will!
Absolutely. I even want to keep the Venice setting. The core concept was EXCELLENT - the execution squandered it.
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William: They're all monologuing about why they will not be missed if they disappear
Me: Ha hah, so silly. Who would do that? Certainly not me 🥲
World of Darkness and Shadowrun along with Battletech and Warhammer: 40,000 makes up the quartet of fantasy settings where I never once played the TTRPG but will go out of my way collect every videogame and book I comes across. Which is not that hard for the first 3.
That is also why I love this channel, there are so many dedicated to 40K but much too few talking about World of Darkness, Shadowrun, and the older D&D games.
Part of why Warhammer gets less coverage on here. I love it to death, but I try to go where I'm needed!
@@WilliamSRD Your commitment is appreciated 🙏
@@WilliamSRD Respect for sticking it out for the smaller guys!!!
@@WilliamSRDI already know more Warhammer lore than I know my family's history, and have a bunch of subscriptions to Warhammer lore channels. Your World of Darkness work has been very refreshing.
I could always use more Battletech. Tex from Black Pants Legion is my only sub there
"He's... He's just a guy. Just an elder guy."
-My friends introducing me to their friends
Tell them the Elder Guys are important. They're the Earth's last line of defense against the Great Old Guys.
At approximately 18:36, I was so confused when you mentioned a video game -- I was just swept away with VTM lore!! 🤣
Awww man, I like the world of darkness stuff. I really like how they mash the different aspects of the universe together and you're coverage of it is always so entertaining. Hope the views pick up so you can do Wod month again
Thanks for the extra background. I really enjoyed this game, I even ended up 100%ing the achievements for it. After a certain point you can go back and replay missions with all the abilities and weapons you've unlocked.
Your WoD vids are the best! I'd love a long deep dive on bloodlines from you. I know it's been done a thousand times, but I think you'd do it best
I love the hecata in concept but i hate the hecata in execution tbf. One of my fav elements of VtM both in terms of lore and mechanics is the bane each clan and bloodline suffers. Now with the creation of Hecata all of the clans and bloodlines within are basically just Giovanni-lite. They're all associated with this mafia-style necro-family and have a painful bite. The Cappadocians are no longer slowly decaying obvious corpses. The Harbringers are no longer basically walking corpses with cool masks. The Nagaraja are no longer mandatory cannibals. The Samedi are no longer decomposing walking dead. The Lamia are no longer spreading disease and plague. The Rossellini no longer have basically permanent Wraith deathvision. You can *sort of* recreate it with the flaw system but that would require you to abandon more specific personal flaws, have you still suffer the giovanni bane... and it remains something unique to your character rather than the experience of say Nagaraja broadly that you're eating people because its explicitly said those old banes are gone.
Three of those clans have the same bane.
The Giovanni Painful Bite originates from the Lamia.
So only two of them have truly unique banes.
Yeah it's weird how 3/4 were "gross walking corpse" to various degrees
One of the (many) main flaws of V:TM 5E is that they did their best to make everything as homogenized, pasteurized and neutered as possible. They even apologize for having HORROR in a HORROR game.
@@AngelCakes1997 The lamia had plague bite that spread disease. The painful kiss is something they cursed the Giovanni with after they diablarized the leader. So that's unique
The Cappadocian, Samedi and Harbringer bane isn't exactly similar. Cappadocians are creepy obvious predators that decay with time. Not a full disgusting walking corpse bane. Harbringers are the end point of a decayed Cappadocian. Sure the Harbinger and Samedi bane works similarly mechanically but they're aesthetically very different same way the Harbinger and Nosferatu bane is different. You can argue the Samedi and Harbinger banes are similar but not the Cappadocian one. So there's really only 2 banes that are similar mechanically (But not in terms of RP)
So I really disagree with that. Esp since this is a roleplay game where these details matters a lot.
@@Shahanshah_XenoThese are very semantic differences, but they are differences I guess.
This comic book art is just amazing. Thank you for showcasing it.
Robert's Atonal screaming making it into the Raycon ad is top notch.
I saw another comment on this, but the core of Cain’s curse is that he must kill forever and watch as his children repeat the same horrible cycle of slaughtering their own brothers and sisters. Just to make sure he couldn’t take the easy way out he was given immortality and the power he wanted but all he has now is an eternal, hollow existence. The sevenfold curse on anyone who harms him was just an additional way to prevent others from ending him.
… is what a Christian vampire will tell you. The core there is damnation.
However, if you play Redemption you can have a fascinating conversation with the rabbi who throws out the possibilities of being a demon and damnation entirely. His teaching is that all things have a place in the world and the greater plan / purpose. That vampires are another creation of god, no more evil than any other, and that finding your own purpose is your struggle.
Oh, and the Garou just say you’re all stupid wyrm leeches infested by the spirit of Eater of Souls. So opinions vary.
@@Halovex say the people who fucked up their one job so badly Humanity had the biggest case of intergenerational trauma in all of history.
Both are wrong, since I am a Mage and I say so.
@@locuas5601 “I saw it all happen but that was like a long time ago and I’ve got screaming to do.” - some random Nephwrack.
Behind the bastards is def peak podcast content, one of the most podcast of all time
"I will punish you by making it really easy for you to kill more people forever." What?
It's the logic of father catches you smoking and says: well, if you love smoking so much, let's see how you like smoking the whole pack right now!
The thing is, it’s also tied to making more progeny, and the paranoia that comes from that.
Cain felt regret, loneliness, and fear when he killed Abel, he wasn’t going to go back and like, butcher Adam and Eve, who would be under gods gaze (and the Elohim, and the niburu running around in the way). He was to wander, wanted companionship, his own destiny, and all that is now warped
Also it’s arguable if all the powers came from god, or from Lilith messing around with his curse, too. A bit of demon the fallen melting into vtm here but yea….
It's things like that that makes me think that the "origin" is in universe propaganda to keep the clans in line.
@@ErikWarhammer It is likely a mix of both, similar to WH40K. Instead of outright retcons or explicitly stating which version is true, some stories devolved into myth and legend. A good way to illustrate the long stretches of time. The further you go back, the more cryptic sources become, and the more you need to rely on interpretation.
5000 year old lore shouldn't be as clear as recent events, even if some characters were around back then. Even if they get up and start explaining, can you really trust they are giving an accurate account? It's a good position to be in for a setting with ancient vampires, where even accurate information on their origins is a valuable commodity.
Caine didn't have the cool powers til he met Lilith, as far as I understand it
You meant they are all "Thief"-ripoffs....
Such a Dark Project.
Something something metal age something something😜
Always love your World of Darkness videos
Was expecting to be disappointed but the style of this game somehow harkens back to halcyon 2000s Bloodlines era gaming.....I'm mildly impressed.
A new Burgerkrieg and a new William SRD in one week ? good week
Was thinking the same thing!
Unfortunate that WoD hasn't gotten much attention this year. Itself definitely why i found your channel
Shadowrun mentioned! I like the lore dump to flesh out this video, I also need to find you on Bluesky now.
Love the lore dumps in your videos! I knew nothing about WoD until I started following you a month or so ago.
The art style of this title calls back to the original Bloodlines and shows that graphical fediliy will always be trumped by it.
My favorite stealth game, I think, will almost always be Tenchu: Stealth Assassins. Mastering your skills so that you could make it through each level undetected, and, as a personal challenge of my own, with only the strictly necessary kills, was tremendously satisfying.
I always appreciate the thorough lore before getting into the game! Another ace video.
Is it just me, or does it (superficially) have more in common with Thief than Dishonored or AC? Love that general "history but X is fucked up/different" thing they all have going.
THE THIRD CONTENDER HAS ARRIVED
Thief is the ancestor of all of them
Well technically Dishonored is a Thief clone - so *shrug*
I'm so glad they made a game about the Banu Haqim! Thanks for the video!
Battle of the ages between these two.
That was a ride and thanks for taking us along. Always love seeing your stuff on my feed. 😄
World of Darkness videos are my favourite, but the rest are really engaging.
As for generally filling out the comments a bit more - my favourite stealth game varies between Thief Deadly Shadows or Dishonored
This has been on my radar for a while... I might pick it up now! Love me some historical vamps
Alien: Isolation and GTFO are my favorite stealth games of the past decade.
That moment when God lost his temper, to the sound of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" caught me off guard. It was too good :D
3:10 My favorite podcast to pass the time at work
I usually only care about a vr game if it leads to discussions of Ghost Godzilla,
but I’ll hear you out.
I have never, and likely will never, played a ttrpg. Or any form of role playing game that wasn't a video game. For some reason I am absolutely fascinated with the lore behind almost any and all of them, and especially Vampire the masquerade and the rest of the world of darkness. So although I have also enjoyed the DnD stuff, and will likely enjoy any brand or world you wish to cover, I hope the world of darkness stuff continues!
I do appreciate these attempts at doing something different with the IP - WoD has so much opportunity for a variety of genres.
VtM is like one of my favorite settings. I don't play VR because it gives me nausea but I very nearly bought a VR set just for this. I guess I'm glad I didn't.
Another great video! As a longtime Giovanni enjoyer I do think the lore for the Hecata is neat, though I think the fact they got rid of individual bloodlines means that all of the unique fun parts of each clan involved are downplayed. Hecata feels better as a faction of many clans and bloodlines than a bunch of very separate clans who somehow got magically mashed together into a clan. I prefer V20 over the newest stuff just because mechanically I think some anti-RP choices were made here and there.
Not sure why Hecata weren't modeled of the Camarilla and Sabbat.
Well I guess it was in an effort to consolidate and reduce the number of vampire clans.
Ngl, I usually skip ads, but holy crap, you have a glorious beard.
Now I want a roadtrip sim where you play as a Ravnos helping random licks with problems. Something small like that would be awesome.
Leaving this comment for hopefully more World of Darkness content, love your coverage. Keep it up!
I love WoD, please keep covering games in the Series!
I can't wait for you to make a vid about VtM:Bloodhunt
While I have not picked up this game due to being a VR game and I lack a VR set, the concept does interest me. Plus the Banu Haqim are cool
Vampire TM tend to avoid having clean cut "heroic" endings, but good VTM stories still have something being accomplished. In Bloodlines you don't actually save the world from an antediluvian but you survive vampire politics, make your mark on LA and get your revenge on a certain napoleonic era asshole. You don't come out of that story wondering if the protagonist might have just stayed home.
Love your videos on World of Darkness. I played Hunter decades ago. Looking forward to watching this video. :D
I reckon ym favourite stealth game might be...I'm not sure to be honest, I really liked the Alien storyline in Alien Vs Predator (2010). I just love Xenomorphs honestly
I would greatly have preferred this game if it had not been VR. First person start is ok but not my favorite. This person would have been more ideal for me. Fun story and I wish they would do similar thematically focused games for other WoD IPs.
The last VtM chronicle I played in was V20 and consisted of a Banu Haqim played by a Muslim Swede, a Tremere played by a Greek, a Toreador mortician played by a Viennese, my Lasombra Antitribu cam girl (I'm American) and another American whom I forget their PCs' clan, run by a Romanian DM in her fictional city along the Baltic. Discord's a wonderful tool for running games.
Might sound cynical but I have to wonder if interest in World of Darkness depends on how long it's been since the last Hunter: The Parenting these days.
I don't think it's my favorite stealth game, and I only ever played a demo, but Blinx 2 had a campaign where you could play as the antagonist faction and for some reason it lives rent free in my head.
On a related note, it is awesome that WoD games are being adapted into interesting (if flawed) games and I would LOVE to see a AA experimental title released for $30...
Honestly what I really like about VTM is that every clan DOES feel distinct. it is not just some flavor text and slightly different stats.
These world of darkness videos rock. WoD has one of the coolest worlds in fiction. I'm sad that it's not a bigger property right now.
Will you cover the crusader kings 3 Princes of darkness mod?
I laughed hard at the Monty Python "God through the clouds" bit. 😂😂
"Taste water, idiot!"
Seems like a good ol' fashioned B+ video game. Nice.
I've noticed, when playing VR, if I point a fan at me, from the front, it _really_ helps with the nausea. Doubles or triples the time I have playing.
oh wow, that's a good idea
I couldn't think of a comment but good video
don't remember all that neon last time i was in Venezia :D
And blacks
"Souls draped in rotten tatters and Father dances in the dark."
"Hollow justice" is a perennial favorite of mine, it reminds me of some classic stories where the main characters acts virtuous, but the reward is just misery. It's often an element of crime stories, where the PI or investigator ends up tearing up families or local communities, bringing the pain to the surface, and no one thanks them for it, no one appreciates it, and in some sense, maybe most people are worse off for it. But the other side is the sense that the main character was the only one who championed the cause that everyone else were prepared to ignore or forget. The homeless person, the orphan, the sex worker, the abused child, the foreigner, etc. etc. The main character doesn' play by polite society's expectations: everyone deserves justice, even if very little good ultimately comes from it. (This, as you point out, wasn't quite that, unfortunately.)
A Necromunda game is next?!? Oh you're gonna spoil me Will. Necromunda has basically been my obsession as of late, so I'll be happy to comment chime in when it drops on anything neat or noteworthy then.
With how many secret societies and hiding in the dark that is in the... world of darkness, I'm surprise we don't see more games (in vampire, at least) that are part of the stealth genre.
A World of Darkness game made by the folks over at Arkane would be very very cool.
looking forward to next time, Mordheim was soooo good and Necromunda was soooo eh...
woah what a cool video
Wish you could keep going with the world of darkness stuff!
While VR games obviously need to be made (especially good ones) to advance the tech, I really would've preferred something like this being more widely available. I even would've accepted this IP reskinning Assassin's Creed 2 for 40 or 60 bucks--Vampire really deserves more than it's getting.
These VR games. Always look so janky, like the slightest head motion will totally change your view orientation. Which is the opposite of IRL, where your brain tries to stabilize the image it receives.
tbh i dont like stealth games at all, but i do like vamp adjacent stuff so this is still cool
At last ACTUAL vampires in Venice, unlike in certain nameless Doctors I could mention
Man, I wish VtM was more popular. It's such an interesting world and play system.
Seeing this game, I can't help but feel that I wish it wasn't a VR game and had just gone for a more conventional Dishonored-like experience.
Hope to see more WoD content!
Man I just want a new RPG to enjoy
Ahh one game that this remind me is call Dark were you play with a guy call Eric.
I know it was not the best game but I think that game is a clearly in the WoD even if there is not mention of clans and things
love the vids
So, was anyone else going "Ah-ha-ha" ala Count Von Count every time the Curse Count was updated?
Sorry dude. Bluesky as a platform feels like an office party organised by HR.
So you're telling me this game with the same first person perspective as dishonored, where you sneak up behind guards and have near identical silent takedown choke that takes a few seconds to complete, that uses a short range teleport almost identical to the ICONIC dishonored short range teleport dash ALL in a setting with a somewhat similar visual design and color pallatte AS Dishonored.
Oh, but its Italy so its assassins creed, got it
I think it was just a prelude excuse to say "Assamite Creed".
Since I liked both the physical Mordheim Tabletop game back in 2000 and started playing the Mordheim Videogame rather late in 2022 I am really looking forward to your opinion on Necromunda. I liked the 1990ies Tabletop game also, but never got around to playing the videogame.
40:16 > Loooooooool
My favorite stealth game has always been Metal Gear Solid (Either the PS1 original or the Twin Snakes remake) Its cheesier than spray can cheese but I still love it. Shame that Konami's corporate leadership Doesn't see the value in the franchises they own or the devs that made them a once beloved household name.
I would watch you do lore vids on the world of darkness!!
I always loved that many Banu Haqim were "believing djinn."
One of the clan's main weaknesses was its steadfast refusal to engage in magical warfare. And they could have! You don't survive as an undead assassin without making some allies. That's how they kept getting cursed.
because they exist in at least 3 flavours in World of Darkness.
35:47 Wouldn't all Venice's subsurface areas be underwater, particularly as the city is teetering along sea level?
Well... Cursed to be immortal. Lilith is responsible for the vampiric condition of Caine.
Duty matters
It looks more similar to Thief than anything to me
you should make videos about Wod lore even if not directly attached to a video game
More shadowrun please.
The Banu Hakim is one of the Clans that never, at least for me, clicked with the rest of the Clans.
To me certain Clans represented and expanded certain vanpiric archetypes.
Brujah, Gangrel, Toreador, Venture have very broad appeal and feel really flexible roleplay wise.
Lasombra, Malkavian, Thremere are much tighter archetype and limited roleplay options. They are the advanced option so to speak.
Baru Hakim, Giovanni, Followers of Set are what i see as "gimmic" classes. Very limited archetype and often limited roleplay. They kinda feel like NPC Clans.
Again that is my personal feel. I am sure that someone outthere had incredible sessions playing a very interesting and 3 dimensional Giovanni.
But if you want the very flushed out backstory you inevitably end up with Clans like that. You can't rework them too much without making the fans mad.
VtR had very interesting idea with having only 5 Clans that covered the major vampiric archetypes and the more gimmicky options comming in with very specialized bloodlines. That how you could have a Venture Vampire from the Malkav Bloodline.
The problem there was moving away from expansive backstory toward flexible, but rather thin lore. It asked the fans to replace years of backstory they have internalised with well very little.
Personally i liked it, but i understand why people buckled.
If it's cost-effective to you, I'd love for you to do more WoD lore. You're one of my favorite WoD lore sources and you don't specialize in it... yet?
Please, please, some one give this team HL:A sized-budget, enough time and let them make MAGE game. PLEASE.
Would hate to see the WoD coverage go away. Listening to all these lore dumps makes this old man recall a gothier time in his life.
I like WOD.
More WoD content, please! Or Pathfinder.
I ask this of alot of people. How do you roleplay in a "fun' way similar to videogames?
Fight monsters, get treasure, improve yourself(your character).
Its been years since but I found a rare sight around 5years ago. It was a group that had a Vampire the Masquerade rpg book. I asked if I could watch and if I could see the rulebook. I had heard of it, but never read it. It was surprising how little there was for actual rules. Like I couldnt find much in the way Clan Tremere Spells. I looked up how to make a vampire stronger and I could out it was only through Diablerie, which is forbidden. Then I also found out that you get stronger #1 regaining power to use abilities eventually required you KILL humans and #2 eventually you would enter Torpor.
So as a vampire you would have to break the rules, be murderous, and eventually lose control of your character. No Vampire Superheroes allowed.
WoD appreciation comment.