Showing posts with label world of darkness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world of darkness. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong

I reckon video games utilizing the Vampire: The Masquerade and the other long-name World of Darkness RPG licenses should emphasize the franchise title on their cover art less and maybe otherwise, too, mention that the first part is just the licensed IP, the actual name of the video game being at the end. It annoys me quite a bit when at least half the comments I read anywhere are by tourists who think VTM is originally a video game franchise born with VTM Bloodlines and keep repeating the full title litany every time (even developers themselves in marketing videos)  -- or giving up halfway through and calling any of the video games just Vampire: (The) Masquerade (or simply Vampire) which to someone in the know looks like they're talking about the tabletop RPG.

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood

There is untapped potential in video games utilizing the many tabletop roleplaying games under the World of Darkness series. There actually exists quite a few titles using one of the licenses -- Vampire: The Masquerade being easily the most popular -- but they're largely not very high profile ones: interactive fiction games, visual novels, VR games, etc. Another truly remarkable, single-player roleplaying experience on the level of Bloodlines is yet to be made. Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood is not that either.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

And here's yet another too hastily released game filled with bugs. Fortunately, there's yet again an unofficial patch made by ambitious fans. Thanks to the patch or no, I didn't suffer from any major bugs apart from getting my character stuck inside a corpse/whatever a couple of times.