Can someone please tell me what's this game about??

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 1:46 am

I mean....is it like BG, or Deus EX?
Is it in first person. Can you make a party with your main character??
Do you level up gaining exp. points???

Thanks

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 8:11 am

It's like a combination of Diablo and BG1. It's a third person action-based CRPG in a 3D environment. The problems that I see are that you can't really choose your associates, there's little interparty dialog, and everything is relentlessly linear: you get a mission, and go from point a to point b.

I suspect TORN is going to be what V:TM should have been, to my mind.

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 9:51 am

Thanks....i'll not buy it....

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 11:39 am

Well, don't take my word for it, @Edwin. Check out what others say in this same area. I really like games that build in a degree of nonlinearity, and strong interactive parties. People who prefer 3D surroundings and good graphics generally enjoy V:TM.

And it's important to recall that the developers were really trying to non-stop action, rather than an RPG. They released V:TM without any pause control, and immediately sank under an enormous number of protests about controlling a party without it. As a result, the pause control went in, but comparing it to BG2 is probably like comparing apples to oranges.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 1:39 pm

V:tM is an amazing game. It has great story, and great graphics. Non-stop action, and some kick ass disciplines (Equivilant to magic). The problems are it's A.I. problems, and once done the game, all thats left is the multi-player aspect of it. Not enough play that legit, so it's not worth playing. At this point, you gotta weigh the pros and cons yourself. I've done all I can.

Amphibius · Post by **Amphibius** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 5:35 pm

I think you have to be in a certain mindset to really appreciate VtM-Redemption. Having a bit of background with White Wolf's vampire mythos would really help but I think the single player chronicle deals with introducing a newbie to the World of Darkness quite well... I tend to see the linear nature of the game to be a reasult of this fact.

You start out as a mortal who gets sucked into the darker world beyond that which you are familiar of... I find the story quite compelling actually.

The really cool part is the multiplayer mode where you get to create your own character to roleplay... you'll need a storyteller (dungeon master) to officiate a multiplayer session though (which isn't very easy)...

I think VtM-Redemption is a glimpse of what Neverwinter Nights will be (a simple single player chronicle for an introduction of features and a robust multiplayer development environment). Too bad that future support for the game seems nil and the existing development tools for multiplayer gaming isn't very intuitive.

Oh well... just my two cents...

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Sat Jul 14, 2001 12:53 am

OK....thank you all. I'll think about it (expecially for the low price

).
Anyway thanks again for your opinions

NightLife · Post by **NightLife** » Sat Aug 25, 2001 2:36 pm

As a newbie here, I've got a basic question.
Why does this game lockup so frequently?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Sat Aug 25, 2001 4:05 pm

I never had that problem. It could be that your computer insn't powerful enough to handle it's curretn settings. Try going to the options, and lowering the graphics.

pip · Post by **pip** » Sat Aug 25, 2001 6:03 pm

To Nightlife

I believe Aegis is right, The game kept locking up on me and crashing frequently until I adjusted the graphics control to something like 640x800 display, but I could still keep detail quality on high. That's why it took me almost two weeks before I finished the game.