It charges even mundane events, like finding the lost thin-blood girl, with a strange urgency, because (you think) maybe this stuff is all tied together somehow. Both games create a really thick atmosphere of menace and suspicion by building up this notion that the world might somehow be coming to a close and that your quest might somehow tie into that in some impossible-to-foresee way. The game often drew comparisons to Deus Ex for its gameplay, but I think they share another element I enjoy, which is the.eschatological atmosphere. As a result, it made me really want to side with the Camarilla (but not LaCroix) so I am happy that is at least nominally an option, though I didn't get it because I never talked to Strauss about the gargoyle. That isn't to say I want everything to be cartoonishly grim or that I as a player don't generally try to make ethical (or at least, least-harmful) choices in the game, but I almost felt like it was editorializing at points, particularly when he keeps showing up to rescue you.
Speaking of Nines, one thing I found genuinely odd about the game (never having really been a VtM player) was how hardcore it pushes you toward the cause of the Anarchs, especially after so many quests make clear how petty and self-serving a lot of vampire politics and rivalries are. Well, you know how else it would really be? If Nines told me to run after a fire mysteriously broke out all around us, I wouldn't stand around going "what? why? what's going on?" for an excruciatingly interminable length of time, soooooo "BUT THAT IS HOW IT WOULD REALLY BE," I hear someone saying. Having a chase scene in a game where every 1mm difference in elevation equals an impassable barrier is just kind of ill-conceived. It's a great sequence, viewed in a story and atmosphere context, but the truth is, it's kind of a save-scummy pain in the ass, even with Celerity 5. I'd loved it before, but had never gotten past the werewolf. I am a little out of it tonight but I really want to share these thoughts I had about the game while they're still sort of fresh so I am going to just list points as they occur to me instead of trying to tie it all together into a nice-looking essay of a post. But after that, things were fine and the problem never recurred. That was, as you can imagine, less than pleasing. I verified my files a couple of times, defragged my HD, and finally just had to keep loading saves from further and further back I had been in Chinatown and got kicked back all the way to the start of Hollywood, ultimately.
I am not even kidding, I took screenshots. At one point every time I zoned all interactable doorknobs would be replaced with cats. The bug problems I was having were fucking weird, guys. Oh hey, I'd been meaning to post in this thread since I beat the game - for the very first time - a few weeks ago.
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