Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines/YMMV: Difference between revisions

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* [[Complete Monster]]: Quite a few, which is unsurprising given [[Old World of Darkness|the setting]].

*** This troper found that killing Andrei wasn't a job, but a PRIVELAGE. As I proceded through his lair, I just kept getting angrier and angrier at the atrocities he's made from innocents.

** Your first target in the bounty hunter sidequest chain, Stanley Gimble, is a psycopathic [[Mad Doctor]] who abducts and murders innocent men, women and children, then hacks their limbs up in order to fufil his deranged amputation fetish.

*** Actually Brother Kanker pretty much believes in Vick's philosophy, it's just Jezebel who seems to be doing it for kicks.

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Malkavians. Especially the independent ending for a male Malkavian in full armor: {{spoiler|a dude in a ridiculously fluffy white fur longcoat, a ridiculously tall Cat-in-the-Hat hat, and no shirt flips off Nines while Venture Tower burns in the background.}}

** And also yourself in the independent ending. {{spoiler|1=You single-handedly assault Chinatown and the Venture Tower, killing off Ming Xiao and handing LaCroix the key to the sarcophagus... Which turns out to contain half a ton of C4 that kills him in the greatest [[Karmic Death]] ''ever''. You then nonchalantly walk out of town, ''flipping off Nines in the process'' when he tries to recruit you for his own purposes.}}

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: The entire Malkavian route.

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: {{spoiler|Using Dementation on Heather to convince her to pursue a normal life}} produces a rather sweet exchange.

* [[Cult Classic]]: The bugginess of the game as it was originally released put a dent in its popularity, but a dedicated fanbase has grown over the years, especially in light of recent patches.

* [[Epileptic Trees]]: Notable for the contributing factors. Pretty-much all in-game signs point to {{spoiler|the cab driver being Caine,}} but the developers, when questioned by fans, claim that there is no right answer, and the expanded-universe novel covering Gehenna puts {{spoiler|Caine}} elsewhere. ''However,'' it's entirely possible he put ''himself'' there so Beckett would find him in a circumstance that would make him appear trustworthy, or...yeah, you can justify either point of view.

*** He's the single most powerful vampire on the planet, besides the travelling issue, he could also very easily possess someone from halfways across the world and maintain it for long periods of time.

** Some fans have suggested that Deb, from the radio show, is Kindred. This would [[Fridge Brilliance|explain a lot]], since she'd probably be how the Camarilla (or the Anarchs) kept tabs on the various crazies--note her reactions to {{spoiler|Andrei}} and that one [[Conspiracy Theorist]] who [[Cassandra Truth|manages to figure everything out]].

** The story behind the flaming is that Tessera claims that the Unofficial Patch is actually a mod that needlessly changes many aspects of the game and that Wesp is lying by calling it a patch. Furthermore, Tessera believes that the VTMB community's obsession with "modding" the game comes from an unfulfilled subconscious desire for a sequel to the game that will never come, and has stated that he hates the PlanetVampire community and hopes they will choke on Wesp's patch.

** On the other side of the fence, Wesp claims that Tessera stole some of the code for his patches even though this isn't true: the initial design for the True Patch stipulated it could be applied on top of Wesp's patch, but this was later discarded. Wesp also claimed that Tessera also "stole" bugfixes from him, but that claim is unprovable, as most of the bugs in the game were first discovered by other parties unrelated to either of them.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: According to [[All There in the Manual|the tabletop Guide to the Anarchs sourcebook]], published a couple years before Bloodlines, "Nines" is the name of a popular Anarch game that resembles paintball + tag + live ammunition.

* [[Fridge Logic]]: Wouldn't the Sheriff turning into an enormous bat and flying around the tower constitute an equally enormous breach of the Masquerade?

** Celerity and Potence allow you to go into a [[Bullet Time]] massacre which, at high levels, gives you [[Nigh Invulnerability]] simply because you'll have [[One-Hit Kill|one hit killed]] everything before it can even reach you.

** The Flamethrower deals ridiculous damage with no firearms skill needed, and it stops non-monstrous bosses from attacking or using their defensive skills as long as they burn. Its only weakness is its lack of ammunition and the high cost of the fuel.

** The Thaumaturgy Discipline "Blood Purge" from the Tremere affect almost all enemies, including most bosses. It costs only two points of blood to use and leaves them puking blood while you can wail on them with your melee weapon or firearms. And, once they recover, you can just activate it again and leave them puking again to repeat the process.

* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: You can get duplicates of skill books by selling them to a vendor and buying them back. Most books can raise your skills two levels, but only one at a time.

** Hiding in a certain place during the final boss battle {{spoiler|will cause Chiropteran Behemoth to glitch out and stay floating in one place, allowing you to just shoot it until it dies.}}

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: If you look on Simon Milligan's computer when you come to deal with him for Pisha, you discover that they were planning on shooting the next episode in the zombie-filled graveyard in Hollywood.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: You can tell E after {{spoiler|rescuing Lilly}} "Vampires in love, [[Twilight (novel)|you two make a great airport paperback]]"