I hope you like overly-passionate and rambly video essays, because today I talk about one of my favorite games ever! IMPORTANT NOTE: This video is in 2 parts. The first is a video essay about the game, the second is me playing the game! I’m really proud of both (:
Also here’s this if you want to watch me play games sometimes:
https://www.twitch.tv/crustiebag
Intro (0:00)
The Setting (2:27)
The Vampires (4:08)
The Armor (7:27)
Fat Larry and Company (8:08)
Typing Mechanics in Video Games Rant (8:37)
The Edgy Missions (10:29)
The Technical Problems (14:06)
The FANTASTIC Soundtrack (15:53)
VTMB Boundary Break (19:11)
Uh Oh Problematic Time (21:13)
The Messy Future Of The Franchise (22:19)
Gamer Time (25:54)
The Ghost Haunts At Midnight (29:04)
Please Save This For A Therapist (33:23)
Back To Gamer Time(34:36)
That One Mission (40:10)
The Rudest Character Ever (43:10)
Broken Fights (44:15)
Outro (48:29)
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World of Darkness is incredibly fun to explore and play in. Anyone who enjoys the grim dark aspects will find something to suit their tastes in WoD.
absolutely loved this video, time to reinstall again! also had no idea about the new soundtrack album, hype af to check that out. BTW, do you stream at all or nah?
I picked this game up at release as a kid cause I was obsessed with HL2 and the Source Engine, and it's been a favorite ever since.
Also if people think the game is broken now, you should've seen it in 2004. The game literally did not work out of the box: one of the main quests would always crash the game regardless of clan and choices. The fact that they apparently didn't get to do a full test playthrough before going gold is a real testament to how much the game was sadly rushed out the door by the publisher.
I know this feeling very well. I still love this game. The way it tickles ever cell of your body. It is likely my favorite game of all time.
Also, Chunk was the best. Though he was a dick, I had a real boner for LaCroix. And Beckett.
try adding more mods. Technically there are plenty of solo mods but most of them are compatible with each other, they will add more quests, maps, dialoge (that is actually voiced like everyone else) and some even have HD packs. You will find the experience refreshing and this game will have you every year returning for another run.
The unofficial patch gets updated every 6-12+ months depending on the content added and bug fixes. Every time you return to this game, you will find something new.
also in one point of the video you talk about how the game was dead from the get go but as years pass and the UP gets more and more updates. The game critics to this game keep returning to reevaluate and raise the score EVERY time. My point with this statement you could say, it suffered a first death and raised from the dead to live again in the underground shadows of the gaming community (a hidden gem) just like a Vampire.
one of my alltime favorite games <3 im glad to still see ppl talking ab it 😀 awesome video man
Love this game. Finished it like 5 times. I'm still hoping that the sequel will be good despite its development hell. Though I'm not sure if it will capture the same insane, campy, corny, scary aesthetic as the first one. Great video.
vtmb was my first pc video game and i fucking love it so much, i still go back and play it regularly. its perfect and my friends have never and will never stop hearing me gush ab this game (no seriously, i just had some of them take a quiz for what clan theyd be yesterday bc that is how much of a grip this game still has on me). the soundtrack, the quests, the DANCING??? PLEASE, its <3<3<3 im so glad im not the only one who enjoys it this much. its definitely not perfect and its very dated but in the best way, almost every flaw is just endearing. and im gonna stop typing now before this comment turns into an essay of my own. 10/10 video, anyone who hasnt played the game should, and if youre into ttrpgs the tabletop system its based off of is pretty dope as well
This game really makes you FEEL like your hoarding estrogen bottles
aw man this is like my favourite video you've made so far !!! hell yeah
"Playing this game on Steam"
I was gonna make a sarcastic joke but instead I do genuinely want to recommend purchasing this game, as well as other old games, on Good Old Games (GOG) since more often than not it seems the people running that storefront go out of their way to make things work on modern devices as well as even sometimes adding in some fan mods meant to aid in the experience for modern players.
Also GOG is run by CD Project Red, the guys behind Cyberpunk 2077. Not really worth noting, more a fun fact if you don't know that.
Alright already, I am buying the damn game. Sheesh.
when i read "mall-goth simulator," i was expecting some kinda obscure game where you play a goth wandering the mall, and then it turned out you were talking about VTMB.
and basically what that means is, you're utterly excellent, and an immediate like and subscribe. also i would love to see a game about being a mall goth…
VTMB is a (flawed) masterpiece. also the music and the architectural assets/textures don't get enough love, when talking about what made the game what it was.
you do a great job of communicating that what is truly magnificent about the game is its creation of a very, very particular setting and ambience, using elements of 90s and 00s goth and punk subcultures, and then mixing that vibe with a bunch of other shit…like a sense of, almost, nihilism in the setting itself. and then layering the traditional gothic horror on top of that.
it's hard to explain, but the fact that you can go to the Red Spot, or the diner, or The Last Round, or your haven(s), or the Ocean House Hotel, or The Asylum, or Confession, or the beach, or Tseng's Herbal Remedies, or Gary's cave, or the graveyard, or the Sin Bin, or the Lacroix Tower, or ANYWHERE in this dang game, and the feeling truly shifts – plus you could imagine any of these places as real places – is a feeling that hasn't quite been replicated for me in any game since.
Cool video. Interesting stuff.
I subscribed 🙂
…JoE…
Right, we had flat screen monitors back then. We used mp3 players, and if you were shopping at the mall. You definitely had a flip phone. You're mixing the mid to late 90's up with the mid 2000's. The iphone came out 2 years after this game did. I mean, really. You kids could try harder.
When it comes to typing; it would be a pain in the ass to implement on consoles which makes up like 60-70% of the playerbase for most video games
hey man i gotta say, VTMB is literally my favorite videogame to the point where if I see that someone made "Yet Another Video Essay About It Where I Already Know Exactly What They're Gonna Say" (it's a genre, i promise), I watch through it nonetheless because I just enjoy seeing people love this game as much as I do, but you doing a Boundary Break kinda thing on it is possibly the most original thing I've seen someone do with this game in a while. Kudos
I think there’s a lot more nuance to race in VTM:B. I don’t think portrayal = endorsement. Within context , portraying racist stereotypes as a part of the world with vampires werewolves and all sorts of mythical creatures says something about those stereotypes. Especially since the vampire myth is deeply rooted in anti semitism. Internalized racism does exist, but I do think it’s worth mentioning that asian devs worked on the game, and the working environment at Troika would definitely have allowed any criticism to not fall on deaf ears.
I try VERY hard to make this flesh house a flesh home
Holy shit I can't kill myself now there's a full 50 minute crustbag video
You're absolutely adorable playing your little video game
kinda miss the 2000s and early 2010s it just felt more simple and edgier
I hope the new game is also good, bc while I enjoyed watching you play this, the combat would probably kill me 😀
Looked very entertaining tho
For some reason I love long-ass VTMB video essays.
Oof… Dude referenced vampirefreaks
This video came up as a suggested and lemme tell you, I loved learning about this game from you alongside with your overall personality and giddiness <3 I've got no idea how this game fell under my radar considering I'm all into those "old but a gem" type of games, especially with a goth aesthetic? Sign me up immediately xD Freaking loved this
Fucking awesome video dude! Do u think u would eventually post any of ur streams to YouTube?
crustbag x Grimbeard collab when
I love this game so much omgosh <3
part of my weekly routine is going to a vampire the masquerade larp! if this game is your shit then most def look into local larp communities, my game is connected nationally and there are game sessions in almost every major city!!! I genuinely have the malkavian clan symbol tattooed on my forearm. as passionate as you are in this video im sure you did know that the tzimisce is actually a whole clan of fleshcrafters, they didnt go much in detail in bloodlines but they are actually one of my favorite clans to see original content with lol!
to be honest, I didn't even really want to watch this video, but then I clicked on it and couldn't stop watching because of how exited and passionately you spoke about this game. Downloading it rn.
This video essay is amazing btw
I'm still pretty new to the world of VTM, currently playing Bloodlines for the first time with a Tremere
i bought the game right after watching this and now i have a very unhealthy addiction that’s not helping my grades in anyway shape of form
Original creators leaving a franchise like this is always so nerve-wracking to me.
Great video
One of the games so good that I replayed a few more times right after finishing it. New Vegas and MGS3 are two of the other games that had the same effect on me.
I’ve always known Tyler was attractive, but for some reason looks extra attractive here. Really solid editing, I can tell you worked really hard on this.