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Posted July 05, 2011
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marcusmaximus: experimented with steam with some of the free for plays and demos and the interface is just very annoying on it to me. and fustrated how old demos didn't work and stuff. I don'tknow if I will have the patience to get vampire bloodlines working. Maybe if it is on GOG for ten bucks a while from now.
Steam is not so bad -- you can set it up to fit your personal preferences quite easily, to the extend where (after installing a game) all you'll ever have to see of it is a small dialog box saying "launching game" when you start the game from your Windows desktop or start menu or what-have-you. Not sure what you meant by "old demos didn't work and stuff"...

As for Bloodlines -- seems to me that, if you're interested in it, you should just buy it from whichever digital distributor you prefer. Or you can wait until it arrives on GOG.com, but no one will be able to tell you for sure if and/or when that will happen. Either way, as others have mentioned, you'll want to install the fan patch -- that's not likely to go away even if the game is released on GOG.com -- so maybe you should just ask yourself whether the effort of dealing with Steam/D2D/fan patches is worth the enjoyment you'll get from the game? In my opinion it is.
Post edited July 05, 2011 by Lorfean
Posted July 05, 2011
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MaridAudran: on a three-year-old Toshiba laptop with an integrated GMA graphics card.
What graphics settings do you use on the GMA? resolution, detail settings etc.

Do you think a mobility radeon X600 (64MB) can run this game well?
Posted July 05, 2011
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Lorfean: As for Bloodlines -- seems to me that, if you're interested in it, you should just buy it from whichever digital distributor you prefer. Or you can wait until it arrives on GOG.com, but no one will be able to tell you for sure if and/or when that will happen. Either way, as others have mentioned, you'll want to install the fan patch -- that's not likely to go away even if the game is released on GOG.com -- so maybe you should just ask yourself whether the effort of dealing with Steam/D2D/fan patches is worth the enjoyment you'll get from the game? In my opinion it is.
GOG won't include the fan patch anyway. Activision won't most likely allow them to go that far. :) So, buy it now!
Post edited July 05, 2011 by KavazovAngel
Posted July 05, 2011
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OneFiercePuppy: First, GOG rarely lets people know about game release dates before they announce them (go ahead, ponder that one for a moment), and they haven't announced that V:TM:B is coming to GOG.
If we announce "Awesome Game II: The Awesomening Returns", where the fun in that? We'd rather let you guys speculate what's coming to encourage all you guys to chat about it here in this very forum.

Also, that way when your favorite game of all time shows up, it makes your whole day. See: Vagabond and Crusader: No Remorse. :P
Post edited July 05, 2011 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted July 05, 2011
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OneFiercePuppy: First, GOG rarely lets people know about game release dates before they announce them (go ahead, ponder that one for a moment), and they haven't announced that V:TM:B is coming to GOG.
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TheEnigmaticT: If we announce "Awesome Game II: The Awesomening Returns", where the fun in that? We'd rather let you guys speculate what's coming to encourage all you guys to chat about it here in this very forum.

Also, that way when your favorite game of all time shows up, it makes your whole day. See: Vagaond and Crusader: No Remorse. :P
And you made him wait a thousand days for that. You cruel bastards!

Also, it's Vagabond, not Vagaond. ;)
Posted July 05, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: Vagaond
Leave Vagaond-ey alone! :'(
Post edited July 05, 2011 by KavazovAngel
Posted July 05, 2011
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Falci: Also, it's Vagabond, not Vagaond. ;)
Actually, I'm using one of the lesser-known features of Polish, which is the famous "invisible b".


:: waits for someone Polish to show up and point out that such a thing doesn't exist ::
Post edited July 05, 2011 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted July 05, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: :: waits for someone Polish to show up and point that such a thing doesn't exist ::
yeah, it's ullshit.
Posted July 05, 2011
STOP
Posted July 05, 2011
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Falci: Also, it's Vagabond, not Vagaond. ;)
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TheEnigmaticT: Actually, I'm using one of the lesser-known features of Polish, which is the famous "invisible b".


:: waits for someone Polish to show up and point out that such a thing doesn't exist ::
!






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(The Polish people can make their entire alphabet invisible if they so choose :D )
Posted July 05, 2011
and unrelated it works just fine on Windows 7, or at least with the unofficial patch it does, I've been playing it off and on for the last few months with no issues aside from very infrequent texture pop.
Posted July 05, 2011
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MaridAudran: on a three-year-old Toshiba laptop with an integrated GMA graphics card.
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Stelis: What graphics settings do you use on the GMA? resolution, detail settings etc.

Do you think a mobility radeon X600 (64MB) can run this game well?
GMA X3100 (256 MB), the mobile version of the intel GM965 chipsets, at 1280X800 res. Very modest card by today's standards, but excellent for running the 5+ yr-old games of the past, which is all I'm pretty much interested in.

Radeon is one of the supported chipsets, but 64 MB is the bare minimum. I don't think you'll run the game well on your laptop. You could try, but I'd expect a lot of issues with choppy performance and loading lag. Bloodlines is known as a buggy resource dog as it is. People here often opine that they have less issues running Half-life 2 smoothly than Bloodlines, though they use the same engine and Bloodlines was released first.
Posted July 05, 2011
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MaridAudran: at 1280X800 res.
Thanks. Do you remember any detail settings you managed to use at that resolution, high, low etc?
Posted July 06, 2011
Today Dotemu released the Gabriel Knight games with multilingual support. Fine, but more interesting for most folks here is that they also released Bloodlines DRM-free for 15€/20$:

http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/601/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines
Posted July 06, 2011
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DukeNukemForever: Today Dotemu released the Gabriel Knight games with multilingual support. Fine, but more interesting for most folks here is that they also released Bloodlines DRM-free for 15€/20$:

http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/601/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines
Is it really DRM-free? Anyone bought it?
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