Vampire: The Masquerdae Bloodlines

NurotNurot Join Date: 2003-12-04 Member: 23932Members, Constellation
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Vampire: The Masquerade this game looks awesome. They claim its based off the half-life 2 engine, but its made by activision. Does that mean its going to be a mod or a completely different game sorta life how the unreal game was originally off the quake engine. It looks awesome, I'm cheap but will probably get it anyways. Add it to my list here, Half-life 2, Doom 3, NS2 <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    Oh, I *NEED* to play this. I'm a White Wolf GM anyway, so this better be good. And they better not defile the background and make Antediluvians saunter around or something....

    Random player : "Oh, Hi, who are you?"

    Malkav : "Hi, I'm Malkav. You may remember me from such....."

    *Other party falls on floor, brain turned to mush in seconds*

    Malkav : "Goddamnit, why does that keep happening to me?"

    *Goes off to spread his mind amongst his childer*
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Matthew L. Barre+Apr 18 2004, 02:37 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Matthew L. Barre @ Apr 18 2004, 02:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Vampire: The Masquerade this game looks awesome. They claim its based off the half-life 2 engine, but its made by activision. Does that mean its going to be a mod or a completely different game sorta life how the unreal game was originally off the quake engine. It looks awesome, I'm cheap but will probably get it anyways. Add it to my list here, Half-life 2, Doom 3, NS2 <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not a mod. They actually bought the HL2 engine to make this game...PCGamer had a nice preview on it.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Yeah, V:TM Bloodlines should be awesome if they pull it off. And I don't see any reason why they wouldn't. Its not some nubs making it, its the guys who did Fallout...

    And they licensed the Source (HL2) engine from Valve. It is not a HL2 mod, nor does it have anything to do with Sierra or Valve other than paying them a lump sum of cash for the code and some dev support.

    Engine licensing is very commonplace, in fact Half-Life 1 is based off a licensed copy of the Quake 1 and Quake 2 engines. (Quake 2's renderer, Quake 1's everything else)
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    if you think about it isn't engine licensing just high level modding? XD
    The only difference between an engine license and a total conversion mod is the players don't need the game the engine is used from to play it and the company can make money off the product without being beaten with the legal stick =3
    Oh, and the gross amounts of cash involved <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • TequilaTequila Join Date: 2003-08-13 Member: 19660Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Geminosity+Apr 18 2004, 07:43 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Apr 18 2004, 07:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> if you think about it isn't engine licensing just high level modding? XD
    The only difference between an engine license and a total conversion mod is the players don't need the game the engine is used from to play it and the company can make money off the product without being beaten with the legal stick =3
    Oh, and the gross amounts of cash involved <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You're forgetting that buying the engine license allows developers to revamp what they see fit, like Deus Ex 2 adding proper shadows to the Unreal engine. From what I hear, Troika games have made the particle system more complex and introduced a cloth system, cause we all know vampires are nothing without a flowing robe.
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  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    From what I know of Half-Life, modders use the SDK, but only get the source code for the client.dll and server.dll files. With an engine license, you get just about everything, plus tech support from the engine creators.
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    Regardless, if bloodlines sucks, I will be forced to go Postal with a SPAS-12 around their offices.
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  • BigMadSteveBigMadSteve Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
    Another example of engine licensing would be Allied Assault and Soldier of Fortune 2. They both use Quake 3's engine.
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    I've been following this game <i>real</i> closely, it looks fit to pwn. Have faith in Troika.

    Only thing I'm thinking that it lacks right now is the rest of the WoD characters. I want to play a Garou, damn it.
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    edited April 2004
    Duffy - I have to ask... WHY? It's not like the Garou are any good. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Now, the option to play Kuei-Jin, now that would own.
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