The writing in this game is hysterical. My personal favorite is the fluff text on the fire axe: “clearly the weapon of a madman, for who else would attack fire with an axe?”

Fun fact about the "scuffed Harley Quinn" character, Jenette. She's actually the inspiration for pretty much every modern Harley Quinn design.

Velvet, the woman giving you the job in Vesuvius aren't pretending. That sultry way of talk is who and what she is. It's one way Toreadors can get. That's why both Bertram and Gary calls them out for playing pretend. Other vampires can really only understand the very abnormally emotional humanity-centric nature of the Toreadors as pure delusion.

With a Malkavian you have access to dialogues with Velvet revealing that her persona is a coping mechanism to having been pretty much seduced into this world then abandoned when her lover got bored of her so she had abandonment issues, been traumatized by the hard reality of being a vampire, and the core of it all because of being a Toreador she is not only almost inhumanly emotional, she is incapable of being desensitized.

Talking to Isaac about her also reveals that she's his adopted daughter, he adores and cherishes just how specially "human" she is and her club is a gift from him basically enabling her to even exist.

Isaac himself although mostly a calm, logical and professional man is shown to be un-vampirically emotional and impulsive in the inside, and as neglectful for his own childe as Velvet's boyfried was when telling the story of turning the ex-actor chased by hunters into a vampire when he was dying from overdose and he was overwhelmed with the feeling of not wanting to let this amazing and talented actor go despite logically this is the end of him as an actor either way, and now wanting nothing to do with him because hunters are serious business.

So yeah Velvet is actually a curveball by appearing obviously fake in a setting where you gotta double guess everybody while she is actually honest, she's just very odd.

This game is a goddamn rabbit hole man...

There's a fortune teller on the beach at Santa Monica at the very beginning who will spoil all the twists in the main questline for 50 bucks if you decide to talk to her.
I love this game.

why is nobody talking about the fact that the facial animations arent complete garbage for a game this age?
im quite pleasantly surprised.

i'm here after the VTM2 video, it's depressing.

VtMB is like an ancient eldritch being: at the mere mention of its name, anyone who's played it before is compelled to bring it back from the depths and reinstall it

Fun fact. If you use console commands to give yourself the Sheriffs sword the description tells you 'You're not supposed to have this!'

46:20 - As it happens, vampires aren't COMPLETELY devoid of sex drive in Vampire: The Masquerade, but they have to expend blood to get the biological components working, so it's a strange situation that's a bit divorced from normal concepts of a human libido. So a vampire can absolutely choose to do the nasty. They just lose some blood and have to feed a bit more.

Legends says everytime someone said "Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines", people are reinstalling to play it again... as Malkavian
And then fight the nemesis... the Stop sign

"You're never really in any danger from the ghost"
seconds later
"The ghost tries to crush you with an elevator."

'No viability for Melee builds at all.'
Me as a Brujah punching my way through everything: "I agree. Brawl is the way to go."

Implying that Jeanette Voerman is a rip off of Harley Quinn is akin to implying Ocarina of Time ripped off Demon Souls. When this game came out, Harley Quinn was still depicted in her full proper harlequin costume.

This video has literally been made two dozen times by different content producers, and every time it's done again, hundreds of people reinstall the game.

Also, it just came to me, but the reason that hunter in the monastery sounds like a Skyrim NPC is because he's voiced by Micheal Gough. Who is the same guy voicing Beckett, incidentally. He voiced Jarl Baalgruf and Ralof and half the male nords in Skyrim. He also voiced many NPCs in Fallout 3, and if you want a bit more nostalgia he's the same guy who voiced Deckard Cain from the Diablo series.

The game completely changes when you play as a Nosteratu. For a Malkavian, every single line of dialogue in-game gets re-written with hilarious results.

You absolutely owe it to yourself to replay this someday as a Malkavian.. You will not be disappointed.

Beckett isn't a werewolf, though it's easy to confuse him as one given his abilities. He's actually a vampire called a "Gangrel" which is a clan that can turn into animals, he just happens to choose a wolf. He's like, really important to the overall lore for one reason or another. He collects knowledge and is called the "most learned of all Kindred regarding their condition and history" by the books if memory serves. Basically, he's an exposition dump in the form of a creature of the night

Ah, the old classic Beckett = werewolf mistake. Here come the comments.

The Kuei-Jin are barely explained in this game, but they're really a different type of supernatural creature than Vampires.   Vampires are basically soulless corpses animated by a powerful curse, Keui-Jin are more like a Ghost possessing their own dead body.   The only real similarities are that they're both humanoid, undead, and drink blood.   Most everything else works differently for them in the original game.