Do people want an f13 Gameclub? (Formerly Named Poorly)

[schild]

So it looks like it'll be Bloodlines, I should've asked, is there a way to run it at 1920x1200 and crank shit up?

[sidereal]

For future polls, I recommend Mount&Blade.

Bloodlines is still $20 on Steam 
Didn't that game release in like 1976?

[Soln]

So how do we do this and when?

[Tebonas]

Planescape should be old enough to run under Virtualization, no? Isn't that the first things gamers do when they get a retarded new OS? Establish backwards compability.

[Merusk]

So it looks like it'll be Bloodlines, I should've asked, is there a way to run it at 1920x1200 and crank shit up?

Not sure about a res hack, but Tessmage.com has some high-res NPC reskins on their downloads page. You just have to make it past all the nude mods to get there.  They also have a big fan patch that restores & completes some unfinished content.  No idea if it works with the steam version or not.

[Xuri]

Why would you want to make it past the nude mods? 

[Bunk]

So it looks like it'll be Bloodlines, I should've asked, is there a way to run it at 1920x1200 and crank shit up?

From what I remember there are instructions on that widescreen gaming board Sky has mentioned before, whatever it is called, for editing the settings to support widescreen. I know I played it at 1680x1050 last time.

[apocrypha]

My god that's a horrible website. Can't someone make some kind of law to stop people designing websites so badly?

[schild]

So, I got the unofficial patch installed and the resolution patcher. I have the respatch files and will gladly attach them to the first thread, but let me say this:

1. Textures disappear, don't know if that's due to the resolution patch or the unofficial patch (this had not happened to me prior).
2. It's.... hard to navigate the character skill sheet. Also, 2D textures are laughably bad.

Anyway, should Bloodlines stay ahead come Monday, I'll start things off with that and it'll run for 2 weeks.

[Merusk]

I played with the unofficial patch my last VTM go-around and didn't have any problems so it's probably the res patcher.

[schild]

Shame. I'll have to figure out how to set windowed mode then. All very annoying. I forgot how buggy this thing was when I put it on the list.

[AcidCat]

I've always kinda sorta wanted to play that Vampire game, so this sounds cool.

[Sky]

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com for future reference :)

Did you use the respatch from there, schild?

I'll also see if I can find my discs and get it running. Haven't played it in ages.

(I voted Thief 2!)

[Ozzu]

I voted for Undying, but Vampire sounds not too shabby. Need to find my old disk.

[HaemishM]

This makes me want to pull out my copy of Vampire as well. I only ever played a Nos, I'd be interested in trying a different tack now that I have a much better video card to play it on.

[schild]

I'd be interested in trying a different tack now that I have a much better video card to play it on.

The game is still a mess. ;_;

[trias_e]

When I played through it recently with the unofficial patch I almost felt like it caused as many problems as it solved.

[Megrim]

I want to point out that this poll has neither Dungeon Crawl SS, or Dwarf Fortress.

[schild]

I'm thinking of just making a forum called Radicalthon, and people can post diaries of any character and any game they want. If people want to play the same game, so be it. But most people have played all or most of the games on the list, and it'll be more interesting - I THINK - to let people pick the game they want to write that much about. Just a thought.

[SnakeCharmer]

Probably get more input that way.

BTW, do you want that keyboard or what?

[Wasted]

Isn't this what this forum is already about?  People posting about what they are playing?

Theres something to be said about sharing a directed experience.  I bought Bloodlines ages ago on special and never got around to installing or playing it, this is a good motivation for me to give it a try.  Thats what I'm looking for in some sort of gaming club, the extra motivation to try those old games I overlooked, or revisit good games worth the repeat.

[schild]

Probably get more input that way.

BTW, do you want that keyboard or what?

It's the micron cherry switch one, right?

Isn't this what this forum is already about?  People posting about what they are playing?

Never a good answer. Might as well say "Let's combine pc, mmog, the graveyard, and every other gaming forum since it's all just about gaming.

[SnakeCharmer]

It's the micron cherry switch one, right?

HP.  Unknown if it's cherry switch.  I think I sent you the model numbers and such.  Don't know if you can tell from that.

[Velorath]

I'm thinking of just making a forum called Radicalthon, and people can post diaries of any character and any game they want. If people want to play the same game, so be it. But most people have played all or most of the games on the list, and it'll be more interesting - I THINK - to let people pick the game they want to write that much about. Just a thought.

I think that would just end up like an extended version of BIIF, and without the directed experience as Wasted put it, there won't end up being a lot of discussion beyond the initial post (just like the majority of BIIF's).

[Hoax]

I got to pretty much the end of this game and literally no joke I got stuck in an area I could jump into but not out of.  I decided fuck it, imagined my own ending and /quit.

My guy had like melee 9 though, it was easy mode, shrug off bullets while draining bitches, thin groups out with fingernail uppercuts.  Good times.  My female roommate kept watching me play, she has a vampire fetish, sealed set of Twilight (clit lit ftl) etc.

[Falconeer]

I am hooked to the radio program that plays in the first scene. I literally can't get out of the apartment until it's finished. Anyone knows how long it is?

[Lantyssa]

Five or ten minutes.  (It's been a long time since I've played.)  The radio in that game was awesome.  At various points in the story it changes, too.

[trias_e]

I am hooked to the radio program that plays in the first scene. I literally can't get out of the apartment until it's finished. Anyone knows how long it is?

There's lots of this stuff in the game as well.   Other radios will have new 'episodes' of callers for much amusement. Oh, and try the TV now and then.   Especially if you're Malkavian.  Actually, the whole game is    if you're a Malk.

[Falconeer]

Actually I answered some questions at character creation and ended up a Malkavian. Didn't really know what it was: Vampires the Masquerade is one of the few RPG settings I really despised, too close to larping and too many dimwits trying hard to pretend charisma.

But the videogame looks good.

[Big Gulp]

Actually I answered some questions at character creation and ended up a Malkavian. Didn't really know what it was: Vampires the Masquerade is one of the few RPG settings I really despised, too close to larping and too many dimwits trying hard to pretend charisma.

But the videogame looks good.

The secret to running a good PnP Vampire game is to enforce a strict "no melodrama/angsty bullshit" rule.  Granted, the source material makes that hard to do, but it is possible.

[Sheepherder]

The P&P RPG had worse problems than being LARP-ish.  Like the fact that it was nearly impossible to give a player free reign over creating their characters while maintaining a cogent story that didn't take for-fucking-ever to actually start.  During character creation players choose a clan, and that the act of choosing different clans effectively fucked all interaction between players unless the GM slaved like a dog to give player A a reason to give a fuck about what player B was doing when all clans were ostensibly in a cold war with each other.  Otherwise the game degenerated into a story about how someone would off prostitutes night after night after night, which would, incidentally, work if the game was subtitled "I am down on whores and shan't stop ripping them."

[Goreschach]

Yeah, I never really bought into the whole 'self preservation/no killing' thing Jack tries to sell you on. You could see it in his eyes.

[Lantyssa]

We solved the Clan cold war by generally giving our PCs more reason to trust (and work with) one another than their Clans.  Well, as much as self-serving leeches can.

Somehow myself and another player always managed to make characters which would start with the worst conflict in the group.  We would pull some nasty stuff on one another.  Damned if we were going to let anyone else beat us to making the other miserable though, and in the end they always ended up with the strongest bonds in the group.  So it's possible with a good group who are interested in fun and great RP.

[Tebonas]

There were some easy tricks to accomplish that. Threat of Sabbat attacks for one, the Prince of the city staking somebody in front of the (future) party for past transgressions against the peace at least helped you party members not killing each other. Personally I preferred Anarch campaigns, they didn't give that much shit about bloodlines and had to duck both the Camarilla and the Sabbat. Good times 

[Sky]

I still prefer invisible ninjas.

Did I tell the story about that one, playing at an official AD&D tournament? My singer and I were playing nefarious villians hiding out amongst friendly adventurers. He was an assassin and I was a m-u/thief. They thought we were both friendly rogues, and we had trap-checking duty. Which translated into "fill our pockets with the choice loot, then hide in shadows during combat." The other players, the DM, everyone was so pissed off; the DM finally lost it. Started sending invisible ninjas against us.

Then he got smacked down by the admins of the event, we were given a pass to the next round of competition for excellent roleplaying. :)