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first off, forgive any janky formatting, i\u2019m typing this on my phone in the hopes to you know\u2026.use this more. i\u2019ve been feeling the pull to go back to social media and micro blogging, but i have a fully functioning website i pay for right here under my own control! and in my dead heart of hearts, i really do not want to go back to social media. i\u2019m doing just fine with the \u201ckeep accounts open for friends that use it to send me stuff in DMs\u201d model. LOL<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
ANYWAY, in July i resubscribed to Gamefly (YES, it\u2019s still alive!) think Blockbuster, but online and no rental deadlines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The first game in my queue that i received was Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. now as an aside, this game was in development hell for years and we thought we\u2019d never see it released. that was the first thing that made me \u201cmeh\u201d about it. the second thing, and ultimately was gonna be the reason i would never spend money on it was they were going to put my vampire clan of choice (Toreador) behind a paid dlc. they would eventually backtrack this and then just make an additional story content dlc for a npc. $15 bones though, what the helly!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
thirdly, the story just was an outright FLOP. i had gotten the anarchy ending, but it didn\u2019t feel like an anarchy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
i would have been way happier with Fabien, the Malkavian detective and doing old timey noir detective things!! (Fabien\u2019s big reveal also made me pause the game and call my partner about it because i was so damn gobsmacked LOL)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
as the player character storyline, things just felt really disjointed and wasn\u2019t really going anywhere. you felt like you were just\u2026.there, with no real development.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
all in all, glad i rented it and didn\u2019t spend any money on it (unless you count my Gamefly subscription) maybe when it\u2019s stupid cheap during a Steam sale i\u2019ll let it rot in my library til i get a better PC.
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first off, forgive any janky formatting, i\u2019m typing this on my phone in the hopes to you know\u2026.use this more. i\u2019ve been feeling the pull to go back to social media and micro blogging, but i have a fully functioning website i pay for right here under my own control! and in my dead heart… Continue reading [#715] Mini Review: Bloodlines 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[352],"tags":[367,368],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-mini-review","tag-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0892d04bc58471231a1d38528aa2b21b72ff10a3b5152fc5-scaled.avif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}