The sharp-eyed folks at RPG Codex noticed something interesting yesterday: In late April, White Wolf Publishing filed for a trademark on “Vampire Bloodlines,” to cover “downloadable publications in relation to role-playing games; downloadable publications in relation to computer games; video game software; application software for mobile phones; computer game software.”
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…White Wolf and all its properties were acquired last year by Paradox Interactive. Paradox Interactive published Obsidian’s 2015 fantasy RPGPillars of Eternity, and will do the same for the recently-announced Tyranny. And Obsidian—this is where it gets good—recently signed up Leonard Boyarsky, who was the project lead on Bloodlines, and is thus now back together with Tim Cain, who worked as a programmer on the game.
That certainly sounds like they’re thinking of bringing back Vampire Bloodlines, honestly. Goodness knows that it has an incredibly loyal fan base; the kind that goes into the guts of the game and fixes all of the mistakes, for over ten years and running. I’ve never actually played the game, but I’m now mildly interested in doing just that… particularly since the latest patch apparently puts back in a lot of lost and unfinished content. GOG’s offering the game for twenty bucks right now, and I’m thinking about it.
This sort of thing warms the cockles of my cold dead heart.
Buy it. I just did. One of the very best of all time. I bought this version because it has the latest patch.
I never played bloodlines – I do vaguely remember playing redemption, and the box is in my pile of boxes, but nothing about it stuck out in my memory except that a couple of my friends who played the PnP version hated it because of many differences.
It was on sale on Steam about a month ago. Thought about getting it, but I’ve got too much unplayed stuff on my account already.