Acadian: Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines is a game from around 2003. It is based on the pen and paper Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game. It is a really good game. It has a lot of bugs and other flaws. But it does what a great RPG should, in that it gives you multiple different ways to play the game, and meet your goals. So it has a lot of replayability.



Lyceia is a female canine...

Lyceia is about to make some California pizza, heavy on the sauce...

Time to hit the nail salon

We are twins!

I'm glad you're enjoying your time as a vampire - complete with a 'shirt with an attitude'.

So, three redheads walk into a parking garage. . . .

Good riddance to those gangbangers.

That is a very neat looking aura Jan is sporting in Powered Up.

Werewolf vs Vampire!

Acadian: You can fight the gangsters, but that can actually get you in trouble with the police. I learned that my first time playing. Instead you have to just sit back and watch them kill one another. It is weird.




Greeking out

A view from up high (atop a statue of Zeus)

Let's go boating!

There are giants beneath the waves

Uh oh, found the edge of the Truman Show

I saw in the other thread that this was Assassin's Creed. Somehow I thought that game was one where they handed you your character and it was not a she. Clearly I am wrong and it looks great!

Acadian: Most of the Assassin's Creed games do not give you the option of playing a female character. They only started giving you the choice recently. Odyssey lets you chose a male or female character. And I think the newest one Valhalla does as well.



The ruins of Odysseous' palace are decorated with RL Bronze Age Cretan art

I love the towns

The attention to detail is fabulous

The historical accuracy is incredible

Bigger boats

You start the game with Ikaros - an eagle

Ikaros can go in first and scout out locations

He can mark all the bad guys for you, so you have them on your hud at all times

The wilderness areas are very bucolic

Even the pig farm looks incredible

That is encouraging about more choice in who your character is. More great shots and (from the other thread), I'm glad to hear that the difficulty has eased up to tolerable.

Goodness, yes I agree this game looks fantastic. It looks like the kind of place some of us would like to go on vacation.

Acadian: There is not too much choice in your character. Just male or female. But at least you can play the entire game as a female. I checked, and this is the first main Assassin's Creed game that allows that. In a few previous games they allowed you to play a female side character for a few missions, but all the main stuff was reserved for the primary male character. Assassin's Creed Valhalla (their newest game) also allows you to play a female all the way through.


Renee: I love the turquoise water and sandy beaches. It really does look like an idyllic Greek vacation getaway spot. It is fun just walking around looking at things. In that respect it brings me back to playing Oblivion.



You start the game with a horse. You can pick from three, and there are addons to change their appearance. This is the Makedonian

I think these NPCs with the gold shields and crowns are bosses

I love these little boats

At the end of the starting island you get a big ship

Kassandra

I got to watch a sea battle up close

A bowgirl with a horse! Woot! Even though you only get to choose gender, that close up shows that your character really does look good.

What is going on in the first picture? Seems like she's about to fly off a cliff?

I really love her STANCE. Even as she's watching that boat way in the distance she's got this way of standing. Ready for battle, or something.

Temple of Apollo = Yes, that is what Elder Scrolls 6 will look like too. :drool:

Cripes, even the horse looks amazing!

*Renee G goes back to DX11 territory with her eyes watering...*

Renee's comments are spot on.

Your game looks fabulous.

On that first picture, where is the other moon? Oh. . . nvm.

Is that Masser? Or Secunda? Oops wrong game.

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Renee: That first pic was just a bench that I found floating in mid air. I was curious, so I jumped on it just to see if I could.

I would not get your hopes up too high about what Elder Scrolls 6 will look like. Bethesda has never been on the cutting edge of technology.


Acadian: No moons, just beams.




An Athenian trireme firing upon a pirate ship

Acropolis

Find the assassin

The deep blue

Manta

Butt Kraken

That's a beautiful Athenian ship; I imagine the pirate ship did not last long.

Must be wonderful having an eagle you can send up for aerial reconnaissance.

Nice underwater and city shots.

Dang, what a scary minotaur. I hope I never see that guy in my nightmares.

Yikes, she's got a flaming sword!

... The Aegean sea is pretty. Long ago when I first played Tomb Raider I loved those games not just because they are games, but also because I know I'll probably never go to Peru. Or Egypt. Or Cambodia, and so on. Going into the game was like going on a little vacation. So looking at some of these AC pics gives me that same sensation.

Great pics! And Renee is right, that is a well done minotaur.

Gosh it's hard to imagine the fact that ramming was, at one time, an effective nautical tactic and ship bows were actually made to do it. "Aye, bring her up to ramming speed, lads!"