2.: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Too bad that the Twilight craze has ruined vampires forever. Back in the day before Stephanie Myers horribly sparkling teen idol bloodsuckers had tarnished the image of the vampire forever, there was this game. Based on White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade setting, Bloodlines was a troubled release, and a long term success story the likes of which are possible only on PC.
Shortly after the game was released, developer Troika had to shut down due to irredeemable financial difficulties. But even in its released state the game was riddled with crippling, sometimes game breaking bugs, some due to the fact that the game was built on Valve’s brand new source engine that had not seen any use before this game back in the day – Bloodlines almost would have been released before Half-Life 2, but contractual obligations saw it released a week after. Since then, the fans have been creating fan-patch after fan-patch. These patches recreated and fixed cut features, and made the broken but brilliant game whole on the long run.
