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Thinking about doing a run on Vampire - The Masquerade Bloodlines. If enough people are interested I'll try doing one, but technically speaking there are a few things which might make it not worth it.
First off, theres a lot of loading screens. Basically anytime you go into or leave a building theres a load. Most of the time this is so you can talk to somebody to get a quest started or moved along. The places where the actual quests are involve one load or more spread out loads, which helps a bit.
Secondly, theres a lot of talking to people. A lot of planning the run will involve figuring out the best way to talk to people so you can exit the dialog quickly while still moving a quest along.
Thirdly, there are unskipable ingame cutscenes. You can skip the intro cutscene, but right now I dont know of a way to skip other cutscenes.
Lastly, encoding the run and all that stuff is a pain. I've been trying to read stuff about how to use avisnth, etc. and it makes my head hurt. I'm using fraps for the capture and the best I can do for compression at the moment is use virtualdub, but I keep running into problems with the audio compression not being of the quality that SDA accepts. So, if somebody would help me with that I will try and make all my own files. If nobody will help but there is still enough interest I'll just compress how I want and post rapidshare or megaupload links here.
I've already run through and recorded the first 2 quests and uploaded them as quick examples of how the game plays out. I would probably redo them if, as i keep saying, there is enough interest.
Aside from the issues I've already said, there is also an issue with the clans playing differently, but that can be talked about and figured out later if there should be categories for each clan or not.
Update: Tremere run posted on SDA now with a final time of 56:33.
-kn1ves
First off, theres a lot of loading screens. Basically anytime you go into or leave a building theres a load. Most of the time this is so you can talk to somebody to get a quest started or moved along. The places where the actual quests are involve one load or more spread out loads, which helps a bit.
Secondly, theres a lot of talking to people. A lot of planning the run will involve figuring out the best way to talk to people so you can exit the dialog quickly while still moving a quest along.
Thirdly, there are unskipable ingame cutscenes. You can skip the intro cutscene, but right now I dont know of a way to skip other cutscenes.
Lastly, encoding the run and all that stuff is a pain. I've been trying to read stuff about how to use avisnth, etc. and it makes my head hurt. I'm using fraps for the capture and the best I can do for compression at the moment is use virtualdub, but I keep running into problems with the audio compression not being of the quality that SDA accepts. So, if somebody would help me with that I will try and make all my own files. If nobody will help but there is still enough interest I'll just compress how I want and post rapidshare or megaupload links here.
I've already run through and recorded the first 2 quests and uploaded them as quick examples of how the game plays out. I would probably redo them if, as i keep saying, there is enough interest.
Aside from the issues I've already said, there is also an issue with the clans playing differently, but that can be talked about and figured out later if there should be categories for each clan or not.
Update: Tremere run posted on SDA now with a final time of 56:33.
-kn1ves
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