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Vampire: Bloodlines Q&A

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2004-05-19 00:00:00.0


The RPG Dot has slapped up a short E3 preview and an interview with Troika Games' Leonard Boyarsky regarding their upcoming RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Topics range from the development status to multiplayer vs singleplayer. Here's a blurb:

RPGDot: Many people feel the first computer title, Vampire the Masquarade: Redemption focused too much on multiplayer game play and not enough on the single player content. Did the first game affect how much time you spent on the multiplayer aspect?
Leonard: Although we didn’t work at all on the first [Vampire: The Masquerade computer title], we tried to do something similar with Arcanum. I think a lot of RPG makers have come to the conclusion that you have to focus on the content of the single player RPG. In this case, our multiplayer, [vampire vs. hunters], is much more action orientated. We asked ourselves, did we really want to make a multiplayer aspect? Did we want to make a hard core RPG multiplayer? We looked at the engine and decided we could do an action multiplayer and that it would be fun. [Because the engine is a FPS engine], we could put out a multiplayer game [with minimum effort], yet focus on the single player RPG with branching dialogue, which is what we do best anyways.


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