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Grimbeard - Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption (PC) - Review
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
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00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Opening
06:05 - Story
10:48 - Spoilers
21:53 - End of Spoilers
25:36 - Gameplay
33:36 - Sight/Sound
38:15 - Bitter Recompense
42:05 - Conclusion
45:26 - Credits
Ah, a video at 3am. Goth gamer season.
Great for keeping the demons at bay for just a while longer...
Its Halloween!
@James Sunderland just... a little... longer...
In The World of Darkness universe Grimbeard has more subs than pewdiepie
pew who?
“Nihilistic software” ahhhhhh the 90’s/00’s, what a magical time.
I'm so happy that your situation has improved to the point that you're doing weird ass phone bits again, those always bring me joy. here's to many many more of those to come:)
"To thy Abyss with thee!"
"I thank thee, noble lunatic"
STAND AND DELIVER
TO THE VOID WITH YOU ruclips.net/video/huJ2K77-NS8/видео.html
ARE THOU DEAF, WOMAN?!
NAAAAAAY! AWH, NAaAaAaAaAaY!
I gotta be honest I love how wierd the little skits and digressions are. I can’t get that anywhere else.
You’ve got style man. This was a nice treat to wake up to in the middle of the night.
This was one of my favourite games back in the day, but my god was it flawed. Always interesting to hear other people's perspectives on it. Nice job.
Agreed. Love your videos too bruh
I think loving a flawed game makes sense, if there are redeemable aspects to it. I adore Arcanum, I played Halo Reach for years, and this game seems the kind of flawed gem with dedication behind it which one could come to enjoy and even recall fondly in spite of it's major issues. At times it's good to like crippled things.
@@kinghoodofmousekind2906 modern halo makes Reach seem like a masterpiece
@@Exigentable I still think overall Reach was a good experience ,which I enjoyed way more than Halo 3 (the game felt "rushed" to me, where as Reach's pace and ending felt better). I have gotten too old to really get involved with videogames, but I don't want Halo to die in dishonour: may Halo Infinite be a good last chapter...but, alas, I fear they will milk those rings harder than a cow. Still, the crock of the issue: we all enjoy flawed art and stuff, heck we ourselves are flawed to so many levels!, but while being critical we should not be too "cold" to things which seem to have been crafted with at least some passion and care in some regards (even if I came to understand this game failed the original pen'n'paper original and its world).
@@kinghoodofmousekind2906 for me the single player campaign of reach felt a lot better than halo 3 campaign. And the ending is sttill the peak of halo narrative
The way you integrate jokes inside your script it’s so organic, I love it. I laugh all the time.
Thank you for the great content you provide us.
"I wanted to talk to you about a fabulous business opportunity with herbalife."
Scariest thing I've heard all Halloween
Dude, love your content.
The music, the editing, the chuckles, all stellar. You deserve more subs and we'll be here to see you rise. Keep up the awesome stuff, hope you're doing well.
Ah yeah.
Ross
Mandalore
Grimdaddy
Keep that halloween train coming.
You forgot Civvie 11
@@johndiaz8905 Oh yeah.
Get out of my head
I found my people
And What about Sseth? No Halloween vid? (yea we did get the Caves of Qud recentky but still)
Those goddamned Gangrel.
Pls play stranglehold with Bruce
Sark is a secret goth girl
Hmm.... well, one of the things that happens in Vampire is the loss of Humanity, and the rise of The Beast. You could say his desperate desire to hold on to his love is his attempt to retain his humanity, which as a holy warrior of god you could say he had a tenuous hold on to begin with.
Christopher following Catherine's orders pretty much without question is actually explained by in-world idea of bloodbond; any vampire who drinks the blood of another vampire becomes more and more subservient to them. First level (strong feeling, be is disgust or adoration) on the sire gained automatically on the Embrace. Catherine, clever old Bruja she is, immediately bonds Christopher the second time on his awakening, meaning he cannot really deny her orders.
i was excited to see this in my notifications. i've been subbed since your vtmb review popped up in my recommended and i've been loving your content
Omg omg omg, are the intercut skits back. You beautiful beautiful beast. I love those so much. So disturbing and random. Truly funny stuff indeed.
I stopped watching your videos for a bit just because I got busy with real life shenanigans, but coming back to your videos after awhile is like getting cozied up in your favorite blanket.
Seriously, great stuff GB. Your videos are fantastic as always.
Today has been absolutely packed with top tier vids
got any recs?
@@slimeprivilege Mandalore, Fredrik Knudsen, Ross' Game Dungeon
@@Nollis Hold on brother you forgot Gman and Civvie 11
@@noelienoelie8425 Yeah, those too! how could I forget
In all honesty, I'm at a really bad place rn, both mentally and in life, and 'what's up, goth gamer nation' is the only thing that keeps me going.and I'm not even a goth.i love you,man.
Hey. Hope your doing well👍
Hope ur doin better these days.
Are you better now? Hope your doing well. Hope ur doin better these days.
I watch this masterpiece of an intro more times than I should.
"The cute one with the glove" is exactly how I describe Mitsoda to people, heh. He did an interview with Noclip a while back where he was basically a walking cosplay of Dante from Devil May Cry, and it was _guhlorious_.
I saw this pop up in my feed and was thinking “Geez, Grim is up late”.... and then realized I can’t really say anything since I’m also watching the video at 3 AM
This game was my first introduction to the talented voice acting talent of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who voiced Ecaterina the Wise.
I remember playing this back when I was around 12 or 13. I was so fascinated and blown away by the game, lore, and voice acting, but especially the brief venture into the Jewish Quarter to stop the golem, that for my Bar Mitzvah party I had all of the tables representing the various vampire clans each with their own symbol. My mom even hand-painted each one and on both sides of the card-stock. It was really fun telling invitee's to "sit at the Tzimisce table". I've never played the table-top, but I remain a fan on the entire VtM lore to this day.
With that said, I was never any good at this game and the combat was really unforgiving. I was always out of money, blood, and getting absolutely wrecked by enemies after the Nosferatu tunnels. There wasn't much explanation of the different stats or disciplines at the time. I would almost always play with cheats until GameFaqs came along with magic exploits and that a high charisma one could sell at a higher price which made the games slightly more playable. I also never understood how to identify weapons or items back then so I'd drink a vitae never understanding why it was hurting me or a weapon was causing me to Frenzy until I finally learned to identify and that it was diseased.
Strangely, my favorite part was as a human. I always liked doing cheats and accessing all of the human armor, weapons, and magic that is normally inaccessible that early in the game. Or spawning in a pistol and selling it to a medieval blacksmith for 37 gold! But really, as a human it was fun being slowly introduced to the VtM world from an outsiders perspective. I felt like I connected with Christof greatly during those early portions as I was just as much clueless as Christof was. I kind of wish the human segment was slightly longer so those components were more implemented other than the defunct multiplayer.
I am very excited for the fan-remake!
I was stunned when I heard her voice in Redemption, Bloodlines is my favorite game and I didnt expect it to have voice actors from it
Best Masquerade game for sure. If you play it on this date install Age of Darkness Mod and Neural Redemption mode/Hh textures.
Good to hear things are looking up for Grim! Been looking forward to this review. Keep being amazing
You knocked it out of the fucking park man, top tier material.
The jank in the background, the skits, the jokes, it's quality.
Perfect birthday present, wouldn't have the world go to shit any other way.
"Nay... nay... NAAAYY!"
Love that embrace
Damn I remembered there's a part in the Cathedral of Flesh where you can find vicissitude'd Anezka. Fucking horrifying ngl. Fuck it, I still love this game.
Homie it’s too late I’m not ready for this
The relief I feel knowing you have a place to live now.
Abdul Al-Hazim sounds oddly familiar.
Isn't that the guy who wrote the Necronomicon?
still waiting for grimbeard to do a bloodrayne 2 review 😭😭😭
Your writing for video essays and sarcastic film comedy is right up my alley. Consider me a new subscriber.
Now you taught me a primus fact I wasn't aware of. Thanks for that your videos are the best. Love to run into you in a spooky club
I have discovered your channel only two days ago and I really enjoy the longer, in-depth reviews format you've adopted in your more recent videos.
I remember playing this game back in the early 2010s and while the story wasn't much to write home about, the gameplay always stood out to me despite its glaring flaws of trying to emulate Diablo but with a party of characters. It felt refreshing to discover an old game that offered so much freedom while playing as a vampire, whereas so many more modern games use such characters to impose heavy, often unfunny, restrictions on the player's enjoyment or to coax you into specific traversal mini-games that make you feel pathetically underpowered. It was very easy to take advantage of some exploits involving blood enhancing accessories, as well as accumulating all sorts of Disciplines, which the game treats as basic RPG spells in complete contrast with the setting's clan specific abilities, utterly obliterating any sense of challenge.
It's certainly unbalanced and tedious at times, and the modern portion of the setting was pretty underwhelming in comparison to Medieval Prague, yet it managed to leave me both satisfied and craving more such different experiences at the same time.
Somehow you always seem to upload right when i'm wondering when there's going to be another excellent Grimbeard video. Great work as always, you erudite chubby little prince of knowledge, you.
This the second game I even played online back in 2000 (Delta Force 2 the first) ....Gosh, so many hours sitting in Vienna Orsi room, just pretty much a glorified chat room, and duels and getting characters perma-staked O.o. Met my wife of 19 years in that game :-)
I was screaming when you played that song from Queen of the Damned, I was struck with such a wave of nostalgia. Also "Big Windy Apple" was so funny! I also think they were really expecting the multiplayer/DM function to carry the product.
"I'm damned for eternity!" "Have you tried this amulet?"
I recently found your channel by chance. This is top tier, thanks for making this content!
I found your channel a little over a month ago. Been binging all of your videos since. I already had a feeling you had a wide taste of music. I had to rewind the part about the the soundtrack being recorded by a power violence band by the size of the record. PV is one of my favorite genres so hearing that made my day. I also now want a Spooky game with a world setting like this one and have ambient black metal or depressive black metal playing. Can also add some funeral doom and blackened thrash for combat. basically Vampire: The Hessian Masquerade.
Having only recently become a VM: Bloodlines fan, I am pretty sad that the long awaited sequel already seems poisoned at this point.
Yeah, not optimistic here either. Welp.
My lord it don't look good now either
What's wrong with it?
Same boat. Finally got to playing VtM:B this week and it quickly became one of my favorites but now I'm left with a lot of worry for the sequel.
@@cal5750 Sadly, this is everything nowadays. Makes me wish my favorite IPs like witcher just die off and people forget so they don't butcher every game with political, and cash grab crap. I think the VtM sequel - if it ever comes out - will be just that.
I've played this game before Bloodlines was a thing, and at that time I was still discovering my teenage gothic personality. Needless to say, this game fitted like a glove in my life, besides its flaws.
Even today, with my boring adult life, I get back to Redemption from time to time as if it was my birth place.
Got to love any series that has more bloodsuckers than Harvard Law School.
Vukodlak means Werewolf in Serbian
But he's not a werewolf.
In Slavic, not just Serbian.
Why would... Maybe they meant to name him Vurdalak? It literally means Vampire.
@@Maggerama Yeah probably
First ever video where i skipped the spoiler section. I remember playing this game for a bit back when i was barely able to read, let alone speak english. Finally found it, thanks to you!
the fact that you made what might be the only joke about the length of powerviolence records ive ever heard on youtube is exactly why i love your content so much
So glad to see you have a table again
Until this day I remember this game and in my head there's this phrase "to the abyss with thee!"
I’ve been binging this channel over the last two weeks, so glad we got more
"Jude, the patron saint of lost causes" really tickled me pink for some reason :'D
Dude, how do you not have a million subs by now?
Thank you for the awesome content, and I do hope this channel gets the love it deserves.
Also, stay alive, and if you ever find yourself in Montenegro (which I don't know why anyone would want to do), beer is on me.
Cheers!
Take my like for the video and my respect for the nail polish. Fabulous.
nail-polish :) ...i don't understand why a game with a big part of plot occurring in Prague would use Polish spelling.
Wakes up in the middle of the night. First random thought: "to the abyss with thee!"
I just wanted to apologize for binging your videos for the past week and consistently forgetting to hit the like button 😅
One of the greatest triumphs of the Masquerade was, after finding out that their clan name was coincidentally a Spanish word, manipulating humanity into mispronouncing brujah.
EDIT: There are two types of playthroughs that I do of this game. The first is where I give everyone in my party a ranged weapon & use a cheat command for infinite ammo to keep them out of my way, and the second is where I do the same thing, but got the good RNG with the first vendor having blessed plate mail.
EDIT EDIT: Oh, sweet! The Steam version is marked down to $2.99 for the Halloween sale!
Hell yeah, thank you so much. Been waiting for you to do this one. \m/
I stopped editing my review of American Mcgee's Alice in order to watch this. Hope I can get it done by tomorrow 😬😬😬
Im so glad I awoke in the middle of a night mare so I could watch this!
“Keep on.. gaming” made me giggle
That comment about Blizzard at the end of the Star Craft Ghost bit won you my sub and like.
Haha, this random German Game Journalist you show at 33:08 runs my favorite Gaming Podcast :D :D lots of love for this random inclusion :D
Oh I've been waiting for someone to make a decent review of this game
there was some magic katana in the dark ages which would leech blood from victims on hit and had a crazy hich decapitation chance. if you had it on you when you got burried, you took it iwth you to 1999. changed the game a lot and made combat mostly trivial, also gave access to pretty much any ability without efford.
Is there a reason you *wouldnt* bring that sword with you? Lol
Besides obviously missing it of course
those club dancer moves though..... lmao
This was a game that got me into VtM/Storyteller as a RPG system. I still have Ardan Chantry music on my playlist.
Know this came out 8 months after Ultima 9: Ascension and it's so much better in every way. Keep up the great vids.
I remember this game. Poor Serena.
always a joy to see one of your videos pop up in notifications man, great stuff and I hope you had a great halloween.
Ah, yes, an excellent nighttime surprise, thank you, Lord Grim Beard. May you and all of the Goth Gamer Nation(tm) have an eerie and resplendent Halloween!
I’ll never forget the first video I watched from you, condemned criminal origins - thank u goth gamer
This came out right before I had to go to bed for work tomorrow, fuckin still watching ♥️
I was a lil kid when I played this. I was so not expecting it, almost lost my grip on reality when the modern day chapter of the game started.
Thanks for the review, I played demo on my first PC, didn't run well. Played years later and it dragged for too long.
Most folks remember VTM for Bloodlines, not so much for Redemption.
Well, at least it's better than Bloodlines2...
Bloodlines2 got out?!?
@@1r0zz no but they fired people who could make it a decent game
@@SpecShadow
Why? Probably it's some accusation of "phobias"...
This game was ahead of its time, and still beats a lot of current AAA games.
God I can’t believe how much i love ya dude, goth gamer temptation
I really loved this game! Still play it from time to time. It has a lot of things going for it.
This game in my times was one of it`s kind. there was no competition. story was breathtaking in its times games deserves 10/10. Story was so solid it ever defends itself in modern times. I will defineltly play it again sometime in future
of course 100/100
the sight of the ami foil sticker on that goth gamer rig puts me at ease yet again.
Irony of a great vampire being called Vukodlak, a Slavic word for werewolf XD
Thanks man, you completely ruined my childhood nostalgia for this game, remembering me that it was total mess to play. You made me stronger. Love ❤
The soundtrack of this game was surprisingly good, I still listen to it.
Relatively new to the channel, currently binging all of your reviews, absolutely love your videos! A game came to my mind that would be right up your alley: Bureau 13, a bizarre little point & click adventure.
hey mate, i dont give half a fuck about vampires or the whole goth scene but you honestly kept me entertained for 57 minutes....your humour in on point and your brain makes good words....dont stop
7:50 in salts video when he kept calling beckett a werewolf just made me lose my mind
This was one of the few games covered by Grim, that I actually hadn't played before and wanted to before watching. I love the World of Darkness and "Bloodlines" so didn't want to spoil myself.
Well, today I've beaten "Redemption" and boy do I have mixed feelings about it. I personally wouldn't be so critical of it as Grim, in some part because I liked Cristoff's over the top demeanor, in some because I didn't encounter as many technical issues.
At the same time all the things I really like about "Redemption" are connected to the lore, which is funny considering the game wasted so much of both WoD's and it's own premise's potential. You have so many interesting characteres, clans and places (I even really liked the party members - they could do so much more with them) and then they use them to slog through corridors upon corridors of numbered dungeons with boring enemies to fight.
I absolutely agree that there's too much combat and it's the game's weakest link. And imo it didn't even need to change all that much to become enjoyable - just make smaller levels, give players something to do in-between and adjust AI of companions to be more intelligent and less wasteful. Like "Redemption" has a really quite good magic system (much better that "Bloodlines" did) but so what if interesting level design pretty much ends before you come back to Prague.
What an incredibly uneven experience. Anyway, it's good to watch another one of Grim's videos ;)
The highs in Bloodlines are higher but the lows are also much much lower. I never had a big issue with anything in the game, thought it looked pretty great for the most part, and actually enjoyed their Shakespeare in the park ass dialogue.
Gosh, this game is so freaking awesome! the campaign was just mind-blowing at the time and still sort of holds up today. although the multiplayer was crap. Be interesting to see it faithfully remastered.
Funny. I have a community GoG account that I share with members of a small forum I used to be part of.
Haven't accessed it in a while, so I went to see what was added to it last night. I'm a big fan of Bloodlines, so I when I saw this in the library I gave it a download. Been really enjoying it.
BUT IT'S NO DEUS EX!
Funnily enough this was the first game I've ever played, back when I was like 5 years old. Bad parenting, don't ask. Eventually we got rid of that computer and the disc was nowhere to be found, but I really wanted to find it and experience it again, at a more mature age of like 19 and I eventually succeeded and honestly, it might be nostalgia speaking, but I actually really liked it and went back to it a few times since then
*chef's kiss*
Spoopy
This channel is too fucking underrated, my sacrifices in churches are not working, I will go straight to Vatican city and perform some other ritual.
I for one liked the main plot. It's so cute and naive. I actually haven't seen many plots like this and it felt somewhat refreshing despite its banality.
I love when spazz did the OST for VTMB 2
Oh boy!
THE RETURN OF THE PHONE!!
BLESSED IS THIS DAY....HALLOWEEN BE PRAISED!!
I adored this game back in the day and spent a lot of time just reading the lore in the manual.
For it's time it was one of the most enjoyable RPG's. I loved it... played through it several times. Got it on GOG... ready for another run in the near future. The second game was equally great.. improved in many ways but not as grandiose as this one. Both has their pros & cons
I once tried this game, and couldn't get past one of the first boss, since he always killed me no matter what. I guess I didn't miss that much really. Great Video anyways! Happy to see you have somewhere to live again.
Man i love your videos, im new here. I wanted to ask a list of the game that you show in your intro, a lot look interesting. Keep the good work
I grew up loving this game but I have not touched it in like 15 years, this video has been a weird nostalgia trip.