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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I recently had a hankering to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Because the game is so old and buggy, and because I'm running Linux, it took a lot of patching and tweaks to get running. Probably took around 4 hours, because you can't tell which random fix someone posted a decade ago will work until you try it. It was a very authentic experience of gaming in the early 2000s, and the struggle made playing the game all the more fun.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You needed more fixes than the Unofficial Patch?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If I was on windows I'm sure the unofficial patch would've done it all, but in linux I had to use a couple of virtualisation tools I'd never heard of (whereas every game I've tried from this decade runs out of the box with Proton). The most hair-pulling step was that I had to run the game via a symlink because if the full path to the executable was too long it'd crash to desktop before I even got to hear the menu music. God bless the protondb commenter that figured that out.

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