Fallout 4 is what comes to mind for me. I hate the dialogue system with a passion. I want to know what my character is going to say. I don’t want vague LA Noire-style prompts that are immediately going to go off the rails.
Fallout 4 is what comes to mind for me. I hate the dialogue system with a passion. I want to know what my character is going to say. I don’t want vague LA Noire-style prompts that are immediately going to go off the rails.
There are some other mods, but those are probably best saved for a third or so playthrough. I’m talking of stuff like Clan Quest that adds a lot of fan made content and alternate story branches. There is also stuff like some visual mods or reshades or ENBs if you like that kind of stuff - it’s not really necessary though.
I recommend buying the game on GOG as it comes with the basic version of the UP bundled and ready to play. The most important thing to know about the Unofficial Patch is that there are two versions: “Basic” and “Plus”. The basic patch comes bundled with the GOG version of the game and includes only the fixes that makes the game playable, stable and bug free (mostly).
The “plus” patch (also available on GOG as a one-click install!) is Wesp5’s attempt at restoring as much cut content as possible to the game. It makes really significant changes to certain parts, adds restored abilities, changes some existing ones, moves around some item placements, restores some cut ways to solve certain quests and more. It’s an incredible amount of work, and Wesp5 was in contact with some original Devs over email afaik to consult for some parts, and also with the original composer Rik Schaffer to include some cut OST tracks into the plus patch.
HOWEVER: at the end of the day this still makes the plus patch Bloodlines: Wesp5 Remix. Purists argue that there is too much Wesp5 in the plus patch, that some of the cut parts were cut for a reason, and that the restored quest in the library is not up to the same quality of the rest of the game as it was written mostly by Wesp5 based on cut content and not by Brian Mitsoda.
Ultimately I tend to say the “optimal” way to play Bloodlines is to do two playthroughs: first one playing a clan that isn’t Malkavian and isn’t Nosferatu, and then a second playthrough using the Plus Patch and playing as Malkavian.
However if you only see yourself playing it once and you want all the content I think using the Plus Patch right away is fine. Some of the restored stuff like character histories, Blood Heal and more (and some restored quest resolutions) are just strict improvements and should be in the basic patch imo.