The game itself is being renewed and improved and that's really really great, but how about an optional expansion pack to refresh the game and to add more gameplay? I am not talking about anything too big like "lets visit another city", but rather few more quests, few more named characters and maybe one or two new locations.. And everything should be fitting to the lore and the original game.
I will throw away one example idea:
When you visit the Santa Monica parking lot for the first time, a cutscene plays, a biker chick enters the scene, she rides a motorcycle from the 70's, she wears a leather jacket and shirt that shows her belly, really really tall boots and a pair of really old biker goggles. Imagine her a bit like this:
She parks her bike and leaves for the beach and you wont see her again for a while. After finishing Santa Monica quests and returning to Santa Monica after a while, you can find her cursing in the parking lot where she originally parked her bike, but the bike is missing, it is stolen. At this point you can talk to her and learn that she is a vampire from the middle ages and she is from brujah clan. You can tell her that you wish to help her and she will ask you to find a friend of her in Chinatown who might have some info then to find her again in the Nocturne theatre, her friend is a gangrel and was a WWII spy before he turned. If you talk to him he will tell his name (Rick) and how he was a hunter before he started spying for the government. He will give you some information and then you will return to the biker chick, she will then join you as a companion. If you pass a speech check, she will tell you her name (Alena) and tell you a bit about her past and her brother, before she was turned, she traveled with her knight brother against her fathers wishes. Her father wanted her to never leave the house and marry a suitor of his choosing. One day while traveling, some villagers approached her brother and asked for his help, a mad man named Horeta was killing people in a nearby village for no reason and no one was able to stop him. Her brother left her in some inn and told her to stay there until he returned. She really wanted to go with her but after seeing how worried he was about her she accepted to stay. Days passed and her brother didn't return. She later learned that the village her brother went to was wiped out. She left the inn and searched for her brother for days, after all that searching she found the mad man instead of her brother and asked if he killed her brother or not, mad man told her that he didn't kill her brother but turned him, but he became more insane than any of his subjects because he hated the foul creature that he had became. She tried to kill him but he was too fast and too strong, he wounded her and left her to die alone under the sun. Just when she was about to give her last breath, some vampires from brujah clan happen to be passing by, she told them about the mad man and they turned her and told her about the vampires, how her brother turned into a malkavian and about his sanity. She spent the fallowing years searching for her brother. Always one step behind him."
After fallowing the lead given by Rick, you will find a vampire chick named Dasy, she is from 1940's, she is a malkavian and a fallower of Horeta. At this point, you can either fight her (and she is a tough nut to crack) or you can convince her with a speech check to tell you about whats going on. (if you convince her, she will become attached to you and become your companion, she will fallow you only on this quest, but you can ask her to stay at your haven. (much like Heather) She will do pretty much anything you want, but make sure not to piss her off, she may leave the haven and attack you when you least expect it.) She will tell you that she has stolen Alena's bike herself for her master Horeta, her plan was to make sure that she wouldn't leave before the trap is set. Alena's brother is in Downtown with his master Horeta. (Let this place be the car repair place from the tutorial map) But the place is surrounded by Horeta's followers. If you go to the location she has given you, you will find Alena's brother who does not seem to recognize his sister. With the help of Alena (and if you have learned everything you can learn from Alena), you can talk him down and make him remember who he was and his sister. This will restore a small part of his sanity and he will become a companion. He is still quite insane, but at least now he will help you kill Horeta. Horeta is strong but not unbeatable. You kill him and get a pair of Colt 1911 which should be the only pistol you can dual wield.
It is a very rough idea, since i don't have much time to improve upon it, but what do you guys think? Wouldn't something like this with a little history and lore added freshen out the game?
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