The taxi driver the revelation of his true identity as caine, the father of all vampires. The masquerade inside his universe known as the world of darkness wod, but it is not a sequel to the. He is, in fact, the biblical cain, although the final e is always added when referring to the vampire. The masquerade bloodlines on the pc, a gamefaqs message board topic titled so is the taxi driver a potential diablerist. Its one of the few games that imitate a players typical reckless but awesome ingame planning. Luckily the taxi driver is probably caine or the smartest vampire on earth or somethings o i could talk things. Going from an article written up by rock paper shotgun ill make a list of details on the game. It says a lot about the character that this is the profession hes chosen. And yeah cain definitely went to see whats going on in the world as a taxi driver. Apparently, prince lacroix has issued a blood hunt on you for being in league with the kueijin, and you need to get out of town before the army of vampires descends upon you. When any character uses the auspex trait, the cab driver has a purple aura, which is used for supernatural entities such as vampires. Still, caine s so powerful it wouldnt surprise me if he had some previously unknown ability to possess another vampire remotely.
After you have dealt with the werewolf problem at griffith park, jack picks you up and drives you back to your santa monica haven. The order is, caine slays able, caine cursed by god, caine meets lilith, and caine spurns lilith. In the game, the player creates their own neonate vampire, choosing from the seven camarilla clans in a. The driver is kindred, as his aura is dark purple as seen with auspex.
Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license. In bloodlines 1, it is actually hinted that the taxi driver is the dark father through the final talk esp. The revelation of his true identity as caine, the father of all vampires. The player character on their matrixesque assault through lacroixs forces up until the final confrontation when you kill his sheriff is just one long moment of awesome. Little is known about him, except that he and smiling jack claim to know each other. It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be caine, the first vampire and ancestral sire of all. Cab drivers either caine, or a lowgen malk doing a convincing job of pretending to be. What is the lowest generation kindred we meet in bloodlines. He is the firstborn son of adam and eve, and the older brother of abel. The cab driver is considered by many fans to be caine himself. The masquerade bloodlines is the second roleplaying computer game based on vampire. In the endgame, the very same taxi driver appears and acts as a hub to the various ending options. Trivia it is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be caine, the first vampire and ancestral sire of all kindred.
The taxi license displayed in the back of the cab is at a very low resolution. The masquerade shows up at multiple points to drive the player character around. He was a gatherer and an agriculturist in his lifetime while his younger brother, abel, was a hunter. Change antialiasing setting to 4x 4x multisampling or 8xq 8x multisampling. Game crashes to desktop everytime after final winged boss is killed, so what happens in the end. Wherever we go, it is the blood of caine which makes our fate. I have just tested the enb with wesps unofficial patch 10 and it seemed to work ok. The masquerade bloodlines is a 2004 action roleplaying video game developed by troika games and published by activision for microsoft windows. Thanks for being a great audience, its been one hell of a ride. It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be caine, the first vampire. The masquerade, caine is the father of all vampires. The masquerade bloodlines driver profile via nvidia profile inspector. If youre a malkavian character, theres a good chance that upon realising this your character flips out and is reduced to screams and whimpers of oh god oh god oh god oh god.
The other ending bit is the taxi driver who shows up at the end of jacks little chat, looking really weird, with black lines coursing over him. It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be caine, the first vampire and ancestral sire of all cainites. It is noted as being the first source game to go gold. The masquerade redemption, bloodlines is set in white wolf, inc. The vtmb enb was a little messed up, so i took a look at using another sourceengine enb, the one for hl2. He wanders in a cab, as caine wandered the earth after he was cursed. No positive identification of him is made in the game except by the insane malks. Can happen obnoxiously often with the wandering npcs.
Caine is the legendary father of all kindred, based on the biblical figure. In the endgame, a similarlooking but differently voiced taxi driver appears and acts as a hub to the various ending options. The masquerade bloodlines this is going off of the cab driver is caine and the relationship is kinda background and not necessarily the main focus. Vampire bloodlines the masquerade beckett dialog on count dracula duration. Caine owod setting, nwod dice mechanics crossover wiki. The masquerade and follows a human who is killed and revived as a fledgling vampire. It may be possible that he s caine, although i accept the fact that white wolf would never show caine, since they want him to be a legend for storytellers to exploit in their stories.
Lets play vampire bloodlines, the most amazing, unique and bad ass action role playing game ever made, brought to us by one of the most. Set in 21st century seattle turned then thrown out after a firebomb kills the trial. He mentions caines name at the end of the game, reminding smiling jack that it is the blood of caine which makes our fate. Malkav was speaking to the cab driver through you, until the cab driver banished him back. If you want to take the charity money and then equip your knife. It was developed by troika games using the source engine, and is played from either the first or thirdperson perspective. Caine he says im the one of takes vampires to thier destination and at the end he states something to the effect of all vampires are controlled by the blood of caine.
Personally, i think the bloodlines story is a lot more interesting if it really is caine in that cab. Ps needless to say, the skyline aparments is a serious, huge mess, like always and since forever. Change antialiasing mode to override any application setting. The southland slasher a vicious serial killer who is running rampant throughout the surrounding area. If you dont slash the paintings in order theyll drain your blood. Vampire the masquerade bloodlines general gaming loverslab. I certainly hope for something like that in the new game. Apr 19, 2011 vampire the masquerade bloodlines taxi ride pertuvius.
The taxi driver spoke ominously, his body bathed in a dark energy, black whisps emerging from his skin, beams of black and purple light extruding from his figure, his very presence. It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be caine, the first vampire and ancestral. The taxi driver is clearly alluded to as caine, and shows as a vampire under auspex, but it is more likely this is jacks malkavian friend from the source books who pretends to be caine. Also, a similar mess with camels spawning around caine taxi driver, in museum entrance novelty map, happened. The masquerade bloodlines 2, bloodlines, redemption, and other related curios from the world of darkness.
The final game of troika games, composed of the black isle exiles responsible for fallout and arcanum. The closest thing it has to a spiritual successor itself is alpha protocol. Until the formation of the camarilla, most vampires refer to themselves as cainites. An fpsrpg hybrid, many consider it the best successor to deus ex. Interest in seeing a lowgeneration vampire in bloodlines 2. Set in white wolf publishings world of darkness, the game is based on white wolfs roleplaying game vampire. I believe he is refered to as smiling jack at one point. He was cursed with vampirism by god as punishment for murdering abel. Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the vampire. It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be an incarnation of caine, the first vampire due to the naming of the folder containing the taxi driver s voice files in the game folderbeing named caine. The sound files containing the cab drivers dialogue audio are all named with the prefix caine. Vampire the masquerade bloodlines taxi ride youtube.
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