You don’t understand, I’m scouring the internet for obscure archives of videos on how to manually uninstall Windows 11 components with the command line because Linux is just too hard to learn!

Man, all of these games we’re talking about relate in some way to the OG Black Isle team. I think their development is just cursed.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Unofficial Patch by Wesp5.

That game was already broken at launch, and has become more broken as operating systems advance. Furthermore, Activision shuttered Troika almost immediately after VTMB was released, so there has really never been any official support. But, Wesp5 has been working on the Unofficial Patch since shortly after the game came out in 2004.

It fixes the game to a completely playable state, which is a miracle for VTMB. He basically just finished the game for them.

Furthermore, there was some controversy over some of the changes that the patch started implementing, so he split the patch into two versions. You can download the True Patch, which fixes the game to a playable version of its release state, but Wesp5 also offers the Plus Patch, which restores all content cut from the game before release. He reimplemented character backgrounds, real-world weapon names, multiplayer, quests, locations, music, and the list goes on.

It’s arguable if the Plus Patch actually represents the original vision of the creators, since we don’t know why all of the content was cut. A good bit was cut for time, but there were some things that were dropped earlier in development. Either way, the Plus Patch went feature-complete last year, so what we have now is a fully working version of the game containing absolutely everything that was ever planned during its development.

I don’t know if anything like that has happened before, and the only other thing like this that I can think of is the Saints Row 2 patch that IdolNinja was making before he died.

Mods that add stuff are great, but it’s hard to beat a mod that lets you play one of the greats.