History Trivia / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines

* DevelopmentHell: You know why this is the only non-Valve game to have the Source engine? Let's just say Troika's difficulty with Valve is the main reason why.

** Bertram Tung has an obnoxious Ghoul whose name is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_EVtdF4xeQ Knox Harrington]].

* ShoutOut: During your exploration of the sewers, you can find a newspaper and a logbook discussing three missing sanitation workers, implied to have run afoul of the Nosferatu. [[Film/TheRunningMan Their names are]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiNYtkwuyw&ab_channel=RobertTribs Whitman, Price and Haddad]].

* ShoutOut: During your exploration of the sewers, you can find a newspaper and a logbook discussing three missing sanitation workers, implied to have run afoul of the Nosferatu. [[Film/TheRunningMan]]Their names are]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiNYtkwuyw&ab_channel=RobertTribs Whitman, Price and Haddad]].

** Creator/DeeBradleyBaker is Bertram Tung.

** Creator/RobinAtkinDownes is Brother Kanker.

** Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor is Slayer Vandal, the serial killer, and the Hengeyokai.

** Creator/GreyDeLisle plays Jeanette and Therese Voerman

** JohnDiMaggio is Smiling Jack.

** Jim Ward ([[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Jack Krauser]]) is Regent, Isaac, and Bach.
** GreyDeLisle is Jeanette and Therese.

** SteveBlum is Andrei.

** RobinAtkinDownes is Brother Kanker.

** KeoneYoung is Mandarin.
** DaranNorris is Chunk.
** MaryElizabethMcGlynn is Pisha.

** FredTatasciore is David Hatter and the Gargoyle.

* AccidentallyAccurate: Meta-example. In the French version of the game, there is a typo in one of Therese Voerman's lines (when you spoke to her after the "Slashterpiece" quest), in which there is written "Therese" where she would be logically speaking of Jeanette. [[spoiler:It could seem to be an unwilling clue toward the reveal that they are the same person, but it is actually really a mistake: the voice actress did say "Jeanette" and not "Therese".]]

** Michael Gough ([[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain]]) is Beckett.

** Courtenay Taylor ([[MassEffect Jack]], [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Juhani]]) is Heather.

** Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor is Slayer Vandal.

** JamesArnoldTaylor is Slayer Vandal.

** DebiMaeWest is Patty, Hannah, and Jezebel.

** DeeBradleyBaker is Bertram Tung.

** CourtenayTaylor, [[{{MassEffect2}} or Jack]], is Heather.

** Nika Futterman ([[StarWarsTheCloneWars Asajj Ventress]]) is V.V.

** Jim Ward ([[ResidentEvil4 Jack Krauser]]) is Regent, Isaac, and Bach.

** Michael Gough ([[{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain]]) is Beckett.

* AKA47: For the record, here is a list of all fictionalized (or not) firearms in the game and their RealLife counterparts. Some of the names were changed to those of their real life counterparts in patches:
** Pistols:
*** Thirty-Eight -- Colt Police Positive
*** Brokk 17C -- Glock 17C
*** Colt Anaconda -- Colt Anaconda
*** [=McLusky=] .50 Caliber -- IMI Desert Eagle
** SMG:
*** Braddock 9mm -- MAC-10
*** Lassiter Killmatic -- Uzi
** Shotguns:
*** Utica M37 -- Ithaca 37
*** Jaegerspas XV -- Franchi SPAS-15
** Rifles:
*** Jaime Sue -- Remington Model 700
*** Steyr Aug -- Steyr AUG
* HeyItsThatVoice: The voice Grey [=DeLisle=] uses for Jeanette and Therese, the one you might have thought was sexy, is the same voice she used for a [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender fourteen year old girl]].
** And holy crap, is that [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] giving you a rundown on the Masquerade?
*** Princess [[Anime/CodeGeass Cornelia]] feasts on human flesh in the AbandonedHospital.
** And believe it or not, but that's SteveBlum lurking under Andrei's accent.
** [[SilentHill Harry Mason]] tries to beat you to death with a severed arm as well as transforms into a wolf while wanting to know how any sane Kindred could possibly see the thin-bloods as a threat.
** [[ResidentEvil4 Osmund Sadler]] is a Snarky schoolar and does not believe in Gehenna at all.
** Holy Crap [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]] is a creepy doctor who sells blood! He even has the exact same voice!
** The [[JusticeLeague Green Lantern]] is one of the primary anarchs you meet.
** [[TheCloneWars Nika Futterman]] as V.V.

* AKA47: For the record, here is a list of all fictionalized (or not) firearms in the game and their RealLife counterparts:

*** Lassiter Killmatic - Uzi

*** McLusky .50 Caliber -- IMI Desert Eagle