1.Jack is a man of his own. He might back the Anarchs, but he has his own agenda. Dude is actually old.

2.The sarcophagus is dangerous (game has a few endings).

3. Uncertain

4. Huge spoiler in case that you did not figure it out: the cabbie is not truly a cabbie. He's the most powerful of them all.

You know, that's why i LOVE this game. Because the lore and story are so deep and you can make your own conclusions.
I for myself have concluded that Beckett warned us, for the reason that Jack had informed him of the contents of the sarcophagus... Goddamn it this game is awesome.

Thanks for the answers!
1. Oh, I thought he was with them given how he was generally speaking in favor of them in last round.
2. I guess I should play again then with different choices. Is it when prince asks you to go to museum and when you say no? (I got escorted out by Sheriff and I reloaded my save)
3. I was actually wondering if the cabbie had something to do with it.
4. Figured out he was someone way more powerful and realized who he was when I went to his wiki.

Remembered something else just now, why wasn't lacroix able to dominate player at the end? (It worked before Grout mansion mission but didn't later on so I was a bit surprised)

It's kind of implied that your lineage might come from Cain. So that might explain why Lacroix could not affect you.

Or, the easiest conclusion you can come with, at this point you are more powerful than Lacroix. :P

Dude easily lived a century or two more than player, it is a bit unlikely player would reach that level of power in a few nights.

Yea, like some others things we killed through the game :P
If you think about it like that - we also shouldn't be able to kill few other enemies - let's say that we have potential due our blood lineage. :P

Didn't had ocasion to try paper version, so dunno about lore or other things - but somehow dominate worked on us earlier (I know - it's easy way to force player to go with questline) and didn't at the end - didn't it get you a feeling that you're powerful? :P I wonder if it really have a deeper meaning you are looking for.

Well, it's the classic "I've been a farm hand all my (short) life and I'm just a teenager, but since I've beaten up goblins in the forest for the past 2 days, I can now challenge the dark knight who trained for combat all his life" RPG power up ^^

Or, to paraphrase Haley in OOTS "a few weeks beating up goblins in a cave made me better at picking locks than 7 years in the thieve's guild ever could"

not that I don't respect this game but I'd sooner have another Bloodrayne.

And I am buying hard copy of the game! And then I will buy it on GOG whenever it comes out.

The funny thing is, when the full version of Bloodlines was added to polish magazine (that cost arround 4 euro) I was sure that it will soon come to gog too - oh well - atleast since then I have another copy. :P

Vampire the Masquerade doesn't work like that though. Older vampires have lower Generation. This means that vampires like Lacroix will have powers that will always overcome you no matter how much you train. You could have 1000 more xp than Lacroix but his Dominate will always overcome you. There is no way to resist by yourself. One of the themes of VtM is that you are essentially a powerless ant being swept up in the ocean of power struggle around you.

Fortunately that power Lacroix has also attracts enemies. An elder methuselah from Lacroix's direct lineage might decide his dominate might not work anymore. A tremere spell could interfere with Lacroix'so power. Caine himself might get involved. Or maybe Lacroix's thugs were rude to Caine's friend when they retrieved him from his favorite cafe - Caine's friend is Lucifer (Demon: the Fallen) by the way. The power struggles in VtM are so labyrinthine that there could be almost any explanation - except that you didn't do it yourself. That is certain.

Yup, played my share of WoD games a few years back, so I know that. But :

1 - That's the very reason why I dislike VtM. The whole "You are pawn that will never get to do anything relevant, ever. Some older guy will always pull your strings, and the GM's precious NPCs will always be better than you" thing sucks. I'm not some "I have to be all powerfull and every NPC must grovel before me" munchkin, (hell, I love a "rebel against an apparently invincible empire" gritty storyline as much as anyone), but VtM's power structure is very deprotagonizing

The fact that you can DO something, that you get to be the focal point of the story, even if stronger guys wander around, and that you get to make a choice and a difference (even if others will use you on the way), is one of the resons I love Bloodlines :)

2 - videogame. A video RPG character grows much faster than a tabletop character would, and that's also true for bloodlines, although it's less obvious here than in your usual fantasy fare. Don't say it will excuse everything, but that's part of the game's progression : At the end of the game, even if you're still young and easily manipulated, you're one faction's hitman, you're not some neonate weakling anymore. Falling to the prince's power AGAIN (especially after he treated you as his personal groveling minion for the whole game) would have felt very unsatisfying.

That said, I always felt the end of the game, with its "dungeons" and its confrontations, was the really bland part of the game, and the facedown with the prince is one of the weakest points.

Have not played this game. But I have read the Book of Nod.