Honestly I was very dissapointed the way they went about with vampires in Morrowind, in was a little boring (though the mods were nice) and the lack of an animation for feeding and no social life just busted it for me.... Im really hoping here with Oblivion that they'd take vampirism a step further.... making feeding a little more strategic (like in Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines) and maybe a few new powers though not too unbalanced and fantastical but super speed and a slow-mo would be pretty neat (but possibly too unbalancing)

Ooh, haven't noticed this interesting topic!

Anyway, yes, I really hope vampires will have a more of a social life than in Morrowind. (It was so boring and frustrating to be one!) I hope that the vampires will be able to blend in with the Cyrodiilic natives and interact with them.

Oh, and I hope we can choose (mod?) how the vampires look like. I want my characters to be deadly as vampires and have fangs, but I want to them to still look innocent and pretty-looking even as vampires.

This post has been edited by MerGirl: Jul 16 2005, 11:21 PM

LOL

I would like it if you could be like be a trusted friend and then BAM! turn on them

Proper feeding! What on earth is the point of a useless little Health Absorbtion spell that almost any Mage will have anyway when you're an all-powerful Vamp Being able to sneak up on people and dig into their necks is an absolute must!

Yes, yes! That is what being a vampire is all about. I hope there will be drinking blood animations, more complex relationship with NPC's and stuff like that.

I agree, and I hope when I bite someone, they will get a much more complex daily routine.

Oh, my goodness! *slaps forehead* I practically forgot about Radient(sp?) AI!

Imagine, the NPC's would have to convert to a night-life kind of schedule, which would make things more interesting! (Imagine if you bit a shopkeeper; he would have to close his store during morning hours or something.)

nah I wouldn't think so, he would just have to stay away from the door. he just wouldn't be able to do anything else.

would one vampire in turn at night bite another villager?

Yeah. If you bite one, they bite someone, and it just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading until the entire town is full of dark, powerful vampires. Then maybe it would spread to the rest of Cyrodil!

Muahahaha...Muahahaha...Muahahaha...

yikes....I do hope not!.....vampires scares me....

Radient AI willl make werewolves (if included) more interesting also. bite a castle guard whhile he's asleep and off duty, wait three days and watch as every guard gets bitten, all the way up until the duke of the castle. It will be amazing!

the werewolf castle...

dum, dum, duuuummm

I couldn't agree more with that one. I didn't like the spell casting vampire's bite thing in Morrowind and I also didn't like how even with a helmet on people were like "Ahhhhh a vampire!" You should be able to disguise yourself.

It's nice to know people feel as I do. It seemed as a vampire everything was extremely simplified, if your a vampire the daily schedule should be more involved and difficult. Having to feed every day being manditory would be terrible, having such high advantages should make healing alot more difficult (what with having to steal health from every other living being in the game). And it bothered me how you could drain health from dwemer constructs and the undead.

I second that...and I didn't like your inability to disguise yourself either. Everyone was like oh hi mister guy with a full face helmet on...AHHHH die vampire!

This post has been edited by Kiln: Jul 19 2005, 12:44 AM

Yeah something should have been done about that, but the ability to disguise by simply wearing a faced helmet seems a bit unbalanced. The vampire's embrace mod did a good job of counteracting that though.

I was making an example...

It's good to see someone agrees with me about that. It's suprising how many times I have been flamed for propositioning that enhancement on other boards.

As fun as infecting people would be i think it shouldn't be done, for the simple fact that things can and WILL get messy when you do stuff like that. Esspecially when everyone a Vampire and theres nothing left to feed on, or how the NPCs who start as Vampires could turn Cyrodiil into vampire-land with you the only mortal.



Morrowind is accustomed to dealing with Vampires, they know a dude who wearing a helmet and only goes out at night is a Vampire. Cyrodiil doesn't, so i think we'll see a change there.

Yeah, I was thinking infection as a mod instead of being an ingame feature. As for feeding obviously it would be a bit more difficult than just a stealth attack and in a way that doesn't drain them dry (if it can be helped).