alot of you sound like vampires.

Maybe a vampire in high ranks in the mages guild and very few know he/she is a vampire that would be nice and since you can still join andplay guilds as a vamp then maybe you could become a guildm-master vampire(vampire in the DB that sounds fun) stop my silence me or i´ll die before the damn games is realeshed

I heard yesterday that vampires keep the human/elf/orc/cat/lizard like appearence by feeding and if they don´t feed they become......scarier

They tease and torment me!

Must they always keep the vampire info a secret?


I guess I'll just have to wait

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Looks like our wonderings have been proved. A feeding animation at last!

This post has been edited by Intestinal Chaos: Jan 26 2006, 04:58 PM

geez, that Vampiric Touch spell on morrowind sucked. Not just 'cuz it never looked cool, but also cuz it couldnt do much for me. I never used magic very often, so I never had much magicka to spend... basically i was screwed when i became a vampire...

I hope they have a similar clan system to the Vampires the masquerade series.

Oh well.....Vampires.....some may find them very cool, hmmm I do not....so I will avoid them in Oblivion as I do in MW!

brrrrrr

idk, minque, i thought they were pretty fun, if not lacking a bit of detail. course, that's just my opinion, and your opinion is your own, and not mine to question , but in Oblivion, they will be considerably better. lets face the facts, with everything from previous games getting a "do-over", vampires will rock! And it bears mentioning that im quite psyched about the having to feed to appear normal thing.

Me neither, as soon as I encountered a vampire in MW i saved and loaded in case I was infected with their disgusting disease However I will not avoid them in Oblivion, I will hunt every single one of them until their is no-one left! Unless they kindly ask me to give them mercy.. I never kill a defenceless victim

Do I remember correctly or did I just imagine that I read you can now walk in Daylight unbothered as long as you keep up constant feeding? If you don't feed, you slowly show your true Vampiric form and become harmed by the Sun and angry Peasants. Can anyone confirm?

as much as i wish that i could tell you this is true, im honestly not sure. ive heard the same, and heard so time and time again, but im not quite sure if the devs have confirmed it

Vampires have always fantasied me because being killed by a vampire is one of the worst ways I can think of to die, my own fears interest me. I am quite a night person myself (possibly because I'm scared of the dark) and they have both power and immortality, power would be nice but immortality is something I crave.

I have heard that you need to feed to maintain your appearance (I'm 90% sure it was official) but I've heard nothing in the least way reputable that feeding will stop you from being damaged by the sun. But I don't follow all that too closely, I perfer to let the game be a surprise because if you look at the pre release MW screenshots they are completely different anyway.

I want the game to be a big surpirse but I wanna dive in now, so darn much! >.<

And it will be a surprise, apparently, as Devs are only "scratching the surface with any info" they release.

Hmm, if it would be possible to "hide" my vampiric identity and walk around normally during the day then it might be an option to me... It would be my BIG secret noone knows about... Hulking at night just to find a poor victim to satisfy the uncontrolable urge for blood, then wander about doing heroish deeds during the day, some life

Oh yeah, I've also tried to keep the info-gathering as low as possible since the "Woa"-feeling when you initially play a game is priceless, however it seems we won't be getting any breaking reveals from Bethesda, they sure must have gotten wellpayd to keep their mouths shut.

I regret watching the demos, because that showed me exactly what my first experiance will be, but I still don't know what it will be like when I first come out into the city, that will be a big woah and I'm not going to watch any more demos to find that out.

Did anyone else read Vampires of Vvardenfel, Volume II? I found it somewhere near the Red Mountain after looting Sunder from Dagon something-or-another, and its implications on Oblivion are intriguing: "In the West, a shadowy fraternity of vampire hunters is believed to be primarily composed of formerly afflicted vampires who have been cured of the disease." What you say?! Brotherhood of Vampire hunters???

Go sanguinary for a while and then join an exclusive cliche of vampire slayers? Sweetness! Is there any potential for this kind of faction in Oblivion? It might be a release date surprise.

This post has been edited by Holosiren: Feb 16 2006, 12:06 AM

holosiren, i thought you wrote "Dark Brotherhood" for a bit. then I reread it and saw that it said "Brotherhood of Vampire Slayers" I'm that dumb sometimes

I like the fact that if you go long without feeding you start becoming more apparent as a vampire.

It's a perfectly balanced way to stop the complaint of vampires hardly having a social life while adding a new form of risk and an extra incentive to feed.

This was the best possible way to remedy the problem :]

As for the part of sunlight not hurting you if you've recently fed. I think that's just a rumor, sunlight always needs to be a constant threat to vampires, and having blood in you doesn't make sense as a reason for not being hurt by light. You're hurt by light not because you're bloodless, it's because you're cursed.

I alsop imagine you can feed on NPC's during combat, but your success is based on your stats and the stats of the enemy, whereas feeding on a sleeping person is an automatic success, and that's why people will go through the trouble of breaking and entering, sneaking through a house, and the quietly creeping up on a sleeping victim.

that's funny b/c I studied Vampire physiology and I heard that the sun hurts vampires because of a lack of ability to produce melanin, which is a major factor in the protection of the human tissues from ultraviolet radiation which tears the body apart without protection...which is effectivly why vampires are weak against sunlight and not normal light, when a vampire drinks blood maybe there is a very small amount of melanin in it, not really sure to be honest, if so then that is your justification

also remember that there are times when gameplay enjoyment shouldn't be sacrificed to make things a little more "real" if I had to worry about being caught in daylight and couldn't sleep in the fields (which we can't without a camp being there) I wouldn't ever use the vamp side of things until I had beaten EVERYTHING else, that is when I would begin to play with it, and it would amuse me for another ten hours maybe twenty, over the course of about two weeks.

Well, to your first paragraph, I was talking about fantasy vampires, not people with melanin deficencies, and to your second paragraph, I realize my "realisitic" argument isn't quite a good one (being in a fantasy world and all), but never ever being able to go out into the sunlight adds a good bit of strategy. At somepoint you may need to get somewhere during the day, for one reason or another.

Maybe it's some sort of quest, maybe you stayed out too long and you need to get to a safe sleeping place you know what be checked by NPC's, but whatever the case, I would love to dodge through the shadows in broad daylight, taking damage, but trying to keep it in small amounts. Eventually I'd be too weak to take another hit, or maybe my only path is in a long sunlit path and I didn't have enough strength to cross it. Then I'd go about trying to find a quick snack. I might sneak into a house, taking my victim by force and then having to kill them as to not give away my vampiric identity, or perhaps I'd hang about in the shadows, waiting for an NPC to head my way. When they got close enough I'd drain their blood and kill them, perhaps even look for a place to hide the body. After that I'd sprint across the shining path to my hiding place and sleep the rest the day away.

I'd try to find a way to make my every day like that, always placing myself in perilous postions, or attempting to just do daring things. Even after I've completly experienced all my vampiric nature has to offer I'll still keep him around, one player RP'ing for the hell of it, but that's just me.

This post has been edited by Intestinal Chaos: Feb 26 2006, 10:25 PM

sounds fun when you put it like that.....awww man now I dunno what I want so I guess I will love whichever decision they have made over at bethy, or decide that I want which ever one I couldn't have..... that happens sometimes too... i'll just have to see.