LeopoldCrank Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Growing up Vampire and Werewolves were horrifying monstrosities not some fan girls sparkly boy toy. Vampires and Werewolves are suppose to be powerful mindless killers prowling the wilderness and ancient ruins, not some over sexualized seductress or ladies man. You, my friend, need to read Dracula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marharth Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Hate to break it to everyone, but the original vampire was a blood sucking monster that preyed on women. Vampires started as a romantic creature. However, vampires do not sparkle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAPALM13092 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 You, my friend, need to read Dracula Before my time. The whole concept of vampires putting on a guise to trick victims is cool and all I'm talking like twilight vampires I can't stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marharth Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 You, my friend, need to read Dracula Before my time. The whole concept of vampires putting on a guise to trick victims is cool and all I'm talking like twilight vampires I can't stand.Dracula has a lot of romantic elements. Old vampires are supposed to be somewhat romantic, that's not the problem with twilight. The problem with twilight is that it is badly written. Vampires don't sparkle in sun and they don't run really fast as well as a number of other problems in the book, but the real issue is that the book is just bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisban0 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 (edited) On flavor alone, definitely Vampire. Vampires are intelligent; Werewolves are mindless. But what I'll actually do will have to depend on their in-game implementation: If Vampirism in Skyrim gives you no bonuses or extra powers and makes you take 30 points of damage per second in sunlight, then I'm not going to cripple myself that way just to be one. As for Twilight... stupid crap like that doesn't deserve any attention or respect. Is hating vampires because of Twilight's popularity any better than loving vampires because of it? If you do whatever the crowd does then the crowd controls you, but if you do the opposite of whatever the crowd does, then they STILL control you. So true. :turned: Also, I read dracula (admittedly a long time ago) and he never came off as a very "romantic" character to me. He was a loner who controlled a town through terror. Edited August 27, 2011 by fisban0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marharth Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 On flavor alone, definitely Vampire. Vampires are intelligent; Werewolves are mindless. But what I'll actually do will have to depend on their in-game implementation: If Vampirism in Skyrim gives you no bonuses or extra powers and makes you take 30 points of damage per second in sunlight, then I'm not going to cripple myself that way just to be one. As for Twilight... stupid crap like that doesn't deserve any attention or respect. Is hating vampires because of Twilight's popularity any better than loving vampires because of it? If you do whatever the crowd does then the crowd controls you, but if you do the opposite of whatever the crowd does, then they STILL control you. So true. :turned: Also, I read dracula (admittedly a long time ago) and he never came off as a very "romantic" character to me. He was a loner who controlled a town through terror.Hes not supposed to be romantic, the story does have quite a lot of romantic elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcrin Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Before my time. The whole concept of vampires putting on a guise to trick victims is cool and all I'm talking like twilight vampires I can't stand. This is a pretty common pattern, actually: A bad, evil thing is perceived as awesome due to its vicarious elements, then the nasty aspects are removed in an attempt to make them even more appealing. So we get assassins who don't kill innocents, pirates who don't steal things, and vampires who sparkle. Next we'll have zombie hordes that are perfectly clean and preserved that just want to go back to living peacefully with their friends and family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoreai Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 (edited) Werewolf for me, i been longing to play them for a long time in tes games...i cant immagine any other cursed being fitting better in skyrim then them. If they would be really done good...hunting trough those woods i saw at screenshots would be an epic moment itself..with well done animations and interesting abilities...god that would be awesome. Sorry im dreaming about it again. :devil: Curse of Hircine (Never used it myself but it looks pretty cool.) Meh forgot about this one, i did played it and its good but well...i should have said more clearer that i wanted beth to make them...you know the anims and abilties would be done profesionally...no offense to that mod ofcourse. Edited August 27, 2011 by pavy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAPALM13092 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 This is a pretty common pattern, actually: A bad, evil thing is perceived as awesome due to its vicarious elements, then the nasty aspects are removed in an attempt to make them even more appealing. So we get assassins who don't kill innocents, pirates who don't steal things, and vampires who sparkle. Next we'll have zombie hordes that are perfectly clean and preserved that just want to go back to living peacefully with their friends and family. THANK YOU! My thoughts exactly. Wanna change the formula here and there? Want a little sexy? Some conflicting morals? Cool more power to ya just don't go overkill I like my monsters... well monsters. Think more Legacy of Kain and Van Helsing and less Blade and Twilight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeopoldCrank Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 You, my friend, need to read Dracula Before my time. The whole concept of vampires putting on a guise to trick victims is cool and all I'm talking like twilight vampires I can't stand. No guises. Instead, he seduced the women into submitting themselves to him and then he would bite them. I agree, twilight vampires are a terrible blight on the creature, but there is absolutely no way I'm letting that stop me from loving these dark creatures of the night. Best fantasy creature IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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