Loved oblivion! Spent well over 150 hours playing that game but the vampires were a big dissapointment. I get the weakness to light and need to drink blood...but why do I look like I aged 90 years? Vampires have always been sixy, but when they're not they're crazy monsters. TES is somewhere in the middle and I just wish I didn't have to look like a zombie to be a vamp.

Yeah when I found out they didn't sparkle, I was sad too.

Vampires have always been sixy? With the media this age, it is no wonder you have this perception.

I didn't mind that so much, I usually just put on a more enclosed helmet. What I really didn't like about it was that you could barely talk to ANYONE after a certain point. I never really enjoyed being a vampire. I always cured it after about a week or two of in-game time.

Vampires have only been "sixy" since they were romanticized by modern film. Before that, they used to be walking abominations... always.

There is a really small and convenient mod for Oblivion called VampireAgingDisabled2XYoung that makes vampires look younger.

Vampires have always been sixy??

http://www.therationalradical.com/images03/nosferatu.jpg. the first Vampire Movie... I must say he looks very sixy

The sixy part of Vampires was probably introduced in Twilight or something^^

Vampire were undead monsters that could manipulate minds to visualize themselves otherwise.

I hate the "sixy" vampires, too boring.
IMO the oblivion vampires were too "sixy", i'd much prefer them to be monstrously grotesque.

I think after a certain amount of time without food, you should turn into a blood thirsty monster. You would be completely shunned by the cities until you found some sort of cure. I think you should look pretty much normal, maybe there should be some skin discoloration, and a change in eye color, but that should be it. You really shouldn't be able to tell if someone is a vampire, unless they haven't fed for some time.

http://images.uesp.net//3/3c/OB-npc-Adoring_Fan.jpg

It would be very cool if they cold make vampires more like they are in vampire the masquerade, but that is just cause I love the lore and the diversity of different clans from VM

Well not that grotesque....

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TES always had sixy vamps? Where the hell has your head been? Heck, outside of TES, where the hell has your head been? in TES, they're always supposed to look like a freaking nightmare! The Cyrodiilic clan is only special, all others look like vaemir's children. If anything, the vamps in Skyrim should look ugly as sin.

Not always... In Bram Stokers "Dracula" he was both repulsive and seductive - supposed to symbolise the more appealing side of sinning. Often linked to the sixuality of foreigners and the debauchery of the upper class. Believed to be inspired by Byron; a man people loved and were disgusted by in equal measure. Only the vary pure had a chance of resisting his sinful charms.

If vamps are in, I think your appearance should change in some way (though not just getting haggard), and some NPCs would feel repulsed (without quite knowing why), while others would be strangely attracted. Maybe these reactions could become more strongly felt the longer you go without feeding.

Attrictive vampires have been around way before twilight was dreamed up. I would like to say I'm not a fan of the series because its dull and stupid. Dracula was written in 1897 and the sensuality was watered down because of the time, but it was still there. Were they monsters, yes...were they dangerous, yes, but they were also sixy and seductive. Anne Rice also portrayed her vamps as sensual beings, though they lacked the abitily to actually have six because they have no blood flow. The whole point is that I just want to be better looking if I choose to be a vampire in TES-Skyrim.

"Not always... In Bram Stokers "Dracula" he was both repulsive and seductive -supposed to symbolise the more appealing side of sinning. Often linked to the sixuality of foreigners and the debauchery of the upper class. Believed to be inspired by Byron; a man people loved and were disgusted by in equal measure. Only the vary pure had a chance of resisting his sinful charms. If vamps are in, I think your appearance should change in some way (though not just getting haggard), and some NPCs would feel repulsed (without quite knowing why), while others would be strangely attracted. Maybe these reactions could become more strongly felt the longer you go without feeding."

I couldn't say it better! Nice to see someone else who know what I'm talking about!

The vampires were nice in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines but I don't think that style would fit for TES.

It was a small setting in the CS , you only had to load , edit the +20 years and save .

+500 years old didnt worked tho

I think you are confused, vampires have never been sixy and they have never sparkled nor walked in the sun. Where do you get this stuff from ?

But on the "sixy" part in a lot of fiction they are suppoast to have a supernatural charm, not a supernatural sixyness but a supernatural charm.

Can we PLEASE for one thread, for a one time NOT mention Twilight!!!
Why can't people keep quiet about this and just let this stupid movie die!!!
Vampires were invented before Twilight from sixy/seductive to brutal/bloodthursty.
God why did this s*** a** movie use "vampires"...

I think drinking blood should allow you to keep up the illusion of a "nice look". In reality all vampires and horrifying undead creatures, but they use their powers to appear otherwise. Therefore, drinking blood should give you power to appear normal, instead of taking it away, liek it did in oblivion

I hate all the seductive crap in vampires. That is the sole reason I don't watch vampire movies--well, except Blade, because Snipes is badass. There are various vampires in from folklore all over the world. Many I've read about aren't pretty, seductive and charming, but everything from near zombie like to demon like. I watched something years ago that had said in Romania, people that died of tuberculoses would come back as a vampire and seek out their family, draining them of blood. There was also a story I think from Africa (couldn't tell you what country) that portrayed vampires as demons with wings and long tongues that would land on the roof of a thatched hut at night, it's tongue like a tentacled proboscis, snaking down through the roof to drain the blood of its sleeping victim. I'm glad TES hasn't gone the Anne Rice road.

I'm pretty sure the sedutive part comes due to the sixual nature of how, the vampires we often think about, drink blood. It's quite the intimite action and therefore the power to give your victim a false image of your appearence is quite useful.