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Castlevania?

they have vampire dairies in the same genre on TV... but there vamps actually kill people. There is the Twilight lookalike vamp, but his brother is "evil" enough to make up for it ( and the actor fits pretty well to the role too).

It's not hardcore vamp but it's decent (and it's tv so...)

then you have true blood... a bit wierd and too mature to translate to games though.

Regarding masquerade, from what I recall, the studio went bankrupt cause the game didn't sell enough...

Vampires i could go for, if only to end this zombie game fad.

There are plenty of PC adventure games about vampires. However, I realize that many people don't like adventure games.

I would like to see a vampire game, but with you as the vampire. Imagine it as a stealth game. You could sneak into houses at night and sate your desires with the life-blood of the foolish mortals!!!!!! *ahem* Did I get too carried away?

You could also seduce the opposite sex, go home with them, and then work your magic. I think that this would make a great dialogue-choice mini-game.

Anytime i take vampires seriously these two assholes pop in my head. Vampires RIP...

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My guesses...

A) Video Game's were their first.

"Nerd culture" was the start of the Vampire boom... and is really kinda over it? Legacy of Kain stuff, the RPGs etc...

B) Vampire Video Games are hard to make. After all it takes special ways to kill vampires. Enemy diversification can be hard... unless you go with animal vampirisation which i have never liked or went with the "Hellsing" style anime vampires where they all get different "special powers".

Or you could equip them with weapons, but that kinda defeats the point as far as originality goes.

It's tough to get right i'd think.

Look how bad Vampire Rain went or whatever it was.

Zombies are generally an easier metaphor, as they represent the unwashed, consumistic masses. Thus the common trope of the mall/urban setting. And that clicks nicely with many players' pent-up aggression against the society at large.

Vampires are a much more mature beast, as they classically stand for the seductiveness of the animal and sexual part of the human psyche. Even in their modern incarnations ( from Anne Rice to the Twilight series ) they are mostly presented in the light of the conflict between (sexual) urges and the ethical or moral constraints.

Vampire: The Masquerade (the 1991 pen and paper RPG and the derived works) was actually quite interesting as it moved the source of conflict towards different kinds of "essences" of which blood was the obvious metaphor. Not only life and sex, but also artistic rapture, political power, spiritual illumination, magical knowledge. Its tying-in with jewish and christian mythology once again denounces how basic the underlying themes are.

In the end, though, this finer texture is much harder to turn into palatable games as it would lead to tackling the issues of subtler, inner conflicts. And games haven't been -generally speaking- good at subtlety, just look at how potentiually interesting themes in Bioshock devolved into its gameplay.

Don't worry someone will make vampires evil again. It will take awhile, but soon we will have vampries back to their date rape and bloodlust for all of the human race.