i don't know how i feel about them not dying in the sun. the best thing about vampires was that they're nocturnal.

did twilight vampires die in the sun.?

no, they just sparkled, lol

i believe him. topic closed, lol.

All these anti-Twilight quotes make me happy



Going by traditional vampire rules, vampires can "feed" and they can "embrace". Embrace is what turns others into vampires. Feeding is just them taking blood without the side effects

Aside from the not dying in the sun, I'm pretty happy with the way vampires are turning out for Late Night

ooh "embrace" and just "feeding" sound cool, hopefully these will both be in the game, but i had asked grant rodiek about that, and he actually replied to me saying that there was going to be three differnt way to quench the vampires thirst, feeding off a sim, plasma fruits, and plasma packs

Well in the original story of Bram Stokers Dracula IIRC sunlight was not fatal and only took away his powers. Nosferatu was the one that could not walk into the sun. But yes, you can still use the term nocturnal for them since they are still up at night.

So they're to do vampires incorrectly?

That bit about vampires being able to read minds made me cringe a bit.
That was obviously borrowed from a famous 'vampire'.

The Vampires not dying from sunlight isn't really a Twilight thing, how they put it sounds more like a Dracula thing. Twilight is only the first I know of to have Vampires sparkle in the daylight.

The mind reading could obviously be though. I'm wondering how this will be in the game
Maybe see what a Sim does before they do it?

But Jake, someone asked if the vampires were influenced by Twilight and the person from EA said no..so I'm gonna go with it still being a no. Yes I'm sure because of the popularity of Twilight and all things vampires these days it pushed them to include them again, but I don't get the impression that they were directly inspired by the Twilight vampires. They probably took their ideas from a bunch of vampire ideas and maybe came up with some of their own?

What H.O.W said. In the original Dracula movie, he could walk in the sunlight. And let's face it, Dracula was probably the first big vampire movie. Can't go wrong with a classic

There are many other situations where vampires were able to go into the sun as well. Look at Vampire Hunter D, which is a popular anime among fans, though old now. D could go in the sun, but it weakend him and he could only really survive in it for so long. Then you have situations where the older the vampire, the stronger he became and could withstand the sun

As for vampire kids going to school, this is completely new. In Sims 2 you couldn't even have vampire kids, unless you used cheats, but doing so could make the kid become bugged (I know from experience). This time around, there's a chance a kid could be born a vampire from a vampire parent. Seeing that there is no "home school" option, they would 'have' to still go to school. There's just no current way around this, so of course they still made them go to school

And as for gaining strength or powers quickly? They're freakin vampires. ALL vampires are like that in pretty much ALL vampire related things. There's such a vast amount of vampire powers out there, anything from movies or books are only the tip of the ice berg. You should see the animes and RPGs where things get really insane

As for the whole hunting of others? I have no idea what they might mean by that. And I still have no idea how "mind reading" would work in a sims game

Mind reading is probably an ability that reveals all of the sims favourites, traits, job, and partner.

I was thinking perhaps would reveal their needs and wishes.

Hmmm, I like that too!

Mind reading vampires were around long before Twilight. The vampires in Anne Rice's novels were able to read the minds of humans. That was how the good ones were able to determine who was a murderer or evil doer.

I would have liked a glamour interaction which would temporarily raise the LTR with a sim, for an hour or so which would permit you to easily complete opportunities that require you to befriend a sim.

I bet they are! These vampires might as well be called twilight vampires because it looks like EA jumped on the bandwagon too. I knew this was going to happen, they were going to turn these vampires into emotional p***y's, instead of keeping them as actual vampries like in the sims 2. I can not wait until Twilight is over I will be jumping for joy the series has gone on too long. All the things that were revealed sounds too twilight for me, I'm certain they decided to do this for Twilight fans. If even one of my sims is turned I'd probably cut their ties with whom ever turned them, find that potion and wala! Back to normal for them.

They drink blood and suffer in the sun. They don't sparkle in the sun like little fairies. They also drink plasma (which is red) and they can read minds (and iirc, lots of other vampire stories have this as well). This doesn't sound like twilight to me so what makes you think that they're going to be twilight vampires?

Although I do agree that not dying in the sun is a little bullshit but there are other vampires (other than twilight that does this); this version of the vampires seems very original and I do believe that EA wanted to create their own kind of vampires.


Edit: Equus I saw your reasoning in another thread and I am going to have to agree with Akadai on what he said.... He tends to speak my mind for me these days .

You'll have to bear with me here, anything that I feel even remotely reminds me of Twilight sends me into a rant, I have some serious issues with this series that it would take too long for me to explain, all I can say is I hate it, with a passion. That runs very very deep...It may seem too far, but thats how it is for me.

I know very well that other vampries have done have done it, but seeing as Twilight is still fresh on everyone's mind and people keep saying vampires should act that way, it goes directly to it. With the vampires in the sims 2 I didn't feel anything that reminded me of Twilight about it, but now it really feels as if they are trying to appeal to the masses of Twilight fans. Jumping on a badnwagon because thats whats in for vampires to be: emotional dead people with feelings who don't have the heart to drink blood from a human so they'll drink from animals. Yes I know you don't drink from animals in Late Night.

Vampires are scary, monster's, do the vampires in Late night feel scary or intimidating to anyone here? 'Cause I know I certainly didn't feel it. All this seems very "twilight" like in my opinion, or better yet, the type of vampires I don't like.

Your hate for Twilight does seem to run pretty deep, deeper than mine and yea, Twilight is the most vampire related thing that comes to recent memory unfortunately, but that's not really EA's fault. LN is also coming out in Oct, which is a good time for halloween related things. Vampires are one of the popular costumes during that holiday

As for vampires being scary monsters, that's mostly up to the vampires them selves really. They can be scary when they want to. Obviously the scare level is going to be pretty low for a Sims game. They're not going to be able to go around and rip people apart. It's mostly up to you on how you want them to be

Like I wonder if a vampire can drink a sim to death? That would be cool... then I can turn a sim into a vampire, and starve him in a room, and stick some other sim I don't like in there and see what happens Or you can trap a sim and make them your prisoner as a feeding doll

Heck I had a witch sim in TS2 that didn't seem scary at all. She looked really sexy and seemed pretty nice. Then she'd invite you inside and lead you to the room with the cowplant only to have you get eaten so she can stay young abit longer, disappearing forever in her house of horror

I'm sure there's plenty of ways to make a vampire scary, it all depends on your imagination and how well you role play things, part of the fun of The Sims