An Idea of how Vampires and Werewolves Could Have Been Done. : V - Skyrim

» Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:32 am

The lore is already there. Werebears are supposed to be a major nuisance in Skyrim. There's really nothing in game aside from a few books talking about certain individuals being unable to find them and a joke by M'aiq that addresses their absence in the first place, so I really don't think they need to come up with a lore reason. They'd just be correcting a past mistake/oversight/whatever you want to call it.

I would hope that they just stay with the infected by a werebear lore than, and make it traditional forced transformations and such.

» Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:52 am

Reason to become one? I think for a lot of people being able to turn into a friggen bear is reason enough. I certainly don't feel the need for them to add a faction for werebears or anything like that. If they do, that's cool. If not, I won't lose sleep over it.

I just hope that they'd make them at least slightly different than werewolves (hence, at least part of the reason for this thread).

And I do hope they patch the werewolves to allow them to infect you properly so you don't have to put up with the Companions. Really destroys RPing a physically unimposing mage blessed/cursed with Lycanthropy when you have to go through the Companions to get the condition.

Pretty much this, If they add a faction for werebears, great, but I won't lose sleep if they don't.

Have you been playing my character? :blink:

That sounds like one of my characters.

» Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:22 pm

Just a question. Why is this in the Dawnguard subforum over the Skyrim one?

» Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:45 am

Just a question. Why is this in the Dawnguard subforum over the Skyrim one?

I put it here to avoid spoilers regarding Dawnguard in the general forum, because I figured things like wild werewolves, the perk trees, and the vampire lord mechanics qualified as spoilers. Since Dawnguard was sorta vampire centric, it also seemed best to talk about this here, rather than somewhere else. Especially because it was looking at what I personally felt Skyrim did wrong to begin with, but also what Dawnguard made worse (looking at you thin-bloods). It also has the added bonus of largely keeping the "Diz izunt Twilightzzzzzz!" crowd from bothering us, which happens fairly often in the threads discussing werewolfs and vampires in the other threads.

» Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:56 pm

I know no one's gonna be happy with me about this. I know this. But I have to say it.

Vampires and werewolves are kinda lame. Now they dont NEED to be. But so long as the game wont let you really play as a villain...I see little point. I get that you can join a villainous faction in Dawnguard but that simply isnt good enough.

On a personal note and in the interest of full disclosure... I CANT be a werewolf. Because it switches to a forced 3rd person. I get vertigo. Playing a game like this in third person literally makes me sick.

» Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:36 am

I'm of a more moderate opinion on the state of vampirism in skyrim,
Yes there was only one real drawback of being a vampire which was removed with the dawnguard dlc, but no one ever seems to look at the fact that vampires in Skyrim don't really offer any considerable bonuses at least as far as combat is concerned. In oblivion vampires were at least granted some very decent combat options which made the drawbacks worth it no matter what you had to go through.
and I admit I played my vampires in a way that some would consider "wrong" I never played my vampire characters as pure stealth characters, when the sun went down I would summon creatures and sling spells. I felt like a powerful Vamp mage and rp'd as such. I'm down for major drawbacks but not if that's all I'm getting, All bonus no drawback is boring, but all drawback no bonus is equally boring.