From the last thread:
Please stop this weresomthing/lycans nonsense. Spears I agree but for the rest. I want to play TES, not some Harry Potter / Underworld / Twilight crap.
I want to see new lands (not another Oblivion plane) and CW / Thalmor plot continuations.
Agreed. I feel like Bethesda is using popular movies as inspiration. Give us more stories and better quests. Running around playing a hybrid Van Helsing/ Underworld game does not excite me.
Hopefully the future DLC will have nothing to do with vampires or werewolves/werebears/carebears.
You guys are ridiculous.
First, everyone complains that both vampires are confirmed and that werewolves won't be in the game, which was upsetting because they haven't been around since Bloodmoon and Oblivion was sorely missing them. Then, everyone complained that vampires and werewolves weren't nearly powerful enough (which I personally disagree with). At the same time, everyone complained that the game mechanics worked like Cyrodiilic vampirism, which was a problem for two reasons: that the disease was Sanguinare Vampiris and not Porphyric Hemophelia, and because the Skyrim vampires were seen as inferior to the Oblivion vampires, who would actively take damage in the sunlight, could silence mages and get a potentially huge buff to skills and attributes. Everyone wanted to see Volkihar vampires and get into their lore via DLC. When the Game Jam footage was released, many complained that much of the content wasn't in the vanilla game. Hands down, two of the most asked-for updates to the game were the flying vampire lord and a werewolf perk tree. Werebears and spears were shown, and those got almost as much attention if not more (look at the polls--those four things were easily the most wanted by the entire community). And finally, the majority of TES veterans have been complaining since Oblivion (six years ago) that vampires have no factions or quests specific to them.
And now that we're finally getting all that--and possibly even werebears--you kids are too kewl to be happy about it and instead litter the forum with your whining about what Bethesda should be doing instead, as if this was a bad choice and nobody should get it just because you don't want it (or pretend that you don't want it just to look cool).
This isn't about any of that teen drama nonsense or Van Helsing references (Van Helsing was awesome, by the way). This is about classical fantasy, which, as a genre, has included vampires, werecreatures, and powerful vampires who take on different forms since before many of us were born. TES, as a series, has included these things and other typical fantasy elements (read: dragons and exploding fire spells) for as long as it's been around.
The community is getting what it has asked for, and then some. The team at Bethesda has been working hard on this for months. This is something you ought to be grateful for, not something you should complain about. If you don't want to play it, don't buy it--I will. Take your "cool kid" popular opinion elsewhere and stop comparing this to Twilight; you're poisoning this forum.
Edit: And Bethesda is not using popular movies for inspiration (and on what authority do you say that, hm?). They're using their own lore. And you should be grateful that we get to visit another realm of Oblivion; last I checked, the previous game was staggeringly successful because of that and its DLC, Shivering Isles, is still heralded as the best DLC content in video game history.