How come monstrous looking vampires aren't more common

They are not sexy.
People don't want this.

Vampires are either dracula rip offs or giant demon looking guys

Nosferatu is the patrician vampire design

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When vampires look monstrous they are usually called something different. A major part of the vampire mythos is their seductive quality compared to other simply scary monsters.

>>383802010
>their seductive quality compared to other simply scary monsters
That's only Bram Stoker thing.

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I AM DESTROYED!

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>>383803351
You mean Anne Rice
Dracula was not seductive, he was forceful

>>383801407
Monstrous looking vampires are boring. Monsters that LOOK like monsters are a dime a dozen. The importance of vampires as a horror trope is that they look like beautiful people, but are soulless, utterly inhuman beasts on the inside.

https://youtu.be/2sGSApjMlj4

>>383803607

>horror trope is that they look like beautiful people, but are soulless, utterly inhuman beasts on the inside.

So.... people in general?

>>383803667
It really does get better after middle school, little chum. I promise.

>>383803667
Really makes you think...

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>>383803607
Go stroke your vagina to Anne Rice and Twilight you millennial retard

>>383803704

I'm 30 years old with an office job.

>>383803607
Vampires in the original folklore were literally walking corpses and looked like it too. I bet you think werewolves should just be hairy bara faggots for you to project your gay fantasies onto.

GOD TIER
Nosferatu vampires, old Slavic folk lore vampires
GOOD TIER
Bela Lugosi vampires
MID TIER
Buffy vampires
LOW TIER
Sexy girl vampires
SHIT TIER
Faggy vampires (switch to god tier if you're a woman)

>>383803869
many cultures around the world have come with stories about the hungry death, some of them are monsters and other times they hide their appereance, you could say we could trace the first strigoi mythos to eastern europe but I doubt they were the "original"

>>383803805
Can a wagie really be considered a person with a soul?

>>383801407
People realized attractive vampires are more interesting.

An intelligent, attractive villain who is secretly (or not so secretly) hiding a monster underneath is more compelling than an open, unabashed monster.

We have Zombies for that now.

>>383804145
>We have Zombies for that now.
When will that end?

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>>383803438
>>383803438
>>383803351

You mean John William Pollidori.

The Vampyre, 1819's was based on Lord Byron AKA poet lady-killer and general handsome man, and the thing that made Vampires popular in the first place. Also, the one that created the modern vampire when previous tales of them made them to be werewolves who happened to drink blood, some pale guy who counts reeds and kills women who pass around, or just a guy with fangs who contracted the devil.

Vampires as we know them have always been sexual.

>>383804375
Never.

>>383804375
Judging by how long we've had vampires and werewolves? A few thousand years from now.

>>383804414
Don't forget Carmilla, two decades before Bram AND had gay vampires.

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>>383802010
Good job Bethesda

>>383803438
>Dracula was not seductive, he was forceful
Those are the same thong for women

>>383803704
It really doesn't, but maybe you stop acting so gay about it.

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>>383804375
Sadly it won't.

>Days Gone announcement on previous e3
>the opening sounds and looks like man made apocalypse with heavy road movie shtick
>suddenly zombies
>mfw

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>>383801407
To be fair, there's not ENOUGH vampires in video games to really make a solid headcount. I mean vampires that have games revolving around them and such.

>>383803738
>that shitty acting
>calling other millennial when you're likely under 30 yourself
Wow, thanks for showing me the light you dumb nigger. Please stick a steak fork in your neck. Worthless queer.

>>383804870
Bloodlines had both kinds.

>>383803982
>old Slavic folk lore vampires

I like how some Slavic vampires are basically indestructible and your only hope is to either run away or find a new more appealing victim for the vampire.

>>383801407
It's a bit more difficult to do interesting stuff with vampires when they're too recognisable to people living in the setting as monsters to chase away, making them little different from other roaming monsters.

The human element introduces the possibility of having them integrate/infiltrate into society which is where for many the interesting elements come from.

>>383805023
Wasn't the actual fatality to sunlight for vampires made up in Nosferatu film cause the creators couldn't think of any realistic way to directly kill a vampire?

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>>383801407

Darkest Dungeon did a great job

>>383801407
Not enough games.

Also usually the vampires are strong, but not strong enough to take on the whole world that would hunt them down, should they reveal themselves.

Looking like the wrong end of an asshole wont help you stay hidden in a modern setting with cameras fucking everywhere.

I like Malkavians from the old VtM. They are monsters on the inside, while looking ... somewhat normal. Fun for the whole family.

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>>383804879
Hit a nerve hambeast? Must be a real shame when the only vampires you grew up with are Twilight and Anne Rice shit.

>>383803351
That wasn't even really Bram Stoker. Dracula himself just terrified everyone and the female ones in Transylvania only had that as a sort of distraction while they tried to kill their target anyway. It was a sort of passive effect for them, and Dracula could basically make people fall into comas with no eye contact or anything like that being necessary.

>>383805353
Yeah, IIRC Nosferatu made that idea up. I don't think it was because they were at a loss for how to defeat Orlock though.

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Defend this t/v/.

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I like Warhammer Fantasy vampires.

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Gary was best Dragula

>>383806991
Why did she turn into literal batwoman?

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>>383807453

Dunno, but I like the general idea behind it: a vampire becoming more inhuman the older they are.

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>>383806951
I wish he'd stay this way the whole time.

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>>383806816
Blood dragons are just 2 cool.

>>383807741

Abhorash was never added in TW:W, was he?

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>>383801407
I really fucking liked this game, world and characters design.

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>>383807646
well he went back that way at the end of the movie, only without the grandma hair

>>383807998
>far right

WE

>>383808119
was Tyrant now fuck off

>>383808010
The grandma hair was the best part.

>>383803982

>God tier has a literal Dracula knock off

Strain season 4 so soon

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all these terrible vampire designs

>>383806991
Wew, I like this.
>>383806816
Only Vlad and Isabella were interesting.
The rest are either mental or just plain stupid like good ol' Mannfred

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>>383808969

>Vlad doesn't get a mount

Bothers me quite a bit.

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>TFW Vampires originally represented some of the worst aspects of unrestrained sexuality in moral tales
>There were french fables of a guy picking up a chick in a bar, only to wake up next to her rotting corpse in his bed
>Carmilla was a tract about, essentially, evil Lesbian Vampires
>Modern Vampire movies make them out to be "sexy" without the "predator" aspect
>If they even bother to include the predator aspect its only to make them look more "heroic" as they struggle against devouring someone out of love
>Werewolves have it infinitely worse
>What used to represent the worst, most violent, evil aspects of human nature surfacing is now held up by furries and hipsters as "hot" and "oneness with nature"
Getting back to the original themes of the monsters requires more than a scary face.

>>383809319
Not really. Like all folk tales, they have really mundane origins. Vampires and werewolves were just people extrapolating about wolves and other predators killing their livestock in the night.

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>>383809691
By the way, in notorious Slavic tales vampires and werewolves were basically the same thing - vampires turning into various things at will, that including bats, wolves and even clouds of mist.
Even their names ("vurdalak", "vrykolakas", "volkolak") have the same Linguistic roots.

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>>383809319
Yeah, in the modern age people have completely lost sight about what those creatures were about. Vampires, werewolves, etc. were legitimately horrifying and things to be avoided like the plague, which they were sometimes metaphors for. A zombie that tries to drain the physical version of the soul for no season and a person who basically goes insane and turns into a savage killing machine are very, very bad news.

>>383809319
Werewolves are an incredibly boring concept. They are basically serial killers in animal hide with a sprinkle of some retarded unexplained "lolcurse" thrown in.
No wonder zombies are the hottest shit right now. It's pretty much their prime.

>>383804678
i can still hear her voice

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>>383805596
The game lists the Countess size as Unimaginable, and the only other monster with that size is the planet-sized Final Boss.

How big do you think the Countess actually is?

>>383810367
>A zombie that tries to drain the physical version of the soul for no season
In this aspect classic vampires are hardly original.

>>383809319

>TFW Vampires originally represented some of the worst aspects of unrestrained sexuality in moral tales

Lol no. They were originally, at least in Serb/Slav stories, just dead people come back to (un)life for various reasons. One came back from death because he wasn't buried with his shoes. Another came back from death because she died a virgin and then started dancing on the surface of river waters, luring people to drown.

>>383811014
>Another came back from death because she died a virgin and then started dancing on the surface of river waters, luring people to drown
You're talking about Rusalkas (which people often confuse with Mermaids, even though the word "rusalka" officially became another name for mermaid in modern slav countries).

>>383811014
But then again, Slavic vampires get distracted if you throw pennies for them to count. So it's not all bad. And besides, Revenants and Banshees/Onryo/Spooky Woman in White already fill those niches.

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>>383805596
I like to imagine the Countess is just a rotting corpse a bug crawled up inside of like a suit, and her body's falling apart and the bug comes out as you fight it.

>>383807998
Right to left, Turelim, Dumahim, Razielim, Zephonim?

>>383811223
>Slavic vampires get distracted if you throw pennies for them to count.
Are they Jewish?

>>383811223
so Slavic vampires are methapor for jews?
Kinda fitting really.

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>>383811223
>And besides, Revenants and Banshees/Onryo/Spooky Woman in White already fill those niches.

This DESU famalam, and you can blame this on D&D.

It's outright mandatory to have a huge bestiary in your entertainment, and makes it vital to differentiate these creatures from one another. And so we've come to codify each and every monster and put them into specific niches so that fighting a vampire is nothing like fighting a werewolf, an Onryo, or a Revenant, like >>383810367 >>383810367 >>383811223 said.

Even OP could be put into a Barrow Wight shoes like pic related, and focus more on the plague-bringing abilities than simple blood-sucking.

So the real question is: Why aren't there more Wight/Banshee/Revenant video games?

>>383811621
>>383811632
>pennies
nah, if they were Jewish you'd have to throw them some shekels.

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Narcissa

>>383811585
yes

>>383811349
But then again, that would mean the Countess grew a hundred times before dying, considering her Eldritch size.

>>383811349
>a tick-mosquito hybrid
booooring

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>>383809319
It's almost as if mythology reflects the psyche of living humans, and as the nature of lost its sense of threat against us and we get bored in our safe prescribed life-careers restrained be social pressures, those mythological creatures in tune with the dark and nature are seen tempting calls to adventure and freedom.

Also, posting husbando of the year.

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>>383811915
*Nosferatu

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>>383810634
>>383811349

I think is mostly to fit her in all the slots but if you want something more lore friendly she grew in size as she was gestalting in the courtyard.

Also I love how all the enemies are blood sucking bugs

>Baron is a tick
>Viscount is a flea
>Countess is a mosquito

>>383812146
That was the best scene shown thus far.

>>383812284
Shit, I always wanted to have looks like this. It's freaky but also weirdly attractive. Would fit my fucked up inner world perfectly.

>>383812641
Fuck off Cosmo

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>>383803738

I wonder if Project Wight will ever come out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2-yceHQ8I

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superior 2spooky immortals

>>383811163

No, that's what we considered vampires.

>>383811223

Personally, I prefer our take on Vilas/Veelas/Fairies. Majority of them were female, they didn't like to get tied down to one man, they could love others and they did have relations with them, but they could never be tied to just one person and if you tried they went literally crazy and would kill you to get free. On the other hand, if you befriended them, they could become like a sister to you. In one of our stories, a man was held accountable for a crime he didn't commit and the village people who accused him knew he was innocent, so when he called upon his Vila-sister, she killed everyone in the village.

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>>383801407
they dont generate r34

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>>383813131
Undying would've been a far more interesting game if it went the RPG route or at least something like System Shock-lite. This amazing atmosphere and interesting premise don't really pair well its gameplay. Also, fuck the OOGA BOOGA primal levels.

Is Krampus a Vampire, or maybe Satan?

>>383810550
>Werewolves are an incredibly boring concept. They are basically serial killers in animal hide with a sprinkle of some retarded unexplained "lolcurse" thrown in.

Honestly, no more than "we can finally talk about sexuality in Victorian period" that vampires got interpreted as in western literature. But that's boiling down both creatures to a very basic concept.

>>383813214
Beastial ones do. The ones that look like brittle crazy hobos mixed with rotting corpses don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2s0-rZcvI

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>>383801407
>shapeshifters want to look attractive to the people they're trying to fool
No. Really?

>>383801570
>being this circumcised

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>>383813390
it's a big injustice Undying didn't become a big horror franchise. It's honestly up there with SH

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>>383813882

>>383811621
>>383811632
No, they were just autistic as hell. They would count marbles and grains of rice too. Also, some kinds of them would die for good if they crossed running water.

>>383814835
thing with slav vampires is they're horribly inconsistent and could just be poor classifications when someone decided to actually write it all up

>>383808373
It was better Dracula than Dracula.

>>383814835
>Also, some kinds of them would die for good if they crossed running water.
I thought it was a Hammer meme.

>>383815157
There were a lot of variations of them.

>>383815559
Nope. It was even in Bram Stoker's novel.

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How would you design a vampire?

I would make them pic related.

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>>383817335

>>383816339
>There were a lot of variations of them.
Exactly. For example,in Romania the concept of strigoi and the means of warding them off can differ from region to region even in the same country.

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>>383817335