Yes, vampire stereotypes as set by Dracula give them a laundry list of superpowers. Some authors gave them even more beyond that. It’s tradition by now. I don’t see why this is a point of contention. I think it keeps them varied for video game settings
Speaking about vampires and werewolves in general, vamps just have the whole romanticism angle going for them that has been enshrined into pop culture (with various tropes, from ye olde vamp aristocrats to social outcasts of one type or another in more modern nights). Werewolves meanwhile are usually depicted simply as dumb beasts and the various films that have been done about them (e.g. Dog Soldiers, The Howling series, An American Werewolf in London & its shitty sequel) tend to be quite mediocre monster flicks.
I couldn’t imagine why. /s
Seconded. I’ve done deep dives and it’s garbage. Of course the fans will say it’s the bestest ever, but you know how fans are. Biased af.
Lore doesn’t equate to quality. It’s just reciting factoids
I mean, are you suggesting V:tM is painstakingly historical and culturally relevant? Because despite also being insanely stupid it's very popular and has been adapted across all sorts of media. Being stupid is hardly a disqualifier for success and market penetration.
VtM mainly builds upon preexisting tropes which makes it appealing even to normies, WoD's werewolf-themed setting on the other hand is much more original in how it chooses to give depth to preexisting werewolf lore. And going by how RaggleFraggle described it, the way they went about it is certainly not something that could generate the same sort of mass appeal as VtM did. It's just too off-putting for too many kinds of people, me included.
I disagree - the world didn't change that much. Vampires hiding in plain sight remains a great setup for a secret cabal ruling the world and "explaining" all the weird occurrences, even including social media or smartphones. If you want the classic spookness (and not just an unsettling revelation) then you want gothic, which is a whole another time period.
Should've read it sometime then. If we're talking about the faction that's the most vampire inspired, it's arguably Blood Angels but definitely not Dark Eldar, that's not up for debate.
It's not pedantic, it's how the lore works. Besides, you can't classify just anything that feeds on whatever as a vampire, vampires feed on blood and nothing else. If it feeds on emotion, pain or whatever then it's not a vampire. At best you can say it's "vampiric" but that's neither here nor there. If that weren't true then I'd be a bread vampire because I eat bread.
Words can have multiple meanings and meanings shift over time. The word “vampire” has grown to encompass a variety of folkloric and fictional monsters.
As I've said, neither Dark Eldar nor dementors nor anything else you listed are considered vampires by any sane person, just because they "feed" on some sort of thing. By the same token, something like an Orc is not a human just because they're also humanoid.
Who? At least name drop a person from your Google search with a wikipedia page.
See above.
Untrue, because there are variants on the vampire myth of which there are those that do drink blood. Additionally, as has been stated already in this thread, we don't care much about the "original" vampire, because that's not what fantasy vampires are based on anyway.
Nope, not by the general standards of the fantasy genre.
You want a Wikipedia page? Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_vampire
DreamForge Intertainment (that made many great games) was killed by making Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Heart of Gaia when its publisher bankrupted.
The cutscenes were later leaked on youtube. The plot was… a generic superhero plot with a werewolf skin. The main character’s family is murdered by Captain Planet villains, he’s rescued by ecoterrorist werewolves, he learns he’s from a lost line of werewolf heroes (which was already a cliché backstory in the tabletop by this point, but that’s a nitpick tbh), he defeats the villain of the arc and the story ends.DreamForge Intertainment (that made many great games) was killed by making Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Heart of Gaia when its publisher bankrupted.
Pity. DreamForge always tried to make their plots interesting and with curious twists. Just remember Summoning or Anvil of Dawn.
The idea of werewolves as dark superheroes isn’t an inherently bad one. The bad execution was building the entire premise around that as opposed to giving groups options (a problem that was suffered by the AU reboot, which made the werewolves Sumerian and fight the Evil Dead but struggled to do anything outside of that). There’s a bunch of possible ways you could handle werewolves, even in the same setting. For example:
