Okay, it's official. I REALLY WANT
PROPER VAMPIRE STUFF, EA~!!
I had a dream last night that my vampire sims were decked out in all kinds of Grand Vamp/iress Gothic finery and partying at a masquerade ball, and that I was happily building a ton of new lots for them in their new creepy vampires-and-voodoo overrun world, cackling with glee over all the new content. I got this weird feeling that it was some New Orleans world set in the Transylvanian mountains, I don't know how that happened.
I then dreamed that I got on the forums and some idiots were whining about how they hated that EA had brought back the old TS2 NL coffins and that EA should have made the coffins stand up like the WA sarcophagus and SSNS tanning booth did. I had to cuss them out, like: how many frikkin stand-up coffins have you ever seen vamps pop out of? I can count on 1 hand all the flicks where I've seen that done--no no no, stand-up coffins are 99% for mummies, and lying down IN GRAVES are for vamps--doofus. :roll: I told them to be satisfied with the decor ones EA created with the shovel and tombstone marker, and sit down and shut it before I bit them. :twisted:
I then went on to thank EA for the Draculaisms and Lady Bathoryisms and that with EP11 around the corner I was possibly one of the happiest simmers ever.
Then I woke up cuz I had to go potty. :oops:
BUT YEAH! :evil: ANYWAY! WTH, it was just a dream!!!!!
I HATE it when that happens!
This is what happens when you have an Underworld films marathon movie-night, I suppose.
EA, come on, PLEASE do something else for vampires!!! I don't know about anyone else, but I personally am just NOT HAPPY with LN/SN. I don't know who the creative director was, but REALLY!? Omg--REALLY!? :hunf: Not ONE coffin/ Not ONE caped tuxedo? Not ONE? BOTH times!? :shock: *left eye twitching* I'm actually QUITE p****d off, honestly; I get offended every time I look at the LN logo. Vampires are my 3rd favorite fantasy creature behind dragons and faeries/elves, and I feel like vamp-lovers are getting kicked in the frikkin teeth! :x (Pun not intended)
If you don't want to create a new creepy haunted Vamp-and-Voodoo New Orleans World, or even that Gothic Forest Transylvanian thing with the gargoyles, then fine. There ARE fabulous Asian Neon Cities to be built, after all *cough cough!* But PLEASE create some new sets! This is getting outrageous, and my heart bleeds for all the unfashionable, unmade and unloved vamps out there.... BLEEDS!
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You know the drill:
VAMPS-AND-VOODOO
PREMIUM CONTENT COFFIN BEDS!
-A new PC bed for sims to sleep in, shaped just like the old TS2 coffin from Night Life.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100707160732/sims/images/b/b1/Vampire_Coffin.jpg
-Sims kids-elders can sleep in them. It's a single bed, so little Claudia can't sneak in to sleep with Louis--leave Brad Pitt alone; he's got more than enough kids now.
-Daredevils and Brave and Insane sims love to peek inside and sleep in them--silly "Thrills and Chills" seekers who get all sorts of adrenaline buffs from having dared to sleep in something so cursed. Cowardly sims get all sorts of nasty Freaked Out moodlets and nightmares if they sleep in them. They may even Wet the Bed. (lmao)
-When you crack it open screetching bats fly out (daytime?), or mist pours out (nighttime?).
-If you have LN/SN installed sims have a 50% chance of being bitten by one of those aforementioned animated bats while they're sleeping, and waking up as a vampire.
CREATE A SIM
-Can we PLEASE get the old stuff back?
New hair for females
http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/b/b8/GVampiress_1.png
New clothes
http://www.freewebs.com/freesims2stuff/Vamps.PNG
GRAVES and GRUNGE
GARGOYLES AND GOTHIQUE
-NEW GOTHIQUE SETS -- BATHROOM, KITCHEN AND DINING, and BUILD MODE
BEDROOMS
http://s143.photobucket.com/user/Sim-Wolf/media/Encyclopedia/Creatures/Vampire5.jpg.html
http://www.homeizea.com/gothic-bedroom-designs/
http://data.whicdn.com/images/2883821/tumblr_l4j2agXiW81qbbb44o1_500_thumb.jpg
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/impressive-gothic-bedroom-designs-22.jpg
BATHROOMS
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm038mvlWt1qjc5zso1_500.jpg
https://d27fcql9yjk2c0.cloudfront.net/assets/314909/lightbox/28e197198495b7d90cdb603a6f3e0916.jpg?1276954041
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9uYuWx0Xh3A/TcEbh96f5fI/AAAAAAAAAC8/WjrCdiYydZg/s1600/thewitchery-300x195.jpg
http://pichomez.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mediterranean-gothic-bathroom.jpg
http://www.hometone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/a_knight_to_remember_gothic_bath_tissue_holder_elni6.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrvyn7LPvs1qeozqjo1_500.png
FINE DINING
http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/vampire-restaurant.jpg
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/rodriguez/GildedAge/dining room zingman.jpg
http://media-3.web.britannica.com/eb-media/55/42755-004-B6B656D7.jpg
http://www.questforghosts.com/images/haunted-houses/hatfield-house-6.jpg
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat!?! Man, I'd love to play vampire sims in my game, but I refuse to because of that. It's like...Nooooooo, vampires bite you, you cant stop them if they want to do it, they're VAMPIRES!*LOL* What's the sense of the 'hunted' moodlet in Supernatura for a sim to have, if the vampire has to stop and chat them up some for a while anyways, before being able to bite them???
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Also...The vampire blood fruit thing. How the hell do you plant it? Or is there a seed you can find for it? I've got gardner sims that have maxed out their gardening skill and I cant seem to plant the darn thing?
(But yes, I am looking forward to the movie SP--it may be the first one I actually WILL purchase for TS3)
I had a MTS mod last year that unlocked the autosoil for the plasma fruit, but when the new patch came out I was afraid to keep using it. I keep forgetting to ask Shimrod over at NaughtySimsAsylum to unlock it properly. :? I really have no idea how else to get it--I played Bridgeport only once, when I was creating my Supernatural PEPS story and needed will o' wisps (my Ghost Hunter worked in Bridgeport and it was so cute seeing the oh-so-tough vamps in their highrises freaking out when the joint got haunted ) and though I got a crapload of will o' wisps with my modded out Harvester (even one or two PINK ones!) I NEVER caught a plasma fruit with the harvester. Which is weird, cuz it Harvested up every other plant in the world like *that*.
[EDIT] YAY! The mod was updated! ^0^ http://modthesims.info/d/450575
And I feel your pain. I only played a vamp ONCE, when I made my Place of Sorrows lot last Halloween, and I swear I was so over vamps. :roll: I can mod them out for days and they're just not awesome enough. There's no coffin, and if I have to see one more DAGGONE Altar I'm gonna flip my lid! (coffin humor, pfft).
Even in modern vampire tales from Buffy to Being Human and Interview with the Vampire to even (somewhat less successfully) Twilight, the vampire has always been rather sexy! C'mon - Antonio Banderas, Brad Pitt, maybe even Tom Cruise ... who could say 'No'?
If I'm playing with a vampire they don't stay friends for long - just long enough to get what they want! :twisted:
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I think of my vamps that way, too - like the friendship effort is equal to "glamouring" their victim and they never really see them again.
...and this is why you rule!!
I also long for a proper coffin. The altars that came with Late Night and Supernatural...unsettle me. They were cool at first because, hey, anything to do with vampires was cool, but the hovering just doesn't feel right. I use them for decor now and my sims rarely sleep on them. A coffin would be one piece of PC that I wouldn't even hesitate about buying.
Ironically the 1st SP (kinda) gives us 2 PC items and then none.
We really need some improvement in this last or penultimate SP..
I'd rather say no to Store PC item.
True Blood marathon today.
Other than coffins i'm fine without all the stereotype vampire stuffs. It's good for the hunter to blend into the environment so the prey doesn't bolt.
THANK YOU. ^_^
Unsettling is the exact word. They would have been cooler as a new dining/end/coffee table than a bed, or some sort of general random sacrificial altar to refill witch magic or something. But specifically for vamps? WHY? :hunf: Yeesh. :roll:
And irony on top of THAT, the PC items ended up in other EPs, AND the Store! Like the sandboxes, hottubs...I wish EA would make a treehouse for the Store.
I guess the friendship makes it so that it doesn't translate as 🐸🐸🐸🐸, if you use biting as a PG13 allusion to smexy time.
I got over the friendship thing, but vamps just aren't CLASSY like they were in TS2. And no Bleh! I miss the Bleh.
Watching that shrimp Tom Cruise was awkward, but I'd take Tom Cruise's Lestat over that crazy Cullen clan any night of the week, honestly. :roll:
FAAAAARRRRR less successfully!
Sexiest vampire I've ever seen is Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula. :thumbup: Sweet Jesus I fell in love with that man in that movie, even though I didn't understand what the eff he was talking about for most of the movie. :XD:
Antonio Banderas is my 2nd favorite, even though they got the character of Armand ALL wrong in the movie--in the books he was a beautiful teenage redheaded curlytop Russian boy, not some longhaired (swoon) Spanish debonaire, but whatever.
My 3rd favorite is actually a pair--I just loved Russel and Talbot Edginton in True Blood!
And then Eric Northman's my fourth. (I can't WAIT to see the new season!)
Oooooooh.....I forgot about that thanks. New season starts tonight!
Yes, I'm tired of polite vampires. They are meant to enthrall and seduce you into baring your neck.
We need capes and coffins!
I didn't know there was a Marathon!
Are they running the 2nd season, with Mary Anne? That was my favorite season; it built up the suspense JUST right, cuz I swear I had no idea what that crazy heifer was up to until the last minute.
I felt the same way about the 1979 version with Frank Langella. My sister and I went to see it in the theater. After the movie my sister's comment was "He can put his coffin under my bed any time!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZRR71ielg
(Your sister's funny, btw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOpiOV9uiFk
She is...I didn't add that all through the movie she was pulling her collar away from her neck saying" Bite me, Come on, you can bite me."
And my mom thought I was bad! She said the biggest embarrassment of her life was when we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean together and I was just fangirling myself to death in the theatre watching Johnny Depp. :XD:
What was that film where he played a vampire who woke up in the 70s or whatever? I heard it wasn't all that good. Though I bet he was fantastic as a vampire.
Just joining in the #fangirling over Johnny Depp!
And lending my support for Team Stoker!!!
Johnny Depp? Are you talking about Dark Shadows?
I thought it was okay. More comedy than anything. Give it a shot if you haven't seen it.
I have yet to read the entirety of this thread but THIS ^^ is all I need! SERIOUSLY EA whatever HAPPENED to the "more intriguing" vampires you promised us???? WHY are they so lame and powerless? Why doesn't "Intimidate" actually INTIMIDATE anybody? WHAT THE HECK does "Hypnotic Gaze" actually DO???? WHY on earth do our vampires suffer from an insane pathological need to confess to being vampires? And WHY would they apologize for it? SERIOUSLY EA, WHAT THE HADES IS ***WRONG*** WITH YOU PEOPLE???? GIVE OUR VAMPIRES SOME BITE! At the very LEAST, finally break down and give them some proper clothes and coffins for pity's sake!!!! And a decent spooky home of their own!!!! :evil:
TOTALLY agree! It's ridiculous that vamps have to beg permission to feed! As to the plasma fruit... you have to just buy some from the store and then be gardening level 7 (I think) and then you just click on the plasma fruit in your inventory and it'll give you the option to plant one or pant many.