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Players can contract vampirism in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

  • Posted September 12th, 2011 at 11:55 EDT by Mike Harradence
  • 9 Comments

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim director Todd Howard has confirmed that the hotly-anticipated fantasy RPG will feature the ability to become a vampire.
 
As with past entries in the franchise, contracting vampirism will augment the player character with various abilities and will allow you to feed off the living.
 
On the flip side however, you won’t be able to survive in sunlight without taking damage.
 
Skyrim launches on November 11 for PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 platforms.

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  1. Drebin296 | Drebin296

    • 7:21am EDT - September 12th, 2011

    This is awesome news. However, I hope they have a better system for biting people. Sneaking up on someone who was asleep was kinda lame for me.

  2. AaronSOLDIER | AaronSOLDIER

    • 8:24am EDT - September 12th, 2011

     But no werewolves then?

  3. claud3 | Hollow-Agartha29BC

    • 8:39am EDT - September 12th, 2011

    this is awsome news and we might get werewolves

  4. Bones311

    • 3:11pm EDT - September 12th, 2011

    this is like confirming that the sun still rises in the morning. Since it was in the past games, why would we wonder if it was in this one?

  5. IAM79

    • 3:50pm EDT - September 12th, 2011

    im hella excited for this game!!!

  6. KITT171

    • 5:52pm EDT - September 12th, 2011

    You could do that in OBLIVION, so they are just recycling the same things.

  7. ozman79

    • 6:16pm EDT - September 12th, 2011

     Let's hope it doesn't come with a game breaking bug this time, like the Oblivion GOTY edition did.

  8. Gameoholic007 | Demented007

    • 11:16pm EDT - September 12th, 2011

    I ended up getting this in Oblivion, but got rid of it pretty quick. Good to see that it will be in the next game.

  9. TheTenth666

    • 6:27am EDT - September 13th, 2011

    actually great news to me, but not in the sense of other people here

    vampirism was the reason I stopped playing Oblivion, I had read that the gameplay changes a lot, especially the interactions with NPCs, sunlight causing problems, and of course the boring and long quest to remove the curse ...

    so yes, I won't be buying the game at all thanks to this information (WRPG is already not my cup of tea, FPS view doesn't help)

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