Vampyr is apparently on Steam sale and has adjusted its difficulty scales to allow Story Mode. I don’t care so much about that; I mostly care that I’d rather not play an absolutely horrible monster that absolutely has to eat people to death. I mean, heck: when I played Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY PLAY THE VERSION OF THIS GAME WITH THE UNOFFICIAL PATCH) I played a Toreador who maxed out Humanity early and kept it going throughout the game. I didn’t kill anybody who wasn’t trying to put a crossbow bolt through my chest*. I made a point not to, in fact.
So, is Vampyr absolutely dark and dreary? It can be a little less than absolutely, mind you. I’m willing to work for that Paragon status.
Moe Lane
*Although I may have been a little less, ah, benevolent when it came to resolving the status of vampire hunters. That kind of thing sneaks up on you, honestly.
As I reported before, I started Vampyr and enjoyed it- for a bit. I eventually gave up in frustration.
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It IS possible to play without eating people- you just have to do all side quests. Do NOT mix between eating and not eating as that is the worst of both worlds. (You get massive xp for eating people- but you lose the quests they would have given you, losing THAT XP.)
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The biggest problem is that there are very very murky choices, morally. What hit me several times was that I would make a choice that I thought was the best morally out of multiple very grey choices, and that turned out to be the absolute worst thing that could happen. It is a checkpoint system so you cannot even go back to a save point, you have to start the game all over. After the first major screw up, I figured: well, that is life, and I’ll be more careful. Then the second one happened and killed multiple quest givers and I was like- to Hell with this.
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I would not recommend.