History OurVampiresAreDifferent / VideoGames

* While he may or may not be a vampire, Psaro the Manslayer from DragonQuestIV has a decent amount of vampiric traits. Pale skin, red eyes (some vampire stories give vampires red eyes), fangs, and unnatural beauty.

* Vampires in {{Dating Sim}} ''Fortune Arterial'' possess none of the traditional weaknesses, but cannot make more vampires via feeding. Rather, one who ''consumes'' a vampire's blood becomes a ''kenzoku'' (progeny,) gaining the abilities of a vampire (minus blood-sucking) but becoming bound to that vampire as a servant and an all-day breakfast on legs.

* Nitara from ''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'' introduced a Vampire race to the series. This variation presents huge vampire wings on their backs, the common thirst for blood, an allergy to the Earth's sun and vulnerability to wooden stakes (any other material wouldn't kill them). In ''MK: Armageddon'', they race's name is given as Moroi, and their realm is named Vaeternus.
* Sacred featured the Vampiress, a human woman bitten by a Vampire and turned, then given a soul when she bit a Seraphim. This allowed her to resume her human form and safely travel during the day, though she had no restriction on changing and no weakness to fire. However in Vampire form she takes continuous sun damage but gains sufficient power boosts to make up for it.

* Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, based on (you guessed it!) White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade pen and paper RPG series.

* In the world of ''TheElderScrolls'', Vampirism is a disease called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vampirism]] in ''{{Daggerfall}}'', "Porphyric Hemophilia" in ''{{Morrowind}}'' and ''{{Oblivion}}'' and ''"Sanguinare Vampiris"'' in ''{{Skyrim}}''. The recent games seem to treat vampirism differently.

*** ''{{Daggerfall}}'' is similar, though with nine clans and less difference between them.

** Bear in mind that Joachim is a HardGay, [[ImprobableWeaponUser improbable weapon wielding]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome pro-wrestling]], [[BeyondTheImpossible super hero]].

* In FallFromHeaven II, the vampires of the Calabim civilization are technically alive, consume souls instead of blood, and most of the traditional weakenesses probably don't affect them. However, they hate the sunlight, because Lugus, the Angel of Light, associated truth and revelation, just mahes them feel what they inflict to other.

* BloodRayne Vampire's range from mostly human looking to huge and monstrous

** There is actually a third vampire in the Touhou series, but [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome nobody remembers]] Kurumi because she's a minor character of ''Lotus Land Story'', which, like the majority of the PC-98 games, is already almost completely ignored as a whole. She has the odd happenstance of living in a ''lake of blood'' and is also considerably weaker than Remilia or Flandre.

* In ''{{Disgaea}}'', vampires are a subtype of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] whose power is tied to the consumption of human blood. {{Disgaea 4}} revolves around a vampire who's looking for a way back to the top after his [[VegetarianVampire refusal to drink human blood]] [[DePower has stripped him of his past power]].

* Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, based on (you guessed it!) White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade pen and paper RPG series.

* In the world of ''TheElderScrolls'', Vampirism is a disease called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vampirism]] in ''Daggerfall'', "Porphyric Hemophilia" in ''Morrowind'' and ''Oblivion'' and ''Sanguinare Vampiris'' in ''Skyrim''. The recent games seem to treat vampirism differently.
** In ''Morrowind'', there are three "clans" of vampires. Every vampire clan is very tough, able to levitate, vulnerable to sunlight and can't heal without draining life energy. Each clan has a different set of bonus skills, reflecting their clan specialty.
*** Daggerfall is similar, though with nine clans and less difference between them.
** In ''Oblivion'', there is only one type of vampire native to Cyrodiil. They don't require blood to stay alive, but they get stronger, more monstrous in appearance and more vulnerable to sunlight the longer they go without drinking blood. The blood apparently makes them able to blend in. In-game books state that there are many different types of vampires, each with their particular strengths and weaknesses.
*** ''Skyrim'' is similar... which has caused some confusion whether the vampires in ''Skyrim'' are Cyrodiilic immigrants that have pushed out the natives or Skyrim natives that have somehow adopted the Cyrodiil strand's main trait.

* [[{{Fallout}} Fallout 3]], made by the same folks as TheElderScrolls series, has the Family, who aren't supernatural at all - they all came together as 'vampires' for thier own reasons. One suffers from some form of mutation or psychological disorder that gives him an insatiable hunger for human flesh, but can drink blood as a substitute. The Leader at one point states that they follow vampiric traditions mainly because it allows them to think of themselves as something other than ravenous cannibals.

* Leonid from ''RomancingSaGa3''

** In PMiSS, it is mentioned vampires are capable of summoning vast amounts of demons by merely whispering.

* Slayer from the ''GuiltyGear'' games seems completely unaffected by sunlight and other vampiric banes (although, truthfully, he has never been shown exposed to any other weaknesses). He seems to be completely immortal. Even when he's defeated in combat, his sprite for lying on the ground shows him not dead or knocked out, but holding his head up, legs crossed, looking amused.

* The vampires in the video game ''{{Boktai}}'' are made of real tough stuff. Not only can they endure just about any of the vampire weaknesses you can throw at them, they are notorious for tanking the shots of a gun that is not only powered by sunlight, but actually fires off rounds made of solar energy. Even if they do die, they tend to come back at inopportune times, so the best way to render them DeaderThanDead is to drag its coffin to the Pile Driver and fire it up!

* The Mystics of SagaFrontier are something of a hybrid between Vampires and TheFairFolk. According to [[AllThereInTheManual Essence of SaGa]] the strongest variety are even called "True Vampires". Generally these are the only sort who have blood related powers.

* NightTrap is loaded with vampires. Vampires can teleport, make their eyes glow, have super strength, are unharmed by bullets, and can shoot lightning from their hands. Other vampires are created by completely draining a mortal of blood. However, if not enough blood is taken, an auger is created. Augers look like limping burglars due to the fact that they cover themselves completely in black clothing because their skin falls off of their bones due to their hunger.

* Like the [[{{ptitlebga5e439}} Callahan]] example above, the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon computer game takes the player to Pyotr's hometown of Floresçu. Once there, we meet another vampire like Pyotr, named Sasha, and it's revealed that Callahan's vampires have traditional greeting in which a normal human offers them a wrist, and the vampires take only a little bit of blood, to show trust from both parties.

* [[{{Fallout}} Fallout 3]], made by the same folks as TheElderScrolls series, has the Family, who aren't supernatural at all - they suffer from some form of mutation or psychological disorder that gives them an insatiable hunger for human flesh, but drink blood as a substitute. Their leader states that they follow vampiric traditions mainly because it allows them to think of themselves as something other than ravenous cannibals.

** Donvan on the otherhand is an Earth native [[HalfHumanHybrid vampire hybrid]]. He's able to grow wings and electrocute people but his most impressive powers come from his [[InfinityPlusOneSword big sword]].

* In the world of ''TheElderScrolls'', Vampirism is a disease called "Porphyric Hemophilia" from ''Daggerfall'' to ''Oblivion'' and ''Sanguinare Vampiris'' in ''Skyrim. The recent games seem to treat vampirism differently.

*** Daggerfall is similar, though with seven clans and less difference between them.

* In the world of ''TheElderScrolls'', Vampirism is a disease called "Porphyric Hemophilia". The recent games seem to treat vampirism differently.

* Vamp from {{Metal Gear Solid}} is...different. He acquired his unusual dietary habits when, as a child, he was buried alive under the rubble of a bombed church, with only the blood of his family to keep himself from dying of thirst. He has a {{Healing Factor}} but [[spoiler: it's due to nanomachines]]. He's immune to sunlight, and can move around freakishly - he, at one point, runs fast enough to walk on water. He's also able to swim in a section of the Big Shell that's explicitly stated to have nanites that will more or less drown anyone in it by lack of friction (sinking them to the bottom). In [[MetalGearSolid4 MGS4]], as a EasterEgg, hitting him with the unlockable Solar Gun instantly knocks him out.

** Vamp had some supernatural weirdness going on before [[spoiler:being injected with nanomachines]]. The [[spoiler:nanomachines]] came after MGS2, and amped up what was already there.

** Vamp had some supernatural weirdness going on before being injected with nanites. The nanites came after MGS2, and amped up what was already there.

* In {{Gabriel Knight}} 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, Gabriel goes up against an army of self-styled vampires called "Night Visitors", who kidnap what they believe is the last in the Holy Bloodline, in order to drink the blood and achieve immortality.

** On the other hand, he and his half-vampire son Alucard have the usual unaging benefits, and the ability to tranform into bats, wolves, and mist. Dracula also has a lot more demons transformations. They both also have some apparently magical abilities, like their classic "Hellfire" teleport-fireball.