Review: Vampyr (PlayStation 4, Xbox One & Steam) – Defunct Games

29 thoughts on “Review: Vampyr (PlayStation 4, Xbox One & Steam) – Defunct Games”

1. You gave the best rant on combat that ive seen.

2. Wow, it looks like this game sucks. (get it, cuz vampires suck blood.)
   Favorite vampire game: Hands down goes Super Castlevania. That game is just so much fun, and it has crazy fun whip play. The soundtrack is super duper as well as the sfx. I remember being somewhere around 10 when my older brother got the game. He would come home after his part time job after school and play it. I would wake up to the beginning cinematic with the creepy music and the fog rolling in on the lightning cracked tombstone. I would always hide under the covers, it was just that scary to me as a little kid.

3. I agree on most of the things but the difficulty and whatnot is due to your inability to check your items and try stuff for yourself. Sure the game can be hard but there are ways to cheese it. The reset skill button costs a lot (300xp) but it's worth if you're having so many problems. An easy-to obtain setup would be a chisel (or w/r it's called) in your offhand, fully upgraded can restore like 30 blood on quick hit, basically making you cast stuff every 2/3 offhand hits, this turns you into a blood god.

4. The writing needed to be better in some areas , as is the combat , but this is one of those rare games that has consequences that ripples forward. These NPCs that are not useless and intergrated perfectly into the world with purpose.

   You get hatchet/scythe/hacksaw/machete & shotgun/revolver before Chapter 3 though

5. Vampire The Masquerade series for sure. But I am also a fan of the Soul Reaver/Blood Omen franchise.

6. Pretty much my favorite are series. Castlevania (minus the Lord of Shadows trilogy I hate those games) and the legacy of kain series. And I love the story and character development of this game but damn it would be such a great game if there was zero combat what so ever.

7. Game crashing multiple times for one playthrough is a horrible sin for a game. Unfortunately, it seems to happen more and more these days.

8. Elder Scrolls lets you be a vampire and it’s great.

9. Pretty accurately how I would describe my time with it rough around the edges and ultimately forgettable

10. Vampire……or Vampeer……

11. My fave vampire game is Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Xbox, the sequel is decent too.

12. Besides Castlevania, Vampire: Bloodlines (PC) is my favorite vampire game (the first one was pretty good too).

13. Sounds like a lot of problems that can be fixed with patches. Too bad the game industry is teaching costumers to wait a year after launch to buy so they can get a proper product

14. Well that's a shame, game looked so good but yeah, that combat looks really clunky. Dark void also did that bit where you have these bit places to explore with nothing in them at all. That's just lazy.

    Favorite game with a vampire is probably symphony of the night. If you mean non castelvania stuff then Vampire the masquerade is up there too. D sort of counts too.

15. It’s times like this when I wish Crystal Dynamics could bring back the Legacy of Kain series. I don’t ever once recall feeling underpowered or underwhelmed by the story. It’s a shame devs don’t know how to make games like that anymore.

16. Your one of very few people that didn't enjoy it i seen lots of reviews for this and there not high but not low ether!

17. Best Vampire game? Easily Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. By far.

    Bit of a shame this turned out to be as rough as it did. There are some great concepts, but ooh… that combat sounds rough. Doubly so when one has to factor in the XP factor. Oh well 🙁

18. Bloodrayne Betrayal, best vampire game!

19. Oke, whats the difference between this and bloodborne? I LOVE bloodborne and that game also has combat every second, great athmosphere, music and style. I dont understand why people love bloodborne and finds this game meh. I havent played this yet, but every review exept ACG is blend about this.

20. i haven't played it, but isn't idea of difficulty of this game was that being a pacifist is very hard, but if you kill some NPC for EXP you gets stronger. Kinda like Undertale.
    Challenge accepted. Really – that's why listening to what reviewer say is more important then any arbitrary numbers – while you yourself didn't like it that much, since i like hard games that maybe right up my alley. Also playing on powerful PC probably would lend me faster loadtimes and waiting for a couple of patches fend off most problems with bugs, i'm not in a hurry

21. It looks to me that most of his complains about the difficult combat combat can be explained by the way he chose to approach feeding off named npcs. You'll miss out on a lot of exp by not killing people which does make sense thematically. A vampire who won't regularly feed will be weaker. In what footage he showed us there wasn't a single instance in which the enemies weren't at least one level higher than him. Much like in Witcher 3 level-differences have a massive impact on the amount of damage you take and dish out. Again, this is a deliberate design decision. You can do a no-kill playthrough which will be very hard since enemies will constantly be higher levels than you. Alternatively you can embrace the darkness and feed on innocent people which will yield you sometimes massive amount on exp, depending on their importance and the amount of information you managed to gather on them through dialogue, investigation and side missions.
    Is this system a good replacer for classic difficulty sliders? No, but there still needs to be an incentive to kill innocents. If you were able to breeze through the game, never killing an innocent then what would be the point of that very central system? They could have resolved the issue more elegantly in my opinion; decreasing stamina regeneration if you didn't feed that night, limiting the dodge ability, people reacting more severely to your clearly inhuman looks while being well-fed allows you to blend in better, maybe allowing you to avoid some encounters by just looking, well.. like a normal person instead of a dead man walking. Just making everyone else more spongy and hit harder than you is a very artificial way of increasing difficulty, especially for a system that relies so heavily on player-choice to determine the game's difficulty.

22. So you dislike the game cause you fucked up/suck? :/

23. Favorite vampire game? Gotta be a Castlevania. I'll say Bloodlines for the sake of diversity.

24. Favorite vampire game? I'd have to go with Blood Omen 2. My wife sat on the couch next to me while I played that one. We both really got into the story for that one.

25. Disappointing. That combat does not look good at all. Sounds like this is a game that should have a story mode to reduce the amount, length and difficulty of combat.

    The best vampire game is Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, no contest.

26. looks like this game is trying to be dark souls :

27. Dang…I wasn't expecting a masterpiece but dumb AI, no fun battles (really looked annoying af), boring bosses, empty (kinda) world/town, no thanks. Hate to say it but probly just gonna be a sale grab :/ Was really looking forward to a new FUN vampire game.

    Also sounds a bit like the same problem with "Remember me". At least for me. I enjoyed the game per se (story, characters, the world) but got massively annoyed by the combat after 2-3 hours.

    QotD: VTM: Bloodlines, period. Tho I gotta admit that I sure enjoyed the first Bloodrayne a lot but does that even count? Dhampyr, Vampire and so.

    P.S: Thanks for the great review!

28. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

    All time classic vampire game.

29. 16 gigs of RAM as a recommendation is beyond my computer's capabilities.

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