I didn't like the fact that you end up ugly at all at least in morrowind it was easily modded so you were a good looking vamp, plus there isnt enough to do when you're a vamp though being one and being in the hunters order in the Imperial City is kinda fun.

Legacy of Kain series hands down. The fact that the vampires are actually an ancient race that was cursed is also a coolness factor. The story behind it is just amazing and Kain is a really cool character (I really don't like Raziel so SR1 and 2 were hard on me).
Even though the series died after Defiance I'm still one of those fans that keep on loving it. I actually played the entire series in a sort of marathon last year.  Fanboy...

I'm also a big fan of The Elder Scrolls but I really disliked being a vampire in Oblivion, at least in Morrowind you has some vampire-only quests with some very cool items.

*raises hand* guilty! I have a Kain action-figure...now please stop staring and leave me alone.

Legacy of Kain for me, one of the best series I ever played, and raziel is awesome.

I'm glad to see some other folks in here that love the Blood Rayne franchise. I've been a big fan of Terminal Reality's work for a long while, starting with Nocturne way back in the '90's (my sig. file on my own site, for months, has been a link to a youtube post of a Nocturne trailor).

I found the first Blood Rayne to be exceptionally atmospheric and immersive. When you play that game, you *really* are running around in the dark with nasty things jumping out at you. Oh, and you get to carve up Nazis. Admittedly, the controls of the game, as with Nocturne, were...not of the standard they could have been, but I found the sheer ambience of the game made up for this.

Blood Rayne II went the completely opposite direction. The story is much shallower and has a contemporary setting, but the gameplay is much improved, following the tack of modern games in having long lists of combos, fatalities, unlockable powers and moves, and so on.

As for other games, I've played a gamut I liked. I never got to play Bloodlines, but Redemption was fun and had nice atmostphere. I also thought that, while the comic relief moments in that game very *very* few and far between, to this day some of them stand out in my mind as favorite gags because they were so well-done.

A friend of mine has introduced me to the Soul Reaver series, which is pretty darn cool. Beyond that, I'd just be raving for a while.

Someone stole your BR game? That's terrible.

The good news is, the game is so old you should be able to find it in a bargain bin somewhere for pocket change, if that helps.