You know why I've never played an evil, psychotic killing machine?
They're boring.
All characters without internal conflict are boring.
And what is the point of being a damned creature of eternal night if you don't care? I mean, it's more than just the minor inconvenience of not being allowed in the sun, being freaked by fire, and being immobilized by a stake in the heart.
Keep this in mind: Vamps are humans. They're just dead, god-cursed humans with weird powers and an internal berserker beast that threatens to break its bindings at any moment. Well, that'll do some funky shit to your head, but it doesn't necessarily mean they lose any capability to feel, love, and hold a moral standard. Those things are largely influenced by age and the company a Kindred keeps, not by their vampirism.
When it comes down to it, whether they follow Humanity or another (read: twisted) path, few vampires are actually killing machines. Almost all are far more interesting and complex in that realm.
And most of them have a survival instinct, which means that even if you don't give a shit about the Kine, you *don't* go draining the daughters of the town dry or gunning down some guy who pissed you off in the middle of ye olde suburbian department store without the resources to cover it up, or the villagers come after you with torches and pitchforks.
V:tM is a largely social and psychological game. Keep that in mind. Consider reading LotN or something. You might find it interesting, and see vampires as more interesting characters.
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