This discussion does raise an issue that I've been wondering about for a while with Vampire. Even if you do without the "woe is me what have I become" angst, you're left with the fact that you're playing a character who is a parasite on human society, everybody in Vampire society is a hateful and backstabbing **** towards each other and are pathologically incapable of being otherwise, and you're an emotionally muted sociopath.

Where, exactly, does this get fun?

Mage appeals to me a lot more because mages have positive, grand-scale long term plans (and appropriately grand-scale screw-ups). Geist appeals to me because it's sort of inherently light ("I'm not dead and I have freaky powers? Sweet!"). Not to mention I like their powersets more from a mechanics perspective.