Decline The new Thiaf game is MASSIVE decline - Eidos Forum Refugee Camp

I ran the ingame benchmark, and i'm getting 45 frames on average. With everything maxed out, obviously.

I have an Nvidia card, and it runs fine. So, no. It's not unplayable on Nvidia cards. Problem?

 

Time to celebrate!

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...celebrate the butthurt of Thief fans:

 

Doesn't he stir up shit pretty regularly on the W2 forums?

 

I thought his name looked like the one from the last time I followed a link over there (I don't have an account on their forums).

 

Hell yeah, ZylonBane is awesome.
I'll play Thi4f some more tomorrow but I'd rather hang myself than carry on with the horrible performance and the terribad gameplay.

 

After the HotU forums died, I hung out at various forums. I lurked at the RPG Watch, and can confirm what Spellcaster said: Bashing a game was frowned upon.

The NMA forum was weird, but not Codex weird. The oddest thing that happened there was that one of the biggest postwhores got arrested, convicted and sentenced to 4+ years in jail because he got busted storing some "hot" data for another guy. Can't remember the details better than that.

 

Well there's a thread for reviews and it seems like it's mostly full of people talking about canceling their preorder, other people telling those people that they're stupid for judging it before it's out or before people have had a week to play it, and the moderators just being as friendly as possible while refraining from any obvious commentary regarding the reviews. Overall I would say that the consensus is that it's a fucking disaster like everybody said it was going to be. Considering the time and therefore money spent on developing this game, then the money for the marketing they've been pushing, it's hard to imagine that some suit at Square Enix isn't completely losing their mind and trying to fire everybody right now. Sales will be the ultimate deciding factor, but considering what they expected for Tomb Raider, they're bound to be disappointed.

 

Holy shit, dat Metacritic! A few hours ago there was about 10 negative user reviews, now there's only 2.

 

Three out of the four highest reviews on metacritic are from Italian websites.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/thief/critic-reviews

I guess the eurocrisis made all commodities cheaper

 

I'm sure that is just a glitch and Square Enix is definitely not leaning on places to remove what negative feedback that they can.

 

I played the introduction and the first level. Within 5 minutes of starting the game, there was already a button-mashing minigame to open a window, that set the pace for what was to come; way too many scripted cutscenes, "edgy" sidekick, shitty corridor design, lack of control and player agency (you can't even lean without an actual wall corner, not to mention the now comical inability to jump anywhere), over-designed UI, ridiculous AI (in the first level's courtyard, you can literally shuffle behind the guard in the grass, standing up, he won't bother turning around unless you directly bump into him), etc. It's every bit as bad as it seemed - it might actually be worse, even. Deadly Shadows is a fucking masterpiece compared to this.

The ironic part is that it also looks pretty bad, popamolers won't bat an eyelash for any of this. So the payoff for alienating a loyal fanbase of over 15 years is actually nothing.

 

Huh? Are we looking at the same metacritic? I'm seeing 178 negative user reviews(vs 129 positive) and an average 4.6 user score.

Love this positive review though:

Score given: 9/10

 

And the walls you can climb are all marked with some sort of white paint, which is hilariously stupid.

I though the game looked fairly decent, character models could be better but the lighting and environments are decent. Runs pretty well, too. A good port for an incredibly shitty game.

 

I'm pretty sure that's bird shit.

Kinda like drinking from a toilet to regain health in Fallout 3.

 

NuThief's world has some massive birds then :p

 

Reminds me of how you could only climb ledges in FarCry 3 if they were adorned with a few loops of fucking rope. Thanks assholes, I really wanted unrealistic visual prompts strewn about the landscape because you're incapable of fully open level design.

Unlike Thiaf though, FarCry 3 was fairly enjoyable for a decent amount of time. Thank Gaben for Steam sales.

 

What confuses me is the number of accounts on TTLG registered in the late 1990's/early 2000's, and who haven't posted there in 7 or 8 years, but are suddenly coming out of the woodwork to shamelessly shill for this game.



VVVV: That would require a time machine, incredibly poor taste is more likely.

 

sleeper shills

 

Oh noes. Everyone don't panic.

 

Messing around TTLG, and I never heard about this before:

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128793

it's a project to merge all sections/zones within the levels of thief deadly shadows. So while the nuthiaf has small sections, the one before may in fact get rid of one of it's main problems.

 

Terrible stuff. Does put in a mood to play Dark Messiah of M&M for some reason.... which as a side note is far superior to Bioshock.

 

So, apparently there's a scene in the game where you have to quickly escape in a cinematic sequence, but is very difficult to accomplish if you chose the modifier to decrease your movement speed. For the people who actually chose to buy/pirate this, can you confirm?