Anomander Rake
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Thanks for the review unkillable cat. Pretty insightful. Have my kudos
Why, yeth, he thoundth abtholutely fabulouth.Is it just me or does Karras sound retarded?
About Garrett's new protegee, a disabled trans PoC woman who gets what's xers from the evil white malesWhat should the reboot be about?
Actual Thief 4 has been released a couple of months ago:
cockrings.all i remember is
People still talk about Thief and Deus Ex and Blood, because those games are rock solid.
Thanks for reading it through, I hope you enjoyed it.I subjected myself to Thief 2014 a couple of years ago since I figured that I can't really, properly complain that it's a complete piece of shit without actually playing it first. Yep, it's a complete piece of shit, don't know why or if I expected anything else. Not the worst game I've ever played but possibly the most aggressively mediocre game I've ever experienced (and often times it manages to just miss the mark and is below-mediocre.) That said I came across something that I've never seen anyone else on the internet complain about, including Unkillable Cat's long-ass writeup from a few years back: The AI isn't just shit, it's completely broken.
Yeah, I actually read it a couple of years back before playing it. I just skimmed over it before to see if you'd mentioned the AI issues but I must've missed your example of, "a guard that lost his shit because I turned off a light two rooms away," since that's basically the same thing. My example was just so fascinating to me because I could consistently watch the AI break right in front of me and even run experiments to see how far I could further bork them.Thanks for reading it through, I hope you enjoyed it.
While I never experienced the precise AI-quirk that you described, I did encounter (and mention) a similar one, the one with the bottle and the lights; get a guard to investigate a noise, and the AI won't register any other changes in the room that it normally should. Sounds like the AI is coded to only recognize Garrett as the source of all damage, and briefly gains omniscience when it takes damage from any other source.
But good observation on the fact that the game seems to be designed around hiding the incompatibility of the two elements (guard's behavior and the environment).
Stephen Russell is an awesome voice actor, perhaps one of the best.Take the Hammerites and their shakespearian way of talking, that actual takes some knowledge and skill to pull off!