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

I want to be a thiaf

 

I'm playing it at the moment, and it's better than the originals. Suck it you pretentious nerds.

 

Guys, you're trying too hard. I'm serious

 

the fuck is this shit?

 

Next gen, eh?

 

Some long ass post by some zwanzing wolf dude or something. Seems like it got deleted.

 

'twas an abridged LP of thiaf.

 

let's see...endlessly swooping into a brick wall, but still being undetected because you're "SWOOPING!"

 

Christ, I'm gone for 12 hours and you add five pages to the thread.

I think Spellcaster's being a little too hard on agentorange here, especially since he has a very valid point. By the time a player has finished the Cathredal and finally nabbed The Eye, they've been through 12 very large maps that keep changing in variety and style, forcing the player to adapt to new circumstances with almost every mission. Not only that, there's been a visible build-up towards a climax which is finally achieved by nabbing The Eye, handing it over and collecting that huge reward. We know how that goes, so what does the game do next? The game goes "Oh no, I'm not done with you yet! Here's yet another new scenario for you to go through; half-dead with no equipment and dealing with monsters you haven't encountered before!" In Escape! the player can choose to be a thief to get through it, but then the mission actually gets harder, all the same previous gameplay elements apply, except you get more trouble than it's worth. The level is designed to tell you to get out, fast.

Same thing with Strange Bedfellows, there's a sense of urgency about it, and the game actually punishes the player with a mandatory objective if he chooses to go full Thief in it. Finally, The Maw is little more than a corridor with an obstacle course. All three missions have a sense of urgency to them because it's the final act of the game; it's time to Pick Up The Pace. They are different, they have a different tone, and it's intentional. Doesn't mean that they're any worse than the others, but they're not as full in content, on purpose.

Compare this to the end of Thief 2. Let's start with the double feature of Casing the Joint and Masks. By then Thief 2 is into the final act, and yet Garrett is sent on some strange chase into a noble's mansion to case a place and then rob it later? That's not Picking Up The Pace, that's smashing it with a hammer and dragging things on for too long. Unfortunately, Sabotage at Soulforge does much of the same. The stuff with the antenna relays is just another Multi-Lock Puzzle thrown at the player at the very end of the game for no other reason than filler. Soulforge should have been shortened, condensed and streamlined to be more fitting as the end-game material of Thief 2, and the excised parts should have been used in another mission earlier on. The concept of using Mechanist machines to create stuff is nice, but ultimately drags things on for too long. Likewise, going through 8 different locales is a nice idea, but it's in the completely wrong place. What little sense of urgency has been instilled quickly peters out. Hell, you can go heckle Karras in his "bunker" in full view without failing the mission, try doing that with the Trickster or Gamall and see what happens. For this reason, and so many others, we really need(ed) Thief 2 Gold.

Speaking of Gamall, Thief 3. The final mission is really the Museum, which isn't that hard or lengthy, but it's used as a look back at where Garrett and the Thief series have been, right from the start. The final part of the game involves running through the streets, dodging Gamall and her stone cronies (stonies?) and getting the artifacts in place. A real sense of urgency is instilled in the player here, Gamall is a real threat as she can spot the player in all but the darkest shadows, and is quick to kill Garrett if given the chance. The climax is even bigger than in Thief Gold, as it covers three games instead of one.

 

Total Biscuit, John Walker, Yahtzasd... I'm disappointed in you guys.

If I created a 50-minutes TV piece to explain something, I'd get fired. As for John Walker, he just doesn't care.

 

10/10 GOTY

 

The top rated screenshots of Thiaf on steam are nothing if not predictable.




Also, Those textures...

 

EM took some of the good things about the originals,left out the bad ones, and added some new "modern" features.But noooooo. All the damned diehard fans for whom Thief means more than their own mothers hated the idea of a Thief being made for todays standards.
And now, we have a Thief 4, a reboot, set during the time-frame of The City of old; and it seems that a good number of the diehard fans don't even want to give it a chance, and are pissed off it was even made.

Meanwhile, i'm playing the game and enjoying it more than all thiefs combined, 8/10 game atleast.

 

You're going to have to try harder than that to become the next gaudaost, bro.

 

Shadowchick Watshername-themed cosplay will be the best thing to come out of this franchise.

 

In before Thi4f 2: The Woodsie Age

 

Hope you like it more than your mother...

 

Enchanted.

 

The correct idiom is "toe the line," meaning to place one's metaphorical toes directly on the line drawn by the relevant company, bureaucracy, industry, etc.

 

I think we can all agree on that.