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

[Ninjerk]

Is that not a similar rationale to the one used for cover-based stealth in DX:HR?

edit: Blaine

 

[Darth Roxor]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Who gives a shit. At this moment, what matters is that it's getting slammed.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

So is this a worse necroing than Jagged Alliance: BIA or Shadowrun FPS?

somebody says "worse than fallout 3". those are harsh words.

 

[DragoFireheart]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Dark Souls disagrees.

 

[taxalot]

I'll be honest. I never really played any game in the Thief series. I do own them on GoG though.

And I am actually tempted to play them in this order : 4=>3=>1=>2 for the pretty same reason a Star Wars marathon should begin by the prequel trilogy : it only gets better and better.

 

[Oesophagus]

I'll be honest. I never really played any game in the Thief series. I do own them on GoG though.

And I am actually tempted to play them in this order : 4=>3=>1=>2 for the pretty same reason a Star Wars marathon should begin by the prequel trilogy : it only gets better and better.

do it and post impressions

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

So is this a worse necroing than Jagged Alliance: BIA or Shadowrun FPS?

somebody says "worse than fallout 3". those are harsh words.

Man, Back In Action was at least playable and even enjoyable if it's treated as a separate game that has little to no ties to JA.
Can't say anything about Shadowrun FPS.

As for Fallout 3, it is a mediocre game that I really dislike even outside of Fallout name, but if I had to beat Fallout 3, I'd beat it and probably even find moments of enjoyment in it.

"But what about Thief?" you might ask, "Maybe it's not that bad?". It looks like garbage. It sounds like garbage. I'll see if any of my friends bought the game to ensure that my expectations about it being garbage on the gameplay side are true.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Dark Souls disagrees.

Would have been equally slammed for being too old-school, confusing and difficult, if not for the fact that it was marketed as such, and managed to make the difficulty a hip and trendy thing. If not for this message, majority of players and reviewers would've quit before Taurus Demon.

 

[Azazel]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Dark Souls disagrees.

Would have been equally slammed for being too old-school, confusing and difficult, if not for the fact that it was marketed as such, and managed to make the difficulty a hip and trendy thing. If not for this message, majority of players and reviewers would've quit before Taurus Demon.

Case in point: Demons Souls sold like shit and it's a miracle it got a sequel at all.

 

[J_C]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Dark Souls disagrees.

Would have been equally slammed for being too old-school, confusing and difficult, if not for the fact that it was marketed as such, and managed to make the difficulty a hip and trendy thing. If not for this message, majority of players and reviewers would've quit before Taurus Demon.

Case in point: Demons Souls sold like shit and it's a miracle it got a sequel at all.

How much did it sell?

 

[BBMorti]

I wonder how many of the people spamming this thread will secretly buy the game on day 1.

 

[Azazel]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Dark Souls disagrees.

Would have been equally slammed for being too old-school, confusing and difficult, if not for the fact that it was marketed as such, and managed to make the difficulty a hip and trendy thing. If not for this message, majority of players and reviewers would've quit before Taurus Demon.

Case in point: Demons Souls sold like shit and it's a miracle it got a sequel at all.

How much did it sell?

500,000 copies in the first year.

 

[DragoFireheart]

And yet I still see people playing Demon's Souls online.

In fact, the servers recently had a maintenance period this month.

 

[Azazel]

That's because it's a solidly designed experience with high replayability. If success in the AAA industry was based on that, we wouldn't be in the thread we're in right now.

 

[jcd]

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[Oesophagus]

Fallout 3 is infinitely better (never thought I'd say this ) than Thi4f, even if I really hate it. It's playable, the wasteland's elements are there - they suck, but they are there - and even if I truly don't care about/hate those people, it managed to entertain immensely all the newshit dumbfucks that would never play the originals in the first place. Thi4f is so shit, I doubt it will manage to please even the most incurable of today's retards. There really is nothing to like on it, this game is the finest example to date of how disastrous it can get when you make these abominations that dumb down every single mechanic its claws can reach. It backfired really hard on Eidos, no overdose of doritos can make you stand this.

It's what sometimes happens when trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator backfires. They tried to make it dishonored/ac/thief, and it's shit at being all of them

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

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shit

 

[Kirkpatrick]

The map actually tells you where you can rope arrow? Oh my...

 

[racofer]

The map actually tells you where you can rope arrow? Oh my...

hahahahahhahahahahhhahaha

 

[LivingOne]

500,000 copies in the first year.

it's 1 million total without marketing.

Also I think it got good review because people got their hands on it and formed a consensus(challanging but fair)before game journos could(y'know lack of plans to bring it outside japan and all),so they just followed suit.

 

[FuelBlooded]

I'll be honest. I never really played any game in the Thief series. I do own them on GoG though.

And I am actually tempted to play them in this order : 4=>3=>1=>2 for the pretty same reason a Star Wars marathon should begin by the prequel trilogy : it only gets better and better.

After you finish 3, and then start 1, you'll have a smile on your face.

Also, the original games follow Garret's story consistently.

 

[Azazel]

I'll be honest. I never really played any game in the Thief series. I do own them on GoG though.

And I am actually tempted to play them in this order : 4=>3=>1=>2 for the pretty same reason a Star Wars marathon should begin by the prequel trilogy : it only gets better and better.

After you finish 3, and then start 1, you'll have a smile on your face.

Also, the original games follow Garret's story consistently.

Afterwards, take some time for the Fan Missions for Thief 2, because some of those are even better than the stuff LGS created.

Played the gold re-release of Ominous Bequest this weekend. Goddamn does that mission deliver. Need to go replay Inverted Manse and 7th Crystal now.

 

[potatojohn]

And don't forget Thief2X and The Dark Mod

 

[Blaine]

Seems that typo was prophetic. What we've got here is Thiahahahahaf.

 

[J_C]

While the game's mediocre showing may be smugly satisfying, the fact that popamole shill reviewers are calling it "too old-school" (I genuinely don't believe these people have played any good old-school games) while Codexers and other grouchy fucks blast it for being too popamole is probably bad news in the long run.

Dark Souls disagrees.

Would have been equally slammed for being too old-school, confusing and difficult, if not for the fact that it was marketed as such, and managed to make the difficulty a hip and trendy thing. If not for this message, majority of players and reviewers would've quit before Taurus Demon.

Case in point: Demons Souls sold like shit and it's a miracle it got a sequel at all.

How much did it sell?

500,000 copies in the first year.

Assuming that DS is not a game made from AAA budgets and advertising, and being a niche, PS3 exclusive game, that is not a bad number.
Also this:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/..._2010_Attributing_Success_To_Demons_Souls.php