Decline Thiaf Pre-Release Thread

[Zewp]

It's been going on for a long time now. People who live to bitch will jump at any opportunity. And what better source for dumbass shit to complain about than marketing campaigns? Did you miss all the complaining about Dishonored, a goddamn superhero game, not being like Thief? Just because they dared to mention Thief as one of the influences during marketing.

Most people I talked to bitched about Dishonored because it was a shit game, not because it wasn't like Thief.

 

[Multidirectional]

It makes zero difference, who you talked to or didn't. It was simply one of examples of people going into drama queen mode over marketing nonsense.

 

[DalekFlay]

Except there's nothing there to indicate that that is true.

And nothing indicates the opposite either. Pessimism is fun and all until we act like our pessimistic assumptions are obvious facts.

Yes, it's probably binary. No, it's not confirmed, which was the original statement someone made.

 

[thesoup]

I like how Garett now looks like a cross between Altair, Razorfist and Raziel.

 

[potatojohn]

Well, dropping the supernatural shit is definitely incline over previous thiefs.

 

[Infinitron]

dnf

 

[Zewp]

Well, dropping the supernatural shit is definitely incline over previous thiefs.

ignored

 

[Tzaero]

potatojohn can you explain to us why the supernatural aspect of Thief detracts from the setting.

 

[potatojohn]

potatojohn can you explain to us why the supernatural aspect of Thief detracts from the setting.

All of it. Keepers, pagans, undead, etc.

 

[Darth Roxor]

 

[Gord]

Yeah, I'm sure Eidos Montreal has what it takes to make this Thief game a worthy title in the series. I have many doubts about their various decisions, but it's still too early to dig a grave for Thief. Just yesterday I was like a kid in a candy store to quote Garrett when I saw the first pictures, and I still find them marvelous to look at even if they are too washed out, but this is most probably because pitch-black screenshots aren't sexy.

Hey, I was pretty optimistic about it until I read the article. The pics look nice enough, imho, and given the still relatively small amount of available information about the game, it might be that a lot of things turn out better (or worse, to keep with Codex' standards).
The thing is, from the GameInformer article, it's sounding as if they are changing Thiaf into a more actiony type of game, borrowing heavily from titles like AssCreed and Dishonored.
In doing so, I'm afraid they move too far away from the classic Thief gameplay.
While I'm not totally opposing changes to the gameplay concept (I think TDS is still a good game, despite the hate it gets), I'm saying that the basic formula should be conserved.

Now, their re-imagination of Thief (Dishonored Thief's Creed) might turn out to be a good game on it's own, but it doesn't look to be a good Thief game anymore.
And at this point, they should just have kept the series alone and created some new IP marketed as "inspired" by Thief - like Arkane did with Dishonored.

 

[Melan]

Well, dropping the supernatural shit is definitely incline over previous thiefs.

 

[Stonewolf]

Well, dropping the supernatural shit is definitely incline over previous thiefs.

Yeah, because Metal Age didn't do exactly that.

 

[DalekFlay]

Well, dropping the supernatural shit is definitely incline over previous thiefs.

ignored

 

[Lancehead]

Supernatural aspect is what makes majority of Thief's setting, and awesome. It'd be a shame that's being removed.

 

[MetalCraze]

They want a game where the assassin isn't supernatural.

 

[skacky]

Melan:

What the hell. The supernatural elements were what made the ambiance so great. You never knew what was lurking in the dark, and it gave The City mystique.

 

[dnf]

Well, dropping the supernatural shit is definitely incline over previous thiefs.

Yeah, because Metal Age didn't do exactly that.

And its a worse game than Thief Gold because of that, and other reasons...

 

[JarlFrank]

potatojohn can you explain to us why the supernatural aspect of Thief detracts from the setting.

All of it. Keepers, pagans, undead, etc.

So having interesting and diverse factions detracts from the setting... that is basically based on these factions and their conflicts?
You can't have Thief without keepers and pagans. And hammerites.
Fuck you.

 

[JarlFrank]

Also, FUCK, the youtube channel that uploaded all these awesome Thief music tracks and fan remixes, ThiefOfficial? It's gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSgV9-7lbM&playnext=1&list=PL55BCB4D5A5984DBE&feature=results_video

They fucking closed it down.
This is truly the end times.

 

[dnf]

Bros is potato John the most boring troll

 

[dnf]

Also, FUCK, the youtube channel that uploaded all these awesome Thief music tracks and fan remixes, ThiefOfficial? It's gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSgV9-7lbM&playnext=1&list=PL55BCB4D5A5984DBE&feature=results_video

They fucking closed it down.
This is truly the end times.

Why they don't upload the OST to a less jew site?

 

[J_C]

When I've first played Thief, I didn't like the supernatural elements. After awhile I started to appritiate it, and now I can't even imagine the game without them. It fits perfectly to the Thief universe. It adds to the atmosphere, adds mistery and sometimes actual threat to Garret. potatojohn is a faggot.

 

[skacky]

ThiefOfficial was closed by Game Informer apparently. It was indeed a great channel with lots of old gems like the first Dark Project trailers and all, when the game wasn't called Thief yet.

EDIT: I have the OSTs of all three games so I can re-upload them on Youtube if there's demand.

 

[Hellraiser]

It made grave robbing so much more risky and those zombies were fucking scary as they could fuck you up easily (like pretty much every other enemy in the game).

Speaking of grave robbing I need to remove much inventory from a certain crypt after I finish work.