Haven't really seen a thread on this anywhere, weirdly enough :s went back about 5 pages to check as well…
Anyway, this game has a good history, being one of the revolutionary games to bring espionage to a new level. And it's BACK! After about 10 years since the last release, Thief: Deadly Shadows.
Trailer:
Anyone interested about the story and history of the game can check out this Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief_(series)
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Yeah I thought the THI4F thing got renamed to just a standard THIEF for reboot, unless they brought it back
Anyways Thief 1 and 2 I was a gigantic fan of and they tickled a voyeuristic sadist into me from the belly up when I was a kid.
I didn't really care much about the third and I'm kinda wary, but I'd like for it to be good. Just hoping they don't try to "evolve" or streamline it too heavily.
Doesn't look too good to me. And yeah HH, it's just Thief now from what I've seen last, which was at E3. They've got seeing through walls, object highlighting, slow motion powers, and takedowns. All the stuff you need for a pseudo-stealth game these days.
Is it known if you have the option to turn off some of that?
Doesn't look too good to me. And yeah HH, it's just Thief now from what I've seen last, which was at E3. They've got seeing through walls, object highlighting, slow motion powers, and takedowns. All the stuff you need for a pseudo-stealth game these days.
Oh
That's unfortunate
I liked the title Thifourf better. It felt like speaking space tongue.
http://sneakybastards.net/theobserver/thief-hands-on/
This time, we played through a level ourselves, the AI definitely functioning. The mission played out in three distinct phases – distinct, by being separated by a loading zone masked first by mashing a button to jimmy open a window, and second by a third-person cutscene. The first phase took place in a manor courtyard, tasking Garrett with infiltrating the building to steal a large jewel. The second phase took place inside the manor, and was more puzzle-focused, with Garrett searching for secret rooms and switches. The third phase saw Garrett escaping the manor in the midst of a riot by crossing a bridge that itself was on fire – and collapsing.
The sequences is brimming with scripted events; first-person cutscenes in which something collapses in front of Garrett and then he makes a jump to safety in slow motion. At one point the camera cuts to third-person as Garrett climbs away from explosions along the side of a building. An explosion throws him free, he loses his grip and falls – when a quick-time event prompt appears to perform an “aerial save”, which sees Garrett throw is grappling hook at a grate, which finds purchase at the last second, so he can continue climbing.
Yet this spoke to our major concern with the demo – one far greater than the insipid, dated nature of the burning bridge sequence. The “ingredients” that featured within the level did not feel general-purpose and consistent. They were not systems; they were hand-placed, hard-coded points of interest.
Case in point (no pun intended): rope arrows. Previously, Garrett’s rope arrow stuck to any wooden surface, after which a climbable rope would unfurl from its point of impact. Here, rope arrows only attach to specifically marked anchor points that have been placed by level designers – anchor points that seemed to exist when the only way forward was through the use of a rope arrow.
Well I guess I managed to get some enjoyment out of Hitman Absolution. Maybe I'll be able to do the same with this game. They're always quick to say "but you can turn off all these special powers and giant arrows telling you where to go" but in my experience the game just doesn't work well without them. I remember in Dishonored you had to bring some guy to safety and are told to "put him in a safe place". I didn't have the HUD on and couldn't figure out what it meant. I eventually turned it back on and you had to put him in a specific place. Hitman Absolution was apparently pretty much unplayable on higher difficulties without the instinct too.
Oh well
So much for wanting to playing this
Ugh…..........
http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/255-thief-feature-a-crime-of-passion/
Third person climbing sections and takedowns. Jumping is context sensitive (as are rope arrows). Plus everything else that has been said in this thread.
A propose a new feature: The ability to send tons of letters with the giant letters FUCK YOU to the developers after each use of one of these features.
If you send 10 letters you unlock the achievement "Righteous fury".
If you send 100 letters you unlock a special weapon, which onehsots every enemy in the game and turns them into gold. You also get a nice chicken head for TF2 if you bought "THIEF" (If you can call it that way) via Steam.
The experience mechanic has been removed from the game. Apparently it was only going to be used for leaderboards or something like that so it doesn't really change anything. Upgrades are still in and they're bought with gold. Not sure how they're going to do that if the "buy equipment before a mission" thing is still in there. It probably isn't though judging by everything else they're changing.
Bumping this topic because the game is being released tomorrow. And the reviews are out. Mostly 6s and 7s out of 10 with at least one that I saw with an 8 and a few ripping the game apart, one with a 3/10 and another without a score but saying that it was worse than they expected even after their scathing preview.
I watched a few streams of the game when it leaked and I agree that it's worse than I expected. I got a code for the game so I'm planning on playing it myself but from what I saw the AI is pretty bad, and levels are extremely linear and tiny (which I expected) and most of the dialogue is cringe-worthy. Also the sound is awful, there's so much repeating sound clips (like guards talking) and the soundtrack literally has dubstep and other electronic music in it that doesn't fit the game.
Also this
http://anlks.co.uk/Stuff/Thiaf.html
Ugh this and hitman were two series I was looking so forward to when a sequel was announced.
Is it because of developers trying to cater to new playstyles prevalent today?
I guess none of them actually played the previous games…
Well the people who made Hitman Absolution seem to acknowledge that they didn't do as good a job as they could have and that their next Hitman game will be more like the old ones. Absolution was actually pretty decent to me even when compared to the older games, though they did jump the shark quite a bit. Thiaf is a whole lot worse.
If you want more Thief playing go play some Thief fan missions and/or play the Dark Mod.
I guess this shows that Deus Ex Human Revolution was definitely the exception to the rule when it comes to reviving old, complex series…
That even depends on who you talk to. I haven't played the game (and didn't even really like Deus Ex to begin with) but just from what I've seen it isn't an amazing sequel or anything. I think people were just glad it wasn't entirely awful like Thiaf seems to be (and the previews of the game were hinting at this). And that it was apparently better than Invisible War.
Edit: It also helps that Deus Ex has always been a game about playing how you want (stealthy, aggressive, etc) while Thief isn't really like this and devs trying to force this into a game that doesn't work well with it ended up worse.
I was a monstrous fan of the original DE and even with its annoying contemporary limitations I thought DE:HR was a really fun game that delivered a lot of the best aspects of Deus Ex. Thiaf just sounds like they took the external trappings and general idea and tried to focus-test it into a generic modern action game without considering if it was A) fun, or B) had any reason to be a "Thief" game. Pretty much every opinion I've read seems to say "If you wanted a modern game that got Thief right, play Dishonored instead."
