The Cruel Death of Thief
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2020
- Through the Looking Glass
Thief may not be totally 100% dead, but it'll be a dog's age before we see another game.
The series has an interesting history wherein the threads of budding western PC development and the immersive sim genre intertwine. So instead of covering that in detail I'm doing a game review because that's what I always do. We're covering the whole thing, from the early days of Thief: The Dark Project/Gold, and Thief 2: The Metal Age, to Deadly Shadows and the dreaded Thourf.
Anyway, please enjoy this experiential tale of woe and stealth gameplay. You Dishonored mads ain't slick, I saw what you said, and I'm telling my mom on you.
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The devs for Thi4f actually live-streamed themselves playing Thief Gold near the end of development... for the first time. They're going through it like "Wow, our Garrett talks a lot more!" and marveling at how different the two games play. Which is just... It's unsurprising, but it still hurts
I want Thief to come back, but I guess Dishonored exists, in the same way that I can play Prey if I want a more modern System Shock.
“Here’s the grave, let’s start digging.” Holy....
Thief is not dead. People are still making fan missions for it. Just this year, the Thief 2 20th anniversary contest missions released and most are really good. There are over 1000 fan missions out there and some are absolutely amazing, better than the original missions even.
Thourf was a fundamentally terrible idea because Deadly Shadows gave us a perfect ending for Thief's plot. You might as well make a sequel to Return of the Jedi while you're at it. Good thing nobody could possibly be stupid enough to do that.
Fun fact, Karras is voiced by Stephen Russel, the same guy who voiced Garret.
You're just now figuring out that Dishonored lifted heavily from Thief? There's an entire conversation in Dishonored that's quoted almost verbatim from Thief 1's training mission. Garrett and Corvo are even voiced by the same guy.
i must admit, hearing the new installment being called "Thourf" made me laugh so hard. Because it's so incredibly fitting.
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The biggest problem with Erin from Thief 4, I think, is that she's constantly saying things just to say them and sound dramatic, whether or not they actually make any sense. The most distracting one for me was when she told Garrett to find the asylum she was kept at, so he does, only for her to jump-scare him at the door and say that he "shouldn't be there". Also blaming him for her almost-death when it was so obviously her fault.
“Sometimes violence is necessary.”
If you enjoy the OG thief games, I HIGHLY recommend the dark mod. It's a free standalone spiritual successor to thief made in id tech 4. The quality is insane.
It's a real shame this franchise couldn't steal some success in the mainstream media...
"Oh, god! You fou- Oh, god! You fou- HNGH *dies*" - Random Civilain 2004 - 2020
We had so much hype and hope, I remember back in the days we were already camping the forums with theories of what the story would be about... Only to have our hearts crushed. Right when they said reboot as it was the start of the trend with Tomb Raider, I knew they were going to mess up.
The Dark Mod is a standalone mod that is a wonderful remake of the Thief games, with tons of community made maps and stories. It really needs more love too. It takes everything that's good from all the original thief games. Incredibly immersive and good sound design and ambience and lighting.
Thief 3 adding a 3rd person camera really does seem like it would undermine a lot about Thief. As me and Lambhoot have argued, one of the best ways to create tension is to remove information from the player. If the player can just peek around a corner without moving their character around said corner, then a lot of the tension is undermined. In the original game, peeking around the corner was interesting because you had no idea what could be around the corner, and getting that information would usually endanger your character
Robbing the Cradle was one of the best levels of any video game I have ever played. Thief: Deadly Shadows truly is a gem worth stealing.
The bonking montage was angelic
This was a good video, but it's a shame you didn't talk about The Dark Mod at all. I'd say it would have drawn a slightly more optimistic conclusion to this video, considering it's still generating new content. It's not perfect, but it's definitely got the right spirit!