Pteppic on 16/5/2000 at 02:38
In "blackmail", I was searching the house closest to the secret side entrance. When I came upon the sleeping pagan upstairs, I could have SWORN it looked like a corpse, and I thought he commited suicide because he had that knife next to him.
Since he was "dead" I stopped sneaking around and searched for any valuables for the taking when the pagan stood up and said "who's there?" I jumped several inches out of my chair, spilled my coke and blackjacked the little bugger. If I had known there was a canal up ahead I would have chucked him in there too for making me spill my coke and scaring me more than all of RTC did.
Lancer on 16/5/2000 at 09:27
I think I've done most of the things that many of you have described. Especially the lockpicking thing. And I only learned most of these things on my second time through the game, after having completed it without knowing most of them. Hehe!
After I finally learned all these techniques, the game was a breeze. But It sure made the game exciting, scary, and downright terrifying at times. I don't think there's any game out there that can compare to Thief for downright scaryness, heart pounding startling moments, and tension.
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Lancer
Moon Jackal on 16/5/2000 at 11:56
Stupid. You lot are suffering the learning curve.
Stupid is when you search a room for a key and cannot find it, do the level, get really annoyed at not being able to open the safe, come on this forum and ask, everyone thinks waht a wally - its on the floor. Go back to the room and there it is!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just like being at home.
Cray Man on 16/5/2000 at 12:21
The first few times I played THC I did not realise that you could activate the drawbridge by firing at it with an arrow. This meant that I had to take a long swim down the tunnel. Because I was inexperienced this usually resulted in my drowning. But I did get to see the Crayman at the other end, who's crazy dancing was the inspiration for my user name.
Also on that mission, I had not yet learn't back-stabbing, and I found the scary Serpentile Torc manor. Inside there were two haunts. I thought they were just regular humans and therefore tried to blackjack one of them. I will never forget the moment when I saw that skull. Then he chassed me laughing back to the drawbridge.
I stopped playing Thief for a time after that.
These arn't THAT stupid, but still when I discovered how *really* it should be done, I felt pretty darn stupid.
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Nameless One - "Is it just me, or are there far too many talking, disembodied heads around these days?"
nygeekgirl on 16/5/2000 at 16:41
Pteppic - I had the same reaction to that bum! I actually walked on top of him while trying to pick up his corpse...except he wasn't one and woke up and scared me half to death!
O.T.2000 on 16/5/2000 at 22:42
I can identify with Smurph and Pteppic. the first time i played SoC I killed the singing opera guy! that was incredibly stupid. On blackmail that pagan scared the sh*t out of me. I don't think i was able to sleep very well that night
Keeper_Drake on 16/5/2000 at 23:57
I only realised a little while ago, when playing Thief Gold again, that you could knock out an alerted guard if you were in the dark and leaning forward. Man, that could have made the game a hell of a lot easier.
In the FM "Ranstall Keep", there are weird apeman-voiced creatures. I went behind one and proceeded to blackjack it over 60 times (I counted) before realising it was an "undead" creature. Whoops!
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The most promising acolyte left us,
not out of the lesser folly of sentiment,
but the greater folly of anger.
His heart was clouded, and his balance was
lost, but his abilities were unmatched.
Even then, we knew to watch him most carefully.
-- Keeper Annals
Hanse on 17/5/2000 at 00:04
Stupid things? Hmmmm.... there have been many....
I didn't know that haunts could be backstabbed (or killed at all for that matter), I didn't know fire arrows could kill zombies, and I didn't know that flashbombs could be used to kill undead until my fourth time through the game!! (I think all this was why I didn't like undead at first -- knowing now what I do makes undead so much more fun...)
I also didn't know burricks could be blackjacked. And I jumped across that chasm by the arena in Lost City (many of you know what I'm talking about
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif ) and didn't know until I got back that you couldn't make the jump back!
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"...you are forgiven of all you may have done up to this day, Hanse. You aren't a quintuple murderer, are you?" asked the prince.
"I've never killed anyone, Highness," said Hanse.
"I have! This very night."
"Pardon, Highness, but killing's the business of them that rule, not thieves...," replied Hanse.
The thief Hanse... proud member of the SPCB and Keeper of Cloaks, Daggers and Disguises for
Clan Foofie