imperialreign on 9/6/2007 at 03:03
totally agree, and all that applies to TDS also. I can say that for me, there was a good 2 years before I was able to play TDS. I went well over a year and a half without my own PC, and my previous machine could just barely run TMA (it sometimes could take 15min to load up a mission from start or a save - was running a Pentium 400mHz MMX, 128mb RAM, Soundblaster Live!, VooDoo3). Thankfully, many of the skills I was able to master in TDP kept me alive routinely long enough in TMA that having to re-load was rare.
But, having such a long break from Thief, when I came back with my new machine, first thing I did was install TDS. I still had the skills from my original travles in T1/T2, but I was able to look on TDS without the originals being overly fresh in my memory.
Without a doubt, THE most important skill is to be constantly aware of what equipment you posses, and how you can use that equipment at any given time - it will save you in countless tight spots, and ingenious use of your equipment makes it all the more fun, too. If anyone remembers my post of a run-through in the Museum in TDS where I ran into an elevator shaft trying to escape some guards and turned and grabbed the wall before I fell to my death. Don't forget what you're capable of, and don't forget what the game engine will let you get away with, either!
Happy taffing!
Dussander on 9/6/2007 at 10:47
I'd recommend you play a lot of Thief 2 fan missions to get you good. I found the original game will let you get away with sloppy play, but many fan missions tend to limit you more and provide only hidden routes to get across a place stealthly. There are plenty of fan missions to experiment on.
Sue D Nim on 11/6/2007 at 01:51
Quote Posted by Garrison64
All three thief games are actually very good although I can totally understand why people enjoy one over the other. I would like to say though that if you play 3 and then go back to 1 or 2 don't be thrown off by the old graphics. They will probably seem to look horrible at first but once you have played for a bit I find the mind seems to fill in the gaps and you start enjoying the game for what it really is. It's basically what we experienced when we played it all those years ago. They are old but they are still excellent games with a great story and some really fun missions.
This is how I feel about it exactly. Going back to the shockingly ugly graphics of T1 or T2 after playing TDS for a very long time is like becoming used to, say, World of Warcraft or Diablo 2 or Oblivion and then digging out your old 8-bit NES and firing up Legend of Zelda or Castlevania. At first your brain recoils with "Gah! WTF is this?!" but as soon as you sink into the game you don't give a flip what the graphics look like and you remember why this is what gaming ought to be and why you never threw out your NES.
I may as well admit right now that I consider myself a Thief newbie, having only discovered the games within the past couple of years, and that I found TDS first, played it first, and fell in love with it first. So, yes, I have the "Ew!" gut reaction every time I play T1 or T2 after a long absence, but I love them too. For me, all three have their pros and cons. I love them all!
