Friends who have never managed to get into Thief...

Jomero on 22/10/2004 at 15:55

I actually preferred Shadow Warrior to Duke Nukem 3D. Far more funny, especially the voice actor for Lo Wang. But I digress.

ZylonBane on 22/10/2004 at 16:08

Quote Posted by Jomero

I don't understand why some people can't get into Thief. You can't label them as "Quake kill-em-alll monkeys who have to kill every single thing on the entire level!11111!!11!"

Yes, you can. Just because you have the capacity to appreciate a wide breadth of gaming styles, doesn't mean everyone does. Me, I count both Serious Sam and Myst among my favorite games. But it seems most gamers stick to their genre of preference.

EDIT: Ha!

Jomero on 22/10/2004 at 16:17

My point was that you can't label people as not everyone will fit into that label. Labeling is bad, mmmkay? :D

Anyway, I moved that huge post into it's own thread as it went a little off-topic.

ZylonBane on 22/10/2004 at 17:07

No, labeling is not inherently bad. Labels, like nearly anything, can be misused and misapplied.

And sometimes it just chafes people when labels are correct, but unflattering.

New Horizon on 22/10/2004 at 17:21

Quote Posted by ZylonBane

No, labeling is not inherently bad. Labels, like nearly anything, can be misused and misapplied.

And sometimes it just chafes people when labels are correct, but unflattering.

I've run into that a few times this week.

Jomero on 22/10/2004 at 17:27

Quote Posted by ZylonBane

No, labeling is not inherently bad. Labels, like nearly anything, can be misused and misapplied.

And sometimes it just chafes people when labels are correct, but unflattering.

Blah blah blah.

Bonehoard Taffer on 24/10/2004 at 02:39

Well, I thought I had a convert, but he stopped on Cragscleft. AFAIK his games of choice are EverQuest and Neverwinter Nights. I also introduced it to another friend, but I don't think he has played it to this day. His game of choice is his Diablo II Battle Chest when he does do computer gaming.

For me I took to Thief right away. I was looking forward to it when I found a nonplayable demo on my Commandos CD. I played the Bafford demo, then I bought the game. I have lkiked the series ever since

michaelg on 24/10/2004 at 05:18

This is for Zylonbane. I believe I had some disagreements regarding DE Invisible War either at this or another forum in the past, but I just had to tell you that the pic of Malcom McDowell is a classic. Possibly one of the greatest movies ever made!

june gloom on 29/10/2004 at 22:40

hey, i'm back. and before you know it, i'll probably disappear again!

i got a friend of mine into thief- she gave it a shot because i wouldn't stfu about it. so she gave it a try and after showing her how to get it working on XP, she liked it.

okay, i got fed up with deus ex: invisible war and because i was out of games to play i installed thief gold again. i'm not TOTALLY deaf, i'm able to pick up sound cues- but my problem lies in understanding dialogue. a good example is the first conversation with the guards at the beginning of bafford's. i could pick out a single word: "taffer". go figure, eh? :P it doesn't help that they don't speak clearly at all.

at least i can rely on the FMV transcripts. hell, i even printed them out so i could read along. which brings me to this- could someone do transcripts of scripted conversations? or is there one already?

fett on 29/10/2004 at 23:25

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What is funny is that I love the Thief series but could not get into System Shock.

You guys asking about System Shock - I'll say this:

Didn't play the first one. Bought the second one, hated it, finished it anyway, put it away for 2 years. Pulled it back out a month ago and now I'm addicted to it almost as much as I was TDP when it came out. I wonder if it's one of those that's so involved you have to play it a few times to really appreciate it. I'd say give it another go, experiment and get familiar with the AI and plot - it's phenomenal.