Kristijonas on 17/1/2015 at 04:49
For me, before I started playing the series, I first heard my brother talking about it with his friend. They were both amazed at the stealthy part of the game(it must have been the first game to use shadows in gameplay itself), great graphics and unique gameplay experience.
However hearing all this I imagined the game very different than it was (I imagined a game with supermario graphics :D ) so when ~year later I first tried it, I did not even connect the dots that this is the game I was hearing about. But I really liked it. Even without English language knowledge or almost no instructions in the game somehow I managed to get by. I guess by eventually killing everyone and taking everything, as was customary in games like Doom or Heretic :tsktsk: Still, I enjoyed the atmosphere of the game very much and learned stealthiness with time. I find it easy to play on Expert now. I also introduced my girlfriend to this game (yup, I'm a lucky guy to find someone like that :D ) and she's already in the middle of the second mission of T1. I hope she likes it, because I don't particularly like many of the T1 missions myself ( I always preferred T2 ). Didn't want to spoil her with T2 before T1. The same way she played the Mass Effect trilogy.
octavian on 17/1/2015 at 09:24
A demo on the CD of a gaming mag in '99. T1 pretty much kept me out of trouble through school but that's another story :cheeky:
Plokite_Wolf on 17/1/2015 at 13:20
I just have an awesome brother who started playing TDP a decade and a half ago. ^_^
Holy smokes! Thief 2, No One Lives Forever 2 and Age of Mythology on the same cover? The editors must've been nerdgasming for months after that.
Kristijonas on 17/1/2015 at 16:43
Quote Posted by Plokite_Wolf
I just have an awesome brother who started playing TDP a decade and a half ago. ^_^
Holy smokes! Thief 2, No One Lives Forever 2 and Age of Mythology on the same cover? The editors must've been nerdgasming for months after that.
Those were the times ;)
Bucky Seifert on 18/1/2015 at 19:44
I had an Eidos demo disk laying around years and years ago, and Thief: The Dark Project was on it. I must have done that Lord Bafford's Mansion level dozens of times before going out and buying Thief 2.
Psychomorph on 31/1/2015 at 15:57
First time I noticed Thief was an article in a mag late 90's. I hate myself for never having picked it up back then.
Later I stumbled across a website by pure chance, Thief - Deadly Shadows. Looked like some dark medieval-ish sneaky game, I was interested (actually didn't make any connections to the Thief article from the 90's). The site just launched and game was said to be in development, so I forgot about it.
At some point I discovered that Thief 3 was already released years ago... I grabbed a copy and it was lying around for more than half a year. I tried the first mission a bit, but didn't really find the opportunity to try it. Then in May 2006 I sit down and played it and had a blast. I referred to it as the best game I've played back then.
It took me another three years to try the original Thief games after constantly reading from fans how Thief 3 sucked and the originals were most awesome, which I didn't doubt since I played enough modern crappy sequels to what once were great games.
The Dark Project is the best game of all times.
GuyMontag on 2/2/2015 at 18:42
It was my birthday. I was in early high school/late middle school at the time, and the awful South Park FPS that was making the rounds on PC at the time was sold out. My father told me that if I didn't get a game that night, he wasn't going to have time to bring me back to the mall for the next 2 weeks or so.
I looked at the other FPS entries in desperation. This one (in that odd Eidos trapezoid box) really caught my eye, as I'd never stolen in a game before, and it encouraged you not to kill people. That blew my mind (as I was and still am a Doom fanatic), and the game looked like a challenge.
Flyingfish45 on 3/2/2015 at 14:23
Mine was boring to.:p
I got system shock 2 the first day it went on steam.(As I had played the first many a time in the early 2000's:cheeky:)Then one day when I was looking through the code I saw TDP mentioned many times. So I looked it up and found it stood for The Dark Project and I had heard its praise as a stealth game. So I checked if it was on steam and bought Theif Gold. Then a year later I saw the trailer for the 4th game. So I waited for it to come out and hated it as a thief game. So I bought the rest of the series and I still love the classics to this day.
Mebber on 8/2/2015 at 16:40
A childhood friend got T1 1998 on realease, and i watched him playing through the first level. I was completely hooked (my friend not so much, actually). I borrowed the game from him and was truly intrigued (i still remember my reaction to the T1 twist on my first playthrough - an awesome WTF-moment :cheeky:). Bought the game two years later together with the sequel, and both became all-time favorites of mine.
