Albert on 3/2/2010 at 20:16
Lessee, what hasn't corporate America ruined yet?
Movies: Stale and unhip...
Video Games: millions of pointless FPS games...
Art: ... What art?
There! See?!
Thief is one of those pieces of art untainted by any corporate world we live in today (neptune has always been artsy-fartsy, though.)
Sharga on 3/2/2010 at 20:48
It's had a significant impact on my life. Not only has it given me a better idea of what makes a computer/video game interesting and engaging, but it also helped a lot in deciding what I wanted to do for a career. After learning DromEd and creating a couple missions of my own, I decided I wanted to work on games for a living, and now I'm a character animator at a motion capture studio.
Not to mention, it's through Thief that I met all the fine people here on the forums, an experience that I believe has helped me to become a better communicator and develop more of a sense of community. I think the Thief series and FMs will always be my favorite and I'm indebted to it for how much inspiration and enjoyment I've drawn from them.
Melan on 3/2/2010 at 21:27
Quote Posted by Albert
Thief is one of those pieces of art untainted by any corporate world we live in today (neptune has always been artsy-fartsy, though.)
You mean, untainted except for being financed, distributed and marketed by it?
sh_b on 8/2/2010 at 09:52
Though Thief may add much experience and honor for FM maker, communication and contacts for community members, it became a trigger of a total obsession for me.
Well i'm sure it's my personal issue but i got totally pwnd by Thief and LGS legacy three years ago.
Since then i'm constantly trying to quit gaming though it seems helpless: more good old titles come out to me and FM stream seems to be endless (God bless all of you DromEders! :angel:).
Maybe it's a question of scheduling one's time. And i just can't get the right way to give myself a gaming session or two per week at least so it won't affect job, family and sleeping time much.
And i can't stop to wonder of some darkfate.ru community members who manage not only to play all FMs (and half of them - a several times) but also they got pretty active real life.
So, Thief has helped me in a strange way: it showed me inner demons i have to fight. :devil:
Anyway, thanks to all the community contributors - your work definitely makes a hell of an impression. :thumb:
Ryan Smith on 8/2/2010 at 14:02
It told me a very important fact in life.
"Violence isn't always the answer."
ZergMasterBaiter on 8/2/2010 at 14:23
Quote Posted by Keyla The Otter
"Violence isn't always the answer."
... but a good heavy blackjack is a man's greatest friend?
DarkMax on 14/2/2010 at 11:28
Quote Posted by ZergMasterBaiter
... but a good heavy blackjack is a man's greatest friend?
Yeeeeeeeees:cool:
Jashin on 14/2/2010 at 11:39
I've got my "scouting orbs" in all the compromising places to get the drop on "secrets."
Did you know "Lady Van Vernon" is a freak in the "haystack?"
Thor on 15/2/2010 at 19:50
Afterword in the beginning, serves as a warning: I noticed I went more and more personal in there, so, sorry if you don't like those kinds of comments. Made me feel better though.
Thief made me dislike games with a lot of killing (or killing at all for that matter. I liked NolF, but only because I could kill quietly. I don't generally like to kill tho.
It made me a slightly slower, more balanced (though my balance can still be pretty argueable) person, a bit of an aim towards perfect situations resolving. At some point I don't really like to steal gold, since, it's just money. It's not something truly interesting. But that's how Thief was made interesting, putting in all sorts of horns of quintuses and talismans 'n' stuff. It all had a story.
In real life... well, it just helps me become more of an outcast, different from the herd. Sometimes doesn't feel so good, but in the end it's worth it.
Thief has improved/improves my English skills (I might not write like an artist, but I've become better in understanding texts at least) and FMs (because OMs didn't have so much of those) help me become a more skilled reader, because, I seem to nearly always zone off and just read, but think all sorts of different things to myself and then I evnetually realize I haven't understood anything from the text and it's either a paragraph or a page... It still happens in Thief occasionally, as some texts are just hard for me, but eh. Call me and illiterate or something, but reading is just not my thing. I transfer thoughts much better through images 'n' stuff... I think.
Anyway... yeah, Thief also caused me to find ttlg, some frends over the internet to talk to, think on life 'n' stuff, serve as a distraction. Overall it's been one of the better parts of the life, even though sometimes I just look at it and don't feel anything, but that happens on bad moods in general.
Oh well, Thor out.
Btw, I'd be glad, if my nickname could be simply changed to Thor (?), as that 02 in the end has just kept bothering me for ages... Why, why would I do that to myself? Was simply Thor not available? Really? I don't see a Thor in the memberlist... ahh, well, if this is possible, I guess I'll just have to contact a mod that doesn't hate me or something, heh.
Marked the important stuff in the last paragraph in a naive belief, that mods are scrolling through these random threads.
Jarvis on 17/2/2010 at 22:33
Well, I've always enjoyed training to be a sneak. I found Thief after I began my education, but before I knew exactly what to study or practice. Thief itself offered a small measure of perspective as sort of a goal to shoot for. Sure, it's a game and it can't teach you how to do it in real life. But it did teach me a measure of patience and the wisdom of just sitting in the dark for awhile to observe.
Thief did spawn the Thievery UT project though, and that *did* teach me some very practical principles about stealth since I could pit myself against thinking human beings for hours and hours every night. It still can't teach you how to move, but it can teach you how to think. That has benefited my training in vast ways, to the point that I'm starting to earn small amounts of money in training others (in stealth as well as wilderness survival).
Nothing can replace real instructors and real practice time, of course, and to mine I'm forever grateful. Thief certainly played it's part along the way though.
