Faffel on 1/7/2008 at 03:54
I wish I was 18+ when Thief was brand new. Jesus. I could only just imagine how fresh it must have been. Then again, that was back when gaming didn't suck weiner.
Auecs on 1/7/2008 at 04:23
I think I was 14. I remember seeing the box for the game at Best Buy before actually playing the game. I though it looked stupid. At that point in my life I was really into Quake and Duke Nukem. So one day I bought Tomb Raider 2 and it came with a demo cd packed with demos on it. Just so happened it had Thief. So I decided, What the hell, and played through Bafford's pad. I was blown away! I couldnt believe that gaming had come that far at that point in its history. I was flipping out on how well you could interact with the environment and how smart the AI was. I know we all, when we first start playing the game, have hidden in that dark corner for extended periods of time waiting to see what the guards are going to do next and trying to plan our next move carefully so we dont jump out of our seats screaming.
Best game ever. I cannot believe I still love to play it to this very day...
Severus Ape on 1/7/2008 at 04:35
Quote Posted by pavlovscat
I got TDP with my SoundBlaster Live! Value Pack back in 1999. I had never heard of it before, but I loved it. I was 29.
Exact same story here, in a SoundBlaster Live! Plat, though I was the young-ish 19 that year. I came for the EAX, I stayed for the revelatory stealth gameplay.
nickie on 1/7/2008 at 07:17
You're all young whippersnappers - I was about 47/48! My other half found TDP Sold Out version in a cheapy box for me, desperately trying to find something to keep me out of his hair whilst he got on with Age of Empires or similar. Spent ages searching for TMA and then found TTLG while trying to find info on whether there was going to be a T3. I pre-ordered TDS but have yet to play it all the way through. I've hardly played anything else since finding Thief.
Thank God for fan missions.
The Woodsie Lord on 1/7/2008 at 09:22
I was around 7 when I first played T: DP, so that was in 2000. Gah.
I got totally freaked out at Cragsleft, especially after I walked over that corpse.
R Soul on 1/7/2008 at 09:39
I must have been around 19.
Rogue Keeper on 1/7/2008 at 09:41
TDP demo in summer '99, that makes 20.
Curiously like pavlovscat I had SB Live Value in my new Pentium 2 400, the sound in the game was marvelous! :D
bikerdude on 1/7/2008 at 09:51
I started in my early 30s i think, I cant even remember who put me on to thief, but ive been playing it ever since.. In fact I play Thief more than any other game on any platform for the longest time...
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Knock on 1/7/2008 at 15:10
It was around 2000 at the age of 10 when I first played TDP on my friend's pc. he had been given the game as a christmas present, but he didn't like it. So I asked if I could borrow it. I was just stunned by the addictiveness of the game. I remember the first time I played the very first level. The way the drunk guard acted, how you had to dive down the well... the first time I walked over a "corpse" in Cragscleft... then the absurd creepiness of Constantine's manor... those were the days. It's a testament to the quality of the game that I never gave the disc back to my friend. It's still the disc I use to play TDP.
I got T2 a few years later. I found it at the back of a stack of games in a PC shop and stared gapingly at the cover for several minutes before running home to get money. After I bought it I promptly moved the other copies of T2 to the front of the shelves.
TDS I bought several years after its release. I was in a shop in Belgium of all places. I had heard about it several years earlier but had never seen a copy of it for PC. I nervously checked the system requirements, hoping and preying that my diesel-powered Difference Engine at home could run such a visual masterpiece. Yes!
For someone who's as into their gaming as I and many of you here, I think you'll all agree that the thief series is an Iconic one that really sets the bar for gameplay... of course you'll agree! you're here over 10 years since the Thief saga began.
DexterUndefine on 1/7/2008 at 17:01
Quote Posted by nickie
You're all young
whippersnappers - I was about 47/48! My other half found TDP Sold Out version in a cheapy box for me, desperately trying to find something to keep me out of his hair whilst he got on with Age of Empires or similar. Spent ages searching for TMA and then found TTLG while trying to find info on whether there was going to be a T3. I pre-ordered TDS but have yet to play it all the way through. I've hardly played anything else since finding Thief.
Thank God for fan missions.
Haha that one made my day ^____^ By the way was that when Looking Glass was still ruling the empire of us taffers before they closed?
I bought the Thief Plantinum collection back at a mall in Summer 2003, and it was the last copy too! So I was glad I got my hands on it :)
The only thing that made me felt disturbed in TDP/TG was the dark areas are green when I upped the gamma :/ which I do understand the game is old, and it shall never be forgotten :angel:
