june gloom on 23/3/2012 at 08:23
probably because it's -- 4:20 am
but i found that really funny somehow
Medlar on 23/3/2012 at 17:59
Com Chat in a quiet phase beats others hands down, especially FB and I don't mean Fat Burrick!
Another Thief game would bring back the buzz. As Stitch in his usual elegant manor has said "Looking Glass was a fantastic gaming studio, but they didn't make enough of a splash to sustain a nostalgia-based community twelve years on, as it turns out."
It was however one hell of big splash that attracted some great personalities. I for one am very glad I got a good soaking.
Yakoob on 24/3/2012 at 03:35
Quote Posted by Medlar
Another Thief game would bring back the buzz.
Honestly, I doubt it. While none of them were Thief, we had our Bioshock, our DX:ER, our Stalker and our Oblivion. While reception for all of them ranged from "YOU RUINED MY LIFE *cuts self*" to "That's actually a pretty good spiritual successor" each one followed the same pattern: a few weeks/months of threads and discussions and then grave silence. I think this is more reflective of the community and age (many of us are no longer the nerdy kids we were in the SS2/Thief era) rather than the games not being good enough to spark long-lasting discussions.
demagogue on 24/3/2012 at 04:23
Or just no fan missions for those games. I loved Thief, no doubt, but honestly if it didn't have fan missions I would have forgotten about it before the year was out. And to the extent I was posting in the SS2 and DX forums it was just because I was already coming here for the T2 FMs, or I wouldn't have had anything to say about them either. Then by the time my time for FMs was growing really thin over the last 5 years (I still play maybe 1 every 4 months or so), I was so attached to GenGaming, CommChat & Darkmod that I couldn't exactly just leave them then. The only thing that could replicate that is if a game came out that had the same burst of unbelievable energy for making fan missions... I have to think that's at the root of it. I mean that energy for those few years really was unbelievable. FFS we had Terry Pratchett telling us that the best fantasy stories were coming out of *our* community in FMs! It had its fanfic side too, but it's not like we were at the level of LotR, HarryPotter or StarWars fanfics. Anyway, yeah, invent a game that generates that kind of energy & production and that's a renaissance; anything else is just a nice diversion.
june gloom on 24/3/2012 at 04:43
That's very similar to my situation. I couldn't leave Thief installed all the time due to space concerns, so regularly playing FMs were right out and I'm very picky anyway. But I hung out in GenGaming and later CommChat, and they've grown to become my home away from home. Hell, other than DX now and again, I spend very little time in the subforums for games that are this forum's raison d'etre. Mostly because I'm not that attached to my hoodie. ;)
Muzman on 24/3/2012 at 04:47
The speed of these things these days has increased too, I'd say. I was always behind the times, but back in the day there was a steady influx of people who just found Thief right through to Thief 2, I dare say. It'd take a few months for a game to come out around the world. A few more months for magazines and web sites to review it and things ripple along.
Now it's out, it's on steam et al, it's reviewed, everyone's played it, the ending has been analysed. A month later, that's it. Even a big game like Skyrim is pretty much done as a topic already. Mass Effect 3 is pretty much done as talking point (unless you're furious at the ending Aside: I think after BSG, Lost, The Sopranos and now ME 3 no one's actually going to write a good ending ever again. Look how much extra fuss you can get with a bad one!)
Consumerism needs the social, but it's always trying to bludgeon it to death. It's your psychopathic best mate.
Incidentally
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While none of them were Thief, we had our Bioshock, our DX:ER
It was a bit soapy.
SubJeff on 24/3/2012 at 11:53
It's not just the speed of things, it's the sheer volume of games these days. There are so many that I don't think they hold our attention as much, individually, as they used to. I've so many games backed up that I'm trying not to buy any more and yet there are a ton that I like the look of.
Even if Thief 4 is an fabulously worthy successor to Thief 1 and 2 and has an awesome set of modding/FM creation tools and loads of FMs are made I don't think it will generate the same type of fervour that T1 and 2 did.
Aerothorn on 5/4/2012 at 21:17
Quote Posted by henke
That's a shame. I'm usually not one of the doomsayers but it really seems like TTLG is seeing less activity these days than it's ever has. Where did everybody go? :erg:
As one of the doomsayers: I TOLD YOU SO!
ZylonBane on 5/4/2012 at 22:02
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
As one of the doomsayers: I TOLD YOU SO!
It's never a good sign when even the admins seem to be losing interesting in a site. The skin for the updated forums never has been brought up to the same level of polish as the previous one.
242 on 5/4/2012 at 22:35
Quote Posted by dethtoll
That's very similar to my situation. I couldn't leave Thief installed all the time due to space concerns
What, these days of terabyte hard drives a tiny 2gb matters? Or was it a long time ago?
