downwinder on 7/5/2015 at 17:03

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i wont stall on this post so lets get to it

thief was first to be dark Camelot ,would have had more magic then dark project had,changing the direction of what we ending up getting


yes thief 1 and 2 are amazing but i think by then scrapping the magic made it limiting by the time part 2 came out as some of the missions were less the par in most people views=double museum missions,also more bare looking levels

then by the time thief 3 came out the direction was pure garrett and nothing else ,yes faction/hammer/keepers/were in game but over all they only guided the progression of levels to a end game level that was even worse then thief 2 witch was worse then thief 1 as far as last levels go


i think if thief 1 would have been more to original idea we would have had a game with more then just one direction as we do now=garrett master thief/aka keeper garrett now

and i don't consider nu thief part of the cannon in anyway,if anything i feel a lot of the idea's for nu thief are stolen from a lot of fan missions i played over the years,at least bits and pieces of then,my example is a fan mission i played a few times where there is a poster that mentions the Barron years before nu thief was even going to be made,and there are lots more examples but i am sure you will be able to spot them,when you play them

the idea that thief is more directed to city life took away alot of the possible forest paths for story,blocking it into something narrow that limits the storyline

that is why from the end of thief 2-thief 3 and even nu thief was boxed into something is wasent ment to be

i hope that new company formed of old looking glass people will go back to pre thief 1 and start a game that has more then one direction


if i feel this board gets the responses that will make me feel its worth going deeper into what story path can be with magic added to game and way less city

and i feel hammer got a bit to much attention in thief 1 and mechs got to much in thief 2,thief 3 was better in the sense that the factions all had a good amount of time,that is one thing that thief 3 has over all thief games,weird huh

downwinder on 7/5/2015 at 21:47

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king Aurthur father was Merlin,don't get me wrong i love thief games but i think putting direction in one area limited the expansion of thief universe

i think a pre thief 1 would be the best direction to do thief,as to show more of the old times pre city life,more mountains/hills/villages/caves/tunnels/things more with nature,with magic and the classic thief stuff

would be cool to see how and when and why the keepers were formed,of course starting out in a pagan mission as that would be the best way to start a thief game

more downwinders of course as they would be a major point in game to get from one area to another by boat=fan missions proved a ship level can be good

a touch of early info on hammer forming,maybe a bit on the hag from her younger days,filling in gaps from thief 1/gold/2/3


and i am guessing star gate engine is a predecessor to dromed

and video said fight merlins creations=magic

i almost wonder if the brother hood of the hand is a reference to merlin and the knight of the round table that never made it into thief ,so they added one mission in gold = mage towers?,and maybe that is why we never heard anything more on them in thief 2/3

downwinder on 8/5/2015 at 04:27

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close enough lol but yeah ty for correction