MOAR News Updates! The Broken Goddess, an upcoming T2 campaign (30 Mar 2021) - by Yandros
Bosh on 31/3/2021 at 10:43
This project fills my heart with much joy :D All the best with it, looking amazing so far.
Now please hurry up! I cannot wait! Damn it... I have to... Nooooo!
trefoilknot on 31/3/2021 at 13:19
The screenshots look killer! I love how the different cities each have a distinct, but cohesive, vibe.
Psych0sis on 31/3/2021 at 15:58
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The campaign seems to contain one of my pet peeves in Thief fan missions: the tiresome practice of naming people, places and objects after former Looking Glass personnel (Verilli Ocean, Hrabota Strait). I could do without these references. It's so overdone. Always takes me out of the game.
I think your brain would explode if you were to read a certain ledger in Thieves' Guild... :joke:
Random_Taffer on 31/3/2021 at 16:27
From the beginning, I decided to use the world map from the community mapping project- including all the names. It just felt right.
We create this universe as a community and I love that.
<Username> on 31/3/2021 at 21:32
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I think your brain would explode if you were to read a certain ledger in Thieves' Guild... :joke:
I am fine with it in the OMs. Back then, when we first played the game, we probably didn't even notice these in-jokes. But the community repeating the same in-jokes for years and years and years is really tiresome, at least to me.
Random_Taffer on 1/4/2021 at 02:30
Which in-jokes in the community map project have been repeated for years and years?
Psych0sis on 1/4/2021 at 02:50
I don't understand how referencing (mostly) canonical places/individuals/groups etc. is somehow an in-joke. If the readable most of this comes from was instead filled with other random names would it really make that much of a difference? Would it then be changed from some in-joke? Perhaps every mission saying "lol the rent is due" or taking place in The City (Looking Glass reference?!!?) might be tiresome by now too. God forbid they reference Benny or other characters established in the main game either... Oh my what an overused ploy that would be.
I'm also with RT in that I don't really know where it has been repeated so much throughout the years that it would garner 'tiresome' status.
<Username> on 1/4/2021 at 05:50
Someone at Looking Glass inserted the names of their coworkers into the lore. They apparently thought it was funny and shipped the game like that. The community has since kept using these names as if they hadn't been meant as a one-off joke. In some cases, fan missions added even more of these developer references.
I never thought this was funny. I also don't buy the “We have to use these names because it is canonical” argument.
Don't want to derail this thread any further. If we have different opinions on this, fine.
nicked on 1/4/2021 at 06:17
God forbid some people wanting to pay homage to the amazing developers at Looking Glass who gave us so many years of entertainment and enabled the creation of this entire community. That would never do.
