eric on 12/10/2014 at 19:42

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10/10

After 2 exhausting weeks, I just finished playing a THIEF (specifically Thief GOLD) for the 1st time...not Kidding.
Thanks to STEAM, as I guess a sort of advertisement for the modem THIEF [2014] they released (about a month ago) a sale of Thief Gold, 2, & Deadly Shadows for some ridiculous price...$6.99 if I recall?
Anyhow I never was a stealth player...had no patience for it...as my daughter observed, I go everywhere (including to breakfast) with 'Guns-a-Blazing!'

This ranks as one of the best all-time gaming experiences of my life...its right up there with Doom, Unreal,Quake2,Deus Ex, System Shock2,BioForce...I mean it was that great...you might think I speak only in superlatives with triple exclamations, but I feel that strongly as to how magnificent a game it was.

Downsides?
Not much...except perhaps my running like hell at the end of every level, with no health left, in a mad dash for the exit.
And occasionally puzzles were so hard as be unforgiving, and laid doubt as to if anyone could figure it out without turning to the occasional hint online. (Return to the Cathedral comes to mind...though upon completion that was one of my favorite levels)

Highpoints?
I could go on and on for hours.
I loved the sheer size of the levels...I loved the quietness of it
First, the ambiance was outstanding. I jazzed the game up with the Thief Gold HD Texture Mod and Thief Enhancement Pack 2.0. So I don't know if the look was this wonderful 14 years ago...but it sure looks great now. God bless the folks who created them
The streetlights were so well done; the shadows; the sounds of footsteps drawing near, and then going away.
Visually...one of the highpoints when in (I think it was Undercover?) when you go into the temple. There was a scene there-in somewhere on this huge level, when searching for the 4 talismans; a box comes floating slowly down from the sky.

So simple...so gorgeous.

If I wasn’t so anxious to start Thief The Metal Age I would replay this right now.
In fact, stuck at work on a 24-hour shift today, having finished the games' Maw Of Chaos' late last nite, It’s been tough to concentrate on anything else then getting back to this.

I can't believe this was under my radar for sooo long.
What a game!

ericjmz

Constance on 13/10/2014 at 06:50

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Oh, a fresh, new taffer! Welcome :}

nickie on 13/10/2014 at 07:43

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Welcome to the forum, eric. Thief is very special and it's great when people see that so clearly.

User 205 on 14/10/2014 at 15:13

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I´m also playing Thief Gold for the first time, still without any mods. The old graphics really are ugly (only the lost city looks decent, mainly because of the rather simple textures) Only the polygon models of the enemys looked even worse.

You still got a lot of fun ahead. The metal age and Deadly shadows are both excellent (and they both got a completely different atmosphere, so don´t expect the sequels to be that similar to the experience in Gold)

nickie on 15/10/2014 at 10:56

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See you in a few years then. :)