eric on 9/12/2014 at 20:39
Day9= Final
Done-finished.
Very good game....very, very good.
To quote Mary Poppins...'Practically Perfect in every way'
The length was perfect.
the difficulty-challenge was perfect
the animations were great
the story was great.
Just a fantastic experience all around...although, played just once each, of the four played, Thief The Metal Age is my favorite (the 4 being Thief Gold, Thief The Metal Age, T2X, & now Thief Deadly Shadows.
for now, whither goest I?
Well...I'll likely take a brake for a week...got some other games that 'need' my attention put-off for this one
(the concept of 'need' is one my wife, as if an alien to this world, does not comprehend!)
But I suspect I'll try the first 2 levels of Circle of Stone & Shadow
From there...if completely enthralled, I might try some fan mission levels that are 9-10 stars.
After I get the 'old school' thirst assuaged, I will probably go to Thief IV...it appears at least SOME people like it!
I will eventually replay Thief(s) I,II, III in order...and avail myself of whatever are the latest versions of the fan enhancements when I get there.
Although I will (I didn't this time) use the Fan-GOLD version for Thief III, I gotta say, I LIKED the level transitions....and am skeptical making the game 'one-world' will be an improvement; but as many seem to like that concept, I will try it that way next time
eric
Dark_Garrett on 9/12/2014 at 21:23
Glad you enjoyed the games, I've really enjoy following your progress through them here. And also glad to hear you might start playing some FMs after a break. I can't even begin to describe the talent of the authors here and their works! There are FMs that surpass the OMs in every way. Don't get me wrong, I love the OMs:thumb: Since you really enjoyed TDS I recommend playing "Thief's Rising" for T3. Wonderful 8 mission campaign, some of it takes place in "the city" of TDS. There are many threads and posts listing best/must play missions to check out.
User 205 on 9/12/2014 at 21:29
Just out of curiosity: What´s your favourite OM?
eric on 10/12/2014 at 21:18
Which bees my favorite?
This is a tough call...unlike Thief The metal Age where levels varied between over-the-top great game levels of all time (read: Life Of The Party) to frankly boring (read Trace the Courier, Trail of Blood) I find in Thief Deadly Shadows there was pretty much an equal level of "Well Done, Laddies!" to it.
I also remember the Days, more than the specific sub-levels in it (think Hexen, and its hubs)
From that framework I would say my favorites were Day 2-Day Two: Into the Pagan Sanctuary and Day 5: The clockwork & everything leading up to it.
My favorite gaming 'moment' would be the suicide jump at the end of Cradle, which was I think, a unique game ending.
My favorite days were prejudiced to wanting the day to be long-and-hard, even to close to an extreme degree, but not needing a walkthrough to solve, just repeated trial and error.
I do admit, that being said, to cheating to enter the Clockworks, in that I had to read that one needed the climbing gloves (spent about an hour trying to find the non-existent ‘other’ way)…and there SHOULD have been another way, perhaps solvable with Garrett saying ‘That would have been easier with Climbing gloves!” once ‘in’, so a player could have the thrill of solving a puzzle, but be reminded there is/was a deeper puzzle of getting climbing gloves, and I had spent my monies ahead of time, & was nowhere close to the monies needed, and didn't have any saves before the days start, and even there had almost no $.
So 2 minor complaints to the game design:-
1. There should have been some warning one needed to conserve money...perhaps it was in a document I forgot reading, but I resorted to an online save to restart it with more monies.
2. I also thought it kind of stupid that Stoneharbor plaza & Stoneharbor proper had such similar names; that led to needless confusion that for me did nothing to enhance the game. If that sounds intolerant…well I’m in great company! Reading Winston Churchill’s classic 7 volume History of WW II he complains testily Iran & Iraq have needlessly similar names that will only cause confusion, and that their original names of Persia and Mesopotamia were better.
Now that I think about it, I loved the day you 1st work with the Keepers Library...which might have been day 4?
See what I mean..?..Its really hard to pick a standout here, as so many were so close to equally good!
eric
