Please tell me I am wrong... (truely we are doomed.)

242 on 20/7/2006 at 08:12

Quote Posted by Haegan

Thank you. Thank you so much for refuting this. For a moment there I was scared, nay, TERRIFIED that this might happen. aaahhh.

Why???
It wouldn't continue story of Garrett or the City.
It wouldn't be called Thief 4.
It wouldn't even be called "Thief", though the word "thief" could be part of the title.

I personally welcome new thief inspired game, just like I welcome Bioshock as spiritual heir of System Shock.

Aegeri on 20/7/2006 at 08:23

Quote Posted by henke

I like how anyone can simply shout "I was being sarcastic, stupid!" these days when confronted on idiotic shit they spout.

Actually I assumed you just missed the subtlety of it and may not have got it originally. Now I realise you're just a twit.

PS: Getting aboard the clue train for a moment, you're still wrong incidentally that you can be more precise with a controller than with a mouse. Of course, maybe if you've got some rubbishy mouse from 1990 and not a G5 or something decent perhaps. Also, I have played both versions of T:DS as the game was designed for a console and at the time it was released I lacked a card that supported pixel shaders. You're very clearly barking up the wrong tree.

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Sarcasm relies on wit AND letting people know you think the opposite of what you're saying. There's nothing in your first post to suggest you don't hate consoles after all. And where is the wit?

Uhhh you didn't see the "Clearly" part in the brackets? Do you have reading comprehension problems by chance? I thought it was immediately apparent. Maybe if you wanted to act like a twat and flame first and engage your brain later that would be the case. Obviously you are not particularly interested in 'thinking' given your posts.

The later part was actually just a jab in general, not sarcasm in that particular case.

Incidentally, please feel free to send further gibbering nonsensical responses I've noticed you are quite good at to my (ohlolsnosecretaryhere) secretary for approval before being sent on to me. I'm a rather busy man at the moment and there is only a limited amount of time I can spend on nonsense.

Quote Posted by 242

I personally welcome new thief inspired game, just like I welcome Bioshock as spiritual heir of System Shock.

The key thing though is Bioshock is an entirely different kind of game to System Shock. It's supposed to be a spiritual successor but isn't supposed to be a System Shock sequel. It's set in an entirely different world, verisimilitude and the like without being set in the SS universe. As a sequel to SS2 bioshock wouldn't be very good as it has nothing to do with Shodan, citadel and the like. As it's own game it sounds terrific. If you wanted to make a 'modern thief' use the gameplay concepts and similar, but make it an entirely different lineage of games and NOT call it "Thief 4". The "Thief" name should mean something in terms of what kind of basic gameplay and the like one can expect. I don't want to see a "Thief" game that has utterly nothing to do with what made the series great to begin with.

henke on 20/7/2006 at 09:35

Quote Posted by Aegeri

Uhhh you didn't see the "Clearly" part in the brackets?

Oh, so putting "clearly" at the end of a sentence indicates sarcasm? I see. You are well versed in the ways of sarcasm, clearly.

themetalian on 20/7/2006 at 11:26

I agree with Ravynoushunter. I personally would LOVE to see Thief 4, but it must be in the medieval setting. It just wouldn't be Thief anymore. PLUS, the unique atmosphere will be gone if Thief 4 was "modernised." It would be cool to see Thief 4 as a larger game setting, but not a full on RPG game. It would be Elder Scrolls otherwise.

DarthMRN on 20/7/2006 at 16:29

Blast MysteryDevs link! I didn't get to see that cool picture.

Sure it could be done as a modern day Thief game. If we could survive and even laud Thief 2, then it'll be a short step to a modern day environment. If he still had a silent one-shot-at-a-time weapon, a knife for close encounters, a baton for KO's and the ability to stay unseen in shadows while robots and oblivious guards with baseball bats or handguns wander by, the only real difference I see is the visuals and the greater possibility of having been registred in some database and found quickly.

New Horizon on 20/7/2006 at 16:45

LGS probably could have pulled off a more modern Thief. Ion Storm simply would have given us more TDS in a 'modernized' setting.

ZylonBane on 20/7/2006 at 17:19

Quote Posted by New Horizon

LGS probably could have pulled off a more modern Thief.

One could argue that's pretty much what Deep Cover was going to be.

Neil_McCauley on 20/7/2006 at 22:50

henke and Aegeri: I'm more muscular and have a bigger King Gustav than you could ever possibly dream of, so give it up.

And I like to hug and kiss poisonous snakes.

RavynousHunter on 21/7/2006 at 05:37

Quote Posted by themetalian

I agree with Ravynoushunter.

I guess there IS a first time for everything, isnt there? :cheeky: