Publishers are eying Thief again...

jtr7 on 31/8/2007 at 00:34

The bright, excessive, unrealistic glow on far too many objects. It was supposed to create the effect of how bright light looks through a camera lens, but it's been abused and added to game elements that don't need it at all. It only adds to gameplay for a gamer that has trouble telling what's what and needs obvious clues. It's very cartoony looking. Everytime a weapon is used, it leaves a glowing streak behind it. Every hit flashes.

But I'm exaggerating a little.

Nanoc on 31/8/2007 at 01:03

Another Thief?
Sure, bring it on!
I think the series are complete and we all see how the trilogy ended.
Keep it that way, or a GOOD prequel would be appreciated - yes, why not with a young Garrett instead of a young unknown kid?
The series will never be ruined, I don't care of how much the new Thief might suck because you know what? I loved the trilogy and theres nothing that can take that gamming experience away.
And yes, no matter how bad it MIGHT turn out to be, I will play a new Thief game.

Muzman on 31/8/2007 at 01:23

Quote Posted by jtr7

It was supposed to create the effect of how bright light looks through a camera lens,

Yeas, A very Dirty camera lens
covered in Vaseline
being used in a Steam Room
filled with Cigar Smokers

Dia on 31/8/2007 at 01:28

I agree with Brother R & Beleg; too much free roaming (without explicit, separate missions) wouldn't be the same for me. I tried Morrowind (Elder Scrolls?) years ago and frankly, I got bored. It just seemed like one big endless landscape where one could wander aimlessly and pretty much never accomplish anything (except get into a lot of trouble). Just trying to decide what my character would be, look like, etc. before I even started playing the game made me impatient. Of course, at the time I was searching for a Thief-like game, so I guess I was bound to be disappointed because there just are none that can really compare (imo).

Bottom line though; I know I'd try it if somebody came out with another Thief.

I mean really, after TDS, how bad could it get? :ebil:

Goldmoon Dawn on 31/8/2007 at 01:36

Yeah Dia, yer right.

I don't remember how long you in particular have been into Thief, but Deadly Shadow was more than just a letdown to longtime fans. It was a downright insult in spots. It could be even worse though, they could make another mockery of the genre and call it Thief IV.

Maladict on 31/8/2007 at 02:42

Nanoc raises an interesting point regarding the protagonist for the story. Instead of having to creat a brand new character for us to manipulate they could just place the game before the events that transpired in Thief 1, a Prequel of sorts just like Nanoc mentioned. I, for one, would be totally cool with them doing that because it would mean that I get to continue playing my favorite thief character of all time.

failure2comply on 31/8/2007 at 02:47

A prequel would be cool.

Scots Taffer on 31/8/2007 at 05:18

As long as they don't try to shoe-horn in some massive over-arching horribly gay and canon-breaking plot, sure a prequel where you play a customisable thief/assassin character in a free-roaming city with loads of different factions and criminal underworld allegiances and so on with its own self contained plot would be pretty darn awesome, I think.

It'd be especially cool if they could show enough restraint to make the pagans and the keepers merely background influences and not a direct part of the plot, groups who you could more or less indirectly interact with, raid their little villages or storm one of the keeper towers or whatever, but just for your personal insight and monetary gain, not as part of the plot. That way lots of little cool foreshadowing tidbits could be dropped without it being at the expense of the three-game arc most people will have already played. In this game the criminal underworld (Ramirez etc, Downwind Thieves Guild, etc) could all be fleshed out and Garret's role could be elaborated upon without compromising the same morally compromised character we all know and love.

jtr7 on 31/8/2007 at 05:21

Yeah. Again, it couldn't be a young Garrett, 'cause young Garrett only had potential. He hadn't been trained. He wouldn't have all the gear. He just ran messages and picked pockets. He was a petty thief. Nowhere near to being a Master Thief.

Beleg Cúthalion on 31/8/2007 at 07:50

But why not a sequel? I think showing Garrett as a "child" would be a step back in some ways...or at least in the way I feel it. A sequel without the keepers might work; the game could get a little more mature, maybe even political (like TMA was), and there wouldn't be a significant change of our protagonist...as long as he's not too old.

I think they could even integrate some neo keeper organisation (without Garrett, since not everybody will know about his part and they're maybe suspicious...so we could get a distance between them and Garrett as always), as long as it's done intelligently.