jay on 25/3/2017 at 00:32

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I haven't played any of the Thief games for several years, not out of any dissatisfaction with the games for sure, just because I became distracted with other games. After seeing the news of The Dark Mod going up on Greenlight I got curious to give it a try. I started out with the intro mission and Tears of St. Lucia. Needless to say, I was really impressed! It is such a great modernization of the Thief gameplay (immeasurably better than the most recent Thief game). Playing it made me nostalgic for playing T2, so I grabbed it from GOG (last time I played I was using discs!) and was glad to see that the GOG version is compatible with new machines AND has an in-game fan mission loader (I remember having to trick the discs to install and having to mess with config files to get the movies to play).

Anyway, I never got around to finishing T2X way back when and decided I would start there. While I'm sure that there are modern FMs that are more elaborate or complex for both T2 and TDM, I just gotta say that I have been having a blast and am so glad to have come back to Thief! I am in the Hammerite Cathedral right now. So far I have enjoyed all of the missions, but the on in The City (to get to Kedar's shop) has been my favorite...So great to get back to creeping over roof tops and along drain pipes! I have also been furiously looking through many of the "best of..." threads both here and on the TDM forums and have downloaded many of the highly spoken of older and more recent missions (Bathory, Morbid Curiosity, Seven Sisters, Godbreaker,, Left for Dead and 7th Crystal to name a few...though any specific recommendations are always appreciated ).

Now that I have rambled on, I just want to express my gratitude to all of those who have kept these incredible games and this great community alive. In a hobby where the latest and greatest is always so aggressively pushed and older games are often left behind, it is so nice to see a great game be kept alive though the sheer passion of its fans. Thank you to all of the FM authors (especially the T2X folks!), the TDM creators, forum mods and community members for keeping such a great thing going!!

pukey brunster on 25/3/2017 at 05:14

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Just some suggestions for T2 or TG: Endless Rain, Deceptive Perception II, Rocksbourg III (actually all of that series), Eclipsed, Dragon's Claw, Fables of the Penitent Thief, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Waterfront Racket, Coaxing the Spirit, and so, so, many more that I am leaving out. I envy your newness to all of these. Truly, do envy. ;)