Serious Garrett storylines.

YuSeF on 8/6/2009 at 19:58

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racist? HAHAAHAHHAHA! :laff: Islam is not a race. Why did you have to ruin a perfectly good argument against me by including that word? I have absolutely nothing against the people of any religion.

But really this is getting old now.

Yes racist, because as you have clearly shown you know nothing about Islam. You being as white as you could be living up there near the arctic probably see's Muslims as being brown and savage people. Someone should lock this thread.

Platinumoxicity on 8/6/2009 at 20:07

He's talking about whites and browns and calling me a racist? :tsktsk:

How about the main subject then?

Anyone? Something about Garrett? And the story? I had something a while ago but I have to dig it up from the Eidos Thiaf forum. :p

YuSeF on 8/6/2009 at 20:08

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Why can't I, I'm only using what you've given me through your own ignorant hate speech.

Namdrol on 8/6/2009 at 21:03

Let's go to comm chat guys.
We've got the basis of a good thread going here, but this is thief storylines.
Although religious war is the basis of a big part of Thiefs story :D:D

Platinumoxicity on 8/6/2009 at 23:16

My suggestion of a more down-to-earth storyline was this:

-The keepers are doing some real work for a change. They're investigating rumors, newspapers, spying on politicians and City Watch officers and piecing together key words that might reveal incriminating information.
-Garrett has returned to his normal lifestyle. He lives in Dayport, in a highrise apartment with the thieves' highway right outside the window.
-Some mysterious political group is attempting to cause a catastrophe that threatens the whole city. The keepers find out about this and Garrett tries to sop it.
-It turns out that it was a scheme made up by the political group. They planted hints of a catastrophe that was never going to happen, in order to draw Garrett into the open and trap him...

Dia on 9/6/2009 at 01:11

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The 'modern setting' rumor doesn't seem reputable.

I actually see no reason why the game has to take place in any other time frame than after 3. Just because things ended with Garrett being the One True Keeper or whatever doesn't mean it's going to remain that way. One of the main themes of Deadly Shadows was the point that the Glyphs could be rewritten. They were depicted as more than merely static. If a powerful force intervened, they could be rewritten, and during the events of TDS, they were literally changing.

You can go absolutely any direction creatively with the new game, provided that a legitimate explanation is given, and in a weird sort of way, Deadly Shadows provided for that. I wouldn't mind Garrett moving on to a new location with new factions. Or perhaps fleshing out the City a bit more, and adding various new groups, both religious and political into the fore. Just because the previous three games focused on the Hammers (and their offshoots, the Mechanists) the Pagans, and the Keepers doesn't mean that only those three groups exist.

I like this idea.

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And I like this one too.

hikikomori-san on 9/6/2009 at 21:37

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All right, you're right about that. I just didn't want to say it straight on that I believe that the Hammerites are similar to muslims in the matter that both sides are unable to comprehend why the general population of the world see their methods of spreading their religion and their definitions of crimes and methods of punishment as inhumane acts of hatred and murder. That's what I wanted to say but didn't want to say it straight because someone who hypocritically tries to defend islam without knowing what it is, or is a member of it might get butthurt.

I'm not going to try to defend Islam, and to me your opinion about religion is insignificant, especially since you clearly only want to needlessly show off your hatred towards it. It was nowhere hinted that the hammerites spread their religion by violence (like muslims do, according to you). And "the masses" suggests the majority, not people you know and every "intelligent" person you've heard of. Ask your English teacher. Maybe you meant "the masses in my neighbourhood"? And you're the first to say the hammerites are gynophobic. This really has nothing to do with the hammerites, you only want to spew out your hatred for islam, and you're making an ass out of yourself because you clearly know very little about it, and nobody asked you anyway. Thanks for ruining what could have been an interesting thread, asshole.

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Originally Posted by Namdrol
by the way, I strongly doubt the sanity of anyone who believes in an interventionist creator

Hmm... one would think doubting one's own sanity makes more sense if it doesn't conform with that of the majority, but ok, most people are mad and you are the few that are somehow not affected by this madness. Good for you.

This is reminiscent of the way mac users keep dissing windows users.

pavlovscat on 9/6/2009 at 21:59

Quote Posted by Namdrol

Let's go to comm chat guys.
We've got the basis of a good thread going here, but this is thief storylines.
Although religious war is the basis of a big part of Thiefs story :D:D

Thank you Namdrol for recognizing that.

Anymore off-topic religious sniping will be deleted & this thread closed.

belboz on 18/6/2009 at 14:19

Garrett and the crystal skulls.:cheeky:

Queue on 18/6/2009 at 16:02

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Thank you Namdrol for recognizing that.

Anymore off-topic religious sniping will be deleted & this thread closed.

Even I'm not dumb enough to jump in here.

OT--I posted a small thing about following the Precursors in the Sequel vs Prequel thread and am curious, would there be any interest in following the Precursor's rise and fall (if not for a commercial Thief game, but maybe for an FM), or is that a dead issue?