ganac on 12/9/2015 at 20:29

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So after all these years, thousands of wiki pages, hundreds of fan missions, and even years of game hiatus... whats the deal?
Well i have owned all the thief games that matter for ages. but i never played them. like for real played them. I completed half on normal. Usually with the amount of cash edited so i could buy the whole loadout for no reason, because i have to hoard the items, because i could always use them later in the mission, of course.

But the real reason is fear. scaaaary monsters! trying the missions on hard and expert. too scary. skipping levels with reckless abandon.

Then i started playing small fan missions. Then big ones. Scary ones. Eventually all on expert, even if there were no mission changes, which is (was?) sadly common.
But i never looked back to the vanilla games. Why? I guess seeing the amount of creative outpouring that this community has brought forth, somehow in my mind, made the originals somehow 'primitive' in nature. So why bother? Probably the same reason some young pup who played Thiaaaaaf (yes i will always call it THI4F, deal) wouldn't want to go and play a game from before he was born. (Witcher III to the original, Hitman Absolution to Hitman Agent 47, etc etc)

Well a couple weeks ago I got TG and T2 on GOG.com and played through the first, all on expert, no mission skips (technicaly i used one because i got to the next mission but forgot to save, and when i quicksaved it loaded me in the last about five minutes before i finished)

I can report a few things. You can miss playing thief for five years and pick it up and play like you did yesterday. No shit, cool stuff.
I was a serious wiener as a kid. Zombies don't scare me any more.
Tactics in fan missions served me quite well. Dark Engine, I love you. So abusable.
What the hell happened to The City? Did Mechanist smoke mess with everyone's senses? All the guards in TG are way more on the ball
I was able to blackjack a frog and I cant now. Must be getting old.

So now I'm going a straight vanilla run of T2. Might even try the games again with a ghost run, who knows?

ganac on 12/9/2015 at 21:06

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No, I actually prefer the sharper guards! The stunts ive pulled in T2 so far...