zemegauser on 30/6/2008 at 01:33
Starting through play through the trilogy, and I started with the first one, expert difficulty, want the games to last a long time. My tactic is to first knock out every guard, and then do the required objectives, is this wrong, am I playing the game the way it is supposed to be played? It still is stealth, and nobody dies, so it should be right. Should I be sneaking past and not even getting close to them, what kind of gameplay tactics does everyone here have? I try to avoid them, but they always end up making my life harder.
theBlackman on 30/6/2008 at 01:51
Try a search for GHOSTING. BJ is fun, but sneaking through undiscovered is more fun in that you have to outsmart the guards instead of brute-forcing your way through.
The main requirement is PATIENCE. On the other hand anyway you play is correct if you have fun.
I get a kick out of not using any, that's any equipment including the extremely helpful waterarrows, but then that's me. Marble floor? No problem, creep slowly and no noise. Guards on irregular patrol? No problem. Sit in a dark corner, smoke a few cigarettes until I get the timing down, then sneak through.
A guard patrolling a corridor. No problem. Watch to see where he turns, what direction he turns and how long it takes. When you know, get right on his butt and crouch and follow him down the hall. If he turns right, get on his left side and as he turns sneak past. If he turns left, get on his right side and sneak past as he turns.
Same with the robots and others. If you watch, listen, and LOOK, you can sneak through most missions unseen, unheard, and uninjured. :thumb:
crunchy on 30/6/2008 at 01:52
There is no right or wrong way to play Thief or any other game. You play it how you like and get the most enjoyment out of it. However, some have developed different styles. For example some ghost: play the game without killing or knocking out any guard as well as not even alerting them to your presence. Others do the complete opposite and kill all guards. Then there was the Black Jack Project. Someone played each level and knocked out all the guards, brought all the bodies to a central location and took a screen shot.
But as I pointed out, you play how you like. After you gained more experience, you might like to go back and play through and try not to knock out as many guards but instead try and sneak past them.
nicked on 30/6/2008 at 07:20
as for how LGS designed it - I get the feeling they expected most people to use the blackjack almost all the time. The level designs seem to support this imo (for example, Running Interference actually requires you to knock out 8 guards!) but sometimes they mix it up a bit (i.e. Framed - no knockouts, or Return to the Cathedral which has a kill objective). It's the fans that have made other playing styles a viable and fun option, and that's the beauty of Thief - there really are loads of different ways to play it. Try Iron Man style if you're really masochistic! :p
zemegauser on 30/6/2008 at 15:03
No, I was asking about how everyone plays the game, their styles. The link was helpful, thanks. My tactic now is to take out the guards that are in my way, and then go toward my objectives. I won't bother taking out everyone.
zemegauser on 30/6/2008 at 15:52
On the prison level, does anybody know where the evidence locker is, I have been looking for hours.
Faffel on 1/7/2008 at 00:49
Funny you linked my thread up there. That thread helped me out, but not until almost a year later. I'd definitely follow the advices in that thread. Practice, patience, and nerves of steel are the keys to playing Thief. Anything else is personal style. For instance, I had a lot of trouble sticking to the shadows, as the shadow/light/shadow design threw me off. Then I noticed patterns, where the shadows would kind of blend into eachother in criss-crossing patterns, letting you sneak in absolute invisibility across entire rooms. The game is all about the little touches from the developers that you don't notice until it clicks through time and perserverance.
A big hint that I never knew before: when you prime the blackjack from stealth you stand up, but you can crouch again with the primed blackjack and be able to sneak up behind a patrolling guard in silence, then slam him from your crouch. Nap time for him. And the absolutely biggest hint? Don't whore your quickload. All of the most entertaining and intense moments I've had so far involve getting detected and hauling ass, trying to shake guards in inventive and dangerous ways. You can find some interesting locations doing that, as well.
