DismalAngel on 13/1/2010 at 21:38
My 15 year old cousin David has borrowed Thief3 from me, but he's 15 and doesn't have the patience to actually play the game; I looked up the cheats and found the default.ini one which seemed to prove fairly popular. So he got me to change the default.ini for him (backed up the old one just incase), and it let him soar through the first part of the game in the Rutherford castle without being seen or heard at all, but once he got to Garrett's building it seemed like the cheat just totally cancelled itself out and now he's getting noticed left and right and the guards are all on his tail again.
I don't know what else to try. :/ I know people will complain that cheats are stupid, just learn to play the game, but this is an impatient teen we're talking about here. Is there a way around this that's simple that a 15 year old can work out how to do?
Platinumoxicity on 13/1/2010 at 21:49
I was 11 or 10 years old when I first played Thief and I thought the way it was slow and intelligent was interesting. If someone who's 15 doesn't have the patience to learn patience, don't try to teach him. Especially using TDS as a teaching tool. You'll only be teaching frustration. ;)
ravoll on 13/1/2010 at 21:56
Quote Posted by DismalAngel
cheats are stupid, just learn to play the game,
My son breezed right through when he was 12.He's not gifted or genious material either.Just a plain old kid.
I never saw the logic in using cheats for "Thief".It would steal the magic from the game if one could just run around invinceable.I had tried to introduce the thief games to friend of mine ,that was only into MoH,CoD and such ,only to be told it was boring because he couldn't blast his way through the game.:(
DismalAngel on 13/1/2010 at 21:57
Seriously, this 15 year old smokes, doesn't go to school and steals for a living. Trust me, trying to teach him anything is about as pointless as a teapot made of chocolate.
ravoll on 13/1/2010 at 22:01
To steal for a living must take the same patience as in Thief,or does he have a cheat for the real world?:confused:
DismalAngel on 13/1/2010 at 22:37
Quote Posted by ravoll
To steal for a living must take the same patience as in Thief,or does he have a cheat for the real world?:confused:
Most of it is bloody stupidity. He steals copper plating from the roofs of buildings that people are still living in, steals boilers, wires out of walls, etc, strips the copper from it and sells it to a scrap merchant. He does it at night when no one is about though, it's not really patience, cos he sleeps all bloody day :P
So there's no point to appeasing to his nature on the "challenge" of things 'cause he just wants to get easy money, easy playablity in the game, etc. I don't know why he even bothered to install the game in the first place if he's too lazy to play it the proper way.
Anyway; does anyone know why the cheat seems to just reset itself back to the normal settings after the first mission is completed?? Did I do something wrong?
DismalAngel on 14/1/2010 at 16:35
I need to show this to him, lol!
He figured out the cheat works, incidentally, just doesn't work in the streets of the city, but works with full fledged missions (such as the citadel, st. edgars, etc).
New Horizon on 14/1/2010 at 16:40
Therapy and counseling might be a good idea for this kid.
