Spike700 on 13/3/2006 at 03:42
I used to play through the first 2 games at least once a month, I knew the OMs like the back of my hand, I left most guards alone but KO'd the troublesome ones(except the undead, all undead had to die)
I am now replaying TG for the first time in 5 years. I have found that I have forgotten nearly every mission and find myself wanting to KO everybody so that I can explore. I just finished the Haunted Catheadral mission(first one) took me nearly 3 hours and i missed 600 loot:tsktsk:
Taffer36 on 13/3/2006 at 04:17
I tried ghosting, but I just didn't like it. I try to blackjack every single AI if I can. But Warrior Style is fun too. Pulling out the sword and seeing how far you can get in the mission, or even beating the mission this way. Especially the missions with Karras. Listening to that evil annoying voice of his just drove me mad one day and I ran around murdering everyone...
Elentari on 13/3/2006 at 08:38
I'm one who's style matches my mood. Although, in general, I like to KO every annoying guard, but leave servants/civilians alone. Even guards if I can keep a clear path out of the place, just so I don't feel like the place is silent and empty. I go on more murderous rampages when I'm facing undead or something non-human. Ratmen! all get backstabbed. Spiders get killed undead - I just do the best I can. Return to the Cathedral was a nightmare for me, until I figured out how to kill the haunts and . . .the other things who's names suddenly escape me. I don't mind those things so much. They're easy to deal with. (once I got over the initial terror of running into them. lol)
Zombies on the other hand. . .I have a bad time dealing with them no matter what I do. Usually run out of ammo far too quickly.
My style is not great either. Unlike the 'master thief' Garrett's supposed to be, I tend to make far too much racket, run face into guards, die a dozen times every night - if there's something to fall off of, I'll probably fall off of it 6 or 8 times before I figure out how to get over/under/around it. In short? I'm a very clumsy thief.
I learned early that the save/reload buttons are my friends. lol I'd never make it as a 'true' ghoster. Although, as long as I can save in safe spots and reload often. . .I might be able to ghost.
moria on 13/3/2006 at 10:59
I'm glad I'm not the only bumbling incompetent. Last night, in St Edgars Cathedral, I rang the bell to shift the High Priest from his chambers, hit behind a crate in the darkness until he'd gone past, sneaked up the flight of stair ... and fell off them half-way up! :joke:
Elentari on 13/3/2006 at 20:17
:laff: You have no idea how happy I am to hear that. If i did not like playing Thief so much, I'd have given up on 3d games. I don't know why they always make things so easy to fall off of. Stairs, cliffs, landings Just more to make those of us who are clumsy feel sheepish, I guess.
Of course, sometimes we ask for it. . .*coughs* Like clambering around on the roof of Truart's mansion. lol
Brother Reginald on 13/3/2006 at 20:39
I like to play as Garrett would. But this doesn't mean I'm always ghosting- when there's an extreme situation on like the impending end of the world, not KOing a single guard doesn't seem to matter as much. Similarly, in places like the Cradle, destroying every monster doesn't seem very Garrett-like, but then again the monsters can hardly tell the City Watch and send an armed brigade to my house...
However, in 'relaxed' levels, like Shipping and Recieving, I won't knock out a single guard. Or put out more than 5 torches.
Basically, I try to look at things realisticly. I imagine that all City Dwellers, Hammers, City Watch, Thugs, Guards and Pagans will try to find me if I knock too many of them out; so I don't. Stuff like monsters and Thugs trapped underground in a Pagan tunnel aren't as much of a danger.
moria on 13/3/2006 at 23:16
I always start out with good intentions of not coshing anyone, but then I panic, or get bored, and reach for the blackjack. In my defence, I rarely use any broadhead arrows, and don't kill any humans (although I'm sorely tempted to kill a few of those wretched pious hammers).
Taffer36 on 14/3/2006 at 06:15
I never used broadheads (since my newbie days) until the other night. This thread got me to play TG... Warrior Style. I beat Song for the Caverns in half an hour murdering all the guards around me.
I recently learned that you can dodge arrows by leaning. It's so much fun and once you get the hang of it archers are no problem anymore. Plus they tend to shoot their own teammates in TG.
Palantir on 15/3/2006 at 12:54
I prefer to be silence and sneaky
rarely walk under light(in the Theif, I really HATE light)
But my principle is kill no one,
Well, club someone is alright, :)
When I played pagan tunnel, I really trying to make one of my clubbed victim sitting in the water, instead of lying in water and get drowned...:angel:
moria on 15/3/2006 at 14:45
Ah - sweet!
Although I don't kill, I think it's OK for two people who are trying to kill you, to kill each other instead. Yesterday, the two taffers in the pagan tunnels came after me, and I crouched down in the dark, and one of them managed to murder his comrade instead of me!
