PigLick on 10/6/2024 at 14:24
It's still pretty bad, better off sailing the 7 seas for the og version.
demagogue on 10/6/2024 at 14:59
Quote Posted by henke
Yeeeeeah I get what you mean about Animal Well. It does kinda feel more like it has a lot of secrets and layers for the sake of having a lot of secrets and layers rather than because there's any deeper meaning behind it.
There's evidently a second secret end that opens up after you get all of the eggs and free all of the bunnies, but I think there are at least
16 bunnies, and the
64 eggs of course. I was making a go of it anyway, but some of them are very annoying to get, just in terms of the difficulty in the platforming and the like, and it's about reached the limits of my patience. Every once in a while I'll go after one on the list though.
Thirith on 10/6/2024 at 15:34
I cannot really say what made the difference, but I found it easier to keep going with FEZ. I still didn't 100% it, but I found myself wanting to get most of the secrets in that one.
Renault on 10/6/2024 at 15:55
Since Thief has been mentioned a few times in the last couple of pages here, I'll let you guys know that 4 new missions were released on 5/25 as a tribute to the (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152642) 20th anniversary of Thief Deadly Shadows. Two missions are for Thief 2, one is for Thief Gold, and one is for Deadly Shadows. I've only played through one of them,
A Shadow On The Water by nicked, and it's very good. He really nailed the feeling of TDS, even though it's a T2 mission. Definitely worth checking out.
henke on 10/6/2024 at 16:06
Quote Posted by Thirith
As far as
GTA: San Andreas is concerned: how's the Definitive Edition these days?
I think the only bug I've found was some trees without colliders on them that I nonetheless got my car stuck INSIDE somehow. There's some welcome improvements over the original, like mid mission checkpoints, improved combat, free vehicle cam. It's alright! I just started playing cause it's in the PS+ game catalogue now, but I kinda got hooked. Just made it to San Fierro. :cool:
Thirith on 11/6/2024 at 06:29
There is one thing that, ever since I played the Dishonored games, I wish they'd implemented in the Thief games: being able to crawl under tables. Every time I come across a table in Thief now, I bump into it, half-expecting that Garrett will duck those few additional inches further in order to fit under the table, where it's cosy and dark.
On a different note: when the Halo collection came out, I bought it, because I'd heard so many good things about the games and because I quite like Destiny (with some caveats, but that's a different conversation). At the time I got started on the first Halo, but I stopped playing after a couple of hours, because it simply didn't pull me in. Recently, I came across one of those articles arguing that Halo Reach is one of the series' high points, so I'm now giving that one a try. I don't love it, but I can already see that there's something to the game's fatalistic vibe. Plus it's one I can easily play 15-20 minutes while my wife's getting ready for bed in the evening.
Subjective Effect on 11/6/2024 at 16:30
Thief is ripe for current gen remake imo. Has been for a few years. It's needs a proper "director"though and just as I think Krull is ripe for a Cronenberg-Villeneuve collaboration remake we need some avant-garde studio lead to kick it into shape.
And include hiding under tables, up chimneys and in fountains with a breathing tube.
Renault on 11/6/2024 at 17:28
Seems like they tried the Thief remake/reboot thing already, didn't go so well.
demagogue on 11/6/2024 at 18:05
They could do a straight up remake that copies the original games directly like you see sometimes. Tomb Raider Anniversary is the only one I can remember just now though, oh and the System Shock 1 remake.
But modern tech is somehow less ... you all probably know what I'm thinking, but how to put it. It's not that I feel less immersed in the world per se compared to the OGs, because playing the old games there's still a level of the world resisting you getting too embodied in it as well. But the atmosphere just isn't there in the same way, games like Thief TDP & System Shock 2 especially.
That said Thief 4's one virtue was that it looked great. If they could make a straight up remake of The Dark Project with those graphics, that might come off well. Of course the main issue is that that style of gaming is greatly out of the mainstream right now and would get ripped apart by twitch gamers.
Heh, reminds me of the hilarious Gloomwood (
https://x.com/TafferKing451/status/1800393673965982018) review that Dillon just tweeted today. I just imagine a Thief remake would be flooded with, well not with this exactly, but some variation on not comprehending why anyone ever liked the game to begin with because Boomers still can't work their browser and use flip phones, we can't expect they'll know anything about what makes a game good... (I'm not even sure that reviewer is joking when he says the save system is from the 1970s.) Long story short, I don't think the market's there for a straight up direct remake, even though that's the only way I could imagine the series being continued in any constructive way.
