Kovitlac on 12/5/2006 at 13:12
My dad got Thief Gold free from work years and years ago, so I opted to try it. I brought a friend over and we both fell in love with it from the start (I think what we loved most was Garret's attitude toward being a thief). I later got Thief II Platinum as well. However, I eventually fell out of the game.
Years later I heard Thief III was coming out and my interest was rekindled. I asked my dad to get it for my birthday but he couldn't find it. So a month or so after my birthday he gave me the dvd of Thief III, which he got free from work (lucky!!). It wouldn't work on my computer because of a poor graphics card so I played it on my brothers'. After I finished it once I bought the xbox game so I could play it whenever I wanted to. Dad eventually got me a new graphics card and I reinstalled Thief I (not Gold, as I can't find it anywhere) and II back onto my computer. I'm currently working my way through Thief III for the 3rd time. I actually don't play I and II hardly anymore.
I think what I love so much about it is the atmosphere, the stunning in-game graphics (Thief III), and of course, Garret himself.
DarkElf_Mairead on 12/5/2006 at 13:24
I always thought thieves were interesting, and I often play a thief in RPGs. So I found Thief 3 at Walmart and bought it. Read the little booklet and got excited. Tried to install it.....and I didn't have a good enough graphics card. Drove me crazy until half a year later I learned I can play it on my friends computer. Until then I bought Thief 2 and 1 off ebay. I loved the realism of the first person and the atmosphere. Mom laughed at me because for the first 3 days I was leaning, ducking, and looking over things with the games. I still do sometimes lol.
Dia on 12/5/2006 at 13:25
I had just finished playing all the Tomb Raider games and wanted something similar - even if it was only remotely so. I was online searching for new games & came across a review for TDP, which had just been released for the PC (I'd never played a game on my PC before; just my PS). I liked what I read, so I hot-footed it to the nearest video game store, bought a copy, and the rest is history. I loved Thief so much I almost forgot at times that I had a family, friends, pets, & a life before I had loaded it onto my PC. Though I've since learned moderation (well, sort of) where Thief games/FMs are concerned, I'm still very addicted and have the unfortunate habit of comparing other games to Thief. IMHO very few come close.
Jarkko Ranta on 12/5/2006 at 13:26
The first time I heard about TDP was at school (elementary? I was a kid anyway...) from a couple of frieds who told about this wonderful and scary new game where corpses jump up when walked over them. Didn't see any of the Thief-games untill about four years ago when I bought MA (loved the review at Pelit ((
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelit)), but got proper PC 2001. Before that I played Space Quest 1 and Wolfenstein 3D with my own 386. Yes, I'm a poor soul...)
I found TDP about a year ago in Estonia as a (legal) SoldOut Software-copy (haven't seen a single copy in Finland. And we are a "welfare state").
One can guess how long I had lusted for it. TDP's reviewist - if there's such a word - was Nnirvi ((
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niko_Nirvi)) and the review is one of my favourites ever so resistance was futile. Love 'em both.
PS. Put up those links to show there's a life up here north. Don't mind if you
won't read all the crap I write down.
Rogue Keeper on 12/5/2006 at 13:37
Quote Posted by Jarkko Ranta
Wolfenstein 3D with my own 386.
Vulgarian! I've had to play Wolf 3D on my friend's 286! :p
Neil_McCauley on 12/5/2006 at 21:33
Quote Posted by Alex the Gray
I bought a new computer from a local company- I told them I wanted it to play any game off the shelf and not to be obsolete tomorrow.
Any game off the shelf--is this even possible? Strange that they included The Dark Project, such an old game, but another has joined our ranks! Awesome.
So, what hooked me? I hadn't heard of it before 2 years ago, or hardly any PC games for that matter. Got a tattered copy from a friend and burned it (I've since bought a brand new legit copy, as well as Thief Gold and Thief 2). When he gave it to me, I said, "er, should I copy this or something?" He said, only, "it's a good game" and nothing more. Of course, I went through the training (climbing ropes? Hmmm...that's cool and different!), started the first mission, and noticed that it's DARK, and a medieval-like setting. And I can pick pocket and steal things, and hide and the dark and search around for hidden loot. Huh. Where the fucking hell has this been hiding?! Whenever my wife was away I couldn't stop playing this thing! Oh my God, I've never been so immersed in a game before. And I played it on a crappy old laptop! Thank you James, wherever you are.
It's funny, as this was the first PC game I got into, back in Feb 2004, and I didn't even use the mouse! That's all I knew, from playing Keyboard all the way.
V-Raptor on 12/5/2006 at 21:54
First time we (me and my brother) saw Thief Dark Project when it was in stock first time. It was love from the first look. So this is how all begun. :rolleyes:
Aja on 12/5/2006 at 22:08
I saw Tomb Raider 2 in store and thought it looked "interesting". Bought it, and inside was an Eidos disc with Thief demo on it. I loved the demo, and played it several times. This was around 2000, and Thief wasn't in stores so I bought Thief 2 instead. After getting through the first couple levels several times (due to reformats), I ordered Thief Gold from the Eidos website and played through both games properly.
I always loved playing hide-and-seek when I was younger, and playing in the dark was best. Thief is a game I never knew I wanted, but it's at the top of my list now - it gives that same rush of adrenaline that you get when you're playing in the dark for real.
Lyril on 12/5/2006 at 23:23
I bought a magazine to play the TDP demo, which wouldn't run on my computer. But I bought the game anyway as soon as I could find it, and was instantly, irrevocably, totally hooked. (Remember how you felt when the first zombie stood and moaned at you in Cragscleft?)
I've tried so many others since, (I have a shelf of virtually new, never-finished games tried and discarded) but I've always stayed with Thief in all its incarnations. Especially when FMs first started, - the thrill of a new Thief game is still a wonderful feeling.
There have been many discussions here on why it is such a great game, and they are all quite true. But basically it is the ability to immerse yourself in this wonderful, dark, almost-medieval world which has its own codes and laws, - and to break them! RL is often so bland, grey and boring, Thief is never.
