twhalen2600 on 4/4/2014 at 16:23
That article was a great read. I've never read a better description of Thief's setting than:
"In Thief I and II, the player moves through a nameless city that somehow evokes the entire history of Western civilization, from the Dark Ages to now, in a way that’s entirely plausible and visually staggering. Cat-walking atop castles that look like luxury apartments and cathedrals that seem like corporate offices, it’s almost like clambering through a model of our cultural psyche, as intricately tooled as a handcrafted timepiece. "
It's partly unsettling for me to read what Thief's influences are, as the Thief games have served as major influences in my own creative life, and I always saw them as just original creations of Looking Glass. Which of course they are, but, as with anything creative, there is a network of influences behind them. I've had this same feeling not just with Thief but with anything else I learn the backstory of. The Hammerites and the City inspired my for-fun story, but they weren't supposed to be inspired by anything themselves!
It also speaks to the above quote that so often I'll think "that's like in Thief." Since I discovered Thief before so many other things in the world, I'll think "backwards", as instead of the Hammerite Cathedral reminding me of real world cathedrals, it's the other way around. Of course, I know I'm not the only one here who has real-life association with Thief.
Goldmoon Dawn on 4/4/2014 at 23:39
Quote Posted by twhalen2600
I always saw them as just original creations of Looking Glass.
You are certainly not alone in this community for feeling that way. The Hammers, Pagans, and Keepers are homages to the classic crpgs that inspired them, that they also were a part of shaping and influencing over the early years.
downwinder on 7/4/2014 at 13:07
anyone know how viktoria or dewdrop came into being ,and yes i know a lot of people will say dewdrop is not important,but did you all know dewdrop is suppose to have a power,i forgot what it was suppose to be but i never got it to work on hammers
Le MAlin 76 on 7/4/2014 at 21:48
Quote Posted by Brethren
There are many fans out there with more information than myself, but I've always heard that The Name Of The Rose was a major inspiration. That mostly refers to the book, but probably the movie as well.
Also, just found this article, worth a read:
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http://www.salon.com/2000/06/20/dark_glass/) (3rd paragraph down)
The Library of the Keepers is the more direct element influenced by this novel. The destroying of the book by the disappearance of the glyphs, and others books which where protected in the secret and revealed to all is like the burning of the Library of the monastary. There is too the ideological excesses (religious, political, "aristocratical", etc. The novel talk essentialy about the Inquisition, but in fact we must not exagarate the dark image of this institution because it did the first criminal investigations of the History) which lead to the obscurantism.
