Kovitlac on 1/3/2006 at 14:20
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Also, there are no cutscenes during the gameplay.
There are cutscenes during gameplay in Thief III, but they're pretty rare. I happen to like them, though, as they show what happens better then pure gameplay can.
Hmm....why do I like Thief... It's a great game for the stretegists out there. Brains over brawn;)
Brian T on 7/3/2006 at 09:26
It's because the Thief world is the one you really live in and the world surrounding you as you sit reading this is actually a hologramatic deception used by a brain eating Mechanist sect to keep the rest of the human race servile.
dlw6 on 7/3/2006 at 17:16
Good discussion. Fan Mission authors, please read and consider all this!
Thanks,
Don
june gloom on 8/3/2006 at 08:54
for me, it's the way sneaking around (especially on semi-ghosting like i do- i try to disturb as little as i can, but sometimes you gotta crack a few heads) is like a puzzle- if you don't do it right, you get caught. a good example is an early one, in bafford's mansion: the two guards walking around the bathing room. if you're trying to ghost it, you're best off following one guard close enough so that the other guard won't see you, but far enough that he won't hear you or suspect that you're behind him. and just slipping in from bafford's bedroom after you've raided it is rather tricky, since you're in a well-lit room.
i also love the undead levels- both OMs and the better FMs. but then again, i'm a zombie fanatic. i've seen all of george romero's dead movies at least twice, and in the case of night and land, 5 times each. i've got most of the resident evil games, and then there's my obsession with half-life 2's ravenholm, which i'm positive is influenced in part by THC. hell, marc laidlaw himself (valve's primary writer) says thief is one of the few games he still plays to this day.
bonehoard, haunted cathedral, return to cathedral, bloodstone, down among dead men, the cure, inverted manse (god, that one was warped...), the abysmal gale, robbing the cradle... magnificent.
however, while some of those freaked me out (RTC and RTC for starters :P) it was the statues in gamall's lair that gave me the shivering horrors. i think it's because of their mode of speech...
