Dan on 9/5/2009 at 21:40
Every one of us has his unique play style. Here are the types of thief gamers I came up with while goofing around at home today:
Thief types:
-The Explorer – This guy will explore every piece of every mission, no matter how unimportant it is. He will enter every cell in Ramirez’s basement even if he knows there is nothing there and they are all identical. There is no crate he hasn’t looked under, no bush he hasn’t zoomed. It takes this taffer 3 hours to complete a mission.
-The Perfectionist Thief – He plays Thief with silk gloves. There is no mission, be that cannon or fanon he hasn’t ghosted played it Lytha, Norwegian, Japanese or whatever style he can think of. The Perfectionist always gets all the loot and keys, plays on Impossible, doesn’t kill or alert anything, and if a mouse squeaks because of him, he reloads the whole mission again – there must be NO alerts! If Explorer take 3 hours to complete a mission, the perfectionist takes 7.
-The Benny Thief aka Crazed Maniac – the exact opposite of the Perfectionist. He tries to kill every thing he can find around. “Secrat Passages? Huh, whata’ hell are front gates for?” is his motto. He doesn’t need to find all the loot, as long as he can get his hands on the nice shiny scepter, and get out of the manor as soon as possible. Playing on Expert is a loss of time and opportunity to bash some skulls.
-The Pickpocket – There is only one valuable loot type in this world and that is on the belts of people. This thief spends hours looking for all the pickpockets in a mission. He loves gathering 10 copies of one and the same key. When he is low on health he would say: “What you suggest? Get that potion on the table? Nope! I bet I can find one on a Haunt’s belt”.
-The Novice - The new taffer - the one that starts the great adventure of Garrett for the first time. Yes, there are still populations of this biological specimen, even after all these years. The Novice installs Thief the Dark Project with great anticipation, plays trough Bafford’s mission with extreme excitement, and when he reaches the zombies in the Cragscleft mines…he uninstalls the game!(just kidding) I think this thief type is the luckiest of all as he experiences the wonderful mystery of the Thief world for the first time. All of us were novices once and I believe that we all whish to become novices once more.
-The Noobice - A variation of the novice – the evil kind! These thieves value not the old ways of discipline and willpower, but value only wealth and murder. The Noobice doesn’t play Thief 1 and 2, because they have “olde graphics”. If someone discovers the missing link between the creepy statue in The Lost City and H.P. Lovecraft's books, the Noobice would just say “meh, I knew about this like 11 years ago”. The hobby of the people of this type is starting “will there be another Thief 4” threads in the forums.
-The Strange and Unusual Thief – This is the unconventional type. “ Getting into that mansion via the secret underground passage is soooo inconvenient. I use the chimney instead”. His motto is “mission objectives are for losers”. Why don’t we try to put every body in a mission to sleep (even the rats) and make a nice screenshot?! Or better yet – lets stack dozens of crates so we can reach the stars. Even so these taffers provide the community with the best panoramic screens.
-The Piece Lover aka the paranoid thief – When ever he starts a mission he is like “WOW!” He can gaze at the stars, or study the great architecture of the buildings for hours. This taffer loves the magical story of the game and likes to explore the different books and items. But as soon as he hears “Hey, how did you get in here!” he presses alt + F4 and covers his eyes in fear. (Believe me, I know such people)
-Necrophobe – He just loves the warmth of guard or hammer speech. He adores the coziness of the Burricks’ gas bubbles. He even finds Fire Elementals aka Fire Nuts kinda fun. But when he gazes a singe zombie he enters epileptic shock.
-Lore Maniac – He is very much into the thief universe. But he thinks playing the games is so “last week”! The new thieving is all about knowing every single character, item and piece of scroll there is in the missions. He can make a detailed psychological analysis if Karras and he doesn’t even know he appears in the last mission of Thief 2. Since his cousin showed him how to view books without playing the game, he hasn’t touched the exe.
-Speedfreak - he was one of the other types once, but he evolved into this overexcited hyper speed worker. He can start Bafford’s mission and complete it before the “bare pit” conversation is over. There is no need for shops and equipment. The best tools of a thief are his feet.
What thief are you? Or do you know any other types?
jtr7 on 9/5/2009 at 22:12
:laff::laff::laff::thumb:
- The Walking Thief Encyclopaedias - Devouring way too much knowledge about every aspect of Thief and beyond. Voracious and insatiable in their freaky, obsessive appetite. Hopeless addicts who will kill themselves at such a pace. Jelly-brained from tracing the maps to the most accurate detail as a pixel will allow. Mentally obese from packing in the knowledge until their brains explodes gray matter all over the forums, to the zombies' delight. Very very frightening to be around.
DrK on 9/5/2009 at 23:00
Interesting.
I'm a mix between the explorer and the piece lover. Except I don't need 3 hours to complete a mission. And I'm not the kind to be scared easily, on the contrary :sly:
I think I spend more time walking around and analyzing the mission, than playing the mission itself. Guess that's why I only play fms with strong atmosphere nowadays...
SneakyJack on 9/5/2009 at 23:42
I'd like to submit:
- The EL KABONG: With trusty blackjack in hand (replaced by a six string acoustic guitar in their imagination) this caped crusader of a thief player would enjoy nothing more than giving everyone inside a thief mission some unnecessary nap time. Any AI (big or small) that can be blackjacked will most definitely be knocked out for the count by the time the last bit of loot is picked up by this masked marauder and usually arranged in a giant pile for screenshot memorials or just to admire their handiwork. Careful, at any time this player could go into a KABONGING frenzy and no one is safe!
:laff:
CEEtheDinoman on 9/5/2009 at 23:54
Well, it's a combo too. Let's do percentages:
35% EL KABONG :bored: (Thanks SneakyJack, it's what I was thinking)
30% Explorer (I love searching around, and climb roofs when possible)
20% Peace (?) Lover (I'm bad for reloading when I might still save myself)
13% Necrophobe (The first time always gets me. :erm:)
2% Benny (Who hasn't gone Rambo after a while in a really intense or difficult level? I know that's generally what happens in Escape. :sly:)
Stath MIA on 9/5/2009 at 23:55
I am 70/30% cross between the obsessive lore maniac and the strange and unusual sort. There is nothing I like better than discussing little known, highly inconsequential, facts and theorizing about perceived connections which may or may not exist. But at times I cannot help but do rather mad things within the game, such as assembling bodies in Glyph shapes and gathering every miscellaneous item in the game into a single pile. Madness is fun:cheeky:
theBlackman on 10/5/2009 at 00:12
The Explorer @ 60% There is always, I mean always, something I did not see before. This goes along with the SAUT.
The Perfectionist Thief @ 20% As a Thief, I shouldn't be heard, seen, or noticed in any form. I'm not an assassin, or "Clockwork Orange" intruder.
The Strange and Unusual Thief @ 20% There is always another way in, (Assassins is a good example).
Robbsie on 10/5/2009 at 13:41
The Explorer thief about 40 %
The Perfectionist thief - 50 %
and necrophobe - 10 % The undead creep me out, can't stand them, but I try always to sneak past them. Makes me feel more efficient while playing Thief. :D :cheeky:
Necros on 11/5/2009 at 08:47
The Explorer - 90% :cool:
The Strange and Unusual Thief - 10% :)
Zontik on 13/5/2009 at 11:43
Blackjack maniac.
Nobody allowed to distract me from facing great City architecture, exploring dark corners, ledges and roofs. If one last AI still not knockouted and I can't reach his location to calm him (and even HE can't reach me), it really bothers me.
If I has the only gas arrow, I usually never use it, expecting guard in heavy helmet or another NoKO creature on my way.
