Petike the Taffer on 28/9/2013 at 18:11
I've known about the series for years, but I only got around to playing all three games in 2008 (I was still finishing up the TMA campaign when I joined the forums).
StormofCake on 29/9/2013 at 06:40
I'm 15, and started playing the series when I was around 4, 5 or 6 years old :)
My brothers and I would watch dad play through the game at night, really getting into the whole stealthy experience. We would play for fun by ourselves, never really progressing, but I did finally beat the game. To this day the Thief series is one of my favorites, particularly the first and second games. Not sure about Thief IV, but I'll have to give it a go and see how it plays. I am a bit disappointed that it won't be as true to the originals.
Just thought I'd leave this here :P
calmflow on 30/9/2013 at 00:40
TDP: That wonderful demo, ah Bafford, I looted your manor hundreds of times.
'08 for TMA because we could never get things running on my rig until then.
TDS in '07.
Just got TG the other week in a sale on GOG.com
gnartsch on 3/10/2013 at 15:13
Hmmm.... very interesting: only 1 person played it first in 2004 (when TDS was released).
I wonder why why?
Did the game have such bad critics or was it released without much publicity?
gnartsch on 3/10/2013 at 15:15
Hmmm.... very interesting: only 1 person played it first in 2004 (when TDS was released).
I wonder why ?
Did the game have such bad critics or was it released without much publicity and only hard core fans of the first parts were actually aware of it ?
May I even interpret it like: whoever got the first contact with Thief via TDS is likely to have never made it into our community.
Don't want to start a war on that, but it seems like there is a 'lost generation' around the year 2004.
As for me, it was my brother who pointed me to the DarkProject some time around 1999 or so, stating : "Have a look at that one! That one is surely exactly your flavour!"
And he was soo f*ckin' right!
Played all of them a couple of times until I found out in 2008 that there is a whole new world out there : FMs !!! :eek:
ganac on 3/10/2013 at 21:55
1997 is when I first found the Dark Project demo (or, Lord Buh'fords Manor, as I called it) on a MAXIMUM PC demo disc. Between that and owning the game is a blur, but that's how most pre-internet life is anyway.
SneakyGuy101 on 5/10/2013 at 18:17
Quote Posted by gnartsch
Hmmm.... very interesting: only 1 person played it first in 2004 (when TDS was released).
I wonder why ?
Did the game have such bad critics or was it released without much publicity and only hard core fans of the first parts were actually aware of it ?
May I even interpret it like: whoever got the first contact with Thief via TDS is likely to have never made it into our community.
Don't want to start a war on that, but it seems like there is a 'lost generation' around the year 2004.
As for me, it was my brother who pointed me to the DarkProject some time around 1999 or so, stating : "Have a look at that one! That one is surely exactly your flavour!"
And he was soo f*ckin' right!
Played all of them a couple of times until I found out in 2008 that there is a whole new world out there : FMs !!! :eek:
Cool story Bro:cheeky::joke:
TheDorkProject on 10/10/2013 at 08:43
I voted 2000.
I got a copy of The Dark Project disc with a sound card or video card or something back in 1998 I believe, and played a few minutes of it, so I guess technically I first played TDS in 1998... but I didn't actually take it seriously and get caught up in it, and fall in love with it, until 2 years later. After I finished TDS TMA I decided to get System Shock 2, which I got that same year I think.
Hit Deity on 12/10/2013 at 11:41
I read a preview in a gaming magazine about Thief: The Dark Project, and the way the writer described it, I was tingling with excitement. I immediately downloaded the demo (on dialup!) and after waiting an eternity, I loaded up the best game of my life: then and now. It sucked me in. I must've played that demo a hundred times, learning the nuances, tricks, how to live as a thief and be sneaky. Bought the game as soon as I could, right at release or shortly thereafter, within a week or so. I was floored. Spent days, weeks, months playing it...then got the Gold edition when I heard it had "extra stuff" in it. Then, I pre-ordered T2 (TMA) at my local gaming store, and played it for an insane amount of time, joined the TTLG forums, and then got sucked into the love-hate relationship that is Dromed (for T2). The next 5 years were a blur.
My kids grew up playing the two games (TG and T2), and the youngest learned to game at the age of like 6 in them. He has Aspergers, but at the time, we didn't even know what that was. He would sit behind me, fascinated but hiding his eyes at the scary parts, and then when I was gone to work, he'd load the game up and play. I didn't know that at the time, or I might have stopped him because Thief was maybe a little too intense for his age. I didn't find out till after a few weeks that a couple of my settings were different in the controls, and I put it together that he was going in after me and playing, then resetting my control scheme back to the way it was that I liked to play. (He didn't know you could save the control schemes...or maybe he thought I'd realize there was an "extra" set of control binds in the menu?..and he would reset them by rote memory of how I liked to have them.) I remember being a little upset about it, worried that it might be too much for him, but long story short: he would go for long periods of time without talking, even days, except to just communicate the basic necessities, but when he got to talking about Thief...he would talk for hours about how good it was. I was happy and concerned at the same time, not quite knowing what to do. But anything that made him that happy...I couldn't deny him that pleasure, he enjoyed it so much. My wife heard the zombie moans coming from the game one day while I was at work and called me to ask if I "knew what my son was playing". I sheepishly said, "yeah, for about a year now". It had only been about 6 months, but I figured if it hadn't "warped him" by then, he was fine.
What a game! :ebil:
Psychomorph on 13/10/2013 at 01:32
The best thing about having played the original Thief games quite late is that it run on max settings fluidly and I played it on a 27" 1440p monitor.
And the absolutely best thing was - I launched Thief 2 right after finishing Thief 1... the satisfaction...
