SneakyGuy101 on 13/10/2013 at 05:09
Quote Posted by Hit Deity
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:
Oh my gosh I have aspergers too:cheeky: My parents just found out a few years ago in 2010. I am very talented at drawing and I'm only 14:) Also I started making dromed levels only like two years ago back in october 2011. It's great to see that I'm not the only one ;) I also started playing thief back when I was only 7 or 8 and knew how to play the game and it only took me like a year to get used to it and get good at the game. I do say it is a really great game and I think it is the best game I have ever played:cheeky:
Hit Deity on 16/10/2013 at 12:03
I bet the folks at LGS never envisioned their product as being good for "therapy". ;) I wonder what they would say to that now.
partol on 24/10/2013 at 07:54
Never played Thief: The Dark Project
Thief Gold - 1999 or 2000
Thief II - 2001
Thief III - 2005
I recall reading a review about this new Thief game:"first person sneaker" and "the game you play with your ears"
During a trip to the computer store, by chance, bought a copy of Thief Gold on sale.
Thief mesmerized me with soothing and immersive music/sound, hiding in shadows, and very scary undead.
Cutscenes were best I had ever seen in a game, at the time.
The in-game readables were dramatic and sometimes shocking.
I remember being shocked after reading about the severe cruelness of the Hammers.
Played Thief II during a two week break. Knew it would be good.
I played on my first "gaming PC" which was an overclocked budget PC that I personally assembled for gaming.
(single core) AMD Duron processor, Geforce 2 card, and most importantly, a soundblaster card.
Back then, most motherboards had either no sound processor or a very crude built-in sound processor.
Sound cards were, as important, or almost as important, as graphics cards.
I played Thief II in a dark room during a period of 2 weeks, in which I forgot about the outside world.
Played Thief III in 2005. Enjoyed it, but not as much as Thief 1 and 2.
Story and immersion is good, but the third person view, no rope arrows, and smaller maps were disappointing.
Builders Fire on 24/10/2013 at 23:53
I have never been on a forums before but I really want to talk to someone about Thief. I’ve been playing it for around 10 years and it’s one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Unfortunate, not many people around here know about it so I came here and want to share my experiences and emotions with other players and tell secrets about it.
I started playing Thief 1 in 2012 at the age of 13 and got it from a birthday present. It was very difficult for me. Walking through Lord Bafford’s house was very scary but I found some nice stuff along the way. I wasn’t sure that I would keep playing Thief 1 but I was adventurous so I continued exploring. When I learned about the order of the hammer in the next mission I was caught and knew I would play it till the end.
Later I purchases Thief 2 in 2005, Thief 3 in 2007 and after that Thief Gold.
It strikes me that there are people with Asperger’s in here. I’ve got autism which is somewhat similar to Asperger’s but maybe a bit more antisocial. Maybe it is wrong to think about it that way since computers tend to attract people with autism. I also didn’t thought that there were so many people playing Thief at such young ages. I’m surprised about all these stories.
Builders Fire on 25/10/2013 at 00:27
With on a forum I mean: never posted something on a forum. I have visited this forum some times before. Thought I should clear that out.
skacky on 25/10/2013 at 01:44
Personally I began with Thief: The Dark Project around 2003 or something, but I didn't really like it, so I played Thief 2 a bit later (2004?). I was (and still am) a big fast-FPS player so I mainly played games like Quake and Unreal at the time. I came back to Thief 1 later but this time with Thief Gold and I loved every second of it, so much in fact that I consider it really superior to Thief 2. And then I played Deadly Shadows around the same time I played DX: Invisible War, sometime around 2006.
Partol: you should try to get your hands on The Dark Project someday. The differences are not really big but it does certain things better than Gold (like the Bonehoard which is proper creepy and very, very dark, or the pacing that is a tad better in TDP than in TG).
Dark Horse on 25/10/2013 at 12:19
I played the Thief demo (Bafford's Manor) and was so hooked, I bought the game as soon as it came out in the UK. And couldn't stop playing it! My poor girlfriend at the time must have suffered :(
Bought Thief II when it came out too, but got stuck after a few levels (Trail of Blood) and didn't finish it till a year or so later.
Thief 3 was also bought promptly, and played through as fast as I could.
Sigh... that anticipation of getting started and knowing you still have a whole Thief game ahead of you!
Bought Thief Gold but sadly never managed to play the extra missions. And thinking about giving the Dark Mod a go!
Goldmoon Dawn on 25/10/2013 at 16:16
Quote Posted by partol
I played on my first "gaming PC" which was an overclocked budget PC that I
personally assembled for gaming. (single core) AMD Duron processor, Geforce 2 card, and most importantly, a soundblaster card.
This passage fondly takes me right back to those days, where my situation was pretty much the same as yours. I was about 25 at that time, and am now 39. Thief, combined with Might Magic 6-8 and Ultima 9, 98' 99' was the most memorable time I can remember in cprg, short of maybe the very late 80's.
Solar Prominence on 26/10/2013 at 04:03
I first heard of Thief in about 2010, when I watched a Let's Play of it. It looked very interesting, but I wasn't enthused about trying to make it work on a Windows 7, so I forgot about it for awhile.
Now in May of this year, I heard of the 1.19 patch and decided to try out the game. It grabbed me instantly; I'd never played a game where stealth was so keenly focused upon, or where the sound and lighting was so carefully and fittingly used, but Thief let me realize how much I could appreciate that style of gameplay. So I finished Thief 1 and 2 in about a month total, and several fan missions to boot.
Sadly I haven't gotten my hands on Deadly Shadows yet, but I hope to play through it sometime.
Cigam on 27/10/2013 at 18:59
Played both 1 and 2 first in 2002. Last played 1 in 2011 and 2 in 2004.
First played 3 in 2006 and last in 2009.
Due to replay 2 shortly.
