kora on 28/10/2013 at 12:30
Thief, Assassins demo. It was on a demo disk with many other PC games. I don't remember what year. Too young to care to remember. Possibly the 90's.
Zaku on 28/10/2013 at 13:46
I bought thief collection when steam sale Thief bundle(2012), all three. I enjoy all thief series.
especially, metal age is very fun, dark project is good story, deadly shadow is good game but not as good as metal age and dark project.
my favorite game is Metal age.
now, i enjoy all thief game(gog.com version)
ps. sorry lack of english. i can't typing english. sorry.
TheKeeper on 12/11/2013 at 17:57
I don't remember exactly. For Thief it must have been 1999 or maybe 1998. I was involved with the Unreal community and this game just blew me away. It's odd because I remember seeing the box it came in at a store I worked at. It was unusually shaped and I always wondered what kind of game it was. A number of people were inspired and began making Unreal levels in the spirit of Thief. There was a popular one based on Lord Bafford's Manor. This is probably it:
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http://www.zerker.ca/zzone/category/levels/unreal/) http://www.zerker.ca/zzone/category/levels/unreal/
I had this idea for a level with an intricate and detailed city. It was going to have this vast sewer system that took you to various parts of the city. Sort of like a world on its own. Above, there was going to be floating robotic servants that would broadcast messages as they hovered around the city. Not sure why this idea interested me. I guess I wanted it to be like a medieval steampunk level or something.
I did not like the undead portions of Thief and preferred the levels with human opponents. When I watched a family member playing Thief2, it blew me away again. More human levels and more complex and immerse levels. Those were the days. :)
Renault on 12/11/2013 at 21:59
Very cool TheKeeper, and some System Shock and UU levels as well. That just may motivate me to load up Unreal again soon.
Cigam on 22/11/2013 at 03:56
Quote Posted by Cigam
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.
Which I now have. Brilliant game, especially with the Tafferpatch-enabled enhancements. Won't be another nine years until I play it again.
Dead Rat on 24/11/2013 at 09:30
I must admit I've never actually played Thief 1, apart from a demo. Thief 2 was bundled with a pc I bought in 2001, along with Deus Ex, and both of them were the first computer games I really got into. On what was for its time a super-duper computer, with a nice big 19" CRT monitor (I now play on a 27" LED but the CRT was much better for black and dark shadows, with no false glows or glare), powerful graphics card and SB Platinum soundcard etc. Thief 2 was a revelation for me, a fascinating dream world to explore late at night, and I've since played hundreds of fan missions. And hope to play hundreds more.
mjf6866 on 11/12/2013 at 15:13
my first Thief experience was in 1998, working at a small video games shop i remember seeing the box on our shelf and the odd shape of it caught my eye. i didnt think much of it and decided one night to download the demo after seeing it was in first person(I LOVE first person games). i was on dial up at the time so downloading the thief demo was HUGE and took all night. well, i happened to be awake when it finished probably like 3am-ish and started playing it in a dark room with headphones on so i wouldnt wake my family up. i was BLOWN AWAY. i was thrilled that it ran pretty good on my aging PC at that time and couldnt believe how smart the AI was and i loved the medieval setting.
i played through the demo and the next time i was at work, i bought that odd shaped box with the original Thief in it (i still have the original box...that should tell you how near and dear to my heart this game is). between my brother and a couple friends, we would take turns playing and watching each others methods of traversing Bafford's Manor. then we would screw around by placing bodies where we knew guards would be walking to hear their reactions. it was unreal for the time.
i still to this day play Thief 1 and 2 occasionally when i feel nostalgic. i am actually playing Thief gold since i got a new computer recently and figured out how to get it to run with Win7.
probably my favorite PC game of all time right next to Doom. i know, completely different style, but both bring back so many good memories.
Midgard on 1/1/2014 at 17:18
I played Thief The Dark Project when it was first released. I remember how unoptimized & clunky the engine felt back then but the gameplay was so compelling & unique it didn't matter. Even today on my GTX 660 Ti/ i5 based rig it still hiccups occasionally but doesn't feel clunky anymore. Raw core speed seems to make all the difference with this game. I have a confession to make, however: I didn't get very far back then playing TH1. I think I got discouraged by the labyrinthine levels & difficulty with no effective auto-map so I ragequit with the Mage Quest. But I'm older and wiser now, and though i STILL had to recently use a walk-through to find the bracelet in Thieves Guild to complete the mission (bad design on where it was hidden by the developers, imo), I feel confident I'll be able to complete it.
M.
Lucky Hand of Glory on 1/1/2014 at 20:23
first time I played was 1998, TDP. I saw the games "trailer" on my Tombraider game disk, or was it a demo, can't remember, but I was hooked. Bought TDP immediately, TG shortly after.
Picked up T2 day it came out. Sadly, never played T3, but I (for lulzes and cuz I was bored) videotapes my reaction to watching a YouTube walkthrough of The Cradle, its pretty funny, I was really scared and even screamed at parts :joke:
It is still the best game I have ever played (a hundred times) :thumb:
and thank God for FM !
meonfire on 1/1/2014 at 21:38
both +3 @ release :D
still playing them again nearly every holidays :D
with the gog release around its totally cool because everything works without tinkering longer to get it work than you play the game ;P
