ticky on 9/11/2010 at 14:35
Hi all! :)
The title speaks for itself, let's talk about when/where/how did you see Thief for the first time on screen?
I was 12 years old, and it was the 11st of august 1999, and I headed home from a lake where I watched a full solar eclipse (I remember the exact date mostly because of the eclipse). When I got home, I realized that there's a new pentium 266 for me. After a couple hours of discovering the pc, my uncle showed me some pc-magazine CD that contained various demos, among them Thief: The Dark Project Demo. I found it scary and amazing at the same time, when I first saw Lord Bafford's well house with the drunk guard and the other one patrolling around. I was also shocked by the marvellous sounds of the game. Funny thing that when I first saw the guards, I thought they are aliens wearing some masks. Lord Bafford's basement was also scary for me.
Yandros on 9/11/2010 at 14:54
I found Thief and T2 on Gamespot while searching for new games to play in early 2001. At the time I was still playing older TBS games like MoM and MoO2 (I was a Microprose junkie). I was impressed by their high ratings and the reviews sounded intriguing, so I downloaded and played through both demos. I found the TG demo really hard because I didn't get the whole stealth thing yet. I started to figure it out while playing the T2 demo, which totally hooked me. I went and bought T2 at the store the next day, but actually didn't get TG until probably 2002, off eBay, since it wasn't in my local stores.
I Hate Burricks on 9/11/2010 at 15:18
Sometime in 99 I think it was, I had a demo for Thief: The Dark Project. I fell in love and played it like crazy. When I went to go buy the actual game, I saw Thief Gold was out so I just got that instead. I didn't get Thief 2 for quite a while. Played the demo for it like crazy. Just got a copy for Thief 2 about 4-5 years ago. Even to this date, they're still my favorite games. I can play them repeatedly... even the same levels over and over and just not get bored
lost_soul on 9/11/2010 at 16:10
I first read about it in a review back in the late 1990s, not sure exactly when. Then I played the demo on a machine with a Permedia 2 video card and for a wile, I thought it was supposed to have white textures. Then I got a Voodoo 3 card and was blown away at what it could do.
ticky on 9/11/2010 at 16:45
Quote Posted by lost_soul
I first read about it in a review back in the late 1990s, not sure exactly when. Then I played the demo on a machine with a Permedia 2 video card and for a wile, I thought it was supposed to have white textures. Then I got a Voodoo 3 card and was blown away at what it could do.
Yes! Voodo 3 and Thief was looking marvellous together, sometimes better than my ATI today with Thief 2 at dark places!
Yandros, I also didn't get the stleath thing for a while - but after then, any other games were strange to me. :)
qolelis on 9/11/2010 at 16:53
I was a student in computer science at the time (sometime around '98 or '99) and was living in a place similar to a dorm. I had just bought a new computer and TDP came together with the sound board (no box, just a simple white envelope made out of paper and transparent plastic). I remember telling someone across the hall that I was plaing Thief and he made some joke about me sneaking around and stealing stuff for real ("We'd better watch out then..."). That's the first time I saw TDP on screen.
AntiMatter_16 on 9/11/2010 at 17:56
Christmas vacation, 1999. I was 14 years old, and we'd just bought a new computer that I spent most of the vacation playing. A Celeron 466, 128MB PC100 RAM, Riva TNT2 32MB and a Sound Blaster Live! which came with Need for Speed, Descent 3, and... this sinister looking game called "Thief". Rated *M* no less! At first I mostly played Descent 3, as Thief really creeped me out. But as Descent 3 got tiresome (and made me somewhat motion sick), I kept coming back to Thief, despite all it's terror inducing creepiness. Everything about the world was so sinister, dark, and mysterious. Cragscleft Prison, Down in the Bonehoard, The Sword, these missions were just so damn weird, I could only take so much of it but always kept coming back, and still do. =)
PotatoGuy on 9/11/2010 at 18:55
I think it was somewhere in 2003. I was 11 and hardly played video games - only Rollercoaster Tycoon and Piranha Panic come to mind now. I wasn't really that much interested in them too. I walked into a random store, and browsed through some movies, and in the game section next to it Thief caught my eye. Both TDP and TMA were in the box. It was cheap (almost offensively cheap for such game), and I still don't really know why I bought it. The text on the back of the cover was really vague, I just understood I'd be a thief, and that Thief 2 would have a multiplayer option (Apparently someone had misunderstood and thought it would be included). But the image on the front was so interesting I just bought it without thinking too much about it.
I tried it out, and I remember being really immersed immediately. I even thought the guards at Bafford's front door would be hostile immediately, and never showed myself to them. Only on my third playthrough I discovered that they were actually friendly. All levels with zombies made me quit Thief for a week or two (no experience with games made them so much more scary) but then I'd return to it. After completing TDP I continued with TMA, and after two years I played Thief Gold, a year after that Deadly Shadows. The Cradle freaked me out, but never as much when standing in the Old Quarter in a corner, not knowing where in the dark those noises came from.
Melan on 9/11/2010 at 19:40
I came across the demo on a game magazine's CD supplement, late 1998. The editor of the supplement was really enthusiastic about it ("I am awaiting it more eagerly than the next adventures of Lara "Mammaries" Croft", something like that), so despite not being a huge FPS fan, I checked out the demo with the training mission and Lord Bafford's. Instant addiction. I bought the full game shortly thereafter. So, thanks, magazine people! :D
nickie on 9/11/2010 at 19:55
My bloke was looking for something to keep me quiet while he played whatever it was he was playing at the time, and found a Sold Out version of TDP and TMA in a cheapy bin in a game shop. I was immediately hooked and have rarely strayed into anything else since. Except for the odd adventure game.
Thief has done more to keep us together than anything else. I mean, you'd never leave the person who'd found Thief for you, would you? :laff:
