Which books, movies and other games are recommendable for fans of the world of thief? - by DreadLord
Dia on 28/12/2005 at 01:34
Yahoo showed it both ways. I can't remember, either. But they were good, weren't they! I remember after reading all four LOTR books (didn't read Silmarillion til last year), I was looking for something similar and my brother gave me his copy of "Sword of Shannara". I've only read the first three, but have always intended to go back & read the series from beginning to end (Brooks is still churning out sequels to Shanara, right?). I got hooked on hard-core sci-fi and thusly got sidetracked.
demagogue on 28/12/2005 at 02:01
Get a Commodore 64 emulator and the game is Guild of Thieves by Magnetic Scrolls ... it's a text-based game, but one of the most memorable for me. I'm playing it again for some reason right now and it has just about every LGS-Thief type of location in it somewhere.
DarkElf_Mairead on 28/12/2005 at 16:00
Quote Posted by Dia
Yahoo showed it both ways. I can't remember, either. But they were good, weren't they! I remember after reading all four LOTR books (didn't read Silmarillion til last year), I was looking for something similar and my brother gave me his copy of "Sword of Shannara". I've only read the first three, but have always intended to go back & read the series from beginning to end (Brooks is still churning out sequels to Shanara, right?). I got hooked on hard-core sci-fi and thusly got sidetracked.
Yup he's still writing. I wanna read the newest book but I'm too busy with school and stuff to want to read.
dreamcatcher on 28/12/2005 at 19:00
Games: Chronicles of Riddick, Deus Ex, Cold War, (Call of Chthulu looks promising)
Movies:
Blade Runner
Brazil
Dark City
Matrix
1984
Equilibrium
Strange Days
12 Monkeys
Moridin on 28/12/2005 at 19:37
... a treasure of my pre-teen days... basically role-playing novels where you start an adventure (usually sword-n-sorcery orientated) on the first page, then you are given two (or more) choices about where to go next, e.g. "You are standing in a corridor. Two doors are on the left, on the right. Do you want to open the first left (page 44), second left (page 56) or right door (page 23)"
Some rooms would have treasure, others enemies or traps. Sometimes a prologue gave you a brief rundown of your mission objectives. One, "Creature of Havoc" was unique in that you just woke up with no memory of who or where you were.
You would eventually face (and sometimes) fight a big boss at the book's climax, usually a power-crazed sorcerer, and sometimes you had to complete objectives before you even met the big boss. An early novel in the series "Forest of Doom" dispensed with this formula by making your entire objective the retrieval of a dwarven war hammer (the head and hilt were hidden at different ends of a huge forest)
I think the books are out of print now, but there are no doubt copies available on Ebay.
DreadLord on 29/12/2005 at 00:59
Quote Posted by Moridin
... a treasure of my pre-teen days... basically role-playing novels where you start an adventure (usually sword-n-sorcery orientated) on the first page, then you are given two (or more) choices about where to go next, e.g. "You are standing in a corridor. Two doors are on the left, on the right. Do you want to open the first left (page 44), second left (page 56) or right door (page 23)"
Some rooms would have treasure, others enemies or traps. Sometimes a prologue gave you a brief rundown of your mission objectives. One, "Creature of Havoc" was unique in that you just woke up with no memory of who or where you were.
You would eventually face (and sometimes) fight a big boss at the book's climax, usually a power-crazed sorcerer, and sometimes you had to complete objectives
before you even met the big boss. An early novel in the series "Forest of Doom" dispensed with this formula by making your entire objective the retrieval of a dwarven war hammer (the head and hilt were hidden at different ends of a huge forest)
I think the books are out of print now, but there are no doubt copies available on Ebay.
Yeah I know that kind of book. There are some children´s books with the same idea.....
I seems strange that there are similiarities between 12 monkeys and Thief. But I know the film - though it seems to be funny but there are simliarities......
EDIT: Yeah Im wating for Call of Cthulhu....
theBlackman on 29/12/2005 at 05:28
Steven Brust: Jhereg and the rest of the series.
Robin Hobb: Royal Assassin and the rest of the trilogy.
Fritz Lieber, of course: The Grey Mouser and Fafhrd series the Swords of collection: Swords of Lahnkmar, Swords against Deviltry and the others.
Juliet E. McKenna: The Tales of Einarinn starting with The Thief's Gamble and continuing through 5 volumes ending with The Assassins Edge
fett on 29/12/2005 at 06:16
Books:
Mark Frost - The List of Seven
Repairman Jack novels (The Tomb, et.c) - F. Paul Wilson
Any Terry Pratchett/Discworld novel
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Movies:
Batman Begins
Dark City
The Saint
Sneakers
Entrapment
Games:
Commandos
System Shock 1 & 2
Deux Ex
Most high-ranking Thief FM's (Inverted Manse, Ominous Bequest, Calendra)
Spitter on 29/12/2005 at 09:25
Most high-ranking Thief FMs are Thiefy?
Twilight on 29/12/2005 at 09:41
Quote Posted by theBlackman
Steven Brust: Jhereg and the rest of the series.
Seconded, those are absolutely great books! Vlad is a professional assassin with the jhereg Loiosh as his familiar (imagine a flying lizard with a dry sarcastical comment for every situation). The psionic conversations between Vlad and Loiosh are hilarious!
Slightly OT: While doing a search for "Brooks" at amazon I stumbled across the "Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" by Max Brooks. I guess that's the sort of book Garrett would have wanted before visiting the Haunted Cathedral…
