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Cardia on 1/8/2015 at 09:30

Ahhh mais um Português para o fórum , bem vindo André , em que vila moras?

Hitokiri-san on 1/8/2015 at 13:40

Quote Posted by Cardia

Ahhh mais um Português para o fórum , bem vindo André , em que vila moras?

Moro na Coutada em Torres Vedras.
É mesmo bacano encontrar cá um português! :cheeky:

Cardia on 1/8/2015 at 17:38

Quote Posted by Hitokiri-san

Moro na Coutada em Torres Vedras.
É mesmo bacano encontrar cá um português! :cheeky:

Já tive em Torres Vedras quando era miúdo, é uma Terra bonita, gosto da zona do Castelo.

Há mais três portugueses no Fórum mas é raro vê-los por aqui, espero que gostes das missões feitas por fans para o thief, algumas destas missões dos fãs superam a qualidade das missões originais dos jogos do Thief. Na minha opinião as melhores missões que se encontram aqui criadas por fãs são para o thief 2.

Sim é porreiro ter portugueses por aqui :thumb:

Cumprimentos
Pedro Quintela

Hitokiri-san on 1/8/2015 at 20:32

Quote Posted by Cardia

Já fiz download de umas. Depois de passar o Thief 2 outra vez hei de experimentar!

Cumprimentos.

90sgamer92 on 1/8/2015 at 21:44

I'm 22 and I'm from Finland. I discovered the Thief series back in 2012, I played them in backwards order (Deadly Shadows on Xbox, then Thief 2, then Thief 1, though I did try TDP before DS or Metal Age, I can't remember which).

Favorite mission would probably have to be The Sword. But it's hard to choose when there's so many good ones.

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I am a member of a gun rights organization, Open Carry Texas, which our goal is to get our state government to pass less-restrictive gun laws for law-abiding citizens, like me.

I wish we had CCW (and more sensible laws in general) here. Or atleast castle doctrine. I have no sympathy for burglars despite the fact that Thief is one of my favorite game series :D
Hoplofobia is such a common disease in Europe (even though gun ownership is quite common in Finland due to hunting). There's so much irrational misinformation regarding America's gun violence, if people only understood/were exposed to actual statistics and less sensationalistic news, the situation might alleviate. Yes there's school shootings and cities like Detroit, Chicago (gun control haven) and New Orleans, but when you analyze gun violence state by state you can see that it's not the guns that are making people violent (New Hampshire and Vermont are the best examples).

Btw, good job proving stereotypes about Texans being gun nuts wrong :D

Vae on 1/8/2015 at 22:20

Hola, señor!

sNeaksieGarrett on 10/9/2015 at 04:49

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Guess I'm not the only taffer that got thief TDP because of a soundcard! :cheeky: Holy cow, I'm in Texas too! I was born in Texas as well. I ALSO got thief, but my dad was the one who bought the soundcard. I was so lucky, the TDP version came with his soundcard, and I tried it out - ever since I've loved it. I remember that I used to be a bit scared of the game though, because I was like 11 or 12 when I started playing I think (Yeah, I know). What scared me of course were the haunts and stuff. I remember back then I didn't get very far in the game, but finally picked it up again and beat the whole game a couple years later or something. Also, LOL at the cop AI motion idea. :laff: I eventually bought Thief 2, and actually I think I might still have the money order receipt for it - IIRC, I bought it during the summer of 2001 and got it in the original triangular shaped box that it came in.

Wow, I posted my original comments in 2008. I want to add a story that is related to the above.

So today I was reading (http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/9/9274915/graphics-card-boxes-weird-art) an article about graphics card boxes and it made me think about the soundcard that my dad got and the box it came in, which of course made me think of this thread. I decided to do some searching for the box online, and I found someone selling the very soundcard that my father bought so many years ago. Link(http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Labs-Sound-Blaster-Live-Platinum-PCI-SB-4760P-complete-Live-Drive-/111764144889?hash=item1a05a982f9) here. Since this is an ebay link, the listing will disappear (right? or does the page still stay there after the sale of the item ends?) so look now before it is gone. Actually, just in case, I've got some screengrabs attached to this post.

So it came with not only Thief, but Need for Speed 4: High Stakes and Descent 3. Pretty great package to include not only 1, but three games. I was thinking that only graphics cards came bundled with games, but back then apparently so did soundcards, or at least ones like this Platinum card.

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Tannar on 13/9/2015 at 08:10

That's cool! Yeah, it used to be quite common. I got many games from sound cards back in the day. I don't know when they stopped doing it. Actually, they used to bundle games with all kinds of things, including peripherals. I once got several games bundled with a SCSI scanner I bought.

goldwell on 13/9/2015 at 11:29

Quote Posted by Tannar

I don't think companies stopped it completely, instead now they offer the free games/software with graphic card purchases instead.

greenie2600 on 13/9/2015 at 18:18

Fine, I'll play...

Hi! I'm greenie2600. I'm a 38-year-old dude from Maryland. Video games have always meant PC games to me—I've never owned a console. (Over the years I've had a Commodore VIC-20, a C64, an Amiga 500, a System 7 Mac, and a few Windows PCs. I was online back when that meant dialing up to a BBS. I am, in short, a big ol' nerd.) I make my living as a web developer.

Thief 2 blew me away when I first discovered it years ago, and it remains my favorite game of all time. The gameplay and the atmosphere remain unequaled. I've played through T1, T2, and T3 numerous times.

I've fired up DromEd a couple of times in the hopes of making my own FM, but man is that an unfriendly piece of software. But I guess that's to be expected, given its age and the fact that it was never intended for commercial release. (Maybe some ambitious programmer could reverse-engineer Thief's mission file format and develop a modern mission editor...)

I had high hopes for T4—a new Thief game, with modern production values! Yeah, not so much. It had "Thief" in the title, all right, but that was where the similarities ended. What a disappointment.

So, props to all the FM authors who are keeping this unique game alive, 15 years (!) after its release. Few games from that era hold up the way this one does. No game, period, has ever done stealth gameplay as well.