yes i played it yesterday and wow i was impressed,but i never saw dewdrop in either mission :(

March 2011 frobber posted


After backtracking a bunch of recent blog activity, it looks like a lot came from here.

The screen shots are pretty much my complete collection gathered all in one place. Some old images, a lot new.

I finally got around to loading thief on my windows 7 machine and I imagined this would be the end of it, but then played Thief Gold as a 'wide-screen' trial -- then KotP.

Years ago, as the omniscient builder of everything, I was one person who could never truly enjoy KotP from a regular player's perspective, and I especially could never fully appreciate the pain laid at the feet of those playing without knowing every detail ahead of time. More than five years had passed and I figured I deserved a sampling of my own poison -- playing the whole thing across several evenings all on expert -- all without the benefit of a fresh memory.

I'm amazed at how much I did not remember.

Okay - I get the complaints now about not enough time in the timed missions. I wish the easter egg I'd planted offered a way to allow that extra time. It would have been easy to implement -- but I ignored those pleas in consideration of the panic I wanted to instill and maintain, and now I wish I'd relented. There is no time to explore much of anything in expert mode.

The crazy "Oracle" mission was a bear. I died 20 seconds in and nearly died for real via heart-failure. And it IS repetitive (as mentioned over and over in comments about it). This was originally planned to be a series of middle-story missions, but instead became a single-mission bridge to the end-game. I was never going to finish if I conjured more than one mission. Yet if this one mission feels hollow, it's because it was supposed to be so much more.

I found 'The Other Side of Time' was a relaxing respite -- even the Hammerites are friendly if left unthreatened. Ever since Bafford's "How's it goin'" street guard I've always liked the chgange of pace -- instead of AI running away or coming after me. It just seems more real in some way.

'Reversing the Order' really does work as the mad dash that it is, though I was so busy running off to get a head start that I never got to see some of the better scripting (alas, I still know the trick to winning this level). Yet for the most part I played this like a newbie because I could not remember much of the key details that would have offer a real advantage. Yet somehow, other than several dozen ordinary reloads, I managed not to fail the main point of the mission first time through -- which is quite remarkable since it's easy to fail in all practicality long before the dark engine registers failure in fact.

Voice actors are more awesome than I'd ever experienced as a designer. Kudos to every one of you. The story as told in those voices holds together even better than I thought it might.

At any rate -- I just just want to say thanks for the comments over the years. Once or twice a year I drop by, and will likely continue to lurk briefly from time to time like this.

Hope everybody is doing well.

-frobber

I imagine frobber still lurks from time to time. His last visit was a few posts about a year ago. As for future missions from him I think I can safely say no. But nobody would be more happy than me to be wrong about that.

can you explain the hexagon on saturn?