Samantha1 on 5/2/2023 at 09:47
Vote for your favourite Thief 2 fanmission of the year 2005! :)
"Others" includes the following missions: A Bank Job, CZSK Council, Delford Abbey, Gearheart, Last Gleaming of the Rising Sun, The Cell Next Door, The City Square, The Good Samaritan
General rules for the T2 polls: Demos, very short missions, foreign languages and OM remakes are only included if the space allows it. Same goes for missions that already appeared in one of the T1/TG polls. Big missions with 5 or more missions to play are excluded. There will be a separate poll for them.
Important note: Since there is quite a number of T2 fanmissions released in the year 2004, I cut the poll in 2. The second poll will be released when this one is closed.
TheRealSlimGarrett on 5/2/2023 at 10:28
Erm, what about Seven Sisters? 3rd October 2005. How can you not include one of Lady R's best FMs?
Samantha1 on 5/2/2023 at 12:49
Fortuni is right. The seven sisters is included in the 2007 poll. Why would you think it was released in 2005..
Aemanyl on 5/2/2023 at 17:01
My vote goes for "A Night in Rocksbourg: Part 1". Many people dislike the confusing keyhunt aspects of this level, but I think it's a small masterpiece in terms of atmosphere, ambience, and design.
Thud, thud, thud, thud.... MEOOOOOOOOOW!!!
klatremus on 5/2/2023 at 21:30
My vote goes to Rocksbourg 1 as well, but there are a lot of good missions in this poll. The Den and Greyfather Gems 2 especially. We're getting into the years where the average quality of FMs really started to rise. Exciting!
downwinder on 6/2/2023 at 00:42
i voted for healing fruit on the "rocksbourg" :P
Hit Deity on 6/2/2023 at 02:11
Quote Posted by TheRealSlimGarrett
Just realised, it's actually 10th March, it puts the date the backward American way round.
Still doesn't explain why yours is dated 2005 tho. That's weird.
FenPhoenix on 6/2/2023 at 02:40
FMSel is reading the datestamp from the wrong file, to wit, copyright.txt (which is a copyright notice for tnhScript), dated March 10, 2005. The actual readme would be The7SistersV2.rtf, dated January 11, 2008.
Accurate release date detection is notoriously difficult. If you get it from the readme date stamp, you might get the wrong readme. If you get it from a .mis file, it might well have last been modified earlier than the FM's release date. If you try to parse it from the readme text, you're in for a world of pain with disambiguating dates and recognizing a million different ways and places of writing them (AngelLoader does this, among other things).
But even AngelLoader doesn't get this one right, it reads "11/1/2008" from the readme and concludes November 1, 2008 rather than January 11, 2008 (I'm going to fix that one). Still, it's always "best effort", and different loaders may decide to expend more or less effort on their guesses, and probably none will be right 100% of the time...
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On topic:
Rocksbourg 1 may have some rough edges, but its oppressive atmosphere is like no other. The ambience, the backstory, the visual look (which would be expanded even more in the sequels), the general goings-on in the city of Rocksbourg combine to make a flavor of darkness that's totally unique to the series.
Rodamill is also a fantastically atmospheric horror mission, an abandoned town that sadly never got a sequel (though it was set up for one) and shouldn't be overshadowed.
