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Thief 4 announced, taffers call it Thi4f
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Dammit.
Good! I hate having unfinished games sitting around on my shelves. Feels like wasted money.
But dear god I wish that Edios (or I guess now, Squeenix) would release a running version of Thief 1 and 2 on GoG or Steam... I've only played the 1st for about 20 minutes at a friends house, and the second one never at all...
Well
Of course that would have required Garrett to give a fuck about the City. I love how his motive to stop the Trickster was less about saving the world, and more about getting even because he got fucked over.
But seriously, if Thief 4 doesn't have rope arrows and swimming, I will be a sad panda.
The first two will essentially run on anything.
yeah, the 3rd doesnt take too much of a system though.
(i'm fubar though because i have a shitty old MX card right now, which doesn't support pixel shader 1.1 even. I hate having a pc part fry and being broke)
Swimming wasn't that hard in the game. I don't want to have an entire level where I have to stock up on breath potions and get my flippers and goggles on, but I do want the option to jump into the canal and swim for the sewers if a guard is hot on my ass.
Also, how does the game being released for console in any way determine if there will be rope arrows? It's not like something similar hasn't been done before on other games for consoles, and it's not like they couldn't make rope arrows work. I mean, you'd have to be pants-on-head retarded to not be able to aim a rope arrow and climb it.
Hell, the best parts were shooting a rope arrow, and then running and jumping for it while it was still in the air.
Swimming wasn't hard but it wasn't really what I'd call fun or important.
I don't really see people aiming and climbing ropes with a gamepad. It could be frustrating enough with a mouse.
No rope arrows wasn't a result of the console design, the small levels with loading areas was. But since that alone was really lame, people just take it a step further and blame all the short comings on the xbox version. Which isn't fair, you have to save some hate for the awful Deus Ex 2 engine, which while really pretty, was the reason there weren't rope arrows.
See, I just see it as another option to me if I need to make a getaway. Having all sorts of ways to get away or get in opens the game for me.
As for rope arrows, aiming and climbing was quite easy with a mouse, actually. I can understand it being difficult with a game pad, though. I'm one of the old Thief players who bought the PC Gamer magazine just to play the demo disc with Thief on it way back in '99 or whenever. I'm more concerned about the PC port than I am about the console.
Oh well.
Was this possible in Thief 3? I could never do it if possible, I'd just hear the guard go "YOU BLOODY TAFFER" and run after me.
It is possible but it won't happen with normal citizens. You need to find the dickish citizens and get them angry by shooting them in the dark so they come running to you with guards in front. This pisses off the guards who attack him. When the guards attack him, his diskish friends get pissed off and attack whatever the hell they see. The end result is typically a bunch of dead people and you being unable to move because everything will want to beat the shit outa you.
I fired from a ledge above the streets.
Now that I am at home, I can now say that you really meant this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySn6_aclAM
I wish so hard this was being developed mainly for PC and being ported to the consoles, but most likely it will be the opposite and we'll end up with a shitty PC port.
Please please please.
Sneaky..
Such is the way of the world now, much as I'd like it to not be so.
If I could perform some dark rite that would bring Looking Glass Studios back from the grave at the cost of Warren Spectre's black soul, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
That said, anyone know of any good places outside of the LGS forums where I can figure out how to run T1 and T2 on XP? I'm having a bear of a time getting both to run, and it used to be fairly easy a little while ago. Also, DarkLoader is confusing as shit.
Honestly I wouldn't mind it being his apprentice or something. But Garret has to have a large role. Like, giving you all the quests kind of role. Lots of spoken lines.
And if they DO make it about the apprentice, she needs to have an interesting voice.
This. Garrett basically supplemented amazing gameplay with an amazing character. That's very necessary to be an amazing product.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Someone like Alys or Faith(rough examples). Streetwise.
Welcome to the world on this side.
Oh man, the Thief Gold mission where you have to raid a Thieve's den and then some dude's mansion for a vase, that has some of the best dialogue/music/moments in the first game.
That and the guard conversation outside of Bafford's.
"They don't make bears like they used to"
Amazing.
The mods should be compatible. I think all of the Steam games are as mod friendly as their retail versions are.
Ok, so how would I go about modding it then? Is it like an automatic thing? Or do I have to jump through hoops of fire to get to it?
This is so very important, I don't think I've heard a better voice actor in any videogame. Maybe in homeworld if anything.
Also, wasn't Garret a keeper at the end of Thief 3? for me it was like he was done with his thieving ways. It would be great if he kept acting like the keepers acted at him with a "rebel" apprentice, but also secretly enjoying her attitude.
The texture pack comes with an installer and all that jazz. Just get ready to point it to the correct directory, which will be different from the default because it's a Steam install. And some Steam games don't work well with mods, or mods aren't ready for a Steam install, but it'll probably work and it can't hurt to try. Worst thing that'll happen is you'll have to re-install.
EDIT: Of course, getting the dark engine to run on a wide range of modern hardware on multiple operating systems reliably enough to release commercially on Steam means hiring people to put in some pretty serious time and effort, which probably means more time and money than they're willing to spend. Probably a lot more complicated than just slapping DOSBox on DOOM.