I remembered, around 12 years ago, my dad bought us a PC, now considered as an outdated lowest grade PC ever probably (lol). When i bought the original Thief game, my PC just couldn't run it because it didn't met its system requirements. lol.. Flash back to the present, now i heard several gamers also can't play this game with the same reason as mine. LMAO!!
Last edited by benroveno; 25-08-2014 at 05:01 AM.
Well i played the original Thief & Thief 2 and 3. I can see a few flaws or rather "dumbing down" , but i did not find this game bad at all. It has the atmosphere nailed down, it has the whole thief-talking-to-himself thing and all that. It's clearly based on Thief 3 rather than Thief 2 though. It was in the Thief 3 where they started with this open city exploration thing, which i think did detract from the core gameplay, so likewise it is not as focused in this latest iteration.
Thief 1 & 2 , was like the old Rainbow Six games where you kinda have a lobby and then go on missions. Each mission was then quite complex and intricate, as in you are presented with a big mansion and have to crawl around and do various objectives while also figuring out more about the plot. This could take like an hour to do in some cases. So while the missions are arranged in a linear fashion (have to complete the one after the other), the actual mission itself was a complete open sandbox with options.
In Thief 3 and this Thief, i felt it's a bit more all over the place where they replaced the lobby with an open city to wander around in (which also sadly ads unneccsary travel time to everything, in GTA this is fun as you are driving a car, sneaking back and forth constantly to talk to various quest givers, not as much fun) . This results in small missions or missions that are broken down in phases, you don't quite get to know a specific area intricately enough to want to try various approaches. It is actually alot more linear, while the game make you THINK you got options/freedom (similar to Assassin's Creed with the assassinations, you can go do them in any sequence and fiddle around with side quests, but ultimately you need to do them all).
Overall though, it's still not a bad game, i think it's getting unnecessary bad flack because it is not living up to Thief 2, while it is certainly better than Thief 3 (for me anyway).
Last edited by diabolus; 11-04-2014 at 10:19 AM.
That's more because the new game is incredibly poorly optimized. I've heard of guys that surpass the recommended requirements getting microstutter during gameplay as well as lag when loading into a new area.Originally Posted by benroveno
I was recently given a key for this game because a friend bought an AMD card and got a free game with it, but didn't have any interest in any of them. I decided to give it a try on Master difficulty with takedowns and the like disabled. I finished the game, though I had to force myself to continue playing for the last few levels. The levels were horribly linear and the gameplay, while not atrocious, left a bit to be desired.
My opinion? It's not shit, but it's not good either. It's mediocre and filled to the brim with technical issues. I really can't recommend this game to anyone when there are much better alternatives such as Dishonored and its DLC and Splinter Cell Blacklist. Neither of those were without flaws, but they were much better stealth experiences than Thief and you're not going to struggle with any technical issues in them.
They've got the groundwork and tools for a good Thief game, but they didn't actually make a good Thief game with them, which is a pity. If they can fix what they did wrong in the Thief reboot, they could make an awesome sequel to this game.
It's actually funny. Around 15 years ago, my dad bought me a PC, but a very low grade PC with low specs. And then i bought a game called "Thief" which was the classic series of this game. But i didn't manage to play it smoothly because of my PC's low specs. Now go back to the present, i STILL can't play this game because i only have classic Xbox. lol..
Last edited by benroveno; 25-08-2014 at 04:35 AM.
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