OXMUK - "A terrible, potentially career-ending confession: I never got round to playing the Thief games - from whose dank, fragant soils the entire modern first-person adventure genre has arguably sprung - back when they were a Thing."
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The Thief game series has had many ups-and-downs, and 2014's reboot showed a great deal of promise nearly a decade ago.
This would be such a great franchise to reboot. A darker game than Dishonored, but focused around stealth and large scale heists from an oppressive monarchy.
That's probably my dream game. I love immersive sims and stealth!
People say they hate forced stealth sections in games. But a game focused on stealth with good mechanics and level design feels refreshing from the guns blazing games which I also enjoy. I really enjoyed playing Splinter cell, a game that not many try to mimic today. Not too many games let you shoot lights out, or throw cans or bottles to distract guards. Sure there are games with stealth options like the new Wolfenstein but it doesn't feel necessary to play it that way. Hitman might be the only game that has that feeling, except for that Korean game that may or may not ever come out.
The last one was a trainwreck and has been in the bargain bin since just after launch. If they bring it back, they need a massive change in direction.
only direction they should take is putting it in reverse and going back to what the originals did. I couldn't finish this game, and I made a choice to never play it again. I watched a video about the og Thief and Deus Ex games and the current AAA standard will forever hold back these games. These 2 games alone had already solved so many problems with modern gaming that I don't think they'll get a chance at something great unless they're made by a dev that actually give a damn.
Jesus the last installment sells at about 2 euro and even that is over paying for it. Absolutely diabolical game
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Without the Cradle, the Amnesia and Penumbra games probably wouldn't exist.
Eidos Montreal made a surprisingly decent albeit flawed successor to deus ex, and i think its a shame they wont continue this trend with thief.
simply put, this game looks like everything wrong with stealth games these days, and lacks anything that make the thief games still marvels of interesting design.
Stealth games have succumbed to Call of Duty-itis. Every AAA game has to be an action game these days. "Stealth" is nothing more than window dressing.
Despite its problems, I'm still looking forward to this game. I hope it does stealth right, though.
Thief sounded good in the beginning, but now that we've seen more of it, it just doesn't live up to the name.
It's a sad thing, but the game has definitely been modernized.