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Thief 3 Website Goes Live

Posted by michael on from the flash-monstrosity dept.

Sabathius writes "If you're a Thief super-freak like me, you've been looking at the 'Coming soon' message at thief3.com for years...hoping they would finally put something there. Well, our collective prayers have been answered! This spring Thief 3 (Thief: Deadly Shadows) is being released by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War." S!: We've also recently covered previews of this new Thief title at Slashdot Games.

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  1. The question is... by ThaenRT · · Score: 5, Funny

    if I steal the game, will they come after me?

    thaen

    1. Re:The question is... by good(k)night · · Score: 4, Funny

      ..it depends.
      If you copy a CD the Pirates should come, not just Thiefs.

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    2. Re:The question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only if you hid the shopkeepers' bodies where their friends could find them. You remembered to bring a lot of water arrows, didn't you?

    3. Re:The question is... by fafaforza · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not if they don't see or hear you stealing it.

      When you try to lift the loot, pick a softwre store that is very poorly lit and has soft, sound-absorbing floor covering. Somethig along the lines of carpeting or wood.

      If you cannot avoid walking on granite or other hard stone, take a moss arrow or two with you.

      Finally, the club might come in handy in case a kid, of which there are a plenty at any games shop, draws attention to you.

      Don't kill anyone.

    4. Re:The question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      if I steal the game, will they come after me?

      Well, ThaenRT, it all depends on how noticable you are.

      If you make a little noise or the guard catches a glimpse of you, then you can still avoid being chased if you are able to lie low for a while. I find that it usually goes something like this:

      Me: [scuffle]

      Guard: Hello? Is somebody there?

      Me: (Desperate silence)

      Guard: I thought I heard something move...

      Me: (Not even breathing)

      Guard: Oh well. It was probably just rats.

      Me: (Sighs with relief. Proceeds to sneak past the guard, and robs the place blind.)

      Of course, the problem with this is that CompUSA has even more tile floors than even the Bank level in Thief II, and it's simply loaded with the kind of lights that you can't shoot out with water arrows. Your best bet is to avoid the guards by shooting rope arrows into the ceiling, because the guards rarely notice anything above eye level.

    5. Re:The question is... by icedcool · · Score: 2, Funny

      No no, they wont come after you... at first. First they will exclaim to the press that they must delay the game. Horrible cheats might become availible if they dont edit the code, but the game was completly ready otherwise ...

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  2. WIth any luck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope its not as bad as DX, "Invisible Features."

  3. Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    is being released

    Yaaaay!

    by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War.

    Boooooo!

  4. No blind gamers, I suppose by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes it easier to forget to put in ALT tags for graphics and use tons of Flash animations.

    What's that third, unclickable flag for, btw?

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    1. Re:No blind gamers, I suppose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      No blind gamers, and probably not too many blind, stealthy theives either.

  5. From the makers of... by irokitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Deus Ex: Invisible War. What other proof do you need that they have experience at thievery...

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  6. And here it goes... by t0ny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the whining about Invisible War commence!

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  7. How sad... by egg+troll · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that they've put all that work into their content, it gets Slashdotted. Oh the irony....

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  8. Thief is out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This gives me hope for Doom 3... Duke Nuke 'em Forever...

    and maybe, just maybe... AmigaOS 4!

    1. Re:Thief is out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey, stop it! It's getting cold down here!

      --The Devil

  9. In other news.... by peterprior · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..thief 3 website goes down..

    Go slashdot..

    1. Re:In other news.... by liloconf · · Score: 1, Funny

      Slashdot: The Bandwidth Thief

  10. Does this mean that... by Antarius · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is hope for Duke Nukem Forever?

    1. Re:Does this mean that... by blincoln · · Score: 3, Funny

      See you at Revelations time.

      Yes, from what I can tell, Revelations explicitly mentions DNF going gold:

      "...and the Seventh Angel poured forth his bowl into the air and a voice cried out from Heaven saying 'it is done!'"

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    2. Re:Does this mean that... by Rolo+Tomasi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Didn't you hear? 3DRealms has decided to make a Hurd version first.

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  11. oh ... you mean those people ... by dzym · · Score: 4, Funny
    This spring Thief 3 (Thief: Deadly Shadows) is being released by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War.
    So you're saying I should give this one the miss then?
  12. Slashdotted Already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I sure hope they are better at game design than at web design. Kids today just want some information about their future games in an efficient manner, they don't care if the webpage has pretty graphics. Why I'm sure if the games plot and features are as empty as the game is pretty, all of todays teenagers will switch over to playing Nethack and Go. I mean come on we're talking about the generation that put MTV out of business here. Oh... Wait...

  13. Re:The original game was cool by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . being able to throw your eye around corners is a bit ... odd.

    Painful too. Not to mention how hard it was to find the damned thing afterward, seeing as how I had to keep my head cocked a bit to one side while looking for it.

    I can't imagine how the Graiae sisters managed.

    KFG

  14. too dark by ogewo · · Score: 5, Funny

    all those screenshots seem to take place at night, in a shadow, with sunglasses on. dark games hurt my eyes.

    1. Re:too dark by Qacker · · Score: 5, Funny

      You must not be familar with the game...

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  15. You know what this means? by FortKnox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next game.... SYSTEM SHOCK 3?!?!?!?

    Here's hoping its that and not Diakatana2 ;-)

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  16. Re:System shock by highwindarea · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think begging will be enough. To get System Shock 3 I think we will have sacrifice a beowulf of Athlon-64's to the development gods.

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  17. www.thief3.org has some thoughts on the matter by rei_slashdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    www.thief3.org has some thoughts on the matter!

  18. Ah, Thief :) by jaylen · · Score: 5, Funny

    This, to me is the game anticipation of the year, years in fact.

    Fellow Slashdotters, if ye have not ever played a Sneak 'em Up game before, any Thief game is the one to buy.

    The best part of Thief is the difference in the game to a shoot 'em up - in Thief, the character Garret is actually a weak character, he gets killed very easily.

    This means that instead of the normal emotions that a shoot 'em up game gives, Thief gives all those emotions plus two extra, suspence and fear.

    Yeah, fear. There was one time playing Thief 2 when I sneaked Garret around a corner just to come face to face with a Hammer Haunt. My brain went into shock, and my reflex action was to jump away.

    The net result was me lying flat on my ass about 6 feet away from the keyboard, tangled around my PC chair :)

    Not a game to play after a phat joint, I can tell ya.

  19. Blah Blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Boy raised by secret society who is severely intergrated in their prophecies. Ehhck, where are the original games I was promised when I was a wee lad?

  20. Re:System shock by QueenOfSwords · · Score: 2, Funny

    And what's it going to cost to get that on Mac? A Beowulf cluster of dual G5s, a goat, and some green and silver mini iPods I suppose.

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  21. Thief 3 sounds boring... by DangerSteel · · Score: 1, Funny
    What is the point of the game?

    Tell some investors and the masses I'm creating a game console and call it the Phantom?

    or perhaps get to the top of a telecommunications company like Worldcom and swindle the employee-stockholders for millions?

    Like my ass wouldn't be locked up for years in either case !

  22. hmm by UU7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the words of Ion Storm head Warren Spector, "you can't make games for MIT grads".

    Wonderful :/

  23. Objectives by bgeer · · Score: 5, Funny
    [ ] Ion Storm is writing Thief III. To ensure that it doesn't suck, sneak into their offices and knock out John Romero. [Normal]

    [ ] The CEO of Ion Storm is known to keep a bag of jewels in his office. While you're there, steal them [Expert]

    [ ] The beta of Thief III is on the Ion Storm file server. Put an eDonkey client on their firewall and p1mp that bad boy out. [Hard]

    [ ] Remember, you're a thief, not a murderer: don't kill anyone. If you bought Daikatana, you can whack Romero with your blackjack though. [Expert]