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Thief 3 Website Goes Live
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.
I'm hoping Thief 3 will be more like Thief 1 than Thief 2. Thief 2's medieval-magical-industrial-robotic setting didn't really work, not to mention the fact that being able to throw your eye around corners is a bit ... odd.
When FPS games first came out, I wasn't nearly as stoked as my friends. Sure, I found playing Doom mildly entertaining, but it never gripped me as much as RPG/Adventure games.
Thief changed all of that. I bought the original Thief and instantly fell in love; it brought an entirely new dimension to a genre I felt was rather repetitive and boring. It also opened me up to trying other FPS games that I probably wouldn't have tried without my positive experience with Thief.
I probably haven't bought a computer game in 2 or 3 years (except for Deus Ex: Invisible War), but you can bet I'll be first in line when Thief 3 comes out.
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
This spring Thief 3 (Thief: Deadly Shadows) is being released by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War.
That's not a good thing, seeing how botched Deus Ex: Invisible War was (especially compared to the original). Hopefully Harvey Smith has nothing to do with Thief 3.
Every new games website should have a bloody good slashdotting! Thief has always warmed my heart, and I'm glad to hear that we're getting another one. Sadly, I'm unable to use their site because of the flash requirement. I long since disabled Flash due to the misuse of it via adverts. You'd think that webbies would learn that you need to provide non-flash content by now!
Anyway to summarize: Thief 3 Good : Thief 3 Website -- can't say, don't know.
the site is hosted over at Times Warner. The network pipes CANT be overloaded, but the server can be overloaded..but not likely.
whois says it was created Thu, Mar 23, 2000, so they had been planning for 4 years, at least.
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If Ion have got any sense whatsoever they will not draw attention to the fact that the developers of Thief 3 have anything to do with the developers that made DX:IW. Most of us that were fans of the original Thief games are praying that Warren stayed the hell away from the Thief team and let them get on with it. That, or we're going to end up with unified arrows. Grrr.
Still, the screenshots look great and I'm really hoping that they pull this one out of the bag.
People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
That reminds me of the GTA advertising. They set up a huge billboard with cameras all around it and encouraged people to "Steal this game". I didn't ever see the footage being used, but it seemed like a pretty clever idea at the time.
People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
Truely you have hit the nail on the head. I have no faith in them after the debacle that was DX2. The removal of the skill system, unified ammo, and other asinine design descisions has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
As other posters have mentioned, there were a number of people who were disgruntled with Deus Ex 2. Due to the following reasons:
1) Bad Framerate
2) Oversimplified controls (depth of wepons etc missing)
3) Bad AI
4) Simplified story
Now, I have not played Deus Ex 2 because of the above reasons, however, I have played every other game that Warren Spector was involved in with the exception of Terra Nova. In fact, of my top ten favorite games of all time, only one (Half Life) did not involve Warren Spector in one way or another. (Although, IMO, it was influenced by his work on other things...)
Thief 1 was revolutionary - it was the first sneaker ever. Out of it sprung things like Splinter Cell, which has been very popular.
However, I am very concerned that with the push that Spector currently has towards console games that Thief 3 will be runied by this direction.
As you can see here (not slashdotted like the real site) Thief 3 already has a third person mode, like Splinter Cell.
It will probably be sucessful on consoles, and probably be considered (ironically) a knock off of Splinter Cell.
But, will it please the hard core fans? I don't know about that. If they can keep one thing, I as a hard core fan will be pleased:
A really good story, like the first two.
I will buy it, I have to. I have to finish the trilogy and find out what happens to Garrett. I just hope I am not dissapointed on the journey.
Those of you who have played the first two will know what I mean.
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
(1) Play only at night.
(2) Turn off all the lights.
(3) LOWER the gamma in the game as much as you can.
Trust me... this really makes the game much more enjoyable.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Thief I and II were probably the best FPS games ever made. They were the anti-Quake: replacing twitchy running, spinning and machine gun fire with slow careful movements, hiding in shadows and methodically placed single shots.
From what I can see, the developers of Thief III have gone and made this great FPS into a 'Thief-flavored' Tomb Raider TPS. The game is 3rd person and playable on a console controller.
For the record: No console controller is even close to as precise as a mouse. And Thief is *all* about precision. Console controllers are clumsy and better suited to action games.
If I was going to play a console based TPS not only would I rather look at Lara's behind running around, but I'd also put my chips on StarCraft Ghost.
(4) do not use headphones, use real 4+1 or 5+1 speakers, set them to middle-volume (i.e. not very silent), most of the time everything will be silent, but when something happen you jump on your chair (and your neighbours will call police... :)