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The Downfall of the Thief Series

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-it-went-wrong dept.

Via Kotaku, an interview at Evil Avatar about the bad end of the Thief series. They discuss the game series with designer Randy Smith, who details the fine points of the early games and the ignoble end for the trilogy of games. From the article: "I view Thief 3's more action-inclined gameplay as being more than necessary for a mass-market acceptance. The problems with Thief 3 were the same as the problems that plagued Deus Ex: Invisible War - it was the tech. The team scaled back the freeform design, incorporated loading zones, not to mention the unstable frame rate and other misc. issues derived from the technology. The gameplay was relatively solid by comparison."

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  1. Re:Thief had redefined the FPS by Alizarin+Erythrosin · · Score: 1, Informative
    It also rewarded you for just sneaking around, stealing and not getting caught. At the time, it was the only game in the FPS category that you could complete without killing anyone. Even now, I haven't seen a game where you could do that.

    Emphasis mine... Strange, as I have Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory at home. The only way to get 100% complete on any level is to not kill anybody while still completing all objectives.
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  2. Re:Thief had redefined the FPS by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't forget the hitman series. Hitman 1 I don't believe was completable without killing anyone (that damn rambo mission), but Hitman 2 & 3 definitely were. It didn't involve the light meter "hiding" spot stuff so much, but I think between that and Splinter Cell you've got tons of Theif like gameplay available. Both of those games are going to have next-gen sequels too, so the genre isn't going anywhere.

  3. Please sign this petition to keep Thief alive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The most devoted Thief fans and fan mission creators are hoping to get the original Dark engine that T1 and T2 uses open sourced so that we could improve it and run it on other operating systems. Most fan mission creators still create missions for T2 rather than T3 since it's so much better and we hope to improve it further, so please sign this: http://www.petitiononline.com/TDPT2/petition.html

  4. Re:Worthless weapons by Kojiro+Ganryu+Sasaki · · Score: 3, Informative

    In both Thief and Thief 2 and arrow is enough to kill any enemy with a well aimed shot. Exceptions are Burricks and those metal beasts in Thief 2.