Re:Thief: The Dark Project
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Games and Fear
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I never had the benefit of surround audio, but I too found Thief to be quite crap-my-pants-inducing (especially that choice moment in the mine). It's still one of my favorite games. Even on subsequent plays of that level, I'd still get the creeps having to run over that zombie corpse to jump op on the ledge. The fact that Garret(sp?) made so much noise when moving added to the fear of being heard, not to mention the fact that hearing other characters (who were not in sight) leaves one wondering where they were, what direction they were facing/moving, etc. The creepiness and the fact that you simply sucked at combat (forcing you to sneak successfully), made it truly unique. Great game.
I live in Utah. I graduated from a shitty, fly-by-night, "get your degree fast", night school with a degree in computer programming. I would KILL to make $45k/yr doing ANYTHING, but it would be nice to do what I want/went to school for. Right now, I'm doing a temp/contract customer support job because I can't find any programming jobs. I have some skills (more "props" to that wonderful school), I have little experience, so it's tough getting anyone to even look at my resume. Granted, I can manage on what I'm making currently ($13/hr), but for having graduated from 2 colleges, I feel that I'm worth more.
I made a program called Gorilla. It's a database front-end for searching and modifying records and such...nothing to do with Gorillas, but I was sick of seeing "tool" or "utility" used in program names. I also have another program called Radium. No explanation other than: it sounded good.
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I never had the benefit of surround audio, but I too found Thief to be quite crap-my-pants-inducing (especially that choice moment in the mine). It's still one of my favorite games. Even on subsequent plays of that level, I'd still get the creeps having to run over that zombie corpse to jump op on the ledge. The fact that Garret(sp?) made so much noise when moving added to the fear of being heard, not to mention the fact that hearing other characters (who were not in sight) leaves one wondering where they were, what direction they were facing/moving, etc. The creepiness and the fact that you simply sucked at combat (forcing you to sneak successfully), made it truly unique. Great game.
I live in Utah. I graduated from a shitty, fly-by-night, "get your degree fast", night school with a degree in computer programming. I would KILL to make $45k/yr doing ANYTHING, but it would be nice to do what I want/went to school for. Right now, I'm doing a temp/contract customer support job because I can't find any programming jobs. I have some skills (more "props" to that wonderful school), I have little experience, so it's tough getting anyone to even look at my resume. Granted, I can manage on what I'm making currently ($13/hr), but for having graduated from 2 colleges, I feel that I'm worth more.
I made a program called Gorilla. It's a database front-end for searching and modifying records and such...nothing to do with Gorillas, but I was sick of seeing "tool" or "utility" used in program names. I also have another program called Radium. No explanation other than: it sounded good.