Thief

Mathius · 22 Feb 2014 at 17:52

would it be a bad move me playing the new thief before playing the originals....

I see a lot of people saying that the earlier games are very good,

Neil79 · 22 Feb 2014 at 21:00

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 22 Feb 2014 at 21:10

Game looks awful, sell your code if you got it with your GPU.

Neil79 · 22 Feb 2014 at 21:14

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle said:
Game looks awful, sell your code if you got it with your GPU.

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showpost.php?p=1986806&postcount=2560

gpuerrilla · 22 Feb 2014 at 21:34

Oh dear... I was going to jump on the £15 MM game key hype but I think I wont bother now.

ColEx · 23 Feb 2014 at 11:27

LateX'Dog said:
Everyone heard about the leak?

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1yk98m/thief_2014_the_first_review_worse_than_colonial/

Is that Total Biscuit?

I guess its not, iv cancelled my pre-order anyway. Think ill just wait for user reviews to pop up in the masses, i hate it when games get such huge negative feedback before they are even released.

agnes · 23 Feb 2014 at 12:46

Saves me £25 quid...

Oh well. Catering for the masses does indeed kill a game.

psychas · 23 Feb 2014 at 12:49

oh is it that bad as it takes 14 hours do download few gig left :confused:

well at least only 6£ spend

Spook187 · 23 Feb 2014 at 13:19

pestt said:
I assume you can only pre-load if you've bought from Steam?

No, got my key from green man gaming, entered it and pre load away

fastwunz · 23 Feb 2014 at 13:50

I'm so gutted by this- I was so looking forward to getting this game. The reviews have destroyed any of this. So sad

gpuerrilla · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:06

Yeah, afraid so. Just wait for it to be cheaper, patched and trueaudio later on on the steam site. Not paying cost for a part baked game.

Neil79 · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:19

It seems from the retro days developers have become lazy for eye candy

Fenris · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:22

agnes said:
Saves me £25 quid...

Oh well. Catering for the masses does indeed kill a game.

This has nothing to do with catering to anyone, it was just a really badly developed game wrought with problems throughout. It seems the developers literally had no idea what they were trying to achieve.

jh30uk · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:24

Mathius said:
would it be a bad move me playing the new thief before playing the originals....

I see a lot of people saying that the earlier games are very good,

Not sure as its a REBOOT.

Thief 3 deadly Shadows was best in many opinions (the old games are hard).

Rozzy85 · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:33

Neil79 said:
It seems from the retro days developers have become lazy for eye candy

It's more the proliferation of console gaming and the rise of the more casual gamer. Making games hard/complex won't make you money but making it more like a movie and holding your hand the way through will. These people will only play for maybe 30 minutes a time and if there's too much depth that takes hours of play to get into then they're not going to maintain interest for long.

Haze · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:53

i have already got it downloading from steam, so it better be good.... doh

no_1_dave · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:54

Rozzy85 said:
It's more the proliferation of console gaming and the rise of the more casual gamer. Making games hard/complex won't make you money but making it more like a movie and holding your hand the way through will. These people will only play for maybe 30 minutes a time and if there's too much depth that takes hours of play to get into then they're not going to maintain interest for long.

Apart from Call of Duty, I think this is incorrect.
Dark Souls and Skyrim for example prove that a very time consuming game will make more money.

Taking a big name, dumbing it down and holding your hands will make a flop that doesn't make a lot of money. Look at Duke Nukem for example. This might just be the new Duke Nukem and Alien Colonial Marines.

Fenris · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:55

Rozzy85 said:
It's more the proliferation of console gaming and the rise of the more casual gamer.

Oh can we not do this again? Developers have been making **** and/or easy games for decades, its nothing new.

ICEx21 · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:58

I've just cancelled my pre-order, I said before I wouldn't pre-order unless it was something special and I broke the rule for this.
I'll just play it safe from here on in, I've got far too many games to get through as it is anyway.

jkb · 23 Feb 2014 at 16:06

ICEx21 said:
I've just cancelled my pre-order, I said before I wouldn't pre-order unless it was something special and I broke the rule for this.
I'll just play it safe from here on in, I've got far too many games to get through as it is anyway.

I was tempted to pre-order but I'm done with pre-orders as well, rather wait for the reviews and spend a bit extra on something that is good than try and save a bit but end up with a useless game.