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generally, it's still some time in the future to be sure, but we can at least hope the feel of the original two games by Looking Glass will return... they're actually fishing for feedback from the community a lot. Myself, I almost wet myself when I ran into this. Any other Thief maniacs out there crazy for another bucketload of Garret's exploits?
Thief 4 anticipation!
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 01:53 PM
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 04:21 PM
I've always seen Thief 2 lurking around in some really good deals in game shops, but never actually got around to buying it.
Please persuade me to
Please persuade me to
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 04:43 PM
I persuade you to get both first and second game. One of the most unique experiences in gaming to date.
However there are some things you should know up front, unless you've played the first game.
However there are some things you should know up front, unless you've played the first game.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 08:17 PM
While Deadly Shadows has The Shalebridge Cradle to speak in it's favour, "they changed it now it sucks" applies. But even more, decent ideas with terrible implementation. All in all, bar that one mission, a large letdown, TDS.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 10:58 AM
Ohh, there's a set of all three available on Amazon for £6. Compatibility seems to be an issue though - if the first two don't run on Vista, will they run on Windows7? 
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 11:07 AM
Oh YES! I've been waiting for this! Whooooooooo *dances*
@ Riot, I especially love the asylum parts - it was amazingly well done.
@ Riot, I especially love the asylum parts - it was amazingly well done.
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 11:08 AM
There might indeed be a problem with that it seems. Still, running a virtual machine like through VirtualBox and running WinXP on it should solve the issue, with some fixes alongside it - there's some nice info on the web concerning making Thief work with newer stuff.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 11:10 AM
caladanbrood, on 13 April 2010 - 10:58 AM, said:
Ohh, there's a set of all three available on Amazon for £6. Compatibility seems to be an issue though - if the first two don't run on Vista, will they run on Windows7? 
If you have enough space on your harddrive, set up a dual boot with XP, then you can play older games. But do you know they won't work? If they are coded well, they might work fine. (example: Starcraft)
Or a virtualbox like Gothos said.
This post has been edited by Gem Windcaster: 13 April 2010 - 11:11 AM
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So light it blows, at lark it goes _
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 11:17 AM
The amazon reviews all say that there are compatibility problems, but they are all talking about Vista, so it might be different with 7 I suppose. I have had problems running older games, like Knights of the Old Republic.
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 11:21 AM
caladanbrood, on 13 April 2010 - 11:17 AM, said:
The amazon reviews all say that there are compatibility problems, but they are all talking about Vista, so it might be different with 7 I suppose. I have had problems running older games, like Knights of the Old Republic.
Yeah, they're not all as good coded as Starcraft.
So I guess it's dual boot or a virtualbox that is the solution for you.
_ In the dark I play the night, like a tune vividly fright_
So light it blows, at lark it goes _
invisible indifferent sight_
So light it blows, at lark it goes _
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 07:02 PM
Gem Windcaster, on 13 April 2010 - 11:21 AM, said:
caladanbrood, on 13 April 2010 - 11:17 AM, said:
The amazon reviews all say that there are compatibility problems, but they are all talking about Vista, so it might be different with 7 I suppose. I have had problems running older games, like Knights of the Old Republic.
Yeah, they're not all as good coded as Starcraft.
So I guess it's dual boot or a virtualbox that is the solution for you.erm... the only reason starcraft works so well is cause its so popular that the MS code monkeys made sure that xp/vista/7 had all the right shit packaged in that it would run without issue.
teh brood: which version of 7 do you have? I have the disks for thief 1 and 2 somewhere, and a quick and dirty fix to make an old game run on vista was pretty simple to do, I don't think it will be much more difficult for win 7, though I haven't bothered to try yet.
edit: screw doing it myself: http://forums.eidosg...ead.php?t=76531
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Posted 14 April 2010 - 04:26 AM
I have Thief Gold (which is the better version of hte first game)
it runs on Win 7, thopugh i've had to tweak it. Looking Glass' forum has all the fixes, though.
haven't tried Thief 2 yet, because i'm still playing one, albeit very slowly due to lack of time
(I played through the first mission... not a single crash or anyhting)
EDIT: i'm running a 64-bit win7, btw
it runs on Win 7, thopugh i've had to tweak it. Looking Glass' forum has all the fixes, though.
haven't tried Thief 2 yet, because i'm still playing one, albeit very slowly due to lack of time
(I played through the first mission... not a single crash or anyhting)
EDIT: i'm running a 64-bit win7, btw
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The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:
And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 14 April 2010 - 07:17 AM
While you're at it, take a hit at doing a full playthrough with taking ALL loot, dealing ZERO damage, on Expert. It's not as hardcore as Ghosting, but it's pretty entertaining and challanging. You can add no saves during the mission and you're set for a pretty amusing experience.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 14 April 2010 - 02:58 PM
Gothos, on 14 April 2010 - 07:17 AM, said:
While you're at it, take a hit at doing a full playthrough with taking ALL loot, dealing ZERO damage, on Expert. It's not as hardcore as Ghosting, but it's pretty entertaining and challanging. You can add no saves during the mission and you're set for a pretty amusing experience.
Is that more or less infuriating than playing a pure psionic on impossible in system shock 2?
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Posted 14 April 2010 - 03:35 PM
I dunno, I never managed to get that game working sadly
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Gothos, on 14 April 2010 - 03:35 PM, said:
I dunno, I never managed to get that game working sadly 
surprisingly, THAT also works great on Win7,
I've never been able to get it to run on XP (and I've spent several evenings, at least, trying every bit of advice on LG forums).
on Win7, all I had to do was change the affinity to a single core and the game ran flawlessly.
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:
And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 07:00 AM
That might have just won my time several weeks from now!
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 30 April 2013 - 04:54 AM
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Found this article on Thief 4. No good news on this, I'm afraid.
www.polygon.com/2013/4/26/4269912/thief-reboot-impeded-by-office-politics-high-level-departures
Found this article on Thief 4. No good news on this, I'm afraid.
www.polygon.com/2013/4/26/4269912/thief-reboot-impeded-by-office-politics-high-level-departures
Legalise drugs! And murder!
