New Deus Ex Trailer Gives Adam Jensen a Rough Ride
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WEAR YOUR SHAME! WEAR IT!Hungry Donner said:
You know, I didn't think Thief 3 was that bad. Yes, it was a consolized hatchet-job and no, it didn't compare to the first two games, but I think it did an adequate job of capturing the feeling of Thief. There were certainly parts I didn't care for and clearly I would rather Looking Glass had been able to continue with it, but in my eyes it wasn't a complete disaster.
Then again, I was so thankful to be playing more Thief that I may not have been quite as discriminating about it as I might otherwise have been. Let's face it, we were lucky to get it.
I?ve never been more disappointed by a game than Thief 3, but at the same time it?s probably in my top ten and I finished it several times. I think I could have looked past most of the changes I didn?t like if it wasn?t for the simplification of the stealth system: the fact that crouching makes you 100% silent regardless of the surface is inexcusable ? it basically removes half of the core stealth system from consideration.Andy Chalk said:
Thief 3 had some great levels and some great characters, and some of the new ideas it brought to the table had a lot of potential. But every time I went around a corner I was reminded of something that the originals did better. The latter spiraled out of control until I was scraping the very bottom of the bucket in terms of nerd complaints. For example it really irks me that they gave Garret a scar across his missing eye, it was plucked out! And there was no scar in Thief 2! And ?taffing? is a substitute for the word ?faffing,? stop using it incorrectly! Get a grip Hungry Donner, it really doesn?t matter.
At the very least I had a point of comparison when the hardcore Fallout community started going after Bethesda.
I never played the second Deus Ex because my friends cautioned me away from it very quickly. I imagine this time around, even if Deus Ex doesn?t meet the expectations many fans are setting for it, it will still be a game worth getting. And while I do try and keep my enthusiasm in check it certainly looks like Edios knows what they?re doing with this sequel.
The second Deus Ex was decent enough, but it definitely suffered in comparison to the original, far more than Thief 3 does next to its predecessors. I'd say it's worth playing in its own right but given your reaction to Thief 3 it'd probably drive you into nerd apoplexy.
Thief 3 was built for the console crowd. That's the bottom line. People often dismiss talk about "consolization" as an imaginary phenomenon dreamed up by people who hate everything that's happened since 1992 but Thief 3 is a perfect example of a game that was dramatically simplified to accommodate consoles and suffered for it. How much of a bad thing that is depends largely on your perspective but it's worth noting that it was not a big hit; Thief fans were generally disappointed and non-Thief fans generally didn't care.
Thief 3 was built for the console crowd. That's the bottom line. People often dismiss talk about "consolization" as an imaginary phenomenon dreamed up by people who hate everything that's happened since 1992 but Thief 3 is a perfect example of a game that was dramatically simplified to accommodate consoles and suffered for it. How much of a bad thing that is depends largely on your perspective but it's worth noting that it was not a big hit; Thief fans were generally disappointed and non-Thief fans generally didn't care.