I suspect I may have asked Yahtzee this before in his retrospective Thief review (does he read the forum as well as Twitter?) but I do wonder what he thinks of mods for games like Thief. There are a lot of high quality fan missions that have much better exploration than Deadly Shadows had, good enough that I still play them.
To be fair to Deadly Shadows though, while it was in just about every way not as good as the first two games, I have to give it credit for The Cradle. It even did exploration right! There were optional little notes and visual details in out of the way places that let you learn the background of the place, such as the birdhouses and the elevator that goes up but not down.
I also need to find Shadow of the Colossus. I remember getting a demo with a magazine and playing the first Colossus fight over and over. Seeing the other 15 would be nice.
To be fair to Deadly Shadows though, while it was in just about every way not as good as the first two games, I have to give it credit for The Cradle. It even did exploration right! There were optional little notes and visual details in out of the way places that let you learn the background of the place, such as the birdhouses and the elevator that goes up but not down.
I also need to find Shadow of the Colossus. I remember getting a demo with a magazine and playing the first Colossus fight over and over. Seeing the other 15 would be nice.