That's the Thief 2014 reboot for me (it's so annoying to even bring up the title).
I wasn't looking forward to this game, but still (had to) soak up every bit of information long before it was even officially announced. The years of waiting were a lot more interesting than the bare week I played it before the entire internet seemed to forget about it.
Normally, when I buy myself a game like twice a year or so, I blast through it nonstop the first go and maybe lose a little steam during the second run. With Thief, I had set aside several days to play it, and half the time I would rather do nothing but force myself to play it. It hurt how much unnecessary rip offs, cliches and wasted potential there were to see every minute. It was lackluster with some exceptions.
Had it been my first stealth game without any expectations or promises of groundbreaking AI and story, maybe it wouldn't have annoyed me so much. Both AI and story didn't meet the incredibly low expectations I deliberately held.
There I'm at it again, bashing the game when I still and always wanted to make myself like it. It wasn't bad, just meh, and that's all I can think about. I didn't expect it to stay faithful to the originals at all.
The movement system sounded like a terrible idea, and while it wasn't that noticeable overall, the parts where it screwed up weigh a hundred times harder than the times it just worked.
There's that moment you realize the entire bank vault security system can be bypassed by stepping over a 1-meter long pressure plate, which your masterthief ass is unable to do since you need a jump prompt that wasn't intended there. What was intended was for you to buy and use several masterthief tools to disable the system. These tools are an ordinary screwdriver and a wirecutter that didn't do anything a knife couldn't have done. Each of them costs about more than the entire city's bank's vault you're robbing right now even holds. Good work, fence. Capitalism, ho!
