Zero Punctuation: Thief - Stealing a Classic
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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You can practically taste the sadness.
What is it about overworlds that they are so hard to do right? The second Assassin's Creed did it perfectly fine: Have random sidequests, knickknacks and slittable throats if you want to piss around, but let the player be able to cross it in about 5 minutes if they just want to move on.
What is it about overworlds that they are so hard to do right? The second Assassin's Creed did it perfectly fine: Have random sidequests, knickknacks and slittable throats if you want to piss around, but let the player be able to cross it in about 5 minutes if they just want to move on.
Well that was entirely expected. Not that I disagree at all mind you, I had such high hopes after Deus Ex: HR actually being an alright game (well apart from the Bullshit boss battles and the crap ending) and then... this. I have a recommendation for anyone thinking of buying this game: Play Dishonored again, you will have much more fun.
I was really hoping Thief would be better than good. I'd never played a game that was all about the stealing before Deadly Shadows, and after finishing the Sly trilogy I found I had a serious klepto streak. Stealing from the houses of strangers will have to suffice, now.
Sounds about right; thing is there's probably going to be someone saying we can't judge it by the previous games' merits because it's a reboot, but we all know that's a load of crap. If they didn't want to invite comparisons then they shouldn't have used the Thief name but instead made a new title. It's why I had to laugh whenever someone says "a reboot SHOULD be different" in order to justify clear bastardization of source material or "fuck yous" to the fans (such as the attempted DMC reboot or Lords of Shadow).
You should file a complaint for false advertisement.Scars Unseen said:
Besides i think he actually liked it but is misinterpreting his own opinion.
As I wrote last week:Yahtzee Croshaw said:
Since I was eagerly awaiting this for so long I guess Yahtzee's own Gamer Matrix applies here.The Youth Counselor said:
I was hoping for more frothing hatred and expletives, and yet because I actually played some of the game (It was a friend's copy. I swear), I have to admit there are good points that I hoped he would uncharacteristically point out. The game has possibly the best hand animations I've ever seen in a game, and the decision to stick to the first person perspective and all the optional modifiers to gameplay down to removing the HUD is commendable in this day and age. I also liked how after the debacle of the first footage shown that featured XP points for headshots, that they refocused the (optional) combat on less lethal takedowns, escapes, and made it deliberately clunky to discourage fighting.
But yes, the game is a mess, and the story is absolutely disgraceful not just considering the franchise's excellent writing but the pedigree behind the writing. Ken Levine and Austin Grossman started their careers writing Thief and building the world that the reboot threw out completely to fill with generic characters, factions, and conflicts.
Anyhow, I hear the Legacy of Kain series may be rebooted with Nosgoth. Can't wait for the bile from Yahtzee there.
Only "critic" I've seen who actually enjoys this game is TotalBiscuit and his merits for liking a game, which effectively excludes story, characters, setting, sound-engineer and pretty much anything else that doesn't fit his narrow definition of gameplay, makes his opinion pretty much irrelevant.
That said, this video kind of made me want to try Dishonored again.
That said, this video kind of made me want to try Dishonored again.
Honestly? It feels like making like this, that seems to go out of their way to ruin the previous games takes more time and money then, I don't know... Use only the most necessary stuff and take a left turn towards unexplored territory, rather then the right turn towards the scrapyard? Or even better, entirely new stuff?
. . . And while I daydream, I could dream about living in a world where idiots who refuse to think isn't the ones at the top.
. . . And while I daydream, I could dream about living in a world where idiots who refuse to think isn't the ones at the top.
