Arumakani

He reminds me of this friend of mine who looks like he's 16 but is 26

It was meant as a compliment buddy. It means that you obviously know your stuff. So is DarkBasic used in any published games? Or is it all C++?

You seem hardcore with coding and stuff. Most source code is C++ isn't it? Does anyone use DarkBasic or anything else?

As I said I'm no tech-head. So basically, you have to import all these things across to the engine?

What's funny is listening to how the accents are translated. Shenmue is a prime example. The original Japanese voice actor was brilliant, however when it was put for England and US the actor sounded very wooden.

So there is enough in the Unreal 3 editor, like in Doom3 to create a Thief style game, without having to use source code etc?

Cheers buddy. But don't they render the graphics or is that Middleware? Is Unreal Middleware? So most game developers use Unreal engine as it's the easiest to modify?

Mutton Geoff is deaf. Does anyone know what the accent will be?

All these engines, render the graphics, or do they do other things aswell? As you can tell I'm a gamer rather then a tech-head. ALso is the Unreal 3 one the most advanced one or is the Crysis engine by Crytek more advanced. Probably the latter, with regards to graphics and physics anyway...

They could have a French lover's accent as the thief "Ah, ma cherie amour..." A non heavily accented one may be better though. As a thief he may have to be non-descript, and accentless, thus instantly forgettable, by passers by. What sort of accent has been gone for BTW?

Yeah a cockney villain, who speaks in cockney rhyming slang. "Cor blimey guvnor, let me rest me plates of meat for a few seconds. Yeah, I'm a geezer guv, a little bit wey a little bit woah. I manged to procure a right dandy bit of gear from a china plate who was a bit mutton geoff..."

Why not do a Midlands one, so neither North or South, and also middle class, so neither Upper nor Lower

You mean an old school gentleman thief Dom?

Does the first one suggest a timed mission? My thiefy sense is tingling Is he a spidey fan? You are right. It'd be better to have a non Garrett voice. Garrett is Garrett after all. BTW, what accent will the Thief have?

I was wondering what style the voice would be, whether it would be Garrett style or what else it'd be.

Your points are backed up Domarius, with regards to Thief DS and Deus Ex2. As on the XBox they were magnifique but on the PC the long loads, low textures etc were quite poor. As for FPS and control you are right. However console games such as Halo, show that FPS can be mapped to the control pad effectively. The thing is Halo is a lot slower paced then most twitch shooters which the mouse and keypad are better suited to.

You get more control with the PC, but I prefer the control scheme of a console. Also upgrading a graphics card etc becomes expensive. However, it's easier to mod and extend the life of a game on the PC.

Are all you guys pro-pc gamers and anti-console gaming? Don't any of you play console games?

Will the voice actor of the Thief be voiced in that slightly bored, Harrison Ford in BladeRunner, style voiceover?

Should be awesome seeing as it's being tagged as the spiritual succesor of System Shock 2, and having Deus Ex elements to it. Just waiting for a Deus Ex remake with loads of extras and next gen graphics too.

Have any of you guys read up on this one? Looks very promising as does Mass Effect by Bioware. http://www.bioshock.co.uk/ http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/bioshock/...html?q=bioshock

What you talking about?

Welcome. Most people ok here. Some have their heads up their own backsides, but only a few.

Cheers guys, just ordered the buggers !!! P.S. demagogue me olde mucker as Del Boy would say, I've ordered the double pack that I already linked to earlier from Play.com

So New Horizon, it's obvious Bane is trying to bait me. Anyway the Cathedral level is it similar to the Cradle? In the sense is it sort of like a horror level.