Dark news for thief 4..

[Melan]

Scripted events are not bad in and of themselves, but when the majority of your environment is scripted, it creates the "movie on rails" feeling.

Also see: Half Life 2 and its episodes. Great production values, intriguing background, but I quit halfway through Episode 2 because it felt like the game was playing itself.

[AluminumHaste]

It's also possible that whoever was playing had played this sequence a million times and knows it like the back of his hand

[fllood]

It's also possible that whoever was playing had played this sequence a million times and knows it like the back of his hand

This one I think.

Plus triggered AI wakend from idle when Garret cross certain points they set to move through in the demo.

 

To be fair - considering they had only 10 minutes to show a pre-alpha version I think it's an understandable move. These folk surly had tons of pressure from Square Enix not to have unexpected things happen during the (so-called) "live" demo in showing the features it had been decided to present to please the press, action oriented players and the people who are into the old Thief games. I won't reason back to much about scripted gameplay in the final game from that ....

 

It will be interesting to compare gameplay from an unbiased guy (not getting his pay-cheque from Eidos or the press) upon the game hit Beta - preferable a fan of the classic Thief games and not knowing the demo map.

Edited June 14, 2013 by fllood

[Springheel]

I won't reason back to much about scripted gameplay in the final game from that ....

 

 

I wasn't implying that the final gameplay would be scripted (though there are some reports that it is), just that the "gameplay" demo they showed us was highly misleading.

[jtr7]

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Edited February 19, 2014 by jtr7