Obsttorte Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 I had more fun making my way up to bed in the dark after playing Thief than I did at any point during its benighted trudge across The City. If you come across someone else with a copy, it might be a kindness to steal it.This goes to my signature. Quote FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models My wiki articles: Obstipedia Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Wow, that's harsh. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someTaff Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ... Edited February 26, 2014 by someTaff Quote What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someTaff Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ... Edited February 26, 2014 by someTaff Quote What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someTaff Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ... Edited February 26, 2014 by someTaff Quote What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someTaff Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ... Edited February 26, 2014 by someTaff Quote What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someTaff Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ... Edited February 26, 2014 by someTaff Quote What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someTaff Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ... Edited February 26, 2014 by someTaff Quote What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrokenArts Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Too bad DLing will take longer than actual game time. (or so we've told.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skacky Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Loading screens also take a good chunk of playtime. In addition to running like crap on my rig (that can run Metro: LL on ultra at 60fps), loading times are frequent and long. The very first loading took about 6 minutes watch in hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtr7 Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) ................. Edited March 6, 2014 by jtr7 Quote A skunk was badgered--the results were strong.I hope that something better comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vae Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 I'm about half way through, and I can tell you right now that this is an embarrassment to the franchise...I'll give a detailed analysis later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladro Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Ok, until now I know that to play T(ras)h-ief4 you need a next gen computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0mputer-fr0d Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) hey come on folks only critique the gameplay and maybe the sound I feel like everyone is making it out to be worse than it is but I won't know until I play it. I've been waiting 10 years or so for this game and I'm going to damn well have some fun playing it godamnit. Edited February 26, 2014 by c0mputer-fr0d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 someone said the game takes 10 minutes to actually start after pressing play on steam, so you get 10 minutes of a black screen before you get to the opening logo animations and then the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtr7 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) ............... Edited March 6, 2014 by jtr7 Quote A skunk was badgered--the results were strong.I hope that something better comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldwell Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Just finished playing it and... Game is rather meh overall. The start was fucking awesome and I had a lot of fun but overall the game just felt so awkward. The personalities had NO personality at all... I mean the thief taker general interactions did have some funny moments but most of the time I expected him. The only real surprise the game gave me that really did catch me off guard was finding out Orion is The Barons brother The voice acting was quite terrible, at moments it was too quiet and at other points it was too loud. I started doing some of the City Hub quests and a couple were ok but then it turned into frustration thanks to the horrible map system they have. Most of all though my major gripe was the frustration of the controls... I messed up what I wanted to do quite a few times because of the swoop mechanism and a lot of times I could easily make a jump but swoop wouldn't allow it. I felt myself incredibly limited by it and despite what b1skit said a year ago it didn't let me go where I wanted, I felt so damn restricted. The levels surprised me with how many different entrance points there was though and I quite liked that. The levels were visually quite beautiful, even though they were more of the same. Also the game is full of bugs. If they want Thief 5 to succeed they need to 1) Bring back Stephen Russel2) Have a wider variety of architecture instead of the same shit.3) Have proper sound propagation.. I shouldn't be able to hear two people talking from inside there home when I am way down the other end of the street.4) Change the vocal barks up to be a bit more exciting instead of a very straight forward (and severely repeated) lines like "Ohh I hope no one finds *insert name of valuable* that I hid in *obvious nearby location*"5) Loading screens... Loading screens are always a bad sign! 6) Fire everyone involved in Marketing and hire people who can actually a game to the target audience. I mean we should have had no-commentary gameplay footage a long time ago. Just about every other game did that but Thief thought it was special.. well sad news it isn't special and it pissed off people a lot. Marketers should get people EXCITED for their product.. not apprehensive and pissed off before they even get it in their hands! "Whats yours is mine!" ... apparently I owned a lot of loading screens that were stolen then Edited February 26, 2014 by Goldwell 1 Quote Shadows of Northdale Campaign ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole Stand Alone Missions Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse | Snowed Inn | Noble Affairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AluminumHaste Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 What the fuck is wrong with you guys? I'm playing this on a regular HDD with an old Intel i7 930 running at 4.2Ghz and loading takes maybe 10 seconds. 6 minutes? You're full of shit. Quote I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldwell Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 The game takes about 30 seconds to boot up on my computer. But in the game the loading screens are not that long but they are too frequent. Quote Shadows of Northdale Campaign ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole Stand Alone Missions Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse | Snowed Inn | Noble Affairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AluminumHaste Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Just counted, 30 seconds of black screen after pressing play in Steam. And from a fresh reboot, my first game load took 16 seconds. Quote I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldwell Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Also did anyone else notice that the way the visual prompts are setup is completely screwy? I mean I don't mind if the first time you walk upto a window and it says "press and hold X button then tap repeatedly" that to me is fine but it seems to be all or nothing in the settings. Either you have a prompt over every single thing you do, every time you move near a door, move near loot anything it pops up and tells you what to do OR there is nothing at all (even for the first time you do something) and you are just left guessing what the heck do I do now? Quote Shadows of Northdale Campaign ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole Stand Alone Missions Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse | Snowed Inn | Noble Affairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 the report on ign.com says the frame rate on the pc is locked to 60 frames per second, and 30 frames per second on the xbone and ps4, it might just be a verticle sync on setting like doom 3 locks the frame rate to a set rate.they also say the lip sync isn't synced with the voices, the voice acting is bland, the story line is bland and linear, they like the side missions they capture the true meaning of a thief game and wish there were more of them, and eidos-montreal missed the point that the whole game should be like the side missions, they also complained about the clunky control system and contextual jumping and climbing. They also said the city hub is a complete mess and doesn't make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtr7 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) ................ Edited March 6, 2014 by jtr7 Quote A skunk was badgered--the results were strong.I hope that something better comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtr7 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) ................ Edited March 6, 2014 by jtr7 Quote A skunk was badgered--the results were strong.I hope that something better comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AluminumHaste Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 It's TDS all over again. Heck, it's par for the course for Thief, period. Some people have zero problems, some people have nothing but problems, and system specs aren't necessarily an indicator. The FAQs for people per game have never covered all variables. Good for you, though, having less issues, but you can't assume equality across the board. Dude seriously this game has enough ACTUAL flaws that we don't need to be making up more.Until someone posts a video of their setup taking 6 minutes to load one savegame, I'm going to be calling bullshit, and that they're just riding the hate train cause that's the cool thing to do. 1 Quote I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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