Feedback from non-Thief players?

[Neb]

I was just wondering what kind of feedback you guys have had in general from gamers who have never even tried out or heard about a Thief game.

 

Being a toolset, I couldn't imagine The Dark Mod being worried too much about presenting itself to gamers outside this fuzzy bubble of Thief fandom (until there are plenty of missions at least), but nevertheless, it really interests me.

[Vadrosaul]

There are such people??

[Tels]

There are such people??

 

A lot. And their comments are sometimes not very favourable (they can't judge the amount of work poured in, tho)

 

I got comments like:

 

* why can't the guards see you?

* they look a bit stiff and the hammer swing is ugh. (the new walk is much better tho)

* why don't guards hear a door closing 5cm in front of them

* why don't they notice open doors even when they bump into it (and nobody else could have opened it??

* blackjacking a guard and he has his eyes open (and the feet twitch) why?

* fire arrow on guard => why goes he down so fast?

* the moveable sounds are completely wrong and unrealistic. Either waaay to loud, or waay to little, or it sounds wrong (plastic, not heavy-metal-candle-holder), plus the "exactly one and the same sound every 0.2 seconds" makes "bouncing" things unrealistic

 

Basically, a lot of things we already know and a few things that Thief players take for granted but look really strange to non-thief players (the entire hiding thing f.i.).

 

If I am there to explain a few things, they pick up the spirit of the game I think. However, I don't see any non-thief player being able to complete something like SL without some sort of big training tutorial. They just run to the first guard and get bashed in.

 

There were other comments on the architecture of SL but these are not really comparable because A: it looks way better than a lot of games, really and B: it is just a specific map