preface: No, the exclamation mark is not because I think it's urgent but part of the game title. 
So back in '94 a company named neo Software made a game about planning and executing heists, a remake of a much older C64 game.
It's called The Clou! and every five years or so I get the irresistible itch to play through it again.
You advance the story and hire a crew for your next burglary in a visual novel style segment, scout/investigate the sites you want to rob (it's up to you what to rob next most of the time) and then plan the heist itself meticulously, trying to utilize your specialists according to their skills, keeping silent and not leaving too many traces behind. While you do so a timer is running, adding the time your guy wasted on all his consecutive actions. So in the end the guy in your crew with the most time spent until he's back at the getaway car decides how long the whole thing takes.
Then you save that plan and execute it, seeing how well it works in reality. I think the only thing in that execution phase you can still influence is that you can tell your team to break it off and skedaddle. And maybe urge them to hurry if they are working too slowly. How fast and reliably they do their jobs depends on their respective skills - specialists with higher skills want a bigger share of the loot. And on the tools you bought before. And on the difficulty level of the lock or other obstacle in question. And so on.
Other than that you have to wait and see if everything goes as planned or if one of your guys runs into a guard or if some neighbor called the cops because of too much noise etc. If you managed to get away without being busted the police starts its investigation which you also witness in all its glorious detail. A witness was able to identify one of the crew? The police might already know him (there are stats for everything and everyone in this game, including if he's known to the police) and interrogate him and if he's one of the snitchy types you are screwed. I think there was one get out of jail card though since the inspector is a Clouseau type.
So as I mentioned every five years or so I want to replay it. And each of these times I also go on a internet searching frenzy because there has to be a remake with just as deep gameplay but less clunky controls, there just has to!
But there never is.
All I'm seeing are bombast akshun games like Payday 2 ( btw, is the heist part of this any good or is it just a mindless shooting rampage?) or shitty indie sidescrollers.
There was a game called Heist mentioned in another thread but I can't find any links for it since the name is already occupied by that Payday 2 addon and a whole bunch of movies. Would appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction for that one. I don't expect it to be even comparable since the heists themselves appear to be very much abstracted but anyway.
Other than that I still don't find anything comparable. So if anyone could point me to something similar that would be great. Gameplay involving an in depth pre-heist planning phase and a free choice of targets would be the icing on the cake.
If nothing turns up I'll just replay The Clou! I guess. Like every five years or so.
Oh and please don't mention the sequel. It stinks.
There seems to be a similar game named Crookz, but it doesn't have the planning phase and seems to be a pretty boring affair overall. Anyone here played that one and can comment?
So back in '94 a company named neo Software made a game about planning and executing heists, a remake of a much older C64 game.
It's called The Clou! and every five years or so I get the irresistible itch to play through it again.
You advance the story and hire a crew for your next burglary in a visual novel style segment, scout/investigate the sites you want to rob (it's up to you what to rob next most of the time) and then plan the heist itself meticulously, trying to utilize your specialists according to their skills, keeping silent and not leaving too many traces behind. While you do so a timer is running, adding the time your guy wasted on all his consecutive actions. So in the end the guy in your crew with the most time spent until he's back at the getaway car decides how long the whole thing takes.
Then you save that plan and execute it, seeing how well it works in reality. I think the only thing in that execution phase you can still influence is that you can tell your team to break it off and skedaddle. And maybe urge them to hurry if they are working too slowly. How fast and reliably they do their jobs depends on their respective skills - specialists with higher skills want a bigger share of the loot. And on the tools you bought before. And on the difficulty level of the lock or other obstacle in question. And so on.
Other than that you have to wait and see if everything goes as planned or if one of your guys runs into a guard or if some neighbor called the cops because of too much noise etc. If you managed to get away without being busted the police starts its investigation which you also witness in all its glorious detail. A witness was able to identify one of the crew? The police might already know him (there are stats for everything and everyone in this game, including if he's known to the police) and interrogate him and if he's one of the snitchy types you are screwed. I think there was one get out of jail card though since the inspector is a Clouseau type.
So as I mentioned every five years or so I want to replay it. And each of these times I also go on a internet searching frenzy because there has to be a remake with just as deep gameplay but less clunky controls, there just has to!
But there never is.
All I'm seeing are bombast akshun games like Payday 2 ( btw, is the heist part of this any good or is it just a mindless shooting rampage?) or shitty indie sidescrollers.
There was a game called Heist mentioned in another thread but I can't find any links for it since the name is already occupied by that Payday 2 addon and a whole bunch of movies. Would appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction for that one. I don't expect it to be even comparable since the heists themselves appear to be very much abstracted but anyway.
Other than that I still don't find anything comparable. So if anyone could point me to something similar that would be great. Gameplay involving an in depth pre-heist planning phase and a free choice of targets would be the icing on the cake.
If nothing turns up I'll just replay The Clou! I guess. Like every five years or so.
Oh and please don't mention the sequel. It stinks.
There seems to be a similar game named Crookz, but it doesn't have the planning phase and seems to be a pretty boring affair overall. Anyone here played that one and can comment?
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