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The problem with Jim Sterling's show is he's informing morons of issues that anyone with half a brain has gotten tired of discussing years ago. It's like watching The Problems with Vidya and Vidya Jurnalizm For Dummies.
 

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Preorder now and receive an exclusive mission, which is <<A true homage to the Bank mission in "Thief II: The Metal Age">>.



Classy.
 

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Animations for taking loot. Unskippable. Probably world around will freeze while the animation happens.
Yeah. I'm not a master pickpocket or something, but I think pickpocketing somebody has to be a swift movement, which happens in a blink of an eye. Like in Thief 1-3. If it would take a second, like here, everybody would catch that thief.
 

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Preorder now and receive an exclusive mission, which is <<A true homage to the Bank mission in "Thief II: The Metal Age">>.



Classy.


:hmmm:

I'm not even going to comment.

EDIT: I love how this gets bashed even on the eidos forums.
 
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Anyone remembers the quality of 'Rescue Tong' mission? They didn't even bother to put any music there.
 

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Animations for taking loot. Unskippable. Probably world around will freeze while the animation happens.

Yeah, it also leads me to believe a lot of the loot with be plot-essential so you'll have to pick it up in order to take in all the glorious animations their team wasted their time on and absolutely want you to see.

Fun times ahead.
 

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Anyone remembers the quality of 'Rescue Tong' mission? They didn't even bother to put any music there.

The Rescue Tong mission was actually mechanically pretty nice - they stuffed the level with things that tested pretty much every single augmentation you had. Lots of alternate paths, etc.

It didn't have any fancy eye candy stuff or exciting set pieces, though, true.
 

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The Rescue Tong mission was actually mechanically pretty nice - they stuffed the level with things that tested pretty much every single augmentation you had. Lots of alternate paths, etc.

It didn't have any fancy eye candy stuff or exciting set pieces, though, true.

It was alright, but it definitely felt like tacked-on content not originally intended for the game.
 

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The bank has security cameras, yet the guards are still walking around with torches and swords...
 

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The bank has security cameras, yet the guards are still walking around with torches and swords...

It was the same in Thief 2. The security cameras were meant to compliment whatever guard patrols were in place, not to replace them. (That's what the mechbeasts were for.)
 

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Haha, I wonder who paid off destructoid to run that article and how much the paycheck was made out for.

Edit: Oh, I see it's an article from 2010.
 
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The problem with Jim Sterling's show is he's informing morons of issues that anyone with half a brain has gotten tired of discussing years ago. It's like watching The Problems with Vidya and Vidya Jurnalizm For Dummies.

Going strictly by logos, yes, and web personalities like the AVGN, Plinkett, and Nostalgia Critic often have the same problem. That's where showmanship and good mash up video editing come in.
 

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Haha, I wonder who paid off destructoid to run that article and how much the paycheck was made out for.

Edit: Oh, I see it's an article from 2010.

I just wanted to point out that he has before spoken from moron point of view rather than educating morons about basic critical thinking. Someone linked it on here (I think I had read it back when it came out but didn't make the Jimquisition connection right away) and I think it remains relevant no matter what his position is now.
 

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Haha, I wonder who paid off destructoid to run that article and how much the paycheck was made out for.

Edit: Oh, I see it's an article from 2010.

I just wanted to point out that he has before spoken from moron point of view rather than educating morons about basic critical thinking. Someone linked it on here (I think I had read it back when it came out but didn't make the Jimquisition connection right away) and I think it remains relevant no matter what his position is now.

His position is roughly "I'm right about everything, fuck you."

If he never got a big break he would probably be a decent Codex poster.
 

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Oh, I don't take a wholly "he's a moron" view of him, but I think it's useful to remember a thing like that.
 

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It's actually an interesting article, to be honest. I knew Jim Sterling wasn't everything he's cracked up to be, but I didn't think he had such decline in him. That's the kind of opinion piece one would expect from a tumblr blogger who decided to don his angry pants and 'show the world who's boss' after someone insulted his favorite game.
 

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Here is an idea for a counter-article, "newcomers to a series need to shut up about wanting everything to be modern streamlined"
 

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