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Decline Thiaf Pre-Release Thread

DragoFireheart

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So is this coming out for Xbone? I pre-ordered an Xbone to play this, but that's ok as long as it's better than that shit called thief gold. Fucking terrible, the graphics are from SNES era. Why aren't there cut-scenes for the sneak attacks like in Skyrim? Fucking awful games. Glad the game industry is advancing in quality gaming.
 

Oesophagus

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So is this coming out for Xbone? I pre-ordered an Xbone to play this, but that's ok as long as it's better than that shit called thief gold. Fucking terrible, the graphics are from SNES era. Why aren't there cut-scenes for the sneak attacks like in Skyrim? Fucking awful games. Glad the game industry is advancing in quality gaming.

Well, you know, opinions are opinions and you are free to enjoy whatever you like. Let's all just get along and to each their own
 

DalekFlay

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So is this coming out for Xbone? I pre-ordered an Xbone to play this, but that's ok as long as it's better than that shit called thief gold. Fucking terrible, the graphics are from SNES era. Why aren't there cut-scenes for the sneak attacks like in Skyrim? Fucking awful games. Glad the game industry is advancing in quality gaming.

These are well thought out opinion I enjoy reading. Please keep posting.
 

Ninjerk

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How does that even fit the "What's Yours is Mine" tagline? This game is all over the place.
 

Borelli

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Pretty much any trailer, any video can be ruined by BUY DLC at the end. "sigh" i thought i was used to this modern video game marketing where they tease you and tease you with trailers but seeing it on Thiaf reopens old wounds. Did T1 and 2 have trailers? I don't know because demo was enough for me back then.
 

DeepOcean

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It isn't even the lore rape that offend me most in this pos but everything they add was recycled on a bad way from other games and movies, this is the result of marketing driven and developers with too much arrogance and not enough talent. Okay, don't want to use the Hammerites or the pagans? Fine, at least, use something fucking original for once. The evil dictator wanting evil capitalist progress agains butthurt rebels is more than cliche, it is a copy/paste plot from people without a hint of talent. That generic Granny Hags is just the ice in the cake.

There is not a single hint of life in this project, they had a strong framework let by Thief but instead of building upon it, they decided to make a generic looking version of Dishonored but with low gamma. I watched their presentation at VGX (baaaad idea from me), the guy in there said that rope arrows were added because the fans wanted it, implying that it wasn't planned in the beginning at all. Guess what, you can only fire them at certain spots what means that their engine can't do what Dark Engine did fucking ages ago. Those clowns don't have a clue of what they are doing. There was a time that young DeepOcean tought what the technology would bring and little I knew...:deadhorse:
 

JarlFrank

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Pretty much any trailer, any video can be ruined by BUY DLC at the end. "sigh" i thought i was used to this modern video game marketing where they tease you and tease you with trailers but seeing it on Thiaf reopens old wounds. Did T1 and 2 have trailers? I don't know because demo was enough for me back then.

Yeah, there were trailers:

 

Borelli

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It shows gameplay! How quaint. But you can clearly see the different styles in trailer making. This one is all about what you can do. Extinguish fires! Knock out people! Kill people from the shadows! Sneak! Steal loot! Yet there is zero about the story. It's almost like they try to entrap you with gameplay. How quaint.

He shot the guard in front of Bafford's throne room with a gas arrow. My first thought was "how did he get gas arrows in the first mission"? Then i remembered that the demo would give you high lvl toys to play with. I still remember that next to the post demo "buy our game" was a "how about you try a different playing style? different route? use those gas mines/arrows"? Man you just don't see those kinds of things today anymore.
 

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Those 90s rock riffs are so much better than the dubset or ironic orchestral music of modern trailers.

Though, I don't know that a rock riff really matches the mood of Thief.
 

Lyric Suite

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It doesn't, but i guess trailers have to trailer. I still liked it though it, and i think it was a fairly informative representation of the game.
 
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Found a rare video w/o annoying commentary, to get a listen to Thiaf's soundscape:
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/7h5jx0/thief-e3-2013--stealth-gameplay-demo

Sorry if I'm inflicting pain and sorrow....but yeah, it's really bad.

Also weep at the segments where Garret pops arrows into the Guard's faces, and to make matters worse, all of it during slow-motion mode. Not only did they horribly fail making a Thief game, they can't even get a half-assed Dishonored clone right.

FAIL
 

zwanzig_zwoelf

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Oh fuck.
Why.
Why do you do that.
 

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