Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Definitely.
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Definitely.
Remachinate
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Dishonored-style without the powers and fighting ability? That would do, Eidos, that would do.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
Right.
For something like a Thief game, I could care less about it being nextgen when it comes to visuals, maybe outside of the lighting and shadows having a gameplay impact. But thats the most important thing- the gameplay. And if being nextgen enables for better gameplay, then that's what I'll be most excited about.
This wouldn't be a bad thing!
krimsoncharge
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i think we should expect the first batch of 3rd party next gen games to look closer to this in terms of visual fidelity. the true showcases will come from the internal teams or a year or 2 later.
BruceLeeRoy
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Really like what I am seeing. Definitely looks current gen but thats fine with me.
The Technomancer
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Please please god give me classic Thief level design with that level of architectural style. Oh please.
Pachterballs
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IT JUST LOOKS SO THIS GEN.
Think about how long this game has been in the works... there's no way the next gen version wasn't going to be more than a resolution and texture bump.
You can spot the people who haven't played Thief by everyone saying Dishonored. Outside of the screen that looks like it's from the party mission in Dishonored, the game looks like Thief.
Kagari said:
This. Come on people use some common sense. The game was being worked on for more than 3 years, if it's next gen it was recently moved over so you're not going to get a true next gen jump.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Fuck. Yes.
call_kotaku
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His bow being some sort of robot contraption now sort of bugs me. I loved the aesthetics of Thief but this feels like it's trying to sell the steampunkiness of it a bit too hard.
Also some of the screenshots like the hands on the guard basically confirm gratuitous QTE use to me.
Also some of the screenshots like the hands on the guard basically confirm gratuitous QTE use to me.
Pachterballs
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its looks pretty bad. I'm lik eww at the screens.
Maybe the city is huge and you can enter all buildings without loading!
The Technomancer
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Omegasquash
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Come now...we all know it will.
JCreasy
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Exactly. And I really hope most of the focus went into developing a more complex level design instead of wasting their budget on "next-gen visuals".
definitely not 360 screens.
Cramoss
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Haha, exactly.
sacrificengineer
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Well, I can help a bit here
There is nothing new (apart of the screens, of course). This site mentions X720 because it using this old article as a source for additional information. And mentioned community page only tells about "next-gen" release in 2014 without further details.
Interesting, how did they get these screens...
Remachinate
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I must have had the wrong video card in 2000.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Victorian houses and Industrial Revolution everywhere = steampunk to me. You've got guys wearing morning suits and the guards are still carrying swords.
Also Thief has always been a Steampunk setting, even since the first game.
Confidence Man
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Looks nice. Now let's see if the stealth is actually stealth and not streamlined power fantasy like Dishonored et al.
velociraptor
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This looks far and beyond any current gen console game.
Rickenslacker
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Based on the ending of Deadly Shadows I imagined we'd have a new protagonist.
Ol No Bones
Banned
It looks good to me. Probably a lot of fun.
I see a fake right eye in one of those screens. Definitely Garrett.
LemonGremlin
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It looks next gen to me, honestly don't know what some of you guys are expecting. Imagine it running 60 fps + 1080p. It doesn't look any different to high end pc running something like Dishonoured, but that's what you expect at the start of a new gen, especially with 360/PS3 versions also coming out.
It's all about the atmosphere with Thief games anyway. Sound design is just as if not more important than visuals.
It's all about the atmosphere with Thief games anyway. Sound design is just as if not more important than visuals.
Current gen could never handle those textures.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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I have to humbly disagree. A series in hiatus will be always compared to the series that comes after. Always.
Uncharted took Tomb Raider's concept and made it supermassive. Tomb Raider looked at Uncharted and took a few ideas off of it. Both inspired each other but the original inspiration has been kicking ass and taking names left and right.
Dishonored is a fusion of Thief, Oblivion and Bioshock (in my mind atleast). Thief, coming after Dishonored, will be highly compared to it regardless of what came first and the influence is quite staggering. It also looks like UE3 so that is not helping it either since all first-person fantasy-adventure game looks the same in UE3 for some fucked up reason. It doesn't look like Crystal Engine to me.
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