Meccanical
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I will accept there are similarities, but Thief came first dammit.
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Game Informer: Thief (Eidos Montreal, PC/PS4/"Next-Gen", 2014) [Up: Mag Info In OP]
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I will accept there are similarities, but Thief came first dammit.
JCreasy
Member
Jawmuncher
Member
Glad I was right about it being a reboot.
Look forward to legacy of lain reboot as well.
It's just the easier thing for Square Enix to do and I'm actually glad that they are.
Look forward to legacy of lain reboot as well.
It's just the easier thing for Square Enix to do and I'm actually glad that they are.
You don't have to tell me of all people that, I'm just saying the plot outline is exactly the same as Dishonored's setup. This comes after me and others were complaining about people saying the screens looked like Dishonored 2 in the other thread.
Diminishing returns of screenshots; not in-motion, in 1080p, on your 50" LED TV.
Meccanical
Member
SniperHunter
Banned
this game has been in development for a VERY long period of time fyi.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
If it looks like a duck, sound like a duck, and acts like a duck...
AgentOtaku
Member
YEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!!!!!!!
The old Thief fans on GAF seem very pleased overall with this initial unveil, actually.
As long as it doesn't play like Dishonored I won't care about the other stuff. It can copy everything about that game except the gameplay and I wouldn't care.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Yeah, I have no doubt this will look amazing in motion.
It may not be the most impressive next gen game, nor could it be seeing as how development changed a good way through. That said, as long as the lighting engine holds up and the assets aren't too bad (they look fine), then this game will blow away current gen titles.
yeah, I think people would cum hard if they saw it in motion.
Meccanical
Member
SniperHunter
Banned
thief doesn't play anything like dishonored. Thief is very slow and methodological, while dishonored was somewhat fast paced, thanks to all the super natural powers.
Splinter Cell I & Chaos Theory would be valid comparisons IMO.
RyanReedyMusic
Banned
Im pretty excited for TEEF.
People are so used to bullshots.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Getting Deadly Shadows vibe from the design for some reason. That's not a good thing.
Some of the first person screenshots are pretty promising though, so that at least is good.
I hope that you don't get auto-third-person for other animations as it is in Human Revolution.
And that the level complexity remains. I'm a couple levels past the city bank heist in II, so good.
Also that it's pretty much nothing like Dishonored's gameplay and Human Revolution's level design.
And that you don't have super powers that make the complex levels as easily traversed as AC cities.
Bad screenshots of the previous two games (that matter) since I don't have saves from the good levels.
That's a leap forward in graphics, let's hope there's no leap backwards in gameplay and level design, huh?
Some of the first person screenshots are pretty promising though, so that at least is good.
I hope that you don't get auto-third-person for other animations as it is in Human Revolution.
And that the level complexity remains. I'm a couple levels past the city bank heist in II, so good.
Also that it's pretty much nothing like Dishonored's gameplay and Human Revolution's level design.
And that you don't have super powers that make the complex levels as easily traversed as AC cities.
Bad screenshots of the previous two games (that matter) since I don't have saves from the good levels.
That's a leap forward in graphics, let's hope there's no leap backwards in gameplay and level design, huh?
Yeah no, and it doesnt look like UE 3 for me, if it is, its heavily modified.
Although i dont like lighting on those shots too much and shadows rendering doesnt look very good.
Agree. Didn't like the "line of sight" stealth in Dishonored very much. Give me back the "visibility-gem" and I'm happy.
Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
They're not at all. Deus Ex: Human Revolution had some issues, but it was largely faithful to what made the original game great, and sold well as a result.
That said, Dishonored was really successful. I'm concerned that Thief will follow in its footsteps a bit too closely, rather than being inspired by its own lineage. Dishonored was great, don't get me wrong, but had a very different type of gameplay.
Yep it looks good to me, I haven't played dishonoured, but it looked like it was inspired by Thief.
I just hope they ditch 3rd person, it looked so stupid in Deadly Shadows.
It's hard to capture next gen stuff like dynamic lighting models, physics, draw distances, depth of field, motion blur, etc. in screenshots. They're pretty much restricted to be able to show off geometry and texture detail and little else.
I'm sure that there were people over in Montreal cursing up a storm when they read about Dishonored's plot. It's an unfortunate coincidence but a funny one.
JehutyRunner
Banned
Gave it a quick readthrough. Don't have time to read it properly and give a full bulletpoint list, but the one thing that stuck out is that it at one point experimented with turning it into a third-person action game and thought of introducing a new main character.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
What is other next gen?
toastyToast
Member
For the love of God have good enemy AI
All the babby stealth games lately have been shithouse
All the babby stealth games lately have been shithouse
SW 1313 uses UE3, does that look current gen to you?
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
I had wished they'd gone for a more steampunk look, maybe not to the same degree that T2 was, but still to some extent. Here they seem to have gone for a mix of medieval European city and Victorian/Industrial-age Britain, which is still pretty good, I guess.
Looks pretty promising, hopefully the fact that it's on next-gen consoles means we get some big, non-linear levels without any loading screens, to compensate for the lack of memory on 360/PS3.
Looks pretty promising, hopefully the fact that it's on next-gen consoles means we get some big, non-linear levels without any loading screens, to compensate for the lack of memory on 360/PS3.
SniperHunter
Banned
it's using glacier engine 2, the one used for Hitman Absolution
RyanReedyMusic
Banned
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Messofanego
Banned
Man, what a Dishonored knock-off. Do devs have no shame anymore? Why have we regressed from a crossbow to a bow? Golden Cat looks better than that.
Time to correct my mistake and play the Thief games before this
Should I avoid Thief 3 or play it just for the famous Cradle level?
lol
Time to correct my mistake and play the Thief games before this
Should I avoid Thief 3 or play it just for the famous Cradle level?
Man, what a Dishonored knock-off. Do devs have no shame anymore? Why have we regressed from a crossbow to a bow? Golden Cat looks better than that.
lol
Time to correct my mistake and play the Thief games before this
Should I avoid Thief 3 or play it just for the famous Cradle level?
Avoid, it doesn't have the great level design and big levels of its predecessors.
Meccanical
Member
Man, what a Dishonored knock-off. Do devs have no shame anymore? Why have we regressed from a crossbow to a bow? Golden Cat looks better than that.
lol
Time to correct my mistake and play the Thief games before this
Should I avoid Thief 3 or play it just for the famous Cradle level?
I think you should play it, I loved the Cradle.
Star Wars 1313 and Samaritan are on Unreal 3, dude. It's a very capable engine.
JCreasy
Member
They even had a screenshot of it in third person at one point from that GDC audio session.
Dwight Schrute
Member
What's shoking to me, besides the Dishonored inspiration (which is more an hommage to me) is the fact that in the other thread, everyone tought it was currentgen.
So much for the "technical gap" then.
So much for the "technical gap" then.