![]() ![]() Compare that to levels like Cragscleft, Bonehoard, The Sword, Caverns, Mage Towers, even The Maw (although that's one of my least favorite in TG). Much of the level design in Thief 2 is also very flat, where verticality is hardly even implemented. The streets and houses seem unimaginative, some of them straight out boring. A few missions in that game are inventive yes, (Party, Cargo, Kidnap, Soulforge) but many of the others are very plain to me. Quite frankly, I don't see how you use level design to argue for Thief 2. Yes, I'm using your argument against you. No video game has ever grabbed me in the same way since. It will always trigger in me certain emotions, where I remember back to my first time getting caught by the dark, grimy atmosphere of The City. This was the first game I played, and it blew me away. First (and perhaps most importantly), nostalgia. Refreshing.įor me, several points heavily favor Thief Gold (I can't comment on TDP, because I never finished that release). And even though this discussion is old and never ending, I haven't seen a comprehensive statement like yours in a while. Lol never mind ZB, that's just his way of saying "welcome to the forum".Īlthough I largely disagree with your opinion, thank you for sharing. about the part of games where you're stealthy and deal with human enemies and then the part where the monsters show up and the game basically loses its stealth element? I don't play many modern games, so there are probably more games where this is true, Crysis 2 probably being the latest game I have played to this day. I looked back and realised that I felt exactly the same in Farcry, Crysis, Crysis 2, Thief Gold and even Thief 2 (final level has almost no humanoids in it). I enjoy it, as long as you're dealing with humans, but once it's about monsters, I stop enjoying the game. a pattern that seems to be true for me across all games. Undercover would probably be my highest-rated Thief 1 level, but it's also pitifully easy on Expert.Īnd then I realised something else. If I had to pick the top 5 levels in Thief Gold and Thief 2, they would all be Thief 2 levels (Party, Bank, Eavesdropping, Framed and either one of the Gervasius-missions (except I don't like the scary library sub-quest)). Return to the Cathedral is okay - once you know the shortcut to circumventing the second half of the level (yay, fetch quests!). I just replayed it and ghosted it for the first time (no alarms, no blackjacking, 100% loot, I guess that counts as ghosting?), that was kinda fun, so I might add this to the list. Bafford's is okay, I'm of two minds about that one. The Sword and Undercover are the only two missions I would even consider good. You can't even buy equipment, so it's a bit silly that you can collect loot in these levels. Escape, Strange Bedfellows, Maw of Chaos - not terrible, but it's not Thief to me. And then there are many levels where you don't get to do any actual thieving. These are probably the worst two, but I didn't enjoy Song of the Caverns, Bonehoard either. I find them just too large (The Guild), too repetitive (Mage Towers). Worst offenders are the levels added by Thief Gold, obviously. I think this is probably because of the ambient sound, the suspenseful music playing all the way through the level? Not sure, I can't pin it down.Ģ: There are so many levels I just simply don't enjoy. I don't just mean the zombies and haunted levels, I mean - overall. Now, when looking at the list of missions in my savegames, I noticed two things especially.ġ: Thief Gold is scarier than Thief 2. I think this is the main reason why I prefer Thief 2 - no Zombies (almost). ![]() Theif 2 video ambush how to#I can do it now, because I've learned how to deal with the undead, but I still don't enjoy those levels. I couldn't do it, not even during daytime and with company. And my memories of it aren't that old either, because when it first came out (I remember playing the demo and being blown away by the concept), I was so scared of the undead, I didn't actually make it past the second level until several years later. Thief Gold is certainly not as good as I remember it to be. Theif 2 video ambush install#I forced myself to, because I was too lazy to install another game, but. Upon completion, I looked at my list of savegames and realised that there are barely any missions in Thief Gold I had any desire to play again. I wanted to play more, but I didn't want to play it again. That being said, however, I just replayed Thief Gold (on normal) and once I was done, I found myself in a weird place. Not trying to start a fight or anything, but I've noticed in other discussions elsewhere on the internet, that there seems to be some disagreement on which is the superior title and obviously it is a matter of personal preference.įirst of all: I love all the original Thief games and I am fully aware of the debt of gratitude all other stealth games owe to The Dark Project. ![]()
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