What went wrong?

What went wrong?

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nothing, it took an old concept and made it playable

Terrible optimisation, montage problems about sound mixing-mastering like you hear npc dialogs from very far but cannot hear when they close . Loading screens, stealth is not rewarding and focus mode made everything easy. 3/10.

>sound mixing-mastering
THE most immersive footstep sounds I've ever experiences though.
>Loading screens
Cmon, SSDs.
>focus mode made everything easy
It's optional.

I think it was decent/mediocre at least. The worst sin was not making it Cool like the previous games.

it was released

It all went wrong when they didn't get Stephen Russell to reprise his role. Yeah, because knock-off Russell did such a great job and everyone praised the parkour motion capture he did.

I'm not talking about footsteps, dialogs has very bad mixing problems. I played on hdd so, okay.

>mfw it took two months before game turned gold for someone to realize that maybe, just maybe, awarding experience for character progression if you dealt headshots with your bow might be a bad idea

I wish there was a documentary for the special kind of development hell THI4F must have been in as it went through multiple directors. What we got is supposedly GOOD compared to what the initial idea was.

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>let's cater people that likes Assassins Creed and Skyrim on consoles!

Rhianna Pratchett That's What!
Nepotism Doesn't Buy You Talent.

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Probably development hell, everything seems to be hard-coded so you can only jump, shoot rope arrows, climb ledges, etc where the devs want you to. The game is basically moving around in an environment and triggering context-specific actions, which is the exact opposite of how Looking Glass Studios and Ion Storm used to make games.

>it took two months
I would say they didn't realize by themselves since they changed the headshots after the negative reaction when they shows some video preview or teaser.

I'd love if there was a documentary, post mortem, article, essay or anything with more insight about pretty much every game. It's great to hear why a game turned out the way it did. Fucking sucks that corporations lock everything down with their non-disclosure deals and indies are probably too burned out to bother with it.

she made tomb raider irrelevant

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it always was though

>What went wrong?
SquareEnix and Canadians

part of me hopes it was because they went with "play it your way" approach and weren't just turning the game into an action title. which is still wrong because thief was never deus ex, for example. stealthing about was always the only way to play it seeing as getting into fights would just bite you in the ass.

>dat feel when no one continued where LGS left

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I will never forgive them for that fucking "story".

french pride

>dat feel when no one continued where LGS left
Ion Storm did a good job with Deus Ex and even Thief: Deadly Shadows wasn't bad.
Arkane's Arx Fatalis and Prey carry their legacy as well

paled in comparison to the previous games, dishonored came out two years earlier and did everything it did better
the originals are still playable. git gud.
not even stephen russell could save it.

>Arx Fatalis and Prey
AHEM

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>you'll never age like fine wine

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>Old Garrett
>Clearly states that using a mask is a retarded idea because it only draws attention.
>Uses simple cloak, can be taken for a normal person on the streets

>Nu G4rr3tt
>Wear masks, SDBM clothes and wears so much black eyeliner you can see it ingame at the edges of the screen

Dishonored is great too, but mentioning it in Thief threads always results in retards talking shit about it because it isn't the exact same game.

Which is amusing because it just emphasizes a point that a stealth character, one trying to be taken seriously, cannot HAVE any standout design. You are by definition trying to blend in and not be detected.

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Tomb Raider was bigger than Resident Evil back in it's day

The first mistake was including that fucking annoying woman as a main focus of the story.

>left side
>shady type you pretend you didn't see even if you saw
>right side
>IT'S NOT A PHASE, MOM!
Jesus christ this picture cracks me up.

I blame that on their original plan to make it a sequel. So I blame it on TDS. Which works for me because I hate both equally.

I just didn't get it, why is she blaming Garrett for "using" her?

Because she's a woman. One of her lines is literally "you're holding me back!"

It's the black nails that crack me up most.

Ever stopped to think that the problem might lie in Garrett instead of putting the blame on her by default?

They really fucked up the pacing.

All Thief games are supposed to be slow, methodical, think-it-out type games. This one was designed for parkour and 200 XP headshots.

The "dash" was a mistake. It was fine in Dishonored when you could teleport and slaughter people, but Thief was always a much slower game.

>So I blame it on TDS.
How, the ending to TDS is pretty much perfect.
Thief forums have been named The Perfect Cycle for a reason. Snarky, young woman feeling patronized by Old Man Garrett as her mentor would work fine for a Reboot. Just not make her retarded feminist.

Is this a joke post?

So your problem with the story stems from you being a retarded incel, not from an actual capability to tell if a story's poorly written.

>dash
~*swoop*~