Is Thief (2014) worth $5.99?

[StinkyPinky]

THe visuals and technical side of the game are not the issue. The lame characters and gameplay is.

But to each their own.

 

[CP5670]

I thought Thief 4 was very good, easily the best big-budget game I played last year. The story is forgettable, but the gameplay is excellent and the maps are very detailed and fun to explore. I ignored the story and thought of it as a series of standalone missions. The game has a number of little annoyances like the jumping, button mashing and so on, but they are minor things that don't detract from the core gameplay. It's also the only recent FPS I can think of that lets you save. I would support it for this reason alone, if nothing else.

This game is like Deus Ex IW. It was panned as a Thief game, but is actually better than a lot of other modern games and would have been better received if it had a different title. It has little connection to the earlier games except that your character is called Garrett (but is apparently not even the same one). I loved the previous Thief games, but they all had their own flaws and were far from perfect too.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

Generally, I find that the people who don't like Thief (2014) are the ones expecting it to be like Thief 1 & 2, and that's just not fair to the game. It's its own game, its own story, its own style, its own artwork, and its own franchise. If you play the game and separate that, you'll probably find you really enjoy it.

>Copy an existing franchise.
>it's own franchise.

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It's piggybacking off an existing franchise so people have a right to expect it to maintain certain core characteristics, otherwise there would be no reason to copy the franchise, they could have just given it a completely new name.

It's just the same old pattern of developers remaking old games as an excuse to boost the sales at launch by fooling the existing fan base into buying it.

 

[poofyhairguy]

If you a benchmark junkie it is worth it for the Mantle mode.