Thief is it worth it?

[JumBie]

Lets be honest here, I need some opinions, I saw it on sale and was tempted, but to me it does not look like its a worthy successor. I need the opinions of those that played it before I jump ship.

 

[Bateluer]

I was going to ask this myself. Its 10 bucks on Steam right now, but also has ~60% negative Steam reviews.

 

[escrow4]

Rubbish:

- Small boxy same old boxed off areas with a loading screen EACH time due to last gen memory restrictions

- Stupid press button to loot; there is no skill

- Dreary knock off Dishonoured style city

- Boring simplified gameplay

- Story is irrelevant

- Irritating UI

You may as well buy Dishonoured. I didn't even bother finishing it.

 

[BSim500]

To be honest no. Everything that was wrong with Thief 3 (and dumbing down in modern games) has been amplified, whilst everything right with Thief 1&2 dumped in the trash. I got as far as the first two levels on a friends rig before giving up out of frustration of sheer "dumbed-down-ness" and the plethora of annoyances. Example "Mission requirement" from Mission 1 : "Get 4 headshots". In Thief...

Thief 1&2 had huge levels. Thief 3 had to badly nerf them down by 80% to fit into the original XBox's 64MB RAM. Amazingly, Thief 4's levels are even smaller despite being designed for 4-8GB modern rigs and given 64-128x more memory to play with). Every 30m or so there's a silly "mash button to open window" QTE that attempts to hide the fact the "window" straddles a level zone loading boundary. Even after you opened it, you have to mash buttons to re-open it again. The light gem has been dumbed down from 11 states to 3, "contextual" use replaces the original's freedom of action (Garret (who now dresses like a 30-something emo complete with corset, mascara & eye shadow) now can't even jump on his own if he's in the "wrong" place), master voice actor Stephen Russell got replaced by "guy doing impression of puss from Shrek", horrendous sound balancing (all sounds are often the same volume & distance even after passing between an object).

Sneaking with “jazz hands” looks utterly absurd, people get stuck in conversation loops, AI issues, level “checkpoints” cut you off from previous areas so if you missed some loot you cannot go back destroying much of the freedom of movement of original and leaves you spending most of the game playing "guess where the checkpoints of no-return are", making 100% loot achievements impossible unless you save every 10m and essentially sticking the game on "rails", no mission loot requirements, "pay to win" booster packs, micro-cutscenes on every... single... takedown/pickpocket/swipe, half the length of original (8-11hrs vs 18-25hrs). It's essentially a poor rip off of Dishonoured (eg, Gloomers = Weepers, Queen of Beggers = Granny Rags, etc).

I wouldn't even buy it for $0.01 and fully agree with the low Metacritic score. Go play Dishonered & HD-modded / "Tafferpatched" original games instead.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Terrible game. I preordered it before launch and it was rubbish. It also went down in price very very fast.

 

[Red Storm]

I got it for free through some hardware bundle I don't even remember and I still haven't even bothered to download and play it.

 

[NickelPlate]

I'm going to go against the grain and say yes. I quite liked it and played all the originals back when Looking Glass was the developer. The only real negative for me is navigation. The on screen maps aren't much help but of course the original Thief games didn't have much to go on either. You just had to find your way around. The story is also a little weird.

It's definitely worth the $10.

 

[inachu]

If you played the old pc version and if it made your heart race then yes go buy it.

The old pc demo is still out there. THE DARK PROJECT
If it does not do anything for you then the XBOX ONE game will not do anything for you either.

 

[thedosbox]

Lets be honest here, I need some opinions, I saw it on sale and was tempted, but to me it does not look like its a worthy successor. I need the opinions of those that played it before I jump ship.

BSim's image is a little misleading as it doesn't convey how empty some of the classic levels felt. However, the modern game is nowhere near being a worthy successor. There's no real sense of tension, and the audio bugs are atrocious.

As others have said, get Dishonored (and story DLC) if you haven't already.

 

[sze5003]

I have it for ps4. Played a few levels and never touched it again. I should try to finish it but I just have no more interest. I can't even trade it in for anything. I should have done so at best buy a while ago when they have you something more than $6.

 

[davie jambo]

I quite enjoyed it once I gave up trying to sneak around and not kill anyone

Make of that what you will

 

[JumBie]

Thank you all for your opinions and reviews, looks like I will be passing on this one for sure. Got enough of a stealth fix from Dishonored, hopefully Dishonored 2 is announced shortly.

 

[Imp]

For $10, ya. Chapter 2 has a bug that crashed my machine though -- lot of people with the same problem and this was a few months ago, still not fixed.

Nice graphics, pretty linear gameplay compared to Thief 1 and 2.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I thought it was alright. Not an incredible game by any stretch, but worthy of $10-$20 IMO.