Like now! Thief: The Dark Project is one of the best games *ever*. If you own it already, congratulations on your good taste. If you don't, and you own a computer that can run it, what the hell is wrong with you? Go pick up a copy, it's cheap. If you don't own a computer that can run it, well, what's wrong with you can probably not be explained by medical science, but anyway you should buy one and then buy Thief. You won't regret it. I mean, you might, but that would just prove your lack of character.
Thief is, I think, the only game where I set the difficulty to its highest level and left it there the entire time and didn't bother playing the lower difficulty levels. Normally I play the easy mode if a game has one, because I have too many games to waste my time struggling through one in the name of "challenge". Thief, though, it's totally worth it. Playing on Master Thief mode is just more fun. You can't kill anyone(on some levels you're limited in the number of people you can knock out), for the most part you can't be seen, you have to get pretty much all the available loot, and you have to be really careful what you buy. I also gave myself the added challenges of picking every pocket there was to be picked, picking every lock there was to be picked, and actually getting all the loot there was to be got. It was just...I don't know. It was great. It was a sad day for the computer gaming world(not the magazine) when Looking Glass Studios closed. I remain hopeful for Thief 3, due out Any Day Now.
Posted by stirge at May 12, 2004 11:32 PM