eFKac said:
I haven't read the reviews cause I'm not interested in the game tbh, but aren't you people overreacting a bit? I mean over 70 is really a good score, it's not Goty candidate, sure, but not buying the game because of it or saying it's a bad score? |
After so many years, and the mild disappointment of Thief III (that despite all its flaws and simplifications, though, still was quite hard and forced the player to advance very carefully if he didn't want to be discovered), we expected it to come back to its full glory, without Thief III flaws and with all the advantages brought by large RAM and decent CPU and GPU. Instead, while the horrible splitting of levels that plagued Thief III should be solved forever, and unwelcome novelties were luckily canceled, there's still the flaw of oversimplification (evident from the speed at which Garrett can advance without being discovered in a play-through they showed) and now the reviews say there are bugs and lack of polish (that hopefully they'll fix with future patches) and some levels are uninspired (and this won't be solved, although they could release better designed expansions later to make us forgive them for the worst levels).
I'll surely buy it, but not at release time, bugged and full-price: from the infos I got up until now, it isn't by any means going to be the best Thief, except for graphics, really the best ever in the series. For the rest, the best games of the series will remain Thief I and II, and this saddens me, Thief IV had the opportunity to become the best, or at least on a par with the previous best two, but it's going to be on a par with the worst, better than it in some things (mainly tied to XBox RAM limits that plagued Theif III on PC too), worse in others.
