SubJeff on 2/2/2014 at 10:38

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Do you really believe that the developers put something in the PC version of the game in order to deliberately make it worse or not as good as the console versions? :wot:

Platinumoxicity on 2/2/2014 at 10:43

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I have no idea why they insist on making the mouse controls worse than they are by default when designing a game. I work in a game development company, and I have yet to run into a game engine where the default mouse controls have a filter enabled that scrables the raw input.

You are right, it would be insane for anyone to make a version of a product worse on purpose. It's not like PC players would then go buy the console version after wasting moeny on the PC version where the controls are broken. But that's what Ubisoft does. They even told everyone 6 months before the release of AC3 that mouse is not the officially supported control method. And as you can imagine, mouse worked just fine, except that there was hard-coded acceleration added. It's a mystery.

Brother Inquisitor on 2/2/2014 at 14:09

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You're being a bit too literal about the numbers I used.

Apart from that, in a way, I find Thiaf to be more offensive than the 1.5 examples you mentioned. "Big Rigs" and "Ride To Hell" are just inept pieces of crap that are easily ignored. Thiaf on the other hand is the official new entry in one of video gaming history's defining chapters. EM had the amazing privilege to be handed such once-in-a-lifetime, golden opportunity, yet they decided to *&$# around with it in all sorts of questionable ways (whether or not that FUBAR'd the game entirely remains to be seen). And if you're going to compare me to some dickwad on youtube for having an opinion, please have it reflect my actual thoughts on the game. As far as Thiaf is concerned, I might well be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgjaeHGi9IA) this guy.

Jason Moyer on 2/2/2014 at 19:24

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I would much rather see Eidos Montreal make the game they want to make free of creative interference than simply copy the original Thief games, even if that means "!#$%!$#%"-ing around with things that people hold sacred for whatever reason.

Brother Inquisitor on 3/2/2014 at 00:32

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I'm all for creative freedom IF the studio involved has the creative chops to deliver something that is at least equal if not better than the originals. What I've seen so far, however, was terribly written and seemed streamlined and generic - pretty much the polar opposite of the product of creative freedom. Considering the kind of money that was spent on Thiaf's development, it would be foolish not to assume that EM was kept on a very tight leash to make a commercially viable product. Creativity unfortunately doesn't seem to have factored into this.

What you so dismissively refer to as "the things that people hold sacred for whatever reason" are probably the same things that have made people come back to these games for over 15 years.