EM Teaser & Site Updates - Official Trailer Up & Latest PREVIEWS & Blog Fan Kit - by thiefessa
MissyK on 10/4/2013 at 07:22
Quote Posted by Myth
The only time I look at my light gem is when I'm playing FMs with messed up lighting - I'm standing in pitch black shadow and Benny yells: "Who goes there?!". Then I look at the gem and see it bright yellow and I'm like :weird:
Happened in the first minute of the new contest FMs for me last night.
Poor Benny, he jumps at his own shadow :) I love Benny.
Durinda D'Bry on 10/4/2013 at 11:21
Quote Posted by van HellSing
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- Garrett was away in a place that he can't reveal
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- set during the Unwritten Times
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First one sounds not very good for me... Like from soap opera:mad:
Tomi on 10/4/2013 at 13:07
Quote Posted by Goldmoon Dawn
Not sure if I am a doom-monger, but I do have an opinion on the Light Gem. It wasnt broken, in the sense that the gameplay was at the constant forefront of the experience in the Missions. The Light Gem played its humble role in letting you know when youve explored too far.
Yeah, the Light Gem was alright, but as far as I know, there'll still be something similar in Thief 4... just not a light
gem. In a way I think that the Light Gem sometimes made things a bit
too easy in the older Thief games - when the Light Gem was totally dark or near it, you always knew that there's no way that the guards can see you. I feel that something a bit more vague could have been more exciting.
New Horizon on 10/4/2013 at 13:19
Quote Posted by Tomi
Yeah, the Light Gem was alright, but as far as I know, there'll still be something similar in Thief 4... just not a light
gem. In a way I think that the Light Gem sometimes made things a bit
too easy in the older Thief games - when the Light Gem was totally dark or near it, you always knew that there's no way that the guards can see you. I feel that something a bit more vague could have been more exciting.
What has been described doesn't sound vague at all though. If it's a binary system then being hidden is either '0' hidden or '1' not hidden.
jtr7 on 10/4/2013 at 13:23
If the light gem with 16 readings was too easy, then it looks like they made the new light gem stupid, and added two band-aid fixes for it, and unless the smoky fringe thing has degrees of difference, it's so unnecessary all around. If the the light gem proper made things too easy for a Master Thief with a limited FOV, then it certainly didn't need two more layers of attention getters. Note how TDS's gem gets light, dark, lighter. Why they made it like that, who knows? I hope it wasn't the one EM did their homework with!
Inline Image:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i106/jtr7/HUD_TDS_LightGemAnimation.gifInline Image:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i106/jtr7/LightGemAnimation.gifSpringheel on 10/4/2013 at 13:39
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- light gem replaced by small, three state visibility meter in the lower left corner of the screen, you're either visible, not visible or can be spotted if you move or are too close
- developers say stealth is practically binary
Ouch.
Yes, let's take the most important part of the game and make it binary, but we'll give the players half a dozen different combat combos they can choose with their "on screen cursor" (!).
:p
Renault on 10/4/2013 at 15:28
So, sounds like we were supposed to have a gameplay trailer by now, I think they said a week ago that it would be out in a few days. Wonder what the holdup is? Maybe they're changing some things up after hearing how fans have reacted to this initial wave of previews and interviews over the last couple of weeks.
Myth on 10/4/2013 at 16:40
Quote Posted by Brethren
So, sounds like we were supposed to have a gameplay trailer by now, I think they said a week ago that it would be out in a few days. Wonder what the holdup is? Maybe they're changing some things up after hearing how fans have reacted to this initial wave of previews and interviews over the last couple of weeks.
If that is indeed the case I'd be pleasantly surprised.
Renault on 10/4/2013 at 16:55
I'm not saying they're making any permanent changes, just changes to the demo to avoid any negative backlash for the moment (like taking out the Blink ability or something similar).
