Renault on 11/9/2013 at 03:20
The wording needs to clarified, it doesn't make much sense as is:
He's been "gone" for a year - does "gone" mean unconscious, or away? In the Game Informer article, there's a mention to being away from The City for a long time.
"Garrett wakes up in a city..." - but then this makes it sound like he's been in a coma or something.
Chade on 11/9/2013 at 03:36
I suppose Garrett could be suffering ye olde memory loss (possibly mixed in with a good dose of sinister forces afoot) and the polygon article would still be accurate.
I don't think the more prosaic "he's been away" explanations make sense, though, unless the polygon article is just wrong. It seems fairly clear that either he's been unconscious for a year, or he can't remember being conscious.
Renault on 11/9/2013 at 03:45
Here's the exact quote from the Game Informer article. Of course, things may have changed since it was written:
Quote:
Garrett has been away from his hometown for a long time. When he finally returns to the industrial metropolis simply known as The City, he discovers a city of melting prosperity.
SubJeff on 11/9/2013 at 06:44
Ffs.
It's pretty clear some magic or something has kept him "asleep"for a year.
There is no way he'd just be unconscious. You can't be unconscious for a year. How do you eat?
People are really showing their stupidity here.
Chade on 11/9/2013 at 06:52
Show me where anyone said he's unconscious due to natural causes.
Vae on 11/9/2013 at 06:54
Given what we've seen with NuThief, the sky's the limit when it comes to idiotic decision-making...so anything is possible.
SubJeff on 11/9/2013 at 10:06
Quote Posted by Chade
Show me where anyone said he's unconscious due to natural causes.
Quote Posted by TriangleTooth
I don't understand how Garrett could be out cold for a year (Thief's world is probably not nice to coma victims) and there not be some kind of intervention. It seems weird.
Reading lessons. $10.
I agree that his absence must be due to magical causes. It'll have something to do with why/how he has the Focus ability too I bet.
Chade on 11/9/2013 at 11:41
TriangleTooth didn't say Garrett was unconscious due to natural causes, that's pretty clear.
I don't understand your last two posts. From where I sit, you appear to be saying that:
1) TriangleTooth is stupid because he thinks Garrett was unconscious for a year without magic.
2) You agree with TriangleTooth that Garrett magic must have caused Garrett to lose consciousness for a year.
What are actually saying?
Dia on 11/9/2013 at 12:54
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
It's supposed to be a new beginning, for him, for us, for the franchise.
I never asked for this.
Quote:
"Garrett wakes up in a city crumbled under corruption, greed and an unjust rule. His friends tell him he has been gone for one year. And this is where the Garrett of Eidos' Thief begins."
For some reason I just can't see NuGarrett lying in a hospital with an IV stuck in his arm and hooked up to a catheter for a
whole year; at least not in the era in which NuThief takes place. This isn't what I imagined the storyline would be when I first read that NuGarrett has been 'gone' for 'awhile', only to return to a seriously corrupt NuCity (before EM started fleshing out their NuStoryline).
I've thought about this whole bastardization of the Thief saga by EM thing and have decided that anyone who wants to really know what T4 is going to be like, gameplay-wise, should just go play the latest Tomb Raider (Reboot, of course). The more I read, the more I believe EM has created a general template, beginning with DX:HR, for all their future games. With Tomb Raider Reboot EM seems to have perfected that template, unfortunately, and it looks like they're using that template for T4 as well. A template that seems to include the 'grief' of the main character over a recent 'sudden loss' as well as LOTS of cutscenes and QTEs. Imo that's already very trite. Our old Garrett seemed to be able to function quite satisfactorily without that kind of teenaged angst and drama, etc.
What's really scary is that after playing a few of the 'newer' video games I've discovered that the general dumbing-down thing seems to be the latest trend. Guess I can only hope that the Taffers here at TTLG continue to create FMs, since I'm rapidly losing interest in the type of games that seem to be becoming more popular lately. Or maybe I'm just getting old and intolerant or playing the wrong games? Whatever. I just know I'll be a happier person when this stupid reboot trend finally wears itself out.
