Darkness_Falls on 2/10/2025 at 22:36
Quote Posted by Svperstar
Was going to post something similar, once you have experienced OLED blacks everything else is ruined for you
I don't have VR, but for regular monitors it is probably the same. I tried some new gaming monitor, non-OLED (it was IPS), and it was bad with blacks. Thief darkness was luminescent grey. Promptly returned and got an OLED with infinite blacks. Blacks are perfect now!
Cigam on 3/10/2025 at 00:09
Quote Posted by downwinder
here is the quote for thief 2014 "Thief is a reboot for the long-running series starring master thief Garrett. In this reimagining of the original Thief game"
that is from a pre release version of a thief 2014 in description
nothing from that says cannon
but what do you think?
That sentence doesn't say anything much at all, other than what we have known for years: Thief 2014 is a reboot / reimagining of Thief. That sentence says nothing either way about canon.
And even if it did, as has been mentioned by other posters, so many things changed during development that any such quote might not be accurate by the time the game was finished.
For example, a quote that did explicitly say that the new game is set in an alternative universe and is not canonical with the originals, could have been followed a month later by a developer meeting that went along the following lines:
Dev 1: 'I know that we have decided to make a reboot and not a sequel, but I've had a thought. In the original games you had the notion of different Citys being built over older ones, such as with the Lost City.
And remember that early guard conversation in Deadly Shadows: "Nobody knows the whole City. How old it is, how many times it's been built over. Not the Hammerites, nobody."
So why don't we run with that and set our reboot in a future iteration of the original City?'
Dev 2: 'Good idea. Then we could put in the ruins of places from the original games, and historical references to the original game characters.'
Dev 3: 'Yes, setting the reboot in the future of the first games will please the original fans, but still allow us to reboot and reimagine whatever we wish for the current iteration of the City and characters.'
So anyway, I don't think that Developer quotes help here, even if they were to say something explicit about canons / alt / same universes. The best information to work with is the information / evidence within the actual released game, I'd say.
And regardless of whatever any developer quotes that are floating around in the Google ether may say, the in-game information says that Garrett is not wearing baggy jeans, there are no ice arrows, there is no extra XP for headshots, and, once again, "Thief 2014 is an official Thief game that presents itself as being set in the future of the previous official games, with the old ruins of locations from the original games and plenty of historical references to the original game characters as having lived in its past."
Cigam on 3/10/2025 at 00:37
If you can attract the attention of NPCs via the microphone, then you'll need to be careful that your cat or partner does not accidentally blow your cover.
I gather that unwitting microphone noise has already gotten people killed in games such as A Quiet Place The Road Ahead.
But at least you could finally answer that female NPC with "No, I am not Kevel. It has never been Kevel once in the 1000 times that you have asked over the past 20 years."
Gertius on 4/10/2025 at 11:31
I thought the video of the game looked great and I got really psyched to play it while watching it.
I don´t have a VR headset, will probably look for a used Quest 3 or something just to try out this game.
