Thief III Goes Gold!

[Skanky Burns]

* Water is not traversable, however there are puddles or similar you can splash through.

* The shortsword has been replaced with a dagger.

Why water was removed from the game.

[ravagon]

Gameswarehouse is still forecasting the 25th of next month for a release here. I guess that should give a fair amount of time for feedback from our American guin.., erm, friends?

[DrSpike]

Hehe true, but I always find myself tempted when games are released much earlier than I can buy them here.

[Skanky Burns]

I've been checking twice daily to see if it has been released by "other means". So far no sign. Alas.

[DrSpike]

Given the nature of the game the irony is exquisite.

[duke o' york]

Once again we can become Skanky, who downloads from the rich and gives to himself!

[Skanky Burns]

Tis rather appropriate.

But given the reviews I have read so far, this game seems it will be a keeper (no pun intended), so I'll most likely be buying it whenever it does get to Australia.

Besides, if enough of the PC version gets sold, Eidos said they will release editing tools so once again we can make fan missions for the game. For the previous two games, it is said that some of the fan missions are even better than the original missions. Considering the standard the original missions set, that is quite a feat.

[duke o' york]

Skanky Burns, Skanky Burns, spamming in your thread.
Skanky Burns, Skanky Burns, his avatar's hair is red.
Downloads from the rich and keeps to himself,
Skanky Burns, Skanky Burns!

[DrSpike]

Should end in 3 Skanky Burns' though right?

[ravagon]

Just as long as there's no 'Skanky Burns : Men in tights'

[Skanky Burns]

But back on topic, there is Thiefage to be had.

A very interesting read can be found in this article. Unlike most other game reviewers, this one actually played Thief 3 on expert mode from the very first moment in the game.

And for the lazy, I found this passage particularly funny:

I did not get a chance to test out the oil flasks, but we’ve seen them at work in other gameplay vids. They create oil slicks which causes guards to fall down. If you shoot a fire arrow at it, it becomes a burning oil slick, which will roast the guard as they are slipping and falling. I'm told they produce funny results when used on stairways.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
A whole bunch of Thief videos are available at http://www.bloodofthemartyr.com

The movie from Movies from 4/22, Movie 1 features a cut-scene from the game, rather than watching a reviewer playing the game (in 3rd person mode). If you only bother downloading one movie, make it this one.
Can you say atmosphere? Hell, I even rank this cut-scene above some of the ones from the original. Yes, it is that good.

[Sandman]

It's rather good to hear that it's relatively free of bugs... although I've heard that before.

[ravagon]

http://www.gonegold.com/ubb/ultimate...?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=017047

It's sounding pretty good so far. I particularly like this bit ...

All that great guard/pedestrian banter is here as well. Not only that, but they've also scripted up some great dialogs for when you interact with the environment. Case in point... I opened up a door, and some old man walked up to it, stopped in front of it, and said "Oh god, WHO left this door open?". Then he spun around and started just laying into this guard who was standing down the hall- "You useless sack of garbage, why are you CONSTANTLY leaving doors open" "It wasn't me! I bet it was Jeff!".

[Edit: Ah bother! The remote linking thingummy is playing up.

http://www.gonegold.com/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi and go to the forum thread from there ]

[Skanky Burns]

In this case, a few bugs would be great news.
They coded user-defined difficulty restrictions - things like not killing guards or whatever, but due to lack of testing time shipped with them turned off. The code is there, the code seems to work, but they just didn't manage to get it in in time. So if they need to patch, then you can bet that will be turned on as well.

Alas, its up to Eidos for that decision.