This Thief reboot is some good fun, should have gotten it sooner

They said that Thief is a good game. Just because it is not the same as the old series, people started to discriminate it.

I played it some months ago. My maximum FPS with lowest settings was like 6. I might play it when I buy myself a good PC :P

It was alright, it was something that I play through it once and then forget it. My biggest gripe was the movement, no jumping and you could only climb in places where the game allowed you to, it felt like a railroad.

Interesting. Perhaps I should keep it then. I got it on the Square Enix surprise box and thought I'd try to trade it for Tomb Raider. Didn't do it yet because I've never traded before and I'm hesitant about getting into it, but perhaps I should just add the game to my backlog and save myself trouble...

Ah, Dishonored. My favourite game :D I finished it twice (for both the high chaos and the low chaos endings) and I loved every minute of it. Can't wait to get the DLCs and play them as well :)

As far as the Thief games go, I loved the original trilogy. Haven't played the new Thief yet and I must say I'm pretty curious about it. I've read a very thorought review somewhere that mentioned both the good and the bad about the game and it seems Thief is an OK game on its own. The original Thief games were brilliant in about every aspect, so the gamers' expectations were high (and rightfully so, we could say). That's probably the main source of the displeasure, because from what I've heard, the new Thief just failed to deliver.

And speaking of stealth games, I also really enjoyed early Splinter Cell games (the first one + Pandora Tomorrow + Chaos Theory). The later ones, not so much :/

"I didn't enjoy Metal Gear Solid 3"

Oh my God, what is wrong with you? Monster!

"I've dropped a prostitute into sewage, lit a bunch of guys on fire, thrown people into death pits"

yeah that's exactly what's wrong with it. It's supposed to be a thief game so this shit should result in "mission failed" screen.

dishonored is much better in almost any aspects if not in all

as far as i remember, people said lots of bad things about deadly shadows back in the day, and that its not as brilliant as the first one. now that time passed, people complain about the new one, because it is not as good as the masterpiece deadly shadows. xD

i liked Thief a lot. good game.

My greatest issue with this game is just absolutely atrocious sounds. I can get over out of sync cut scenes which happened at times, but I kept hearing random footsteps pretty much anywhere I went, conversations between guards/NPCS randomly cutting off, etc. It just annoyed me to no end. I haven't finished the game yet, I will try it again after I buy a new PC in 3 weeks. I'm hoping this sound issue is on my end because I know there has been a sound related update released months ago.
Otherwise, what I played hasn't been nearly as horrible as user reviews claim it is.

My biggest gripe with Thi4f is the "mash E to do everything". Like, I was looting around a town and I had to mash E to open every single window and door, both going into and leaving houses. It got really annoying really fast...

metal gear solid 2 less popular? Who says that :o
Also I too liked Thief idk why all the negativity

I almost chewed my hand off when I saw the site won't take my credit card during the pricing error. I'm from EU and the regular, and even the discounted prices are too high for my pocket :(

It's a similar case as it was with DmC. It wasn't identical to the original, so "fans" of the series started bitching. Thank God XCOM fans were more reasonable

Probably a nostalgia thing (or to be more precise the fact that you lack any kind of nostalgia for it). I haven't played the new Thief myself (yet... it isn't very high on the backlog either), but from what I've seen of it, it really does seem like a nostalgia case.
You didn't have any expectations of it so when you got a non-broken functional game you automatically set up your expectations to be what it provided. People who played the older games set up their expectations to what those games provided and are disappointed that they ended up waiting too long for this one only for it to be different and not live up to their expectations.

I guess a few examples are in order. I can only speak for myself though:
Haven't played Duke Nukem 3D so I was ok with Duke Nukem Forever. Not exactly something I'd replay (and I really need to get the remaining achievements) but it wasn't the "WORST GAME EVER"™ and I don't feel like tasing it in the crotch until its balls explode.
Meanwhile I did play Devil May Cry 3 and 4 and I found DmC: Devil May Cry to be a colossal ffffucking disappointment. Being open minded about it, I guess people could probably like the game... but it has nothing on the old ones. NOTHING! Boring, simplistic, not funny at all, completely stuck up it's own ass, absolutely atrocious DLC that had minimal effort put in it; all in all a cash grab that should be cleansed with fire and a lot of soap applied to the mouth... well, I guess that's the example then, isn't it. :P

So I'm not the only one who thinks Dishonored is kind of cack compared to the new Thief then... That's something new.

Did they fix the audio issues in it though? Back when I played it, that was still a jarring problem the game had. Would love to replay it sometime, I'd rather wait until they fix it, if ever.

If you like what are generally considered bad stealth games - and Vampire Rain is way up there on that list - did you try Dark?

i love the original trilogy and still love this game.
played the "demo" and completed it, immediately got it on steam, yet to play. there were some bugs and performance issues, which i heard are now fixed.
gonna play again soon.

Thief: The Dark Project (aka Thief Gold on Steam) is generally considered the greatest in the series.

Thief 2 is generally inferior to the first. Both Thief 1 & 2 are considered the classic Thief games since they share the same game engine.

Thief 3: Deadly Shadows is completely different from the first two games (to classic Thief fans, worse). But Thief 3 still remains my favorite because of the three-way struggle between the different city factions (gangs?) -- you can be hostile, neutral, or friendly with each of them. It is like you are shaping the story -- your ideal version of it -- as you progress.

People have been calling the Thief 2013 reboot as a markedly inferior version of Dishonoured.

I really really wanted to like the new Thief game. The first few hours of the game can be really fun. However, about half way through, I thought the game started to get boring. The longer you play the more restrictive the levels are, the more frustrated you get because due to buggy guards, guard placement that make you question whether or not the game is properly balanced for stealth gameplay, and how strict some of the requirements are for getting "Ghost" on the later levels. It suffers the same problem many other current games suffer from. Too much hand holding and not enough of just letting the player have fun and try to find their own way through without feeling punished because they didn't do it the way the developer designed it to be done.

I wanted this pretty badly, and the stupid service canceled the order XS they are refusing to respond to any of my attempts to contact them, and I am getting annoyed at them. If they cannot man up and own up to their mistakes and at least reply, then I can never again in any good faith give them my business.

Yeah, I loved it. So much to explore and steal. I don't understand the hate at all.

New Thief is one of my favorite games. I can't wait until I have a better pc to replay it again, at a decent framerate. I also loved Dishonored.

Personally, I do enjoy most stealth games I've played. However, I hate the Metal Gear Solid series (Loved the NES and MSX games, even though I could never beat them).

Never played any of the Thief games, so I can't really say whether you have poor taste in games or not :P.