Zero Punctuation: Thief - Stealing a Classic

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Then again this is ZP so you usually don't come to it for serious gaming critique, you come to laugh at how witty yahtzee is, and he certainly delivered

Heehee, you're the third or fourth person I think to make that point in this thread alone. Poor Yahtzee!

 

[paulbnet]

What is with all the Escapist videos suddenly getting sub titles? "stealing a classic"or "more boring the Nascar". It's fucking dumb. Pack it in.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I think Thief was a pretty fun game but the most frustrating part is that it could have clearly been a GREAT game but they couldn't quite bottle lightning.

 

[TomWiley]

Only "critic" I've seen who actually enjoys this game is TotalBiscuit and his merits for liking a game, which effectively excludes story, characters, setting, sound-engineer and pretty much anything else that doesn't fit his narrow definition of gameplay, makes his opinion pretty much irrelevant.

I think you're one of the people this video was aimed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmeOB0Zyu0

So you're saying that he made a 20 minute video dedicated to explaining why people should feel bad about disagreeing with him? That's kind of ironic.

 

[Trilandian]

Only "critic" I've seen who actually enjoys this game is TotalBiscuit and his merits for liking a game, which effectively excludes story, characters, setting, sound-engineer and pretty much anything else that doesn't fit his narrow definition of gameplay, makes his opinion pretty much irrelevant.

I think you're one of the people this video was aimed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmeOB0Zyu0

So you're saying that he made a 20 minute video dedicated to explaining why people should feel bad about disagreeing with him? That's kind of ironic.

Wow, you really have a knack for missing the point.

He made a video saying that even if you disagree with someone, you can still use their opinion to help you decide whether you'd like something or not.

 

[TheUnbeholden]

Triple A can't do survival horror (hoping that The Evil Within changes that, now that we've had good new survival horror with Outlast).. it appears triple A can't do Thief either. (another genre that requires subtlety). Slow methodical thinking, emphasis on nuanced sound design and layered witty writing, gameplay based around non-combat... Did anyone actually think that even Eidos Montreal could pull that off? Yeah we've got Dishonored, why not mention the Dark Mod.. which feels like a much more faithful and nuanced thief game that has become Stand Alone (and its still free to play).

 

[meunkin]

All I'm seeing when I try to view this is an ad for escapist's youtube channel. Did someone mess up the link?

 

[Lazule]

Well fug.

You can tell Yahtzee is disappointed, I was kinda disappointed as well especially with the "sense" super power Garret got.

 

[drivetheory]

yeah... the completely incompetent sound design in this game ruined it within the first 30 minutes for me, after that it was uninstalled and never completed...