Hmmmm, I never liked Versus in L4D2, just not my vibe. But I can appreciate the idea I guess. 

Interesting looking stealth title


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyjVXu1ntfk 

I like the idea that the main character is so low to the ground and can sneak though small cracks / vents in the world. Nice touch that he is at the right height to take stuff off NPCs belts! :P 

I like the idea that the main character is a goblin to provide one tiny thing that is different to the Thief series.

Does look nice tho. 

I would expect killing to be an encouraged activity in Styx, whereas Thief should be done without murder. IMO

But yeah, it's pretty much Thief with a goblin, I'm ok with this. 

Any new top down shooters coming out?

I know about TBoI:Rebirth and HellDivers. 

comes to steam in 5 days. 

well someone else had to cash in on the likely popularity of thief. 

BTW I finished Borderlands today. Despite my moaning a week ago, it actually picked up a lot after that and became a pretty cool game. 8.5/10 and reviewed on my webby site.

I'll play the DLC's next week, then next on the list Dark Void and Darksiders I think, both of which look good. 

Dungeon Keeper is free for the next 48 hours, DK2 is 75% off!

This is apparently a good graphical mod for it as well. I have not tested it myself though. 

I paid almost full price XD

Thanks for the graphics link. 

KeeperFX isn't just a graphical mod, it's a complete re-writing of the game that makes it a lot more stable and fixes imbalanced stuff. 

 

Oh yes. You can also use higher resolutions. 

Had never really played any of the Civ series before, (I know, I know) started Civ V last night around 9PM, and the next time I looked up it was 2AM. God damn is that an engrossing game. 

I just came here to ask which Civ game is presumably the best? I was totally hooked on the first two, haven't touched them in the past 10 years. 

Nice synchronicity!

I'm told that Civ 4 is the best by people that know the series but 5 is thoroughly enjoyable so far. 

I also bought UT2004 and Painkiller on a whim. 

preferred div 5 myself. they did away with unit stacking so you can't just have one giant army on a single tile going around wiping everything out. hex grid also provides more options than squares. 

I read the AI is kind of retarded in 5 tho.
Is that true? I might try 3 for starters, where I left of. 

I have to wonder how indicative of the actual game this is and how open it really is. Also despite garratt not being acted by Stephen Russell the guy they are using is making his best impression of the original actor. This begs the question "why use a different voice if he's going to impersonate the original?"

http://youtu.be/3_2cAbijZVc 

Atmosphere looks stunning. Gameplay seems to be a mixture of Dishonoured and weirdly right-next-to-people stealing stuff. Control looks a bit meh but that's partly due to console controller use and also that quick move thing could be bad or just okay. 

I've never played a Thief game. There's stealth mechanics in lots of games, and every game seems to do it in pretty much the exact same way shown in that video. So I'm just wondering what the unique selling points are? 

Thief is known for its very strict stealth and the fact that Garrett, the protag, has no super powers and is absolutely shitty at combat so he has to hide in the darkness as much as possible to avoid getting spotted. The AI is dated by now but it's still more intelligent than a good chunk of the games you see on the market today. Levels are huge, highly non-linear and can be tackled in any way you can imagine. The maps you're provided with are often vague (in Thief 1 only, Thief 2 made the mistake of detailing everything), encouraging you to case the places and scout around as much as possible.

But it's not just about gameplay. You have games like Deus Ex that do a lot of things, but in the end all the things they do are either average or good, but never great. Thief focuses exclusively on a single aspect and pulls it off brilliantly. It also has killer lore, great voice acting with memorable characters, super thick atmosphere and a brilliant artistic direction.

Seriously, go play it now, you will not regret it. Forget about the very dated visuals, the atmosphere alone will grab you by the balls (of by the ovaries for the ladies). 

Thief was the first first-person stealth game and that it pioneered pretty much all of the mechanics you see in subsequent stealth games, and it's by far still the best. Other games don't even come close except Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory with its very tight mechanics as well, but its level design is way too linear.