Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-3547390-20140525225615

Heh, I wouldn't hang with the people from high school if you paid me. I wasn't really that popular among the other kids, unless you are talking about animosity, while I absolutely can't stand them.

WOW is terrible. Diablo is better, but still not my type of game. It gets old real quick.

XD, an anniversary for three people. Yeah, I don't know how easy it would be at that time to get to England.

Well, 99% are stupid. There is Equilibrium and in no way can I bash that one as it is a level that should have existed in Thief 2 instead of Casing the Joint. But Dromed, the editor for Thief, wasn't originally going to be released to the public. It was only after constant demand that the developers released their editor, meaning it isn't exactly the most user friendly as it was specifically made for this company.

It is indeed stupid that people play it. Some downloaded it as a patch as it "improves" on the vanilla game, similar to the enhancement packs out there, which makes the game "bearable" for those who are more accustomed to newer games. Many download it as a way to record on youtube as they want the menus and documents to appear (instead of taking pictures as I did). Others because the limits were increased and the newest FMs require it. A great many due to the incompatibility of Thief on modern hardware. I know that even GOG sells Thief 2 with Newdark installed (well, to be fair, they sell it without Newdark but by default Newdark is set up). We are one of the last bastions of vanilla Thief to be honest, me due to compatibility and personal dislike, you because I wasn't shoving down your throat to use Newdark to fix your problems with the game whenever you had a problem. It has become the go to answer nowadays, the main community (TTLG) FAQ basically says to install Newdark to fix any problems such as videos not playing or the things you experienced.

I liked Unreal's 227 patch as it didn't do much to change the game besides change the pathfinding so enemies were even smarter, improve limitations, and add a few new difficulties made so extreme that they are recommended to only be used for coop (aka what I failed to kill the Skaarj Queen with after successfully doing it for the vanilla version). I liked it as it didn't cause problems and made it even more of a challenge to beat.

I am not against cheating either, especially after you have beaten the vanilla game. If you can beat every Zoo Tycoon challenge, you deserve to not worry about money in freeform. If you beat Doom, you deserve to spawn in a ton of marines with chainsaws to fight in the levels alongside you. But when playing Thief for the first time, I get angered when people can climb to areas that they shouldn't be able to, especially if it makes something that would normally be a tough secret to find almost a pushover. I get angered when a secret wall that blends in perfectly with the rest suddenly sticks out like a sore thumb. I get angered when the standard procedure for playing FMs is to have a key that allows you to float in midair as they had to change the size of ropes for whatever reasoning.

The point of the Metal Age was to be the opposite of the Dark Project. Garrett saved the Earth from one direction, but shifted the balance and so had to stop mankind's progress. By stopping mankind's descent into darkness, Garrett accidentially opened the door for mankind's improvement as he defeated the opposing force to said progress, the Pagans. Look at Assassins, the guards are talking about the Hammerites and how they are basically losing their power and just rambling religious nuts wishing for the old days. Then the Trickster unleashes his attack, is defeated, and we have the Hammerites back in power enough so that not only does their cult flourish, but with enough members that we have a seperate cult formed. Garrett uses such technology to get a metal eye as well as scouting orbs, but in turn must suffer through an ever increasing presence of robots in the city (as well as the formation of the city watch as the Mechanists wanted to focus on other plans and the Hammerites lost so much of their order to Karras' teachings).

EDIT: Hmm, I am debating whether or not I should make the Heretic series into a blind LP. I would prefer making one of those to something I am already aware of and it seems Heretic might be the excuse I need. Actually, you know what? I don't have a debate... I have a decision!

Okay, so I am starting with Heretic. Should be here in 3-4 days.