Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1915529-20141109210131

The Shattered Bridge is great because the level authors have managed to make a bridge in a game engine that only has one floor.

I have found all the paths in Life of the Party. It's actually very fun finding these little paths that could take you anywhere. Imagine a level of Thief like this by 10x bigger. One where you can also get on the streets. I wonder if there's a fan mission like that.

Viktoria was such a bitch in DP. Now she begs for thy help? Begone with you ol' croan.

Bennie was as funny as ever. But I had forgotten the little fight between the guards in Life of the Party. Why does Bennie get the fame? I swear to god that one of those guards is voiced by John Cleese.

Now you will ask me who is John Cleese and I will pity your American ignorance. And don't say, well it's British and I'm American. I know who Chandler is!

Vork, watch this. This pretty much sums up Thief, standing in the shadows and watching the world around you. If only the entire game had NPC dialogue like this though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6NrfAG3m1k

EDIT: One of the great messages behind the Metal Age is that while technology can grow as natural as the trees through human curiosity, such as just what can the hammer do next, it also talks about the dangers of technology when it is progressed too quickly. In DP the world is very medieval with sail ships, swords, bows and arrows. But because of the Mechanists defile of the Hammerites insistence to let technology grow at its own pace, this medieval world that still uses sail ships, swords, bows and arrows now has grenade launching robots, security cameras, chemical weapons and submarines. All of this before even a mention of the first gun or automobile. Karras is so many years beyond his time he has even created the first (albeit very very basic) idea of AI. No doubt many guards believed the children and robots had their own mind.

But while the above futuristic inventions were all intended by their maker as part of his ultimate plan, this crass push in technology in this old'e-world can be summed up by one residents attempts to make nothing short of the first space rocket. Despite the new inventions and finding in technology that the Mechanists have brought, there is a limit to just what is capable in this new era.

While the submarine is a massive thing that would suit WW2 with space for crew and weapons, and most importantly, it works. The space rocket is currently a box with a massive explosive underneath. The people of this world are understanding more as time goes on. But one of their understandings is that they can create a giant explosion to send a container carrying a person up into the sky and onto the moon or stars. Then after a successful launch, the inventor of the space rocket will communicate with his 'astronaut' on the moon/stars with smoke signals.

I just thing this is great. If you play Thief properly you find massive amounts of writing in books and letters which give a breath of life to world around you as you see what goes on in the minds of the poor, rich, guards and even the almighty Trickster and Karras. But this astronomer is probably the greatest mind, even above Karras and proves just what the rapid progress of technology is doing to this world.

Of course it raises the question despite Karras' defeat, this world will still be changed beyond recognition thanks to him and the mechanists. And although the Hammerites would probably take back control and bring the progress of technology back to normal levels, the world will probably be full of people like the astronomer who will blow up and kill many people in failed experiments in a whole host of subjects.