SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 24, 2014, 09:12:
Reviews doesn't look too good guys.
From the Ars Technica review:

The good

Garrett's new duck-and-swoop move is pretty slick.
Decent interface for stealth manuevers.
The Bad

The plot is an incoherent mess.
Seriously, the ending didn't make a lick of sense.
Hackneyed writing and wooden performances.
Level design is much too linear.
Guards are too sensitive to your every movement.
Guard AI is easy to outrun and easier to fool.
Lots of badly done, out-of-place platforming and puzzle bits.
The ugly

Why does every game have to have some mystical ghost bullshit these days?
Verdict: Go buy Dishonored instead. If you already own Dishonored, just play it again.

TB also have his first look on youtube.

harlock wrote on Feb 20, 2014, 16:53:

HorrorScope wrote on Feb 20, 2014, 16:14:
What do you feel is missing? You say mediocre, I feel the gfx are better than all thief's, the game play if anything has more options now than previous thiefs. I can't tell about story or length yet, but watching the vid it seems you can spend hours just on the first mission.

well the gfx look good - but i think thats something to be expected from any AAA title these days, considering their budgets and talent pools (even though I think titanfalls art direction is utterly bland and supergeneric, it is executed fairly well)

my problem is how linear it seems to be, given the options for "multiple solutions" that it certainly has to some degree, but which i would consider minor at this point, and which seem so obvious as to be door 1, 2, or 3 rather than organic variation

also the scripted AI conversations, the npcs robotic style of walking around like purely mechanical camera shutters on specific pathing routines, and their lack of realism in regards to reacting with the environment

it seems very gamey - not at all sandboxy or simlike or non-linear... and its really the same kind of gameplay thats been done many times before... it does not look exceptional to me at all - instead it looks mediocre

once i sit down and play the game for a few missions, i may change my mind but those are my initial impressions from watching someone else play it in that video - also the fact that you cant jump is another key to the locked-down style of gameplay.. in a RPG or strategy game, sure.. but in a "non-linear" action game its hard to justify imo

The good

Garrett's new duck-and-swoop move is pretty slick.
Decent interface for stealth manuevers.
The Bad

The plot is an incoherent mess.
Seriously, the ending didn't make a lick of sense.
Hackneyed writing and wooden performances.
Level design is much too linear.
Guards are too sensitive to your every movement.
Guard AI is easy to outrun and easier to fool.
Lots of badly done, out-of-place platforming and puzzle bits.
The ugly

Why does every game have to have some mystical ghost bullshit these days?
Verdict: Go buy Dishonored instead. If you already own Dishonored, just play it again.

Umbragen wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 21:07:
Damn, I just bought a new system and I'm already dangerously close to the recommended specs. Did I miss something?

Umbragen wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 23:57:

Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 23:05:

Umbragen wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 21:07:
Damn, I just bought a new system and I'm already dangerously close to the recommended specs. Did I miss something?

Why would you buy something that low end to begin with? if you can't afford it all in one shot, do it piecemal.

The system surpasses all the recommendations, I just thought I'd have a year and a half, two years before I had to start replacing things. Recommending a i7 already? WTF! Worse though, It's looking like I'll have to add another GTX760 sooner rather than latter.

Jerykk wrote on Feb 24, 2014, 00:15:
CPU recommendations are never really accurate. I'm sure an i5 runs the game just as well as an i7. Very few games are CPU-dependent and even in those, the difference between an i5 and an i7 is negligible.

Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 23:05:

Umbragen wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 21:07:
Damn, I just bought a new system and I'm already dangerously close to the recommended specs. Did I miss something?

Why would you buy something that low end to begin with? if you can't afford it all in one shot, do it piecemal.

Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 23:05:

Umbragen wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 21:07:
Damn, I just bought a new system and I'm already dangerously close to the recommended specs. Did I miss something?

Why would you buy something that low end to begin with? if you can't afford it all in one shot, do it piecemal.

Umbragen wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 21:07:
Damn, I just bought a new system and I'm already dangerously close to the recommended specs. Did I miss something?

Task wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 18:13:

Squirmer wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 17:23:
Level design comparison: http://i.imgur.com/om7LJLQ.jpg

Did someone actually map out and draw that first level in Thief 4? That's pretty impressive. I guessed that Thief 4 levels would be linear like that.

Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 19:11:
Well, the first design would be far too much work for console kids. Hell, they're too lazy to even press a button to jump which is why there's no jumping in this game.

Quboid wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 19:15:
Is the first level a tutorial? I can understand that being linear.

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 19:07:

Overon wrote on Feb 23, 2014, 18:51:
I hope that that picture is not representative of the level design in Thief. Because if it is, that's a disgrace and a step backwards and representative of console level design.

Since they've had a 17 minutes video released of a play through of the complete first level I think that picture is pretty accurate.
There's also a gamespot "lets play" video on youtube where they play the game for a good 45 minutes.