Thief 4 Is A Frigging Mess

Thief 4, Thi4f, Thief 2014, Thief Reboot...whatever you want to call it, is one of the most boring, soulless games I've played in the last few years.

I'm baffled by how Eidos Montreal, a studio that got rebooting Deus Ex so right managed to get nearly everything wrong in making a reboot of Thief with Thief 4.

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I picked up Thief 4 for a couple of bucks on Steam on a recent sale, and even then I still felt like this was a ripoff.

Unlike the Deux Ex reboots, Thief 4 completely misses the mark on what made the first three Thief games, especially the first two, so beloved and special.

Let's dig into this frigging mess in this review/analysis/critique/retrospective on Theif 4/Thi4f/Thief 2014/Thief Reboot/whatever you want to call it.

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00:00 - Prelude
01:42 - Behind the Scenes
03:59 - What Thief 4 Does Well
05:17 - Sound Design
07:28 - Level Design
09:28 - Focus Vision
10:27 - Light & Shadows
11:12 - Movement
15:30 - The Story of Thief 4
16:55 - Game Intro
18:32 - A Hard-on for Cutscenes
20:03 - 1st Level
21:29 - 2nd Level
23:05 - Erin
24:42 - 3rd Level
25:49 - 4th Level
27:46 - 5th Level
28:39 - Quitting Thief 4
29:47 - The Future of Thief

Other Videos On Thief 4 to Watch that actually powered through the game (my heart goes out to you).

• Jack Trust - What Went Wrong? Thief (2014):
• Strat-Edgy Productions - Thief 4 - An analysis or an autopsy:    • Thief 4 - An analysis or an autopsy  

Sources:

•https://web.archive.org/web/201303091...
•https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...
•https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...
•https://www.pcinvasion.com/rhianna-pr...

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