Comments | nano_moose: Thiourf. Thifourth. Thfieth? So stupid.

nano_moose

Thiourf. Thifourth. Thfieth? So stupid.

Feb 08, 2012 11:36

News about that new Thief game whose working title is too silly to reproduce here is pretty scarce. For all that it was announced more than a year ago, there have been no trailers, no concept art, no prospective features, no hints about the plot or tone or setting or protagonists it may or may not have (and since the third game rounded off the ( Read more... )

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twilit_wanderer February 8 2012, 03:32:46 UTC

I guess they are unaware that a 4 is usually read as an "A"? Thiaf? That is awesome music, though! Nice and looming.

Also, I can't decide if that first paragraph is a vote for me to keep putting Skyrim off on account of it possibly eating my mind, or if I should take it as encouragement to start it up and damn the consequences. I should probably at least finish Uncharted 3 first. YOUR THOUGHTS?

nano_moose February 8 2012, 12:03:54 UTC

I have no idea was they were thinking. Or possibly, smoking. I just know it is an awful, awful title. However, if they end up with an actual title as awesome as Deus Ex: Human Revolution (which is cool, relevant and a thematic pun, holy shit), all will be forgiven, especially if the game itself is as good.

Ahahaha, well, Skyrim. It's a great game. The main quest is quite palatable, especially by Bethesda standards, but of course as with all Elder Scrolls games you play for everything that isn't the main quest - including the...two, three...hmm, five questlines that have no relationship to the main quest whatsoever. And the endless faffing about. You could faff around for a very long time. It's dumped a lot of Oblivion's stupid (though some remains), the setting is gorgeous, and the amount of work the devs put into the world is extremely impressive (I'm one of those people determined to collect every single book and buy a house with enough shelves to store them, complete with a rough cataloguing system and a chair to read them in). ( ... )

twilit_wanderer February 8 2012, 16:31:14 UTC

I have heard a bit about some of the problems with Oblivion, but I've never actually played any of the Elder Scrolls games, so I have no real idea of what I'll be getting into at all, haha. (YOU CAN COLLECT BOOKS? AND BUY A HOUSE TO PUT THE BOOKS IN?! omg!)

But! I do know a little about games with lots of wandering about and no end! (Hello, Final Fantasy XI, we are looking at you.) So that sounds pretty exciting! I look forward to losing hours of my life to it! But, yeah, okay, Uncharted 3 first.

nano_moose February 9 2012, 02:09:16 UTC

Oh man, okay, I tried writing up a crash course with all the important racial conflicts/geography/cosmology and stuff in the Elder Scrolls, but it was too confusing. Basically, there are nine gods/divines (Aedra), sixteen/seventeen of the strongest spirit/demon/things who like screwing around with mortals (Daedra and the Daedric Princes; "Prince" is unisex for them, by the way), high elves (Altmer), wood elves (Bosmer), dark elves (Dunmer), fantasy Vikings (Nords), fantasy Arabs who are also dark-skinned (Redguards), vaguely French half-elves (Bretons), Orcs (who are also elves, the Orsimer), fantasy Romans (Imperials), cat people (Khajiit), lizard people (Argonions), and the dwarves (Dwemer). Who are also elves. And vanished all at once instantly a long time ago. And weren't actually short. If you couldn't tell, every race generally hates every other race and they war all the time, though the Nords and Altmer are the most open about it and the Dunmer, Argonians, Orcs and Khajiit get it the worst ( ... )