• Thief System Specs Sneak Out, Don’t Induce Fear
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For some reason, i feel like this is going to be a disappointing game.
I don't know why everybody thinks that, I think it looks great.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;43602353]I don't know why everybody thinks that, I think it looks great.[/QUOTE] Because all stealth games these days are either not stealth at all (recent Splinter Cells) or flawed (Dishonored) That and how the devs have been saying they're going to change the gameplay to be more modern, and not force you to be stealthy, gives a lot of people some reason to be cynical.
[quote]Rec Specs: AMD FX 8000 series or better / Intel i7 Quad Core CPU[/quote] I was under the impression that i7's are way overkill, and you should just get an i5 for gaming rigs.
[QUOTE=Jacinth;43602523]I was under the impression that i7's are way overkill, and you should just get an i5 for gaming rigs.[/QUOTE] i7 rigs are great but you won't see any performance difference between i5 and i7 in games since hyperthreading can't be used in games. (well it might work but no games use HT)
[QUOTE=Samiam22;43602431]Because all stealth games these days are either not stealth at all (recent Splinter Cells) or flawed (Dishonored) That and how the devs have been saying they're going to change the gameplay to be more modern, and not force you to be stealthy, gives a lot of people some reason to be cynical.[/QUOTE] Dishonored, flawed? Don't tell me you think that purely because "oh the stealth in it is kinda boring" it was never meant to be a pure stealth game from the get go, they always showed it as essentially Thief meets BioShock. Dishonored is as much of a pure stealth game as Assassin's Creed is. (which is probably a better example of a "flawed" stealth game than Dishonored anyway)
[QUOTE=Starship;43602547]i7 rigs are great but you won't see any performance difference between i5 and i7 in games since hyperthreading can't be used in games. (well it might work but no games use HT)[/QUOTE] It is technically possible to get games to run on 8 threads, but due to reasons (my uneducated guess is that it'd be too much effort for little performance increase) developers prefer to let their games run on 1, 2 or 4 threads. This means that for a gaming-only build the only things the i7 has are small clock increases (like 5% with a stock 4670k versus a stock 4770k) and 2mb of extra L3 cache, which is nice but not worth the extra 100 bucks.
Even though I see lots of negative opinions when it comes to Thief, I do believe (and hope) that this game will triumph on is genre, stealth. Make me proud Eidos!
[QUOTE=Acti;43603368]Even though I see lots of negative opinions when it comes to Thief, I do believe (and hope) that this game will triumph on is genre, stealth. Make me proud Eidos![/QUOTE] The Thief Franchise already has triumphed and pioneered in the stealth genre. It just, ironically, went unnoticed.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;43602353]I don't know why everybody thinks that, I think it looks great.[/QUOTE] Because Edios have gone to great lengths to use a big name to ship a completely different kind of game play, end of story. Imagine for a moment that R* didn't man the helm for MP3 and the core elements that made MP what it is were changed for no good reason. Imagine they diluted the drama and intensity bred by the game play mechanics and story for more casual players, but didn't support raised difficulty levels further than raising health and other artificial difficulties. What we have seen so far is a simplification of game play elements, with the option to play the same game minus the systems that the levels are designed around. Bad articulation but others have worded it better in previous threads.
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