Great post!

Do you recommend playing the first game first or is it better to immediately start with the second game and play the first one, if you want to have more?

The number was reassigned because Bond was not in the MI6 at that time, yes.

From what I found, it’s possible to play it on Linux through Wine, so not totally windows exclusive. How well it works depends probably on how willing you are to tinker, as always in such cases.

Thief is something that screams for being made in VR, but somehow this is the first of it’s kind I know of.

Oh, that looks interesting, thanks for the info!

Can you give me directions where that planet is with the same countries?

… It took your comment for me to reread the other one and yes, that does make more sense.

Could be from somebody who is blocked by you or your instance. You could try opening the post from another Lemmy server and try to see it then.

And if the comment is blocked, then all replies are also blocked for you.

Wait, you could write on the map? Sure that was in Thief1&2? I can’t remember anything like that.

Yeah, the biggest problem in my opinion is that they don’t commit to stealth, because they think the fan base is too small. So everything has to be solvable by violence as well. Which in turn leads to a worse experience than if they focused fully on that.

Which is why I’m so surprised that the indie Retro wave hasn’t yet created something like Thief with a new story/world. Should be easier nowadays with game engines and editors and I think there is no real competition there yet.

Oh yes, that level is still in my memories after more than a decade. And for good reason. I will make a post about Thief 3 in the future if nobody else does it first.

Funnily enough Hollow Knight. I saw the release of the Grimm Troupe DLC on GOG and was interested by the art style. I thought, hey a metroidvania, it’s been a while since I played one and 15 €, that’s nothing. The rest was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had, precisely because I didn’t expect anything.

Ah thanks for the info on BAR! Nice to hear that they are working on a third faction.

Yeah, but while that second monitor map looks cool, I never managed to effectively use it. I was always too occupied with the main screen.

You can slow down (or enhance) the game speed of SC and/or simply pause in single player and give orders without worrying about reaction time. But I totally understand that it’s not for everybody!

Building times are long, yes. But in this game, more than in any other, it is important to support construction with additional workers. Everything that produces something, be it workers building something or a factory producing a unit or a missile silo creating a rocket can be supported by construction units. So while an experimental unit can have something like 120 minutes as building time, that is for one single unit. So you built that with 30 workers and then it’s only 4 minutes. Provided your economy can sustain the needed resources. But that is what the late game is about: building a strong enough economy so that you can output silly amounts of the big units.

The Aeon are the ones you mean. The “donut” is their experimental spaceship with a laser attack like Independence Day.

And it takes a bit getting used to the difference in economy to other strategy games, but I wouldn’t say it’s hella complicated. If you want to play at a casual level, you can do that against an easier AI. That’s how I play it and it’s still fun! =D

Please elaborate!

Is that an option to activate in communities which don’t care for long time archival of posts or is that thing instance-wide?

For sure I played it. I didn’t recommend the real classics till now, because I wanted to give less well known games a chance for attention. But maybe it’s time to talk about Thief and Deus Ex to get more people talking.

Same here, seems like nobody learned nothing from the odyssey.

Because some people are pretty involved in some communities and have people they care about in there. And would like to know if somebody they knew died or they themselves might want to announce it to them after they died. Not everything needs to revolve around you.