OK, now that I'm awake a little more, some further exposition.
Sly takes the frustrating out of that fun but frustrating part of sneakers. You know the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where Bugs is behind Fudd, matching him step for step (with a doodoo doo noise), Fudd turns around and nobody is there because Bugs flipped with him, then finds out when he's tapped on the shoulder? Well, you can do that (and do it frequently, well, replace "tapped on the shoulder" with "killed"). Or run across the power lines with the guards oblivious below you; you're a raccoon after all.
This game is about as far from realistic as you can get with a sneaker, and I think that's what I like about it. I don't care about making things even close to realistic. And despite the supernatural overtones of Thief, it's a heck of a lot closer to realism than Sly is. There's no real worry about dying and having to save your game, you could theoretically do the game in one shot, provided of course you have the time for 8 two and half to four and a half hour levels. No "fuck, I screwed that up, time to load" moments at all. I guess I've just lost my patience with frustrating games as I've aged.
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Sly takes the frustrating out of that fun but frustrating part of sneakers. You know the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where Bugs is behind Fudd, matching him step for step (with a doodoo doo noise), Fudd turns around and nobody is there because Bugs flipped with him, then finds out when he's tapped on the shoulder? Well, you can do that (and do it frequently, well, replace "tapped on the shoulder" with "killed"). Or run across the power lines with the guards oblivious below you; you're a raccoon after all.
This game is about as far from realistic as you can get with a sneaker, and I think that's what I like about it. I don't care about making things even close to realistic. And despite the supernatural overtones of Thief, it's a heck of a lot closer to realism than Sly is. There's no real worry about dying and having to save your game, you could theoretically do the game in one shot, provided of course you have the time for 8 two and half to four and a half hour levels. No "fuck, I screwed that up, time to load" moments at all. I guess I've just lost my patience with frustrating games as I've aged.