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Re: Thief 4 Officially Announced!!!

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From: Memnoch
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 06:23
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 05:47:36 +0100, Andrew <spamtrap@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>On Thu, 14 May 2009 00:41:20 GMT, Memnoch
><memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>No, not a great game "in your humble opinion". A flawed, but enjoyable game
>>that could have been better if certain design concessions hadn't needed to be
>>made due to memory contstraints on the consoles.
>
>Constraints of the dev team. When a console can run a game like GTA:SA
>with miles and miles of gameplay without seeing a loading screen it
>shows what can be done by talented programmers.

They have learnt a lot in the last 4 or 5 years haven't they? Did you mean SA
or GTA4 by the way, just checking. Either way you are right I suppose. Well it
would be interesting to see how a Thief 4 develops. Will the same design
decisions be made or will they use their superior programming skills and not
balls it up? ;-)
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From: Memnoch <memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com>
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