message   Review - A Night of Loot: One Man's Treasure
topic about A Night of Loot: One Man's Treasure
author:   Frag0holic | July 3, 2020, 1:31 a.m.
OGDA's first mission, One Man's Treasure is an aptly named, small manor mission in which we have to break into an antiques shop run by a somewhat eccentric man and steal some emeralds that recently came in. It's a well guarded and well lit house, with some sneaky tricks up its sleeve, but all in ...

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message   Incomparable Quality and Originality
topic about Into The Odd
author:   DirkBogan | June 29, 2020, 2:35 a.m.
So much could be said about this FM. The most concise praise I can give: it makes the vast majority of other FMs look like soulless pablum by comparison. Much of the gameplay feels fresh and novel, despite never deviating from established Thief rules. It is always fair. There are no abstrus...

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message   Nice Middle-Road Mission
topic about My Favorite Year
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:49 p.m.
A fan mission integrating a warehouse complex, the owners’ rich yet obviously bad-taste residence, and a connecting cellar/tunnel system. This is a smooth, entertaining fan mission whose gameplay mostly relies on exploration – sneaking challenges are fairly modest outside a few trickier ghost spo...

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message   Best Topiary Burrick Award
topic about Show Off
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:48 p.m.
A museum heist with a surrounding town. Unlike the author’s mission from last year’s TDP contest, this is missing the creative touches and complex gameplay potential which had characterised The Hunt. There is a city section around the museum, but it serves little role in the mission (and the few ...

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message   Unpleasant Night With Sir Dicklon
topic about Time For Change
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:46 p.m.
This is a rather repetitive newbie effort, with blocky and uninteresting architecture, basic AI patrols, and not much of interest except the name of the noble whose house you have to rob, who is called “Sir Dicklon”. We have all played many missions like this. As it is, it is more frustrating tha...

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message   A Pleasant Surprise
topic about Where the Unknown Lurks
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:45 p.m.
This mission is impossible to discuss without spoilers – this one will restrict itself to *light* ones. The FM takes Garrett to a country estate for a routine burglary. Part of the fun here is in the place itself – it has its own identity that is quite different in look and feel from the places w...

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message   Creative in-between mission
topic about Troubling Transitions
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:44 p.m.
A city/church mission revolving around the rise of the Mechanists, and their split with the Order of the Hammer, in an interesting, atmospheric Winter environment. The architecture of the mission is labyrinthine in a good way – visually creative, and fun to navigate through either the rooftops or...

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message   GORTTUFF
topic about The Pursuance of An Inscrutable Reciprocity
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:43 p.m.
Polished, original, and challenging from the king of hard missions (there is a separate GORTTUFF difficulty level – you have been warned). Or is it? This mission can be deceptively simple if you approach it that way, and it is easy to walk away from it with just the slightest feeling something is...

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message   Expressionist Brass and Steel Nightmare
topic about The Builder's Paradise
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:41 p.m.
A brass and steel nightmare that emerged from Karras’ mind; a catastrophe unaverted; and a desperate bid to rid the world of Karras before Karras can rid the world of, well, everyone else – this is a hell of an alternate reality mission that asks the question “what if Garrett could not win at Sou...

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message   Comfy Agatha Christie Adaptation
topic about Ten Little Taffers
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:39 p.m.
This is an interesting adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little [OH NO! OH NOOOO!] In Christie’s genius story, ten Britons representing a cross-section of society are trapped on an isolated island resort, and start getting killed in macabre ways that seem disturbingly tied to a nursery rhyme. T...

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message   Transcending Excellence
topic about Into The Odd
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:38 p.m.
There are missions which are competent, there are missions which are excellent, and there are missions which are visionary. The second groups win contests; the third expand on our ideas of what Thief can and should be. This mission, clearly in the third category, is like a blow to the skull. It i...

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message   Competent
topic about Fierce Competition
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:37 p.m.
Competent mansion mission with a nicely developed infiltration segment. This FM is classic Thief in its approach: a small mansion where you have to liberate some stuff and grab some loot, placed in a city environment where you have to find your way inside (and/or stop along the way to help pay th...

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message   LotP Squared
topic about Feast of Pilgrims
author:   Melan | June 28, 2020, 10:36 p.m.
Here is what a proper homage to a Metal Age mission looks, with all the bells and whistles LGS could not add to Life of the Party due to engine limitations. This is LotP squared: the same general premise and structure, but bigger, exquisitely detailed, and polished to perfection. Like the better ...

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message   Who killed Duncan Malveine?
topic about The Violent End of Duncan Malveine
author:   Mike | June 22, 2020, 5:27 p.m.
Initially Garrett planned simple job - to steal another precious gem from yet another Victorian-like mansion which belongs to lord Duncan Malveine. But before breaking in, something went wrong, and Duncan was violently killed. This unfortunate circumstance, as well as the mysterious Malveine's ac...

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message   Thief meets Cube Escape
topic about Coaxing the Spirit
author:   UdoKrawallo | June 19, 2020, 2:54 a.m.
This mission is rather unusual. It doesn´t offer "classic" Thief gameplay - or at least only a fraction. It is a riddle mission that reminds me of the Cube Escape/Rusty Lake games. This means: A horror setting, a dark background story, and riddles to solve, with a lot of hidden things. There are...

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message   nice
topic about Making a Profit
author:   jcdenton | June 14, 2020, 5:31 p.m.
an almost perfect FM, very story rich, very enjoyable, the only bad thing is that i wish it was longer because its so nicely made. Should be higher on the list...

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message   a few good moments
topic about Lord G
author:   jcdenton | June 12, 2020, 12:20 a.m.
This mission feels unfinished. Its a shame because what is there is good, but there just is not enough. On expert the loot goal is absolutely too steep, and the map is too small for 4000 loot. the layout of the mansion is confusing. Where's the kitchen ? do they all order chinese at lord G's or w...

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message   not bad
topic about Dewinder Manor
author:   jcdenton | June 12, 2020, 3:28 a.m.
Took me half an hour. Not bad, the atmosphere was great, and the story is fine, its a bit too easy maybe, loot was abundant. would rate higher if it had a map and was a bit expanded upon.

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