Once again, I've been reminded why I abandoned the primary Thief fandom all those years ago. I was watching the Thief demo on YouTube, the one they played at the Eurogamer Expo. People are constantly complaining about how the jumping is contextual now. Jumping, at least for reasons other than simply making noise and either being a total retard or just deciding to fuck with the guards, was contextual in the other four Thief games. They just made it so you can't leap around like a fucking moron, and it makes perfect sense. Think about it, Garrett's a smart man, he's a master fucking thief for a reason. He'll want to avoid needless exertion, saving his stamina for more important tasks. Jumping not only takes stamina to do, but also generally creates noise, something a skilled thief also avoids doing unless its actually necessary. Ergo, it'd stand to reason that Garrett would only jump/mantle when its actually advantageous for him to do so.
But, no, its an unacceptable departure from our comfy little armchairs of nostalgia. God damned pussies are just too scared to play anything new for fear of ruining their "hardcwoar gaemahr" cred by enjoying something that's not 15 years old, if not older. I'll get this new Thief, even if its just to piss off every pretentious gamer hipster out there and make them fume with impotent rage.
