This didn't do it for me, sorry, but I appreciate the effort that went into it. I just found myself frustrated by annoying enemy placements, broken quicksaves, increased alertness of enemies and doors and passages that lead nowhere. It hit many of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to FMs. Still, it looks nice.

I've tried to enjoy fan missions many times despite being a huge Thief fan and up until this point have failed to really like any of them - even really highly rated ones - but the creator of this mission knocked it out of the park. Small in size but intricate, full of hidden passages and nooks and crannies. It looks really nice, making brilliant...

There is a 2015 remake of this mission which has presumably fixed most of the issues I describe here. If you are not playing chronologically or whatever, it's probably best to go play that instead.

Calendra's Cistern is spectacular. There is no other word for it. Full voice acted, well designed, archnitecture that is impressive even by today'...

Is this it's own subgenre of thief FM? Quickly thrown together sillyness aimed at showing off/celebrating a specific band? I ask as this is the second time this has happened. (The previous one being bloodflowers).

Oh right review: It's boxy, poorly made, and mostly just an excuse to listen to some Iron maiden. What did you expect me to say? t...

Garretts revenge was bad. Really really bad. When I was reading that this used the same map, I was expecting it to also be awful.
It isn't. It's a huge improvement on the original, almost all my complaints were addressed. There are varied textures throughout the mission, all doors are now openable, and intended to open, and you no longer murder...

Let me start off by saying: I default to expert, and only lower the difficuilty if I need to.

Let me now talk about how to incentivise the correct behaviour from your player.

Basically, you want your mission to encourage the playstyle that the mission was designed for. want the player to fight? Put in some fun tools for killing people. Wan...

I have two points of major contreversy against me in the thief community. The first was building a big black pit and filling it full of spiders. The second is my insistance that T2 is a better game to design missions for, and that those who say otherwise are blinded by nostalgia.

However that second point comes from two assumptions: everythin...

I use OpenAL and had to disable EAX for this one. It likely was never optimized for it, as it didn't exist in TDM yet. Or it may yet be an issue with OpenAL but sound seemed, off. Close feeling in wide places for instance.

I wanted to post to TDM forums about this but can't get into my account any longer.

I will not the second mission be...

My reviews have gotten shorter over time. This isn't because I am getting lazier (despite my worries) It's because the FMs have somewhat fallen into a holding pattern of being obviously terrible, or being competent but mostly dull from a technical standpoint.

Curse of the Ancients however, successfully avoids both of those. It is a good missi...

Some missions, I play once, and never again. Some, I play multiple times but only to confirm specific things.
This is the first mission I played twice, and where both playthroughs felt like completely seperate experiences.

This is a prison break mission. Garrett got caught by hammerites, and is going to be hung. Get out. Also, it's a ghostin...