I really like Raven Creek! Thanks for thinking of this thread and coming back :)
It is where it is because it's technically great in every way, but also excels at giving the familiar along with the strange. After a million (greatly built) city missions that totally follow Thief's original aesthetic, something like this one is greatly appreciated by the community, IMO. In other words, it's originality in it's navigation/architecture and it's aesthetic.
Played nostalgia and vagabond and didn't even felt them close. Keeper of Infinity looks similar, the color palette looks alike, but the feel and mood Kingsbridge has is different. It's more of a combination of Seven Sisters and Death's Cold Embrace. Great FMs tho.
I just love Kingsbridge. I've never rated a mission 10 so easily disregarding the general consensus. Generally I mostly agree with the rating, maybe I like it a bit more or a bit less, but this one.. what a charm. And even consid...
Interesting points. I agree there's a little trend between T2 FMs "improving" or evolving gameplay and level design, while T1's lean on the retro style. Examples of each: What Feast of Pilgrims is to Life of the Party, and what Intertheft/this FM/Lost Among the Forsaken are to the original T1 design...
Or is it?
Are we attribuing too much to single, standalone FMs in both cases? I'm not sure where the line is. I'm more doubtful in T2's case, not so much on T1.
Ultimately the answer a...