Thief™ Gold

I don't know why I did this other than its pretty good, just know its old af

This is one of my favorite games of all time. I have all 3 and am glad to finally have a version that is supposed to run on Windows 7.

Best game ever!

Let me be concise. Any rating you see that is not 5 stars is wrong. It's that simple.

Just kidding, that's the system's RAM. Back in mah day, it was expected to just run your game off of Intel CPU. Sometimes idk which surprises me more, how far along PC hardware has come, or how comparably not complete shit specific 90s and 00s games look despite literally being able to run on a micrchipped toaster like some Tamagachi pet. Ah lad the 90s. So yeah this was one of my very first gaming exposures, and it really just goes to show both how far along we'd come, but also how far we've fallen. I think the irony here is just how sublimely tasteful this whole game was, both in presentation/artistic direction, as well as per environmental storytelling, and its sheer ingenuity. See, thing is back in the day we really didn't have much in terms of genres, as in, technological innovation back then was quite literally inventing all the genres other games are based upon, like 3D shooters, crpgs, RTT, etc. and this was among the very first survival/stealth games and iirc first thief sim ever. It was so incredibly basic seeming but they used every inch of what they got, in all ways, and this includes not even having hardware accelerators aka "GPUs" then until companies like 3DFx. Ah, how naive when we thought getting a Voodoo card was oligarch tier, you can't even buy a bottom end GPU with locked down proprietary BS for the money thanks for nothing nVidia. tl;dr if you can adjust to the old school mechanics, lack of physics, graphics etc. and just play purely on S-O-U-L you're going to have a great time, and even better if you want to better understand the technology and learn vidya history, like Doom, Planescape Torment, and Starcraft.