/vr/ - Retro Games

What comes to mind when you think of The City? Bruges? The City of Lost Children? A certain painting? A screenshot?

>>2224380

It's weird but the fact that TDP has a simpler graphics renderer and doesn't support colored light maps, actually helps its atmosphere in my opinion. In Thief 2 the torches and fireplaces flood the rooms with their comfortable warm lighting, and the cloudy night skies with the glow of twilight in the horizon makes it feel like a warm summer night.

In Thief 1 the only thing you see is this cold, distant, alien light that wraps the whole world in foreboding gloom. There is no moon in the sky. Not a single shred of cloud. Every night it's the same star-filled blackness of that one night you felt was extraordinarily cold.