The Thief series gets even better when you start delving into the fan missions. In particular works like Gathering at the Inn, Inverted Manse and T2X: Shadows of the Metal Age

I've tried revisiting Thief 3 a couple of times and while there were changes in mechanics the one thing that jars me more than anything is the constricted feeling of the smaller levels and the frequent transitions. I can't help but wonder how the game would have played if it had not had those transition points that damaged the flow and sense of place of each level and location :\

Can't really think of one at this time, although in years past I probably would have listed a few.

The thing is, most of the time I end up fanatically loving one game out of a series, then will try others in that series and find those a lot less compelling. Possibly familiarity breeds contempt issue, I'm not sure. So most of the time I might like one, maybe two games in a "series" and I'm not sure I'd consider two games enough to say "it's my fave series."

That said, during the city-builder-RTS combo era I'd have said those were my favorite series of games...like Caesar/Pharaoh series, or Stronghold 1+Crusader. Or the Tombraider series, up until about #3. I played more than 3 of the TR series, but I liked each one less and less than the one that came before, to the point where I don't even bother trying the new, modernized ones they keep putting out.

The third does improve on 2 with much more varied weapons and better and more skills. And it doesn't necessarily have to be ducking behind cover taking potshots at enemies. Soldier, Vanguard and Sentinel make excellent shock troopers, even on higher difficulties.

Vanguard is my favorite. Charge an enemy, Nova and fire a shotgun in the enemy's face, very few enemies survive that. Nova depletes shields (or half of them depending on how you choose to build the skill), but the Charge can restore to full them instantly and the skill recharges very fast. The class is nearly immortal on high levels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCDLj2mPdg

I'll give you three guesses as to where I got the second half of my username.

In recent years, It'd be Fallout hands down. Even though I can't play through the originals (turn based, isometric not my thing), I can still appreciate them for what they brought to the table.

Favorite of all time, possibly Mario Bros/Donkey Kong from back in the early part of the 90's through about 94-95. After that I just kinda lost it for gaming entirely till about 2007 when I started gaming again.

Sentinel isn't as fun in 3 as in 2, since Tech Armor has to be detonated manually Still, very useful class for tanking

I preferred manual detonation, but the POS shotguns in ME2 made it hard, at least until you could get either the Claymore or rifles. Bringing back memories of good times here.


I love TES and Fallout nearly as much as Mass Effect, which is why I'm on this site. I've played TES all the way back to Daggerfall, but only FO3 and New Vegas on the Fallout front.