Re: free Free FREE Thief Gold! Grab the GOLD!!

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:26:16 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 25/04/2025 23:50, Josh Allen wrote:

On 4/24/2025 1:21 PM, rms wrote:

If you need a copy here you go:
Thief Gold  https://www.gog.com/redeem/894TD6EEB2A4929303
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rms

Wait isnt this free on amazon prime gaming?

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Still is at the moment, I took a pass as the graphics make my eyes bleed.

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You can give it to me. /s

For me, I'm fine with the visuals of games of that era in everything
EXCEPT the character models. The levels, the lighting; all that is
obviously dated but I can deal with it. It's fine; there's sometimes
even some beauty in it.

But, oh boy, those hundred-poly character models? They pull me right
out of the experience. Whether it's "Thief", or "Quake", or "Shogo",
or "Jedi Knight"; I see those models and it becomes a struggle to keep
playing.

It's a major failure of many fan "graphics overhaul" projects that
they almost entirely focus on the textures and rarely bother with the
underlying models. I understand why --running a texture through an AI
upscaler is a lot easier than making and rigging an entirely new
model-- but the pixelated textures (or their upscaled versions) become
barely noticable after a few hours. Those character models are an
eyesore throughout the entire game. ;-)