Thief: Deadly Shadows - Shalebridge Cradle Part 1 of 3 

I said the same thing about the Cathedral in The Metal Age. This is much scarier though.

The zombie tomb level in the first game was pretty terrifying the first time. (looks it up) "Down In The Bonehoard", shiver.

+Ashley Pomeroy "Down in the Bonehoard" doesn't even hold a candle to "Return to the Cathedral", or Thief2x's "The Cure". Imagine Bonehoard, but instead of a tomb, a burnt-out shell of a city crawling with ghosts and corpses. The latter even has a rather unsettling story about bringing plague victims back as the undead.

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@@iamdeath2u The Cathedral is in TDP not TMA

Same. 15 yo me was terrified playing this level back in the day. Although I fell in love with the series I've never dared to play this level again... xD

I found the in between where you have to sell loot and travel to different missions on foot to be annoying and tedious

Oh man! If you didn't capture it with the sounds you didn't get the full experience! Give it a go, you'll love it....albeit you may be a changed person afterward...lol

I'm literally doing that right now lol

Jake plays they kind of did. the haunted Moira hospital

thief 4 sucks anyway

I beat amnesia and it was far from the cradle.

yep Stephen Russell is great. then the geniuses in charge dumped him from the shitty Thief reboot a few years back

Crank Cinema's Old-School Lornography Videos Too bad. They should've kept him.

He is voicing Corvo in Dishonored 2 now. He fits it perfectly.

zdovewriter Agreed. Seems Bethesda (publisher) loves Stephen Russell.

can anyone show me how to pass mission: search more information about the hag....? please

Nope, you're not the only one. Ghostapple scared the crap out of me back in the day as a young teen

Isn't that just genius, though. You're literally scaring yourself.

Ashley Pomeroy Wow nice. *Claps slowly*

THAT's why it's the scariest mission of Deadly Shadows, don't you agree?

Yup. The whole point is that you're in an unlighted, abandoned mansion in the middle of the night with the only light coming in from the streetlights outside through the window. Once you cut he power on, the old wiring only dimly lights certain areas. How well do you expect to see under such circumstances?

Or a knife in the back.

Holy water sucks, flash bombs and mines do great work.

Easy, I could do it in the forest without breaking a sweat.

Thats easy to anyone that aren’t p***ies,it’s just a game & like ev every horror thing is fantasy(the only scary thing are things that can happen in real life,these are facts.

+Executus300 I disagree. The horror of the Cradle still holds up very well. Modern "horror" is very meh. There are few horror games these days that are legitimately scary. The Cradle is still legitimately scary.

I concur!

Given that I just played it for the first time, the horror holds up and is in fact superior to many modern horror games.

Look it up on steam :-)

k, awesome.

Sure, but prior to this level there were guards patrolling everywhere. This level you are truly alone (atleast for a bit) and the ambience throws you off guard. Atleast for me.

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This is not a horror game, its just this one mission.

It came out in 2004.

+Conor Page it was one of the best looking games of that time, you ignorant shit

+Marc Andrei LOL

It just isnt. Excpet for hysterical fans of the first 2. But even they can only give diffuse reasons for it. I like 3 better for 3 reasons: Graphics. Almost no Zombies. No Robots. That alone is enough. Stuff like the open city is very neatly done and adds to the game (and the storytelling), even though its not vitally important. This level is an undisputed masterpiece anyway.

Yup. As a Thief fan, I found the 3rd one to be not only comparable to the other 2, but, it was the perfect wrap-up to Garrett's story arc and the plot is my favorite of the 3. Just the right amount of horror that it slowly escalates to in a most gratifying way. The Cathedral mission in TDP started out good but got to be too annoying towards the end. Deady Shadows was sublime.

+5Andysalive The first two games had really compelling intro-sequences for the stages, voiced by Steven Russell, along with some very atmospheric audio, and an interesting mythos, where the familiar, clerical, human evils of progress and development were constantly pitted against the chaotic, alien, pagan evils of the natural world, with nothing but ruffians, riffraff, rent-a-swordsmen, and spoiled nobility in between. You, then, were the self-serving jerk who split off from the magical Jedi Illuminati who were playing all sides, the Keepers--to get into your own hijinx, while they fretted about prophecy and preserving the balance of the world from both sects of religious fanatics--the Hammers and the Pagans. The appeal of this formula was that you had a unique, overarching lore, within which you could plug a lot of different custom adventures--a trip to an Indiana-Jones-esque hidden subterranean city, a stage where you explore a pirate's cove--one mission where you're breaking in on a city gala via the rooftops, getting little peaks into the inner workings of the city life (and at one point a jeweler's office and a necromancer's laboratory), through the various buildings you break into on your way through the urban maze on the way to this big mechanized palace place where the gala is being held. Add to this, most of these stages were fairly open-ended in how you navigated them, with different hallways and secret passages that could funnel you toward your various goals, instead of being entirely linear or entirely open-world. This lead to you both feeling lost, but having a sense that you were gradually getting nearer to your intended objective. And along the way, you were rewarded with little side bits of story, a funny conversation between a pair of guards, or perhaps a secret bit of loot--some ammo or potions, or saleable objects like gold, gems, or art, for purchasing your next mission's gear. Throw on top of this, connection in the lore between different levels of the game--you can read notes at one point about certain characters' dealings that come up in later missions, and things become a lot more clear: lots of love was poured into Thief I and II's storytelling. For an example of a really compelling level design from both of the first two games: Check The Dark Project's "The Sword", and The Metal Age's "Trail of Blood". Both are really good at telling a story, while making you feel lost in something bigger than you and your character first expected. That having been said, there were a lot of bad design choices in the first two games, as well--particularly, The Dark Project, which takes a 'really' long time to get to its main story plot, dragging you through some less than fantastic levels, before really ramping things up in the middle with several really good spooky levels, and then kind of pattering off toward the end with an underwhelming and overly-long last two or three stages. The Metal Age is still the gold standard for Thief pacing and story (though fuck Masks and Casing the Joint), but Deadly Shadows had some rather clever ideas of its own. In particular, I liked the idea of learning glyph magic that would allow you to access portions of the city that ordinary bystanders could not, and I wish more had been done with the 'Keeper' theme. Oh well.