Thief demonstrates the pinnacle of an up and coming industry that abruptly came to a dead end fork in the road. The game is a national treasure as far as I'm concerned. If Thief was a part of your childhood like it was mine, then you had automatically been set up for perpetual disappointment as you now well know. I was 13 and I remember being so excited about the future of the gaming industry, thinking "Wow, this is only the beginning" back in 1998. Little did my young fresh mind foresee that the beginning was actually the end. Never since has there been anything hoisted to the realm of brilliance that was delivered in this game. I'm so grateful I had this growing up in part because now that I'm getting older I realize that even If I try hard enough to push the "nostalgia factor" aside, there is no denying that opportunity knocked but once and this would never come around again.