{"id":22416,"date":"2014-03-04T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22416"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:20:57","slug":"diecast-46-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22416","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #47: Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an entire episode dedicated to a single game. Thief [4] has been a long time coming. Some have been excited to see it return. Some hopeful. Some outraged. Some resigned. But now we&#8217;ve played it and we can see the result for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the game we hoped for, but neither is it the train wreck we feared.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast47.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast47.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast47.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast47.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast47.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/mbafford-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/diecast.xml'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><br \/>--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/D0BWFaIJ#haK0cRdH09GN8k0dBP2L460OQAiUx6kjdYODgCJaghs!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/D0BWFaIJ#haK0cRdH09GN8k0dBP2L460OQAiUx6kjdYODgCJaghs\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/KwwXSY4S#3zSKYyWbW7xM4nRN4VcM8Qy98ChklMPT0zhejYDXoAU\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Roosevelt\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/\">Chris<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\">Shamus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The entire show is about Thief, so no timestamps. 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