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200 - Thief II: The Metal Age
🕑 Added 2025-07-30 06:00:06 +0000 UTCIn 1998, Looking Glass Studios released THIEF: THE DARK PROJECT, an unprecedentedly immersive and technically impressive first-person stealth simulator. Two years later, they followed it up with their masterpiece, THIEF 2: THE METAL AGE. After hounding Brian and A.J. to talk about this one for years, Josh finally got his wish. Plus, we got Jay Anthony Franke back to voice JC Denton for the interstitial. Thanks for sticking with us for 200 episodes and here’s to 200 more.
Jay Anthony Franke - Cameo // Instagram
Media Referenced in the Episode:
Thief II. Looking Glass. 2000.
Ahead of its time: The history of Looking Glass by Mike Mahardy. Polygon. April 6th, 2015.
How Thief's Stealth System Almost Didn't Work | War Stories by Ars Technica. February 20th, 2018.
The Story of Thief & Looking Glass Studios by Noclip. August 10th, 2021.
Thief-TheCircle.com --- Thief II: The Metal Age Strategy Index
Thief II - The Metal Age Walkthrough by Orgulo. Gamefaqs. July 5th, 2025
Thief vs. AAA Gaming by Dom Giuca. March 16th, 2014.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “The Pigeon Job” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. Josh Boerman as “Garrett”, Brian Alford as “Benny”, A.J. Ditty as “Karras”, and Jay Anthony Franke as “Cramble Grenton.”
Comments
sg
Some of the things you talk about for Thief II make me think that at least two out of the three of you might enjoy Rain World. It’s not exactly an immersive sim, it’s more like a dynamic terrarium simulation where you are a little slugcat in the lower middle of the foodchain, surviving through cleverness and your own building skill and knowledge (since slugcat doesn’t get upgrades).
Elizabeth Power
All the talk of the guards being alert reminded me of a bumper sticker my aunt saw: “Be alert, your country needs lerts” This became a joke in my family every time someone talks about being alert, so I thought you should all be in on it
