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brensey In reply to SallyVinter [2014-04-18 04:22:28 +0000 UTC]

Very good point. The losses caused by Sly's lifestyle as a thief could very well have pushed his decision further towards starting anew with Carmelita

That was how I always interpreted Sly's decision at the end of the third game. The way I saw it, his desire to hook up with Carmelita wasn't the main driving force behind his decision to give up his legacy. It was his desire to give himself AND his friends a fresh start and a chance to live somewhat normal lives.


(grrr...Sanzaru. I'm still galled by them saying their iteration of Sly is more mature)

Wait! They ACTUALLY said this!? Oy vey!
Just...ugh. Sanzaru-Sly was a spoiled brat who felt that his dull, gullible girlfriend was holding him down. And he felt no shame about humiliating said girlfriend for LOLs. That is NOT how a mature dude behaves!


And Carm's "I'll still arrest you if you screw this up" rings very true as well

That exchange was my favorite, too.

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SallyVinter In reply to brensey [2014-04-18 04:38:02 +0000 UTC]

There's a huge suspension-of-disbelief involved in any of them living normal lives. Aside from Panda King who served his time and (possibly) Penelope who was never really confronted on her con-job as the Black Baron, they're all world renowned criminals. All of their faces are available to the public and in Dmitri's case Sly busted him out of jail at the beginning of Sly 3 so he's an escaped convict. When I really think about it I find it hard to believe any of them could live normal lives without some sort of pardon or constantly being on edge about being discovered and turned in.

Yeeeep. Back when we we first started getting trailers that involved cutscenes one of the game developers commented during the trailer that "Sly isn't the same as he used to be. He's a bit older, more mature." And I've held that against them ever since playing the game, because it gave me hope that they were moving forward with character development. They lied =___= (Or they're idiots)

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brensey In reply to SallyVinter [2014-04-18 04:51:52 +0000 UTC]

There's a huge suspension-of-disbelief involved in any of them living normal lives. Aside from Panda King who served his time and (possibly) Penelope who was never really confronted on her con-job as the Black Baron, they're all world renowned criminals.

Good point. However, I'm able to let that go by assuming that the metric ton of cash that Sly left each of them helped them live under the radar (by paying cash for everything, they leave less of a paper trail and are harder to track down). Plus, I'm sure Sly's gang has a few aliases and false identities that they use to get around


They lied =___= (Or they're idiots)

I think the problem is the definition of the word "mature". For people like you and me, "mature" means handling grown-up issues in a tactful and appropriate way. However, to people like the dudes at Sanzaru, "mature" means being able to sneak a bunch of crude jokes and borderline furry porn into a kids' game without being caught by the ESRB censors. They think this makes them clever and edgy. But it actually just makes them look lazy.

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SallyVinter In reply to brensey [2014-04-20 03:41:35 +0000 UTC]

True enough on the false-identity front. They managed to get on planes and travel around the world multiple times in the 3rd game XD. So they must have Passports and IDs that pass mustard.

It kinda seems like a lot of guys (not just male game developers) have a twelve-year-old's concept of "Mature." That it means you can look at and show 'racy' stuff, say and do 'bad' things and you'll get away with it because you're totally an adult now! It annoys me so much =__=. And the Fetishization in the game also made me ill.

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