I've had a gaming PC for a few months now and after the announcement of Thief 4, I decided to buy the first 3 games off GOG and play them.

Right now I only have Thief Gold which is the remastered Thief 1, and I was wondering if any Thief fans around here knew of any mods or had any tips etc.. For all three games, but especially Gold right now.

Here's a thread dedicated to this in the GOG forums.

I'm scared

For Gold, you need tfix and for 2 you need tafferpatcher. I don't know of any patches for 3. It has always run fine on my PCs.

The main thing you need to worry about on the first two is better textures and widescreen. Modding anything else will change the games too much.

My tips are to play the first level twice on different difficulties to see where you want to start from. Unlike most other games, Thief doesn't manage difficulty by simply screwing around with the hit point values in the game. It actually adds more requirements to the level and moves some things around in the levels. Expert level takes a lot of patience, but it can be a lot of fun. Also--even if you don't finish Gold--if you like the experience at all, I recommend playing 2. It refines a lot of elements from the first, gets rid of some annoyances and significantly raises the quality of the level design (which is already pretty good in Thief).