The thieving taffer's speculation thread

[Nocta-Aeterna]

Last month, Eidos Montréal kicked the Deus Ex team of the main floor to make room for the Thief 4 team. (How the hell does one prenounce Thi4f? Thiaf? Thi-four-fff?) Of course, the existence has already been revealed a year before and the Eidos forums have been buzzing ever since. I think it would be time to bring the speculation to the Escapist.

So, what do you expect to see in the next Thief? Will Garrett still be the protagonist after the end of Deadly Shadows? Will Stephen Russel still be his voice actor? Will they bring back the large roaming levels, or will the desire for graphical fidelity limit area size? Will the aestethics lean more towards Steampunk, or medieval fantasy? Now that we've had antagonists from the Pagans, the Hammerite splinter group known as the Mechanists and corruption amongste the Keepers, what will the new threat to the City be?EDIT: Will they redesign the logo to something more sensible?

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

Ok, since nobody wants to have the first go, I'll just through something out there.

First of all, I think the next antagonists might be (under cover) infiltrators from Blackbrook. The Hammerits will mobilise in favour of the City and the Pagans will be indifferent towards the conflict.
Secondly, I hope I'll finally be able to lower myself from a ledge softly rather than jumping down.
Thirdly, I hope either the climbing gloves are dropped in favour of the old rope arrow, or a thrown (and retrievable) grappling hook is used.
Fourth, I hope Garrett will still be the protagonist though I'm unsure how the little girl, seen at the end of Deadly Shadows, is going to fit in. Perhaps you get to show her "how it's done" as a tutorial, or playing as her ís the tutorial.

 

[SilentCom]

I just want to steal peoples stuff in an open world and not be forced to come out only at night.

 

[Judgement101]

I want to be able to steal from people and then harvest their organs while they are knocked out so I can make ouddles of cash. (I'd only take 1 kidney or 1 lung so they can still live a perfectly normal life. I'm not THAT demented)

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

I want to be able to steal from people and then harvest their organs while they are knocked out so I can make ouddles of cash. (I'd only take 1 kidney or 1 lung so they can still live a perfectly normal life. I'm not THAT demented)

I'm not sure that's in anyway usable in a society that uses Victorian era medicine. Also, taking away a lung, even if it's just one, sounds rather lethal to me.

 

[Katana314]

I want to be able to steal from people and then harvest their organs while they are knocked out so I can make ouddles of cash. (I'd only take 1 kidney or 1 lung so they can still live a perfectly normal life. I'm not THAT demented)

That sounds demented as is...if I woke up with one less lung, I'd feel like I had been violated.

 

[RA92]

I gave up hope the moment I saw it was named Thi4f...