jtr7 on 13/2/2009 at 01:55
I totally expect there will be fans of whatever they get around to making. I totally expect most established
Thief fans will be disappointed. I totally expect some of them to acquire the taste for the new, while keeping a special place in their hearts for the games that made them fans to begin with. I totally expect some will be raging against the new game, forever and ever until they die, though some will simply stop posting their rage, while a couple will become trolls. I totally expect some will be enraptured by the new
Thief and seem out of their minds about it, while a few will become trolls, and some will come down off their high and seem relatable again. I totally expect many to try and accept it into the fold of the older titles, and be at pains to reconcile what was compromised, what was discarded or had to be left out, what was added and why, while liking some things, never liking others. I totally expect some things to be surprisingly better than expected, and others to be exactly as I feared.
And I totally expect the same kinds of comments to be recycled
ad infinitum, so I'm doing my part.
Anyway, there's no evidence
Thief 4 is being worked on, only that (
http://www.eidosmontreal.com/)
Eidos Montréal has (
http://www.eidosmontreal.com/en/jobs.html)
lots of job positions open that have not been filled for most of a year, now, or at all, including all the artists and level designers. Any work on T4 has been very limited, and right now, they are pushing to get animators and marketing people onboard to sell their
Deus Ex 3 baby. If I'm wrong about any of this, I'd love to be corrected, since it might give the anxious hope, but it really looks like there is no T4, but only a desire to get that project up and running, which has barely happened. They were supposed to only be working on two big projects, but only one ever got going. I'm making a guess that the few who were hired for the second project were absorbed into the first when the second wasn't happening.
fett on 13/2/2009 at 03:08
jtr7 - You're right on the money. The second title was supposed to be T4, but considering this news, I would imagine it will be lost forever in the mystifying rigmarole of corporate enterprise.
demagogue on 13/2/2009 at 03:58
After all the investment that's gone into getting Eidos Montreal up and running, I'd think it would be good business sense for SqEnix to not rock their boat before they've even had a chance to define themselves. They had a good plan from the start; just let them stay the course.
Kin on 13/2/2009 at 05:45
Quote Posted by fett
This may not be the best place to drop this bomb, but the last thing anyone at Eidos said to me about Thief 4 was, "What is this thing...this...DromEd?"
[smiley of me stabbing myself in the eye]
At least they didn't say "T3 editor"
Jarvis on 13/2/2009 at 08:16
Thief 4? Are you kidding? I'm still waiting for Thief 3.
doctorfrog on 13/2/2009 at 08:55
Quote Posted by RavynousHunter
Though I do agree that Garrett will probably get spikey yellow hair and a big fucking sword. Personally, I think I'd actually prefer Garrett with a shotgun and a leather jacket. :sweat:
The jacket will be made entirely out of belts.
Quote Posted by fett
This may not be the best place to drop this bomb, but the last thing anyone at Eidos said to me about Thief 4 was, "What is this thing...this...DromEd?"
Are you fucking kidding me?
Unkillable Cat on 13/2/2009 at 11:43
Quote:
Though I do agree that Garrett will probably get spikey yellow hair and a big fucking sword. Personally, I think I'd actually prefer Garrett with a shotgun and a leather jacket.
The jacket will be made entirely out of belts.
I also foresee Garret suffering from lots of teenage angst.
But since SEGA pretty much canned the two current Alien games in development and replaced them for a "Let's-make-quick-money" Aliens vs Predator sequel, it doesn't surprise me in the least that Thief 4 may be deader than EIDOS's credibility as a publisher.
Herr_Garrett on 13/2/2009 at 12:06
Will Garrett have a piping voice?
I can just imagine him saying in high C "Damn! I didn't mean for that happen", and then doing the X-eyes thing... Oh, and his arms becoming these sort-of-spheres that go up and down, up and down, up and down extremely angrily.
