Best game ever.

Thief: The Dark Project is the best game ever, Thief 2 isn't that shabby either. Hell Thief: Deadly Shadows has some fantastic moments as well. System Shock 2 is a very, very fine game amongst the best ever made - doesn't beat Thief for my money though. Of course I have all those games sitting on my desk here still anyway and they all get regular enough plays.

Looking Glass Studies, damn they had good ideas and executed them well, even if at the time, The Dark Engine was no 'Id/unreal' Engine.

Thief 4, let's hope it's good (and possibly hope it's not about Garrett, or if it is, about the girl who tried to pickpocket him and who he caught)

Looking Glass Studios, one of the best developers to grace the PC. Shame what happened to them.

I'd kill for a remake of the first 2 games with modern tech

amen

Thief 4, let's hope it's good (and possibly hope it's not about Garrett, or if it is, about the girl who tried to pickpocket him and who he caught)

While I sort of agree, the leaked story boards seemed to show a male character (though it wasn't entirely clear), and I heard rumours of it possibly being a prequel (Garrett as he starts his thieving career, but that was a very loose rumour).

Would it really be thief without Garrett's voice and cynicism though?

Yeah there's definitely a new sound guy, I recall reading that. Though the first known media event about the game was him giving a talk about some new procedural ambient music stuff that he was working on for the game, it doesn't sound like he's treating it lightly (hopefully he pulls off the same amazing ambience).

While I loved loved loved the gameplay (particularly of the first two), I'd probably still be content if they took it in a different direction, so long as it was still Garrett in the The City. Otherwise, if they retained the same gameplay, but with a different character, I'd probably still be content - so long as they retain one of the two things which made it awesome.

God I miss The City, it was so... terrible.

edit: Oh, and they totally need to bring back the amazing cutscenes, Thief 3's weakest point imo was the inconsistency and cartooniness of those (though the trial and gammal reveal weren't bad). There were some amazing tiny tunes which partly made those cutscenes somehow so awesome (hope you guys played thief gold with the extra interspersed stories), so I can definitely see it being a loss without the same music guy.