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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Thief's hero redesigned to be 'more mainstream'.

"We wanted to keep the main DNA of who Garrett was; we didn't want to change that much because it was working already," game director Nicolas Cantin said. But, "we wanted to bring in more of the modern audience of the console market."

Mar 13, 2013 2:55pm PDT

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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Thief's hero redesigned to be 'more mainstream'.

"We wanted to keep the main DNA of who Garrett was; we didn't want to change that much because it was working already," game director Nicolas Cantin said. But, "we wanted to bring in more of the modern audience of the console market." : Shacknews
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- grossssssss : EvilDolemite
- Just called "Thievin' The Assassin's creed" and get it over with : edge198
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  Danger, Will Robinson! : BlackCat9
  - ^^^^^ * 100 : LoioshDwaggie
- more bro powah! : smacknca
- fuck video games. : DeBurgo
- FINALLY :) : jim bone
- >= ( : pixelat3d
- Well this sounds terrible. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
- LOL : Hoax
- OH COME THE FUCK ON : ETPC1
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  I hope he's a space marine that's ripped as fuck. : (mojo)
  - and can beat up 6 guards with his bare hands. : CRasterImage
- Garrett, we need you for a very special assignment. We know you have a long and complicated past with th... : Lucien Irenicus
- just what everyone wanted. whoever thought this up can go get fucked. : Sapiens
- aaaaaaaand there it is. : Mr. Goodwrench
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  i guess if they are going to pump tens of millions into this game, their risk aversion is going to be qui... : filthysock
  - http://www.shacknews.com/article/78205/thiefs-hero-redesigned-to-be-more-mainstream?id=29835380 : steauengeglase
- god damnit what the fuck : MercFox1
- hahahaha R.I.P. Where is walker 720 to tell us why this is good : Foxhawk
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  Gothic? Black nails? I don't recall any black nails in any of the Thief games or Garret listening to Cure... : steauengeglase
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    I thought this game was from the creators of Human Revolution? Their use of renaissance styling in a c... : Stimpak Chopra
    - Different team. : steauengeglase
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    Come on, you know there's another definition of gothic that doesn't involve 80s new wave music and black ... : slax0r
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      That's why I was wondering what he meant with black nails. : steauengeglase
      
      Oh, I see what you mean now. Missed that quote. : slax0r
  - Thief: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080711212157/thief/images/3/3a/Final_cutscene_09.jpg Th... : RaptorII
  - Lol. : dengar65
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  The voice actor for Garrett will be played by Sam Worthington. The rest of the cast of CODBLOPS will fill... : grendel
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    UM "The game will be continuing the series' tradition of first-person stealth and actively discouragin : Foxhawk
- I wonder if there's going to be a load of cool XP notices in-game. If i don't have flashing text that ... : Snuffles-
- Man I hope they can get Nolan North : veras
- Haha, I called it the day those first screens appeared. : jet-poop
- sadly not surprised : kelerian
- they did OK with Deus Ex (as in Eidos, no idea if it's the same people within Eidos). So will wait and s... : MamiyaOtaru
- HOLD X TO WIN GAME AND LISTEN TO DUBSTEP CREDITS : Kerranger
- what a cunt : eeeealmo
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  I'm impressed that, after Deus Ex: Human Revolution came out of Eidos Montreal, we're seeing the exact sa... : Alice O'Connor
  - Ummm... ummm... lots of caffeine today? : Zerbyte
  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-WHW-QNswE : Rauol Duke
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    Sup Alice, want to cyber? : shirif
    - Dude not while she's like this, she'll tear you apart. : dumb.
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    You should narrate these types of posts. : Bamtan
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      You're right, I forgot babies can't read: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22042777/thief4.mp3 : Alice O'Connor
      
      ahahahahahahah : sneakyalmond
      
      Yea, this is pretty great. : Nerdsbeware
      
      Post of the Year 2013 : Rauol Duke
      
      thank you alice, this is a great service for illiterate americans such as myself : DrFlammable
      
      lol, I love it. : jimmy_legs
      
      That's awesome. : OutlawSundown
      
      excellent! : crunkfunk
      
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      people will be jacking it to this, sorry to say…. : Borzoi
      
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      No I didn't. : ArB
      
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      since when are you a person? : Borzoi
      
      I don't know. I have no proof. : ArB
      
      normally I wouldn't but the accent requires that I do so : zakk
      
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      Is it the last "waaah" that makes you say that? : sogelegos
      
      Mace is hard as hell right now : riptyde
      
      *zip* Will not. : Ebu
      
      DONE : NastyJack
      
      ^^ narrate this one too : dirge23
      
      This is perfect. : spazzium
      
      Aha, great. : CrankMonkey
      
      This is so much better than having to use my eyeballs to read the post. Can you make all of your posts in... : thetangent
      
      You fucked up the end! already fapped : rick
      
      fucking lol : dpgagnon
      
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      Never leave. :( : Halen
      
      hahahahahaha. This started off normal and I was about to close after 3 seconds and man I'm glad I didn't... : pgharavi
      
      If you were human, I'd want to marry you. As it stands, I'm still open for fornication of the recreationa... : Alastayr
      
      Hmm, your sardonic narration is quite different from the sweet, pleasant sincere tone that I imagined : sergeon
      
      omg, I love it T.T Those are tears of joy. : MetaSaval
      
      Brava! : sogelegos
      
      lol : Krugler
      
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      Why the hell has Gamefly not tapped you for Shacknews Daily yet? : BlackCat9
      
      or better yet, weekend confirmed. : pgharavi
      
      I know they're dumb. : spazzium
      
      It's hard to get underwater cameras. : pancake humper
      
      this. holy crap she should totally do some podcast or the dailies or something. : Jikim
      
      Wtf we need more coverage like this. : LilCrypto
      
      You should just narrate all of your posts. : SockMonkeh
      
      You are truly the best at Shacknews, Alice!! : grendel
      
      lolololol You should narrate things, professionally. : zombie man
      
      Alice "Atlas" Fontaine : Marrbe
      
      That is the funniest thing I have seen on the shack in months. : comiekazie
      
      Who doesn't like Alice? : Dr_Cube
      
      Now tell me a bedtime story! : cap n KRUNCH
      
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      lol, nice : losder5000
      
      Top work Missy. TOP, WORK. : node
      
      Muy sexualitas : Kerranger
      
      You don't sound like you have as many cats as I'd thought. : AxeMan808
      
      you're the female haiku. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      
      ripped : DewFuel
      
      Bravo : Smoochy666
      
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      Sexy accent. I fapped to this. : SlamDunk
      
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      awesome : Volatus32x
      
      Woah! : Lukiopimp
      
      Thanks, that helped. : Bamtan
      
      Holy shit that's awesome : Entity
      
      I would click an ad to have all news items in this format : quazar
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    Meh. Classic games like Thief are beloved, and there's a legitimate worry that they'll betray the origin... : Lucien Irenicus
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      Yahtzee is worried since Thief is one of his favorite IPs. And he's British so you have to automatically... : Lucien Irenicus
      
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      Anyone who's automatically impressed and won over by someone with an English accent should rethink an awf... : Alice O'Connor
      
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      Or just visit England and see how thoroughly unimpressive everyone is firsthand. : underground banana plantation
      
      PS, when's the next London Shackmeet? : underground banana plantation
      
      Or they can continue letting me take advantage of them. I'm okay with that. : RaptorII
      
      Being Scots-Irish, I feel the urge to shoot in the direction of anyone speaking the King's English. : pulsedrive
  - Yeah, the wailing on the TTLG Thief forums has been amazing. There have been a few sane voices, though. : Conan
  - Can't take seriously without quotation marks. : Kojak2000
  - LOL at all of that including the Gameinformer blip, was reading it earlier going.. .seriously.. guys... : HL3dsx
  - Yeah yeah, but let's really be honest: DX:HR was a good game, almost great if the boss battles had been : RyDogg1
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    I just want to know where the they got the idea that Garrret ever had black fingernails, or if that was s... : RaptorII
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      That was strange. The whole idea that Garrett was a "goth" seems like someone doesn't get something. : pulsedrive
      
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      I see, looking at the design I get the impression they're talking about toning down their own redesign wh... : RaptorII
      
      Oh god I hope so. I was never a Thief devotee, but that's terrible. : Arcanum
      
      Ok, now that makes sense. That design looks like something that eats bad children at Christmas or somethi... : steauengeglase
      
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      This post should be INF'd because, seriously, nobody knows what the fuck is going on in this thread and I... : SockMonkeh
      
      I wouldn't complain if they toned it down more. ¬¬ : RaptorII
  - This is your worst post so far Alice. : Malku
  - How do you still cope working in games journalism when gamer communities purge out nothin but pure hatred... : Goblin au
  - Yes yes yes : Dontdrop
  - Yup. And it's the same thing all fucking over any gaming forums or news comments. Nobody is happy about a... : ramshot
  - Well played, ma'am. : Mad Brahmin Disease
- WHAT...THE...FUCK? : ShXIII
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  People were complaining about the new direction Deus Ex was taking early on as well, but that game turned... : phate81
  - To be fair to the people who bitched about that game, part of the reason that game turned out so well is ... : rodneystubbs
- oh no now the game will be bad or something : CyCo_PL
- Actually watching the vid I can't really take any issue with their description of Garrett. : Conan
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  He looked shabby in the old games. Why is it bad for a character to look cool? I don't understand you guy... : ArB
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    A thief that could actually blend in with the general poor and downtrodden populous! OH NOES. WE NEED GOT... : RaptorII
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      Good reading comprehension, there. They said they want to make him less goth-y than he was in the previou... : BlackCat9
      
      I presume then you never played, or didn't really get into Thief, because Garrett was never goth at all i... : RaptorII
      
      Also I may have been a little over reacting in hyperbole. : RaptorII
      
      He was never gothy in previous games. He was just a grizzled dude in a hood with a mechanical eye. : Mr. Goodwrench
  - Obviously it's not inherently bad, the issue is whether or not it's in the spirit of the character. : Arceihn
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  - http://elucidovia.com/images/SqueenixdosFinger.gif : RaptorII
- for fucks sake..... : jonin
- As long as the faux hawk doesn't block me from crouching under low obstacles, I don't care. : Poor Yurik
- Gutsy decision. : stratedge
- yeah... not going to freak out over this. People screamed that the sky was falling over Deus Ex: Human Re... : Grape Flavor
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  The more I see of this game.. the more I'm convinced Deus Ex 3 was a fluke. One of my most favourite P... : Saleck
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    PS. Black nails? Garrett never had black nail polish.. if you had bothered to look into the character you... : Saleck
    - From what I can gather, it sounds like they were talking about an earlier more fashion Gothic version of ... : RaptorII
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  So they put a mask and gloves on him and everyone has a cry? : Cliffzorz
  - He has intermittently worn gloves. It's more the goth fashion inspired powder white face with black eye s... : RaptorII
- You people are over reacting. They're just simply toning down on the magic which is a good thing IMO; I p... : scary_monster
- uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I'm just generally sick of gaming character design. Everything is so over-designed these days. All video... : disembodied potato
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    It helps having an actual character designer in tune with period styles. A big part of why I loved Bayon... : the archvile
    - I'd still categorise bayonetta as over designed too. It might be well informed and have great attention ... : disembodied potato
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  i dont even know what the main guy in thief looks like : Chipwarrior
  - What this means that Thief 4 will be more mainstream in all of its areas. : SlamDunk
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  Fuck this shit and fuck Thief 4. : SlamDunk
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    They made statements just like these about DX: HR. Sure you're not jumping the gun a little, or did you n... : ramshot
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      I bought DX: HR but have been struggling to get myself motivated to play it. I'm not very far in it but i... : SlamDunk
      
      Give it a good go. It's quite a universally liked game, even if there are always those that disagree. ... : ramshot
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      DX:HR was still a different time period and different character from the old DX - I don't think you can r... : xlarti
      
      Sorry, not groaning. I'll groan if it turns out the end result is shit. An excellent game from the develo... : ramshot
- Now he's more white and more male. : Dynotaku
- Oh great. Lets make an Assassins Creed clone to appeal to console people. Epic fail for sure. : xman11111
- Translation: Consolized. Sigh. : wytefang
- Even the picture the presented takes away from his personality and makes him look like a brainless empty ... : xman11111