Thief: The Dark Project

So it didn't start out as a, as a game about a thief at all.

It started out as a, as a game called Dark Camelot, where you were playing, um...

You, you were going against, you know, oppressors and, and all these other, these other kind of fanatics really.

Um, and the gameplay kind of changed quite rapidly, um, to a game about a thief and really emphasizing the, um, the stealth aspect of things.

Perhaps unsurprising that Deus Ex did.

Thief the Dark Project would have been on there, but he did not actually work on that game.

We actually interviewed him about it in our Thief documentary on Noclip a number of years ago remotely.

But he was very involved in this one.

Still have a bit to wait for this one though, March 4th next year for PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2.

Coming back to the West now, and remember that big Steam Achievements data leak? One of the games discovered on that list was a new campaign for Thief the Dark Project.

Man, they're doing a lot of that these days, aren't they? Anyway, this is attached to Night Dive's upcoming remaster of Thief, so they acknowledge the leak was a real thing.

The new campaign is called the Tarnished Mirror, and they'll share more details with the official reveal on November 2nd.

and good game design is kind of eternal it doesn't matter if it's still being made so in a way they i don't know they do hold up but not in the way that i think a lot of people use the phrase yeah good game design is uh is immortal

Yeah, like, for example, one of the things that one of my favorite games to play are the old Thief games, Thief 1 and Thief 2 in particular.

And I think that what's interesting about these games is that they operate with a lot more restraint than modern immersive sims.

Modern immersive sims tend to have a lot more RPG systems that power up your character over the course of the game until by the end of it, whether it's Deus Ex or Dishonored or even... prey you are far far more powerful than you were than you started in thief while you do get some more powerful equipment generally the thing that's getting stronger is your skills as a character like you play the game better and you learn to play the game better And I think that even though it's far more simplistic than those games, it's different approach to, I guess, immersive Sims stealth still holds up today because it is doing something because of the intention and way in which it does it.

It's not that Thief is the same exactly, but it's very good at executing on its premise.

I gotta play those.

It's been on my list for years now at this point.

I like Dishonored too much to not play Thief at some point.