The Dishonored games were a treat for old-time stealth sickos in part because they cleaved so closely to Thief, the greatest example of the genre. in fact, when it came time to give voice to Corvo Attano in Dishonored 2, Arkane chose Stephen Russell for the job, the man behind the iconic voice of Thief protag Garrett. It turns out that we were actually not too far off from a full-on Thief-by-Arkane experience before all that happened, as Bethesda initially approached Arkane with the idea of having the studio make Thief 4.
The tale was told during a recent Dishonored playthrough by co-directors Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith (via Knoebel on Bluesky), during which Colantonio said that before Dishonored, Arkane was lined up to do a game based on either Thief or Blade Runner: "The proposition was, 'Hey, we have the Thief franchise and we know the people to make that game, and it's you'."
"Which is basically like coming to two cats and saying, 'We have a big bag of catnip ...
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