Thief 4 can be completed without killing anyone

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In a recent blog post on the Eidos Montreal community page, staff member Adam Badke stated the following:

Players will have multiple ways to approach their objectives and each objective can be reached using Garretts various tools, by exploring and by playing with your environment.

Each path comes with a set of challenges, encounters and looting opportunities. Difficulty options allow the experience to be scaled for hardcore fans of the original series, but to also let newcomers have a lot of fun. And yes, you can complete the game without killing anybody Garrett is a Master Thief, not a killing machine!

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That should be a given really.

Day 1 unless they completely screw this up (like outsourcing boss fights again..).

No, REALLY? But I wanted a 4 hour linear COD fest with objective arrows everywhere topped of with a lame multiplayer suite.

Glowing collectables would be a nice touch as well.

Day 1 unless they completely screw this up (like outsourcing boss fights again..).

Whiteblade999

I hope that means there will be some undead.

Having options as to how to play? Lame.

Good, the challenge of stealth is always fun for me.

That should be a given really.

Clock-w0rk

That sounds great, i am so tired of todays games, all you do is kill...and kill :|

That should be a given really.

Clock-w0rk

understanding everything, means forgiving everything, therefore I chose not to kill anyone

I find it every hard to beileave that anybody would not get bored with sneaking to the end game.

In thief you rarely killed anyone as is, a blackjack to the back of the head is just a K.O.

I will complete the game by killing everybody.nethernova

You could complete the other games in the series the same way if memory serves. Unless you count killing zombies and udnead, which would make the games much, much tougher.

Good to hear. I enjoyed doing that in Dishonored and Deus Ex.

First guy i see is dead :)

Thats cool I guess,same as Dishonored.That didnt turn out to well for me though I ended up killing loads with the bad ending,hopefully I can be a bit more stelthy with Thief.

Great news. Many people aren't surprised by this. But hearing Thief 4 will be like previous thief games is great news in a time where so many series get dumbed down or become clones with their latest entries. 

I kill, there for I am.Jack-Burton

Soooooo ... what if you kill yourself ? :?

I find it every hard to beileave that anybody would not get bored with sneaking to the end game.

PCgameruk

I sneak around in stealth games that allow it, but I want to kill at some point.

I find it every hard to beileave that anybody would not get bored with sneaking to the end game.

PCgameruk

[QUOTE="Jack-Burton"]I kill, there for I am.R4gn4r0k

Soooooo ... what if you kill yourself ? :?

I rise from the grave and kill twice as muchJack-Burton

You truly are Jack Burton :shock:

That's great and all, but it means nothing if playing merciful is boring as hell. Dishonored suffered immensely from this: Sure, you could go through the game without killing a soul, but you had to choke them. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Forget using any of the fancy gadgets we gave you, or that badass knife.Plagueless

I'm the exact opposite. Dishonored is boring as hell if you go around killing everyone. It's much more fun to ghost through the game without killing anyone. My pacifist playthrough was the most fun and satisfying. I've never even killed anyone other than the main targets on any of my playthroughs. I tried doing a high chaos playthrough, and I got bored on the first level. Not everyone like guns blazing.

And the remark on having to "choke every single one". You obviously must not play stealth games, I maybe had to choke about 3 or 4 guys in the whole game.

I find it every hard to beileave that anybody would not get bored with sneaking to the end game.

PCgameruk

Maybe it is as you expected, but I was worried till they confirmed it.

Great news. Many people aren't surprised by this. But hearing Thief 4 will be like previous thief games is great news in a time where so many series get dumbed down or become clones with their latest entries. 

[QUOTE="Jack-Burton"]I kill, there for I am.R4gn4r0k

Soooooo ... what if you kill yourself ? :?

Having options as to how to play? Lame.

Michael0134567

In thief you rarely killed anyone as is, a blackjack to the back of the head is just a K.O.

ReadingRainbow4

In thief you rarely killed anyone as is, a blackjack to the back of the head is just a K.O.

ReadingRainbow4

Just like Dishonored beat the game once by killing and then the next time not killing anyone.

Nice that it's an option, but I'll almost certainly kill someone.