The new Thief is looking like it could actually be pretty good (hopefully!)

[A Black Falcon]

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The screenshots and art from the Game Informer article look awesome as well...















And apparently the game is actually going to be about stealth, and you won't have to kill anyone either. So how will they mess this up? :p

[Great Rumbler]

The stealth genre has been really good for the past couple of years, lots of big titles that have turned out to be very enjoyable experiences [thinking specifically about Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Dishonored]. So, it's not liking they're trying to revive a dead genre or reinvent the wheel here, there's no reason [at least, right now] to think that they'll bungle this somehow or try to turn the Thief series into some corridor shooter. And everything they've shown and said so far is definitely positive, so I'm willing to let myself get hyped for this.

[Dark Jaguar]

Deus Ex was amazing, but those boss battles betrayed the ability to play as you wish.

The upcoming Wii U version appears to fix pretty much everything wrong with the original release. They're letting you use the top screen to look around for guards while using the pad to hack things. The boss battles have been retooled heavily (such as larger and more complicated rooms where they take place) to allow for people who put everything into stealth to sneak around, or put everything into hacking to take over a turret. The "Missing Link" DLC that actually took place DURING the main story is now properly integrated into the flow of the game. The graphics are superior to the 360 and PS3 versions, and supposedly even the PC version. The only disappointing thing is the idea that I'd have to actually repurchase the game to get all of this. I really wish they'd do like CDProjectRed and release a patch on the PC that integrated ALL of these changes into the PC version. Yes, all of them. The hacking thing could be made to work either with two monitors, or more reasonably, just splitting the screen on a single monitor.

The Witcher 2 "Enhanced Edition" on 360 had every last bit of extra they poured into that version bundled into a patch, so that's the standard I now hold everyone to. So what if I might get disappointed, that's a perfectly worthwhile risk to take to hold people to higher standards.