Yes.
Very Yes.

OK, let's start taking bets that Garrett is going to be replaced with grizzled old Medieval Sam Fisher or a busty vixen in very tight leather.

I have never been more scared in a game than on that level. Doom, F.E.A.R or any other game is no match for the emotions I felt during that unholiest of all levels.

Shalebridge Cradle should be required playing for anyone attempting to create a scary game.

Wow, Eurogamer, way to make Thief sound like the biggest piece of crap in the world. Yep, that's Thief for you, a gritty, creepy, sewer dumping murder fest.

I wouldn't be surprised if they relaunch with a different character. The ending of the 3 made it look like Garrett's time as the main character was done.

I still have the burned copies McChuck made for me years ago. Got through the first but never go to the second and third. My pinky still hurts from all that SHIFT button action. I don't think I left the crouched position the entire game. I also had an addiction to blackjacking everybody, regardless of need.

I really should play this game... I have always wanted to but just never had the time for it... Now if I could only find all three of them somewhere...

'eh, really I feel the original games were more about the developers than the name alone, I'm not really all that interested until the game shows some merit on its own. I'm also interested if this new game will this game remember the PC roots of the series, though I'm not all that optimistic on that point.

Well, this is a new unproven studio now working on two classic franchises, so I'll remain skeptical for the time being, especially since Eidos has been acting like a company more interested in "leveraging brands" than putting out polished, well-made games lately.

That said, with Assassin's Creed being a huge hit, maybe this is the best time for a franchise with a similar atmosphere to have another chance at being in the spotlight.

Wow, this certainly came out of nowhere. I thought Thief 3 tied things up pretty nicely, but I am a Thief fiend so I welcome the possibility of Thief 4. Except that it's not by LGS, which makes me very, very worried.

Now where's Alien Love Gardener?

EDIT: From the article Tkyl linked:

Um, yea. He certainly doesn't get it. Taffer!

Yay!

Haha, I'm right here. I've just been trying to figure out how I feel about this. It's not by Lokking Glass or ex-Looking Glass people, so that's automatically a problem. Still, more people giving that genre a go can only be a good thing. If only it weren't with one of the besterest gaming series ever...

I'd really like to see them not try to build directly on the previous games. Give Garrett a rest. Not only because I don't want their filthy paws mucking him up, but his story is done. There's not many places to take his character after the events of Deadly Shadows, so just don'ty try. And while you're at it, set it a good couple of years into the future. Give the old city a while to grow into a slightly unfamiliar place, if you're going to set it there at all. As long as Eidos Montreal doesn't mess too much with the original stuff, keep the gameplay fundamental the same and create a strong, morally ambiguous character and give the story a strong noir/horror flavour I'll be pretty happy.

I'm pretty sure that's a holdover from when no laptop ever had a graphics card with the required pixel shaders. Only other thing I can think of would be that it can run a funky speeds if you have power-management turned on.

My thoughts for the setting was similar to the difference between Fable and Fable 2. Move things forward a bit but nowhere near the present.

I think as long as they don't mess with the formula too much that a new company can emulate the original games. I know it's not Looking Glass but I think they were necessary to innovate and create the game in the first place. I'm less worried about the need for innovation in the fourth iteration of a series. Mainly, I want more Thief but updated. Not something drastically different. But I'm easy. I'll take what I can get.

One thing they could do for the new one is go back to singular levels. I hissed the first time I ran into one of those purple clouds that takes you to the other half of a level. At least you could go back and forth, unlike the first two Splinter Cells. I didn't like how those games divided a level into parts. It took away all freedom.

Things I liked in Thief 3 were the new lockpicking system, pressing oneself agains the wall (some very tense moments using that move) and the city between levels. I hated the loads going from burrough to burrough but liked the openness of it. I wouldn't mind more of that without getting into Burnout: Paradise territory where all you have to drive to the races. I say teleport to the levels but lemme make some cash on the side by exploring and robbing a living, less scripted city.

Also, bring back the rope and vine arrows. Though, not necessarily at the expense of the climbing claws. I don't know why it has to be one or the other.

I think a weird pseudo Victorian-ish future would be cool, with steam engines everywhere and crude cars honking on the streets. Kind of like world in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.