I bolded the relevant parts for you, did you not read or comprehend them? Here they are again.
I mean, you quote someone else on stuff that doesn't directly confirms or denies anything. Both studios that were trying to make Blade Runner and Thief concentrated on one game called Dishonored.
One man says "Just do what you were doing with Thief". And? We don't even know the initial pitch, not to say that it doesn't confirm whether they actually followed that statement.
"Dishonored took on bits from the Thief game". What bits? I can see that there are without a doubt Thief inspirations in sound and visual design, but gameplay is completely different.
That reminds me of situation some years ago when I said to you that immersive sim are in fact not limited to first-person because it's a set of design principles. You disagreed with me until you found a quote from some dude. I mean, can we just turn the logic on and skip the quote finding stuff?
Even in that video, much of that balls-out combat consists of zipping around and getting the drop on unsuspecting enemies, not trading blow for blow, that's what I meant by stealth-centric as opposed to Deus Ex, which was theoretically meant to let you deal with enemies as in a straight FPS if you wanted to. Further, calling levels "social hubs" over having traders (like in Thief: Deadly Shadows, if I recall correctly?) isn't appropriate when the reference point is stuff like Hell's Kitchen or Hong Kong. The light RPG elements aren't a point of contention, I said they iterated on the idea of Thief, not copied it verbatim.
The point, which Roguey's quotes support as well, is that Arkane's vision for Dishonored was "Thief plus some new stuff", not "Deus Ex minus some core designs." FPS combat, resource management, social hubs and dialogue trees, these are dimensions of gameplay that impact the top-level abstract experience - i.e. the forest, whereas sound propagation and shadows, or lack thereof, are downgrades in specific systems - the trees. If they'd set out to make "a" Deus Ex, it would've looked very different.
He does what he does in the video because it looks kewl and shows how much effort was put into lethal combat, rather than Thief-inspired stealth.
I'm starting to have doubts whether you actually played the game. There is adrenaline meter that fills up when you fight (that allows you to instakill anyone when full), grenades, pistol with explosive ammo and crossbow that isn't actually silent with standard and incendiary ammo. There are runes that allow you to increase build up of said adrenaline meter and slow down its drainage, increase your hp, break down doors and summon rats to devour enemies. While for stealth we have... well, choke-hold and sleep darts. That's definitely Thief-inspired.
Yeah there is a central hub where you rest before going on a mission, talk to characters, buy and upgrade stuff. I call it correctly. Other levels you may call as you like, but the point is that they structured differently than what we have in Thief and Thief 2, mostly because they act essentially like hubs with side missions / locations, characters you could talk to and traders. The first mission High Overseer Campbell has 4 side missions with different outcomes that affect the world later on in your walkthrough, a few neutral non-combat characters and 2 relatively big side locations + 1 smaller side location that you may not even visit if you don't want to.
I mean, you didn't possibly expect that this game that was suppose to be selling on consoles have RPG features from Deus Ex? That's exactly what it is, a console version of Deus Ex, but better than Invisible War. Also, please stop mentioning "dialogue trees" from Deus Ex. It's laughable. There aren't any that actually change the experience or compare to proper RPGs like Bloodlines.
He learned that they were making Prey and came to Bethesda demanding another juicy leak or he would leak that stuff only. They basically went with "no negotiations with terrorists" policy and blacklisted him.
He leaked the stuff. The other party that was going to sell them System Shock rights didn't like that and they called it off. Schreirer didn't even know they were in the talks about System Shock, but he still ruined it.
