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"It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Mark Warren·3 days ago
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Purse snatchers vs robo-folk Image credit: Arkane Dishonored co-directors Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith seem like good mates. In a newly published YouTube let's play of their creation, they sit side by side, both dressed in black t-shirts like a married couple who've gone to great pains to coordinate their threads. Would that still be the case if their efforts to make Thief 4 and a Blade Runner game respectively hadn't ended up being mashed together to form 2012's sneaky holiday to Dunwall? Perhaps not, given Smith said it felt as though the pair needed couples therapy by the time they wrapped up a game which wasn't based on a single established work one director would have loved more than the other. Watch on YouTube Recounting Bethesda's initial decision to offer Arkane the chance to work on a new Thief or Blade Runner back in the day, the pair understandably likened it to being offered two different flavours of catnip. "Bladerunner came a little later," Colantonio recalled.…

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