Thanks for the giveaway, Billy! I'm conflicted about Squeenix, since they gobbled up the IPs of loads of games I was fond of, but they didn't seem to be too bad with DX:HR, which was made under them (not by them, of course).
I'd like to be in for Thief 2!
As for a story about my Squeenix experience, I can talk about Hitman 2 (wasn't published by them when it was released, though). Hitman 2 is awesome. You should go and buy it now. It is here on gog! Enter this compo for it if you don't have it :P.
I remember one level in the game you had to kill someone at a sushi restaurant where they had ordered fugu/puffer fish. This being a Hitman game, you could go about this a million different ways: guns a blazing, shoot everyone in sight, silently kill the entire place one by one, sneak about until you reached the guy, kill him, replace the puffer fish with unprepared puffer fish that is poisonous, kill the cook and impersonate him to get to the guy and shoot him, kill the cook and serve the guy unprepared puffer fish, etc. etc. What I ended up doing was completely unintentional and hilarious. I came in contact with absolutely no one in the level. I was trying to go the replacing puffer-fish route, but missed my chance. I had mucked some things about in the kitchen when the chef came back to finish preparation on the puffer fish, so I bolted and hid. Apparently my messing things about distracted him enough that he forgot the final steps, took the fish to the boss guy, who ate it, and died :D!
I got twin silenced ballers as a reward (no kills, nobody spotted me) for that.
Post edited April 04, 2014 by babark