First of all, I just have to say, and I don't really want to go into a long and boring rant, that on the whole the design of OW4 looks rubbish. When I first saw Steef on the X-Factor trailor G-Xis posted I though, "Oh dear, that doesn't look tremendously impressive, or even particularly odd." In fact I likened it to a pretty commonplace cat/human hybrid that you'd see in something like Fighting Fantasy, although the way he ran from the Hunter intrigued me. Now I've seen these latest pictures (I haven't downloaded the entire video yet) and I'm pretty down in the dumps.
Ooh, knock me down with a feather, birds with dungarees. Blimey. Their houses too, while faring better on the Scale of Design, aren't very impressive. They look like barns, and not much else. Barns...chickens...hmm... And the boat, well, it's a longship. How else can you describe it?
*sigh*
I don't what the new Oddworld Inhabitants design team are trying to prove. Perhaps they want Farzad, Paul O'Connor and all the rest back as much as I do and are trying to provoke some responce from us. Joke conspiracy theories aside, I'm severly unimpressed by what I've seen. Except the name 'Steef', I like that.
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