Hmm... here's a cool idea, if you'll bare with me.
Let's say that no, Steef is not part of the quintology. How do they define that? I've always looked forward to the last installment of the quint, playing as five different characters at once with different abilities- Abe, Munch, Squeek... umm... Rex... I dunno, Stifle the Widget, whatever the hell OWI gives us. If he's not in the quintology, though, then Steef won't be in that merry band, which seems to make sense, being Clint Eastwood and all. But where does that leave him? A one-time character. Maybe not.
What if Steef's story dealt with saving some people, doing some good deeds, etc and so forth... but there's a couple of scenes where he talks about those "filthy bug-eyed mudokons, always getting in the way" or something like that. And it all ends triumphantly, yeah yeah, he defeated the villain and walks off into the sunset... carrying two familiar wanted posters and a loaded crossbow. What if Steef was a hero now, but when the quintology returns he's a villain? All of a sudden, in the middle of some raid on a despotic farm of one kind or another, Abe is staring down the business end of a drawn bolt, Munch is hanging in a net somewhere, and you have a true first in an oddworld game- a boss fight. The level loads, and Munch is screaming in the background, explosions are going off, there's mines lining your path as some feral gun-slinger in a Crocadile dundee hat is jumping off the walls like a spiderman villain shooting nets at your ass while the scrolling LED's in the background chime in "Hey stupid! RUN FROM THE STEEF!!!" He's got a chant supresser on his belt, a hankering for that certainly high bounty on your mudokon head, and a personal problem with the race you're out to save. What a great and original plot device it would be! Remember playing Steef? HOW DO YOU LIKE HIM NOW THAT HE'S BLASTING YOUR GREEN BUTT!?
Phew, venting. Whadda you think, folks, does it have potential?
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