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Are The Ren'Kai Finished Being Designed? Doesn't Seem Very Eastern Samurai To Me
Puck_Goodfellow
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Only concept we have with clothes on.
While going over some races overviews I couldn't help but feel the asthetic of the Ren'Kai orcs was off. They are described as having an eastern and samurai warrior aesthetic to them but it doesn't seem that way to me.
You've got the right architecture, clothing and body for it but the faces don't seem to match at all or at least for what we have for concept art so far. Just looks like Warcraft orcs with eastern aesthetic paint.
Now the Vek look just fine. Although they don't look like that much of a different race from the Ren'Kai compared to what the other races seem to have.
What can be done? If you close your eyes and think, "Eastern orks," or something along those lines I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of you thought of the Mogu from World of Warcraft as that's the first thing that came to mind for me. Obviously you wouldn't want it to become a total 1 to 1 comparison as we still want orks and not a humanoid Foo Dog as that's what Mogu were modelled after.
Now Foo Dogs are a Chinese mythical creature whereas the Ren'Kai seem to be following a more Japanese aesthetic what with samurai and whatnot.
So what Japanese mythical creature aesthetic could be used to create a more Japanese ork? Again, not a 1 to 1 conversion as we still want an ork but something to draw upon. The first thing that comes to my mind are oni which is interesting since those scary masks you sometimes see samurai wear are based on them.
Now that would be pretty cool and a lot better than just having two orc races that look the same and thus couldn't really be called two separate races.
Would love to know your thoughts.
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I don't discount that but the main issue, and I guess I didn't emphasize it enough, is that the Vek and Ren'kai look like the same race.
With the other races you can already just look at their face and tell what race they are. Oh look there's a Niküa or islander dwarf, or look there's a Vaelune or desert human. Whereas if you look at the concept for the Ren'kai and the Vek, what little we have, they look the same. You could never point out which race they are by how their face looks.
I'm merely suggesting a way that the two races could be differentiated. Would you disagree with that? If so we might as well just have one orc race.
Thank you! Finally someone answered the question. Glad to hear it.
I see. well as the other have said we have not really seen much work art or models so it may just be a matter of time before we see a bigger difference
Yeah the concept art doesn't give scale, but I'm pretty sure Steven once said the Vek are shorter than the Ren'kai, so the main difference at this point is height.
Looks like they might also have differences in skin colour options, but it's hard to tell right now.
I do love masks in games, just a shame we don't see more
I guarantee I’m making one. Maybe not as my main, but maybe I will switch once I see them. I’ve been leaning toward an Empyrean elf but I like the idea of the Ren’kai more over time. I might make a mage alt if nothing else.
That does look pretty cool.
Look at those legs! He needs to cut out the pastries!
he is just big boned