I felt mixed emotions during the latest livestream. The game itself is shaping up amazingly, generally I love it, but there are some things I do find strange...
One of the things that stuck me the most was the way goblins were designed and written into the world. Maybe it is me, maybe I am too used to seeing them as generic monstruous enemies and smacking them down without a second thought, but they seemed very... Humanized. Everything from the way they behaved and spoke common most casually 'sure thing, boss' and the kid complaining about being an 'orphan'. I did not ever think for a moment that primal, savage goblin even had 'orphan' as a thing inside their society.
Female goblins were even particularly... Cute. The very first goblin that threatened Swen's character by the game was positively adorable. It felt to me as if they removed a lot of their monstruosity, and added more humanity.
I know of course exceptions to any rule exist, and that individual goblins can be different to whatever their tribal society dictates. But there seemed to be more things out of place besides that. There was a mention of Umberlee in the Underdark, a drow was praying to the bitch queen in there, and I do wonder... Why? Why there? It felt... Out of place.
Then there was a book, a journal it seemed, about a High elf revering Lloth. A high elf. And speaking about high elves, the one we saw looked very much human. He had squeareish features instead of fine features, broad shoulders and shared the same height and body complexion of Gale. It was a very poor design.
This was meant to be about goblins only, but then I started to rant on and on! Ha! Matters not, I wonder what you think about little things like that.
