The Kett (Game Informer Video)

So if we got a butt with a head sticking out of its bumhole and it had good writing you would be fine with it?

Montreal is an unproven, to be proven failure department of BioWare I feel. The artist guy seems a bit like an amateur. Nothing wrong with it, but I kinda get the impression from the interview that they haven't properly sat down and talked about why the Kett is supposed to look the way they do based on some lore-specific ideas. He says they have stories they want to tell about the Kett and I believe him but I worry if it's been sort of a lenient decision-making process when they had to figure out how to make new races now. He even says the Kett design is the one he's the most proud of of the new aliens.

Also, it looks like a Warframe character just like the new armors and helmets.

I thought it was just me 

I'm sure humans would find some way to fasten their lips over their food-intake orifice regardless.

Yes. The game informer article said something alone those lines.

Arcian and I created quite a few fan races for his vision of Me continuation, and I just for the fun of it. It was on the old Bioware forums, which you cant see anymore, but I have some copies of it that i took and preserved.  I may post them here at some point.

To be honest they look a bit too much RAWR! to me. I would have preferred a nice mild looking enemy, dangerous but not looking dangerous. The models look good but as I said they look a bit too RAWR! Hate me, as far as first impressions go.

Here is the alians the (kett) that we have to deal with in andromeda shot taken from the video on the header.


Edit-but a few frames before this shot there were different ones that i thought look bad ass,
Dont forget they have there own weaponry too

You humans are worse than asari, at least they have natural means for xenophily.


I actually like their VO, I have soft spot for deep "mechanical" voices since Sovy. It does make them sound sinister however. That "I have the bad feeling about this" sounds like he's about to press "kill all humans" button. Even if he told "Do you want some tea?" in that voice I'd still assume he just poisoned it.

The concept art shown in the video looked really cool and interesting in the beginning, but then got progressively worse the closer we got to the final Kett. I agree that they look incredibly bland and uninteresting, especially their faces. They look so human, it hurts and with their final armor design, I find them no less "sleek" than the old races, less so than krogans or vorcha for example. Really not liking their design so far, but I hope there are some more interesting looking alien races joining in Andromeda as well.

I can't say I find this to be the most inspired alien design I've seen so far. Even with keeping a humanoid shape for obvious gameplay reasons, why not make them rely on echo-location, magnetic currents instead of eye-sight? That could have opened other kinds of designs, like prominent frontal bulbs or whatever. That said, I'm perfectly aware it is easier to relate with anthropomorphic creatures. I find many spiders very cute, but I know that I'm in the clear minority about that. Most people around me find them ugly and disgusting, even in documentaries where the director and narrator do a good job at making them look cute. Is it the safest way to make us sympathise with them at some point? Absolutely. Is it such a bad thing? It remains to be seen, and entirely depends on which kind of story BW wants to tell.

Besides, having one species looking so human doesn't preclude others from being less so. We've already seen other creatures that have no anthropomorphic design at all, what they call the Remnants in the PS4 Pro trailer to begin with, the giant flying centipede, the giant leaches, the dragon transformer... So, I'm not overly bothered, and hopefully, the narrative the Kett bring is compelling enough to overlook the relative blandness of their aesthetic. I'm reserving my final judgment to when I finally meet them.