I think the creators when making the kraken did not really think about the original kraken, from real pirates stories and myths.
I just think the kraken doesn't seem like a giant octopus anymore.
The kraken has tentacles that look like snakes and they are so far apart from each other its ridiculous, also what is with the weird mouths!
The creators said the mouths were used to snatch sailors off their boat but in story the kraken(like a normal octopus) wrapped the tentacles around people and grabbed them.
The only real reason Im complaining so badly is because every one of my favorite youtubers now believe that all krakens,squid and octopus have weird mouths at the end of their tentacles.
I just think the game has gone a little bit too far off the concept of octopus.
overall I love the game and this is the only thing keeping me from going to cutlass cay.
The Kraken design is too original
@jeanluc-gaming I agree the Kraken doesn't look like a kraken. It should look like a very angry squid and the only 'mouth' should be in the centre of its tentacles.
@crisp-the-fox said in The Kraken design is too original:
What about the thing that eats krackens?
There's a thing that eats krakens?!
@katttruewalker said in The Kraken design is too original:
@crisp-the-fox said in The Kraken design is too original:
What about the thing that eats krackens?
There's a thing that eats krakens?!
Never been to Japan?
@jeanluc-gaming I have to agree with the tentacles being too far apart. I have thought that on several occasions.... and it also doesn't feel like it's coming from a creature (to fix this all they need to do is change the angle the tentacles come out of the water at, rather than making them 100% vertical... I suppose the reason they want it big is so that multiple ships could attack it and work together? So if it was like this:
I suppose it could be difficult for people to help as they could easily just shoot your ship... At the very least it should be like this though:
(not suggesting it needs to lift your ship.. but these tentacles are closer together and it's much easier to see that they come from a single source i.e. a giant squid creature/kraken)
I don't mind the mouths of the tentacles personally, although I agree, it's a bit weird, but it add the whole threat of 'sucking' players which works I guess. And at the end of the day, there is nothing wrong with them wanting a unique design for their game... I think my main issues are...
- Add a body for heavens sake, perhaps the body can also suck you in like the tentacles can, and if it does, you are eaten and killed.
- tentacles closer together so it looks like it's coming from the same creature..
I'm tempted to make a thread about this as I have also been thinking of ways to make the encounter with the kraken actually scary and would love to hear peoples thoughts on how to make the encounter more interesting :P
@angrycoconut16 I personally think the mouths are the worst part.
Especially about people now who never heard of the kraken thinking the kraken has multiple mouths on the end of the tentacles, its not unique if your actually basing off something. The sucking part is also weird, I know coding and animating a tentacle grabbing a player would be very difficult and buggy but I really love octopus and krakens and seeing this is pretty weird for me@jeanluc-gaming Ok, this I'm on board with. The tentacles should definitely pick people up instead of just magic-ing them up.
Side note: are we not allowed to say Moby D**k without getting modded?
@doubledragun It's more than that... the kraken is far too passive and not aggressive enough. That is valid feedback and Rare have demonstrated how they value feedback.
Has anyone here seen the movie Deep Rising? Our Kraken's tentacles reminds me of the ones from that one. They all had mouths but still all connected to a monstrous head with a terrifying maw of it's own.
I disagree with the OP and say I love the design of the Kraken thus far with the in-game tentacles and skulls, and the design in the art book
The only part I'm not SUPER fond of is the colors; they're a bit cartoony for my taste. But I will agree that they make it stand out more visually from the water around themThis is the wiki page on the Kraken
It was thought to be based on giant squid which live around the northern hemisphere.
The Kraken is supposed to have teeth or claws on its tentacles which giant and colossal squid have but neither have mouths on their tentacles nor have I seen anything mentioned on the internet that suggests the Kraken does either. Personally I think the Kraken should look like the one out of PotC and feel scarier. Also to see the body would be nice and the bubbling effect when its under your ship. At least then it would feel like a Kraken@undeathx It is literally meant to be an octopus, and not some weird snake armed fish thing. Also if your going to make your own unique style on something you should base it off something that can be edited. But the kraken has been a giant squid/octopus for so long that people recognized the kraken as that, and to change it almost completely is pretty weird.
also all the in-game kraken art like cave paintings and stuff the tentacles don't have mouths. So basically the game didn't even show the weird mouths.
Also we all have our opinions and if yours is to disagree then don't come to where people discuss about it.@jeanluc-gaming According to this website this is what the Kraken was/is meant to look like which is cool except its the wrong way around and isn't meant to have a skeleton.
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@jeanluc-gaming Made a thread to suggest improvements if interested :)
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/59337/lets-improve-the-kraken
Kraken - Wikipedia
