Some thoughts on Wurt, Woodie, and general character lore

[Bluegeist]

To be fair, how much lore can be given in a 1.5 to 2 minute short with no dialogue (sans wortox's)? Lore or not, they are just little commercials to promote the game. Hope we can get alternate lore sources some day...

[Zeklo]

2 minutes ago, Bluegeist said:

To be fair, how much lore can be given in a 1.5 to 2 minute short with no dialogue (sans wortox's)?

Eh, I don't agree with that sentiment.
Winona's short sits at 1:30. The shortest of the seven, yet contains the most lore to examine.

It's very feasible.

[mrxarous]

There are stories to inform and stories to entertain as yourself on the animated shorts most are there to entertain and not necessarily inform players of the true nature of the character being refreshed or introduced. Klei does this often in the years they worked on Don't Starve as a whole. If you were around for the updates to the base game in days past they were always introduced through shorts/art/posts that were more entertainment than informative and left for the player to discover what comes next.

 

For lore, yes staff has come and go, but let's not forget that recently Klei has had openings specifically for DS(T) lore writers. They may have been more general, or tight lipped about canonical lore, because they don't want to pigeonhole players into a certain story or play style. You play an avatar stuck in the Constant, you create your stories, hopefully with those poor souls stuck with you. Go make the story what you want it to be. We'll have to wait and see what happens when Return of Them is fully fleshed out and implemented. And if you look at the history of Klei and the way they respond and build their games, their worlds, their content it is always with the best intentions and with the patience of listening and trying to understand their customer base. Few game devs/publishers do that at the level Klei does. 

[Bluegeist]

2 minutes ago, Zeklo said:

Eh, I don't agree with that sentiment.
Winona's short sits at 1:30. The shortest of the seven, yet contains the most lore to examine.

It's very feasible.

Touché... Actually it has more woodie lore than woodie's own short, lol

[AnitaCoffee]

Don't get me wrong, I like the Woodie update. Captain Canada is now far more interesting, to me anyway. I can recognize however that he has been changed to a point that those who mained him before may not be so happy. That's sort of my fear with the inbound Wendy rework, though to be fair, I think she has a lot more people maining her than old Woodie had. 

That said, not every short Klei does has to be about a back story. His was just fun, & I don't see how it changed the core of his lore? He was just having a tiff with a tree guard one sunny afternoon. I still see him, like the other survivors, as tragic. He's trapped in the constant, his wife is an ol' battle ax, & he's cursed with Ly-Canada-Thropy. Maybe some day Klei will release the lore short we hoped for, but the one he had was cute never the less.