Quoted from Aurich:Relax, we've been through this before. Steve Ritchie and Dwight Sullivan are a great team. I'm as disappointed in the art as anyone, it's a hell of a missed opportunity. But there could still be a really fun game under it all.
If the gameplay is there people will warm up, and it will start getting much more positive attention. Right now all Stern has shown is art, so that's all there is to talk about. These are 3D renders, so forget getting some video, there's no game to shoot footage of.
You have to let people go through their reaction cycle. You can't rush it by artificially starting a "positive" thread. Stern needs to generate news people can latch onto as a foundation for it first.
So yeah, art sucks, but jury out on the game. Give it time.
I am hoping you are right that the game will be great but Steve has had some not so great games also. Where will this one fall? Time will tell.