More Oddworld film concepts -

***Wil*** · #61 07-03-2009, 02:12 PM

You didn’t like that about Abe’s Oddysee? Or do you mean you wouldn’t like to see them used as beasts of burden?

Sanssouci · #62 07-04-2009, 04:28 AM

No, I didn't like it about Abe's Oddysee. It always felt like one of the nonsensical things I had to put up with cos it's a video game.
That film flowchart with the references to docile (or at least tame) cattle felt like an affirmation of this.

If they are to become beasts of burden, their designs would fundamentally change so they wouldn't exactly be the scrabs we know and love. I don't have a problem with that.

Fuzzle Guy · #63 07-04-2009, 07:10 AM

The complaint that a factory wouldn't really be using ferocious predators as the food isn't much of a valid complaint, to me. In a world that it seems perfectly legal to murder Mudokons - intelligent lifeforms who, providing they have money, would be fully capable of achieving a lifestyle similar to that of a Glukkons, I don't think it is difficult to accept that this world also uses deadly beasts as a primary food source.

Sanssouci · #64 07-04-2009, 03:39 PM

Yeah. Except back when British society was largely racist and murder-happy, why didn't we use bears, foxes, owls and eagles as primary food sources?????? Makes no sense to me!

***Wil*** · #65 07-04-2009, 03:46 PM

Because they all taste shit. Scrabs taste gooooooooood. ^^

Sanssouci · #66 07-04-2009, 03:48 PM

Really Fuzzle Guy, you're saying farming a lean gamey predator makes sense if you have no problem killing the underclass. That's bollocks. Farming a lean gamey predator does not make sense.

The eco-system would require herbivores or omnivores which would be prime candidates for domesticating and farming ala cows or pigs. Animals which would have been farmed for hundreds if not thousands of years.Scrabs and paramites need not apply.

Sanssouci · #67 07-04-2009, 03:49 PM

(foxes and owls taste really really nice actually. There just must be some other reason why we did not farm them all those years ago!)

I also hear lions taste great (unfortunately I've never tried them). Why have the kenyans never bothered to farm them!???????

Fuzzle Guy · #68 07-04-2009, 04:18 PM

What is the difference between these as a food source and Scrabs?

Sanssouci · #69 07-04-2009, 04:20 PM

Those super cows are not used as a food source. They are used as pedigrees in ridiculous competitions.

Fuzzle Guy · #70 07-04-2009, 04:21 PM

They are eaten. I watched it on TV once. Some food critic. His complaint being fat is needed for flavour.

***Wil*** · #71 07-04-2009, 04:23 PM

I feel the need to point out that Scrabs and Paramites weren’t farmed, they were hunted.

Fuzzle Guy · #72 07-04-2009, 04:25 PM

Like Crabs.

Scrab cakes are similar to Crab cakes.

Sanssouci · #73 07-04-2009, 04:25 PM

The stockyards of RuptureFarms is evidence to the contrary

***Wil*** · #74 07-04-2009, 04:29 PM

Storage. Maturation. Gameplay.

Sanssouci · #75 07-04-2009, 04:31 PM

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Storage. Maturation

Sounds like a farm.

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Gameplay

Which is basically what I was saying at the top of this page.
"It always felt like one of the nonsensical things I had to put up with cos it's a video game"

used:) · #76 07-04-2009, 05:38 PM

Dude, come on. Scrabs fucking rule and you're not going to change that. This is fucking Oddworld. If Lorne had a dime for every logical inconsistency in the game, CS would have premiered a long time ago.

Fleeches, for god's sake. They're just like fucking catdog. Should we cut them out too?

Explodable, possessible farts. I mean, Jesus!

Sanssouci · #77 07-04-2009, 05:44 PM

Yeah I like scrabs, but not as a farmed animal. My only point is I don't think they would be farmed in an oddworld film.

On a similar note, you reckon Abe will be possessing and exploding farts in the film?

used:) · #78 07-04-2009, 05:52 PM

I don't think Rupture Farms would be Rupture Farms without the legions of suffering wildlife.

And no, I was just pointing out there are much more ridiculous things in Oddworld than whether or not Scrabs are farmed.

Sanssouci · #79 07-04-2009, 05:56 PM

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I don't think Rupture Farms would be Rupture Farms without the legions of suffering wildlife.

And I'm sure such suffering wildlife will be there. As a type of tame domesticated "cattle", not scrabs.

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And no, I was just pointing out there are much more ridiculous things in Oddworld than whether or not Scrabs are farmed.

We could make a long list of illogical game things which probably wouldn't be put into the series of films.
We'd have such fun debating the borderline cases - wells! etc

Fuzzle Guy · #80 07-05-2009, 05:38 AM

Also, I have just realised that the beast with the fire in this picture could in fact be the Shrykull. If the new livestock is going to be the furry bovine-like Cattle, then it would seem to make sense that the Shrykull is going to be composed of these animals, who seem to have replaced the Paramites and Scrabs as the animals of worship in the cave picture.

Hazel-Rah · #81 07-06-2009, 09:21 AM

I think OWI has what it takes to put James Cameron's "Avatar" to shame. I just hope that the CGI isn't all the movie has going for it like "Advent Children".

STM · #82 07-07-2009, 10:20 AM

OI, this is really off topic!

Jordan · #83 07-07-2009, 10:22 AM

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OI, this is really off topic!

Oh, the fucking irony.

Fuzzle Guy · #84 07-07-2009, 12:01 PM

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OI, this is really off topic!

Actually, I think you'll find Oddworld Inhabitants is exactly what we're meant to be discussing in this forum

Soapy Jackson · #85 07-07-2009, 11:58 PM

I don't think they're Scrabs in that second picture.

They appear to be these. (Meeches, if memeory serves me well.)

moxco · #86 07-08-2009, 12:14 AM

It looks like a big squiggle to me.

MeechMunchie · #87 07-08-2009, 11:03 AM

They look less like Meeches than they do Scrabs.

Fuzzle Guy · #88 07-08-2009, 12:04 PM

This person made one post and started their post with lawl. I think it's a multi.

Leto · #89 07-08-2009, 01:16 PM

I call shenanigans.

MA · #90 07-08-2009, 01:48 PM

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Those super cows are not used as a food source. They are used as pedigrees in ridiculous competitions.

your talking bullshit (get it?) mate. beef cattle are farmed to have ridiculous amounts of muscle so WE CAN EAT IT. therefore, 'those super cows' are indeed eaten, its just that show cows are not and are usually buried when they die.

and i agree with Max. Scrabs aren't farmed, they are hunted.