Mewlah.

Why do MO scrabs and paramites make lion / pig noises instead of the original AO / AE noises. That always pissed me off.

I'm not sure, but I've always considered it a possibility that OWI, or more specifically Lorne, originally planned for them to sound like that but couldn't without the technology in home computers in 1996.

That or for gameplay reasons; I've never played MO so I wouldn't know.

What is the unused URL for the Oddmobb site? I want to monitor it thoroughly for the next few hours.

Ah. I feel slightly belittled.

Note that like all the best websites, the www is unnecessary.

Quick question from me: is Abe the only Mudokon that is capable of possession? Only, if all the workers can do it, well, as soon as the Sligs' backs are turned, BAM! They explode. End of problem. Of course, it would be fitting that only the Chosen One could have such power, but as I recall in AO, one of Abe's first tasks in the temple was to possess a slig, implying that the other Mudokons are aware of, and therefore use, this power.

Cheers,

GlukkonGluk

I've wondered that too. After all, RuptureFarms is swarming with Ant-Chant Orbs, so there must be some kind of latent ability in all Muds - it's just the native ones who can learn and teach others to use it.

TBH I think the anti chant orbs are first and foremost a gameplay restriction element that's part of a puzzle's difficulty. I don't think you should look too much into it at this point.

Hey all, just realised this - I no it's not a Q&A but I don't know where else to put it. I noticed that sleg handlers in SW originally where going to hold slogs and there where going to be two types of sleg, look at this image.

http://www.oddworld.com/firsttenyear...OSW_lineup.jpg

The first is well documented on the forums. The second… well, there are two types of Sleg in SW. White Sewer Slegs in the sewers, regular Slegs everywhere else.

Really, oh your right, very well done chap!

Beam me up Scotty
 

I was searching for the Oddmob website when I came across the trademark things again. Now I came on this site:
http://www.trademarkia.com/oddmobb-77841863.html

And noticed that picture on the right with Elum and Abe. But Elum is some kind of beamed on the screen like with Star Trek. Anyone else seen this picture before?


(sorry if this was already known, searched no TOGG for the picture, but couldn't find it, delete thread if this was already known)

It's an Elum Trap, something that was (obviously) removed from the final game. Plenty has been said about it, easy to find by searching. But there's not really much more to it than that.

Anyone?

All I can think of is that Babylon was a big metropolis capital of a powerful empire. I think, mythologically, it was prideful so God destroyed it. You'd have to ask a Christian or other folklorist.

Well I know that in some versions of the Babel story in the bible the city and it's tower are destroyed by god but there seems to be a lot of different opinions about whether god actually physically destroyed it or simply caused it to be abandoned and swallowed by time.

Maybe Lorne chose Nolybab as the name to refer to the big powerful city inhabited by many different species (language thing in the bible) which will eventually fall by the hand of Abe and the other mystical things on Oddworld the Mudokons apparently have on their side (god in the bible).

I dunno, I hoped there was a definite answer to that but I guess everyone is as clueless about it as I am :p.

*ahem*

I am neither Christian, nor a folklorist, but I know you're thinking of Jericho. Except he didn't destroy it because Jonah warned them of their impending doom and they repented of their sins. Maybe you're thinking of Soddom & Gomorrah, but they weren't big metropolis capitals.

The empire itself was known as Babylon. As Havoc rightly points out, the name comes from the Hebrew 'Babel'. The tower therein was no destroyed by God directly; the story goes that all the peoples of the world united to build the tower to challenge God's power, so he created the concept of differing languages and the sheer confusion that resulted caused the project to fail.

Well the first part would kind of tie in with the Glukkons hate for the Mudokons being the chosen people. Like a challenge to their 'power' or something. I think I might be reading too far into it though XD.

Now that you mention it, that would actually make sense, given that the Jewish (or Judean, as it was known then) kingdom was conquered by the Babylonians and they destroyed the first Temple.

Aha, we're slowly getting into Lorne's mind.

Well for one, mudokons chant a lot and meditate in the wild. We've seen this. But it doesn't necessarily have to mean they can all posses. Maybe the industrialists just don't want mudokons to meditate and just get back to work.
That makes it more plausible and a lot more sense.

Babylon, the empire was Babylonia, the people being the Babylonian, The tower of Babel was designed to reach Heaven but God destroyed it and caused the scattering of tongues.
Perhaps Nolybab is where all species once lived in harmony but odd scattered them and set the mat war?

Was this an April Fools joke? http://pressstarttodrink.blogspot.co...-for-xbla.html

Yes.

Never saw that before

Hey, I was just playing MO, and in the office of the CEO of Splinterz, the OWI logo is on the Glukkons' desk. Did they just randomly put it there, or is there some deep hidden meaning?

It's just an Easter Egg-type thing.

Rightyho

When Stranger is on the phone with Sekto and tells him he knows where to find a Steef head for $20,000, what was he planning to do to get the money he needs, since he IS the Steef? This is something I never really understood. Why bother letting Sekto in on 'some secret' since he was really the only Steef left?

EDIT: Well now that i think about it a little more, it makes sense Stranger might say that as a lie in order to keep his identity secret. But he asks for the same amount the operation costs, as if he is planning to follow through on it some how. That part still just seems a little weird to me.

He can just beat his way out of any situation he runs into...at least, when D. Caste Raider doesn't send dudes to jump him from behind.

That's called cutscene-based or plot-based stupidity. It's when a competent character suddenly becomes a total dimwit for purposes of story (when he grabs the 'idiot ball'). It's how Abe can avoid capture for the entirety of Abe's Oddysee and then be captured because he went into the boardroom. (What a dumbass!)

To be fair, he'd just shut down Rupture Farms, saved the 99th mudokon and executed all of the board members, give him a break!

Anyway... something I've never been sure of: are "blind" mudokons actually blind, or are their eyelids just sewn shut? I'm guessing they are genuinely blind since they don't bother removing their stitches at the end of the game, when there's one helping to build Alf's Rehab and Tea...

It's the stitches.

From Dear Alf:

To support this:

From the old Oddworld.com:
To oppose this:

From Oddworld Universe (not the fansite):

Interesting, I'd say Nate's answer makes the most sense. The Glukkons wanted them blind so their productivity wasn't lowered by them realising they were digging up their ancestors. I doubt scooping their eyes out would have helped to keep them motivated; much easier to just restrict their sight and tell them it's for their own good ;)

Yes, Hazz-JB, but the question is whether the Glukkons blinded the Mudokons to hide the fact that they were digging up bones, or whether they used ones that were already blind and were otherwise useless.

This just leads us to ask ourselves why they were blind with their eyes shut in the first place.

If they're already blind, what use is the Eyestitch 2000?

Why do blind humans wear shades?