Oddworld Questions and Answers Vα
This is, in fact, the second time I’ve had to create the fifth incarnation of the Questions and Answers thread (for the curious, that’s a Roman numeral 5 followed by a minuscule Greek alpha). So thank you everyone who has contributed to that necessity. I hope you know how appreciative I am.
Here is where you post the Oddworld‐related queries that you don't expect will raise a discussion of their own. I will iterate the importance of first consulting The Unofficial Oddworld FAQ, which answers many frequently‐asked questions. For reference, here are the past incarnations: Oddworld Questions and Answers Oddworld Questions and Answers 2 Oddworld Questions and Answers III Oddworld Questions and Answers IV As of version four, the Q&A thread has also been used for Picture Requests. This separate series of threads was stopped when The Oddworld Graphics Gallery (TOGG) opened, which hosts practically every Oddworld image ever released (excepting website graphics, magazine scans and photographs). Also available are three threads specialising in custom screenshots of Oddworld games: Abe’s Oddysee screen captures ~ Stranger’s Maid Abe’s Exoddus screen captures ~ dripik_12 Munch’s Oddysee screen captures ~ Stranger’s Maid Stranger’s Wrath screen captures ~ Stranger’s Maid. Although many of the picture links will be broken, it has become a tradition to list all the past Picture Request threads. So here they are: Picture Request Picture Request Second Edition Picture Request № III Picture Request № 4 Picture Request Fifth Edition Picture Request Number IV Picture Request № Se7en Picture Request Version 8·0 Whew! That’s it… p.s. Except to add a contents feature, which is a feature that always would have benefited these long threads like Q&A and WDYLL. |
Shouldn't it be β (beta), seeing as this is the second incarnation?
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Only if the first was specified as alpha, which it wasn't. If the first last incarnation was v5·0, this is v5·1.
Besides, Roman numberal five—minuscule Greek beta might get confused for vB. ;) |
Could someone explain what the Munch The Heart thing is on togg?
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Perhaps you could provide a link to the image in question?
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Maybe it's a concept art for what the Oddworld logo design of MO would look like.
I have a question. In SW, the overview look in the Oddworld website, has Slogs in them. Why is this? Or is this an unsolved mystery? |
Each section of the AoOI:tFTY book had a section on the heart behind the character and the game. That's the chapter title page, so to speak.
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Wha Zee Fuh is happening with the Oddworld movie? It seems to me that its dead in the water. Is this the right place to put this question, or is this only for thing related to the Mudos Mythos?
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Nah, this is the right place.
The only answer is "We don't know". It's not dead, otherwise oddworld.com wouldn't have a movie-themed coverpage. Beyond that, we know naught. |
In the first scene of AO does the Gluckon say o my odd or o my god?
also are vykers asexual? |
I believe he had said 'Oh my Odd!' instead. But these kind of things are only heard as gibberish at first, unfortunently.
And Vykkers are asexual, they mate with themselves. That's why they don't where pants. :P |
Vykkers are not asexual; they're almost the complete opposite. They are hermaphroditic, which means they each have male and female reproductive organs (hence the self-impregnation).
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Thanks max i was reading an RPG and someone choose a vykker as their character and said they were asexual
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But isn't asexuality a type of hermaphroditic? I mean, I have a dictionary, and it says:
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Edit: I was the one that said Vykkers being asexual. |
Nope, because a sexual process still occurs. It just doesn't need a seperate male and female.
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Yes—don’t equate ‘sexual’ with ‘sexual intercourse’.
It can lead to awkward places… |
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But I just said that. The thrid definition is explaining other wise, by saying that asexual could mean to be 'independent of sexual processes'. I put sexual intercourse under that catergory. Or do they have the ability pregentate each other?
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they still have to be two to have a child ;) if that's what you want to know
PS:yuk a pregnant vykker would look horrible PPS: could this be one? |
That's what I thought at first, but ow.com is quite clear that they are self-impregnating. Perhaps they can go either way - have partners like Humphrey and Irwin (in which sex [gender sex, not intercourse sex] is irrelevant) or, if they can't get a mate, impregnate themselves to perpetuate the species.
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If they impregnated themselves, it would be the saem genes, so evolution or adaptation could not occur. It may do it to boost numbers in more harsh conditions. But mating between two seperate individuals is much more beneficial for a species. Slugs have both male and female organs, but still need to get together.
The "Mucnh the heart" image was used as a chapter in The Official oddworld Art book, explaining how Munch was designed wtih large eyes and under a predicment to make Munch appealing to people for those reasons. |
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Are Interns the same way since they are a subordant species of Vykkers?
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There was a very small sketch in the Art Book of an Intern metamorphosizing into a Vykker, but I think that mythos has been dropped. They are separate species that both happen to be incredibly sadistic.
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Interns: 2 arms, 2 legs. Odd/no jaw.
Vykkers: 4 arms, 3 legs. 'Normal' jaw. Different species and familys totally. Possible slight convergent evolution. Case closed. |
I think that Interns have a more sexual form of reproduction. And the females are kept in different of Vykker Labs sections, to give birth to other Interns. It might seem that way, because Interns are nearily considered slaves, and Vykkers need more Interns to accomplish seperate tasks. Also, I think that the concept art of Interns naked, is a bit of edivence of having male Inerns.
Just because Interns are related to Vykkers, doesn't mean that they evolved the same way. |
True, true...
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i remember hearing that executive glukkons walk on there hands, and that was just one way of the way they walk...so how else would they walk?
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They can’t walk any other way, unless they can walk on their elbows.
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