What would you ask Lorne?
 

There's a strong possibility (though not yet a definite certainty) that I will be meeting Lorne again in the next few weeks. I already have a list of questions that I want to ask him, but I thought it would be good to take suggestions from the wider OWF community. What would you ask him, given the chance?

Also, can someone please give me a short summary of what people gave been doing with the hacks & mods and an example (via YouTube video) of the best mods so far?




No questions about hair product this time.

hm i would ask him a bit about the game squeeks oddysee who is the character,and what games will he release in the future

Bear in mind that he's not going to come out and tell us major details of unreleased games. You're probably better off looking to the past than the future for your questions.

Has anyone asked Lorne about what he thinks about Penny Arcade strips (the ones about him) yet?

That's what I'd ask. I'd ask it good. Yep, yep.

Will Abe HD feature online multiplayer?

I'd rather online co-op if there had to be a form of multiplayer.

That's what I meant. The take the 2 player mode from AO and AE and add an online side to it.

Should've mentioned co-op instead of multiplayer then. :p

Well it is multiplayer isn it.

It consists of multiple players.

But it's not Multiplayer per-se, because it's not 2 simultaneously. It's 1 at a time, so wouldn't it be technically Co-Op?

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Fuck, I often think Oh, I wish I could ask the good folks at OWI about that. but I can never seem to think of them at times like this.

Why the hell do the trains hang from under the tracks?

Why was the train at the beginning of AE going in the wrong direction?

Maybe Necrum Mines happened to be on the line to wherever the train was going?

Think of it like a passenger train going from Cardiff to London. It doesn't go directly from Cardiff to London, it goes through the other stops on the line such as Newport, Bristol ETC... and even if it was an express line that didn't stop at any other stations it would still at least pass through them.

I have no idea if this has been answered before, so let me know if it has! But I would love to know more about the character design process from Lorne- what were the early inspirations for the characters visually? How and why did the designs evolve from the first concepts? I suppose the same question could be asked of the environments too!

Could you ask him about the poor initial PC release of SW and MO? A lot of folks were annoyed at how buggy they were, and although they're fixed now I'd quite like to hear how that might have affected Lorne's relationship with JAW.

Also, ask if OddMobb is going to do anything anytime soon.

Dang, I can't think of any specific questions. I'd quite like to know more about the typical working day at Oddworld Inhabitants in the past, how employees were treated, their working style etc. That's probably too vague and isn't really Oddworld related, but just thought I'd get it out there.

Could you ask Lorne how he feels about the revitalisation of the Quintology and whether he intends to finish the story now that the possibility to do so has arisen?

Thankee.

Have you got any plans to re-vist Abe's Exoddus like you are with Abe's Oddysee?
and I was at GameCityNights and i was going to ask you but i got to nervous :P

Definitely ask this, it's been bugging me for ages that all they seem to be concentrating on is re-releases and bonus games like HoO.

How much influence do you think fans have had on the progress of the company/series?

Can you reserve me free tickets to the premeir of the Oddworld movie?

I can cover the flight to California with my pensioner's discount.

That's a point. Ask him about the status of the Oddworld movie.

Oh I just thought of something to do with multiplayer but I'll edit this post and stick it in the "Speculation" thread. And yeah, ask him about that too - What are their plans for that?

What's happening with CS/WW/TAS?

Oh, and is Max bullshitting us with Nods Oddysee?

Can you ask him about any merchandise? I've been dying to get my hands on some official stuff!

It was stated in an interview recently that they would be updating the site with a shop in the near future.

This is a must-ask.

Nothing.

That's a very personal question, gishygleb. I'm not sure he'd feel inclined to answer that. In fact, it's quite likely he'd do the same as me and tell you to fuck the hell off.

Ask how much creative control he's planning to have on the new projects - is he going to take the same approach as he did for the old games, or is he going to sit back and give JAW's team a lot of freedom?

Ask definitively if Khanzumers are a single species or a caste like "Outlaws" are.

Will we ever see Stranger again? And Sekto? And Freyda?

If I recall correctly, Max asked him that himself a few years back and received a resolute "I don't know what you're talking about" reply.

Hasn't stopped it turning up in industry media. Let's push it a little more.

That's because Max still claims it is true, jammy git that he is.

That's weird, I could have sworn the last three years had happened.

Will new species appear in Hand of Odd?

I would ask if they are considering making a Strangers Wrath 2, because they left the ending wide open.

My mom wants to know if Lorne will go out with her.

You mean all the time that you've been saying "I'm so sure Lorne said it. If only the Wayback Machine had archived that quote!"?