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Dave 03-14-2006 07:49 PM

Hey ... what's that?
 
Okay, maybe I'm dense. Maybe it's been mentioned.
But ...
look at the moon in the attached image. I know it's not really clear, but if you feel the urge to investigate, you can always pop in Abe's Oddysee.
That is certainly not a mudokon or gabbit print. I tried to enlarge and clarify the moon itself the best I could while maintaining the shape on the moon.
Any explanations/speculations?

Cullen Heath 03-14-2006 07:59 PM

I don't know.......to me it looks a lot like a Mudokon Paw, but I could be wrong.

Well, if it is something Strange, Good find!;)

ODDREN 03-14-2006 08:50 PM

Planet of Oddworld has several moons, not only Abe's Paw Moon and Munch's Leg Moon)))some of them are just unseen in the phases when APM and MLM are:)

Biggy Bro Slig 03-14-2006 11:07 PM

It looks like a knuckle to me...and a hand at the same time.

Xavier 03-15-2006 12:29 AM

looks like a smiling face :p

seriously now, I have no idea, the resolution is a bit too low to sort it out. It could be anything or even nothing at all

Dark Elite_H2 03-15-2006 02:25 AM

Yup. That's a Mudokon paw. Can't miss out on the crooked fingers.
Well...I could be mistakened...Looks like an animal print...One o' those.

Xavier 03-15-2006 03:49 AM

http://www.oddworldlibrary.net/togg/SS/AE/SSAE0053.jpg
http://www.oddworldlibrary.net/togg/SS/AE/SSAE0306.jpg
http://www.oddworldlibrary.net/togg/SS/AE/SSAE0121.jpg

I see no way we can say that's the moon being 100% sure

SligStorm 03-15-2006 04:52 AM

Xavier thos pictures on your last post didunt show up.. Just fort to tell ya :)

Oddish 03-15-2006 08:02 AM

This could realy get us into a deep discussion!

It's hard to realy see clearly, if it was a future quintology hero's moon, that would be pretty neat.

It does look like Pacman.

Munch's Master 03-15-2006 10:48 AM

That I believe, Dave, is a mudokon paw. There appears to have been either a fault in the digital art or a cloud is obscuring part of the palm, but yep, I'm pretty sure it's a mudokon's right paw.
Although it also looks like it could be a rabbit had on the zoom-up, but I doubt that.

used:) 03-15-2006 11:27 AM

This is justa little off topic, but does anyone else think that the moon may be some sort of giant story stone? I mean, whenever Abe holds his paw up to it, I feel that a new leg of the journey unfolds before him.

Wil 03-15-2006 11:28 AM

*magic touch* There, Xav's pics show now.

There was a topic about this moon a long time ago, but I can't find it now. It does look slightly palmate, but I don't think it's Abe's Moon. The ‘fingers’ are really fat, and it just isn't Mudokon-paw shaped, to be honest. It's either a random pattern (a pareidolia) or something else.

Used, I love that idea so much. The practicality of it is a bit off, though. :p Maybe Mudokon story stones (thinking in particular about the spherical Necrum ones, presumably older) are actually based off the moon. That might actually mean Mudokons have long had knowledge that moons are spherical bodies, not just flying disks.

used:) 03-15-2006 11:49 AM

Perhaps this moon is Squeek's moon. :)

Yes, why they woud come into the form of a moon though is beyond myself. Probably because they needed it to be seen wherever the savior would be. So yeah, nice, contemplative thoughts.

metroixer 03-15-2006 11:56 AM

It looks like Abe's paw to me. But i'm mighty tired and my vision is blurry so shmeh.

Mojo 03-15-2006 12:47 PM

Lol, it's easy to see which came from Abes Oddyssee, and which from Abes Exoddus. Sure, none of them pics are ACTUALLY from Abes Oddyssee, they're the modified "flashbacks" in Abes Exoddus (The one where the fingers are roughly the same size), and the ones made specifically for AE (With the jungle of Necrum).

Nate 03-15-2006 12:49 PM

Dave, do you have the Japanese or rest of the world version of AO? In other words, does Abe have four or three fingers? Because if he has four fingers then we know that this can't be his moon in that version of the game.

Wil 03-15-2006 12:51 PM

That was a point I was going to make. This ‘three-fingered’ design appears on my Abe's Oddysee, in which Abe has four fingers.

Dave 03-15-2006 12:54 PM

I have the rest-of-the-world version. If you mean the one released in the United States.
Unless there are more than one mudokon-print moon, I don't know what to say about this one.
Another attached image. In a secret area, the mudokon moon is clearly visible in the background. The moon I mentioned is nearby.
I'm glad this generated such discussion. But I wish we knew.
Since I can't really make the shape terribly clear, I tried to outline and enlarge it. And I had to save it as a .gif for filesize problems. Bah.
For best results, I suggest loading up ol AO and looking for yourself.
(Image origin is vgmaps.com, by the way)

Nate 03-15-2006 01:07 PM

Well the general outline of that moon seems to be the same as the four-fingered one, just that the finger on the right is not clearly visible.

Slaveless 03-15-2006 03:16 PM

You mean, OWI had to reprogram AO to fit Japan's culture? I never knew that they actually changed it, but I knew that why they cut off a finger.

Mine's was made in Canada and I have the four fingers. Or is it a North America thing?

Nate 03-15-2006 05:00 PM

Try to take in what we are saying; it's an Everywhere-But-Japan thing.

Daxter King 03-15-2006 05:52 PM

It looks like Abe's paw to me, but I could be wrong. It would be coolif it was a future character's paw.

Nate 03-15-2006 08:35 PM

I extremely doubt it as we know that Munch had not been designed at that stage so it's unlikely that any of the other heroes would have been.

ODDREN 03-15-2006 11:12 PM

i have 4-fingered moon. tell you once more - it's just another moon, not Abe's, not Munch's...Squeek or Fangus - may be;)

Biggy Bro Slig 03-15-2006 11:16 PM

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Squeek or Fangus - may be;)

I hope you mean by, "Squeek" you mean Stranger?

Xavier 03-16-2006 03:09 AM

I don't see how it could be munch or any other hero since they weren't designed yet when AO came out ;)

TomFrogman 03-16-2006 05:07 AM

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I hope you mean by, "Squeek" you mean Stranger?

Stranger was never part of the Quintology and as such, never meant to of been given his own moon.

Seeing as this is Abe's Oddysee, however, it could be interpreted as a four fingered moon seeing as they only edited it back to three fingers for the cutscenes. I was certain there was actually a screen in Stockyards (one of the secret areas) in which you do see Abe's moon prematurely though... perhaps I'm mistaken.

In any case, it could just be that thats some other moon entirely. Oddworld isn't limited to just two ;)

Xavier 03-16-2006 05:24 AM

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I was certain there was actually a screen in Stockyards (one of the secret areas) in which you do see Abe's moon prematurely though... perhaps I'm mistaken.

well it's in the second picture Dave posted ;)

Biggy Bro Slig 03-16-2006 07:54 AM

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Stranger was never part of the Quintology and as such, never meant to of been given his own moon.
I know that...

outlaw king 03-16-2006 10:13 AM

It just looks like an ordinary moon to me , Unless the next OW character has a badly ingrown foot or hand , its not his moon.