Oddworld Forums

Oddworld Forums (http://www.oddworldforums.net/index.php)
-   Oddworld Discussion (http://www.oddworldforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=6)
-   -   What age were you when you first played Oddworld? (http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=17865)

Crashpunk 03-13-2009 10:23 AM

What age were you when you first played Oddworld?
 
I was about 6 years old, We had Abe's Exoddus free with our first computer and when i played it, i used to get scared when i was beeing chased by Fleechs and Slogs, it took me ages to work out how you shoot with a Slig :D

AlexFili 03-13-2009 11:12 AM

For me I was about 10 when I played Oddworld. I did quite well, although I didn't save many mudokons on AO. I even got the bad ending the first time I think.

Crashpunk 03-13-2009 11:17 AM

The first time i played AE i saved about 45 Mudokons! I was on Boewerkz for ages XD
I played AO when i was about 9

OANST 03-13-2009 11:46 AM

I think I was 19.

shaman 03-13-2009 11:49 AM

i was four...

Grandi 03-13-2009 12:33 PM

3-4 when I played throught AO
5 when I played throught AE

In AE I was quite good but In AO, i didn't make it to the good ending until second try. Dad couldn't help me much because he was even dumber than me >:D ...And actually, is still.

EDIT: Some typos and grammar fails.

Xavier 03-13-2009 12:53 PM

You guys started pretty young.

Hmmm I think I started around the age of 13-14, can't remember very well.

moxco 03-13-2009 01:20 PM

I was 4 or 5 when I first played AO. The fact I played the game quite young probably is half the reason I still love Oddworld today.

Jordan 03-13-2009 02:15 PM

Probably had my first play of AO when I was about 5 or 6. Properly started playing when I was 7, with AE.

Chubfish 03-13-2009 03:57 PM

I remember playing Abe's Exoddus with my cousin when i was around about 6. I think my dad bought Abe's oddysee for me after that, which I played for hours and hours...

Guekko 03-13-2009 04:44 PM

I have my guess that I was about ten or eleven (I got Exoddus before Oddysee). I remember a project of mine involving a big slig with a light-up eye when I was eleven, so it must have been around about then

Phylum 03-13-2009 07:05 PM

I chose AO as a birthday present for my mum when I was 3. She couldn't play it(too hard) and here I am today :D

I used to get scared by sligs when I first played it(I could never get past them) and gave up. 4-ish years later I was looking through my dads games(DN3D, QuakeII, Magic carpet 2 etc.) and I found the disk. I have basically memorized every area(excluding secrets), but don't ask me to name them from a screen number.

AE was when I was 10. I borrowed it for 2 years(finished 3 times, all bad ending)

Crashpunk 03-14-2009 01:25 AM

My dad played through AO on ps1 and AE on Pc with all Good endings

AlexFili 03-14-2009 01:35 AM

:

()
I chose AO as a birthday present for my mum when I was 3. She couldn't play it(too hard) and here I am today :D

I used to get scared by sligs when I first played it(I could never get past them) and gave up. 4-ish years later I was looking through my dads games(DN3D, QuakeII, Magic carpet 2 etc.) and I found the disk. I have basically memorized every area(excluding secrets), but don't ask me to name them from a screen number.

AE was when I was 10. I borrowed it for 2 years(finished 3 times, all bad ending)

Magic Carpet 1/2 are awesome games BTW. I really hate that I can't play them on my XP :(

alf's brother's mate 03-14-2009 09:05 AM

Erm... Four I think. Played on my 166mHz PC, oh that computer was so badass...

I fell in love with AO as soon as I watched my dad prance through Paramonia while I watched without moving, my eyes glued to the screen, and I immediately decided that I would complete this game, saving all 99 mewdookuns as I used to call them as soon as I could.

And I did...

Three months ago.

ABM

mr.abe 03-14-2009 09:14 AM

I was about 4

alf's brother's mate 03-14-2009 09:21 AM

Hah. I hunted you down on Google Earth so now I know where you live.

ABM

Bullet Magnet 03-14-2009 09:53 AM

I had it as a SATs present when I was eight or nine, after playing the standalone OPSM demo so much.

My mum had offered a shaky explanation for a Rupture Farms symbol marked "Scrabania" on my memory card in the week prior to that.

used:) 03-14-2009 10:00 AM

I was around five or six. When I lived in Pittsburgh, my mom and I would sometimes stop at a Circuit City in the suburbs. I would head to the game section and scruitnize AO until we had to leave. She eventually got it for me, but I was too freaked out to even get passed RuptureFarms. It wasn't until I was thirteen that I started getting somewhere with the games.

Wil 03-14-2009 12:11 PM

:

()
Hah. I hunted you down on Google Earth so now I know where you live.

ABM

ABM, please don’t post about somebody’s location like that. It’s not appropriate to this topic. But thank you for pointing this out. Mr.abe, I don’t know if that was your real address, but I’ve changed your location data for the sake of common sense.

I would have been ten when I first played the Abe’s Oddysee demo, and possibly eleven by the time I had the full game. I really can’t remember exactly.

Stop making me feel old.

abe619 03-17-2009 08:23 AM

I was 4-5 for AO
and 5-6 For AE

alf's brother's mate 03-17-2009 09:34 AM

Yeahh... Sorry 'bout that Max, a bit of a hyper random spam'o'hrreah.

I only played MO for the first time a few months ago though...##

ABM

Oddey 03-17-2009 11:50 AM

I started playing at age 5 or so when my uncle bought it for me. Being five with an innocent veiw upon the world, it brought a lot more emotion than it does to this day. About a year later when I had come to grips with the game I was given Abe's Exoddus, and a new spell was set upon me. When Munch's Oddysee came out I was eager to buy it. Eager enough to get my mom to buy the Xbox as the first ever console in our household. At the time it was a good game for me. Stranger's Wrath was a game I met with mixed emotions. Part of me wondered if it really was Oddworld, and the other part of me knew it was awesome.

Oddworld has had a lot of influence in my life as a game.:D

AlexFili 03-17-2009 03:30 PM

Stranger's Wrath is an excellent game. I have just been "de-pantsed" :p

shaman 03-17-2009 03:48 PM

Stranger's wrath definately was the "dawn of a new age" for oddworld. It was different fom the others. i still think Abe should have been envolved.




:

()
I have just been "de-pantsed" :p

*Fights urge to make insanley bad joke*

marlz 03-18-2009 05:43 PM

I was first introduced to Oddworld when I played the demo of Abe's Oddysee on the PSone demo 1 disc. I would have been able 6 or 7.

In the same year that we got our PSone, we bought the full version of Abe's Oddysee. At first, I sucked at it and needed my mother's help to do some levels. Over the course of about 10 years, my skill has improved dramatically. I am sooo glad that I played that game.

OH! And I remember seeing an advert for Abe's Oddysee in the window of a dry-cleaners!

Crashpunk 03-27-2009 11:53 AM

LOL
Never seen a Ad for Oddworld. and why of all places to put a Oddworld ad they put it in the dry cleaners XD

abe is now! 03-28-2009 06:48 AM

I started at then and I never stopped :happy:

lbyrd2 03-28-2009 07:33 PM

I first played AO when I was 2 or 3 at my cousins house

I got AE for my 7th or 8th birthday

Slog Bait 03-29-2009 05:20 PM

I was 4, but I played co-op with my mom because it was her copy, not mine.