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Taco 04-01-2010 12:12 AM

Oddworld location lookalikes
 
Has anyone got photos of places on earth that resemble locations in Oddworld? Do you know any deserts that look like scrabania or the Mudanchee vaults, forests that remind you of Paramonia? Does your backyard look like the stockyards? Well post photos in here.

I'm interested to see if people know locations that resemble screens from the game. I reckon we can get a discussion out of this.

This kinda looks like Scrabania to me. It's Kings Canyon in Northern Territory:
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/5963/70373.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2239/9722264.jpg
Except for the lack of cacti and elum.

Phylum 04-01-2010 12:55 AM

And there are no floating mines :P

This is a really great idea, by the way. I'm gonna have a photographic holiday!

Josh 04-02-2010 05:06 AM

When the woods near my house get frosty in winter, they kind of look like Paramonia, without all the wooden walkways.

enchilado 04-02-2010 01:41 PM

You know how you blow up the Mines but later return there to save your drunk pals? Well, that screen there, my bedroom looks like that.

Sekto Springs 04-02-2010 02:34 PM

There's a place I go hiking that has alot of Oddworldian features. There's alot of old grinding stones and large rocks covered in moss and gnarled vines and tree roots. It didn't remind me of any specific location, but is overall very Oddworld-like. It's warm enough now that I can go back and take some pictures. I'll get on that first chance I get.

As for industrial environments; Grand Central Station and Feeco Depot have alot in common, but that was definitely no accident. There's also an old chemical plant near my childhood home that looks like RuptureFarms. Lots of huge pipes and causeways, smokestacks bellowing out black smoke at all hours of the day.

MeechMunchie 04-05-2010 08:42 AM

I once went to some French mountains that looked like Paramonia.

Grandi 04-05-2010 11:54 AM

How about Lapland forest as paramonia? Not perfect, but atleast somehow similar.

http://www.storaenso.com/sustainabil...%20Lapland.jpg

Sekto Springs 04-06-2010 09:10 AM

Found some pictures of that place I like to go hiking on google. Have a looksee...

http://photographs.mccumber.us/540/b...-mill_pa05.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_83fhsSB8lY...alphafalls.jpg

http://www.northcountrytrail.org/ins...nells-mill.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/18...2ea24d.jpg?v=0


These pictures don't do it justice. I'll have to go with a camera myself sometime soon and take some awesome pictures. It really is a beautiful place.

STM 04-06-2010 10:33 AM

where's that? please say england

Sekto Springs 04-06-2010 11:10 AM

Unfortunately no, its over here in the states.
It's called McConnell's Mills. Its a park out in the countryside. Beautiful spot for hiking, I go there several times every summer.

Lord Stanley 04-06-2010 12:25 PM

Looks a lot like Paramonia to me.

shaman 04-06-2010 12:52 PM

Wooky hole. About twenty miles from me, looks a lot like the caves in the Monsaic Lines.

Or prehaps the Paramonian temple, now i think of it.
http://www.dayvisits.co.uk/_img/pics...n_chamber1.JPG

Jango 04-06-2010 01:18 PM

Hmm, I would say more like Monsiac Lines than Paramonian Temple. The Paramonian Temple is mostly wooden and has no water, while Monsiac Lines is more rocky; like in the picture. :)

Nate 04-06-2010 06:56 PM

I would say more like the glowy caves in SW.

OddChipango 04-06-2010 07:13 PM

Kinda gives me the feeling of Feeco Depot / Sould Storm Brewery screens, just hella smaller and a bit lighter.

http://www.terragalleria.com/images/...ustn40425.jpeg

Sekto Springs 04-06-2010 10:20 PM

Some more pictures of McConell's Mills.

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/phot..._10863852.jpeg

http://i.pbase.com/g6/19/21319/2/70795726.chjSuOM7.jpg



http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/...es/Boulder.jpg

Wil 04-06-2010 11:06 PM

The upper picture seems more like the early river artwork, like the Song Engine and the Mudokon Queen carving. The lower one is like the Mongo forest that appeared in SW.

STM 04-07-2010 01:18 AM

There's a forest near me I've never set foot in but it's a small pine forest that nestles into the four faces of a hill, surrounding me there's a ton of countryside so it always feels like oddworld to me =)

enchilado 04-07-2010 07:43 AM

Fuck, Sekto. That first picture... the waterfall... I WANT TO GO THERE, RIGHT NOW.

Sekto Springs 04-07-2010 07:48 PM

Its a nice little spot, indeed. I'll go there sometime in the coming weeks and take lots of pictures. :)

STM 04-09-2010 05:41 AM

please do

Xavier 04-10-2010 11:02 AM

Sekto your pics remind me of
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...=CASW0107.jpg4

PalezQkkeli 04-20-2010 04:22 AM

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How about Lapland forest as paramonia? Not perfect, but atleast somehow similar.

I definitely agree. Trying to find a great picture but can't find one. Hmm.. maybe I'll go and take one myself when I visit Lapland. I think thread is a great so I'm going to contribute by finding places that really look like the places in Oddworld :fuzgrin:

kapteeni13 04-21-2010 10:34 AM

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How about Lapland forest as paramonia? Not perfect, but atleast somehow similar.


Ha! :fuzwink: Looks like whre i live: in Finland :D

That is like Paramonia image. Cool 1 !

Crashpunk 04-23-2010 12:05 PM

I'm tempted to put Oddworld Sprites on these pictures :D

PalezQkkeli 04-23-2010 12:17 PM

I think I'm going to go visit a big desert with rocky plateaus so I can take pictures that look like Scrabania. Hmm..

Jango 05-03-2010 12:22 PM

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I'm tempted to put Oddworld Sprites on these pictures :D

Lol, yeah, good idea. ;)

RadicalEdward2 05-11-2010 01:02 PM

Liberty State Park History Central Railroad in Jersey City, NJ looks like FeeCo Depot

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs30/i/20...inepeacexx.jpg

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs15/f/20...iperFox007.png

abe619 05-11-2010 03:08 PM

yeah looks like it with a little slig barracks twist.

RadicalEdward2 05-11-2010 03:38 PM

Yeah :)
http://www.travelblogs.com/patwebster/devils_tower.jpg
Necrum Mines (Devil's Tower)