When I got AO, I was seriously impressed with the dramatic opening sequence. RuptureFarms looks really scary in that vid!As I continued playing, I thought the characters were really cute. Until you squashed them.
I was attracted to the Sligs straight away. I didn't like meeting them in gameplay, because they always wanted to shoot me to pieces, but otherwise I thought they were very sweet. And the Paramites and Slogs were even cuter! Glukkons didn't feature very prominently in AO; they were confined to about two or three FMV clips and only appeared in one screen gameplay wise. I became a Glukkon fan when I got AE, and the Glukks featured very prominently, and I realised how groovy they were. I hate making Sligs and Glukkons explode when I'm done possessing them; I wish you could just 'unpossess' them like you can with Paradudes and Scrabs.
Edit: Oh yeah, some other things as well. I LOVED the farting! To my knowledge, there is only one other game with farting in gameplay (Tombi) but I'd love to know if there are any others. When I first got the game I would just make Abe stand there and fart continuously for no reason at all, and my brother and I would just sit there laughing hysterically! It was even funnier when I discovered that other creatures responded to farts; I used to make Abe talk to another Mudokon and fart at him, and both he and Abe would laugh. Then if I made Abe laugh, the other Mud would fart back! I used to seek out Muds with high-pitched voices (there is some variation in the voices of all the Muds, but this is more prominent in AE than in AO), because they did squeaky farts to match! Speaking of GameSpeak, that's another thing that attracted me to Oddworld. It's such a simple idea, and yet so brilliant. I'm amazed that no other game thought of it before. Some games let you choose what a character says when a question is asked of him/her, but it's just not the same thing (going a bit off-topic here, but the funniest example of this is in Spyro 3, where Spyro is asked to pay some gems to lower a bridge, and you can choose whether to make him say 'Sure, whatever' or 'Take off, hoser!'
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[ June 26, 2001: Message edited by: One, Two, Middlesboogie ]