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How should I put this? Oddworld is a reality inspired by our reality through the mind of Lorne Lanning....All I am saying is expect things in the future to be more and more outragious.
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PA, the first line is quite elegant. I couldn't really make heads or tales of the rest of that paragraph, but I think I get you. But again, its the last line that deserves the attention, right? Outrageous. What exactly do you mean by that? I worry that OI have decided to get really out there with the goofy side of their endeavours at the expense of the fidelity of the Oddworld universe.
I originally created this thread meaning to talk about the disconnect between the ethos behind the quintology and stranger. This has become a discussion on the nature of a side project in a serialized universe. That's cool. Let me recast the question this way: Even though Stranger deserves its own "feel" in the aesthetic sense, is it acceptable to create a less believable reality knowing parts of which must inevitably reoccur in the quintology?
I feel alot of the power of AO and AE is that the universe is fully workable. The gameplayer almost never steps back and says, "ok, why the hell is that possible?" The same can't be said of MO (but that's forgiven, because that wasn't on purpose.)