I'm all about some Citizen Siege. I love Oddworld and the Quintology, but OWI could probably do a much more scathing political game. And Oddworld--while timeless--is very political already. Anyway, its not as if they'll lose the OWI flavor, it will just be darker, more (directly) connected to the times, and allow for new ideas to enter there games. And though Oddworld ISN'T earth, that doesn't mean it isn't based on earth. Why not go to the source and be blatantly political, instead of subversively so.
If its one or the other, I'll go Oddworld, but come on--there's no chance it will be one or the other. The only reason I can think of NOT to do CS is because they would be delaying new oddworld-based games. But I think I can handle that, as long as they make great games. So OWI...Bring it.
And P.S. Hand of Odd hasn't necessarily been cancelled (that I know of) last I heard production had just been halted. It still has a decent chance of being released some time in the future. And sligstorm wasn't really a game in its own right, just a kind of bonus adventure to add importance to a collectors edition of the two Abe games that never came to pass.
Though they are games that were announced that have yet to be released, its kind of like ME. They'll probably make it. Just not yet. (Admittedly ME has more certainty than the other two, but I'm just trying to make a point.)
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