At risk of writing something too long, I"m gonna sum this up as succinctly as I can:
I absolutely love Searex's idea of broadening out horizons from Oddworld to various other innovative games. This would bring together the most intellegent and interesting people of the video game community, and it'd really add to the character of the community, I think.
However, losing the Oddworld name would be nothing to strive for, seeing as how excellent and innovative the series is, but I'm not sure it can be avoided if such additions as different gaming forums are to be included. So, if we decide to go that way, I think there should be several templates made for the games that we are promoting (Physchonauts, Katamari Damacy, what have you) and add them to the current themes we have now. Those who want to stick with Oddworld may do so, and so each person would be able to view the site with the idea that the game they're there for is the one the site revoloves around.
But that's a minor detail in a huge mess of stuff we're gonna have to deal with if we start advocating other games. If I come up with any ingenious ideas, I'll post them here, and otherwise I'll contribute to this thread as much as I can. I think this could be a major turning point for OWF.
And to raise another question: How would people other than those who are already members of our forum be informed of our change? Would we need an advertisement campaign or something, or would we post on other forums that we become a part of?