[skillya_glowi]

Maybe you're just Mr. Your Average Fan and you think of Oddworld as just a cool game. I've said this before, but I believe than anyone who starts to play Oddworld with a game other than AO will never be a real fan. AE was an excellent game, no doubt, a masterpiece, but it just wasn't the same. Perhaps the gameplay was better, more interesting, perhaps the scenery was more detailed, but it just didn't convey the atmosphere of Oddworld to the gamer.

Or maybe, you know that Oddworld is something more than a game. It's even more than a concept. More than a universe, in some ways. Its strange beauty and complexity bordering with simplicity was what intrigued me. Thanks to Oddworld, I became more aware of the environment. I didn't give a shit about what was cut up in the hamburger, and, even though cows don't have the grace and beauty of Scrabs and Paramites and are nowhere near extinction, still...I'm by no means a vegetarian, just the thought of those baby back ribs make my mouth water, but still...
I didn't even appreciate the beauty of nature before. I was just a cynical little bitch who, when she saw, say, a chinchilla, didn't think "Oh, what a cute little animal," she thought, "Wow, just think of the wonderful pair of gloves it could make". Now, I take a little more time to appreciate the beauty of our world.
Oddworld also helped me get by when I was feeling down...whenever I felt depressed or sour, all I had to do was look at some of the videos, and bam! my good mood was baCK. Oddworld made me laugh in the hard moments of my life.

In other words, how did Oddworld help you and/or affected your life? Or, did it at all?

PS: I always wondered, if I revere Oddworld so much, what does that make its creators?