[DarkHoodness]

Oddworld. . . Maybe the games themselves didn't change my life much. They were fantastic stories, but I already knew about the meat industry and the human impact on the planet. I appreciated nature and the environment by then anyway. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I liked the Oddworld games so much. :P Oh, and the story and the atmosphere of them. Perhaps because the universe they were set in was so vast and imaginative too, even if it was a little cheesy and full of small inconsistancies. :P

Nah, the games themselves changed me as much as the Half-Life series has. I've had fun playing them again and again over the years, and just another experiance for me. . . Although what they did do was lead me to the Oddworld Forums.

Here, on these boards, I met many specail people, most of whom I'm still friends with. It was nice to be part of a community who were interested in Oddworld and similar things to me (after all you have to be a certain type of person to like the original OW games). And some of these people lead me to other people on the 'net, too.

Pathetic as it sounds, these people changed my life by simply talking to me, telling me things about thier experiances - They moulded my late childhood a little. :P Taught me many things.

Heck, one of the people I met here on these forums even ended up becomming my girlfriend after a 6 year 'net friendship, and I've never felt closer to anyone else, especailly when I went to meet her recently. . . But I won't ramble. Probably no-one reading this anyway.

Life is a funny old thing, hmm? :P And this is all from a couple of games.