[T-nex]

Ok here's the thing.... Ever since AO and AE was made, some of the key member's in the OWI team left. Like Farzad. Much of what you see in AO and AE was based on Farzad's designs. Which is why many of you feel that some of the the oddworldiness is gone. His designs were truly unique, and that'd probably what you were feeling in those game. Steven Olds is a pretty good designer too.

But on top of that, in MO, they decided to change the unique, environmental, oddworldy musik to..... simply techno rave. How can they go that deep? Dunno. But it was a failure. IMO. The same soundtrack over and over and over, in every single level. What happened to the cool natural sound effects? The strange percussion that the previous games delivered? That was what made oddworld cool too.

Also, me and a friend agreed that Lorne probably gave Sherry too much power or whatever. The darkness and the creepyness has left oddworld. It's not allowed to be gory or vulgar anymore... No.... Every hop needs a kidsy "Boing" sound, and everything needs to look cartoony. Bad choice people. Whatever oddworld stood for, it's gone.

Earlier Lorne was all about saving environments and anti-materialism or whatever. But he has come to contradict himself now.

SW was an ok game. But in no way can I say that it was part of oddworld.... Seriously, it didn't give me that feeling. Yea it was beautiful, and had many different environments. But so many other games are. What I hated the most was... The clakkers. THe ugliest, cartooniest and stupidest design ever. Why chickens?! Why??
Also the grubbs had a very boring design too.

The outlaws were a disappointment too. Why has a whole race called Outlaws? Would have been cooler if they had many different races.

SW was an ok game. I enjoyed playing it, and the story was thrilling. But I think they shouldn't have jumped from the Quintology. SW was only made to save OWI's poor ass.... But it failed too. Didn't even sell as much as MO. Of course that was because of AE.

But overall. I don't feel OWI are staying true to themselves.

And now they are working on Citizen Siege, right? And it's all based on Raymond's designs. Nothing good could come out of this. Raymond's my least favorite designer.


End of rant.