i'll quote myself from a different thread;
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MO came out and wasn't as nearly as good as it was gonna' be, due to being rushed and the 'big move', etc. then SW comes out. its good, but seemed totally different in itself, confusing some people including me.
this may be just my personal veiw of the saga so far, but when MO was released, i thought a lot of detail and soul had gone missing, the grim reality of Oddworld in AO & AE seemed to be turned into a farce. at times i felt like i was on an arcade machine, with the daft gameplay that becomes annoying after a while, e.g: spooce collecting.
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and the creatures/environments in AO & AE worked, it seemed to make sense (the sligs, glukkons, mudokons, slogs, and the hierarchy that surrounds it all, etc).
but then you look at MO and SW, and many creatures anatomies were unrealistic, to the point were your talking to yourself trying to justify things, e.g: fuzzles movement (bouncing), anatomy (fur-ball?!). Clakker anatomy (have wings therefore no fingers, and yet use 'impossible' objects), daft (big chicken).
then there's the industrial side: recycler's & exploding barrels (boring, unrealistic, and plentiful). sligs suddenly become the wussiest creatures on Oddworld (get shot/hit about 20 times by a slig, and you survive!?). mines become the equivalent to a weak fart (i remember accidentally running into a load of mines in MO near the start, when i first played it, and
not getting killed. that was the first of many: "what the fuck are they playin' at!?!"'s. 'they' being OI).
the list goes on...
overall i mainly agree with T-nex, i just hope the Oddworld films are not 'kiddy' and are a bit more dark & adult, like they should be. afterall, to a Mud, there's nothing amusing what-so-ever about being enslaved in some violent factory under the supervision of sadistic sligs. but i have a funny feeling the films wont have any violence in them (seeing as there is violence in AO & AE, making the lives of creatures on Oddworld more realistic, in a way. so that someone who knows nothing about Oddworld would watch the film(s) and
not think 'this is too stupid. im off'.
*gagged*