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Yeah, not including more imaginative achievements in the initial release must be earning them an absolute fortune.
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Good of you to miss the point of my rant in favor of cutting them some slack that they don't need.
Adding depth to their games beyond making them creative and quirky (trying too hard, imo, as evidenced by their habit of using "Z"s at the end of collective nouns in an attempt to hip-hop up Oddworld in the whitest way possible) is something that's always escaped OWI, and these lackluster "zone completed" achievements are a reflection of that. At least in Stranger, this was somewhat remidied by giving the titular character an opportunity to roam around town, but what he could do was restricted somewhat so they could push the story along. Oddworld is supposedly this vast place with many different species and rich histories, so... show us that.
Now I realize that the restrictive nature of the games was due in part to the studios being absolute fuckheads to Lorne and crew, but he doesn't have that excuse to fall back on here, and he's released some pretty unimpressive ports, after about a five year period of spitballing these worthless ideas (like that social network that never saw the light of day?) when he could have been taking the games and expanding upon them with that time.
Honestly, who knows what Lorne's been through? Maybe I'm expecting too much too soon, but I really hope if I'm wrong, that he does get on the ball and start actually improving his properties. He's got a whole slew of new opportunities now. He's gonna have extra revenue coming in for it now, and even if it's not that much, I hope he does something with it to improve his games.