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Slog Bait, Havoc is the one bashing Lanning all the time.
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You are, like, the personification of the reason why people hate the French. Stop your stupid bashing and let people enjoy what they love.
For the record, I don't bash on Lorne. I joke about the fact that he's super passionate about the world he thought up in his head over 20 years ago and always repeats his feelings. But the reason I have faith in Lorne is because the story in his head is many times more elaborate than anything we've seen so far. At every single corner in Oddworld's history he's had to cut corners with the story because they weren't technically feasible to show. AO's story had massive parts cut out and rewritten from how Lorne envisioned it. AE's story now appears to have had much more to it than what was shown on screen. MO's story was virtually completely redone because of development deadlines set by the publisher. New 'n' Tasty didn't have the time, the budget or the people to rewrite the story in any significant way.
New 'n' Tasty was an overwhelming success no matter how much you hate it, and it has put Oddworld back on the map. Now they do have the time, the budget and the people because they re-opened their own studio instead of relying on third party developers. From the looks of it they're outsourcing the modeling and the CG cutscenes to a specialized company, leaving more time for the core team to flesh out the story. All in all, Soulstorm might be the first time in Oddworld history where Lorne gets to put all his experience and lessons from past mistakes together and tell the story mostly the way he actually wants to tell it, with no technical limits or time limits or annoying publishers breathing down his neck, telling him what he can and can't do. That is why I'm excited.
Now, if all you can do is be negative, please get the fuck out of here because we're celebrating stuff over here.