[Sl'askia]

Might as well put my two cents in.
The main reason I am not into Oddworld as much any more is that I am not into video games as much as I used to anymore. The reason for that I believe is me getting a computer...(two now)...well that explains the console video games anyway...though I don't have that many computer games.
I mean...you're looking at a dragon that used to beat games within a week of getting them...now I have bunches of games I never finished and some I never even started.
To be honest...I think the only reason I ever got MO (and with it the X-Box) was to spite someone...(who shall remain nameless...though my close friends on here will know who I am talking about ). Now that I have beaten it...the X-Box is nothing but an expensive paperweight...gathering dust as there are no other X-Box games that really catch my interest, in fact I am thinking of turning it in to the video game store here in town to get store credit for something else. (been meaning to do that with some of the games I no longer play as well).
Ok...I am getting off topic...back on
About MO...I was disappointed with it. Yes...I understand OWI moved it the X-Box to make it a better game graphics wise...but in exchange they took out/changed a lot of the content (new species, story lines, etc). And content/plot of the game is just as important...if not more so....then the graphics. And what they had in MO wasn't enough. Example:
When I defected AE with a prefect score and got the extra thing stating we would learn about what happened to Abe's mother, I was thinking: "Yes! We finally get to see female muds!" And was there in MO? No...nadda, zero, zilch, no sign of Sam...though she was going to be in it before the move to the X-Box.
Yes I understand OWI was trying to broaden its playing field...but come on...running around collecting sprooce so you can open locked areas and to enable Abe to possess (and he never needed sprooce to possess his foes in the first two games...thats a big gripe of mine...you should go forward in abilites...and that was going backward.) is stupid ...if I wanted to play a game that had something like that...I would go play Mario or Bango Kazooie...
Game speak...ok...Abe and Munch's were ok...but my beef was with the enemies game speak. Come on! In the other two games enemie game speak had a purpose (open doors Abe can't unlock himself, controling sligs/slogs). In MO they only insult or gloat about themselves...what purpose does that serve? Cheap laughs? LAME!
Ok...I'll admit going around blasting things with a Big Bro/Slig/Snoozer/etc was fun...but then I have the sadistic streak in me. And I have no real qualms about the environments.
Personally...I don't see a message in MO...it got lost somewhere during the transfer to the X-Box. Animal cruely? You see hints of it but not enough to make an impact. Slavery? Could have done better on that if the muds you rescued didn't look like they were supposed to be doing slave work. Confused with that last statment? Well...I am refering to the stupid striped uniforms the muds are wearing...they look too much like prison uniforms...which makes the muds look like criminals that deserved to be treated like that.
Ok...I think I am done now....oy...that ended up longer then I thought...