Paramites or Scrabs?

Jordan · #1 06-04-2006, 08:44 AM

Please please I hope this hasn't been done before I've looked in the Forums and can't find one.
So, Paramites or Scrabs, what do you like better?
Mine is a Scrab because they are soooooooo cool but I wanna blast 'em into smithereenies sometimes ^-^

***Xavier*** · #2 06-04-2006, 10:09 AM

You did search? Cause I'm pretty sure it has been done

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showth...crab+paramites

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showth...crab+paramites

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showth...crab+paramites

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showth...crab+paramites

used:) · #3 06-04-2006, 10:28 AM

I like all of Odd's creatures.

magic9mushroom · #4 06-04-2006, 08:10 PM

What ze heck, let us go for the RECORD, 5 threads! the other threads are a bit old anyway. I say Paramites, because of their behaviour.

Jordan · #5 06-04-2006, 10:42 PM

Uhh sorry bout that... I looked in General discussion and didn't see one, some one can close it if they like.

Mudoko_Jedi · #6 06-04-2006, 10:55 PM

me like scrabs because there big and musclie but i dont like paramite coz they are weak and neardy.

***Wil*** · #7 06-05-2006, 12:59 AM

Nerdy? Heh, in what way are they nerdy?

Jordan · #8 06-05-2006, 10:13 AM

I think he means if they were humans they would be nerdy...
Paramites ARE cute (in a stomach-churning way lol) but they are boring.
Wow Paramite has 5 votes and Scrab has 3, very surprising... Lol

Spirrow · #9 06-06-2006, 03:37 AM

Well, I guess since my birthday is in July and my sign is Cancer
here in the US. Damn it, looks I'll be stuck with a scrab.
But on the other hand Scrabs are not afraid of death,
so summon the great Scrabanian Army.

Jordan · #10 06-06-2006, 06:14 AM

Hee hee Go Scrabs!!! Oh yeah btw I ordered Abe's Exoddus off of Amazon for the PC WOOT!!!

Glukinator · #11 06-06-2006, 06:40 AM

I like paramites. They can climb webs and talk to each other. Skrabs are kinda weird. If they even look at each other, they kill each other and eat themselves. There like muscular, angry canables.

Spirrow · #12 06-06-2006, 01:39 PM

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I like paramites. They can climb webs and talk to each other. Skrabs are kinda weird. If they even look at each other, they kill each other and eat themselves. There like muscular, angry canables.

Yeah, I was stumped when I heard they could talk to
each other in a language we can actually understand.
And here I thought they were just as weird as the next creature
of oddworld, running around their homes screaming in paramite language.

Some scrabs in the wild can be docile as well, so maybe it
won't be so hard containing them in my de-armed forces.

E'l Scrabino · #13 06-09-2006, 01:04 AM

look at my name, look at my avatar, and look at my sig. Guess which one i like best.

Zerox · #14 06-09-2006, 01:14 AM

Um...Slig?*shot*
I think they both have their qualities. Paramites are slightly more peaceful, and tend to be more sociable, but need large numbers to take down prey. Scrabs are larger and contain the singular essence of pure, brute force. But they're not very sociable at all. And I don't agree with them in herds, like they show you in MO. Large predators in large herds? No. Scrabs should stay solitary if you ask me. And such large herds, its not natural. They'd dessomate any other food source avilable. Well, kill everything organic that moves actively, so it can't be a plant. They look silly in herds, anyway.
Paramites should stay in packs around up to 6 strong. I like to think of them like raptors, not too powerful but rely more on cunning.

***Wil*** · #15 06-09-2006, 02:50 AM

Lions.

I think the Wilderness Region is a rich enough biome to support large herds, as in there's enough food for them not to have to establish large, individual territories just to support themselves, which seems to be the case in the desert.

Spirrow · #16 06-09-2006, 04:36 AM

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Um...Slig?*shot*
I think they both have their qualities. Paramites are slightly more peaceful, and tend to be more sociable, but need large numbers to take down prey. Scrabs are larger and contain the singular essence of pure, brute force. But they're not very sociable at all. And I don't agree with them in herds, like they show you in MO. Large predators in large herds? No. Scrabs should stay solitary if you ask me. And such large herds, its not natural. They'd dessomate any other food source avilable. Well, kill everything organic that moves actively, so it can't be a plant. They look silly in herds, anyway.
Paramites should stay in packs around up to 6 strong. I like to think of them like raptors, not too powerful but rely more on cunning.

Scrabs aren't complete cannibals. Else there would no be
such a thing as a scrab herd if they keep killing each other
off. All it takes is a single male and however many females
to socialize and form a group. I heard newborn males were
forced to leave as soon as possible. Probably so the Alpha
male does not feel threatened by the presence of another
male.

You know when you said you thought scrabs should
remain solitary, there would have to be a breeding season
where a male and a female mate. Sort of like with some birds.

Ninjaxe · #17 06-09-2006, 05:36 AM

I want to know this, dont know if discuss before. Would a paramite hurt a scrab. Or other way round. They are both meat eaters so I expect them to kill each other. They don't tend to be in same places or inhabitants. Through AO - MO

Zerox · #18 06-09-2006, 09:08 AM

Paramites are more nocturnal, why Scrabs diurnal. Why this matters to a creature with no eyes I have absolutely no idea.

I see what you're saying, Max, but lions don't *quite* have as large herds. Plus I haven't really seen the excessive amounts of prey for a one hundred+ herd of large, hungry carnivores that prefer at least two Mudokons per meal etc. As in AO I got a Mudokon killed an eaten by a Scrab, then shortly afterwards it came for me. Even a very rich biome would struggle with hundreds strong herds of creatures like this. Apart from Mudokons and Elums, Scrabs generally end up feeding on whatever smaller creatures they can maul, and that would be alot of Fleeches. Only Elums and Mudokons are the generally large creatures I'd think Scrabs can kill for food. At current anyway.

I think the herds have multiple males, otherwise it would be rather...well, the numbers of female to male here just isn't natural if the herds are organised like. But then, still, the Alpha would be rather p*ssed about any other males moving on any available females. But hundreds strong herds with this setout would be...you get the idea. Single male. A few hundred females. 'Nuff said.

And they can't have queens, becuase otherwise the Scrabs would have little purpose in life away from the queen in that sense. Mudokons are at least more self concious to help support the environment. Naturally, I presume Sligs and Gluks would revolve more around their queen.

Apart from the breeding season, Scrabs would be solitary. And it would generally be only two meeting, only for each other thing. The male would call for a female who has a near territory, they meet, get together then split up. Unless the male helps raise the young (single), but that seems unlikely. I dunno. Whichever.

Spirrow · #19 06-09-2006, 02:31 PM

I wish I knew more about bolamites. I've only seen
a single image of the four-legged creature. Are they
like scrabs or paramites in any way.

used:) · #20 06-09-2006, 03:18 PM

They are more similar to Paramites. They spin web and they are also bug like.

Spirrow · #21 06-09-2006, 04:07 PM

I figured that, but are they vicious creatures? Would they
kill alone like a scrab would do? Or does it group up
the same way paramites do?

used:) · #22 06-09-2006, 04:54 PM

Does it really matter?

Because they are based off spiders, I would guess that they do not move in herds and based off what I have seen in stranger's wrath, the web they use is either used defensively or for other non offensive purposes such as forming house like structures or egg sack like things.

***Nate*** · #23 06-09-2006, 11:31 PM

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As in AO I got a Mudokon killed an eaten by a Scrab, then shortly afterwards it came for me. Even a very rich biome would struggle with hundreds strong herds of creatures like this.

You weren't killed for territory, you were killed for invading the scrab's territory in the mating/nesting season.

ANGRY ELEPHANT · #24 06-11-2006, 05:55 PM

Paramites.I can't stand scrabs!In MO I'll play the paramite run over and over just to see those guys

ANGRY ELEPHANT · #25 06-11-2006, 06:01 PM

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I see what you're saying, Max, but lions don't *quite* have as large herds. Plus I haven't really seen the excessive amounts of prey for a one hundred+ herd of large, hungry carnivores that prefer at least two Mudokons per meal etc.

Well,there was a giant Sea-Rex skeleton near the scrabs,and there was still meat on it.But as soon as that ran out they'd kill each other.I think they can live in packs peacefully until they've used up all other food sources

***Xavier*** · #26 06-11-2006, 09:42 PM

ANGRY ELEPHANT, try to not dubble post, use the edit buton if yo want to add something

oh and we are not sure that skeleton came from a Sea-Rex but you have a good point

E'l Scrabino · #27 06-12-2006, 11:01 PM

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Paramites.I can't stand scrabs!In MO I'll play the paramite run over and over just to see those guys

really? i'm the opposite, i go to the level "brewery to be" level over again and again just to see the scrabs... i can stand paramites though.

Slig outlaw · #28 06-12-2006, 11:14 PM

Scrabs for sure.

Rubber_Soul · #29 06-15-2006, 10:12 AM

Most definitely the scrabs. They have incredible strength and power.

Jordan · #30 06-15-2006, 10:40 AM

Scrabs are REALLY cool, Paramites are ok... not as cool as Scrabs though :P