How did you get hooked?

[moxco]

It all started when I got the Xbox for my birthday. I got a deal were you got a controller, the console and 2 out of 10 selected games. My parents bought it for me so they chose the games. They chose SSX3 and Sharktale. I told my mum that sharktale was crap so she said "If you still have the docket you could exchange it for one of the over selected games". So we went to EB games to exchange it. I was looking at the selected games when I saw an strange one that caught my attention. It was called "Oddworld, Munch's Odysee". Although by the look of the cover I thought it should of been named "The Adventures of the Mountain Dew Monsters".
After chosing the game we went home and I played it and loved it. Well, I guess thats were it started.

After that I was brosing around a Harvy Norman store in the electronics department when something caught my eye, "Oddworld, Strangers Wrath". "Yes!" "I nearly said out-a-loud. "I finally found it." It cost $84 but very luckily at the time it was 50% of all Xbox games.

After that i bought AO on Ebay and downloaded the AE demo.

"How did you get hooked to Oddworld?"

[Salamander]

I got introduced to Oddworld from a friend, AO was the first OW game I ever played. Now I introduce other friends to OW.

[Jordan]

There's been many threads about this. But I'll still contribute. Get ready for a long speech.
I played AO on my cousin's PS1, and I loved the game and played it every time I went round to his house. Then he gave AO away.
At this point, I didn't have a PS1, so I couldn't even buy the game for myself. A few years later, I got a PS1 for Christmas. I was stuck with no games for a while. My collection eventually expanded slightly. And when I went to the Game rental store, I spotted AE on the buy rack for £6.00.
I begged my father to buy it me, and he finally gave in.
That night I played it to hell. I began to love the game, and I found a friend who shared this same love for Oddworld. In the year 2000 adverts began to show for MO. I didn't have an Xbox at the time. In about 2003 I went round to my Uncle's with my other cousin, and we played MO for about half an hour. My uncle told us to take the game to my cousin's, and play it there.
So we did, and we finished it in a whole day. In 2004 I got my very own Xbox just for MO. I completed it yet again. Then in late 2005, I discovered SW, I bought it from eBay, and finished it. Well, that's it!

[OddjobAbe]

On the AO release date, '97, I went to a video gmae store. They recommended that I buy AO, so I did. I played it, thinking that it wasn't my sort of game. I thought, 'I'll carry on, see if it turns out any better'. It didn't I was on the verge of taking the game back, but I decided to play it one last time. I still didn't like it. But I kept on playing until I got to Paramonia, still idn'tlike it. Got to Scrabania, didn't like it, would never like it. Or so I thought. Return to RuptureFarms - loved the concept of it. Abe had come all this way, but then has to go back to help his buddies? He's a generous little git, I'll give him that. I completed the game, half-heartedly. Then decided to play it again. I adapted to the idea of Oddworld, and became to like it's imaginitive concept and it's stunning graphics and gameplay. 'The creatures are magnificent', I thought. Oddworld is not a game. It is a world that is explored through the idea of a game. I got used to Oddworld, and decided to keep it.

When AE came out, I thought I'd see if that was any good, so I went and purchased it. I preferred it to AO. 'How is that possible?' I thought. The gameplay was magnificent, but I thought to myself - 'I could do without the flatulence ovedo'. I got used to that eventually.

MO came out - I was hooked. '3D?' I thought, and purchased that, Halo and an Xbox. I played MO all the day. Completed it with everyone free. Loved the story, loved the characters, loved the musical score done by Mr. Bross (which I cannot find proper downlaods for on the internet - I mean for the music when the enemies attack you, and when Mudokons and Fuzzles follow you). This was by far my favorite Oddworld game.

No story for SW, I just bought that because it was Oddworld. Loved it, was a bit different, though I preferred MO.

I'm sorry, I've bored you to death, haven't I?

[Ramonsk8]

Though I had already cleared AE, it started when I played SW... That game totally blew me away, and I started seeing how good the other games were too... (with a bit of luck I'll get MO today!)

[squeak117]

I played Abe's Oddysee when I was very young. I was scared shitless of it! Being chased by Scrabs was one of the scariest gaming moments i'd ever had at that age (until Tomb Raider came out... I still can't play that, scares the crap out of me). I played it, and so did my dad. I played it through to the end and got the bad ending, so then I just cheated to get the movie gallery.
Yeah, I was into cheats then.
After that, I bought a demo for Abe's Exoddus and played it. I don't even think I finished the demo.

Then Munch's Oddysee came out for the Xbox, and I insisted we get it. I never finished it, got frustrated with it, then sold it.

Then just last year is when the wrath of Oddworld hit me. All it took was one thought of Abe's Oddysee. That led to me re-buying Munch's Oddysee, purchasing Abe's Oddysee from Ebay (I couldn't find the original), purchasing Stranger's wrath from ebay and finally getting my brother to purchase Abe's Exoddus from Ebay as I had no money left.

I finished Munch's Oddysee and loved it, although it is still fairly frustrating to me.
I played through all of Stranger's Wrath. I loved it all the way through. A truly amazing and thoroughly original game. That and I love First Person Shooters, yet this was a whole new thing for me.

Abe's Oddysee I can only play when I have access to a Playstation 2 (Holidays). I still think it's the absolute best, though I haven't re-finished it yet.

Abe's Exoddus... havnen't been on holidays since we got it, so i've only played it briefly at a friends house. I'll get right into it when I bring the Ps2 up to Queensland.

And that's how I got hooked.

[Alf Shall Rise]

When I was about three, I would watch my dad play AE. I didn't know how to play video games yet really, so I just continued to watch. I loved watching the skinny blue guy running around and seeing those bugs with guns and tall monsters with four legs. Although my dad wasn't the best at it, and couldn't get passed certain parts, I watched AE every time he played it for one whole year.

Then my brother taught me the controls for PS1, and I played a dozen of games, including Future Cop LAPD, 2Xtreme, Crash Bandicoot, Medievil, and Gex. By the time I remembered Oddworld, I started playing it for three years straight (1999 - 2002), and believe me, it didn't get boring at all!

To tell the truth, I don't know when or how anyone got AE in my family. My father just showed it to me randomly, kinda like how he showed me Resident Evil 2 randomly...scary...but back to the point, I thought it was a game that came with the PS1. Anyway, that's it.

[skillya_glowi]

This will sound really weird, but I don't remember how I got hooked. I really don't. I know it was really early in the process, I think it was even the same day I got the game. But hey, I was only 8, so...

[Arxryl]

It was in 2005. I was baby-sitting my siblings and my mom got back form the movie rental store with MO in hand. I played it, already intrigued by the story-line and the awesome gameplay. Oddworld began to grow on me, and about a week later we rented it agin, and that time, I actually beat it. Then we bought AE and SW at the same time, and then finally I bought AO and MO.


There ya' go! Now I'll go and read what everyone else wrote.

[Bullet Magnet]

I was eight or nine. I'd seen full page ads in those early PlayStation magazines, and they were odd. The creatures fascinated me, but I equated it which the same weirdness I'd seen in the previous Pandemonium ads.

Then an issue came out with two demo disks, instead of the usual one. The extra disk was Abe's Oddysee, stand alone in all it's glory. I played it to death, and came back for more. Something had clicked. It must have been my future derailing and coming onto brand new tracks that would eventually lead to a bizarre and disastrous mental decline. Fortunately the omnipresent availability of my console and the game disk in permanent residence within kept me from losing my tenuous grip on what we laughingly call reality.

It was the scrabs that did it for me.

[Al the Vykker]

Played Abe's Oddysee on a Playstation underground demo disc about a half a year or year before it was to come out. So this is about 1996-1997 I was around 9 years old at the time so yeah. It's been about a decade of Oddworld for me. I became obsessed with it after just playing the demo. It was unlike anything I had ever played before.

[Nemo]

I was introduced by my dad's friend.
He gave it to us on a floppy disk.
Ah, the wonders of early piracy.

[snuzi]

My father either purchased the game, or someone purchased it for him (don't remember exactly). After playing it for awhile, he got a little tired of it, since he said it was too difficult, after which, I began playing it. I've been hooked ever since.

[Mojo]

I saw an advert in some computer magazine, about some game with a skinny blue guy, trying to save the rest of his kind. When I played the demo, I knew that I wanted to own this game.

[snuzi]

Wait a moment, isn't this almost exactly the same type of thread as the "I want to thank..." thread? I mean, we're pretty much giving the same responses as we gave there.

[moxco]

Well I didn't intend for it to turn out like that. Anyways has the I would like to thank thread got anything to do with oddworld.

[snuzi]

Yes. It bacially asks everyone who they would like to thank for getting them into Oddworld, so it's quite similar to this thread.

[moxco]

Well it never said any thing in the title about that.

[OddjobAbe]

Yes, but it did in the post describing what the thread was about.