Fangus pictures! (the game's still canceled)

[toxicity]

I do agree with many on the human thing. It wouldnt of worked.

[used:)]

Meh, it was cancelled anyway so I guess it's not much to think of anymore. But Lorne, he better whip up some unique ideas or I will stomp around muttering angrily .

[toxicity]

Im already stomping around and muttering angrily

[Nate]

Hey Xav, you still haven't answered the question asking where you got those fangus pics from. We know who Deep Throat is now, so you can reveal your source as well.

On a different topic; I find it hilarious how upset people get that Silvio has some non-oddworldesque pictures on his site. The guy doesn't live in OWI HQ. He can draw whatever the heck he wants in his spare time and put it on his website. In fact, I'd say he intentionally put some non-oddworldy designs up so that potential fans/employers can see his range.

[Xavier]

I have the pictures from Silvio and he helped me a bit for determining what picture should go in what section...

so it's quite accurate

[Nate]

Wow, straight from the horses mouth.

I wasn't talking about the ones on your site though, just the ones on his. If you look closely, the ones he did for OWI have a watermark saying (c) Oddworld Inhabitants. The rest, which include some that people have been describing as "unOddworldy", were done by Silvio for Silvio.

[Xavier]

on the other hand blitzer's gun doesn't have the oddworld watermark on it...

[Alector]

I don't think there should be a human on Oddworld. It would destroy all the "odd-feeling" if you know what I mean. I was very surprised to see this human like creature.
A female hero would be quite odd, yeah

[paramiteabe]

I am going to go out on a limb here and say why can't there be some sort of sub species of homo sapians existing on Oddworld? Afterall we haven't really explored everything of Oddworld we only looked at a small cornor. I remember there was a statement a while back stateing that inhabitants of different parts of Oddworld look completely alien to each other. Maybe (and this is my theory) Fangus is located on some other continent on the other side of Oddworld where the inhabitants look closer to human and very different from the peoples of Mudos.

Its an interesting concept but rather far out there but thats just me. I just have an open mind on things but your right Humans and Oddworld don't mix, it might work however they would need to really be careful with the concept and make it Oddworldly enough that it makes sense to the phelosphy of Oddworld.

[Nate]

Lorne has said before that there are not and never will be any connection between planets Earth and Oddworld.

And I would hate to see any sort of humans on ow. The whole subtly of the Quintology was that we sympathised with characters who looked alien but who's plight was familiar.

I think we can safely say that this move towards more humanoid characters is 100% a marketing decision.

[Oddkid]

Well those concept art pieces of Fangus looked really good. But I'd settle for a sequel to Stranger's Wrath....c.c;

Hmm I wonder, do the people at Oddworld Inhabitants ever visit message boards like these?

Do any game developer companies randomly visit message boards created by fans, just to see what people think about their games?

[Kimon]

Do any game developer companies randomly visit message boards created by fans, just to see what people think about their games?

Yes, but seeing as how OWI no longer exists, I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon.

[Oddkid]

Arg. Nobody ever tells me these things. That and I'm very slow on the up take...

[Wil]

I've been to a few video game, cartoon and sit com message boards where members of the development team at least read people's opinions. Vivendi Universal's Crash Twinsanity board was visited by developers who posted all kinds of trivia, artwork and unused concepts for the fanboys and fangirls there.

OWI does still exist - it's just that all internal development has stopped, and almost all Inhabitants have gone on to other jobs.

[panuru]

hmmm... I'm afraid I have to agree with majority in the sense that I personally dislike the direction it appears Fangus was heading.

I wouldn't say they are "not odd" or that they would "ruin oddworld" or anything, but I definitely feel that Oddworld's strongest elements have been fading in the past couple games.

I've loved all the previous titles (just to assure you I'm not a hater or anything) but the main attraction I had to Oddworld (and the main element keeping me interested) was the contrast of "cute" unique and artistic character designs with the dark, demented and sometimes extremely twisted social environments and stories.

Lorne always blames Munch's failure on Microsoft or the machine's capabilities or his team's capabilities within the given circumstance but, in my opinion, it's the writing that lacks the most. With Stranger as well; things like Clakkers, Grubs, and the Wild West aren't really very unique or odd. Great games, but there's a certain element lacking that we found with Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus. Certainly, it helps that the world was new and fresh with us, but it was the INHABITANTS, writing, and gameplay of Oddworld that were far more distinct, unique, and innovative. Munch lost the gameplay factor with its systematic monotony and Stranger lost the inhabitant factor. Both of them had weak writing in my opinion and that's going to carry on to the rumoured movies if it's not remedied.

Lorne mentioned wanting Oddworld to feel more 'real' but I think he's heading in the wrong direction. Instead of making characters who are more 'real' like Chickens, Grubs, and Human/Jaguars and Sheep, I think he needs to direct his company into the realism of the dark and twisted stories that Abe's jorneys first introduced to us to. Hell, he should push that envelope.

I think ODDWORLD needs to get their writing back in shape if they're going to succeed where they have great potential to do so. ODDWORLD's goals are admirable but they may be making it harder on themselves than it needs to be and pointing fingers and the industry instead of their own (sometimes) poorly executed good ideas.

Great drawings on Silvio's part, though.


Edit: hahaha That wasn't a very "Quick Reply," was it?

[Oddkid]

I liked Stranger's Story. And maybe I'm not a deep oddworld fan but Stranger was the first character I felt connected to. But I do agree about the writing. It could have been better.