I always love the "how you got into Oddworld" topics... I remember starting one back on the ezBoard. Anyways... here goes!
I've always been into games... since I was a kid... mainly of adventure, RPG and first person games. And of course anything where you have to explore/find.
For a few years back I kind of went off playing games except for some "budget cost" PC games that I'd pick up from games sales and stuff like that. We never got a PlayStation until the start of last year when my brother bought one. Only being into sport games all he got for it was a Cricket game... boring!!! So my other brother borrowed some older games from a friend of his. About 5 games... Gex, Perfect Dark, Die Hard, some other platform game ... and
Abe's Exoddus. So I kind of got back into playing games regularly again. I played a little bit of each of those games... but it was Oddworld that really drew me in. Every day after work I'd jump on my brother's PSX and play it.
I think it was mainly the characters, the comedy, the game play, the creatures, the storyline and the "hidden" Mudokons that drew me to it.
I played and played and I found out that there was an earlier game in the series. So I went out and hunted for Abe's Oddysee. It was hard to track down, but finally I found it on sale at a city software store (ironically I may have actually bought it anyway if I hadn't started playing Exoddus a couple of months earlier).
About a week after I bought Oddysee, I started to look up information on Oddworld on the web, firstly trying oddworld.com where I found out a myriad of information and started to learn about the Oddworld Universe concept.
I think that is mainly what drew me towards becoming a big Oddworld Fan. Because it was much more than just a series of games... there was so much more. And the more I read about, the more I wanted to find out and the more intrigued I became about the creatures, the places, the stories and the characters.
From Oddworld.com I found those old Infogrames Forums... and read a post mentioning Oddworldian where I joined the then Oddworldian Forums. And well the rest is kind of history, Sydney asked me to be an Administrator and then when I started Oddworld-Web the forums became part of both of our sites.
I guess that's more on just why I'm a fan... it's a bit of history. And I must say one more thing... that Oddworld Inhabitants themselves also have made me such a fan... few other companies care about fans the way that they do.
Abe Babe...
WHAT GOT YOU TO BE A BIG OW FAN????
I was attracted to the Sligs straight away. I didn't like meeting them in gameplay, because they always wanted to shoot me to pieces, but otherwise I thought they were very sweet. And the Paramites and Slogs were even cuter! Glukkons didn't feature very prominently in AO; they were confined to about two or three FMV clips and only appeared in one screen gameplay wise. I became a Glukkon fan when I got AE, and the Glukks featured very prominently, and I realised how groovy they were. I hate making Sligs and Glukkons explode when I'm done possessing them; I wish you could just 'unpossess' them like you can with Paradudes and Scrabs.
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PEACE!!
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