Retro Asylum interview with Lorne Lanning and talk about Oddworld and lots more

[Nepsotic]

Too much.

[FrustratedAssassin]

That's like your opinion. Also the last part with the spoiler is from a song.

[V_O_T]

Yeah I'm just going to blame Vlam from now on. Even if he's right, it's all his fault that everything is terrible.

You know who was truly behind designing the wrong color green for rapture farms in NnT? ch'yea.. you guessed it.

[Nate]

Okay, I'm going to nip this spamfest in the bud. Ontopic now, please.

[retroasylum]

Well there's plenty to shoehorn in!

We're set to speak with Lorne again in the near future so we'll pitch some of them if I can.

[Vlam]

Well there's plenty to shoehorn in!

We're set to speak with Lorne again in the near future so we'll pitch some of them if I can.

Will you dare ?

[Xavier]

Well he already did in the past...

[Vlam]

Well he already did in the past...

Yes, but I mean him asking real questions like "do you really have the movie script ?" ; "was JAW your first choice ?", etc.

[Xavier]

Yeah, those are definitely questions that are the most relevant to Retroasylum's audience...

[Vlam]

Yeah, those are definitely questions that are the most relevant to Retroasylum's audience...

Is there really an audience for Lanning ? I mean, to be frank, they just like the idea (and I don't blame them) of interviewing Lanning (so they are brown-nosers who aren't suppose to ask real questions). But again, that's normal. And it's not like you will learn something new from him. You listen, in your entire life, one interview of Lanning, unless you're a fan (thus those questions are relevant).

[kjjcarpenter]

I've probably read/watched near-to every interview Lorne has ever conducted, and I know a few others around here who have done the same, our resident archivist obviously being one of them. It's not hard to believe that on a forum dedicated to Oddworld that some people actually care about what it's father has to say.

Come on, vlam. Don't be so cynical all of the time. I know this is the internet, but surely you have better things to do than constantly berating Oddworld.

[Nepsotic]

It's father says the same thing every time he speaks.

[kjjcarpenter]

It's father says the same thing every time he speaks.

How would you know unless you've read them all?

[Vlam]

kjjcarpenter, don't get me wrong : I'm not complaining or anything. It's normal that you've watched near-to every interview Lorne has ever conducted : you're a fan. But Lanning only speaks about himself (and other things) but not really about Oddworld (because the interviewers don't really care about it).

[kjjcarpenter]

kjjcarpenter, don't get me wrong : I'm not complaining or anything. It's normal that you've watched near-to every interview Lorne has ever conducted : you're a fan. But Lanning only speaks about himself (and other things) but not really about Oddworld (because the interviewers don't really care about it).

That totally makes sense, mate. Cheers for explaining.

I definitely agree though, if I was going into one of Lorne's interviews expecting to get some juicy Oddworld intel, I'd most probably be profoundly disappointed. He's quite vocal about his passions and viewpoints—all of which are considerably esoteric—whereas Oddworld is usually left on the back burner or treated as subordinate in the grand scheme.

[Manco]

The problem with us complaining about Lorne’s interviews is that we’re not so much the target audience for most of them.

Lorne does a bunch of interviews with all sorts of different websites and publications in order to keep interest in the series going, even if it’s just on the back burner. To each of these publications and the bulk of their readership, anything they are told is new information on the series, even if it’s appeared in an old article on another website or in the Art Book or whatever because the average reader of these interviews doesn’t trawl the web hunting down every media appearance Lorne has made over the years.

Of course we know these things already, but to a casual fan or newcomer to the series this is often new information. It’s not wrong of Lorne to do this in service of keeping interest in his creation alive.