I think my point was that AE was a good indicator of what sort of series Lorne wanted Oddworld to be. A series that tackles some dark themes but injects humour so as not to be too preachy. AO had humour in it but it was pretty bare bones on the narrative front. Characterisation was minimal and a lot of AE's humour was character driven - it had about the same amount of slapstick/fart humour as AO. It seemed like some fans were taking the serious elements of the original too seriously and almost ignoring or putting up with its humourous elements rather than embracing it.
Obviously there's a balance and I thought AE struck a pretty good one. Stranger's Wrath did, too. MO wasn't particularly well developed on either front, however.
Although maybe I said some other things. I don't quite remember. Anyway, I said earlier in the thread about NnT:
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Honestly, I think people overblow how goofy NnT is though. Humourous idle chatter and ragdolls are about it.
The glossy and bright look of the game, the lack of tension, the lack of punch to character deaths contribute to a change in atmosphere. But as far as goofy humour there isn't really all that much added. You could tone it down in game - repetition of idle chatter is grating. But it's not like we saw the second coming of MO.
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