when did you bacome an oddworld fan -

stingbee · #31 03-31-2005, 01:27 PM

stanger has got to be one of the best oddworld games ever. abe's oddysee did a lot to people

Dipstikk · #32 03-31-2005, 01:37 PM

Abe's Oddysee did a lot to people?
That whore.

Abeguy · #33 03-31-2005, 02:10 PM

went to some store, played MO demo...twice. then forgot all about it.
Then in 6th grade, Zach Roy Wilson was a very unpopular kid and one day he had a paper with sligs on it. Not knowing what it was, I ripped it and laughed my head off. Later in 6th grade I was searching through my little brother's kindergarten teacher's filing cabinet where he kept his educational computer games, and I saw OW, I immediately remembered MO. Thinking it would be like it, I popped it in, and saw it was awesome. 2D, to my surprise (thought it was going to be 3D cause that's what MO was) and was hooked, since the game was T for Teen(not a good game for a Kindergarten class) He gave it to me and I took it home a beat with the good ending the first time. About half a year ago, I got AE for PS and I also had AO for PS, as well as PC. Now my PS is broken. and my computer won't read AO.

***Nate*** · #34 03-31-2005, 05:33 PM

I had seen AO around and it looked interesting but I didn't buy it because I thought I wouldn't like it (back in those days I was pretty much only playing lucasarts adventure games). Then I saw it as a platinum edition cheapie so I decided to get it anyway and fell in love straight away.

Not long after I was in a game store thinking that I should check for the next game in the quintology, not really expecting anything new yet, when I saw AO looking extremely funky in its bright orange box. And that game was even better in many respects.

I visited ow.com a few times but I wouldn't say that I became a real fan* until the lead-up to MO. I think I tuned in not long before they switched to the xbox.

*fan here defined as someone who cares about the company and takes an interest in the greater mythos and ethos of Oddworld.

Abeguy · #35 03-31-2005, 09:54 PM

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Not long after I was in a game store thinking that I should check for the next game in the quintology, not really expecting anything new yet, when I saw AO looking extremely funky in its bright orange box.

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when did AO come in an orange box?

Paco_the_Taco · #36 03-31-2005, 09:58 PM

I was interested the moment I saw a poster for Abe's Oddysee when it came out, and it was the first game I got when I bought my Playstaytion.

stingbee · #37 04-01-2005, 12:17 AM

yeah guy's abe's oddysee gained popularty for oddworld

***Xavier*** · #38 04-01-2005, 01:33 AM

6 years ago, when a friend introduced me to Oddworld with AO
then I've beat AE right after

Solitus · #39 04-01-2005, 05:37 AM

i have been a fan since 1997 it was my first game to my PS1 got from my big sis ever since then it has been a tradition that she gives me the newest oddworld game, when i first saw i thought this is a kids game but after i tried it and saw the awesome movies i was hooked and have been playing ever since, it could be way cool if Abe and Stranger met in the future games

***Xavier*** · #40 04-01-2005, 06:08 AM

I'm not sure if it would be cool if they meet...
what would be the point.

stingbee · #41 04-01-2005, 08:47 AM

well it could be a bonus clip in stranger but there are none

Scrab Watcher · #42 04-01-2005, 11:37 AM

Oh yes...Xbox was new on the shelves, Christmas was about to arrive and I was about to take my first step into the world of consoles. Christmas arrived with my Xbox and a copy of Morrowind. From my uncle, came a little package. It contained Munches Oddysee. After some time with Morrowind, I started to play with MO. I liked the characters and their quirky world, though not enough to launch me into fandom. Then I got to the Brewry to Be level. Something clicked. This world felt real. I possesed one of the scrabs and I just ran around watching 'em for a little while. I sat up and started to pay attention to this world. And here we are.

Silent_Hunter · #43 04-01-2005, 02:01 PM

I became one when I was about five. I sat watching my brother (whose name is Gabe, so I can ridicule at him now) play for hours, days at a time. He taught me how to play, and now it's somewhat 'fixed' me. I thought that something so scrawny could get past all that other stuff, well... wow. I'm not as, how should I word it, spookable anymore. And for some odd reson I became more literate, on the omputer and in the real world. Quite funny really, and after I got my tonsils removed, I could sound like anything off the game, including sligs. I creep my friends out when I do that.
But, alas, my mother does not like it. I had all of the games (AO AE and MO) in a cool collectors box thing and my mother watched me play for a bit. When I returned from my fun day, it was ruined. Where my box had been was only a note saying 'These games will corrupt your mind, hun. I sold them to slackers, but I did get you something new.'. The new thing was morrowind. I have beaten Dagoth Ur (the big guy) and put the game to rest (letting my dad obsess over it). Never have I seen my games (I wrote my name on the front of each disk, and they still took them) in my twelve year old life (yes, I'm twelve). But something tells me... I'm still not back to full reality.

ODDFREEK · #44 04-01-2005, 02:48 PM

I became one when my uncle showed me abes oddysee 6 years ago.

tentacle_orgy · #45 04-01-2005, 02:59 PM

I first became a fan back when Abe's Oddysee first came out...I was with my dad at Fred Meyer's, and I saw the box for it in the software section of the store...As soon as I saw Abe, I was in love...It wasn't until a couple years after that when I got Abe's Exoddus, and I only got Abe's Oddysee around last Christmas...

stingbee · #46 04-02-2005, 01:46 AM

sorry to dissapoint you tentacle orgy but you are only alowed on image per sig so you will have to get rid of one of the fetus

the thing that anoys my mum about ao and ae is when the sligs go what. and that was not fair what you'r mother did silent hunter

Hunk of Steef · #47 04-03-2005, 10:07 AM

Well, I was attracted by the posters of the OW creatures in my local gamestore and immediately anticipated the day this game came out (AO). I remember I was sick but still hauled myyself out to pick up the first game. I got exodus the day it came out. I just got an XBOX, so about 3 weeks ago I got and beat SW and three days later picked up MO and beat it.

stingbee · #48 04-03-2005, 10:59 AM

wow you must have been playing for hours on end

Hunk of Steef · #49 04-03-2005, 03:30 PM

Well, it took me 2 days to beat SW and also two to beat MO.

Mudokon Princess · #50 04-03-2005, 06:08 PM

Being as how i just saw this thread, Ive been a fan since September 2004 after my dad had a quadruple bypass and he bought a playstation w/ 10 games (one being AO) to keep himself busy while he recovered.

OddAlchemist · #51 04-03-2005, 06:34 PM

I became a fan when i was 8 looking through the game section in some catalog when i saw the picture of AO i didnt even know what it was but i liked how abe looked so i told my mom i wanted it for christmas. when i got it i almost s*it myself with excitement from the intro mivie when i started playin i didnt know what 2 do i thought you had to fight the sligs with slaps or farts until i knew how to chant. then i beat the game in 3 months got AE beat in about 4 months MO in4 days SW in 2 days its my favorit vide game franchise

OddMoe · #52 04-03-2005, 08:15 PM

i only became a real fan after playing Strangers Wrath....AO,AE,MO dident intrest me to much...but now i see where i was wrong...

stingbee · #53 04-04-2005, 02:38 AM

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I became a fan when i was 8 looking through the game section in some catalog when i saw the picture of AO i didnt even know what it was but i liked how abe looked so i told my mom i wanted it for christmas. when i got it i almost s*it myself with excitement from the intro mivie when i started playin i didnt know what 2 do i thought you had to fight the sligs with slaps or farts until i knew how to chant. then i beat the game in 3 months got AE beat in about 4 months MO in4 days SW in 2 days its my favorit vide game franchise

when did you learn that sligs shot you

OddAlchemist · #54 04-04-2005, 03:48 PM

they would shoot me but i didnt know how to kill them or 2 get past until i knew the chant after like 4 days i knew how to beat it

Nepharski · #55 04-06-2005, 10:29 AM

Believe it or otherwise, I was actually sucked into the vortex that is the Oddworld universe before ever playing one second of the game (Demos don't count). I simply came to the site and researched the world that Leorne and co. created...and I was totally blown away. The creatures, the locals, the rich sense of history. They didn't make a game, they created a whole world. I immediately connected with it (I was attracted to anything bizzare and out of the ordinary). A few years later, I actually hunted down and bought AO.

Since then, Oddworld has become my favorite game series, even eclipsing the long time runner Sonic.

stingbee · #56 04-06-2005, 02:00 PM

on the demo in ao I coulden't work out how to get past the sleeping slig then I found out about chanting

***Nate*** · #57 04-06-2005, 04:33 PM

Very informative Stingbee...

It is possible to leave Rupturefarms without learning how to chant. You're supposed to learn about chanting in the Monsaic Lines. However that does mean that you have to restart the game so that you can save all the muds in the secrets.

Hunk of Steef · #58 04-06-2005, 07:10 PM

Oh, was it actually ment for you to go through the first two (i think) levels without chanting, or are you just stating it is possible?

General Dripikk · #59 04-06-2005, 08:46 PM

I became a fan when i was walking down to a game store I walked in, I saw some posters of Oddworld and asked the clerk if they have it.The clerk said, "yeah we have it." I bought it, I loaded it in and when i first saw the FMV I was lke what amazing graphics! It was like I was addicted. (By the way, it was AO.)

***Xavier*** · #60 04-07-2005, 04:30 AM

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1)Very informative Stingbee...

2)It is possible to leave Rupturefarms without learning how to chant. You're supposed to learn about chanting in the Monsaic Lines. However that does mean that you have to restart the game so that you can save all the muds in the secrets.

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2) I guess it was to improve the replay value, it worked for me, I replayed the game right after I finished it, trying to rescue all the muds