Here's something you all might enjoy. I was playing Space Marine and I saw an enemy that is a spitting image of a Slog. I thought this was an intresting and funny coincidence. It cannot be a copy I don't think since Warhammer is much older then Oddworld.
Wow, even the name partially resembles Slogs. Moreover, Slogs resemble the names of Squigs. Though I've always had a feeling Lorne isn't 100% original.
Farzad Varahramyan designed some creatures for a Tremors TV series before Tremors 2 came out, but Tremors 2 released in 1996 and Slogs were designed by Steven Olds in 1994/5.
To conclude: coincidence. Slogs are hardly a once-in-a-lifetime design. They're just exaggerated carnivores with no forelimbs.
I wonder why I said that now. I think it was an immediate feeling of familiarity, but now I don't really see the similarity. I think I was confused with that and the bug things being a lot like headcrabs.
Haha, funny, I put the Ravager = Scrab thing on my blog about a week ago... I'm shocked it took so long for me to notice. I've been playing WoW since BC, and I've been following the Oddworld series since AO was released on the PSX. And I never noticed.
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Munch's Exoddus: the quest for a can opener. Which will be just as squeaky as the wheelchair.
Well... he's blue and his nose is small (almost non-existent), and he wears shorts so he is kind of similar :P Can't tell how many fingers he's got from the pic
Well, they're also both named "Abe".
But beyond the blue skin and big eyes, I never saw much of a similarity. There's even less of a similarity in the original artwork, in which Abe Sapien is far more humanoid than his movie counterpart.
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