A Unknown Oddworld Creature?

Crig · #1 01-15-2004, 10:55 AM

On Munch's Oddysee,I am on Paramite Run.I possessed a paramite and played around with it and then I saw a dead creature with it's bones showing.It was big and it wasn't an Oddworld creature I was familiar with.It's skull was shaped like a dragon's skull.Has anyone noticed this?

Abeguy · #2 01-15-2004, 10:56 AM

get a pic and i shall see

Crig · #3 01-15-2004, 11:06 AM

I couldn't find a picture of the one in Paramite Run,but I found one in the Scrab level.The dead creature looks like the one in Paramite Run.

http://oddworld.com/universe/wildlif.../scroll07.html
and
http://oddworld.com/universe/wildlif.../scroll04.html

GrigtheSlig · #4 01-15-2004, 01:24 PM

Hmmm, Interesting... I've noticed that too, but I couldn't figure out what it is... I bet Xav or Max would know more.

paramiteabe · #5 01-15-2004, 03:26 PM

There was a huge topic on this last year we all came to the conclusion that the creature could very well be a sea rex. That same Skelaton was found also in AE in the conceptual artwork done on the game for the Necrum Valts. Only in AE it was enormous. I found these two paintings of the Mudomo and Mudanchee valts. If you notice in these pieces the same or similar rib cage is seen in the envirorment around the valts. So it was intended for AE aswell but never made it into the final cut. I think we are going to learn more about this creatures. The reason we say its a Sea Rex is because the envirorments in Munch look like a dried up river bed. Even in AE it looks like a dried up area of water possably a lake. The first picture is of the Mudomo valts and there are two skelatons in it. One in the background and the other in the foreground. And the other picture is an early concept of the Mudanchee valts. The skeliton in it is absolutly enormous. Far more incredible looking then what we saw in Munch. But if Munch was going to be the original vision then it could have been what we see in these paintings.

GrigtheSlig · #6 01-15-2004, 03:32 PM

Cool! I thought I heard something about it a while back, but I guess I for got... Thanx PA!

Crig · #7 01-15-2004, 03:34 PM

I've never heard of a Sea Rex.

Thats alot of info there,PA.Good job.

paramiteabe · #8 01-15-2004, 03:52 PM

The Sea Rex was an enormous creature that was going to show up in Munch but never made it to the game. Most likely we will see it in future games. That is why we think the skelaton is a Sea Rex. But we arent really sure what it is. But one thing is common each picture the sketaton exists in the envirorments where eather paramites or scrabs reside. Even in AE with the concept art. Those are the valts where scrabs and paramites reside in.

So my guess is that this creature could be a delicasy to paramites and scrabs as odd as that may sound.

One can't kill it but a whole pack of paramites and a herd of scrabs may be able take this creature down. Almost like how small carniverous dinosaurs take out one Brontosaurs. Interesting!

oddguy · #9 01-15-2004, 06:53 PM

Yeah, the same thing happened with Elums. They were supposed to be in the game all 3D and such, but they never made the final cut. But, you can see an Elum carcas lying on a operating table in the Vykker Suites level. Of course, most of you kids already know this.

-oddguy

***Wil*** · #10 01-16-2004, 03:26 AM

I wouldn't say for certain that all those skeletons come from the same species. The one in the Mudanchee Vaults appears to have a beak and more dispersed ribs than those in the Paramite Run and Scrab Retreat, and I can't see anything but ribs in the Mudomo Vaults. They may be the same, but I'm not saying anything. We do know that Sea Rexes are meant to be bloomin' huge, though. Maybe those in MO were younger ones that got caught when the water bed dried up.

Interesting finds, PA, I'd never really looked at those images before. Does Xav have them any bigger?

MrBoj · #11 01-16-2004, 04:52 AM

that's truly amazing! I love the "conceptual continuity" that runs between concept art and the final product. kudos on that connection. I never really thought those bones night be the remains of a sea rex.

***Xavier*** · #12 01-16-2004, 08:04 AM

bigger version:

Crig · #13 01-16-2004, 09:28 AM

If Sea Rex are enormous,I wouldn't expect to see a baby Sea Rex to be that big.Does anyone agree with me?

Those pics look like that the size of a Sea Rex would be the size of a house.And in MO,it was only the size of a elelphant or some animal near that size.

***Xavier*** · #14 01-16-2004, 09:34 AM

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Those pics look like that the size of a Sea Rex would be the size of a house.And in MO,it was only the size of a elelphant or some animal near that size.

sorry but where did you see that? I can only recall they told us they were huge, but without any other informations

Crig · #15 01-16-2004, 09:38 AM

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sorry but where did you see that? I can only recall they told us they were huge, but without any other informations

Well,it's a guess.The dead one in MO does look like the size of a baby elephant don't you think?And in those pictures that you showed us,they we're huge.

***Xavier*** · #16 01-16-2004, 09:51 AM

yeah I think you are right, but they still can be something else then a SeaRex, it doesn't have to be a known creature

***Wil*** · #17 01-16-2004, 10:00 AM

That's a bloody big house! In the second picture, bear in mind that the Mudokon is standing in the foreground, much closer to the 'camera' than the skeleton in the background.

I wish I had a house that big. *dreams*

sligster · #18 01-16-2004, 05:02 PM

[QUOTE=Xavier]bigger version:

is it just me, or does the skelly in the background look like an enormouse cacoon of some sort?

Crig · #19 01-16-2004, 05:23 PM

sligster,that would be a picture of a Sea Rex.

oddguy · #20 01-16-2004, 05:37 PM

Well, it hasn't exactly been confirmed as a SeaRex. There's still much speculation about all this. OWI just mentioned that the SeaRex is big. That doesn't make everything that's huge on Oddworld a SeaRex!

-oddguy

Crig · #21 01-16-2004, 06:03 PM

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Well, it hasn't exactly been confirmed as a SeaRex. There's still much speculation about all this. OWI just mentioned that the SeaRex is big. That doesn't make everything that's huge on Oddworld a SeaRex!

-oddguy

True,true.If we can get a real photo of a Sea Rex and can compare it to the two pics that PA found,then we can find out if there Sea Rex.

paramiteabe · #22 01-16-2004, 07:20 PM

Thats the thing there is no photograph of the Sea Rex.

But in the early Mudomo painting that huge thing that looks like a cacoon in the background is the valt. The Skeliton is actually real tiny right below the cacoon structure. You have to look real close at the bottom of the cacoon structure to see the background rib cage.

Paramiteabe...

oddguy · #23 01-16-2004, 08:19 PM

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Thats the thing there is no photograph of the Sea Rex.

There is a photo of SeaRex. Although, it doesn't show it in it's entirety.

I think Xav has a better picture.

-oddguy

Fez · #24 01-16-2004, 10:42 PM

i was thinking something along the lines of the Liopleurodon, a huge flesh-eating whale thing. the "T-rex" of the sea.

you can see the resemblance.

***Xavier*** · #25 01-17-2004, 12:22 AM

nope sorry, I don't have any bigger picture of the SeaRex

Crig · #26 01-17-2004, 03:11 AM

The colors on the Sea Rex and uhhh...Dinosuar thing look very the same.

Maybe that's the idea on how they came up with Sea Rex?

***Wil*** · #27 01-17-2004, 04:12 AM

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But in the early Mudomo painting that huge thing that looks like a cacoon in the background is the valt.

Actually, it's a/the cryptoon (I'm not sure whether there's one or many). Here are some more images:

And my personal favourite:

Regarding the Sea Rex, it does seem as if it will take on an aquatic dinosaur style, although I'd hope there's more to it than that. Although, it you ask me, that sole image looks more like a Chest Burtster with its cheeky grin.

Fez · #28 01-17-2004, 07:13 AM

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Although, it you ask me, that sole image looks more like a Chest Burtster with its cheeky grin.

lol, i never looked at it that way but your right!

TheRaisin · #29 01-18-2004, 05:10 PM

My gosh you people are stupid. How could the skeletons in MO be from SeaRex? They're freshly killed! You can see blood around them, and meat still on the bones. If these were the remains of SeaRex that were trapped when lakes dried up, the lakes would have had to dry up pretty darn quick. I'm sure these are just some creatures we haven't seen yet. As for the concept art... who knows? Maybe those are the skeletons of SeaRex that were, as you speculated, caught on dry land as lakes dried up. They're certainly old enough, unlike the ones in MO. But it seems like it would be better to just not make any speculations until we have more info. And, of course, there's the possibility that these remains don't mean anything at all, that they weren't designed with any specific creature in mind, that they were just put in to make it look cool, and that we never will see a SeaRex or whatever creature they are. I'm betting on the latter: not everything has to tie into the storyline, or aspects of future games. Oh well, whatever. I justed wanted to point out that, if SeaRex are sea creatures, as their name would suggest, then those ones in MO could not be SeaRex remains because they are freshly killed.

P.S. Sweet Liopleurodon pics, Ferill. Did you get them from the Science Channel?

Oddsville · #30 01-18-2004, 05:16 PM

There is that video with the SeaRex briefly in it. From what I've seen it has more of a Pleaseasaur type of body and is very large. I don't know where the video is now, but if Xav or someone could find it and capture the breif image of it swiming in the background then we could begin to compare. However, I still think that the creature in MO is just one of the many other Oddworld creatures that we've never seen.