512: Oddworld, Part 1

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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It's impossible to talk about Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and its bigger, bulkier sequel Abe's Exoddus without talking about farting. Okay, that's not true, but we do talk about farting in this episode, because we want to, dammit! I, Stuart Gipp, am joined by the prestigious John Linneman of Digital Foundry, and the persuasive RJ Lake of D-Cell Games, in this first discussion of Lorne Lanning's moneyhatted magnum opus, Oddworld! It's too big a subject for just one episode, but here we get into the nitty-gritty of the first two games in the planned quadrilogy, these 2D stealth-action-atmosphere pieces that resonated with almost everybody who played them. Except for the prudes who found the act of passing gas to be either childish or abhorrent. Still! Join us as we try to rescue all the Mudokons from their terrible fate, but end up dropping them down trap doors for a laugh. Hello. Follow me. Straight into those meat saws.

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0:00.0	This week in RetroNots, I took myself down from fighting into the microphone to make a stupid joke.
0:05.5	Hello, welcome to RetroNots hosted by me Stuart Gip. So you know it's going to be a blind driven episode because here I am.
0:35.0	And just to get right into it, I'm going to talk about who I'm joined by on this fine. I was going to see you afternoon. I'm not sure what it is where you guys are, but it's the afternoon here and it's been raining and it's been awful.
0:49.0	So going in off-bethiclorder, I'm here with John, once again, John Lennonman. Hello, how are you?
0:56.0	Hello. Follow me.
0:58.0	Oh, there you go. See, we're doing a bit of game speak. We're straight in. That's a little reference to Oddworld there for those who aren't quite on the ball.
1:08.0	And I'm also here with first time on RetroNots, RJ Lake, is it okay to call you RJ Lake?
1:16.0	Yeah, that is my name. Hello.
1:18.0	Oh, it's your name, thank God. Follow me. I do it again. Let's talk about briefly how you guys are, what you guys do.
1:27.0	Just so you know who you are. I mean, we know who you are, John, I believe. You're a digital Foundry man. Yes, that's right.
1:34.0	I'm officially known as Digital Foundry Man. I make videos about them, technologies in the video games, but I especially love doing retro content.
1:45.0	That's what the DF Retro series is all about. I gotta get me in on that DF Retro. And RJ, what can people find you doing?
1:54.0	Most of the time, I am, I'm sitting very late nights working on a game called Unbeatable. That's one of the co-founders of DSL games.
2:06.0	And occasionally I like do other things. I make a lot of music coming through different things.
2:15.0	Yeah, you've done soundtracks for some indie games and such. Who's that right?
2:19.0	We actually just released one start of the month, a regulatory engineer.
2:25.0	That's all pretty good. I love it. And we know each other from arguing the toss about Sonic.
2:30.0	Oh, yeah.
2:31.0	22 years ago.
2:32.0	Yeah.
2:33.0	I've been listening for like rest rest of the show.
2:37.0	Rest of the show friends. I was there on Sonic forums being like inordinately mad about Sonic.
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