I swear, Lorne Lanning is one of the smartest people/storytellers of that generation. He knew the time to get into game making, he knew its limitations, but most of all, he knew how to make an interesting world. Oddworld Abe's Oddysee was truly ahead of it's time. As Sherry McKenna said, they really took the best aspects of interactive games and combined it with the quality storytelling of the movie industry. Even something as simple as a healthy work environment was something they looked into; something game developers struggle with even to this day... He really broke boundaries between story and gameplay, making your interactions with the world around you so much more important. What's even MORE surprising to me is how much he ALREADY had planned up until this point!! When he talked about already knowing the story arcs for Munch and Squeek I flipped out! What else can I say, its a good game series XD.
11:36 when she talks about making employees happy she couldn't be more correct in what she's saying, look after employees and they'll look after you. many companies now don't do that and workers are miserable
Sherry McKenna is amazing. Loved hearing her ideas come out in this documentary. It was obviously successful. Or at least as successful as it can be if you want to keep your IP.
Reading behind the scenes stuff, he basically abandoned the Quintology after Munch’s Oddysee failed. Admitted he didn’t know what consumers wanted and went all in on an action shooter Oddworld Stranger, which became Stranger’s Wrath, and was planning another action game around a character Fangus Klot which they cancelled after Stranger flopped.
What a great story. Amazing dream team of Oddworld Inhabitants. And Lanning himself - oh man. Incredibly handsome, incredibly smart, gifted and humble at the same time - both then and now. Abe's Oddyssee blew my mind when I was a teenager. Now I've found the game and decided to remind myself how incredible experience that was. And as an adult woman, now in my thirties I decided to check out who was the creator of that amazing game that delighted someone like me, who has never been a great fan of games. I knew it must have been someone extraordinary. And here we go. I've watched almost all interviews with Lorne Lanning. I could listen to this guy for hours. Such an inspiration!
are you kidding theres only one other comment. smh. i own ALL the Oddworld games. SUPERIOR GAMING. especially Oddysee , Exxodus and Munch Mr. Lanning, Mrs. McKenna, thank you. im looking forward to the rest of the quintology
Such fond memories of this game and Exoddus. I was like 6 and had to get my Mum to read me a guide for saving all 99 of the Mudokons in Oddysee because when I completed the game the first time, I was nowhere near to saving them all and Abe died in the ending cinematic! I was blown away by how many secret areas there were, and you would have NEVER known they were there without a guide.. you can tell how much easier games have become by the New N Tasty remaster, most of the secret areas are a lot more obvious and generally have some form of visual clue.
the visual clues were always there. like falling stones the barrels and the green soulstorm bottles in exoddus. but it was really really hard to find them all without a guide.
@@mr.g-sez yeah you gotta admit its way harder to notice them in the original then in New N Tasty though, the first few for instance are red hatches you open in the remake before that they were hidden behind meat barrels and you had a little white pixel dot to notice it haha, then again I was 6 and New to video games so I'm no doubt nostalgically biased 😂
@@mr.g-sez i agree with you, but when you start the game and there is a secret in the very first frame (where you go downwards the barrels) you just cant find out, especially if you;re 10 yo
I remember when the game came out and i was a little boy like 7-8 years old, i never forget that moment when i saw the game cover artwork in the shop, the style was soo unique and i was like wow this looks soo cool, it was like a miracle in real life.
@@soridosuneku I'm saying they are both like caricatures, generally speaking- not necessary characters from Oddworld- even though there's something distinctly glukkonesque about her- & with more than a hint of slog...
This company needs revival, funding and a really ambitious Oddworld game. They were still stuck in the boxy level to level era due to hardware limitations, imagine an Abe + Munch game set in an open world Oddworld environment. SO MUCH POTENTIAL
Loved the Ars Technica War Stories interview. Especially the extended version. Crazy to see baby faced Lorne and, wait that’s the same guy. Hah. The oddworld universe is captivating because of the passion/integrity of vision, as well as the application of knowledge and team. Amazing video that gives me a window into processes I was only seeing the surface of as a kid. Up to this point I looked back on Abe’s Odysee as one my my favorite games and had no idea the world continued with sequels and such, so part of my childhood excitement is reawakened. Just ordered new n tasty for switch, and soulstorm for ps5, and I don’t even have a ps5 yet.
If you look at the best games of all time. They are almost all created by aspiring artists/directors. Hideo Kojima is one of the best film directors of our generation in my opinion. There are soooo many good stories yet to be told out there, and the technology is better than its ever been, yet there is an incredible lack of depth to most modern video games. Guys like Lorne and Hideo Kojima who own their own production houses typically make the best content. We need more of them.
Hi i have played all abes games av played them for years i think there great respect to you all for all your hard work am 60 years old now and am still playing them have just finished nice and tasty wish you would make another many thanks for all the happy years playing
It makes so much sense that their Models for the cutscenes are so good, they had actual great anatomical shapes sculpted in real life. Now we can easily sculpt on our machines, but man. It's just still when I see some super 4K model thing today sculpted meticulously just on a machine, it doesnt' compare to Oddworld's cutscene models, where you get the feeling that the sculpture in real life is heavy and could be less solid than it looks, and has all this curvature and stuff that translate to the machine different somehow. Like yeah, those sculptures just must've done something for the art, it feels much more real when you look at it. if it's like Lorne said, they used a tool to go around and place every vertice manually and then creating the model faces in the modelling software, it's no wonder it seems so special, that's wildly different from just doing it in the model software from ground zero, someone got hands on with that model they know how it feels, what it took to put it together, and it's just a different process, like finger painting. I can come back and watch any video with Lorne in it, not to give him all the credit I'm sure the entire team back then was brilliant and still are. But this guy he just gets it lol, he got it and understood it already back then.
I love how Lorne never lost his passion and how he got Sherry so excited about it. They make such a great team by being complete opposites but it works! excited to see whats next after soulstorm
he had great vision for the games..... i bet pressure on abes success forced his hand to delay munchs oddysee and follow up with an abe sequel instead. I bet he wasnt happy with it, but abes exodus is still brilliant! so what happened to the rest?
To answer your question, Squeek's Oddysee would have most likely happened after Stranger's Wrath if it wasn't for EA's negative influence on the company. They forced them to go under for a long time due to screwing up their marketing and of course, treating them like slaves. You make a deal with EA, you know you're in the shit, but obviously Oddworld Inhabitants didn't know that at the time. I'm hoping we'll see Squeek's Oddysee after Soulstorm.
Thanks so much for uploading this! I see you're trying to archive all of the videos about Oddworld, so I'll sub for more interesting footage. Recent interviews with Lorne are just insanely inspiring. He has a unique vision. Keep doing great work finding all this stuff!
somethings are special, because the people behind it are special theres alot of things that have to come together for things to go right and i can say it did here
This man was so ahead of the time. Hopefully in the end it's good that he was forced to rush Exoddus and wait for decades to make it in his true vision. We shall see in one month!
Gotta laugh a little bit here. "Oddworld is unique and everything that happens will always be there" Followed by "Oddworld is a reflection of our world" *proceeds to list a lot of issues we have in our world that is also present at Oddworld" xD Yea, immersion breaking a bit. But yea games are amazing!
In some alternate universe, if you believe in that kind of stuff. History went exactly like this, but 'YOU' were lucky enough to have these two as your parents. That'd be cool lmao.
i remember putting the cd rom that had this on it in my Windows 95 in the home i grew up in in the corner of the study... i believe it came with the strategy guide?
This right here is the kind of people we need in the game world now, not woke idiots pushing their narratives but create new worlds and stories for the gamer to enjoy. I was a kid when I saw Oddworld and it’s still one of my all times favourites. Seeing the current landscape of this DEI crap ruining companies and ruining games is heartbreaking when there could be more stories and world like Oddworld. Praise and Respect to Lorne and Sherry!
So wait Munch's Oddysee is supposed to be the second game in the quintology from their original plans🤔 and Soulstorm is said to be what they originally wanted to do, also making it the second game in the quintology does this mean that Munch will be in Soulstorm? 🤔
squeak is the next character in the quintology, Lorne has confirmed that squeak would be next after oddworld soulstorm. Abe was first, then munch, so squeak is next. what squeak is as a race i have no idea, we'll have to wait and see.
@@crazyfulla Brilliant, thanks for confirming. I initially thought that he meant there was only 5 games and with soulstorm being the 5th game, however they must be classing new n tasty as a remake (which it is) rather than a new game.
So is Munch going to be in soulstorm? He has said that soulstorm is the sequel that Exodus should've been. But Exodus should've been Munch. Soooooo is soulstorm like a combination of Munch and Exodus, plus more? Because so far it looks more like a reimagining of Exodus. We haven't seen anything that relates to Munch's story so far.
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man, i hope he is not ditched... :< but i guess its pretty much the case because he is not associated with a good game unfortunately so they dont want to 'scare away' the potential customers to their new game...
please make the next oddworld like the odd on playstation 1 ... please dont let this game system die ... it was so amazing ... i didnt like the §D mashup munches oddything ... thanks
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This one survived the test of time. Respect.
They were waaay ahead of their time in so many respects
I swear, Lorne Lanning is one of the smartest people/storytellers of that generation. He knew the time to get into game making, he knew its limitations, but most of all, he knew how to make an interesting world. Oddworld Abe's Oddysee was truly ahead of it's time. As Sherry McKenna said, they really took the best aspects of interactive games and combined it with the quality storytelling of the movie industry. Even something as simple as a healthy work environment was something they looked into; something game developers struggle with even to this day... He really broke boundaries between story and gameplay, making your interactions with the world around you so much more important. What's even MORE surprising to me is how much he ALREADY had planned up until this point!! When he talked about already knowing the story arcs for Munch and Squeek I flipped out! What else can I say, its a good game series XD.
Shame he's an SAer
My my Lorne Lanning was such a young lad back then with such nice long hair. Time flies my friends.
Lorne is such an interesting and unique person, it's almost like he's from another world.
Lorne Lanning is such a cool guy feels like the Keanu Reeves of game directors.
Unfair comparison. Keanu is a terrible actor, Lorne is a great game developer.
@@samsquanch1996 unlike?
11:36 when she talks about making employees happy she couldn't be more correct in what she's saying, look after employees and they'll look after you. many companies now don't do that and workers are miserable
Couldnt agree more. Wise words and really smart woman!
Lorne Lanning is Really Handsome Before I Was Born. But Now He is Very Old But He Still Had That Handsome Look
Sherry McKenna is amazing. Loved hearing her ideas come out in this documentary. It was obviously successful. Or at least as successful as it can be if you want to keep your IP.
He still is so beautiful. Inside and out
I got mad respect for this man.
I wonder if younger him would be surprised that the oddworld quintology will just be all about abe now
Reading behind the scenes stuff, he basically abandoned the Quintology after Munch’s Oddysee failed. Admitted he didn’t know what consumers wanted and went all in on an action shooter Oddworld Stranger, which became Stranger’s Wrath, and was planning another action game around a character Fangus Klot which they cancelled after Stranger flopped.
1:30 He looks like one of those guys you see on the cover of Harlequin romance novels.
And yet he made and voiced Abe the Mudokon lol
That SoulStorm poster in the back round man
What a great story. Amazing dream team of Oddworld Inhabitants. And Lanning himself - oh man. Incredibly handsome, incredibly smart, gifted and humble at the same time - both then and now. Abe's Oddyssee blew my mind when I was a teenager. Now I've found the game and decided to remind myself how incredible experience that was. And as an adult woman, now in my thirties I decided to check out who was the creator of that amazing game that delighted someone like me, who has never been a great fan of games. I knew it must have been someone extraordinary. And here we go. I've watched almost all interviews with Lorne Lanning. I could listen to this guy for hours. Such an inspiration!
are you kidding theres only one other comment. smh. i own ALL the Oddworld games. SUPERIOR GAMING. especially Oddysee , Exxodus and Munch
Mr. Lanning, Mrs. McKenna, thank you. im looking forward to the rest of the quintology
I i played that game maaaaaaaaany times. Didnt know about this interview though until now :) Cant wait for their next Soulstorm game to come out.
Lorne is burning with passion in these old videos, it's amazing. fast forward to the present day and all he talks about is money, business and fads
Such fond memories of this game and Exoddus. I was like 6 and had to get my Mum to read me a guide for saving all 99 of the Mudokons in Oddysee because when I completed the game the first time, I was nowhere near to saving them all and Abe died in the ending cinematic! I was blown away by how many secret areas there were, and you would have NEVER known they were there without a guide.. you can tell how much easier games have become by the New N Tasty remaster, most of the secret areas are a lot more obvious and generally have some form of visual clue.
the visual clues were always there. like falling stones the barrels and the green soulstorm bottles in exoddus. but it was really really hard to find them all without a guide.
@@mr.g-sez yeah you gotta admit its way harder to notice them in the original then in New N Tasty though, the first few for instance are red hatches you open in the remake before that they were hidden behind meat barrels and you had a little white pixel dot to notice it haha, then again I was 6 and New to video games so I'm no doubt nostalgically biased 😂
@@mr.g-sez i agree with you, but when you start the game and there is a secret in the very first frame (where you go downwards the barrels) you just cant find out, especially if you;re 10 yo
Both absolutely wonderful, charismatic and interesting people. No wonder the game is such a masterpiece!
I remember when the game came out and i was a little boy like 7-8 years old, i never forget that moment when i saw the game cover artwork in the shop, the style was soo unique and i was like wow this looks soo cool, it was like a miracle in real life.
I grew up with this game when I was a little boy
I reckon the CEO Sherry McKenna is the inspiration for many of the baddies in Oddworld. In fact both of them are like caricatures.
Which characters are like Lorne? Abe and the mudokons are the obvious choices but that's all I got
@@soridosuneku I'm saying they are both like caricatures, generally speaking- not necessary characters from Oddworld- even though there's something distinctly glukkonesque about her- & with more than a hint of slog...
She gives off serious gluk vibes
This man aged well like a fine wine.
Indeed
This company needs revival, funding and a really ambitious Oddworld game. They were still stuck in the boxy level to level era due to hardware limitations, imagine an Abe + Munch game set in an open world Oddworld environment. SO MUCH POTENTIAL
Loved the Ars Technica War Stories interview. Especially the extended version. Crazy to see baby faced Lorne and, wait that’s the same guy. Hah. The oddworld universe is captivating because of the passion/integrity of vision, as well as the application of knowledge and team. Amazing video that gives me a window into processes I was only seeing the surface of as a kid. Up to this point I looked back on Abe’s Odysee as one my my favorite games and had no idea the world continued with sequels and such, so part of my childhood excitement is reawakened. Just ordered new n tasty for switch, and soulstorm for ps5, and I don’t even have a ps5 yet.
Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was Oddworld. I wonder how different the world would have been if this franchise had that reception.
Took way too long between entries and they keep giving abe sequels
If you look at the best games of all time. They are almost all created by aspiring artists/directors. Hideo Kojima is one of the best film directors of our generation in my opinion. There are soooo many good stories yet to be told out there, and the technology is better than its ever been, yet there is an incredible lack of depth to most modern video games. Guys like Lorne and Hideo Kojima who own their own production houses typically make the best content. We need more of them.
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Hi i have played all abes games av played them for years i think there great respect to you all for all your hard work am 60 years old now and am still playing them have just finished nice and tasty wish you would make another many thanks for all the happy years playing
It makes so much sense that their Models for the cutscenes are so good, they had actual great anatomical shapes sculpted in real life.
Now we can easily sculpt on our machines, but man. It's just still when I see some super 4K model thing today sculpted meticulously just on a machine, it doesnt' compare to Oddworld's cutscene models, where you get the feeling that the sculpture in real life is heavy and could be less solid than it looks, and has all this curvature and stuff that translate to the machine different somehow.
Like yeah, those sculptures just must've done something for the art, it feels much more real when you look at it.
if it's like Lorne said, they used a tool to go around and place every vertice manually and then creating the model faces in the modelling software, it's no wonder it seems so special, that's wildly different from just doing it in the model software from ground zero, someone got hands on with that model they know how it feels, what it took to put it together, and it's just a different process, like finger painting.
I can come back and watch any video with Lorne in it, not to give him all the credit I'm sure the entire team back then was brilliant and still are.
But this guy he just gets it lol, he got it and understood it already back then.
Well said bro.
I love how Lorne never lost his passion and how he got Sherry so excited about it. They make such a great team by being complete opposites but it works! excited to see whats next after soulstorm
Wow the women basically predicted Twitch.
Lorne could have had a fallback career as a Disney prince
My favorite game of all time! I miss you dearly. Hope the new ones just as great.
he had great vision for the games..... i bet pressure on abes success forced his hand to delay munchs oddysee and follow up with an abe sequel instead. I bet he wasnt happy with it, but abes exodus is still brilliant!
so what happened to the rest?
To answer your question, Squeek's Oddysee would have most likely happened after Stranger's Wrath if it wasn't for EA's negative influence on the company. They forced them to go under for a long time due to screwing up their marketing and of course, treating them like slaves. You make a deal with EA, you know you're in the shit, but obviously Oddworld Inhabitants didn't know that at the time. I'm hoping we'll see Squeek's Oddysee after Soulstorm.
I still remember on a very early birthday we all gathered to play Abe, so the comments about it fun to watch are so accurate.
Loved every minute of it
Thanks so much for uploading this! I see you're trying to archive all of the videos about Oddworld, so I'll sub for more interesting footage. Recent interviews with Lorne are just insanely inspiring. He has a unique vision. Keep doing great work finding all this stuff!
14:57 And the Quintology was born
My favorite game!
somethings are special, because the people behind it are special
theres alot of things that have to come together for things to go right
and i can say it did here
This man was so ahead of the time. Hopefully in the end it's good that he was forced to rush Exoddus and wait for decades to make it in his true vision. We shall see in one month!
Does this mean Munch will have a place in this new Quintology they're making?
Absolutely. Lorne Lanning confirmed it.
Oddworld for life!!
How old is that video? 20 years?
Defining 90s game freaked me out when I was 8
Gotta laugh a little bit here.
"Oddworld is unique and everything that happens will always be there"
Followed by
"Oddworld is a reflection of our world" *proceeds to list a lot of issues we have in our world that is also present at Oddworld"
xD Yea, immersion breaking a bit. But yea games are amazing!
Did Mckenna predict let's plays?
Mckenna the Glukkon.
In some alternate universe, if you believe in that kind of stuff.
History went exactly like this, but 'YOU' were lucky enough to have these two as your parents.
That'd be cool lmao.
Funny how she created a perfect and healthy environment and call it weird/ bad news.
i remember putting the cd rom that had this on it in my Windows 95 in the home i grew up in in the corner of the study... i believe it came with the strategy guide?
What an absolute chad
This right here is the kind of people we need in the game world now, not woke idiots pushing their narratives but create new worlds and stories for the gamer to enjoy. I was a kid when I saw Oddworld and it’s still one of my all times favourites. Seeing the current landscape of this DEI crap ruining companies and ruining games is heartbreaking when there could be more stories and world like Oddworld. Praise and Respect to Lorne and Sherry!
So my favourite IP and I since PS1 and I have discovered this video in 2019....what the fuck!!? This is gold!
Likewise. Can't believe I'm only seeing this now.
So wait Munch's Oddysee is supposed to be the second game in the quintology from their original plans🤔 and Soulstorm is said to be what they originally wanted to do, also making it the second game in the quintology does this mean that Munch will be in Soulstorm? 🤔
I predict a munch reimagining, then maybe the third game, finally
I would rather sacrifice fast food for fruit if fun is involved. Alot of studios have no idea what makes a good game, and just wants money.
Who is squeak? I take it this changed to stranger?
squeak is the next character in the quintology, Lorne has confirmed that squeak would be next after oddworld soulstorm. Abe was first, then munch, so squeak is next. what squeak is as a race i have no idea, we'll have to wait and see.
@@crazyfulla Brilliant, thanks for confirming. I initially thought that he meant there was only 5 games and with soulstorm being the 5th game, however they must be classing new n tasty as a remake (which it is) rather than a new game.
@@Shaaatttingmofo new n tasty is a remake, but still the quintology is restarted indeed, can't wait for oddworld to reveal it secrets !
When did fabio start making games.
So is Munch going to be in soulstorm? He has said that soulstorm is the sequel that Exodus should've been. But Exodus should've been Munch. Soooooo is soulstorm like a combination of Munch and Exodus, plus more? Because so far it looks more like a reimagining of Exodus. We haven't seen anything that relates to Munch's story so far.
man, i hope he is not ditched... :<
but i guess its pretty much the case because he is not associated with a good game unfortunately so they dont want to 'scare away' the potential customers to their new game...
Sup boss....
He kind of looks like Chris Hanson
Where was this taken from?
I can't find the program, but it was recorded in San Luis Obispo, CA, where that studio was built: ua-cam.com/video/Mn4UK-jiadI/v-deo.html
No one cares about games, movies or music anymore
please make the next oddworld like the odd on playstation 1 ... please dont let this game system die ... it was so amazing ... i didnt like the §D mashup munches oddything ... thanks
*LORNE IS THE GOAT*