Oddworld-series being revived!

Wahlgren

YES! I love oddworld. It's a really amazing setting and in my mind one of the most unique worlds ever created for the games industry.

I loved Strangers wrath and the first game. Never did play munch though

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29469/Gravity_Crash_Dev_Just_Add_Water_Reviving_Oddworld_Series.php

Stinger88

Munch is absolutely awesome. Slightly better than Strangers IMO, but they are quite different games. Controlling those Big Bro sligs is just an awesome powertrip. I totally love all Oddworld games though. Easily a Top 5 games universe. Cant wait to see what they are doing this time.

breakneck

exciting! I was kinda wishing that they would finish the Fangus Klot game though . . . .

Taylor Hood

Yay! I played it as a kid. This could be really awesome.

HonkyPunch

I never got into the series, though I greatly appreciate the aesthetics and design choices.

Andreas

And all of a sudden JAW get 1000 reels...

[HP]

Omg... The name of this thread alone made me wet! YUS!

And btw, I really recommend this book:
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/oddworld/

ScudzAlmighty

I don't know enough about this new developer to be as excited as I want to be about this, but the Oddworld games are some of my favourite ever and the whole reason I got interested in game-art in the first place, so here's hoping.

Zephiris

I've been waiting for years for them to finally continue making games *pets treasured Oddworld Artbook*. Already been looking forward to the re-releases of that Oddworld Pack which was previously announced, but this really really makes me happy. It's been waaaay to long since I've last enjoyed possessing a slig or played around with some of those dear little scrabs and paramites.

There's just no excuse at all to not have played Abe1+2, Munch and Stranger

Absolutely.can.not.wait!

Steve Schulze

Munch's Oddessey was all kinds of broken. It was worth persevering for the poignant narrative and to get a greater insight into the Oddworld universe, but it was definitely the least of OI's titles, gameplay-wise.

I don't suppose anyone's heard any more about the ports of Munch and Stranger to the PC that were mentioned probably 6 months ago? Maybe that's what these projects that JAW are working on are. They don't actually specify that they're doing anything new on the blog post.

ScudzAlmighty

there's a thread on the steam forums about this, apperantly everything's done for munch, they're just having a really hard time getting Stranger ported over.
it's funny cause the whole reason they dropped the ps2 version of stranger is cause they couldn't get it working on that either (and why it won't work on 360). I don't know what their programmers were smoking when they coded that game, but talk about X-box exclusive.

there was nothing "broken" about Munch, it was just a mediocre shell of the game it was meant to be. I've played through it start to finsh 4 times and never once found anything game breaking. there's a blopg somewhere from one of the designers that gets very detailed about process of trying to make that game and why it ended up as it is. One of which (though not only) is that MS wanted it more family friendly. though there were also plenty of technical dificulties. I don't have the link anymore but it's pretty insightfull/crazy.

ScudzAlmighty

- p.s.

best

concept

ever.

Bibendum

Really didn't play the early games much but Stranger's Wrath is still my favorite game for the xbox so any life to the franchise is good news to me.

Kewop Decam

I don't care about oddworld except for Stranger's Wrath. That game was just too awesome. I wish it was backwards compatible.

Ark

With the way XCOM and other recent revivals are going, i haven't got high hopes for this.

Andreas

http://kotaku.com/5648694/strangers-wrath-gets-a-spit-n-polish

danshewan

Some of the reader comments are hilarious.

I like how the 529k poly model doesnt look any better than the 20k one. If you're going to waste that many resources, make them count.

Wells

that update isn't all that great.

arms and face look worse.

i agree with the comment you quoted ^ it looks like they mesh-smoothed the low poly

very excited for the game's re-release, however. I remember enjoying the game a lot.

Cheez

Heh, this brings back memories. I think it took something like a full year of constant constant iteration to final that little Stranger model :P Mr. Lanning was a particular fellow to say the least.
Ahhhh the stories....

I hope they pull this off. It'd be great to have the ole girl up on her feet one more time.

Steve Schulze

It'd be better to have the ole girl up on her feet on the Xbox. This may well be the second time I've bought a console just to play Stranger.

Andreas

danshewan wrote: »

Some of the reader comments are hilarious.

Aye I saw that but didnt feel like registering up to Kotakuv just to call him a complete idiot... :P