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Nintendo has a terrible download policy, Super Meat Boy couldn't fit under their constrictions, no way Stranger would.

Also, the Wii is just too underpowered to keep up with the 360 and the PS3. It's not like they're the only game publisher to give up on 3-way console cross-platform development.

Fair enough, it's just a shame that nintendo, which is known for having "innovative and fresh games" won't be able to give wii only users a slice of the pie.

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Fair enough, it's just a shame that nintendo, which is known for having "innovative and fresh games" won't be able to give wii only users a slice of the pie.

Innovative and fresh? Tell me, how many Mario games have they released in the last year?

(The answer is 'Four', by the way. In one year. And four the year before that, five in 2008 and fucking ten in 2007)

10 mario games in 2007? I cant even name 10 mario games

Nintendo..."innovative and fresh games"...

PFAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

...right...

Anyway, I just hope we get the 4 games this year, to be equal or better than the old ones. I'm playing Munch for the past few days, and I gotta say, it's way to different from Abe's and Stranger's vibes. Can't say exactly what, but I will. In the future.

I think I messed up my wording.

Whether they nintendo actually is innovative is opinion, i'm talking more on how the general public views the company.

you know, not a forum of nerds

like us

we're nerds

this doesn't even affect me cause i don't even have a wii anymore what do i care

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Anyway, I just hope we get the 4 games this year...

Four projects. Not necessarily games.

Correct, my mistake, I was actually thinking projects, but instead write games, sorry for the typo.

Well there has been three Oddworld games released on Nintendo's handhelds, albeit shabby.

I heard that Munch's Oddysee on GBA was horrible. But I still want it... :P

It is pretty horrific.

Couldn't force myself to finish the first level... yep, it was that bad.

Awesome, now I don't have to get a PS3

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I heard that Munch's Oddysee on GBA was horrible. But I still want it... :P

You really really don't

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You really really don't

Are we talking Sonic 2006 bad or Star Wars Holiday Special bad?

I don't know, doesn't look that bad.

Really? It looks awful and the constantly looping music was driving me crazy. I've never played it and I don't plan on doing so either. Even the spooce pattern in the shape of a penis didn't get my liking.

Here's my experience with Munch's Oddysee GBA

Coming in, I didn't expect anything great. I played both of the Oddworld Adventures before touching Munch, and I liked those. Sure they were brutal, used a password system, and looked like it came from an atari, but they had a sort of charm I think.

I expected badly rendered sprites, I thought the music was going to be worse than just the loops provided so that was a nice surprised, and I didn't expect anything too complex in the terms of puzzles or saving.

The first few levels, there seems to be potential. Yeah it reeks of "cheap cash in" but it's playable, at least until you get maybe halfway through the game. That's when it all goes in the shitter in terms of level design, you know wells in xbox munch? Well, imagine a whole MAZE of wells, one big long maze, and you have to navigate through all of them to get spooce, and sometimes you have to get mudokons that are completely out of place sometimes (some even disappear for no reason!) to get through gates, to get to ANOTHER maze of wells, and vice versa while having droning music beating into your brain.

there was no charm in gba munch's oddysee.

Sounds pretty dumb. It did get really shitty reviews too. Well, maybe I just want it because it's Oddworld.

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Well, maybe I just want it because it's Oddworld.

I can understand that, If I was to go out and collect all of the Oddworld games I would pick up MO on the GBA just to have it part of my collection. I don't own a GBA and even if I did I probably woulden't play it. It was only a couple of years ago I played the PC versions of AO and AE. I've been playing the PSX games ever since AO first came out and I did have an interest to try the PC versions. The PC version of both games exceeded my expectations but with MO on the GBA I seriously do not have an interest to play it. I'd always wanted to play the Oddworld Adventures games and when I finally did I was highly dissapointed. Not sure what other people think of these games but I personally don't like them. I'm interested in trying MO and SW on the PC but it's not something I am totally desperate to try. Will probably be a few years before I play them but I am totally excited for SW HD on Xbox 360 and I will be buying that on its release date.

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Sounds pretty dumb. It did get really shitty reviews too. Well, maybe I just want it because it's Oddworld.

Nah; don't buy it, that was my impression when it came out but when I played it...IT SUCKED! I had already played the GBC versions of AO and AE; which I also thought sucked, but when I learnt this one was going to be in 3D (or 2.5D, I suppose) I thought it would be an improvement. Boy was I wrong. I found it really dull and repetitive. My advice would be to save your pennies for the SW remake.

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I found it really dull and repetitive.

An accurate spiritual successor to MO, then.

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An accurate spiritual successor to MO, then.

Well; granted the Xbox version of MO was reasonably repetitive, I never actually found it dull. The CBA version on the other hand was a completely different story.

Hmm, this thread got derailed, anyways some more news on this. This article on Eurogamer has some info on it:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...e-hd-announced

JAW is currently in talks with Microsoft about the launch of Xbox 360 versions of both games. "There is hope," Gilray said.

"There are various things with Microsoft," he revealed. "We originally faced this 2GB limit. They said to be on XBLA you have to be smaller than 2GB. But, Games on Demand, any size you want. Not sure how that works, but that's what they've told us. So they originally knocked us back for XBLA for Stranger HD, not just in size. They actually turned the project down."

Why?

"I'd rather not say why. We're talking to them now and we're making progress with them on that. They've been more forthcoming recently than they were in December last year. That's perhaps because when I told Lorne at Oddworld that Microsoft said no, they went, 'They said what!?' And they called up their friends at Microsoft and said, 'What!?' Lorne is Lorne. He's a bit of a formidable force in some respects.

"We've got various avenues open to us."

If Stranger's Wrath HD does release on Xbox 360, "it'll be about a month after" the PlayStation 3 release, Gilray said.

"Ultimately we want to do on Xbox what we're doing on PS3, and that is to be self-publishing. We don't want to have to go via another party, be it Microsoft Game Studios or another publisher. Right now, the way Microsoft works is you can't publish on Xbox 360 digitally unless you've published three disc products before – unless you're via MGS, like Trials HD did."

Im fairly sure MS is opening up their digital distribution policy with games on demand, hopefully Lorne has enough pull to do so. In a trailer for a download version of RE4 it shows games on demand and not the arcade logo, so it looks like they are dropping the thing where you need a disc release on the 360 before getting in games on demand.

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Remastered HD versions of oddworld and new oddworld games are like a crap load second comings of Jesus in 2 years. (2010-2011)