Jordan, remember what you said in the thread of Hand Of Odd? A microphone piece thing, or whatever you called it, that would be amazing!
YAY that idea!

Also, AE and AO are amazing, I would not choose a remake. But if they did, you could play it in
2D version, or pick 3D, that would be neat.
But I'd rather see them make a whole new game over a remake.
I want them to stick with PC or Xbox...because I have them, maybe the Wii in the future (at least not until I get it! haha)

Wii...since there is no space taken up with a HUD normally, you could put gamespeak options along the top. Point and click with the Wiimote, and use the Nunchuck to move. Hold the Nunchuk button (I think there's one on there) to run, and press A when not highlighting Gamespeak to jump...? Who knows.

I've got an idea for the gamespeak. The Wii mote has a d-pad, it would be great to use that, like if you press 'up' Abe says hello or something. And when you hold up he says All o ya!

Holding and pressing would mean you'd have to wait a second or so if you just pressed it for the game to verify you're not holding it. And timing is critical in the Oddworld games, particularly AO, you had to be bloody quick at points.
MO DC would be best. Giving the full, originally planned story BEFORE making the next one.
And who say's it'll be called ME? even thuogh that would make sense if it was Munch escorting the young Gabbiwogs through hordes of river to the safety of the sea (since if there were more Gabbits, and therefore offspring, losses wouldn't matter with such an originally large number of gabbits, unlike the critical problems Munch is having).
No Oddworld game will be on PS3, though. That thing is too expensive to expect people to buy. Xbox is a possibility, as is the Wii.
I don't want it to be on Xbox, as I want to buy a Wii, and don't want to be limited to Xbox by one or two games alone we don't know are even coming out yet.
The Wii is cheaper, and alot more original and innotitave than the Xbox, so I hope that's a deciding factor.

Lorne has stated that he's impressed with the Wii controller and the options it has provided. But he criticised the Gamecube for not being powerful enough for what he wanted a console to do and the Wii is not significantly stronger. Certainly the PS3 has everything he wants in a console: great graphics and crazy-strong processor to handle lots of AI and environmental variables. But I suspect that market share will also come into consideration so he may well choose the 360.

Hopefully, by the time a new OW game comes out I'll have the money to buy a 360 and LCD TV, if not, I'm screwed, I'll still buy the game to look at! :)

True, but when compared to the XBox 360 or PS3, it is certainly lacking in graphics. Sure, it's cheaper and the controls are much more interesting, but I think that what Lorne will really be looking for is a system with the best graphics to carry out his vision of the game fully.

I don't really care about the graphics, it's the gameplay I'm more bothered about!

But the gameplay would be even better if the graphics were amazing :p.

You mean the general experiene, not the gameplay.
The gameplay is actually controling the way whatever is going on on the screen.

I personally think there shouldn't be any remakes. ME would be awesome to have or Hand of Odd someday, but that's most likely wishful thinking on my part.

However, I would like OWI to do something about providing Microsoft or vice versa the means to make Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath backwards compatible with 360 finally! I can't tell you how frustrated I have been that anytime I want to go play MO for nostalgic reasons, I have to fire up my old Xbox. For what was one of the flagship titles of the original Xbox alongside Halo this is pretty sad.

I Think there should be a munch game without abe, [I'll "sniff" miss you abe.] but munch for some reason could run faster. It would be good if the whole game was set in vykkers labs.

That wouldn't make the slightest bit of sense. Why would Munch suddenly be able to run faster? And why would it be set in Vykker's Labs if that blew up? What's more, I don't think that Munch would be able to do so well on his own, seeing as how both Abe and Munch relied on one another to survive during Munch's Oddysee.

I agree 100% with you there Snuzi.
And anyway, what would be the fun of a Vykker's labs game, Oddworld isn't all industrial, the player also needs to see some wildlife, like trees, Scrabs and Paramites. What I'd like to see is a return of Scrabania and Paramonia.

I think it'd be just as cool if they showed other Mudokon temples that were dedicated to scrabs and paramites. I think it'd be interesting to see the differences between them and the Mudomo and Mudanchee vaults.

I'd love to see Necrum and the Mudanchee and Mudomo Vaults again, there's so much you don't see in AE, I'd just love to explore everything! ^^
And what about the history of the Necrum city?

Well, since we're all adding the "what we'd like to see..."

I'd like to see (if it was a munch game) what it was like being a gabbit, like if they had any chanting they did, or if they had like an underwater temple kind've thing. The lifestyle of gabbits would be cool.

If they are doing any new games, I want Hand of Odd!
I think we could all agree, Hand of Odd would be incredible, no matter what system it was on! (As long as I already have the system :))

R U JOKING????
 

Are you JOKING?!?!?!? The gameplay is awesome. It's the first game where you actually have to interact with the other creatures on screen. The graphics could use a little work, but the backgrounds are awesome!

And I agree with you 100% Jordan. We definetly need a return of both Scrabania and Paramonia, and even the temples. Yeah those parts in AO were the best.

That was my opinion, dude... :fuzemb:

The nature in the games shows more of the beauty in Oddworld, but with the industriality, you see all the machinery on Oddworld.
Industrial and nature on Oddworld both have their good points, but I much prefer the trees and the grass. Hey, I'm a tree hugger! :fuzwink:

I tried hugging a tree, but fir trees hate me...:(

But I'd still probably side with the natives, then go on a tree killing spree after I've been through the game once.

I myself have always preferred the industrial aspect of Oddworld. The creatures that ran the facilities, as well as the facilities themselves always seemed more interesting to me than the natives and wildlife.

I hate the darkness of the industriality, I just love it on AO and AE, I have no idea why, it must be the beautiful backgrounds, with that blue glow! :p

Can't those new Oddworld XBox games run on XBox 360 too? Sorry, but I'm very dumb on game consoles...

you mean MO and SW, no they can't be played on Xbox360

What a shame, I feel like missing out on a lot because I never bought a Xbox. I wished MO & SW were atleast ported to other consoles or the pc as well.

That would have been cool, but originally they wanted to. But Sony couldn't produce it in time, and Oddworld needed to release it sooner so they just had X-box produce MO. SW had the same problem I believe. Not too sure, but... I'm sure that Max, Nate, or Xavier probably knows the whole story, so you could probably visit TOL to learn more.

lol

MO was developped on the PS2 but for some reasons Lorne did not like that platform and jumped to the Xbox as soon as it was possible to develop for it.
So they re-started almost everything but for Xbox. They had an Xclusive contract for the next few game with Microsoft, so no PS2 or PC version was even tried.

After that they did SW (Xclusive for Xbox), but Microsoft threw them away so they went to EA. EA wanted to do a port for PS2 but failed to do it because the game was designed to take all the power out of the Xbox.

So EA lost interest and only released the Xbox version.

I can imaging why they wouldn't bother with a PS2 version anymore, as it would mean they had to invest time to alter the entire game to PS2's standard.
I don't understand however; why they never bothered releasing both games on the pc.

I'd have liked them for PC. PS2's crappy engine and graphics wouldn't be able to handle MO and SW, the beauty of them would destroy it. I WISH they released it for PS2 just for it to be blown up. :p

The PS2 was the best-selling console of that generation. Hiring another company to port it to the PS2 would have increased their sales drastically. As for the PC; I really doubt the style of platforming in MO and SW would have suited a keyboard. Look at Psychonauts - awesome game but it just doesn't work on the PC.

Hmmm, I have an idea! Even better, I bet someone has thought of it already! But here it is, get Oddworld AO and AE on the Xbox Live Arcade!

Talking About Arcade at the local bowling ally they use to have an arcade game machine and they didnt have the full version of AE on it but more then half the demo.

I don't think OWI ever released any Oddworld arcade machines, and it would be impossible to do gamespeak.

Some people talked about it, yup. And I'd love to play AO and AE on my Xbox360

But I think the folks at OWI are a bit too busy to concentrate on that, maybe a bit before the Oddworld movie launch (7 years, wich is a guess)

:eek: 7 years!? Neoooooooooo! PLEASE Jordan, don't be too busy by the time you're 20!

It's only a guess, it could be more or a bit less

Well, we can still bide our time by playing AO, AE, MO, SW or coming here to reminisce the glories of the games and argue with/yell at eachother.

Very true. So, either way, we'll be occupied :).