The Oddbox will be on Steam, not on PS3.

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This is kind of a demoralizing announcement. I had actually gotten in the mood to look forward to shit like this too.

Well played guys. Bringing Oddworld back to the playstation is indeed an amazing feat you should pat yourselves on the backs for.

Well, I'm looking forward to it at least. I'll admit I was a tiny bit disappointed it wasn't a new game with Abe or a new character or something, but those are still coming and this is still cool. I never turn down Oddworld.

I'm really curious what the other new things in the game are going to be. Changes to the world set-up? A few extra bounties? Abe cameo? Hmmm? Definitely gonna get this and have a blast playing through it. I just hope since the dialogue is being changed, Stranger is still as great a character as he used to be. At least, he must still utter the line "gots ta get paid" at some point. :D

re-mastered dialog...I dunno if this means the dialog is being redone or what?

Adding motion controls to a shooter is basically making it a new gameplay experience. I have Metroid Prime on the Gamecube and the Collector's edition for the Wii with the Motion controls. Its soooooo much better then using an analog stick. Its basically a whole new experience.

Secondly when they say remake i think they mean a remake, with a majority of the graphical work being redone and retextured.

Additional bonus material still to be revealed? :O this is probably the best part of the whole article. Can't believe no one mentioned it yet. This could be anything from commentary and behind the scenes to extra Outlaws or even new areas to the game. What I am hoping for making is so we can backtrack in the game, it was one of the things i hated was having this beautiful gorgeous world that didnt let me explore when i wanted to.

and Finally, like someone mentioned it gives them time to work on other things. Because a remake like this only needs programmers and 3d artists. The Gameplay Designs and Concept Artists can work on other games while this is being pumped out. So its either...wait a year or two with this, or wait a year or two with nothing.

PS. Hey idiots, does it say exclusive to the PS3 anywhere in that article? No? oh well I guess theres no confirmation that its not going to be on the 360, even tho it has weaker hardware compared to the ps3, not debatable, its fact that the hardware of the PS3 is more powerful.

So shut up cause atleast we are getting something while we wait, and its a good something, i've played Stranger's Wrath 5 times so far from beginning to end, i almost shit myself when i read this. 5 years of waiting? yes, but JAW probably hasnt been working on Oddworld games for 5 years, maybe 1 or 2...even then thats being generous.

JAW has been working on Oddworld for about one year now, and they announced from the beginning that we would be seeing multiple projects from them. A remake isn't a bad way to start. It gets Oddworld back on the minds of the people who aren't diehard fans following it, it gets new fans in, and since it is adding and changing things with new graphics and controls, it gives old fans a reason to play it again.

It's a good first step before releasing new material. Especially because it also gives them more time and money to make the new games the best they can be. Yeah, we have been waiting a long time, but I'd much rather wait longer and have a great new game than have them rush out a new game just to shut up a small annoying part of the fanbase. Don't you people remember Munch's Oddysee? We know what happens when Oddworld gets rushed out.

There's nothing wrong with making a remake, especially one of a game like Stranger's Wrath that I've always wanted to play but never had the chance to.

This is everything wrong with this announcement. Mr Gilray: You have a really really shitty marketing ethic if this is honestly so important to you.

I admit, as much as this announcement is a promising one, that did make me cringe a bit. But in a way, it isn't as pretentious as it sounds. If we look at the pragmatics a little:

If he stated that it was 'going back to PlayStation' then that would be gloating somewhat.
But he said: 'going back ON to PlayStation', I dunno, to me that has connotations of just stating that they're providing the PlayStation fans with something they've never been able to experience, whilst still leaving it open that from there on in, all things released will be multiplatform?

Or is that a bit of a stretch? I just don't think he meant ill by it, even though I read it asuch at first.

I definitely read it as "We're bringing Oddworld back to the Playstation because it was Xbox exclusive for so long". We have no idea if they intend to bring this to XBLA as well, but I think what he was saying was more like "Rejoice PS3 owners, as Stranger's Wrath is no longer exclusive to Xbox!".

Nothing wrong with that.

Okay, you guys can read it as you like.

I'm going to wait for the man himself to elaborate.

Oh well... I was planning to replay Stranger after I had finished MO again, but that won't be needed now :)

Seems a good reason to actually also buy the Move if it works a bit :)

No trophy support on this one???? Please have trophies! Even the most crappy PSN games have trophies!

Trophies could be interesting.

"Take out so and so using only so and so ammo".

Oh God...

This is going to be GREAT!!!!!!!! I will certainly buy it.

Pass. I want something new, not a remake.

Oh a saw a youtube vid about this :)

Hazel's
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And I just want to say that Gilrod said somewhere about 3 projects. (Precentage of complection)

Yea, one was 75%, one was 50% and one was 2%.........I wander which one this is.

I guess stranger is 75%, as it comes on easter.

Someone on a big gaming forum I frequent seems to work at JAW, all he says is that they said nothing about exclusivity. Still being ambiguous as fuck, but it seems it will release on 360 sooner or later.

Is the one at 2% the good one? The one with Abe. :P

So it isn't exclusive, it just hasn't been announced for other systems. They might be going the Lost Planet 2 route, and announce it on one platform, but it ends up on both at the same time. Or it could be timed exclusive. I dont know, they should just tell us. The fuckers.

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/09/...ps3-exclusive/

Love it that they're bringing out a re-make, I seem to be one of few that's satisfied. And I don't even have a PS3 nor will I probably get one in the foreseeable future. =( Ah well

My apologies for misinterpretating the announcement, but I still think Mr Gilray should be a bit more careful how he says things. Because misunderstandings are bad.

If and when this releases on the 360 I'll be damn sure to snag it. I really can't wait.

Oh, well. Okay. I'll buy it, because I can't stand playing SW on my HD tv with my SD XBox, as it gets really blurry whenever I move, and gives me a headache. Still, I thought we were getting a new game. Oh, well.

*sigh*

Right, why did I say "get Oddworld BACK on the PlayStation" ...

there have been NO "new" Oddworld titles on ANY PlayStation system since Abe's Exoddus back in 1998, so it'll be 13 years between that and getting Stranger out on PS3. THAT is what I was referring to.

We cannot talk about the re-releases of AO and AE on PS3/PSP as those are the original PS1 games.

It wasn't me saying "Oddworld are on PS and are staying ONLY on PS" now was it?! you guys REALLY need to stop reading between the lines and read everything as the words that are used :p

I know I shouldn't get riled, but when people say they are "Pissed" or are "mad" I don't like that, especially when they come to these conclusions from reading between damned lines...

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I got a PC and an Xbox 360... and why of all things they must release it for PS3? :(

Slow to the party, aren't we?

A lot of us understood what you meant. Don't let the negativity get to you.

You are a shining golden knight saving us from the horrors of not having Oddworld. Don't forget that, and know that those that don't love you already will indeed come to in time.

But the new Stranger IS PS3 exclusive. That's what I got from the announcement, that's what the entire forum got from the announcement and that's what a dozen of game news websites got from the announcement.

If you didn't mean to say that the games will be exclusive to one console then step out of your office, walk down the hallways and go slap your PR department silly until they are bleeding because then they fucked up badly.

And regardless, console exclusiveness is stupid in this day and age. I could understand you guys using Stranger HD as a jumping board to get Oddworld on the map again before you release the projects that are actually new. But doing that and then putting it on only 1 console is sheer stupidity from a marketing standpoint. You're cutting off 2/3 of the market you could be servicing and please don't tell me you're expecting people to buy a 400 dollar console to play the PSN remake of a game that was released in 2005.

And marketing aside, yes I'm pissed it's PS3 exclusive because now I won't be able to play it on my 360.

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Meh; I'm a bit disappointed, but it'll be fun the see what the remake looks like, who knows....maybe it'll be a vast improvement compared to the original. But I do hope these projects their working on aren't all remakes. :/

Do you not think it might be to do with Microsoft cutting their contract with oddworld? which caused them to lie low for years? If anything there should NOT be an xbox360 game!!

Great point Havoc, you're trying to reintroduce Oddworld to a new market of gamers and you're going to make it an exclusive??

Also I've NEVER heard of an HD remake of an old game being exclusive to any system unless there's some sort of legal reason.

They never said it was exclusive. They just announced it for the PS3 first. He has gone on-record saying that it isn't going to be exclusive, and the link to it has been posted in this very thread.

It'll likely see release on other consoles, it's just coming to PSN first. That happens with a lot of the big Arcade games. One console gets it before the others. Sometimes a week before the others. Sometimes a month or two.

Wow, huh? I used to love how it use to show different aspects of Oddworld. I wonder whether it will come out on 360...

It would be immoral not to release it on 360.

That was my point about slapping the PR department silly. If it's not going to be exclusive they shouldn't have written a release announcement that focused so heavily on the PS3 release without mentioning it will be released for other platforms later.

Fact is that a lot of game news sites are drawing the conclusion that it will be PS3 exclusive. True or not, the announcement causes confusion.

I still haven't played Strangers Wrath or in fact Munch's Oddysee since I had a PS2. Now I have a 360 so i'll wait snatch up the remake if possible.

This is great news, I've been wanting to play Stranger's Wrath for a while.

Is it a full remake, or just a port with slightly better graphics?

The latter I guess

Oh, to be Mr Gilray right now. Savaged by the very fans he seeks to serve. Our decade of isolation has turned us feral.

We'll be as sweet as honey as soon as we see these games for ourselves.