You idiot. All the clues are clear and present in the games: Abe was named after Abraham Robertson, eighteenth/nineteenth century Scottish mathematician and astronomer. Abe will clearly go on to become widely respected for his work on conic sections.

I think it's pointless to try and guess the identity of Squeek, given that he's more than likely going to be a species we've never seen before. And the antagonists of his story will also probably be a newly designed species.

I'd assume that a new antagonising race would be either superior to the Glukkons, or in charge of a rival empire.

Well, you can't really assume they'd be anything other than glukkons, they've been the main antagonists for the last 2 quintology games.

Except for, you know, the Vykkers.

And we almost know that the Glukkons aren't the top of the industrial chain (at the very least there will be far more powerful Glukkons).

Vykkers were there, but Glukkons were another main antagonist. The only reason they wanted Munch's lungs were because of the Queen.

Depends how you look at it. Munch's main goal was not just to stay alive, but to get the gabbiar back from the Vykkers. Similarly, Abe wanted to free the egg crates stored in Vykkers' Labs. Taking that in to account, the Glukkons were merely a means to an end; that being raising enough money to gain access to the Gabbiar auction.

From 'tagonists to tools.

The next antagonists will probably be some other octopus looking guys.

I think its good were trying to guess what Squeek is. Speculation is most of the fun ... especially when there isnt actually any new stuff for like 6 years -_-

Plus I think the main antagonist will more than likely be Glukkons. I doubt after all these years Oddworld are gonna just forget about one of thier main species.

This probably marks a decade of people on the Oddworld Forums speculating that Squeek could be a Slurg, Rat or ironically large creature.

Glukkons will definitely play a role, but as the story progresses we're going to see that Glukkons play only a small part in Oddworld's civilized society. Bigger players and more powerful species will be revealed.

I'd like to see luskans, kinto's and the sort...but only in 3D, I think glukkons will be hovering throughout all Oddworld games...but as Max said, there has to be something that rivals the Cartel...otherwise there wouldn't be any stock market contenders and what would be the point in business then.

Glukkons are just a small part of the Magog Cartel.

Somebody should ask about Nod.

Why? What would we get out of it that we couldn't get by asking about Oddworld: Alf's Stoddge?

Has it been asked before to no avail?

What point would there be in denying the name of a character that may have a game made around him at some point?

Other than pointing out that no game will ever be made around him at any point, because Nod isn't the character's name?

Who is Nod?

As Nate said, that isn't the character's name. It's name is Don. Don Duke.

Abe rhymes with Babe. Abe is a Babe. Therefore my theory is correct. :D

Abe backwards is Eba. Replace the A with the word Games and it's EB Games. Thusly, Abe will create and manage EB Games. I am a genius.

I always pictured Squeek as a little guy with a cane who lives in a cave with all of his brethren who make fun of him because hes a cripster. Then these giant flying robots come and capture everyone but him and he has to save them by channeling his mentor god, and they feel bad that they made fun of him after they get captured. But he's a good guy and saves them anyway because he's pure of heart.

So he's Yoda then.

Yeah kind of. I don't think he would have pointy ears though. He'd be like a little monkey dude. Squeek should have like insane spiritual powers though like being able to shrink and grow as he pleases. The gameplay would vary as such.

Squeek should be an overweight middle-aged man, just to disappoint everybody.

I would seriously cut off Lornes hair if that happened...

Or Squeek could be the complete opposite and be a doppy fat polar bear thing..

You say this like it would be a bad thing

Don't joke about drop bears. They're scary shit.

You know, when they show us what Squeek will look like, we are gonna be like "THAT WAS SO OBVIOUS!"

Will we?

I don't think so as well.

Squeek is obviously a new character from a new species just like Munch was

""Are the next games going to be more like Abe's Oddysee/Exoddus or Stranger's Wrath?" - Both"

New Abe game in 2.5D, mark my words.

What was the last 2D platformer game using sprites anyway? I think 2.5D is just a given at this point. Especially since that's pretty much what Oddysee and Exoddus were (I'm talking out of my ass here so correct me if I'm wrong)

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Thats great and all but the things thats annoying me is when are we actually going to see something new? Come on Oddworld move on.

Think of Abe HD as a "test bed" for the 2.5D technology, in a matter of speaking. It's the first of many, many projects if the info I've heard is correct.

No, 2.5D refers to using actual 3D models in-game while only having 2 dimensions of movement. AO and AE were all sprite-based, so they were technically 2D.

No not at all man, I just hope hes a likeable character like abe. Good guy underdog type character. Just fat and stupid (in a good way) people are funny :p Would add even more comedy to the tale.

But the sprites and backgrounds were captured from 3d models.

Also, what about the foreground/background?