I hope there isnt anymore one legged creatures....

With people talking about Vykkers voices, haven't we only heard like 3 or 5 of the Vykkers speak. The others might be completly different. Like with the Glukkons. Mullock spoke real gruff yet Aslik was really posh and lispy...

Every single Vykker in MO spoke with a high-pitched voice - that's 39, so it seems pretty standard. The exception, of course, is Headley, but his description on Oddworld.com says he puts on a false accent. I personally think their current voices fit their appearance and personality like toe socks. :)

And I've nothing against any character having five fingers, in terms of character design, that's pretty unheard of. Even the Simpsons have four fingers, I mean, pfft, come on. :rolleyes:

As for the top hats, I think it's pretty obvious they keep a chant suppresser up there. :p

Perhaps the material is simply more thick and sturdy than one first assumes?
(That'll be the reason/excuse if no other true reason becomes known)

We pay way too close attention to every little detail. I bet OWI hates that!:p

-oddguy:stare:

I don't think they hate it...
they must be flatered

I wonder what the Grub-hunter guys sound like, I get the impression that they have deep voices with bad grammar like Glukkons. I expect the Tophat guys to have shrill evil voices, but seeing the buck-toothed one makes me wonder. The Sallis' voices are probly like mudokons with their li'l innocent tones and squeaks. We all know what Stranger sounds like and we weren't surprised by it either, so I guess we can only guess and assume for now. The Clakkerz voices are a dissapointment with their western accents, but I s'pose it matches their character. Oddworld has always intrigued us with surprising voices and bet this game will be no exception. :fuzwink:

As for the hats, they may be some kind of carrying case. Like maybe he can take it off and pull something of his out of it sort of like...well...a purse.
:confused:

hmmm, big hats are just plenty funny and are the top of good estetic, maybe those guys just think they look great with huge hats on their heads.
maybe it could also a way to show a kind of status level.

That's what I was thinking...somewhat of a status symbol.

Like gluks have bigger shoulder pads for higher status, these guys would have taller hats :D

Ahhh, it feels soo good to be back! (Forums wouldn't let me sign in for a month!) But It's great to see all this excellent new stuff rushing in. As for the Outlaw boss, well I think it looks excellent! I still have to catch up on reading all your comments but I'll add a more indepth analysis later. :)

Forum wouldn't let you in? That must've been torture to look at all this neato stuff and not be able to comment.

-=[oddguy

It twas, and for a whole month! But now its finally working again although I don't know what was wrong in the first place. Anyways, from what I've seen the game looks to be great. I keep picturing the begining intro as that Grub hunter being hired by thoughs natives bacause of a strange creature stealing from their village at night. Then when the Grub hunter enters the woods he sees Stranger just sitting there on the tree branches. Realizing his prey is near the Grub hunter charges and swings his gun.

Stranger dodges then runs, after a quick little chase Stranger finally outsmarts the Grub hunter and catches him on the ground where (thouse two images of the Grub hunter surprised and of Stranger grinning.). Just had to get that idea off my chest or I'd explode. Tell me what ya's think.
;)

Well, if you saw the X-factor special you'll see that the part where he swings his gun is much farther into the chase.

Here's what happened; Grubby chases him down a long log, Stranger leaps to the tall branch (where we see him sitting) Grub swings his gun, misses, shoots, but Stranger dodges the fire by swinging on a branch, he then leaps over to another large branch and jumps down into a village...that's all we saw.

I imagined it more how Oddsville thought of it. But in my head, it was sunrise/sunset, and the native guys were going about their buisness, opening/closing up their shops or houses and getting ready for the rest of the day/the next day. Then this bounty hunter type guy (the grub hunter) charges through the village, startling them. He continues on, into the forest, where he catches up with Stranger and he chases him around. Finally, Stanger outsmarts him, and that is where we see the Steef grinning and the grub hunter lying on the ground.
I missed the Xfactor thing, so I don't know what was shown or what was learned from it. How do the scuba toads fit into all of this? Or do we even know?

Hey, what do you think wrestling-mask-guy is holding in his hand? It could be a big-arse cigar or maybe a wierd-shaped weapon or possibly a cigar that is also a weapon (sorry, been watching too many Bond movies)

You know the one thing that always impresses me with Oddworld characters is the way that each character's mouth looks so incredibly different. I mean look at the hunter guys or the Vykker's lower jaws. OK, I know I notice wierd things but that's just the way my mind works

PS where do all these new names like Grub Hunter or Oddfather come from? I must have missed something

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I'm pretty sure it's just a cigar. Probably the same brand the Glukkons smoke.(taste terrible.....)

GASP! It's the little rascals!!

What I think is happening in this is that the Scuba toads are going to war with the Salimanders. What we are seeing in the background would be the quintology takeing place as sort of a not so important aspect of this game. Like we don't see Abe and Munch but we see another part of the movement where Abe and Munch aren't around. Stranger and the hunters get caught up into this as these small native battles take place. And what do all those sligs and snoozers have to do with this? Thats an intresting thought. OWI mentioned how this game is real epic in scale. OW4 is concurrent with the quintology and Stranger and the Hunters are something completely different and not takeing part of it but sort of running along side of those events for a brief period and eventually going on to a different path. What I mean is that the path of his game intersects the path of the quintology for a brief moment and then goes.

The quintology as we know started this movement of natives against Industrials. I think thats what we are going to be seeing in the background of this game.

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I always thought we might have more of a western type story where the indistrial folks are taking hold of the land as the natives are being forced out.

They're just pen-names we made up so we know what to refer to them as. Lorne says something about "A poacher Grub" during the X-factor special and eventually we just got used to calling him Grub Hunter.

thanks for the explanation.

PS I don't want to be a wet blanket but I think that people should avoid saying something like "I think these two species are at war" or "it would be good if Stranger had a special power where he could levitate cane toads and squirt their poisonous mucus at enemies" cos:

a) very vague guesses never come true
b) if you suggest an idea that Lorne & co had already come up with they may hesitate to add it to the game in case you try and sue them for Intellectual Property (don't laugh, it has happened)
c) You will put the Stranger game into your Xbox expecting to see these things and only get disappointed when they don't come up (even though there was never any likelyhood that they would)

I know it is a stupid thing to get upset about but it really irritates me when people spout theories based on nothing at all

We're basing our theories on a lot of things, and we can make all the predictions we want.

A. Some of the vaguest guesses can be close to the truth
B. WTF!?
C. All games have their dissapointments and any true gamer knows that, so it's pointless to point that out.

We're just discussing, I see nothing wrong with that. It may bug you, but you can't dictate what we should and shouldn't say. It's not your place my friend.

By the by, which OWF member sued OWI? I heard it happened, but never heard who made the accusation. Curious...I am.

As far as I know, it wasn't an actual OWF member, merely an Oddworld fan.

Yeah, if it would've been an OWF member, we all would've ran out of our houses, track the bastard down and rip him to pieces by digging toothpics into his flesh...really.

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I doubt very much I'll be dissapointed by this game.

However,

If I remember correctly, either Lorne or Alf dismissed the rumour that Oddworld was sued over the inclusion of emotions in Mudokons.

Alcar...

It was Alf...
but the guy was very large he said something like, "give the some more emotions to make them look alive"
and then with the emotions in AE he tried to claim it was his idea

That's just sad. Lorne and his crew don't need to copy other people's ideas, they have a highly imaginative and waged staff for that.

I totally agree with you.
But I don't think OWI is the only game studio which have that kind of problems.
What is realy sad are those assholes who claim it's their idea and try to steal money from those game studios

Whoa! I've never seen you swear before! You must be steaming!

Anyway, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying it sounds stupid that OWI would be sued for copying ideas when they have so many good ideas that they don't need to copy others (and they wouldn't).

That's why they don't read peoples fics. Even though i think they do...secretly.

Why would they view them secretly? Why I'd be honored if OWI used one of my Fic ideas, I would never sue them. But it would be a little asinine of them if they took an idea without acknowledging the writer first.

Alf's Assistant is replying! He will give us all the answers! :D

EDIT: :crying: Who's Online said he was replying to this thread...But he's gone now...

*Cries more*

It was a joke, silly billy. :p

AA does that a lot. I've seen him on "Who's Online" and he'll be replying to a thread, but he then remembers that this would be a form of communication, so he leaves in fear. Also, with his short term memory problem, this happens a lot. Poor guy.

-oddguy :p

Wow, I never thought my little comment would cause so much controversy.

Sorry for anyone who got insulted about my complaint, I was just giving a short whinge to get it out of my system.

I wasn't specifically talking about Oddworld when I mentioned the whole suing thing. They aren't the only ones that that has happened to. For instance Terry Pratchett (the author) stopped visiting the forums about his books because people kept on discussing ideas for the future and he was worried about legal action (just to be careful; not because it had happened)

Were not talking about what you said, there apparently was someone who did some sueing.

lol, you are so cruel with AA... anyway it's sad the inhabitants don't post more often on the forums.
I guess they don't have Lorne's permission to do it :fuzconf: