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Esus 04-09-2004 07:17 AM

Yes, it is a possibility. Perhaps it means that the environment is fully usable, as in you can break branches from trees, or support beams from buildings and therefore move them...

Shell Man 04-09-2004 04:13 PM

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Like I said before, I hope the gameplay is something like Zelda:Windwaker. The level of environmental interaction and gameplay capabilities were amazing. Not to mention the interaction between Link and his talking boat.

Mac the Janitor 04-09-2004 04:29 PM

I've been wondering if Fuzzles are going to be some live ammo, considering they're in the opening sequence.

Alcar 04-09-2004 08:12 PM

Hmmm, yes, but Stranger only picks up the Bolamite, while knocking the Fuzzle to the side. But who knows :p

Alcar...

Xavier 04-09-2004 10:31 PM

I doubt Fuzzles will be used as live ammo, Stranger would have pic it up in the opening sequence

anyway a bite-bomb sounds pretty funny!

Nate 04-14-2004 01:44 PM

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You put inverted commas around the wrong word, but could be. I don't know though - if (and that's a completely insinuation-free if) the game incorporates Quarma, there might be something as an equivalent to Mudokons or Fuzzles.

Maybe instead of quarma Stranger is concerned with moolah. After all, the hicken does reward Steef in the opening movie.

Wil 04-14-2004 11:21 PM

Possibly, but OWI have always been eager to allow games that pan out - or at least conclude - in a way that makes you responsible for your actions. And it seems to me that different types of Live Ammo have effects that can be more or less 'violent'. A Thud-Slug seems a pretty nasty thing to get hit by, but sleeping darts, Bolamites and Chipunkz are all less lethal weaponry. Moolah may play a part in that in this game, though, since it does seem to be a part of the gameplay.

Nate 04-15-2004 02:03 PM

maybe stranger uses non-lethal amo because the clackerz pay him a bigger bounty if he brings in outlaws alive.

Mac the Janitor 04-15-2004 02:06 PM

Or simply OWI is trying to stray away from the usual weapons.

Note the guns in MO.

Sekto Springs 04-15-2004 04:49 PM

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Or simply OWI is trying to stray away from the usual weapons.

Note the guns in MO.

The guns in MO were meant to be the same guns in the other games, except they don't kill you with one hit. If a 3D game had "one-hit wonder" weapons then it would be very hard to beat. The 2D games can allow one-hit wonders because there is less room to navigate, thus if you climbed up on a ledge a slig can't shoot you. Reversely, in a 3D game you could climb on a ledge and still be shot by a slig because of the vast environment, and if you died with one hit then you would be repeating that part forever.

Mac the Janitor 04-15-2004 07:42 PM

Naw, I'm talking about the Blitzpackers and Snuzis silly:p

Wil 04-16-2004 12:11 AM

Yes, product delivery firearms were a brilliant idea, spoilt only by the fact that they fired different coloured lasers, and killed rather than addicted, which was the whole point of them.

Xavier 04-16-2004 12:55 AM

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Yes, product delivery firearms were a brilliant idea, spoilt only by the fact that they fired different coloured lasers, and killed rather than addicted, which was the whole point of them.

too bad indeed...
I wonder how it might have work in the game?
maybe with an "addiction level bar" that raises depending how much time you were hit and when was the last time you drunk/ate some and that you have to go to a vendo with that product before the bar is completed or else abe gets crazy

Wil 04-16-2004 01:06 AM

No, OWI have always avoided bars and menus as much as possible (with the exception of the main menus and pause screen, which I think are pretty necessary). Abe remained pretty addiction-free in Abe's Exoddus, with all that SoulStorm Brew, so maybe he had some resistance against those weapons, but they would be used much more efficiently against other Mudokons, Sligs etc. We know MO was originally intended as a world simulation-kind game, where such gameplay would be a marvel.

Xavier 04-16-2004 01:09 AM

ok... I see
so industrialist would have to use other weapons to kill Abe
Maybe in MO they tried to make him an addict, but due to his resitance they couldn't, so they kept on shooting at him and eventually killed him

Wil 04-16-2004 01:14 AM

Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable excuse. :p Those BlitzPacker cans are designed to damage, we know, but I'm not sure about the SnUzis or LungBusters.

Xavier 04-16-2004 01:18 AM

true true...
*thinks*

well, a bit of sadism never hurt anyone, did it?

Nate 04-18-2004 02:37 PM

And as well as addicting you, those products aren't too healthy so they would still do you some physical damage.

Xavier 04-19-2004 09:10 AM

Nate...
can be a good explanation too.
anyway I hope we will see the addicition concept due to the product delivery firearms in a future game it realy seems very good!

Wil 05-02-2004 10:35 AM

True – Vykkers Labs is known for its product linking, where one drug creates the need for another. Maybe it is the symptom of that product that causes the death. Which makes sense, as Mudokons have very fragile bodies, so perhaps they are more vulnarable to such things.

Also the SnUzis could be filled with a lethal toxin, and the Stoggies might be, I dunno, poison tipped, or spiked. They sound reasonable idea for the Vykkers, who I’m sure would love such cruel and unusual weaponry.

Oddish 05-02-2004 01:08 PM

It said someone will die in Stranger, good guy i think. And Stranger gets all emostional and angry, then turns into the Beast. Prehaps.

Nate 05-02-2004 01:50 PM

You're reading a lot into a very vague statement. And Rich from CG emphasised the fact that Stranger didn't show much emotion so he probably doesn't get too angry or turn into the beast at this point.