Why would you take a corpse to the prison?

Anyway, I think that you are assigned certain bounties by Clakkerz or whatever. Here's the way I see the story working, you start the game by catching the first bounty, Blisterz Booty (as shown in the FMV) and go to collect your pay (also in the FMV), that's where you're "assigned" to another bounty which is really you're first in-game bounty. You have to chase you're bounty across the huge plains (described by Abe Babe) and ask citizens of passing towns for any information on the guy, and while you're at the towns, you can buy stuff for your crossbow with money you acquired from your previous bounty. Eventually you'll get tipped off that your bounty is at this place or whatnot, and that's where you battle them. Along the way you may also run into s'more challenges and "missions" in which you can choose to do and gain more Moolah. Of course, at this point, I don't know where the actual storyline fits in, or where Stranger's possible transformation falls in place, but a good theory none the less. So I'm basically saying that alot of exploring and shooting fits in, which is the mechanic of the game as Ed Fries said.

sounds very good SligSlinger!
but I wonder if that's not a bit too less action, I mean most of the time you explore and don't do much

I wonder how the game will realy be... :p

I bet Stranger will kill The Looen Duke, and the looten duke would say "Blood may be thick than water, but water's were the moolah is at" or it might printed on his grave stone.

now we have the brand new screenshot!

the water story seems to going on, look at the logo in the first pic

and can someone tell what stranger is holding in his hand in the second pic?



EDIT: did you noticed those... "darts" in the ground?
perhaps some Stranger just shooted (picture 3)

EDIT2: just figured out what's in pic 2, some hatguy shooting on Stranger, the little thing on the bottom being a hat

Yes, i just pionted that out. I think that's a bullet shot, where's stranger is "holding".

Good spotting Xav. I think OWI is really doing a great job on the detail of this game, and although some of thoughs characters look alittle blocky we gotta realize that 1. The game isn't fully complete yet and 2. Its just a snapshot, it can looks tons better once in motion. Right now Im just gonna examine the pic some more and see if I can find anything else.

Edit- I just noticed that if you look at Xav's number2 pic then you can see another hat character behind the wall, most likely comming to see what the ruccus is.

Edit2- I also just noticed that there is a fourth guy on the grounds fighting Stranger look between the very right most creatures legs and you can make out the face of another character that appears to be either flipping or..something in the air.

Xav pointed that out already. We think that the gun shot around Stranger's hand is coming from that Hatman in the cellar.

Oh sorry, I didn't notice that Xav had mentioned it. Anyways from the looks of it there appears to two types of characters there; one's where you can see thier eyes and the ones where you can..

Yes, and one kind has green skin while the other is more orange.

They also have different teeth and clothes. My RAM is crap, so I can't open the image right now, but from memory, the two outside characters (not including the upside-down one or the one in the first-story "celler" (:p) are similar to Meagly McGraw and Filthy Hands Floyd, while the middle one is more like Mortimar Bang or Palooka Pack Rat.

I just spotted this while typing, but compare the skull on the badge on Filthy Hands Floyd's hat and the heads of the characters in the rockart - does anyone see a similarity? They're both pretty generic, but I just saw the badge, and it reminded me of those ghostly figures.

It's Pack Rat Palooka. Tee hee. Max made a booboo :D

Nope, can't see any similarity between the skull on the badge on Filthy Hands Floyd's hat and the heads of the characters in the rockart. they are a bit ghostly but the skull on FHF's hat is longer

Well i think that there just (how do you splell?) Minouns. TheOut laws like Mortimer Bang, Fillthy hands floyed, ect. Will probaly be bosses you have to fight.

And those "Orc's" are the same type, but wich side are they on? the Out laws or the Clakkerz? Mabey it would with the outlaws, same speices as De Cast Radier, and the other one( look's Mexican, and would be a great fit on Oddguy's banner "We want you...).

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Does anyone remember that when they first started talking about this game they mentioned that the ship would be alive and talk to Stranger? Then Legend of Zelda the wind waker came out and I haven't heard a thing about it since.

That first infamous EGM article, as I remember it, said the inspiration behind the Stranger/boat relationship came from ICO. The only thing I've heard about the boat since then is in last year's holday card, which mentioned that Stranger and his boat floated off “like sinew and bone.” I'd still like to see some kind of weird relationship between the two, but if not, then I'll understand that cuts have to be made in games.

EDIT: Wow, not only did I make a “booboo,” but I managed to not spot that it had been spotted and have failed to comment on it, hehehe.

The Stranger is startin' to look like a pretty good game. I'm definatly looking foward to it.

P.S. Nice to know you're a SM now Alacar