I'm really embarrassed to be a fan of Oddworld right now. What pricks inhabit these forums! JAW just started working on Oddworld less than a year ago, and they already have several projects they plan to release. Just because OWI has disappointed you in the past, doesn't mean you should take it out on this small company that is trying to make you guys happy.

I'm super psyched about this announcement! Stranger's Wrath was poorly marketed, and we all know it's a great game. Let's get some fresh new fans excited about Oddworld... maybe some that are actually grateful.

All I could really do to console Gilrod is point him in the direction of the Team Fortress 2 Steam User's Forums when a big new update comes out.

After seeing that, he'll consider himself lucky. At least these forum members are making valid points and aren't yelling about hats every three seconds.


I'm quite excited for the announcement. Agreed that I was expecting something different, I'm super happy that I can finally get my friends (most of whom have PS3s) to play this game that I keep telling them about.
If the game is not exclusive to PS3 and ends up being released on Xbox 360 (similar to Scott Pilgrim vs The World), I will purchase it, however I was planning on buying a PS3 when The Last Guardian is released anyway so I'm not all that bothered either way.


I guess all we can do at this point is wait some more. Now that it's announced, I'm looking forward to some propers screenshots of the game, to see how it all will look.

He know we're gonna buy anything they release anyway

Speaking of hats, I want Stranger's hat in TF2 if I preorder the Oddbox. Just saying.

That's awesome! Too bad I don't have a PS3 ... But I think they should make a 2nd game, not just a remake ...

My guess is that they're taking the original dialogue that was recorded and putting it back in to the game at a higher quality bitrate.

This. Very this.

MojoMan220 returns from the ether to slam us all with his TruthHammer.

Not everyone is acting like that, though. There are a lot of people, myself included, who are just happy this is finally happening.

Anyway when PSMove is released? I has to be released before SW Remake, as it support Move steering.

Euh, don't you follow the newssites?

Moves is as good as released by now.
Sept. 15 in Europe, Sept. 19 in North America and Oct. 21 in Japan

All big gaming sites etc have their packages unpacked already.

Stranger is coming at easter, that's a loooooong time away. Might even be able to implement Kinect in there :)


Maybe this is all intentional done by PR.

Bring out some news that LOOKS partly bad for a lot of people (but infact isn't! You need to really understand it good).
News dies down......., Oddworld get's out of the picture again.

Bring out "new" news, thats now partly good for a lot of people (to inform a lot of people misunderstood the first PR message)
Oddworld news in the picture again!

It's only bad PR for Sony Playstation 3. "Another exclusive" down the drain!

No one has said it is exclusive for PS3.

But the game IS a big game at over 2GB.

And that's probably the reason why you can't release it on XBL Arcade, because there's a 2 GB restriction, right?

SW could be released as a "Games on demand" title on Xbox 360. Y'know, as a Xbox original.

So glad it's not going to be a PS3 exclusive. That's the only thing that bothered me. Bring on Stranger, bitches.

I'm guessing this means the Oddbox won't have this graphically enhanced version of Stranger? The release dates are different and this post seems like a safe bet to me:

Why does everything have to involve downloads these days? I just want normal, boxed games that I can physically order from Amazon or Play.com or buy from my local games store. No restrictions then...

Maybe because Oddmob/JAW don't want the publisher and retailers have the lionshare of earnings taken away from them.

You're kidding, right? Disks are limited; ~7gb on a Bluray.

Also:

I'm assuming there are similar restrictions to Xbox Classics.

I think you mean 7GB for a DVD and 25GB on a Bluray.

50GB on Blu-Ray, actually.

For dual-layered, yes. There's a lot of variability in DVD capacities too, depending on various parameters. Doesn't change my point.

Oh. That was what I meant, yes. I'd forgotten 7Gb to a DVD untill I googled it today (it was more fun that homework).

That made me look a bit of a twat.

The article implied it, people read it and assumed it. Take a course in PR before you release an article again. Why is it so hard to just tell the world on what consoles the game will be available eventually? Why does everything need to be so damn secretive and cryptic?

Trust Havoc to take things that wee bit too far.

It's what I'm here for.

Because often it's unsure if it will. It's not always as easy as you think to get stuff working on all platforms at the same time, especially depending on the engine used and so forth.
It often happens that they make the game so it runs well on at least 1 system before moving on to make it work on the other and thus focussing all their efforts on a single system and hardware set instead of multiple at the same time.

All they said is that it is coming for the ps3 and that it will have move support.

As Gilrod said to many people jumping the conclusion and "reading between damned lines".
Also the news post said nothing about "Only available on ps3..."

Give them some support instead of complaining. There is work being done on a oddworld game!! And I'm betting that it's also as a way for JAW to prove themselves that they are worthy to work on the franchise that we all love so much.

:D

Will this game include.

-The short stubby race that was meant to row Stranger's boat.
-The Sea Rex chasing him in the Mongo River?

I don't remember anything about Searex being in SW. He was taken out of Munch.

As for the Scuba Toads, I doubt it. Depends where they've decided to seat themselves on the remake vs console port scale.

I think they would do better making MO remake - with Sam and rest of cutted out story.

I think they would do better releasing something soon that costs them a small amount of money to make, rather than take four years and ten million dollars to develop something new.

Awesome news! However I would liked Munch's Oddysee first.

There was supposed to be a baby one following him and harassing him on the river. It's on the encyclopedia, isn't the encyclopedia your thing?

Bollocks! I wanted it for the freakign Xbox 360 :fuzmad:

Dead Rising Case Zero was released on Games On Demand originally if I recall correctly, but then moved to the Arcade. It was also released on a Tuesday, not a Wednesday. MS usually makes case by case exceptions, Im sure you guys can get it on Live somehow.

How exactly are they going to implement the usage of PlayStation Move? I don't see the point of Move to be honest.

From what I've seen, it's just a load of ambiguous virtual reality.

Not really, it's more like WiiMote.

So what you're saying is that there's absolutely nothing revolutionary about the PlayStation Move and it will play as if I'm playing a FPS on the Wii?

but with good, non-shambolic graphics. Or glitchy, crappy contols.

Sadly I won't be playing this due to the price tag of a PS3.. this is rather annoying because I bought a PS2 way back when just because it was going to have Oddworld.. and we all know how that ended up.
And now I have a 360 it moves over to PS3 boo.. :(

Stewart, congratulations on getting an announcement out at last. It must be a huge relief. Try not to get irked by fans jumping on your back. Apparently they're like hungry puppies: far too excitable, far too frenetic, and they just won't shut up with their stupid noises.

Havoc, you are a gargantuan pillock. How you claim to have even the vaguest interest or education in entertainment media while demonstrating nothing but an imbecilic failure to understand any part of it is beyond me and any rational person.

An HD port of Stranger's Wrath to the PS3 is good. PlayStationless, and indeed 360less, as I am, I'm looking forward to it. Good luck, guys!

Doubtful. Scuba Toads would have to be redesigned to work properly, and baby Sea Rexes were only considered as a possiblity.

I'm tremendously insulted by this.

Sorry, I confused the administrators. I'm not that familiar with you folks yet.