I've heard of owls eating rabbits, but I've never heard of the rabbit being so excited about it before. You should go post in the morbidity thread.

Huh?

I think it's because 'Hoo' is the sound that owls make. Not sure how he brought rabbits in to it.

Pupbenny forgot to put an "e" in "hopefully". You can imagine what that would spell.

Ah.... I knew the owl thing but the rabbit thing confused me.

Because he said he hops, not he hopes, or something.

Interesting how some people are saying they only want HoO to be free-to-play, I'd not mind paying an initial price for the game, £19.99 or whatever, for a copy, so long as you don't have to pay those odious monthly payment fees.

I'd agree. Except less....

Honestly, totally-F2P games make me cry a little inside, because of all those delicious treasures I'll likely never have because I'm a failure dolescum. Looking at you Champs Online. (but, to be fair, they have a system to get around that, even if it requires much grinding)
But paying for the game THEN ALSO paying a subscription seems like an RL goldsink nowadays - yes, WoW, as delicious as I think you are I'm looking at you specifically with this. TERA, you're just as bad. I totally understand why this model exists, but it's not very attractive to consumers.
Honestly, ArenaNet and such companies who have the buy-and-play-free model are very pleasing to me.

TL;DR: I can't see myself giving Hand of Odd a chance if I have to pay monthly for it if it didn't also have a demo mode of some sort attached. I would certainly pay money for it. I really don't understand some of the mindset that the typical gamer seems to have these days, expecting things like total creative control and all games free. :/

Anything but a subscription fee would be fine for me.

I am particularly fond of "paying for the game plus any DLC you want" model.

I'm not sure if there is any game that is totally f2p. Atleast not big ones, ect. Like, I play Star Trek Online (make by the same guys who make Champions Online) and that went F2P recently but there's a currency in it you still have to pay for, it's quite annoying really. :P

Maybe it could be like Spiral Knights where you have an in-game energy that you use to play. Once you've spent it all, you'll have to wait a day for it to regenerate or buy some more.

Just like Mafia Wars!

Or you could not do that.

I'd rather a flat subscription than something that restricting.

You could do what Halo Reach did and have customisable armour and stuff, except make it so that the cool stuff can only be bought with real money and make the actual in game bonus from it minimal to stop op gaming.

So is Hand of Odd a pun on "Hand of God"?

Either that or a very poor pun on "Hand of Glory".

"Hand of Odd" now sounds perfectly natural to me, and it doesn't even exist.

Well, neither does "Hand of God," I suppose.

Or does it?

I smell a God Debate!!!

Godd debate? Odd debate?

Ooh! A god thread!

I believe in God...Why? Because of this.

I'm not sure if you're semi-serious or 100% joking, but remember: anything along the lines of "God must exist because something this beautiful/amazing/sexy [not that I find her particularly so] couldn't have simply evolved chaotically with no ulterior guidance" is one of the worst arguments ever made. Those sorts of attributes aren't inherent: women didn't evolve to be beautiful, we evolved to find them so.

Here it comes.

I'm an atheist. There, I've made my contribution.

Also, I hope Hand of Odd comes out eventually. I've been waiting since it was first announced for it to come out.

And here it stops. Let's keep this on topic, thank you all.

No.

THOU SHALT REMAIN ON TOPIC, ENCH. MY PROPHET HATH SPAKEN.

No, I was only joking. But damn, that's a very pretty girl.

I think Fit is the word you're looking for, sonny jim.

Fit? She does seem to be dressed for a step aerobics session.

Are you saying you wouldn't like a chunk of that arse?
Are you saying that you'd rather go for Nates or Wil's?
Are you about to say that I misread your post?..

She has a great face, apart from the great body. Add a good personality and is all set.

I don't see what's appealing about her face. Her body is nice though.

Will Hand of Odd have multiplayer, Wil?

It will have multiplayer staring at girls.

And singleplayer giving people infractions for not staying on topic.

I am actually excited for this. I have never really gotten into any RTS games. Though this one I will probably enjoy just because it's Oddworld.

If it ever actually comes out.

I think they are going to work on it after Abe HD. I believe I read somewhere that they said they plan on doing the HD games first, and then continuing the series.

Was it here? Because if not there's a chance it's not true. We're usually on top of all the news right away, and I don't remember anyone mentioning that they would be working on it after Abe HD. Guess we'll see, though.

JAW has said that they plan on making it at some point. I don't think it will every actually happen, but I guess they want to.

I'm not bothered either way, it's not an oddworld project I was particularly looking forward to, games like that usually don't interest me.

I'd be happy with a Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds style Age Of Empires 2 mod.