I'd prefer death to be a finality in this characters place, even though we know there is an afterlife on Oddworld (per se).
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Just read Lukes post and i didn't actually see it from that viewpoint, but you do have an amazingly good idea that could be implemented into the OW universe if Lorne wanted to.
Saying that, however, i wonder if that was the case, how far Lorne would go with the similarities, for instance, would he have a Judas character in the game? Lorne's even said himself that he wants to get more controversial (hence that siege game based on Earth) and so it wouldn't be surprising if the Religion issue was brought up, since, in America especially, Religion is rife. I'm going to take a random guess and say this game is going to be the last game for X-Box. Then on the next gen consoles (hopefully X-Box 2) he'll release his new game set on Earth, and then probably get on back with the quintology. He said he doesn't want to continue the Quint until the consoles meet his needs, and so it wouldn't surprise me if he waited a couple of years. Shame though. |
Based on Scotland? I'm definately getting this game then. Finally a game is based on my country. And I'm not sure that is a kilt, it looks more like shorts to me. I could be wrong though. And how could they do a Scottish voice for him? Hire Sean Connery? I can't see Lorne, or anybody else who is in the team, being able to do such an accent.
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The game sounds great, the only thing I don't like is the way the character looks so much like stranger. I've always loved the character designs of Oddworld. It seems like a waste to me if Fangus looks like stranger. As for the whole bite mark vs gun shot I would go with bite mark. If you look closely you can see two smaller holes near the first two, and a red ark bruise which makes it look more like a bite.
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The only real realtion is see with Fangus and Stranger is that they're both muscular and they both have the same hat. Other than that, they're quite different. Fangus has 2 legs, five clawed toes, a little kilt thing, and some guns. Completely different from Stranger (besides the aforementioned things).
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no doubt about it, Fangus is the next OW game
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fangus |
How come there aren't any ENGLISH sites? Oh, well.
EDIT: I just LOVE internet translators. "Fangustan, area forest and undulating. This one will undergo the invasion of hostile creatures and will have to defend nozzle and nails its grounds." "But a thing is sure, considering the morphology of Fangus, the galipettes of Stranger and its speed will probably leave the place to a heavy step of mastodon." Nails its grounds? Mastodon? |
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'and they both have the same hat'
Well, no, since Fangus' hat is a razorblade. And Stranger wasn't as muscly as Fangus. Whereas Stranger was nicely toned, Fangus seems beefed up. http://www.cq-ef.net/ They have basically the same information on. Heh, i typed it in a couple of days for it and got nothing, now all of a sudden there're dozens of pages dedicated to Fangus and Oddworld. Also on that site is the mention of the Bible thumpers using 'Halo 2' as a way of preaching. Hilarious! |
Alright, I'm still a tad skeptical, but I think that Alf or his assisistant would have said it was fake a few pages back if it was. Though, I doubt they would have the permission to tell us that it's real, so perhaps silence is a good thing.
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I wounder why OWI left EA? It says that EA wouldn't want to produce a game so dark. Well that's good news, isn't it? No more B&W booklets , hopley Majesco will be a could friendly publisher like GT.
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What's all this talk about him having Stranger's hat? He doesn't even have a hat. All he's got is a razor blade around his forehead. I also don't even see a resemblence to Stranger, his nose looks like more of a dog nose, as well as his ears. Once again, his body is totally different, and his apparel doesn't look like anything Clint Eastwood would wear. I can't see this as an early concept of Stranger, it is way to different. I think it's pretty obvious that the character is based on a sheep dog considering the look of the guy, and the sheep around him. I don't think that was OWI's original plan for OSW.
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Oh, my apologies, I thought the top of his head + the razor blade was a hat. Man, now I can look at him in a whole new light! He's looks kinda cattish, I guess.
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Oddworld games have had religous influences throughtout all of them, and I do not mind further influences. As for the M rating thing...I'll just hold my breath. Never heard of a game being given a harsher rating for grim/darker content, though. Bah...whatever. I'm going to save my steam for when I hear the truth behind this whole shpeal. BTW, as he's a shepard, maybe Leorne is barrowing from the David and Goliath story. |
I agree about the M rated thing, Nepharski. I would imagine it being rated M if it was extremely violent, but not for it's dark content- I just think it would be somewhat silly to rate a game M just for some "dark content". But, for some reason, I'm still a bit skeptical over this. I just don't trust GI and I believe that they are one of the magazine sites that have pulled some big April Fools jokes before. I can't remember for sure, but I thought that they had pulled something like this before in one of their magazines and it ended up being a joke, but we'll just have to wait and see, I guess. :/ And Abe Babe, I read your post from before and you're not alone. I feel the same way as you do. ;) I feel just a bit disappointed about this myself, but if this is true, I'm sure OWI can pull it off and make this a great game anyway.
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Hmmm... 10 pages is way too much to read fully (especially with so many member's I've never heard of before commenting). So after a quick skim, all I have to say is
I told you so, I told you so, I TOLD YOU SO!!!! I've been saying for ages that OWI should go down the Majesco route, given that they're doing such a good job promoting Psychonauts (which, in case you've forgotten, was also going to be published by Microsoft until Ed Fries left in mysterious circumstances). So congratulations unto them (and the idea seems pretty cool too...). |
Foood?
Doesn't odd world make you hungry?
Think about it... We've had Munch Grubbs Steefs And Fangus... Steef sounds like beef... And Fangus sounds like Angus... Mmmmm.... Angus Beef.... This was the initial reason that I thought this was a joke... it seemed like the writer was making fun of the fact that steef sounds like beef... and they called the character Fangus due to that fact... that might have been a clue if it was fake... a very inside clue... but whatever... However... Seeing as how OWI has an odd habit of giving things food related names... I know two examples and a rather obscure rhyming reference isn't much proof, but It makes the name Fangus seem a little more believable... Then again I have odd logic... But I still have my doubts... even if this game is real... the one year release date seems kinda optimistic... I'm still waiting for games to come out that were announced 2 yrs ago... However since it sounds like Fangus would use Stranger's engine, the release date does seem a tad more likely... And I'm gonna stop rambling... I could keep going back and forth with myself for hours.... |
I can confirm 2 things:
OWI Production Designer Silvio Aebischer told me, in an exclusive interview I did with him last week: "The stuff we’ve been doing previously is very Oddworld, it has a signature look; kind of quirky, weird, not necessarily beautiful, but they might be cute or likable. Now where the next game is going, it’s evolving definitely into a little harder look, more realistic in a lot of ways actually." Which fits with the description so far. Additionally, Lorne Lanning is quoted in the newest Electronic Gaming Monthly that the next Oddworld game is going to be driven by a huge political atmosphere to the game, and will be majorly shocking in the issues that it tackles, and hwo those issues relate to real life. That also fits with this description; we'll see what comes from the April issue of Game Informer. |
"Steef sounds like beef..."
this is off topic but, i always thought it sounded like beef to show how his speacies were hunted down and sluatered while it also sounds like stag and steer because steefs have great horns and many deer- like characteristics. |
I wonder if it'll be so controversial that certain Political figureheads will try and ban/censor it...in the states anyway.
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Has, er, anyone read anything about this:
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"Until official confirmation arrives, we'll take it all with a pinch of salt."
Looks like gamesasylum is having a hard time swallowing this too. |
I wonder if by "mentally fight" they mean in certain parts of the game you'll go into Fangus' head and try and escape/fight off the infection...
Oh, and Kudos goes to OSW for having pausable cutscenes, something i believe i (and a few others) said they should implement in an earlier discussion before OSW came out. |
I agree with Abe Babe in that I'd like to see OWI get back to the skinny, scrawny, no-chance-at-all protagonists. First of all, it just makes their peril seem more epic when the odds are stacked against them due to some physical weakness. And secondly, scrawny guys like me need someone to look up to [hah].
That's not to say I don't like Stranger. Stranger's Wrath is tied with Abe's Oddysee as my favorite game [not just out of Oddworld]. It's just that you can find games with big, buff anti-heroes with battlescares and submachine guns out the yin-yang everywhere, whereas a story like Abe's with a character like Abe is a little more rare. And I'd just hate to see Oddworld go for something more appealing rather than Lorne's original vision and ideas. But, who knows, maybe Fangus [if this all turns out to be real] has been part of Lorne's plan all along. Either way, I'm just going to wait to buy the game before I make any real judgements against it. |
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I loved the grubbs in the intro movie of SW, but in the game they were all goofy .. So a darker, more realistic game could be really nice. The characters develop in the making process, so it can be that Fangus looks a little different in the final product, so I don't think he will resemble a steef so much. :
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This is a reply to Jacob. The odds of that happening in the world of GTA is almost zero. If they try to ban it then nothing could possibly be better for OI. The game would sell out instantly.
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thank you for the head up |
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As for the interview, I live in San Luis Obispo, and I'm a journalism student :p I have a thread about it circulating somewhere on page 2 of the board that I should really bump...I'll post the whole thing in a couple weeks. |
Ah, okies.
Some day I'll visit San Luis Obispo... some day.. |
thats some good news:)
so which country gameinformer? USA , AU , NL , ENG , DE???? |
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Must go change my future plans! *scribbles down* visit.. emeryville.. |
Blech... I wish that image is just an early rendering of the Fangus guy...
I mean, we JUST played a muscle-bound cat guy that shot stuff. We don't need another one. You know, I still think that it's just an early concept art pic for Stranger that just got mixed up with this new game. |
Early concepts for Stranger had 4 legs and horns, of which this guy has neither. It is clearly a different character. Plus, where does the flock of demonic goats come in?
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i think this is a game coming out and not a joke/lie. they can aways change the character to a non mammel version, but then, can't only mammels get rabbies? oh and i fell sorry for alf, getting bombared with questions about fangus LOL.
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Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic. Maybe OWI wants all of their future characters to look blatantly similar to each other. Hell, I can't f*cking wait for "Oddworld: Uninspired, Beefy, Gun-Shooting Hybrid Cat/Lion/Whatever Guy #3's Exodus." That one will be f*cking great. Honestly. Then again, you have to take into account that the article said it that Fangus would be a "followup" to Stranger. Maybe he's somehow related to the Steef race. Regardless, the "sheep" look bad-ass. Hella lot better than those lame one-eyed things in MO. |