Wow hold it there big boy. Praise EA in my presence one more time and I shall burn you alive!

You can clearly see the difference between MO and SW.

MO: Was meant to be a huge game with great gameplay and a much bigger story involving Rupture Farms and would introduce Sam and some other 'mythical' characters. Due to EA being their new developer, OWI got huge time constraints and had to cut more then half of the idea's from the game including more development on the game engine, limiting them even more. MO was rushed, but that wasn't OWI's fault.

SW: OWI said themselfs that Stranger is one of their best accomplishments to date, and they are totaly satisfied with the end result. They had much more time for it, and took their time to develop a good story, a good gameplay and a great engine. SW wasn't rushed in any way and was completed way in time.

corrected in bold ;)

Im only praising EA because they produce most of the good games out there like command and conquer, the battlefeild series and may other great games.

You should be praising Westwood for creating C&C and hating EA for destorying Westwood. And EA is totaly ass-raping the Battlefield series with their countless messed up patches.

Xavier: Oops, my bad :p.

EA doesn't really suit Oddworld, and I think if EA never came and helped OWI, MO and SW would have been a lot more detailed and longer, Munch's Oddysee would have been great with Rupture Farms, but it only plays a small part and you never see it, you only hear about it from the Shaman. In my opinion, EA is a load of bull crap!

Let me think how many good games EA has made...
*Counts. Holds up fingers*
Well, I'll be darned! I seem to have no fingers! Yep, agreed, EA is the worst developer in the world.

why does everybody seem to think EA was involved with MO?
it was a microsoft xbox launch title produced by Microsoft

Because people always tend to get the recent confused with the old.

Isn't EA anything to do with MO? Sorry, I was just believing someone else, stupid me!

I thought it was Infrogrammes, but I sometimes get confused by this legal stuff.

So, what has any of this got to do with a new Oddworld site?

What has any of this to do with you? We're discussing Oddworld aren't we? And heck, even the moderators are talking about it, so we aren't breaking the rules.

Do as they say, not what they do! The thread took off at a tangent, like they usually do. The heading is the topic starter, though it does sometimes help to stick with it. But that topic ran it's course, and the site is still the same since Jordan_Boi's excellent discovery.

it's still Oddworld, so it's OK ;)

MO was first infogrames, then microsoft came along and wanted it exclusively on their xbox. So microsoft signed some contracs with OWI to publish it

Oh its ok. Sorry. But I like some games made by Infogrames, but, MO sort of wasn't really up to it. But that is for the Munch haters thread.

But it still says Infrogrames on the start-up. Did they or did they not publish it?

Infrogrames was taken over by Atari.

I DECLARE A PARTY...............AND WE CAN MAKE A GAME OF IT
I WILL GET THE BOOZE....and now some one get something else


and so on.... woot wooot wooot wooot woot ODDWORLD MOVIE!!!!



YEA YEA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anyone remember what month last year Alf posted his farewell on oddworld.com?

Yes we shall.

For MO I think that's very true. I didn't realise THAT many things were lost...

For SW I don't quite agree. I wouldn't think it fits in. No multiple endings, and I thought (even though I haven't played it) the characters and all were mostly too...human and 'real'. I mean, Steef's and all are okay, but Outlaws just seem too humanoid. And don't even get me started on Clakkerz. They're basically anthro chickens. I'd've thought that OWI could be more inventive than that. Scrabs and Paramites, for example. Clakkerz SUCK by comparison, I think.

The graphics in the pics seem pretty cool though. And pics tend to suck in comparison to when you're actually playing it...

But one thing about these two games. WHY did they move to Xbox? It just disrupted it. I mean, The other consoles are better....Xbox 360 sucks, anyway, PS3 and Wii have had SO much more time spent on them and hard work.
I hope they return to Playstation...or should I? I dunno, I wanted a Nintendo Wii because the control system plus I've been annoyed in the past by missing out on many of the Sonic, Pokemon etc. games on Gamecube.
If they're on Wii, I'd like to see how they use the control system.

April 15, 2005 ;)

X box has better graphics than PS2 and CG but they could still handle oddworld, they should have had MO and SW on both X box and PS2.

Yet, that was impossible due to those dreaded publishing issues. According to OWI, they couldn't get MO onto the PS2, because the deadline caused OWI t try to place the game all in one in a only a little amount of time. Thus causing not enough time to port to PS2. Or something like that.

I don't know why not about SW. Might want to ask that about someone else.

And about Zerox's question, they used the X-Box because Microsoft was their publisher. So you would have to place it on the X-Box, if it's your publisher.

The reason for SW wasnt on PS2 was that lorne sighned a contract saying that the next 3 oddworld games or 2 I dont know were to be on x box.

I think her question was rather that she was enquiring why Lorne would have made that decision.

1) The Xbox is more powerful than the PS2 and has the harddrive as well.
2) The Xbox is significantly easier to program for.

It should be noted that both of these advantages have been thrown away in the 360.

yes the Xbox 360 doesnt sound that good, even though I havnt played one yet.

Wii for the wiin.

OMG the site still hasn't been updated yet it sucks! I thought it would be done by now.

i wonder if they put more stuff on the new site

Be patient, ingrateful people.