Oddworld 4
 

How you imagine a new oddworld?

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Are you suggesting that the Glukkons have the technology to build entire planets from scratch?

Not the Glukkons; the Vykkers, stupid.

I like your avatar.

Oddworld 4 is already out and it's called Stranger's Wrath...

Xav. It's OW3. AE was a bonus game. I'm not even sure if SW counted towards the quintology?

COME AWNNNN

When i hear AE was a bonus game i die a little each time.
No it didn't. It should of been Munch's Exoddus or Nod's Oddysee next.

Every time somebody says Nod's Oddysee is part of the quintology I die a little inside.

I thought t was going to be Squeek, anyway?

So far we have Abe, Munch and Sqeek. The other two are unknown.

I never liked the name "Squeek". It feels a bit like they were going to have puppets in the game.

I'd like to see a Slig hero in the final Oddworld game, not sure why.

OMG, it's 1999 all over.

If anything Munch was the bonus game.

games from quintology


ODDWORLD: Abe's Oddysee
ODDWORLD: Munch's Oddysee

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games that aren't part of the quintology

ODDWORLD: Abe's Exoddus
ODDWORLD: Stranger's Wrath

this thread should be called 'oddworld 3' not 'oddworld 4'

The OP didn't specify Quintology.

this thread should be called 'oddworld 5' not 'oddworld 4'

a strategy game, like age of empires. One side with (Mudokons, Gabbits Scrabes, Paramites etc..) and the other side with, (Glukkons, Sligs Greeter, Slogs etc...)

~Hand of Odd?
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Does anyone else think that RTS just wouldn´t work with Oddworld? Not if it´s done in the typical RTS manner?

Personally, the idea of having a big hoard of sligs or mudokons that you move around via point and click is just very unappealing.

sounds uber lamers

Yeah, the game play should not be typical swarm-and-storm style. Maybe if it was more like Tropico that sort of combined management and action.

I believe the point of HoO was less to do with the war aspect of many RTSes, but rather the gameplay would revolve around resource management.

I for one, would love to see a "Fable"-ish oddworld RPG game...

You mean an RPG? Oblivion FTW! LOLOLOLOLOLOL Fable sucks dick!

Don't make me kill you.

I'm with Josh. Oblivion wasn't that bad (Buggy, lacks in story and engine, but still playable) , but Fable kickass (Too bad I don't have Xbox360, I would try Fable 2).
I'm ok with "New oddworld -> Fable style" although I cannot imagine that.

How about a fan-made Oddworld MMORPG using http://manasource.org/? (I'm slightly involved in the game-side of this project, which recently split into two; the game and the source. The game's site can be found here: http://themanaworld.org/. I've done a bit of pixel-art for it and am working on more).

Anyway, we can use the ManaSource platform to make an Oddworld game, with three races: Mudokon, Gabbit and Slig. For monsters: Scrab, Paramite, Fleech, and so on. There could be some fancy equipment for Mudokons, not much for Gabbits (but they alone can enter special underwater maps) and not much for Sligs, either. For weapons: Club, Spoocebow, various Slig guns...


~we could make this.
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and Fable's story and engine are...?

Buggy! Oo, with like, six wheels, and it can drive up walls and Sligs can't hurt it and it can CRUSH EVERYBODY!

~Your head asplode.
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Fable engine didn't crash (Atleast I never had crash with this game :P). Oblivion was crashing like every hour before Bethesda released patch. Then it was crashing just randomly (Especially because of memory leaks). Engine has many other issues. Bethesda wasn't even able to eliminate memory leaks when they used that engine for Fallout 3. I hope they will use new engine for The Elder Scrolls V and Fallout New Vegas.

Pros and Cons (Without those I named above):
Oblivion Pros:
Open and detaily world,
Playtime,
World Editor,
Plug-ins,
OST wasn't bad too,


Oblivion Cons:
Sometimes you feel world somehow empty,
Game isn't really balanced,
Character animations,
Dialogs,
Closing oblivion gates was boring as hell,
Realistic graphics sometimes fails,

Summary: Engine is buggy and some RPG elements doesn't really work together (Game designer was lazy or what, j/k)

Fable Pros:
Quite entertaining,
Brought some new concepts,
Fairly balanced,
Nicely built world,

Fable Cons:
Some parts of game and quests are boring,
Dialogs aren't that great too,
World isn't open,
Relatively short playtime,

Summary: Engine is ok and it's fairly good RPG, but it could be better.

Hard to compare, because each of those games were meant to be played differently, but I think Fable is better.

Anyone with me? :P

I love both Fable and Oblivion, so count me out of that battle :p
The reason I suggested a Fable-esque oddworld game is because Im afraid an oblivion-styled game is too specific... There's a large amount of people who love these game, but there's also a large amount of people who hate the games because it's boring and too open. An oblivion-style game caters to too specific tastes. A lot of people love adventure games though, and I felt that Fable was more of an adventure game with RPG elements rather than a hardcore RPG with tons of things to explore, books to read and lore to hear.
Fable is much more simple, and It had a more linear story-line. To go from FPS to really just RPG'ish RPGs is too much of a gap, but I could totally see a fable-styled oddworld game come out at some point :p

Although personally I wouldn't mind playing an Oblivion'y oddworld game.

An RTS/RPG a bit like Dawn of War II could work. An RTS, but with small, RP driven squads.

Thanks for people with real knowledge about Oddworld :D

Xav is totally right here.

The title simply says Oddworld 4. Technically Stranger is Oddworlds 4th game. The topic starter never mentioned quintology games or what ever.

Let's do a little quiz:
ODDWORLD: Abe's Oddysee
ODDWORLD: Abe's Exoddus
ODDWORLD: Munch's Oddysee
ODDWORLD: Stranger's Wrath

How many times did I write ODDWORLD?

Indeed, if asked about the next quintology game, that should be number 3, or it would be the next bonus game for the quintology ;).

And yes, Abe's Exoddus is a BONUS game towards the quintology, it is mentioned in the manual for gods sake!. Yes, got someone to die a little bit more again! :D I like that, I am kinda sadistic muhahahaha.

See page 27 in this PDF of 48 of the manual itself:
http://www.replacementdocs.com/request.php?5812


But to get back to the topic:

I don't imagine myself anything about it. I let myself surprise entirely. Too bad we have to wait a long long time before we see anything new about Oddworld.

My friend, I fear that even your generation will be long dead before we hear anything of Oddworld that is new.

you really didn't need to write all that to prove a point that had already been proven in one line. i think we knew what Xav was getting at in his post.

we know you know a lot about Oddworld. don't worry.

i did not play strangers wrath yet. where can i buy it? is it for pc?

Right now it's only for the Xbox but OWI are in the process of converting it to the PC. Should be available in the near future.

I think an angel is born every time someone says that.

Final?