What's best?
 

When the Oddbox is released it will be good news, I think we can all agree on that. But what would be the best thing to happened involving OWI? What is it that we're all hoping to get out of this dedication? When will Oddworld end? How will it end? Will it end? Has it ended already?

All these questions have best asked countless times by us guys BUT, after the Oddbox has come, what would be the best thing to happen to Oddworld? I believe that if they released "Oddworld: Squeek's Oddysee" as a game on every console along with a decent advertising campaign it would sell well! Provided it was a decent game I didn't rely too much on playing the previous games although involving Abe and Munch.

The best thing that OWI could do is finish the Quintology via games. After that they can go on to make Oddworld movies with those characters BUT ONLY 1! It would be great to see Abe, Munch etc. on the big screen but after the quintology they should leave those characters alone and start a new story. Much like an author and a series of books, Lorne should start new characters within the same world. Movie's, games or even books I don't really care.

I personally think that would be the best thing that can happen to OWI. Thats what I want and that's why i'm still here. What about you?

What is with all the underlining?

he's on the toilet.

That sounds like the best thing that can happen for us Oddworld fans rather than OWI. I reckon the best thing that could happen for them would be winning the lottery, or starting a fresh IP and comin back to Oddworld in the future, which is what they were doing anyway

Make the rest of the Quintology with games, then give the last chapter a film adaptation too.

It's pronounced "turlet"

Well, don't forget your umbrella.

I now await either Xav or Max's massive moderating cock of doom to smite our posts.

As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I just thought: "Me!"

I just want to see the new website up, and maybe a new game eventually. I'd like to see Oddworld on something equivalent to Cryengine 3. If not, just go back to the 2D stuff which is equally awesome

That's a tall order, pal.

The best thing would be if they actually make a fucking game.

best thing would be if they finished every game and then Lorne Lanning personally visited us and gave us his hair gel!

Yes but he should present a bottle to us!

A book wouldn't be a bad idea actually...

A Oddworld motion picture would be so cool. :D

To keep with the times it has to be 3D! :fuzemb:

Can you imagine an oddworld film with the graphics of avatar? monsaic would be immense

H'm, I don't know, it'd be going a bit far if it had Avatar's graphics as well as its story.

i would like to think the revenue would make more games, and i would like to think, as with other, series they should return to their successful roots, another abe sidescroller would be unbelievable

Jeez, how many times have we had the Oddworld vs Avatar conversation already?

I hear that oddworld would get a lot of BS because abe is a blue alien and avatar has blue aliens and... oh

Considering you heard that from us, I don't think you need to tell us again.

Hmm, sarcasm and joke doesn't make the journey through internet well does it?

They do from the talented purveyor.

Thanks for all the feed back people :)

Feedback?! You didn't ask anything...

Sometimes I ponder what if I bought the Oddworld IP? I would likely publish shitty fan fiction as actual work just to piss people off. I would license it out only to devs who know their stuff, such as Sega, and those guys who make the Harry Potter games. The movie would be a porno really, with Stranger being a large black man. Overall, Id say thats the best thing to happen to Oddworld.

Why do I find that post really funny. I really shouldn't.

I reckon their best bet would be to make perhaps a new Abe game- the same old Abe we all know and love, but perhaps polished and smartened up a bit to attract more of an audience. If the original plan was to make 5 Quintology games, with Abe featuring as one of the main characters in each one (like he did in MO) then I think they should stick to that, in shiny HD. Any Oddworld game at all would be nice, of course. Anything Oddworld, in fact. Even Oddworld- shaped...just something...

It wasn't. Abe was one of 5 heroes that would emerge throughout the quintology. They were each going to originally have their own moon also, but I recall Lorne being unsure of the wisdom of this decision; it may seem to consequential.

EDIT: I think the 5 moons were going to be kept and the idea that they were created as they became heroes (i.e. as Abe escaped Rupturefarms) was scrapped.

Yes, we had Abe Munch and Steef, that's three of the five but there where going to be lots of sub games like AE and ME that followed on from their predecessors' and thus, didn't count towards the five heroes, I think that the last game would have all the heroes together maybe.

http://oddworldlibrary.net/toe/FAQ#A...rld_Quintology

Stranger doesn't count as a Quintology game.

As far as I'm aware, Abe was always going to be the first of the five heroes. You're probably thinking of the story of Lorne telling Sherry first of all the story of Squeek. He probably did that because he thought that story would appeal to her the most.

Erm... I think that you might have misunderstood Phylum's point. The way I interpret it is that he's saying that Abe is just one of five heroes but not commenting about the order. He, in turn, appears to have misunderstood GlukkonGluk's point that Abe was appearing in all five games as meaning that Abe would be the most important of the heroes.

So, to clarify for everyone:
a) Yes, Abe would have appeared in all the games. Munch would appear in games 2-5 and Squeek would appear in 3-5.
b) No hero is more or less important than any other. Their order implies nothing more than the character's place in the wider Quintology story and their place in Mudos society (given that the Quintology follows a path from the furthest reaches of civilisation to the innermost cities).
c) Lorne told Sherry about Squeek first. We don't know why.

After OddBox please finish Citizen Siege Lorne! :P Then I'd really appreciate something Oddworld related maybe they should just start the quintology over via movie remakes of the games and go from there, that would probably be the most profitable way of bringing Abe to us.

Oh and in a dream scenario the biggest suprise at E3 this year would be an unveiling of a new Oddworld game >_>

I would be rather estatic if, after the Oddbox and ASN, Citizen seige and the Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee film were completed