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Crashpunk 11-04-2011 10:17 AM

LittleBigPlanet Gets Stranger
 
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It’s a LittleBigOddworld after all! Or something like that. Now you can dress your Sackboy up as everyone’s favorite crossbow-wielding, poncho-sporting bounty hunter with a deadly secret and deadly breath, with this brand new LittleBigPlanet 2 costume. The Stranger costume comes with everything you associate with the character’s iconic get up, including the wide-brimmed hat, massive boots, and of course that custom-built, critter-firing, double-barrel crossbow (Warning: Crossbow may not operate functionally within LBP2).

Sackboy and you will be able to gain access to this new wardrobe-winner on Wednesday 9 November 2011 (variable by region) for the low, low price of £1.59, €1.99, US $1.99, AUS $ 3.45 or NZD $3.90—whichever currency fills your wallet.

http://www.oddworld.com/wp-content/u...erspective.jpg

http://www.oddworld.com/wp-content/u...angerFront.jpg

http://www.oddworld.com/wp-content/u...ger-Poster.jpg

isn't he adorable :3 naturally, I want to see a Abe one.

DarkHoodness 11-04-2011 10:20 AM

Hah, it's nice to see them doing stuff like this - They even hinted at there being glukkons, sligs and mudokons too, but we'll have to wait and see what they actually release. :)

AvengingGibbons 11-04-2011 10:26 AM

Ha, that's adorable! I don't do LBP though. Had the first one, seemed a bit glitchy, and was too baby-ish for me.

Jordan 11-04-2011 11:12 AM

That's the cutest thing ever. ;)

Dynamithix 11-04-2011 11:22 AM

Aww, he's so cute. :p

MeechMunchie 11-04-2011 03:40 PM

That actually is cute.

Oddworld's moving into the public eye again!

STM 11-04-2011 06:08 PM

Dawww sho cuuute! <3 it.

Bodd T.W. 11-04-2011 06:37 PM

I hope that Sekto doesn't look this cute too, or else it'll look like babies are playing with each other in the final battle:?

Nate 11-04-2011 07:11 PM

As I posted in the comment thread, Australians (and New Zealanders) are getting ripped off. What the heck is with that?


I mean, this doesn't affect me directly, given that I traded in LBP two weeks ago to get Ico and SotC, but it's the principle of the thing.

enchilado 11-04-2011 07:24 PM

AUS should be AUD, too.

Nate 11-04-2011 07:25 PM

That too.

Phylum 11-04-2011 08:00 PM

Our dollar is actually stronger than the USD at the moment. That's fucking absurd.

STM 11-05-2011 05:51 AM

Perhaps it's because Australia imports all its games from other countries, I mean, does it have its own game manufacturing plants?

Phylum 11-05-2011 06:08 AM

I'm fairly sure America doesn't have a factory for producing physical copies of DLC either.

Manco 11-05-2011 08:14 AM

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As I posted in the comment thread, Australians (and New Zealanders) are getting ripped off. What the heck is with that?

Probably the same reason Australians get ripped off on all video games. Don’t you guys basically pay double what the US does?

Wil 11-05-2011 08:30 AM

Don't Australian prices include VAT while US prices don't?

moxco 11-05-2011 05:01 PM

I don't think we have to pay on international purchases - provided it is under $1000.

Bullet Magnet 11-05-2011 05:24 PM

The world is getting back at you guys for all that drop bear nonsense. You bastards.

Nate 11-05-2011 05:32 PM

MoxCo: V.A.T. is the British equivalent of GST.

Max: Depends where you are in America. But it's a moot point, because that only adds 10% to the price, not 80%.

moxco 11-05-2011 06:13 PM

Yeah I know. We only have to pay GST on domestic purchases, unless Max means that we are paying British VAT when we purchase it, though then why wouldn't Americans have to pay also?

Nate 11-05-2011 07:41 PM

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Yeah I know. We only have to pay GST on domestic purchases, unless Max means that we are paying British VAT when we purchase it, though then why wouldn't Americans have to pay also?

He's theorising that when we purchase something from an Australian-based online store that we have to pay GST. Given that a price was expressed in Australian dollars that wasn't simply a conversion of the British or American prices, it's not a bad assumption.

STM 11-06-2011 05:42 AM

One of you Australian blokes should set up a game company with cheap import prices and stuff on your games, you'd have an enormous monopoly by the sounds of it.

Bullet Magnet 11-06-2011 07:55 AM

Also take over the government to make them grow up and stop censoring/banning games that are less awful than your natural fauna.

Paul_hibs3 11-06-2011 09:29 AM

Silly question but I'm not sure:

If I buy this does any money go to OWI/JAW? Or is it just to Sony/Media Molecule?

Dynamithix 11-06-2011 09:32 AM

I'm pretty sure JAW gets some of the profit of it too, but so does Sony.

Crashpunk 11-06-2011 10:49 AM

I'm not completly sure but I think OWI and JAW get more then Sony because they actually made Stranger.

Phylum 11-06-2011 01:32 PM

That's rampant speculation.

Plus, if anything, it would make more sense for Sony/MM to get more money because it's advertising.

Nate 11-07-2011 02:12 AM

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One of you Australian blokes should set up a game company with cheap import prices and stuff on your games, you'd have an enormous monopoly by the sounds of it.

Imports are expensive to Australia. As for digital downloads, the publishers would just withhold their games from any seller that tried to match international prices. It's a known-and-not-secret-anymore practice.

Xavier 11-07-2011 12:49 PM

Cute little Sack Stranger :)

Any idea if any other set is planned? Like an Abe one?

Crashpunk 11-09-2011 09:04 AM

I think when Munch's Oddysee HD is coming out we'll get a Abe and Munch sackboys? Maybe i'm just being optimistic.

Wil 11-09-2011 10:32 AM

I don't see any reason why we shouldn't.

Paul_hibs3 11-09-2011 04:01 PM

Bought. Kinda useless product, costume quite cool but again useless, but I feel like I'm trying to fund OWI as a charity to bring back oddworld so I'm hoping that my £1.59 made a difference haha. Clown post I know but meh my opinion haha.

Crashpunk 11-09-2011 04:33 PM

Every little helps I guess :)

Glitch 11-10-2011 06:58 AM

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Bought. Kinda useless product, costume quite cool but again useless, but I feel like I'm trying to fund OWI as a charity to bring back oddworld so I'm hoping that my £1.59 made a difference haha. Clown post I know but meh my opinion haha.

What's your cut off point for useless? Once you bring into question the usefulness of a purely aesthetic purchases for a computer game, you call into question the usefulness of TF2 hats, DLC, Updates, Games themselves, jewellery, cats, skateboards, art, lager, space exploration, photoshop, fashion, advertising, clowns, or even novelty ties.

Most things that exist are useful on some level ;)

(the comma between advertising and clowns is optional)

MeechMunchie 11-10-2011 10:05 AM

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What's your cut off point for useless? Once you bring into question the usefulness of a purely aesthetic purchases for a computer game, you call into question the usefulness of TF2 hats, DLC, Updates, Games themselves, jewellery, cats, skateboards, art, lager, space exploration, photoshop, fashion, advertising, clowns, or even novelty ties.

I don't think anybody's defending the usefulness of TF2 hats.

Give us one anyway.

Paul_hibs3 11-10-2011 03:09 PM

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What's your cut off point for useless? Once you bring into question the usefulness of a purely aesthetic purchases for a computer game, you call into question the usefulness of TF2 hats, DLC, Updates, Games themselves, jewellery, cats, skateboards, art, lager, space exploration, photoshop, fashion, advertising, clowns, or even novelty ties.

Most things that exist are useful on some level ;)

(the comma between advertising and clowns is optional)

Glitch sit doon and calm doon as we say in Scotland haha. All I'm saying is its that its a costume and thats it, I didn't expect anything more. I'm not trying to slate it at all. I ain't into the whole TF2 hats thing but some people are and I would say that this LBP2 costume falls into that category. The costume is cool, but I bought it to help oddworld. Btw your right though lager is useless and might I add rank. Guinness is the Don of drink:p

mr.odd 11-10-2011 03:15 PM

Does the crossbow shoot(like the paintball guns from LBP1) or is it just for looks?

Phylum 11-10-2011 09:53 PM

It's a costume. It is all for looks.

Glitch 11-11-2011 01:25 AM

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Glitch sit doon and calm doon as we say in Scotland haha. All I'm saying is its that its a costume and thats it, I didn't expect anything more. I'm not trying to slate it at all. I ain't into the whole TF2 hats thing but some people are and I would say that this LBP2 costume falls into that category. The costume is cool, but I bought it to help oddworld. Btw your right though lager is useless and might I add rank. Guinness is the Don of drink:p

I wasn't angry (althought looking at it I did sort of come off that way), I was just musing on the usefulness of things. As a designer of inherently useless stuff I feel it's important to note that most things are useless in western society. It's the useless stuff that make life more fun.

Hazel-Rah 11-15-2011 10:33 PM

OMG I would buy a Glukkon one in a second; not sure how you would slap people with your arms under your suit though. Maybe now the LBP community will start making more Oddworld themed levels.