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whElk 11-03-2002 12:07 PM

The Next Oddworld Game Info
 
Does anyone know or have any more info on the next oddworld game? an you tell me a name really going to be used for it? Get posting! And have fun!:)

paramiteabe 11-03-2002 12:32 PM

We don't know much at all about the next game. Except for the fact that the next one will revolve around those 150 Gabbiar. OWI dacided that they are keeping everything for the next game in top secret because they don't want to spill out the good stuff to us. They want everything secret so we are surprised and amazed when it does come out. In MO we pretty much knew everything there was to know about the game before it even came out. We were excited but when OWI made the final completion of the game they took a lot of things we were excited about out. So some of us were disappointed. OWI doesn't want to do that anymore and I don't blame them. Read this and it tells you to relax there is a new game in the works. It makes me happy because it sounds that OWI are really working hard and takeing their time with the new game. And we want that. We want something good right?

November 2002
It was just one short year ago that our beloved Inhabitants birthed Munch's Oddysee. And surely you're all wondering what's next. Not to worry, there is another bun in the oven, but it needs a long, slow cook, kinda like mammy's home made turkey dinner. It's gonna be prime grade a real authentic and flavorful, not some microwaved tofurkey you picked up in your grocers frozen food section. No sir-ee. We take the time to slow cook our games, tenderly basting at just the right moments for a juicy flavorful experience that will leave you bursting at the buttons and ready for a long winters nap! So just sit back, relax, and check out this months updates while the smell of home-cooked game wafts through the online connection ...

M.O.M 11-03-2002 03:55 PM

I am so excited about the next oddworld game:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Xavier 11-03-2002 04:07 PM

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depthsofodd: Can u tell us a estimate to when the next game will be released? 1 yr 2 yrs?
Alf: I would say we hope that the next game will be released at the end of 2003 but we don't know for sure. We want to make sure we get it right.
from the chat

M.O.M 11-03-2002 04:08 PM

cool i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheKhanzumer 11-03-2002 06:27 PM

Hand of Odd
 
I think that the next game will be Hand of Odd. Mainly because of how DIFFERENT Alf keeps saying the next game will be and also because they don't call the next game Munch's Exoddus. If it was a Munch game I doubt they would keep the title secret.

Also, with XBox Live just having come out, I'm sure OWI would want to make a game with online features.

Oddsville 11-03-2002 08:13 PM

I think it'll be Hand Of Odd also (if its still named that). My guess is that OWI wants to take a quick break from the Oddworld Quintology and show unknowing fans that they have other plans instore than just one series.

Alcar 11-04-2002 02:22 AM

I've long stated that I think that the next game mightent be ME. I'm glad that other people also feel this way! :fuzcool:

Alcar...

Xavier 11-04-2002 03:15 AM

hopefully we will learn more in the new Faq of the official site
I realy want hand of odd!

Mac the Janitor 11-04-2002 11:17 AM

I'm with Xav on this one. I'd really enjoy playing HOO much more than ME.

M.O.M 11-04-2002 12:44 PM

Hand of odd, Hand of NOD i wonder if thats where they got the idea for the name

paramiteabe 11-04-2002 01:34 PM

Do we even know if Hand of Odd will even be a game? Last time I checked it was only a concept and that OWI scraped the idea.

Xavier 11-04-2002 02:21 PM

yes that's where Max came with the name.
I believe it was something like that.

M.O.M 11-04-2002 03:43 PM

are you talking about the hand of NOD thing?

Xavier 11-04-2002 04:04 PM

about Nod...
I think it was max's Idea, who confused with odd in "hand of odd"
but I'm not sure, so don't hurt me if I'm wrong

M.O.M 11-04-2002 04:05 PM

the only way i could hurt you is to fly to belgium and beat you up but i wouldnt anyway

MojoMan220 11-04-2002 06:04 PM

I'm hoping for ME, because the story probably wouldn't be as deep in The Hand Odd. The story makes the game come to life.

steel scrab 11-04-2002 07:46 PM

me too, i want the game to be ME as i'd like too see how OWI incorporate the species missed out in MO and the new characters specifically made for the new game

BigBro 11-04-2002 10:02 PM

Well, with the Hand Of Odd name thing, Id say that they oculd have gotten it from hand of NOD, but if you think about it it makes sense to call a strategy game something with a hand in the title, because what do you use to move the units around? Your hand (on the mouse, but youre still using your hand :p). But thats just my theory, Im not sure if any of you got what I mean though coz I suck at explaining things. :fuzconf::fuzsad:

TheKhanzumer 11-04-2002 10:54 PM

Nod?
 
Xavier, I think you are right.

The rumoured character Nod, was probably just a result of someone mishearing/reading Hand of Odd.

Xavier 11-05-2002 03:30 AM

khanz, yes I think it too...
but I can't remember for sure who it was

M.O.M 11-05-2002 04:24 AM

NOD character? i was thinking about the hand of NOD from command and conquer

Mac the Janitor 11-05-2002 11:29 AM

Well, I'm not really with you guys on this one. Cuz if Hand of Odd was just a fan theory based on some misheard words, then why do we have the HoO logo?

Hand of Odd Logo

And then there was some info Alf gave us...

Hand of Odd is about us using the technology of Munch, enhancing upon it, and bringing it into the multiplayer world of gaming. How many players will be able to interact at one time is still yet to be determined. If we can get 8 players at one time for Hand of Odd we will be happy. It will be enough. If we can get more we will be ecstatic. Hand of Odd will not be an online community in the way that Everquest or Ultima Online are. But we do plan to take advantage of features like downloadable units that will help to keep the world fresh even after it’s been out there awhile. Our most important function will be speed. We'll take advantage of as much as we can until update rates become an issue. There as so many questions that relate to the multiplayer Internet capabilities that are yet to be answered technically, that we can't lock down to the degree that we would like yet.

This is what you guys were talking about...right? Cuz if I am talking about a topic that's way different, tell me.

Xavier 11-05-2002 02:43 PM

sorry couldn't resist:
better picture of the logo

http://www.oddworld-fr.com/banque_images/0001.jpg


:D

Wil 11-05-2002 06:01 PM

No, Nod's Oddysee has been mentioned by an Inhabitant before, in an interview before the Oddworld Forums were founded. Stupidly, no one has been able to locate this interview, it's obviously buried in the junk yards of the Internet, or gone complety. But I and several other peeps have seen it, it is no misreading.

For me, Hand of Odd is such an obvious spoof of Hand of God, the expression.

TheKhanzumer 11-05-2002 11:49 PM

Hand of... Nod?
 
Mac you misread what me and Xavier were saying. Neither of us questioned Hand of Odd... we just aren't sure about the validity of the rumor that a future game will be called Nod's Oddysee.

Disgruntled Intern 11-06-2002 12:44 AM

I personally hope the next game has nothing to do with xbox live.

Mac the Janitor 11-06-2002 12:47 AM

Oh, ok. Sorry guys. I guess I accidentally warped somebody's words into saying something completely different. Again, sorry.

Xavier 11-06-2002 03:31 AM

oups if Max tell there was an interview where nod is appearing, I will believe him.

but it must be a very old one if it was before the forums. Another thing I mist!

M.O.M 11-06-2002 04:29 AM

Right it is the hand of ODD not NOD but whats the story behind it?

Xavier 11-06-2002 01:20 PM

M.O.M, we don't know...

M.O.M 11-06-2002 03:51 PM

Oh well i'll just have to wait

Oddsville 11-06-2002 04:29 PM

Yes indeed, I read that interview quite some time ago. Although I scarcley remember what it talked about I do remember reading the words Nods Oddysee. As for Hand Of Odd, well my guess it that it'll be just like Age of Empires but alittle more creative and unique.

Xavier 11-06-2002 06:13 PM

humm so we KNOW the n°3 hero is squeak and the number n°4 hero is nod, intresting

BigBro 11-07-2002 01:34 AM

This is a little out-of-sequence, but I just thought that if they arent releasing any information about OW4, then the next game wouldnt be HoO, coz it looks like Alf has already told us something about it, and if they are keeping it under wraps Alf wouldnt have been able to tell us anything. Just a little theory, though...

M.O.M 11-07-2002 04:48 AM

So is HoO no.4 then???

BigBro 11-07-2002 05:55 AM

Im not entirely sure, thats why I said its just a theory. :)

M.O.M 11-07-2002 01:09 PM

AO= no.1
MO= no.2
SO= no.3?
HoO= no.4?

I am seriously confused someone help please

Oddipus 11-07-2002 02:02 PM

5 games in the quintology:

Abe's Oddysee
Munch's Oddysee
Squeek's Oddysee (probably)
Nod's Oddysee (rumor)
?'s ? (totaly unknown)


3 games allready produced:

AO
AE (bonus game to AO)
MO


Now the question is:
Will the next game (OW4) to be produced be :
a: the next in the quintology (that would be squeek's oddysee then)
b: a bonus game to one off the quintology games (probably Munch's exoddus or something)
c: a not-quintology-related game like one of the habitales or fierytales stories (Like Hand Of Odd for example)

M.O.M 11-07-2002 02:22 PM

Thank you im not confused now, what do you mean by habitale/faeritale?