What do YOU want out of the next Oddworld game?
 

Alright, so Lorne is confirming this shit left right and center, but what do you want to see in the next game?

Assuming it IS an Oddworld Universe project (as Nate noted in the other thread) I want Abe back. It should be 3-D, but done differently than MO, and considering the availability of high memory storage on current gen systems, the game world should be large-POSSIBLY free roaming. I want to see more Native and Industrial Area's, maybe Molluck's returning? Maybe some of the characters from Stranger play a part? Who knows?

Post what you want to see, kids.

Woah there buddy! I did not say that he confirmed it was an Oddworld project, merely that the article wasn'e clear enough to make that distinction.

I'd probably want to see most of the original Oddworld areas come back, like Necrum, and the Monsaic Lines. But not in seperate levels, if you know what I mean. A bit like SW, where you could visit them all whenever you wanted. It'd need that true Odd factor to make me want it.

Personally, I would want to see more of Mudos. Not as far away as SW, but still a different area.

I want OWI to expand on the wildlife and terrain, while still allowing us to recognize some parts, while having a wider appeal to people who don't know the joy of Oddworld.

I'd be fine with another Abe game, but I think it would be best if they didn't go back to him quite yet. Letting OWI experiment, and know where they want to take Oddworld, and how to get there.

SW was a breath of fresh air, it might have had an unwanted chill to it, but it was needed. I don't what to be stuck in the same spot all the time, doing the same thing (but, don't get me wrong, I loved the frost games and think of them as real classics). I just want to let OWI show us their potential.

New stories, new designs, new characters and new locations.

And a few familiar faces and places in there somewhere.

new chararters and new levels in 3-d but Abe and the others froms the old games
That will make my day!

A bad guy that Abe couldn't beat by simply possessing him.

Fleeches, Greeters, slurgs...

And to Nate-I meant that if it WAS an Oddworld Universe project, as you said in the other thread there was a possibility it wasn't.

Bad Mudokons-Brainwashed or otherwise.

An Abe game of course. 3-D and can play on any system. About 20 or more people can play all at once, you can design your own Mudokon, Glukkon, Slig etc. Go to all the places in AO and AE and unlock more places by beating a story mode only with Abe. The same music from AO and AE. And of course Gamespeak.

I know..I have a stupid imagination but it would be a pretty fun game.

I meant bad guy as in main antagonist race :p.

Glukkons as a species are far too vulnerable to present any real threat to Abe.

Hmmm...Chroniclers?

High-quality 3D Graphics and Additions.

I'd like to see what OWI mentioned in the past, maybe the old charaters we saw in MO's production, like Sam, Maggie, Chroniclers, Meetles/Mugs, SeaRex, and others... the places, like Ma'Spa, and the other that I like but have never seen; the accessories and various items. Absolutely no offence to OWI, they did what they could and I love them... that's only what I'd like to see.

Surely, I want something in new locations ( on Mudos ), a new story, but Abe would befriend with a slig. And please,the new locations will be as good as Abe's Oddysee's one.

Abe befriending a Slig? Sorry, but I highly doubt that'd happen.
No one mentioned Munch. He definately needs to come back, but this time, with more character. In MO he hardly talked.

Oh, I thought that might have been what you meant but I decided to write my post anyway to clarify for anyone else who might have misunderstood then blame me.

Anyway, I'd like to see 3d environments with the complexity, depth and claustrophobic feel of those in AO and AE. Not so much wide open spaces any more!

All of the following would be what I'd want in a re-make of Abe's Oddysee or just another Oddworld game involving Abe:

1. Three Dimensional play.

- Like Munch's Oddysee, although much slower paced. It should feel like I'm controlling a heavy character with huge feet, like it did in the first two. Thumping sound effects and an ease through strides, as if Abe is already used to having such large feet.
- A sense of scale. If I were Abe walking through the monsaic lines between those two enormous statues, I'd want to feel that I am incredibly insignificant in size compared to them. And again, say, in the factory machinery areas of Rupture Farms, the player should feel amazed at how large and complicated everything is as meat moves on tracks through the factory... and then the switch to cut the power would have to be in an extremely hard to reach place. Obvious, but hard to get to, because Oddworld does give that effect sometimes.
- The ability to roll side-ways (perhaps out of the way of things) and forwards, maybe beneath gunfire for short periods of time before the enemy aims lower. Also the ability to sneak through shadows, with the nice 'ol sneak sound effect.


2. Fitting music

- The music must be amazing! Like, a cross between the nature and atmosphere found in Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus music, mixed with the professionalism and brilliance of that found in Stranger's Wrath. An example would be that, even though I'm running in the third person view and can't see what's behind me, I want to know that I'm being chased by a Scrab or Paramite, even if I turned the sound effects volume off.


3. One hit point, or something near that.

- I want to feel really freakin' frightened, but not too frightened that I'm too scared to play it. It needs to be thrilling and intensifying, and I think small hitpoint amounts would really build up the intense no matter what the situation.
- Sligs need bullets, not lasers. I'd say the only thing that should kill you in one shot should be Fleeches and Fuzzles (and all the rest of the Stranger's Wrath critters ['cept the obvious]). I don't really think these rules would work as well with a creature like Stranger (Stranger's Wrath is intense enough as it is), however with Abe and his skinny pals, I think it'd work great.

4. Hello. "Hello." Follow me. "Okay."

- Keep the conversation aspect. Speaks for itself really.


That's all I have for now. My expectations are... somewhat high, but I probably won't be disappointed with anything they bring out, just because it's Oddworld.

An oddworld MMO whould be nice.

these are some random ideas

1)but what about if you kill so many Mudukons Abe feel and acts depreesed and he don't move so fast or kill him self if he kill too many!

2)if you keep throwing him to a wall he starts getting very mad and start attacking this mates!

3)Sligs and Abe can get effested with lauging gas i would love to see a level where abe is on lauging gas and you had to gide him but it would be quiet diffucult

4)FARTS... BLOWING UP THINGS!!!

5) you could tell the worker mudokons to possess Sligs and other things

6)After complesting the game or getting a power up or somthing i would LOVE to be able the possess Slogs, Greeters, Fleeches!

7) The return of Scrabs and Paramights

7)munch sould come back with is babys! LOL!

8) Sligs SLigs Sligs SLigs Sligs SLigs YOU HAVE TO HAVE SLIGS!

9) made not just for Xbox 360 but als PS3 and Wii how about DS lol

if this all happens and i now its a lot to consider it would be one the best games EVER long live Abe and oddworld!!!

The problem with those is that it's not much fun when games wrest control away from the player. I imagine it would get irritating very quickly.

lol i know!!! they were some ideas but i still thing having Sligs and Abe effested with lauging gas in a level would be cool!

However the next oddworld game will be I WANT A PC VERSION!!!

go play "Call of Cthulhu, dark corners of the earth", you can actually turn the character crazy. I loved that game.

Umm got an idea...
What if Abe could surrender to the slig and when the slig is taking you somewhere there is a chance to escape?
And what if Abe could stole a weapon from the slig?

Yes he could steal that weapon... then use it as a back scratcher for those hard to reach places.

*cries because he lost his giant epic post*

Summarizing: I want the old AO back with a new feel. Make it difficult or have difficulty settings. Hope the Citizen Siege game is very innovative. I trust Lorne Lanning.

I want nudity and sex scenes.

Bring on the Sam and Maggie lesbian fun!

Abe, Sligs, Glukkons etc. have no sexual orgasms so forget it.

I think you mean sexual ORGANS. Hell, if they don't have sexual organs, they'll have abit of trouble having orgasms won't they?

Anyway, I don't want to turn this into another Oddworld sexual fantasies thread, so let's drop it.

Ok I got some bad english when talking about that because I never talked much about it...
Ok now dropping it.