The cancelled games ...
 

I've searched for many topics that involved incomplete games, and the closest to this thing (that I could find atleast) is a few years old.

Well. We have no clue on what any future Oddworld game would be about, but if they were to actually make the mysterious incomplete games of Squeek's Oddysee, Brutal Ballad of Fangus (Not likely, but just imagine it), or Nod's Oddysee (VERY less likely) what would ya view gameplay and designs to be like?

I'm not sure how to start such a varying (and unoriginal ...) topic like this, so I'll just start by saying Squeek should be an aquatic female creature (Strictly opinion, specially since it's viewed as "he"). Possibly worm or insectile-like. After all, Squeek is said to have symbiosis, and that's mainly associated with small feeble animals. Unless we're talking about symbiosis as in two animals somehow workin' together.

Well, add on your ideas to any of these games. Hope this type of thing wasn't made recently .....

I always thought Squeek would be a Grubb, for some reason.

Nod is a cool name, though.

Ooooh. I kinda get it.

Of course, it could be that we're moving higher up in the chain. Maybe Nod was supposed to be a Glukkon or somethin'. I dunno.

Onoes.

I always thought Squeek would be small, pink and wormlike.

to me squeak will always be small, round and fluffy. I thought this prior to my knowledge of fuzzles

Squeek the Fuzzle 'd be freakin' awesome.

How about a rodent-like critter similar to a mouse? O: Not a rat but.. I dunno. And he can jump and grab things with his tail.

I personally, would find it incredibly amusing if Squeek was not some small cute thing, but rather a large and dangerous thing with the personality of a small cute thing. But then again, that might be what they want us to think, we'll never know until it's made.

Squeek's Oddysee was the original Oddworld story that was pitched to Sherry to start the company. Nod's Oddysee was never real. Hand of Odd was to use a version of the Munch engine, and Fangus was to use the Stranger engine.

OK, now this fascinates me. I wonder if Nate found out any more specific details on this from his interview with Lorne. Nate?

Try searching for ‘Squeek’ or ‘third’ in the interview.

I don't have it to hand, but was it in Sherry's intro to the Art book?

Oh no, it was mentioned long, long before that. 20 February 2001, in fact:
http://www.oddworld.au.com/site/features/chat-lorne.php

I am Squeek. I noise?

I wish I could give rep for posts in the blogs. I would have repped his ass apart.

i always imagined sqeek as a rat and nod as an intern for some weird reason.




!!!!!!!OFF TOPIC!!!!!!!

OANST, not to be a hemroid or anything but how exactly can you moderate necrum burial grounds?

i mean...no ones alowed to post in there, what is there to moderate?

Necrum is a morgue, and OANST's posts are Soylent Green.

Yeah I totally agree with this post

None of your concern, Shaman. All you need to know is that I'm doing it. I'm doing it real good.


Question me again and I will infract the shit out of you. This goes for all y'all mothafuckas!

No more off-topic, please. I want to talk more about Nod’s Oddysee.

CONSPIRICY!

anywayz on a more topical note. i found loads of stuff relating to "hand of odd"

it seems like they were on a roll with it, and i cant understand why it was cancelled.

Throw me a bone here.

shaman.

Time. And Monies.

The Hand of Odd would have used all the ecosystem-emulating and GameSpeak-and-Status features of Munch’s Oddysee’s A.L.I.V.E. 2 game engine to make something akin to a real-time strategy game, only played using a character giving commands in person rather that a top-down interface like in a god game. In case you didn’t notice, all the ecosystem-emulating, GameSpeak-and-Status features were not present in the final version of MO because of various time and technical restraints. Hand of Odd could not possibly have come from it as they’d wanted.

money i can understand. i can let that slide. but for christ sake its not as though they had a deadline on them is it?!!! huh! is it?


fumes.


shaman

Developer studios are not magical places unbound by the limitations of reality. In fact, they have a few extras saved just for them.

Actually, deadline problems were a huge part of why MO was what it was. And what it was aint what we were told it was.

Dont crush my dreams.

What about "sligstorm"?

Discuss that! hah!

Discussing Sligstorm is a bannable offense.

I think there was a recent discussion of that, actually.

ooops. i didn't know.

lets dicuss nod's oddysee

For any newbies who aren't aware: I am not a mod. Do not take comments about me infracting and or banning you seriously.

I would actually love to play Sligstorm. It's the canceled game that interests me the most.

i could kill somone right about now.

There’s no such thing as Nod’s Oddysee. It comes from a very early interview, but it was so long ago I can’t remember who. Lorne finally declared it an untruthful rumour some time ago.