Because it's the fourth Oddworld game.
Abe's Oddysee
Abe's Exoddus
Munch's Oddysee
Would it help if I told you to think of MO not as the second game in the Quintology, but the second installment, with each installment being followed up by a number of bonus games, demonstrated perfectly by the first installment, AO, and followed by it's sole bonus game, AE.
OW4 is not part of the Quintology (making it the first Oddworld game to be so), but it will run concurrent with it, so it may tell part of the story, but in a way that doesn't necessarily relate to the goals and visions of Abe and Munch. They may not even appear at all. We just don't know. From what the OWI staff have been saying in the Odd Squad entries, there are some really cool characters going to be in it, but that's all we know.
I just hope we're not going to suffer the irony that all the cool characters are removed for time restraint reasons.
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