Oddworld online.

Wise Abe · #1 12-04-2001, 09:58 PM

How cool would it be if OWI made an Oddworld game online for Xbox? I'm not too big in details on the moment, but just wondering how it would be like

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Any opinions?

Eibu · #2 12-04-2001, 10:26 PM

Well maybe it's the old skool gamer in me but I'm kind of going against the grain, as it were, to online gaming. I don't want EVERY game to come out to be online, there is just something about one-player that has charm.

But i'm not TOTALLY opposed to it. I hope Oddworld never becomes an RPG or FPS, and if they do make a unique RTS game* then I guess they should go for it...

[edit]*I was talking about Hand of Odd

[ December 04, 2001: Message edited by: Eibu ]

Monkey-Man2000 · #3 12-04-2001, 10:58 PM

They WILL make one, Oddworld: Hand of Odd.

Wise Abe · #4 12-05-2001, 12:24 AM

Really? Darn, didn't know that

. Any details on the title yet?

Lantra · #5 12-05-2001, 12:35 AM

i hope oddworld never becomes an mmorpg. hand of odd will be online but it is definetly NOT a rpg.

Wise Abe · #6 12-05-2001, 12:47 AM

I've checked out the other thread about this, and they say it's in the past before Abe's time and it's not part of the overall Quintology. That's good, at least.

I wonder how it would play and the like? Did OWI give a set release date?

***Cloverfield*** · #7 12-05-2001, 02:29 AM

Hand of Odd was originally scheduled to be released after Munch's Oddysee (would you believe the original release date was supposed to be late 2001).

The game has now been put on hold and is supposed to be released after Munch's Exoddus. To give time for Xbox's online network to be up and running and accessible by more people.

Abe Babe...

***Xavier*** · #8 12-05-2001, 09:30 AM

I can't wait for it, it would be an odd experience !

I like to control Oddworld, it's soo funny

Gluk Schmuck · #9 12-05-2001, 01:16 PM

I suppose HoO could be a mmorts!

But one criteria for HoO should be that it must be single player, networkable, and internetworkable. Definately. (Broadband isn't as cheap as my current connection). Broadband (ADSL, at least) would be useful because I'd be able to play online games while my mum had the land-line free for people who may want to call her.

Wise Abe · #10 12-05-2001, 10:40 PM

It would be cool to have it use the headphones that are coming out for the Xbox. I guess that takes away from some of the voices in Oddworld, but since Microsoft says they won't have a keyboard for it, how else can we communicate?

PS: BTW, I think sooner or later Microsoft will release a keyboard, but just in case they don't

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