No more posession?

paramiteabe · #1 09-22-2003, 12:20 PM

I just realised this your not going to be able to possess sligs in Steef because Abe is out of the game. Nooooooooooo crule world why odd why! Unless you can possess with Steef I don't know. But that just came to me.

What do you think of no posession in Steef? Will it work?

GrigtheSlig · #2 09-22-2003, 12:46 PM

*pats PA on the back* Don't worry PA, i'm sure it'll work out. OWI always has everything worked out, and they'll make Steef the best game possible!

oddguy · #3 09-22-2003, 02:20 PM

Whoooooooooo! You scared me PA! I thought you were going to tell us that Abe was going to loose his possession ability or something!

Now that I think of it, it was quite rediculous for me to worry

, but at the time I was nearing tears!

Anyway, I realized a looong time ago that Steef isn't going to be able to possess stuff.

-oddguy

***Wil*** · #4 09-22-2003, 04:19 PM

Possession was one of the few weapons Abe had, adding greatly to the strategic qualities of the first games. Oddworld 4 is taking a very different gameplay route, which is fine. Besides, if yet another main character could possess things, then it would start to get pretty dull and generic. Part of what I find so interesting about there being 5 controlable characters by the end of the Quintology is that OWI are going to have to give each of them unique and distinct gameplay capabilities, and not merely different 'values' such as you'd get in racing games and the like. I think that's going to be quite a challenge for them. OW4 is going to give them a bit of a break, since they can have another land-based character (although he has water-capabilities in his boat, too), but giving the Steef possession would just seem corny.

GrigtheSlig · #5 09-22-2003, 04:25 PM

You have a point Max, it wouldn't be as cool if every other person could possess things... it wouldn't be as special that Abe can do it...

***Xavier*** · #6 09-22-2003, 04:31 PM

I agree with Max, anyway I think it's great to have some new stuff and not the same all over again.

Oddworld isn't only Abe

paramiteabe · #7 09-22-2003, 05:19 PM

Thats what I was hopeing for. It would be corny. I agree with all of you on that. But the fun of possessing sligs with Abe won't be in Steef. Thats what I was getting at. We will have sligs in Steef but how do we get rid of them is the question? It would be different in that way. But different in a good way of course.

Now I like the idea of hunting sligs down with your crossbow. And imagine your faceing off with a slig and your Steef in a forest and your picking off sligs one by one. Oooh I like that idea because since your a bounty hunter you can set traps and the sligs can get caught in them in the most funniest ways, plus maybe kill them in real sadistic odd ways too. Now that is cool I can't wait till Steef comes out, as I drool thinking about it.

Paramiteabe...

Oddsville · #8 09-22-2003, 06:56 PM

Although I do think it will be strange not to have possesion in this game (no I don't want the game to have it it's just every Oddworld game I've played so far has had it...I've grown accustomed to it!) I do think that the Steef's Crossbow will make up for it. Skunk bomb seem interesting and possibly a way to achive good quarma.

My idea is that the game is going to depend on Quarma (Much like every other game thus far.). If you use your Crossbow in productive and non-violent ways then prehaps you turn into The Steef's four legged form near the end but if you use the Crossbow wrongly then you may be stuck in your two legged form the rest of the game. What significance this makes I've no clue but OWI always has some facsinating idea up their sleeves.

GrigtheSlig · #9 09-22-2003, 10:55 PM

I never thought of it that way Oddsville! Now I have a new perspective! I personally like Steef with 2 legs rather that 4, so if that's the case, i'll get bad quarma on purpose!

***Xavier*** · #10 09-23-2003, 04:30 PM

sounds great...
but we have to wait to have a bit more info's to have better spéculations

dripik · #11 09-23-2003, 04:45 PM

Steef will have some powers, if he will not, he still has a gun.

Maybe Abe becomes an NPC, like a Shaman or something.

Reptile · #12 09-24-2003, 04:20 PM

He might have that thing...you know, he turns into a huge four legged thing....Do y'all remember?

dripik · #13 09-24-2003, 06:04 PM

Do you mean that on Abe, Reptile? If yes, he turns into a Shrykull. Yes, I remember.

Reptile · #14 09-24-2003, 06:58 PM

Huh? No dude, I was on about Steef.

Hobo · #15 09-25-2003, 01:37 PM

Yeah, i am worried the four legged thing might be a re-hash of the Shyrkull

paramiteabe · #16 09-26-2003, 05:16 PM

No it won't be because in the X-Factor Lanning was like we are suppose to get conected with Steef before we find out what he really is. So that means he will be hideing his true self. I don't think Steef will have any mistical mojo powers like Abe. I think Steef will be an industrial type character that has become a traitor.

LuLu_Fund · #17 09-26-2003, 09:18 PM

Shoot, Abe is not gonna be in Steef's Oddysee? That's pants. I thought we were building up a team here!

Majic · #18 09-27-2003, 03:39 AM

A wicked cool wrist bound crossbow is way cooler than possessing anything ever was. Ok, well, maybe not cooler, or more original, but still, its fricken' cool. I wish I had a crossbow... If I had the money, I'd SO buy some. Then some bolts to. *sigh*

***Xavier*** · #19 09-27-2003, 07:09 AM

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Originally posted by LuLu_Fund
Shoot, Abe is not gonna be in Steef's Oddysee? That's pants. I thought we were building up a team here!

we don't know

***Wil*** · #20 09-27-2003, 11:02 AM

The Oddworld Quintology is building up a team of revolutionaries, but since Oddworld 4 isn't part of the Oddworld Quintology, this rule isn't applying.

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Shoot, Abe is not gonna be in Steef's Oddysee?

The game isn't going to be called Steef's Oddysee.