fun oddworld games

molluck2 · #1 07-26-2002, 12:51 PM

Just esterday i thought of something- a racing game with creatures of oddworld, but they wouldn't race in cars or on foot like in Mad Dash. Instead they would race on skates, skateboards, bikes and etc. It would be fun to see Abe riding a skateboard, Munch with his only foot riding one skate, slig riding a bike, a glukkon jumping on a pogo stick, Vykker on skies, paramite on a snowboard and other cool stuff.
Did anybody had ideas like this?

Gluk Schmuck · #2 07-26-2002, 05:14 PM

That sounds fun. But not as fun as MO. They'll probably do it badly though, racing games aren't often fun in single player. WipEout (particularly 3SE) is an example of how to do it right.

The Oddworld series could easily be ported to loads of genres. Beat 'em up, rhythm action, shoot 'em up, et al.

sligster · #3 07-26-2002, 05:20 PM

YEAH!!!!! A beat 'em up or shoot 'em up oddworld game!!! that would be so cool!

I hope Lorn starts doing that after the quintology, or something. But then again, OWI might not have enough time, with all of the Habitales, Feeratales, Movies, ECT. ( If there is an ECT. )

One, Two, Middlesboogie · #4 07-26-2002, 06:17 PM

Oh God, I hope that never happens. It would cheapen Oddworld. It should stay as a 2D platformer!

An Elum-racing mini-game might be good if pulled off correctly, though.

sligster · #5 07-26-2002, 06:31 PM

But the shooter would still be cool. I can just see a scrab weilding a machein gun or a rocket launcher!

TheKhanzumer · #6 07-26-2002, 06:39 PM

I would like to see some mini-games inside of oddworld games. An elum race would be a cool level in a future game which could be revisited after the game is beaten. Other in-game games could be tetris (on Vykkers Labs computers), slig shoot gallery, mudokon toss, etc...

Along with mini-games I also think that Slig Storm should be a first-person shooter. Hand of Odd will be a strategy game. A racing game would be fun.

I would like to see Microsoft put out an X-Box, "Super Smash Bros". Abe versus Azurik, Munch versus Master Cheif. I could be fun if done right and after X-Box gets some more trademark characters.

thebomb372 · #7 07-27-2002, 02:44 AM

ride on oddworld creatures or do a joust thing

Mac the Janitor · #8 07-27-2002, 02:47 PM

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Originally posted by TheKhanzumer
I would like to see Microsoft put out an X-Box, "Super Smash Bros". Abe versus Azurik, Munch versus Master Cheif. I could be fun if done right and after X-Box gets some more trademark characters.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! I was just about to post an off-topic thread about it!

I was thinking maybe 2 dudes from each game:

Oddworld: Abe, slig

Halo: Master Chief, Hunter

and so on...

TheKhanzumer · #9 07-27-2002, 04:27 PM

I think that X-Box needs some more trademark characters. The only recognizable ones (ones that people see and think X-BOX) right now are Abe, Munch and Master Chief. Maybe when Blinx comes out that will be another.

Intern_485 · #10 07-27-2002, 04:54 PM

A business sim might be cool. You could play as a Glukkon and take a paltry two-bit business and make it into a corporate powerhouse. This might be in Hand of Odd, but I wasn't sure.

TheKhanzumer · #11 07-27-2002, 06:44 PM

Hand of Odd will probably be like any other strategy game. Pick a race, gather resources, build and conquer. So that means as a glukkon you will be able build factories and train sligs to guard them.

I really am looking forward to see all of OWI plans coming to fruition (sp?). We have so much to look forward to. The Quintology and bonus games, the Habitales (including Hand of Odd) and Faerietales, Slig Storm, the Oddworld Quintology Movies. Let's hope they actually finish all of it.

oddling · #12 07-30-2002, 04:57 PM

Damn, you stole my idea! I thought it would be cool if playstation made a SuperSmash bro. thing. Abe could chant and use his Shrykull power, Abe v. Spyro the dragon. Who do you think would win? Haha! I'm gonna make a poll about that!

Oddling l:c l

***Xavier*** · #13 08-04-2002, 04:00 AM

sounds ridicoulous...
please: inteligent games for oddworld!

Gluk Schmuck · #14 08-04-2002, 07:28 AM

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Originally posted by One, Two, Middlesboogie
An Elum-racing mini-game might be good if pulled off correctly, though.

Continuing that thought, I'd like to see board games on Oddworld. Something simple like Mancala would be good. Maybe if you play to earn respect or money (while posessing an industrialist) in a game like MO was supposedly going to be. And maybe you could race elums to gain the respect or trust of a rival mudokon tribe. But, alas, I know OI aren't going to be able to make an RPG, the lazy schmucks...

paramiteabe · #15 08-05-2002, 11:51 AM

To be realistic I really dont think OWI is going to do that. Oddworld I believe is just not that kind of game. If anything I would like to see a little game where you can make your own Oddworld creatures or characters and then you go ahead and create your own little quest with your character you made up. That would be fun. You get to make up your own Oddworld character and then you get to play as him. With that in mind you could create endless creatures and many different kinds of races that you made up and build for yourself. And maybe there can be this online link to the internet where you have your chacters meet or fight. That sounds possible to me.

***Xavier*** · #16 08-05-2002, 05:15 PM

realy intresting Paramite abe...
but it will be too hard too make a sheet for all of them in the universe section

***Alcar*** · #17 08-06-2002, 01:27 AM

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Originally posted by Xavier
realy intresting Paramite abe...
but it will be too hard too make a sheet for all of them in the universe section

Yeah, I know what you mean...

I'm still woring on the Universe section of Oddworld Universe...

But then again, it has every Oddworld creature known to us, and a lot of information on each individual page...

Alcar...

***Xavier*** · #18 08-06-2002, 04:10 AM

yeah it will be har to do if OWI do something like that.
we should then make categories or something

I-Are-A-Slog · #19 08-07-2002, 05:28 AM

Well ok - FPS, Racing, etc - *BZZZ* that. But yes, customizable level versions would be cool. And as for custom creatures, they should make a programming language. This is what a small portion of paramite code may look like:

:

[Test] (*AbeChanting* AND *AbeOnScreen (Screen "SELF")*)
 (True)
 {
 [Test] (*Gamespeaking "SELF"*)
  (False)
  {[Gamespeak "STAY"]}
  (True)
  {[GamespeakSequence "PAUSE"]}
  [End "TEST"]
 (False)
 }
 [Test] (*PausedSequence*)
  (True)
  {[GamespeakSequence "UNPAUSE"]}
 [End "TEST"]
 }
[End "TEST"]

That's the bit to keep going "STAY! STAY! STAY!" while Abe is chanting and on the same screen as the paramite. Replace the *'s with the brackets that look like rotated V's and are placed around HTML tags(this stupid, dumb board doesn't let you use those in messages, it thinks you're using html tags)

***Xavier*** · #20 08-07-2002, 06:02 AM

hehe, nice, are you a programator?
is this code of AO or AE?
or did you just made it by yourself?

I-Are-A-Slog · #21 08-08-2002, 02:52 AM

yes i am a programmer though i'm not really good except in Interplay's version of basic(in that, though, i'm actually making an AO/AE clone)

As for that code, that's not from any game, it's just an idea for a programming language to make custom creatures if that was ever put into an abe game.

***Xavier*** · #22 08-08-2002, 06:42 AM

yeah, that can be realy intresting
but you are talking about a Oddworld designer then.
can be funny

molluck2 · #23 08-09-2002, 12:10 PM

Or maybe an oddworld game like GTA3,
you go as a slig, colect weapons, kill peasfull muds , bla,bla,bla

oh, well thats not such a good idea

***Xavier*** · #24 08-09-2002, 12:53 PM

indeed, it isn't
I think a strategy game like age of empires will be intresting.
wouldn't that be a good idea?

dripik · #25 08-25-2002, 03:45 PM

well, Hand of Odd is going to be like that...

A game like Worms would be good, the fans shall play it with sligs... Sligs Armageddon!

***Xavier*** · #26 08-26-2002, 03:46 AM

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Originally posted by dripik
well, Hand of Odd is going to be like that...

sorry, but to be like what? the GTA3 thing, no no no

dripik · #27 08-26-2002, 04:58 AM

I MEAN: Hand of Odd is going to be a strategy game, isn't it?

I don't want to kill mudokons or anything else from Oddworld GTA style!

***Xavier*** · #28 08-26-2002, 11:12 AM

okay, yes HoO will probably be an amasing strategy game!

dripik · #29 09-12-2002, 05:36 PM

But not on PC, of course...

A good game like AO will come good now while others play on Xbox. I mean, I don't want to say bad words about Xbox, it looks good, and it surely works good, but what am I going to do while the Munch games?

Well, I haven't finished AO yet, I'll finish that and I'll beat the first 2 games.

***Xavier*** · #30 09-12-2002, 05:41 PM

well, you know, probably more than only the munch games will be on Xbox.