Cant find AO anywhere!! [PC]

[ParamiteSurprise]

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Hi,

{British pound £ not dollar $}
I just cant find Abe's Oddysee!, its like it doesn't exist anymore, but its the best one;
I have tried...
www.amazon.co.uk [out of stock]
www.Ebay.co.uk [I hate bids]
www.game.co.uk [nothing]


However i could download the game ( but its illegal) however OW dont earn money from the games anymore

Help would be appreciated


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[Fuzzle King]

i was the same.i ended up buying it from ebay.i couldnt find it anywhere else.it seems the pc version of abes oddysee is getting quite rare.there a little handful on ebay tho.

[skillya_glowi]

Yes, unfortunately now the PC versions of both Oddworld games are harder and harder to come by. I don't know much about the system but it seems as though your only exit is eBay, no matter how much you hate bids...also you could possibly find a friend with the disc and burn it (that's also illegal unfortunately but there is a MUCH lesser risk of the law finding out, unless you, for some odd reason, decide to have a cop over at your house and show him your AO skills...). It works well, it's how I got my AE.

[Paul]

hmm I think OWI should make the game free like GTA1/2 are these days, since they are no longer stocked, buying one from ebay dosent give OWI anymore money
also, im sure reselling a game breaches the EULA so that might very well be illegal too

[ParamiteSurprise]

But if they made oddworld classics, (download the old OWI games) then i think it'd take AGES to download it - dont you think??

[Alcar]

You may have to overcome your dislike of bidding on eBay.

I purchased second copies of Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus for the PlayStation a few months back. I'm sure there are some floating around eBay.

Alcar...

[Fuzzle King]

yes there are quite a few playstation versions still around on ebay.its just the pc ones....
im kinda lucky to still have both ae and ao on pc.

[DarkHoodness]

I've discovered that you don't even need to burn a CD, unless you want to backup your AO files.

If you have a friend or so who has AO on the PC, ask them to borrow it. Do a full install on your PC, and then manually copy all the files that end in ".ddv" into your Abe's Oddysee directory. Then you have the whole game on your HD. This works with version 1.0 anyway.

Dunno if it works with AE though.

[Paul]

But if they made oddworld classics, (download the old OWI games) then i think it'd take AGES to download it - dont you think??

not really, the GTA's are like 200mb, AO compressed is around the same size

[Abe78]

AO CD-ROM is 640 MB, I have PS and PC versions.