This is the end of oddworld (No it's not)

[Fuzzleman54321]

Looks like it. Stopping games, Alf leaving, fangus gone it looks like Oddworld might be *tear* closing down forever!

[a flock of seagulls]

they would never do that untill the very last of the oddworld series! which isnt really that close!

[Abe16]

Oddwolrd isn't gone. They have to make a new game, they just have to. Or make a movie about AO.

[Oddish]

It's not the end of oddworld, they just downsize, and remained a small force. They're still developing, but not games, but ideas.

And theres already a thread like this! This is the second this happend.

[duveaux]

Have to, have to. I think it isn't about have to, I think it's more about if they will.
If they have to make a new game and a move starring abe doesn't mean OW will go on.
Wait wrong additude.
Yeah, I guess they'll continue

[Oddish]

Well the main the reason oddworld stoped is becuase of the Quintology. Lorne wants to do games like Stranger and Fangus becuase he won't contuine the quintology with todays techology, until it's good enought. What happend to MO kinda ruined the story, so lorne thought it would be best if he makes then in movies first so it won't mess the story. Remember, he said first with the movies, which could mean that lorne could contuine the quintology as games after the movie when the techology is good enought to make these happen. I personaly think it's a bit sad becuase I would rather discover the quintology as games first, than movies, but we all know what happens with MO.

Now oddworld will be doing an Abe movie, but not sure if he'll do all the quintology as movies first. They will be thinking of plots, ideas and hopley desgns, this gives oddworld more time to think what they have to do if ther're games will contuine. Oddworld remaining silent form now on until he has a movie or game to be released, but I aint sure who going to produce the movie, we'll have to wait and see.

[MojoMan220]

It's not the end of oddworld, they just downsize, and remained a small force. They're still developing, but not games, but ideas.

Am I the only person that thinks that sounds a little pathetic. Now they're only developing ideas? Not exactly my idea of moving forward, but what do I know.

[Hunk of Steef]

I don't think its the end. But I wish it had never even come to this.

[Kimon]

Am I the only person that thinks that sounds a little pathetic. Now they're only developing ideas? Not exactly my idea of moving forward, but what do I know.

Well, for any game company, ESPECIALLY Oddworld, visualization is a huge process. With all the quirky names, areas, and creatures Oddworld makes up, the need puite some time to develop their ideas. So while they may not be technically moving forward in terms of making products, they are moving forward in developing their world.

[Mudokon Princess]

This is a depressing thread lol...people, THEY ARE JUST BECOMING SMALLER!! *ahem* lol but seriously folks, its okay, dont fret. Remember, they're oddworld, they'll do a good job.

[Xavier]

I still have faith in oddworld and in lorne's vision

oddworld WILL go on!

[nicksmith41]

Ummm sorry to burst ur guyses bubble, but if u look at this interview with Lorne Lanning
http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com...t_id=1000884458
it seems like he has haulted game making, and is focusing on movies.....Why would he do this? SW was perfect Fangus could be the greatest ever....SAD. U know if those movies aren't outta this world sweetness then we will ahve a riot on our hands...

[erwinraaben55]

Why did you also put that link here, while I also posted it, and YOU SAW my post too (I believe) because you posted in a post after me???

[atusiya@]

Oddguy posted Hollywood Reporter Article on OWW..
http://www.oddworld.au.com/
http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com/..._id=1000884458
'game over' ...

[General Dripikk]

Say it ain't so, Oddworld is gone!

[Dipstikk]

Atusyia, that article has been posted before in this thread.

[atusiya@]

Atusyia, that article has been posted before in this thread.

Sorry..I had not realized that post.

OW I loved was gone...
I lose my bearings in the dark..
What should I love ?

[shann]

maybe with luck we'll know more at E3.
A friend of mine will meet LL there...

[stingbee]

Ummm sorry to burst ur guyses bubble, but if u look at this interview with Lorne Lanning
http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com...t_id=1000884458
it seems like he has haulted game making, and is focusing on movies.....Why would he do this? SW was perfect Fangus could be the greatest ever....SAD. U know if those movies aren't outta this world sweetness then we will ahve a riot on our hands...

well I think it would be awsome to finish the quintoligy with a movie perhaps and interview with all the oddworld characters and it would be funny to say why they stared in the games

eg

interview with lulu

interviewer: so lulu why did you agree to go in mo

lulu: I wanted to go in it because I love being rich and eating gabbiar and I hated slack sligs so then lanning hired the valet for me I loved it I never got paid so much moolah in my life

interviewer: and the reason uncle aslick was always missing from the set in ae is because you and him were having an afair with each other is that right

lulu: oh man I hate you why did mention such a thing anyway yes it is true his wife left him when she found out then I had him all to my self then he had to leave to do so many parts in the game I was so upset so I wanted to go in mo to be reunited with him again but he wasn't there I was so upset but which gluckon cares more about their moolah rather than love so anyway can we end the tripe all ready

so what do you think would that be funny or what

[Abe16]

LOL. That would!LOL..

[stingbee]

the funiest one would be the intern want me to do one. any interviews you want me to do pm me and if I get enough I will create a new thread called interviews but before I do a question to all you mods out there which topic do I put it in

interview with intern

interviewer: what is your name

intern: mmmmmmmmmmm

interviewer: why did you come to oddworld

intern: mmmmmmmmm

director: ok ok cut put this in deleted scenes this is ****

intern: mmmmmmmmmmmmm (crys)

interviewer: and an interview with a scrab

interviewer: hello there scrab and welcome to the interview

scrab: howl!

interviewer:ahhhhhhhhh this thing is atacking me ahhhhhhhh

so any interviews wanted

[Oddish]

Okay stingbee, we get the picture.

Well I think oddworld are in a way disappearing, drifting futher and futher to thier original plans, and now OWI want to make thier first moive "Abe's Oddysee" And mabey when the movie is done (Hopely no Munch or futher storys, yet!) They can come back and try to see if the can produce Munch's Exoddus, or not that, mabey new oddworld games. That's the way I hope things will turn out.

And I remember Lorne saying that likes the sound of the Next- gen consoles, but thats what he said about the PS2, and we all know what happend. Even Xbox wasn't good enought to produce what Lorne wanted with Munchy. That's what I beleive, but yeah, OWI is pretty much gone.

[Xavier]

Oddworld is'nt dead!
Oddworld is reborn!

Oddworld is finally heading where Lorne wanted it to go at first!
Oddworld is going to be onn the big screen!

Lorne is a realy clever guy, I trust him because I know he isn't going to let us down.

[Oddish]

Well I don't know what happend to Lornes vision of Gaming becomeing more like movies.

[Xavier]

he found out it wasn't possible right now...
thats all

Lorne just want to be free and express his visions

[shann]

Oddworld is'nt dead!
Oddworld is reborn!

Oddworld is finally heading where Lorne wanted it to go at first!
Oddworld is going to be onn the big screen!

Lorne is a realy clever guy, I trust him because I know he isn't going to let us down.

Sorry Xavier, but that sounds a bit like a sect style...

Guru Lorne, please guide us to the hoddly world. ^^

[Voodoo Hand]

i have serious doubts that Oddworld can be pitched to a major studio .
Do you think that it has that much drawing power?
Tomb Raider is the only title that comes to mind that has had any cross-over success , and let`s face it Abe ain`t no Lara Croft.
Will the general public flock to see a non-violent green guy preach about the evils of industrialization and it`s effect on the environment and society??

As much as i hate to say it, Fangus has a better chance of making the big screen than Abe dose.

Lanning may be clever , but i don`t know if he`s that clever.

The only way i can see Oddworld games ever comming back is if the movie thing
crashes and burns, because don`t believe that the " think tank of OWI" can do
both at the same time.
But that`s just me.

[Nate]

I'm not so sure. If you look at CG films, most aren't the hollywood stereotype of the buxom babe and the hunky guy.

eg:
Antz : pathetic Woody Allen character
Bug's Life : clutzy ant meets second-rate circus performers
Finding Nemo : neurotic father
Shrek : Ugly, self conscious ogre

All these movies are about pathetic characters finding what they are capable of.

I think Abe would find himself in good company.

[MojoMan220]

An article from IGN.com:
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/605/605212p1.html

This quote pisses me off...

"Stranger's Wrath, the fourth Oddworld title, arrived in January to strong critical response, but Lanning believes it never got the marketing treatment it deserved. According to Lanning, Electronic Arts lost interest in pushing the title when the publisher couldn't find a way to bring it to PlayStation 2."

Damn you EA!!

[Godlesswanderer]

I read another article (I can't remember where) and Lorne said that because EA couldn't get their PS2 port of Stranger to work, they refused to advertise it.

I don't mean to sound like a little kid. But that's just not fair!!