Abe’s Oddysee and Exoddus now on GOG.com

[Wil]

GOG.com today sent me a press release stating that Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is now available for download from GOG.com (that’s ‘Good Old Games’, apparently), a digital distribution channel that focuses on making sure the games they sell are DRM-free. This version of AO is fully playable on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

The advantage of getting AO from GOG.com rather than Steam or eBay is that once you purchase the game from GOG.com you have access to freely downloadable content, which is supposedly:

• manual (28 pages)
• map (series)
• mp3 soundtrack
• hi-res wallpaper pack (6)
• hi-res wallpapers pack (6)
• avatars
• desktop theme

So, to anyone who has yet to acquire these classic titles for your PC, I strongly recommend you do so now.

I am wondering whether ‘map (series)’ refers to the Oddworld map, or something new.

p.s. Abe’s Exoddus is now also available with the following bonuses:

• manual (57 pages)
• map (series)
• hi-res wallpapers (2)
• hi-res wallpapers pack (6)
• hi-res series wallpapers 2(6)
• avatars

[Incognito]

Cool, thanks for letting us know. I was going to head over to stream earlier on today to download AO & AE, but then I didn't get round to it.

I think I'll wait till AE is out on Dec 23rd and then get both of them together.

[Jordan]

That's two times they've been released for download. I still have my hopes up for MO and SW.

[RabidZombie]

Must get this...

[Xavier]

You are right to, Jordan

[Alcar]

Has anyone noticed how the backgrounds on both the Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus overview pages are production designs from Stranger's Wrath and Munch's Exoddus respectively?

Alcar...

[lbyrd2]

Has anyone noticed how the backgrounds on both the Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus overview pages are production designs from Stranger's Wrath and Munch's Exoddus respectively?

thats wierd

[Leto]

pack (6)

that's extremely ambiguous.

[Jordan]

Either they have no idea what game is which, or there's a hint in there that SW and MO will be available. Sneaky buggers.

[Xavier]

nah, it's just looking cool...


yeah I noticed, but I guess we shouldn't dig too much into it.
I think it's just to use some "new" pictures to make the game seem less old.

[Strike Witch]

So has anybody tested this on Vista yet? Any noticable glitches?

[abe is now!]

But you must pay it

[Xavier]

Yes, think of it as supporting oddworld inhabitants and funding their current projects.

[abe is now!]

Yes, think of it as supporting oddworld inhabitants and funding their current projects.

I'd buy it because I haven't got it but I can't do it... I haven't got the money.

[Admiral Zaarin]

Has anoyone downloaded it already? Just intresting if there's something different between the old one and this.

[abe is now!]

Has anoyone downloaded it already? Just intresting if there's something different between the old one and this.

If you read the first post of this thread you will find it XD

[Admiral Zaarin]

I was asking if they renewed the game itself.

[Wil]

No, it’s the classic game.

[Wil]

Abe’s Exoddus is now available on Good Old Games.

[Incognito]

Ok I bought both these games yesterday. Haven't fully checked out the games yet to see if there are any problems, but they start up fine; so far so good.

The extra content map was just simply the map that we've all seen before

[Wil]

I thought as much. Without posting it unless it’s already freely available, how about the rest of the bonus content?

[Xavier]

Second part of the Oddworld retrospective is up:
http://www.gog.com/en/editorial/edit..._abes_exoddus/


EDIT:

I was a big fan of the graphic novels from out of the UK and Europe. Stuff like Simon Bisley’s work on Slaine for 2000 AD, material that was rich in color, volume, intensity, and environmental atmosphere."

from the what did you get for Christmas thread

1 English comic book (Slaine: the horned god)