A lovely new interview for us all

[STM]

I believed that to be true, so hopefully we won't have the humanity they gave the game.

[Wil]

Not EA. They weren't the publishers, anyway.

http://oddworldlibrary.net/toe/The_B...uction_history

[Manco]

Not EA. They weren't the publishers, anyway.

http://oddworldlibrary.net/toe/The_B...uction_history

Hmm, was OWI's production still done in-house at that point, or was Majesco in charge for Fangus?

[Wil]

It's weird. It was still in-house, which we know because there's art and level designs by Inhabitants. But realtime model animation at least was outsourced to Alcazar Entertainment.

[Manco]

I'm a little surprised that OWI's in-house production team would churn out such uninspired designs. Hopefully if Fangus does come back, Lorne will have more input.

[Nate]

EDIT: Whoops! New page.

Just picking up on this - I was reading a thing recently which basically pinned the uninspired human-looking pre-production stuff that came from Fangus on EA, which was their way of trying to blackmail Lorne into giving them the Oddworld IP.

I don't remember coming across anything official about that, so is that true, or is it just conjecture?

After the SW fiasco, there was never any deal between OWI and EA for Fangus. They had signed up to Majesco. Also, the human-looking designs were because of the OWI staff, not the publishers. See here.

[moxco]

I must say, The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot deffenaty sounds like the most interesting and in-depth of OWI's cancelled games. Not that we really know much about the other games but I find it hard to to take a charecter called Squeek or Nod seriously.

[Wil]

Yeah, but I'm still looking forward to Nod's Oddysee!

[moxco]

Where actually is the source for Nod?

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=14890
I looked through the links here but they all lead to you denying delusionality.

[Wil]

Nod was the rumoured name of the fourth hero in the Oddworld Quintology for years before it was confirmed as being apocryphal by Lorne Lanning. According to the rumour, Nod would have starred in Oddworld: Nod’s Oddysee as per the nomenclature of the preceding Quintology stories. The rumour did not detail the character or story of Nod in any way, and to date these, along with the genuine name of the fourth character, remain unknown.

The persistence of the rumour is largely due to its being repeated on the Oddworld Forums by Max the Mug for a number of years, from which it spread to other sources: initially fansites, then other Oddworld fan communities, and eventually even the Oddworld article on Wikipedia. Over time, Max was increasingly criticized for not being able to show a source for this information, which he claimed was an interview with an Oddworld Inhabitant that had been lost since 1999.[1] When Max asked members of the Exoddus Club in February 2000 if they’d heard of Nod, member George_T_Gimp said he thought he could also remember Nod being named in an interview.[2]

Lorne explicitly identified Oddworld: Nod’s Oddysee as a rumour in an interview with Russian gaming magazine Игромания published in September 2007,[3] but news of this did not reach members of the Oddworld Forums until member MeechShrykull1029 posted a link to the online copy of the interview in April 2008.[4]

1. Max the Mug (15 November 2007). Post 924 in ‘Oddworld Questions & Answers VI’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
2. George_T_Gimp (18 February 2000). "Get Me Outta Here!" Windows Wallpaper. Exodduc Club. Yahoo! Groups.
3. Lanning, Lorne (September 2007). ‘Отступники. Интервью с Лорном Леннингом, главой Oddworld Inhabitants’, interview with Игорь Варнавский and Михаил Новиков. Игромания 9: 120. Издательский дом "ТехноМир.
4. Oddworld Forums members (24–26 April 2008). Posts 30–41 in ‘Obsolete OWI Official Ideas: The Habitales (tm) & The Fearietales (tm)’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.

[Jordan]

I cannot trust anything you say Wil.

[STM]

Funny MS did something good for once. Hopefully now you've posted that properly, people will stop moaning about Nod.

[Wil]

I cannot trust anything you say Wil.

Of course not. Everything I tell you is a lie.

[Manco]

Nod's Oddysee goty 20XX

[Bullet Magnet]

I'd love it if OWI just went "sure, why not?" and made Nod's Oddysee.

The villain would, of course, be the Buncetron.

[Wil]

Well they certainly seem to be making everything else.

[Bullet Magnet]

There is now a competition to design the look of the Buncetron.

Entries to be sent to Splat's personal e-mail address for moderation.

[Crashpunk]

Do you think there is a possiblity of a Abe's Exoddus HD?

[STM]

I reckon the possibility is at least there taking from what the article explains.

[metroixer]

Nod's Oddysee

Wait, now there's a tiberium tie in??? Is oddworld the earth after tiberium infested everything!?!?!

i love my crossovers

Also if there's going to be an HD of like every other game I don't see why exoddus wouldn't be remade as well, eventually.

[moxco]

So were you intentionally shit-stirring Max, or are/were you genuinely convinced that you actually read about Nod somewhere. If the former; well done, your little joke became big enough for Lorne to dismiss.

[Wil]

I still remember reading that interview.

[Gilrod]

Who the feck is Nod?!?!??!?!? :-/











;-)

[DarkHoodness]

I can really see that turning into Oddworld's biggest mystery - And if you have Mr. Gilray himself here asking that then you know what I'm saying is true. Thanks, Max. :P

[STM]

I think Max is telling the truth here, perhaps I should be more sceptical but there are written accounts in a Russian Magazine proving his theory.

[MeechMunchie]

Of course not. Everything I tell you is a lie.

Including this post?

I can only remember one night level in SW, when it was pissing down. I guess there wasn't a clear sky, then.

This is offtopic but I just love telling this story.

Okay, so my big brother is playing Morrowind: Bloodmoon and it's, like, 2002 so we're both still really wowed by it. So after fighting off mysterious lupine assailants we finally wrestle an explanation out of the village elder bloke. He goes off on a dark story of bloodthirsty gods and dark prophecies, his aged voice cracking with the grim realisation that it's all happening, now.

"Look to the skies, Outlander," he proclaims, "And see the Blood Moon rising."

We look up. AND ITS FUCKING OVERCAST

We both fall about laughing for about twenty minutes.

[Wil]

Well maybe he had a calendar.

There is a single moon 'visible' in the nighttime section of Stranger's Wrath, all the way from Raider's hideout to Stranger going to sleep. At least in the PC version under ATI graphics, it is merely a circular white glow permeating the raincloud.

[elums mum]

i liked the part where he mentioned the collecters edition download code thing with cool art cards. so so so hope sony lets them do it.

[moxco]

Has anyone else noticed that the YouTube video has been removed by the user?

[elums mum]

“It’s not just the characters that have character; the whole world has character.”

Im glad that there clearly taking this into account. The atmosphere is really what makes the oddworld games great in my opinion